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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>
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800117
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800125
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700138
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800143
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900300
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700342
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700366
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500393 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394 until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400401 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400402
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200449 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700450
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300468
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700477
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700488
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100522
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700524 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100589
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530590 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100591 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100592 Range: 0 - 8192
593 Default: 64
594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700595 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 Format:
597 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598
599 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602 com90xx= [HW,NET]
603 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700604 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606 condev= [HW,S390] console device
607 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800614 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700615 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700620
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200621 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800622 information. See
623 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700626 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900628 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400629 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900635 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400639 the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500641 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
642 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700649 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700650 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
651 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700652
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800653 coredump_filter=
654 [KNL] Change the default value for
655 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
656 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
657
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600658 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
659 [ARM,ARM64]
660 Format: <bool>
661 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
662 0: default value, disable debugging
663 1: enable debugging at boot time
664
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400665 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
666 disable the cpuidle sub-system
667
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500668 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
669 disable the cpufreq sub-system
670
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400671 cpu_init_udelay=N
672 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
673 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
674 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
675 Default: 10000
676
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700677 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700678 Format:
679 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700680
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800681 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
682 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
683 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
684 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
685 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
686 is selected automatically. Check
687 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700688
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700689 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
690 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
691 in the running system. The syntax of range is
692 start-[end] where start and end are both
693 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800694 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700695
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700696 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700697 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
698 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
699 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
700 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
701 available.
702 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700703 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
704 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
705 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700706 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
707 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800708 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
709 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
710 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
711 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700712 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
713 for second kernel instead.
714 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700715 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700716 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700717
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100718 cryptomgr.notests
719 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
720
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700721 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
722 Format: <dma>
723
724 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
725 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700726
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700727 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700728 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
729
730 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
731 (one device per port)
732 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500733 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700734
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200735 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200736 time. See
737 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600738 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200739
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700740 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
741
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700742 debug_locks_verbose=
743 [KNL] verbose self-tests
744 Format=<0|1>
745 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
746 self-tests.
747 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
748 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
749 only useful to kernel developers.
750
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700751 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
752
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500753 no_debug_objects
754 [KNL] Disable object debugging
755
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800756 debug_guardpage_minorder=
757 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
758 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
759 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
760 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
761 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
762 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
763 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
764 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
765 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
766 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
767 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
768 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
769 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
770 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
771 bypassed) which are not detectable by
772 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
773 tracking down these problems.
774
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800775 debug_pagealloc=
776 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
777 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
778 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
779 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
780 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
781 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
782 on: enable the feature
783
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200784 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
785
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200786 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700787 Format: <area>[,<node>]
788 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
789
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700790 default_hugepagesz=
791 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
792 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
793 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
794 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
795 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
796 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700797
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700798 dhash_entries= [KNL]
799 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700800
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000801 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
802 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
803 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
804 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
805 miss to occur.
806
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800807 disable= [IPV6]
808 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
809
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530810 disable_radix [PPC]
811 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
812
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900813 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
814 Format: <int>
815 The number of initial APIC ID for the
816 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
817 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
818 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
819 causing system reset or hang due to sending
820 INIT from AP to BSP.
821
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000822 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
823 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
824 to workaround buggy firmware.
825
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800826 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
827 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
828
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700829 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700830 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
831 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700832 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700833
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100834 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100835 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
836 memory out of your available memory pool based on
837 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
838 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
839
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530840 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700841 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
842 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
843
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400844 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
845
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700846 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
847 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
848
849 dma_debug_entries=<number>
850 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
851 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
852 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
853 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
854 architectural default is too low.
855
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200856 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
857 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
858 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
859 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
860 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
861 driver later using sysfs.
862
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300863 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700864 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
865 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
866 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
867 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100868 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
869 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
870 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
871 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
872 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
873 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
874 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
875 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700876 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
877 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
878 data set with no connector name will be used for
879 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100880
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700881 dscc4.setup= [NET]
882
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000883 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
884 Format: {"off" | "known"}
885 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
886 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
887 exists).
888 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
889 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
890 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
891
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000892 dump_apple_properties [X86]
893 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
894 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
895 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
896
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600897 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
898 module.dyndbg[="val"]
899 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200900 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
901 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600902
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700903 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
904 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
905 information about the feature.
906
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800907 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
908 in some Intel CPUs.
909
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700910 module.async_probe [KNL]
911 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
912
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700913 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
914 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
915 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
916 which are not unmapped.
917
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700918 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500919
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500920 When used with no options, the early console is
921 determined by the stdout-path property in device
922 tree's chosen node.
923
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100924 cdns,<addr>[,options]
925 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
926 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
927 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
928 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
929 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200930
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700931 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
932 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700933 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300934 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400935 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700936 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
937 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700938 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300939 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
940 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
941 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
942 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400943 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700944
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500945 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600946 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500947 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
948 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
949 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600950 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
951 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
952 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500953
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100954 meson,<addr>
955 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
956 port at the specified address. The serial port must
957 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
958 supported.
959
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700960 msm_serial,<addr>
961 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962 port at the specified address. The serial port
963 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964 yet supported.
965
966 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
967 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
968 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
969 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
970 yet supported.
971
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200972 owl,<addr>
973 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
974 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
975 specified address. The serial port must already be
976 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
977
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500978 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
979
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100980 s3c2410,<addr>
981 s3c2412,<addr>
982 s3c2440,<addr>
983 s3c6400,<addr>
984 s5pv210,<addr>
985 exynos4210,<addr>
986 Use early console provided by serial driver available
987 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
988 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
989 serial port must already be setup and configured.
990 Options are not yet supported.
991
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100992 lantiq,<addr>
993 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
994 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
995 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
996 yet supported.
997
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700998 lpuart,<addr>
999 lpuart32,<addr>
1000 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1001 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1002 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1003 port must already be setup and configured.
1004
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001005 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001006 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1007 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1008 address. The serial port must already be setup
1009 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1010
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001011 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001012 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001013 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001014 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001015 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001016 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001017 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001018 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001019 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001020 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001021 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001022
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001023 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1024 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1025 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1026
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001027 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001028 takes over.
1029
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001030 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1031 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001032
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001033 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1034 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1035 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1036 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1037 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1038 You can find the port for a given device in
1039 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1040 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001041
1042 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1043 very good.
1044
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001045 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1046 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001047
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001048 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1049
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001050 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1051
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001052 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1053 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1054 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1055 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1056 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1057 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1058 default: on.
1059
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001060 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1061 ekgdboc=kbd
1062
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001063 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001064 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1065
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001066 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001067 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001068
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001069 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001070 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001071 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1072 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1073 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001074 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1075 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1076 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001077 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001078 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001079
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001080 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1081 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1082 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1083 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1084 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1085
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001086 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1087 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1088 updating original EFI memory map.
1089 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1090 from ss to ss+nn.
1091 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1092 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1093 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1094 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1095
1096 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1097 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1098 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1099 doesn't support it.
1100
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001101 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1102 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1103 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1104 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1105 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1106
1107
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001108 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1109 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1110
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001111 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001112 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001113 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001114
1115 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001116 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001117 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001118 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1119
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001120 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001121 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001122 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1123 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001124 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001125
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001126 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1127 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1128 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1129 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1130
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001131 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001132 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1133 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1134 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1135 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1136
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001137 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1138 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1139 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1140 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1141 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1142 Default value is 0.
1143 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1144
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001145 erst_disable [ACPI]
1146 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1147 support.
1148
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001149 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1150 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1151 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1152
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001153 evm= [EVM]
1154 Format: { "fix" }
1155 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1156 current integrity status.
1157
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001158 failslab=
1159 fail_page_alloc=
1160 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1161 General fault injection mechanism.
1162 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001163 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001164
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001165 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001166 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001167
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001168 force_pal_cache_flush
1169 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1170 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1171 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1172 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1173
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001174 forcepae [X86-32]
1175 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1176 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1177 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1178 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1179 and may cause unknown problems.
1180
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001181 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001182 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001183 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1184 boot debugging.
1185
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001186 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001187 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001188 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1189 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1190 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1191 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001192
1193 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1194 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1195 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1196 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1197 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001198 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001199
1200 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1201 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1202 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1203 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1204 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001205
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001206 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1207 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1208 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1209 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1210 that can be changed at run time by the
1211 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1212
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001213 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1214 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1215 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1216 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1217 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1218
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001219 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1220 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1221 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1222 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1223 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1224
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001225 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1226 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1227 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1228 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001229 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001230
1231 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1232
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001233 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1234 Format: off | on
1235 default: on
1236
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001237 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1238 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1239 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1240 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1241 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1242
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001243 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1244 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1245 android emulator
1246
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001248 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1249 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1250 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001251
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001252 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1253 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1254 Format: 0 | 1
1255 Default: 0
1256 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1257 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1258 Format: 0 | 1
1259 Default: 0
1260 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1261 Format: 0 | 1
1262 Default: 0
1263 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1264 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265 Default: 1024
1266 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1267 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1268 Default: 1024
1269
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001270 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1271 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1272 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1273
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001274 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1275 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1276 backtraces on all cpus.
1277 Format: <integer>
1278
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001279 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1280 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001281 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001282 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001283
1284 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1285
1286 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1287 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1288
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001289 hest_disable [ACPI]
1290 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1291 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1292 logic will be disabled.
1293
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001294 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1295 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1296 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1297 size on bigger boxes.
1298
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001299 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1300 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1301 Default: "on"
1302
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001303 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1304 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1305
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001306 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1307
1308 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1309 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1310 verbose }
1311 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1312 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1313 VIA, nVidia)
1314 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1315
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001316 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1317 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1318
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001319 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1320 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001321 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1322 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1323 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1324 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001325 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001326
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001327 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1328 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001329 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1330 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1331 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001332
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001333 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1334 hardware thread id mappings.
1335 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1336
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001337 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1338 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1339 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1340 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1341 the real console.
1342
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001343 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001344 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1345 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001346 Format:
1347 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1348
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001349 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001350 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1351 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1352 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1353 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001354 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001355 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1356 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001357 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1358 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001359 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001360 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1361 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001362 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001363 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001364 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1365 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001366 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001367 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1368 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1369 transitions, or never reset
1370 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1371 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1372 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1373 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1374 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001375 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001376 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377
1378 i810= [HW,DRM]
1379
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001380 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1381 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1382 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001383 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1384 does not match list of supported models.
1385 i8k.power_status
1386 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1387 (disabled by default)
1388 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1389 capability is set.
1390
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001391 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001392 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1393 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001394 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1395 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1396 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1397 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1398 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1399 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1400 value switches the backlight off.
1401 -1 -- never invert brightness
1402 0 -- machine default
1403 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001404
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001405 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1406 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1407
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001408 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1409 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001410 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1411 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001412 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001413
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001414 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1415 Format: <int>
1416 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1417 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1418 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1419 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1420 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1421 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1422 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1423 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1424 was 0x3.
1425
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001426 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1427 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1428
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001429 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001430 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001431 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1432 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1433 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1434 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001435 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001436 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001437 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001438
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001439 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1440 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1441 Default: strict
1442
1443 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1444 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1445 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1446 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1447 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1448 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1449 encoding mode.
1450
1451 Available settings are as follows:
1452 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1453 supported by the FPU
1454 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1455 by the FPU
1456 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1457 by the FPU
1458 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1459 supported by the FPU
1460
1461 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1462 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1463 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1464 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1465 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1466 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1467 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1468 MIPS64 CPUs.
1469
1470 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1471 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1472 except where unsupported by hardware.
1473
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001474 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1475 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1476 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001477 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1478 could change it dynamically, usually by
1479 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001480
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001481 ignore_rlimit_data
1482 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1483 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1484 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1485
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001486 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1487 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1488
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001489 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001490 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001491 default: "enforce"
1492
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001493 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1494 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1495 owned by uid=0.
1496
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001497 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1498 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1499 measurements, instead of host native format.
1500
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001501 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001502 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1503 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001504 default: "sha1"
1505
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001506 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1507 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1508
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001509 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001510 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001511 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001512
1513 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1514 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1515 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1516 uid=0.
1517
1518 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1519 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1520 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001521
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001522 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1523 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1524 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001525
1526 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001527 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1528 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1529 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1530 opened for read by uid=0.
1531
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001532 ima_template= [IMA]
1533 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001534 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001535 Default: "ima-ng"
1536
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001537 ima_template_fmt=
1538 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1539 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1540
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001541 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1542 Format: <min_file_size>
1543 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1544 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1545
1546 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1547 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1548 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1549
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001550 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1551 Format: <bufsize>
1552 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1553
1554 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1555 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1556 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1557
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001558 init= [KNL]
1559 Format: <full_path>
1560 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1561 process.
1562
1563 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1564 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1565 startup.
1566
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001567 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1568 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1569 modules and initcalls.
1570
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001571 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1572
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001573 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1574 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1575 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1576 override in debugfs after boot.
1577
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001578 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1579 Format: <irq>
1580
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001581 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1582
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001583 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1584 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1585 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1586 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1587
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001588 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001589 on
1590 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001591 off
1592 Disable intel iommu driver.
1593 igfx_off [Default Off]
1594 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1595 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1596 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1597 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1598 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 forcedac [x86_64]
1600 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001601 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001602 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001603 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1604 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001605 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001606 strict [Default Off]
1607 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1608 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1609 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001610 sp_off [Default Off]
1611 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1612 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1613 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001614 ecs_off [Default Off]
1615 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1616 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1617 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1618 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1619 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001620 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1621 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1622 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1623 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1624 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1625 mapping is enabled.
1626 Note that using this option lowers the security
1627 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1628 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001629
1630 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1631 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001632 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001633
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001634 intel_pstate= [X86]
1635 disable
1636 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1637 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001638 passive
1639 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1640 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1641 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1642 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1643 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001644 force
1645 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1646 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1647 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1648 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1649 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1650 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1651 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1652 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001653 no_hwp
1654 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1655 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001656 hwp_only
1657 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1658 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001659 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001660 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1661 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1662 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1663 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001664 per_cpu_perf_limits
1665 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1666 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001667
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001668 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001669 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1670 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1671 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001672 no_x2apic_optout
1673 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001674 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001675
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001676 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1677 strict regions from userspace.
1678 relaxed
1679
1680 iommu= [x86]
1681 off
1682 force
1683 noforce
1684 biomerge
1685 panic
1686 nopanic
1687 merge
1688 nomerge
1689 forcesac
1690 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001691 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001692 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1693 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001694
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001695 iommu.passthrough=
1696 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1697 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1698 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1699 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1700 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001701
1702 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1703 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1704 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1705
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301706 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001707 0x80
1708 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1709 0xed
1710 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001711 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001712 Simple two microseconds delay
1713 none
1714 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001715
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001716 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001717 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001718
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001719 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001720 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001721
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001722 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1723 [ARM, ARM64]
1724 Format: <bool>
1725 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1726 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1727 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1728
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001729 irqfixup [HW]
1730 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1731 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1732 firmware running.
1733
1734 irqpoll [HW]
1735 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1736 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1737 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1738 firmware running.
1739
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001740 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001741 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001742
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01001743 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001744 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1745 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001746
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001747 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1748 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001749
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001750 nohz
1751 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1752 domain
1753 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1754 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1755 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1756 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1757 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1758 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1759 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1760 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1761
1762 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1763 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1764 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1765 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1766
1767 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1768
1769
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001770
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001771 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001772
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001773 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1774 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1775 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1776 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1777 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1778 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1779
1780 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1781 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1782 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1783 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1784 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1785 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1786
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001787 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1788 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1789 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1790 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1791 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1792 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1793
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001794 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001795 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001796
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001797 nokaslr [KNL]
1798 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1799 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1800 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001801
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001802 kasan_multi_shot
1803 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1804 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1805 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1806 invalid access.
1807
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001808 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1809
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001810 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1811 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1812 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001813 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1814 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1815 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1816 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1817 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1818 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1819 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001820 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001821 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1822 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1823 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1824 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1825 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1826 zone if it does not.
1827
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001828 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1829 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1830 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1831 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1832 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1833 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1834 time.
1835
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001836 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1837 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1838 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1839 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1840 optional and is the number seconds in between
1841 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1842 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1843 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1844 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1845 the kernel debugger.
1846
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001847 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001848 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1849 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001850 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1851 keyboard only format: kbd
1852 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1853 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1854 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1855 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001856
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001857 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1858 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1859
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001860 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1861 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1862 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1863
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001864 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1865 Valid arguments: on, off
1866 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001867 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1868 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001869
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001870 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1871 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1872
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001873 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1874 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001875 Default is 0 (off)
1876
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001877 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001878 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001879
1880 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1881 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001882 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001883
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001884 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1885 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1886 system registers
1887
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001888 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1889 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1890 system registers
1891
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001892 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1893 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1894 system registers
1895
Marc Zyngiera7546052017-10-27 15:28:54 +01001896 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1897 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1898 LPIs.
1899
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001900 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1901 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1902 Default is 1 (enabled)
1903
1904 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1905 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1906 Default is 0 (disabled)
1907
1908 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1909 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1910 Default is 1 (enabled)
1911
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001912 kvm-intel.nested=
1913 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1914 Default is 0 (disabled)
1915
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001916 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1917 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1918 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1919 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1920
1921 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1922 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1923 Default is 1 (enabled)
1924
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001925 l2cr= [PPC]
1926
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001927 l3cr= [PPC]
1928
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001929 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001930 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001931
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001932 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1933 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1934 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1935
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301936 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001937 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001938
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001939 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1940 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1941 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1942 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001943 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001944 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1945 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001946
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001947 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1948 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1949 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001950
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001951 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1952 when set.
1953 Format: <int>
1954
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001955 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1956 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001957 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001958 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1959 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1960 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1961 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1962 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1963
1964 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1965 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1966 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1967 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1968 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1969 host link and device attached to it.
1970
1971 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1972 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1973 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1974 The following configurations can be forced.
1975
1976 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1977 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1978
1979 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1980
1981 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1982 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1983 allowed.
1984
1985 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1986
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001987 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1988
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001989 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1990 and both resets.
1991
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001992 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1993 hot-unplug link recovery
1994
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001995 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1996
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001997 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1998
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001999 * disable: Disable this device.
2000
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002001 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2002 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2003
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002004 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002005
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002006 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002007 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002008
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002009 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2010 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002011
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002012 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2013 Format: <integer>
2014
2015 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2016 Format: <integer>
2017
2018 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2019 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002020
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002021 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2022 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2023 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2024 number of online CPUs.
2025
2026 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2027 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2028
2029 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2030 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2031
2032 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2033 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2034 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2035
2036 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2037 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2038 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2039 mode during the locktorture test.
2040
2041 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2042 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2043 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2044
2045 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2046 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2047
2048 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2049 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2050 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2051 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2052 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2053 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2054
2055 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2056 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2057
2058 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2059 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2060
2061 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2062 Enable additional printk() statements.
2063
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002064 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2065 Format: <irq>
2066
2067 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2068 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2069 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2070 loglevels are defined as follows:
2071
2072 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2073 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2074 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2075 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2076 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2077 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2078 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2079 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2080
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002081 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002082 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2083 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2084 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2085 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2086 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2087 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002088
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002089 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2090 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2091 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2092 kernel boot problems.
2093
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002094 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2095 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2096 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2097 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2098 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2099 attached printers to be reset. Using
2100 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2101 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2102 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2103 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2104 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2105 port specification list means that device IDs
2106 from each port should be examined, to see if
2107 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2108 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2109 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2110
2111 lpj=n [KNL]
2112 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2113 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2114 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2115 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2116 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2117 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2118 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2119 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2120 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2121 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2122 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2123 hardware.
2124
2125 ltpc= [NET]
2126 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2127
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002128 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002129 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2130 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002131
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002132 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2133 yeeloong laptop.
2134 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2135
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002136 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2137 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002138
2139 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002140 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2141 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2142 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2143 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2144 only takes effect during system bootup.
2145 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2146 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002147
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002148 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2149 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2150 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2151 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2152 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2153 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002154
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002155 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002156
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002157 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002159 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002160 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002162 mdacon= [MDA]
2163 Format: <first>,<last>
2164 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002166 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2167 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2168 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002169 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2170 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2171 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2172 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002173
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002174 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002175 memory.
2176
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002177 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2178 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2179 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2180
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002181 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2182 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2183 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2184 set according to the
2185 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2186 option.
2187 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2188
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302189 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002190 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2191 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2192 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2193 option description.
2194
2195 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002196 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2197 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002198 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2199 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2200 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2201 comma delimited.
2202 Example:
2203 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002204
2205 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2206 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002207 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002208
2209 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2210 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002211 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002212 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2213 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2214 or
2215 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002216 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2217 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2218 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002219
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002220 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2221 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2222 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2223 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2224 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2225
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002226 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2227 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2228 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2229 Setting this option will scan the memory
2230 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2231 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2232 from using the memory being corrupted.
2233 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2234 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2235 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2236 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2237
2238 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2239 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2240 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2241 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2242 corruption in more or less memory.
2243
2244 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2245 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2246 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2247 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2248
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002249 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002250 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002251 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002252 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2253 performed. Each pass selects another test
2254 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2255 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2256 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2257 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002258
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002259 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2260 Valid arguments: on, off
2261 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2262 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2263 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2264 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2265 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2266
2267 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2268 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2269
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002270 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2271 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2272 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2273 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002274 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002276 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002277 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002278
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002279 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2280 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2281 platforms.
2282
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002283 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2284 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2285 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2286 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2287
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002288 mga= [HW,DRM]
2289
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002290 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2291 physical address is ignored.
2292
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002293 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2294 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2295 Default: "0tb"
2296 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2297 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2298 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2299 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2300 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2301 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2302 unconfigured.
2303 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2304 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2305 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2306 VGA shield.
2307 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2308 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2309 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2310 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2311 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2312 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2313
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002314 mminit_loglevel=
2315 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2316 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2317 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2318 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2319 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2320 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2321
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002322 module.sig_enforce
2323 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2324 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002325 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002326 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2327
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302328 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2329 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2330
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002331 mousedev.tap_time=
2332 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2333 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2334 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2335 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2336 Format: <msecs>
2337 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2338 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2339 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2340 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2341
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302342 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002343 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2344 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2345 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2346 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2347 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2348 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2349 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2350 is not too small.
2351
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002352 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2353 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2354 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2355 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2356 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002358 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2359 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2360
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002361 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2362 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002363
2364 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002365 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002366
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002367 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2368 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2369 at a time.
2370
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002371 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2372
2373 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2374
2375 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2376 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2377 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2378 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2379 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2380
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002381 mtdset= [ARM]
2382 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2383
2384 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2385
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002386 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002387 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2388 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002389
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002390 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002391 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002392 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2393
2394 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2395 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2396 Default is 1.
2397 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2398 using up MTRRs.
2399
2400 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2401 Format: <integer>
2402 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2403 Default : 1
2404 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2405 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2406
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002407 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2408
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002409 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2410 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2411 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2412 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002413 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2414 file if at all.
2415
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002416 nf_conntrack.acct=
2417 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2418 0 to disable accounting
2419 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002420 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002421
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002422 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002423 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002424
2425 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002426 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002427
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002428 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2429 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2430
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002431 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2432 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2433 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2434 requests.
2435
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002436 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2437 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2438 channel should listen.
2439
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002440 nfs.cache_getent=
2441 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2442 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2443
2444 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2445 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2446 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2447
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002448 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2449 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2450 entries.
2451
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002452 nfs.enable_ino64=
2453 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2454 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2455 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2456 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2457 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2458
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002459 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2460 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2461 slots the client will assign to the callback
2462 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2463 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2464 a particular server.
2465
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002466 nfs.max_session_slots=
2467 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2468 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2469 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2470 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2471 Note that there is little point in setting this
2472 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2473
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002474 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002475 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2476 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2477 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2478 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2479 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2480 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2481 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2482 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2483 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2484 back to using the idmapper.
2485 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002486 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2487 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2488 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2489 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2490 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002491
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002492 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2493 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2494 information in exchange_id requests.
2495 If zero, no implementation identification information
2496 will be sent.
2497 The default is to send the implementation identification
2498 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002499
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002500 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2501 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2502 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2503 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2504 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2505 after the locks are lost.
2506 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2507 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2508 parameter to '1'.
2509 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2510 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002511
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002512 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2513 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2514 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2515
2516 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2517 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2518 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2519 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2520
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002521 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2522 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2523 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2524 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2525 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2526 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002527
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002528 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002529 when a NMI is triggered.
2530 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2531
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302532 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002533 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002534 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002535 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2536 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002537 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002538 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002539 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2540 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002541 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2542 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002543
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002544 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2545 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2546 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2547 waits 4 seconds.
2548
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002549 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002550 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2551 is present.
2552
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002553 no_console_suspend
2554 [HW] Never suspend the console
2555 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2556 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2557 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2558 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2559 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2560 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2561 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002562 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2563 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2564 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2565 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2566 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002567
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002568 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2569 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2570 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002571
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002572 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2573
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002574 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2575 (CPU alternatives feature).
2576
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002577 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2578 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2579
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002580 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002582 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2583 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2584
2585 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002586
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002587 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2588
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002589 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2590
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002591 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2592
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002593 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002595 noexec [IA-64]
2596
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302597 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002598 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002599 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002600 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2601
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002602 nosmap [X86]
2603 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2604 even if it is supported by processor.
2605
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002606 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002607 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002608 even if it is supported by processor.
2609
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002610 noexec32 [X86-64]
2611 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2612 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2613 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2614 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2615 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002616
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002617 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002618
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002619 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002620 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2621 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002622
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002623 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2624
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002625 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2626 Equivalent to smt=1.
2627
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002628 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2629 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2630 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2631 to spectre_v2=off.
2632
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002633 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2634 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2635 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2636
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002637 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2638 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2639 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2640 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2641 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2642 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2643
2644 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2645 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2646 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2647 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2648 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2649 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2650 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2651
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002652 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2653 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2654 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002655
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002656 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2657 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2658 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2659
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002660 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2661 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2662 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2663 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2664 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2665 real-time systems.
2666
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002667 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2668
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002669 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2670 Valid arguments: on, off
2671 Default: on
2672
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01002673 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002674 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002675 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002676 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002677 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002678 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2679 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2680 just as if they had also been called out in the
2681 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002682
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002683 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2684
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002685 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002686 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2687
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302688 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002689 broken timer IRQ sources.
2690
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002691 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2692
2693 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2694 initial RAM disk.
2695
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002696 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2697 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002698 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002699
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002700 nointroute [IA-64]
2701
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002702 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2703
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002704 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002705
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002706 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2707
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002708 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2709 fault handling.
2710
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002711 no-vmw-sched-clock
2712 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2713 clock and use the default one.
2714
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002715 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2716 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2717 behaviour
2718
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002719 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002720
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002721 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002722
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002723 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002724 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002725
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002726 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2727
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002728 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002729
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002730 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2731 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2732
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002733 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2734 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2735 irq.
2736
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002737 nomodule Disable module load
2738
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002739 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2740 pagetables) support.
2741
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002742 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2743
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002744 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2745 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2746
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002747 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002748
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002749 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002750 with UP alternatives
2751
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002752 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2753 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2754 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2755 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002756
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002757 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2758 space.
2759
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002760 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2761 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2762 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2763
2764 nosbagart [IA-64]
2765
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002766 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002767
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002768 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2769 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002770
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002771 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2772
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002773 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2774
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002775 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002776
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002777 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2778 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002779
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002780 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002781
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002782 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2783
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002784 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2785 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2786 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2787 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2788 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2789 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2790 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2791 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2792 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2793 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2794 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2795 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2796 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2797
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002798 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2799 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2800 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2801 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2802 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2803 parameter's value.
2804 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2805 Default: 255
2806
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002807 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002808 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2809 SAL PALO.
2810
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002811 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2812 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002813 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2814 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2815 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2816 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2817 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2818 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002819
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002820 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2821
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002822 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2823 Allowed values are enable and disable
2824
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002825 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002826 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002827 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2828 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2829
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002830 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2831 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2832 info.
2833
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002834 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2835 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2836 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2837 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2838 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2839 interrupts *may* be lost!
2840
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002841 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2842 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2843 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2844 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2845
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002846 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2847 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2848
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002849 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2850 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2851 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002852 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2853 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002854 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2855 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002856 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2857 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2858 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002859
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002860 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2861 process, but there is a small probability of
2862 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002863 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2864 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2865
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002866 OSS [HW,OSS]
2867 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2868
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002869 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2870 Storage of the information about who allocated
2871 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2872 we can turn it on.
2873 on: enable the feature
2874
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002875 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2876 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2877 off: turn off poisoning
2878 on: turn on poisoning
2879
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002880 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002881 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2882 timeout = 0: wait forever
2883 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002884 Format: <timeout>
2885
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002886 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2887 on a WARN().
2888
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002889 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2890 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2891 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2892 succeeds in any situation.
2893 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2894 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2895 kernel more unstable.
2896
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002897 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2898 connected to, default is 0.
2899 Format: <parport#>
2900 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2901 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002902 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002903
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002904 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2905 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2906 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2907 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2908 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2909 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2910 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2911 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2912 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2913 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2914 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2915 are specified on the command line, starting
2916 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002917
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002918 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2919 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2920 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2921 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2922 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2923 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002924 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2925
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002926 pause_on_oops=
2927 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2928 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2929 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2930
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002931 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2932
2933 pcd. [PARIDE]
2934 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002935 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002936
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002937 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002938 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2939 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002940 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002941 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002942 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2943 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002944 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002945 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2946 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2947 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002948 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2949 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2950 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2951 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2952 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2953 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2954 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2955 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2956 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2957 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002958 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2959 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2960 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002961 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2962 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302963 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002964 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002965 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2966 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2967 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002968 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2969 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2970 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002971 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2972 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2973 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002974 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2975 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2976 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2977 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002978 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2979 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2980 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2981 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002982 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002983 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2984 on several machines and they hang the machine
2985 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2986 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2987 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2988 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2989 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002990 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002991 Use with caution as certain devices share
2992 address decoders between ROMs and other
2993 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002994 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002995 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2996 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002997 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2998 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002999 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003000 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3001 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3002 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003003 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003004 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3005 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3006 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003007 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003008 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3009 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3010 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003011 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003012 numbers ourselves, overriding
3013 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003014 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003015 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3016 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3017 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3018 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3019 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003020 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003021 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003022 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3023 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3024 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3025 please report a bug.
3026 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3027 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003028 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3029 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3030 so this option is a temporary workaround
3031 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003032 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3033 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003034 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3035 This might help on some broken boards which
3036 machine check when some devices' config space
3037 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3038 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003039 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3040 This sorting is done to get a device
3041 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3042 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003043 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3044 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3045 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3046 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3047 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3048 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3049 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3050 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3051 or bus can support) for best performance.
3052 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3053 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3054 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3055 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3056 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3057 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003058 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3059 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3060 The default value is 256 bytes.
3061 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3062 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3063 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003064 resource_alignment=
3065 Format:
3066 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003067 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3068 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003069 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3070 aligned memory resources.
3071 If <order of align> is not specified,
3072 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3073 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3074 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003075 To specify the alignment for several
3076 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3077 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3078 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003079 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3080 end-to-end CRC checking).
3081 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3082 the default.
3083 off: Turn ECRC off
3084 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003085 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3086 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3087 Default size is 256 bytes.
3088 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3089 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3090 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003091 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3092 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3093 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003094 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3095 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3096 accommodate resources required by all child
3097 devices.
3098 off: Turn realloc off
3099 on: Turn realloc on
3100 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003101 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003102 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3103 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3104 port.
=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=f32ab752018-01-11 14:23:29 +01003105 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3106 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3107 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3108 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3109 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3110 taints the kernel.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003111
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003112 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3113 Management.
3114 off Disable ASPM.
3115 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3116 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3117
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003118 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3119 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3120 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3121
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003122 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003123 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3124 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3125 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3126 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3127 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003128 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3129 ports driver.
3130
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003131 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3132 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3133 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3134
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003135 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003136 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003137 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003138
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003139 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3140
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303141 pd_ignore_unused
3142 [PM]
3143 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3144 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3145 for debug and development, but should not be
3146 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3147
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003148 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003149 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003150
3151 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3152 boot time.
3153 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3154 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3155
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003156 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003157 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3158 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3159 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3160 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3161 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003162
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003163 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003164 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003165
3166 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003167 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003168
3169 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003170 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003171
3172 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3173 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003174 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003175
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003176 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003177 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3178 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3179
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003180 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3181 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3182 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3183 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3184 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3185 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003186
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003187 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3188 { off }
3189
3190 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3191 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3192
3193 pnp_reserve_irq=
3194 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3195
3196 pnp_reserve_dma=
3197 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3198
3199 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003200 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003201
3202 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003203 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3204 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003205 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3206
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003207 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3208 Default is 21.
3209 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3210 may be specified.
3211 Format: <port>,<port>....
3212
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003213 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3214 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3215 platform machine description specific power_save
3216 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3217 execution priority.
3218
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003219 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3220 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3221 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3222 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3223 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3224
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003225 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3226 Format: {"off"}
3227 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3228
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003229 print-fatal-signals=
3230 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003231
3232 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3233 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3234 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3235 coredump - etc.
3236
3237 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3238 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3239
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003240 default: off.
3241
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003242 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3243 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3244 panics
3245 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3246 default: disabled
3247
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003248 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3249 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3250 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3251 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3252 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3253 Default: ratelimit
3254
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003255 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3256 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3257
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003258 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3259 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3260 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3261
3262 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3263 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3264 instead using the legacy FADT method
3265
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003266 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003267 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3268 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3269 [defaults to kernel profiling]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003270 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003271 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3272 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003273 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003274 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3275 statistical time based profiling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003276
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003277 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3278 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003279 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003280
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003281 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3282 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003283 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3284 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003285 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3286 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003287 (0 = never).
3288 psmouse.resolution=
3289 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3290 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003291 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003292 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3293
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003294 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003296 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003297 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003298
Dave Hansen01c9b172018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003299 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3300 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3301 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3302 system calls and interrupts.
3303
3304 on - unconditionally enable
3305 off - unconditionally disable
3306 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3307 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3308
3309 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3310
3311 nopti [X86_64]
3312 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov41f4c202017-12-12 14:39:52 +01003313
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003314 pty.legacy_count=
3315 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3316 default number.
3317
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003318 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003320 r128= [HW,DRM]
3321
3322 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003323 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003324
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003325 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003326 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003327
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003328 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3329
3330 cec_disable [X86]
3331 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3332 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3333
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003334 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003335 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3336
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003337 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3338 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3339 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003340 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3341 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3342 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3343 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003344 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3345 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3346 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3347
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003348 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003349 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3350 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3351 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3352 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3353 This improves the real-time response for the
3354 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3355 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3356 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3357 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3358
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003359 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003360 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3361 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003362
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003363 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3364 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3365 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3366 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3367
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003368 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3369 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003370 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003371
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003372 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3373 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003374 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003375
3376 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3377 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3378 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3379 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003380 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003381
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003382 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3383 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3384 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3385 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3386 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003387
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003388 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003389 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3390 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3391 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3392 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3393 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3394 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003395
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003396 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3397 Set required age in jiffies for a
3398 given grace period before RCU starts
3399 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3400 rcu_note_context_switch().
3401
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003402 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003403 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3404 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3405 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3406 and maximum value is HZ.
3407
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003408 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003409 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3410 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3411 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3412
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003413 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003414 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3415 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3416 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3417 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3418 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3419 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3420 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3421 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3422 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003423
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003424 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3425 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3426 defaults to the square root of the number of
3427 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3428 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3429 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3430
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003431 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003432 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3433 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003434
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003435 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003436 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3437 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003438
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003439 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003440 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3441 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003442
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003443 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003444 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3445 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3446 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3447 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003448
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003449 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3450 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3451 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3452 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3453 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3454 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3455
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003456 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3457 Measure performance of asynchronous
3458 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3459
3460 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3461 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3462 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3463 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3464 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3465 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3466
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003467 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3468 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3469 grace-period primitives.
3470
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003471 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3472 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3473 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3474 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3475 interference.
3476
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003477 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3478 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3479 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3480 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3481 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3482 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3483 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3484 a single reader.
3485
3486 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3487 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3488 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3489 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3490
3491 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3492 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3493
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003494 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3495 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3496
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003497 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3498 Shut the system down after performance tests
3499 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3500 testing.
3501
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003502 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3503 Enable additional printk() statements.
3504
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003505 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3506 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3507 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3508 no holdoff.
3509
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003510 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3511 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3512 callback-flood tests.
3513
3514 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3515 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3516 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3517 test.
3518
3519 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3520 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3521 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3522 disable callback-flood testing.
3523
3524 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3525 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3526 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3527
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003528 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003529 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3530 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003531
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003532 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003533 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3534 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003535
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003536 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003537 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3538 in seconds.
3539
3540 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3541 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3542 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003543
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003544 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003545 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003546
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003547 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003548 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3549 update-side primitives, if available.
3550
3551 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3552 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3553 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3554 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3555 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3556 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3557 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003558
3559 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003560 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3561
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003562 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003563 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3564 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3565 test, hence the "fake".
3566
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003567 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003568 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3569 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3570 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3571 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3572 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003573
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003574 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3575 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3576
3577 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003578 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3579
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003580 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003581 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3582 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3583
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003584 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003585 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3586 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3587 during the rcutorture test.
3588
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003589 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003590 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3591 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3592
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003593 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003594 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3595 warnings, zero to disable.
3596
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003597 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003598 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3599
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003600 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3601 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3602
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003603 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003604 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3605
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003606 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003607 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3608 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3609 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3610 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3611
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003612 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003613 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3614 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3615 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3616
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003617 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003618 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3619
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003620 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003621 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3622
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003623 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003624 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3625 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3626
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003627 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3628 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3629
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003630 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003631 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3632
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003633 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003634 Enable additional printk() statements.
3635
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003636 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3637 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3638
3639 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3640 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3641
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003642 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3643 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3644 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3645 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3646 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3647 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003648 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003649
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003650 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3651 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3652 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3653 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003654 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3655 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3656 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3657 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3658 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003659
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003660 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3661 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3662 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003663 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3664 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003665
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003666 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3667 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3668 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3669 to zero.
3670
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003671 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3672 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3673
3674 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3675 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3676
3677 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3678 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3679
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003680 rdinit= [KNL]
3681 Format: <full_path>
3682 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3683 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3684
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003685 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3686 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3687 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3688 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3689 rdt=cmt,!mba
3690
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003691 reboot= [KNL]
3692 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3693 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3694 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3695 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3696 [[,]f[orce]
3697 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3698 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3699 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3700 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3701 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003702
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003703 relax_domain_level=
3704 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003705 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003706
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003707 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3708
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003709 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003710 Format: nn[KMG]
3711 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3712 address space.
3713
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003714 reservelow= [X86]
3715 Format: nn[K]
3716 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3717 the bottom of the address space.
3718
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003719 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3720 during initialization.
3721
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003722 resume= [SWSUSP]
3723 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003724 Format:
3725 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003726
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003727 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3728 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3729 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3730 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3731 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3732
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003733 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3734 read the resume files
3735
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003736 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3737 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3738 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3739
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003740 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3741 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3742 present during boot.
3743 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003744 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003745 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3746 (that will set all pages holding image data
3747 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003748
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003749 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3750
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003751 rfkill.default_state=
3752 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3753 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3754 1 Unblocked.
3755
3756 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3757 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3758 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3759 blocked and the previous configuration.
3760 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3761 blocked and everything unblocked.
3762
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003763 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3764 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3765
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003766 ring3mwait=disable
3767 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3768 CPUs.
3769
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003770 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3771
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003772 rodata= [KNL]
3773 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3774 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3775
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003776 rockchip.usb_uart
3777 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3778 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3779 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3780 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3781
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003782 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003783 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003784
3785 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3786 mount the root filesystem
3787
3788 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3789
3790 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3791
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003792 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3793 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3794 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3795
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003796 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3797 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3798 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3799 managed by CMA.
3800
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003801 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3802
3803 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3804
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003805 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3806 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3807 strict
3808 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3809 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3810 which is faster.
3811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003812 sa1100ir [NET]
3813 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3814
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003815 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003816
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003817 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3818
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003819 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3820 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3821 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3822 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3823
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003824 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3825 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3826 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3827 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3828 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3829 1 -- enable.
3830 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3831 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3832
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003833 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3834 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3835 security module asking for security registration will be
3836 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3837 as if no module has been chosen.
3838
3839 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003840 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3841 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3842 0 -- disable.
3843 1 -- enable.
3844 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3845 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3846 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3847
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003848 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3849 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3850 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3851 0 -- disable.
3852 1 -- enable.
3853 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3854
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003855 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003856
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003857 shapers= [NET]
3858 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003859
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003860 simeth= [IA-64]
3861 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003862
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003863 slram= [HW,MTD]
3864
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003865 slab_nomerge [MM]
3866 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3867 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003868 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3869 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3870 layout control by attackers can usually be
3871 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3872 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3873 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3874 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3875 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003876 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3877
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003878 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3879 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3880 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3881 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3882 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3883
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003884 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3885 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3886 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3887 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3888 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3889 last alloc / free. For more information see
3890 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003891
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003892 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3893 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3894 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3895 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3896 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3897 directories and files being created under
3898 /sys/kernel/slub.
3899
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003900 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003901 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3902 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3903 fragmentation. For more information see
3904 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003905
3906 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003907 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3908 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3909 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3910 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3911 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3912 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003913 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3914
3915 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003916 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003917 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003918 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3919
3920 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003921 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3922 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003923
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003924 smart2= [HW]
3925 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3926
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003927 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3928 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3929 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3930 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3931 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3932 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3933 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3934 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3935 1: Fast pin select (default)
3936 2: ATC IRMode
3937
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003938 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3939 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3940 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3941 actual hardware limit.
3942 Format: <integer>
3943 Default: -1 (no limit)
3944
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003945 softlockup_panic=
3946 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003947 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003948
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003949 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3950 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3951 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3952 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3953 functionality.
3954
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003955 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3956 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3957 backtraces on all cpus.
3958 Format: <integer>
3959
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003960 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003961 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003962
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00003963 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3964 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3965
3966 on - unconditionally enable
3967 off - unconditionally disable
3968 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3969 vulnerable
3970
3971 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3972 mitigation method at run time according to the
3973 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3974 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3975 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3976
3977 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3978
3979 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3980 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3981 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3982
3983 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3984 spectre_v2=auto.
3985
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003986 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3987 spia_fio_base=
3988 spia_pedr=
3989 spia_peddr=
3990
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07003991 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3992 Specifies how frequently to check for
3993 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3994 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3995 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3996 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3997 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3998 are ignored.
3999
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07004000 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4001 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4002 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4003 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4004 grace period will be considered for automatic
4005 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4006 expediting.
4007
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004008 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4009 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4010 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4011 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4012 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4013 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4014
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004015 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4016 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4017
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004018 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4019 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4020 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4021 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4022 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4023 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4024 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4025
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004026 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4027 Format: <num>
4028 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4029 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4030 as the initial boot-console.
4031 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4032
4033 sti_font= [HW]
4034 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4035
4036 stifb= [HW]
4037 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4038
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004039 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4040 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4041 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4042 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4043 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4044 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4045 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4046 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4047 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4048 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4049 maximum port values.
4050
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004051 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4052 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4053 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4054 process in parallel from a single connection.
4055 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4056
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004057 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4058 [NFS]
4059 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4060 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4061 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4062 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4063 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4064 NFS server is running.
4065
4066 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4067 automatically using heuristics
4068 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4069 percpu one pool for each CPU
4070 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4071 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4072
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004073 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4074 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4075 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4076 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4077 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4078 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4079 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4080 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4081
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004082 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4083 [SUSPEND]
4084 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4085 mode before resuming the system (see
4086 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4087 is set. Default value is 5.
4088
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004089 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004090 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4091 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004092 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004093
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004094 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004095 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004096 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4097 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4098 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004099 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004100
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004101 switches= [HW,M68k]
4102
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004103 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4104 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4105 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4106 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4107 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4108 in older udev will not work anymore.
4109 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4110 the kernel configuration.
4111
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004112 sysrq_always_enabled
4113 [KNL]
4114 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4115 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4116 Useful for debugging.
4117
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004118 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4119 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4120 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4121 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4122 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4123 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004125 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4126
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004127 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004128 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004129 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4130 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4131 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4132 The system is woken from this state using a
4133 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004135 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4136 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4137
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004138 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4139 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4140 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4141
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004142 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4143 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004144 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004145
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004146 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4147 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4148 critical and hot trip points.
4149
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004150 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4151 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4152
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004153 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4154 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004155 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4156 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004157
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004158 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4159 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4160 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4161 0: no polling (default)
4162
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004163 threadirqs [KNL]
4164 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004165 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004166
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004167 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4168 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4169
4170 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4171 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4172 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4173
4174 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4175 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004176 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4177 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004178
4179 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4180 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4181 to the hypervisor.
4182
4183 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4184 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4185 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4186 kernel based on different criteria.
4187
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004188 topology= [S390]
4189 Format: {off | on}
4190 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004191 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4192 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004193 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004194 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004195
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004196 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4197 Format: {off}
4198 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4199 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4200 LPAR.
4201
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004202 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4203
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004204 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4205 Format: integer pcr id
4206 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4207 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4208 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4209 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4210 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4211 are saved.
4212
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004213 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004214 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004215
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004216 trace_event=[event-list]
4217 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004218 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4219 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4220 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004221
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004222 trace_options=[option-list]
4223 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4224 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4225 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4226 to echo the option name into
4227
4228 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4229
4230 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4231 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4232
4233 trace_options=stacktrace
4234
4235 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4236 section.
4237
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004238 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4239 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4240 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4241 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4242 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4243 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4244
4245 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4246 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4247 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4248 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4249
4250 ** CAUTION **
4251
4252 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4253 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4254 the system to live lock.
4255
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004256 traceoff_on_warning
4257 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4258 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4259 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4260 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4261
4262 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4263 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4264 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4265
4266 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4267 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4268
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004269 transparent_hugepage=
4270 [KNL]
4271 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4272 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4273 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4274 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4275
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004276 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004277 Format: <string>
4278 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004279 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4280 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4281 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4282 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004283 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4284 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4285 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4286 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004287 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4288 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4289 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004290
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004291 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4292 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4293 Format:
4294 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004295 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004296
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004297 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004298 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004299 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4300 help "seeing" what's going on.
4301
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004302 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4303 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4304
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004305 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4306 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4307 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4308 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4309 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4310 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4311 reported either.
4312
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004313 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004314 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004315
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004316 usbcore.authorized_default=
4317 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4318 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4319 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4320
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004321 usbcore.autosuspend=
4322 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4323 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4324 is the time required before an idle device will be
4325 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004326 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004327
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004328 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4329 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4330
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004331 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4332 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4333 (default = 65536).
4334
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004335 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4336 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4337
4338 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4339 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4340 scheme (default 0 = off).
4341
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004342 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4343 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4344 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4345
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004346 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4347 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4348 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4349
4350 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4351 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4352 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4353 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4354
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004355 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4356
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004357 usbhid.mousepoll=
4358 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004359
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004360 usbhid.jspoll=
4361 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4362
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004363 usb-storage.delay_use=
4364 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004365 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004366
4367 usb-storage.quirks=
4368 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4369 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4370 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4371 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4372 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4373 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4374 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004375 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4376 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004377 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4378 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004379 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4380 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004381 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4382 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4383 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4384 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004385 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4386 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004387 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4388 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004389 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4390 reported device capacity by one
4391 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004392 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4393 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004394 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4395 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004396 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4397 unlock ejectable media);
4398 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4399 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004400 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4401 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004402 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4403 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004404 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4405 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004406 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4407 bogus residue values);
4408 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4409 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004410 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4411 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004412 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004413 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4414 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004415 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4416 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004417 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4418
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004419 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4420 Format: <int>
4421 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4422 1 - undefined instruction events
4423 2 - system calls
4424 4 - invalid data aborts
4425 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4426 16 - SIGBUS faults
4427 Example: user_debug=31
4428
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004429 userpte=
4430 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4431
4432 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4433 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4434 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4435
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304436 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004437 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4438
4439 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004440 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4441
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004442 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4443 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4444 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4445
4446 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4447 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4448 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4449
4450 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4451 alias for vdso32=0.
4452
4453 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4454 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004455
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004456 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4457 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4458
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004459 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4460 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4461
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004462 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4463 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4464 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4465 level and then send out the event to user space through
4466 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4467 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4468 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004469 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004470
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004471 virtio_mmio.device=
4472 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4473
4474 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4475 where:
4476 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4477 like K, M and G)
4478 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4479 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4480 request_irq())
4481 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4482 example:
4483 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4484
4485 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4486
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004487 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004488 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004489 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004490 Use vga=ask for menu.
4491 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4492 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4493
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004494 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004495 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4496 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4497 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4498 mapped kernel RAM.
4499
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004500 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4501 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4502 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4503
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004504 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4505 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004506
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004507 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4508 Format: <command>
4509
4510 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4511 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004512
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004513 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4514 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4515 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4516 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4517 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4518 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4519 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4520
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004521 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4522 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004523
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004524 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004525 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4526 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4527 better than they would in emulation mode.
4528 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4529
4530 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4531 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4532 might break your system.
4533
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004534 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4535 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4536 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4537
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004538 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4539 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4540 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4541 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4542
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004543 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4544 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4545 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4546 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4547 ranging from 0-255.
4548
4549 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4550 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4551 Change the default green palette of the console.
4552 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4553 ranging from 0-255.
4554
4555 vt.default_red= [VT]
4556 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4557 Change the default red palette of the console.
4558 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4559 ranging from 0-255.
4560
4561 vt.default_utf8=
4562 [VT]
4563 Format=<0|1>
4564 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4565 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4566 newly opened terminals.
4567
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004568 vt.global_cursor_default=
4569 [VT]
4570 Format=<-1|0|1>
4571 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4572 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4573 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4574 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4575 cursors, 1 will display them.
4576
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004577 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4578 Default: 2 = green.
4579
4580 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4581 Default: 3 = cyan.
4582
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004583 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4584 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4585 or other driver-specific files in the
4586 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004587
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004588 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4589 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4590 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4591 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4592 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4593 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4594 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4595 corresponding sysfs file.
4596
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004597 workqueue.disable_numa
4598 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4599 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4600 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4601 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4602 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4603 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4604 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4605
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304606 workqueue.power_efficient
4607 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4608 they show better performance thanks to cache
4609 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4610 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4611
4612 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4613 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4614 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4615 power usage at the cost of small performance
4616 overhead.
4617
4618 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4619 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4620
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004621 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4622 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4623 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4624 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4625 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4626 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4627 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4628 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4629 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4630 impacted.
4631
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004632 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4633 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4634 supporting x2apic.
4635
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004636 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4637 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004638 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4639 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004640 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004641
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004642 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4643 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4644 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4645 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4646 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4647 domains.
4648
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004649 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4650 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4651 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4652 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4653 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4654 nics -- unplug network devices
4655 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004656 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4657 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4658 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004659 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004660
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004661 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4662 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4663 optimizations.
4664
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004665 xen_nopv [X86]
4666 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4667 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4668
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004669 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004670 Format:
4671 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]