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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
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800114 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
Greg Edwards11dd2662018-03-05 15:05:20 -0700392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
Greg Edwards11dd2662018-03-05 15:05:20 -0700397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace 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
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700477
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700479 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
Mauro Carvalho Chehab18bcaa42018-05-07 06:35:44 -0300521 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
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
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
Sergey Senozhatskycca10d52017-12-21 14:41:49 +0900649 console_msg_format=
650 [KNL] Change console messages format
651 default
652 By default we print messages on consoles in
653 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655 `printk_time' param).
656 syslog
657 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661 from /proc/kmsg.
662
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700663 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700664 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200665 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700666
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800667 coredump_filter=
668 [KNL] Change the default value for
669 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600672 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673 [ARM,ARM64]
674 Format: <bool>
675 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676 0: default value, disable debugging
677 1: enable debugging at boot time
678
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400679 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
680 disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500682 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
683 disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400685 cpu_init_udelay=N
686 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
688 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689 Default: 10000
690
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700691 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700692 Format:
693 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700694
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800695 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700 is selected automatically. Check
701 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700702
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700703 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705 in the running system. The syntax of range is
706 start-[end] where start and end are both
707 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700709
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700710 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700711 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715 available.
716 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700717 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700720 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800722 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700726 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727 for second kernel instead.
728 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700729 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700730 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700731
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100732 cryptomgr.notests
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200733 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
736 Format: <dma>
737
738 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
739 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700740
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700741 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700742 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745 (one device per port)
746 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500747 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700748
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200749 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200750 time. See
751 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600752 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700754 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700756 debug_locks_verbose=
757 [KNL] verbose self-tests
758 Format=<0|1>
759 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760 self-tests.
761 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763 only useful to kernel developers.
764
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700765 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
766
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500767 no_debug_objects
768 [KNL] Disable object debugging
769
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800770 debug_guardpage_minorder=
771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
778 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785 bypassed) which are not detectable by
786 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787 tracking down these problems.
788
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800789 debug_pagealloc=
790 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796 on: enable the feature
797
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200798 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200800 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801 Format: <area>[,<node>]
802 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700804 default_hugepagesz=
805 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700812 dhash_entries= [KNL]
813 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700814
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000815 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
816 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819 miss to occur.
820
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800821 disable= [IPV6]
822 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530824 disable_radix [PPC]
825 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900827 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828 Format: <int>
829 The number of initial APIC ID for the
830 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833 causing system reset or hang due to sending
834 INIT from AP to BSP.
835
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +0200836 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000837 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838 to workaround buggy firmware.
839
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800840 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700843 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700844 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700846 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700847
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100848 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100849 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850 memory out of your available memory pool based on
851 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
852 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530854 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700855 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400858 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700860 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863 dma_debug_entries=<number>
864 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868 architectural default is too low.
869
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200870 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875 driver later using sysfs.
876
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300877 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700878 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100882 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700890 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
892 data set with no connector name will be used for
893 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100894
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700895 dscc4.setup= [NET]
896
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000897 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
898 Format: {"off" | "known"}
899 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901 exists).
902 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000906 dump_apple_properties [X86]
907 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
909 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600911 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912 module.dyndbg[="val"]
913 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200914 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600916
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700917 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919 information about the feature.
920
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800921 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922 in some Intel CPUs.
923
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700924 module.async_probe [KNL]
925 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700927 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930 which are not unmapped.
931
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700932 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500933
Prarit Bhargava0231d002018-01-18 10:09:51 -0500934 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
939 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500940
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100941 cdns,<addr>[,options]
942 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200947
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700948 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700950 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300951 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400952 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700953 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700955 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300956 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
957 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400960 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700961
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500962 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600963 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600967 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500970
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100971 meson,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port must
974 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975 supported.
976
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700977 msm_serial,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
983 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987 yet supported.
988
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200989 owl,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992 specified address. The serial port must already be
993 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500995 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100997 s3c2410,<addr>
998 s3c2412,<addr>
999 s3c2440,<addr>
1000 s3c6400,<addr>
1001 s5pv210,<addr>
1002 exynos4210,<addr>
1003 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007 Options are not yet supported.
1008
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +01001009 lantiq,<addr>
1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001015 lpuart,<addr>
1016 lpuart32,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020 port must already be setup and configured.
1021
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001022 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025 address. The serial port must already be setup
1026 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
Arnd Bergmann4ba66a92018-03-07 22:23:24 +01001028 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001030 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001031 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001032 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001033 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001034 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001035 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001036 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001037 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001038 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001039
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001040 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001044 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001045 takes over.
1046
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001047 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001049
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001050 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055 You can find the port for a given device in
1056 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001058
1059 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060 very good.
1061
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001062 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001064
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001065 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001067 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001069 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075 default: on.
1076
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001077 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078 ekgdboc=kbd
1079
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001080 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001081 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001083 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001084 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001085
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001086 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001087 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001088 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001091 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001094 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001095 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001096
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001097 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001103 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105 updating original EFI memory map.
1106 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107 from ss to ss+nn.
1108 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116 doesn't support it.
1117
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001118 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001125 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1126 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001128 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001129 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001130 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001131
1132 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001133 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001134 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001135 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001137 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001138 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001139 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001141 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001142
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001143 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001148 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001149 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001154 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159 Default value is 0.
1160 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001162 erst_disable [ACPI]
1163 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164 support.
1165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001166 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001170 evm= [EVM]
1171 Format: { "fix" }
1172 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173 current integrity status.
1174
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001175 failslab=
1176 fail_page_alloc=
1177 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178 General fault injection mechanism.
1179 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001180 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001182 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001183 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001184
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001185 force_pal_cache_flush
1186 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001191 forcepae [X86-32]
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001192 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196 and may cause unknown problems.
1197
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001198 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001199 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001200 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201 boot debugging.
1202
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001203 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001204 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001205 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001209
1210 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001215 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001216
1217 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001222
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001223 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227 that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001230 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1233 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001236 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001242 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001246 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247
1248 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1249
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001250 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001251 Format: off | on
1252 default: on
1253
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001254 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001260 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262 android emulator
1263
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001264 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001265 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001268
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001269 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271 Format: 0 | 1
1272 Default: 0
1273 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275 Format: 0 | 1
1276 Default: 0
1277 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278 Format: 0 | 1
1279 Default: 0
1280 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282 Default: 1024
1283 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285 Default: 1024
1286
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001287 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001291 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293 backtraces on all cpus.
1294 Format: <integer>
1295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001296 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001298 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001299 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300
1301 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001306 hest_disable [ACPI]
1307 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309 logic will be disabled.
1310
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001311 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314 size on bigger boxes.
1315
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001316 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318 Default: "on"
1319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1321 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001323 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327 verbose }
1328 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330 VIA, nVidia)
1331 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001333 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001336 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001338 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001342 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001343
Omar Sandovala49d9c02018-05-21 11:18:17 -07001344 hung_task_panic=
1345 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1346 Format: <integer>
1347
1348 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1349 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1350 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1351 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1352 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1353
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001354 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1355 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1356 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1357 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1358 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001359 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1360 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1361 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1362 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1363 the real console.
1364
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001365 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1366 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1367 registered from board initialization code.
1368 Format:
1369 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001370
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001371 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001372 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1373 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1374 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1375 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001376 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001377 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1378 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001379 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1380 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001381 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001382 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1383 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001384 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001385 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001386 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1387 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001388 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001389 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1390 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1391 transitions, or never reset
1392 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1393 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1394 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1395 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1396 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001397 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001398 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001399
1400 i810= [HW,DRM]
1401
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001402 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1403 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1404 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001405 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1406 does not match list of supported models.
1407 i8k.power_status
1408 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1409 (disabled by default)
1410 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1411 capability is set.
1412
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001413 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001414 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1415 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001416 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1417 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1418 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1419 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1420 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1421 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1422 value switches the backlight off.
1423 -1 -- never invert brightness
1424 0 -- machine default
1425 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001426
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001427 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1428 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1429
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001430 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1431 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001432 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1433 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001434 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001435
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001436 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1437 Format: <int>
1438 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1439 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1440 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1441 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1442 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1443 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1444 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1445 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1446 was 0x3.
1447
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001448 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1449 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1450
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001451 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001452 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001453 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1454 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1455 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1456 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001457 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001458 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001459 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001460
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001461 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1462 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1463 Default: strict
1464
1465 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1466 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1467 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1468 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1469 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1470 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1471 encoding mode.
1472
1473 Available settings are as follows:
1474 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1475 supported by the FPU
1476 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1477 by the FPU
1478 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1479 by the FPU
1480 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1481 supported by the FPU
1482
1483 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1484 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1485 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1486 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1487 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1488 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1489 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1490 MIPS64 CPUs.
1491
1492 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1493 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1494 except where unsupported by hardware.
1495
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001496 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1497 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1498 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001499 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1500 could change it dynamically, usually by
1501 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001502
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001503 ignore_rlimit_data
1504 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1505 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1506 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1507
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001508 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1509 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1510
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001511 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001512 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001513 default: "enforce"
1514
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001515 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1516 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1517 owned by uid=0.
1518
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001519 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1520 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1521 measurements, instead of host native format.
1522
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001523 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001524 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1525 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001526 default: "sha1"
1527
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001528 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1529 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1530
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001531 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001532 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar9e670282018-02-21 11:36:32 -05001533 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1534 fail_securely"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001535
1536 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1537 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1538 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1539 uid=0.
1540
1541 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1542 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1543 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001544
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001545 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1546 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1547 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001548
Mimi Zohar9e670282018-02-21 11:36:32 -05001549 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1550 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1551 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1552 flag.
1553
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001554 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001555 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1556 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1557 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1558 opened for read by uid=0.
1559
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001560 ima_template= [IMA]
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001561 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001562 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001563 Default: "ima-ng"
1564
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001565 ima_template_fmt=
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001566 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001567 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1568
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001569 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1570 Format: <min_file_size>
1571 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1572 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1573
1574 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1575 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1576 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1577
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001578 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1579 Format: <bufsize>
1580 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1581
1582 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1583 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1584 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1585
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001586 init= [KNL]
1587 Format: <full_path>
1588 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1589 process.
1590
1591 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1592 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1593 startup.
1594
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001595 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1596 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1597 modules and initcalls.
1598
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001599 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1600
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001601 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1602 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1603 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1604 override in debugfs after boot.
1605
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001606 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1607 Format: <irq>
1608
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001609 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001610
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001611 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1612 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1613 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1614 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1615
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001616 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001617 on
1618 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001619 off
1620 Disable intel iommu driver.
1621 igfx_off [Default Off]
1622 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1623 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1624 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1625 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1626 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001627 forcedac [x86_64]
1628 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001629 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001630 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001631 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1632 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001633 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001634 strict [Default Off]
1635 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1636 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1637 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001638 sp_off [Default Off]
1639 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1640 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1641 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001642 ecs_off [Default Off]
1643 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1644 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1645 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1646 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1647 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001648 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1649 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1650 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1651 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1652 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1653 mapping is enabled.
1654 Note that using this option lowers the security
1655 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1656 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001657
1658 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1659 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001660 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001661
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02001662 intel_pstate= [X86]
1663 disable
1664 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1665 scaling driver for the supported processors
1666 passive
1667 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1668 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1669 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1670 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1671 feature.
1672 force
1673 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1674 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1675 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1676 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1677 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1678 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1679 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1680 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1681 no_hwp
1682 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1683 if available.
1684 hwp_only
1685 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1686 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1687 support_acpi_ppc
1688 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1689 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1690 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1691 then this feature is turned on by default.
1692 per_cpu_perf_limits
1693 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1694 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001695
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001696 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001697 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1698 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1699 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001700 no_x2apic_optout
1701 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001702 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001703
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001704 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1705 strict regions from userspace.
1706 relaxed
1707
1708 iommu= [x86]
1709 off
1710 force
1711 noforce
1712 biomerge
1713 panic
1714 nopanic
1715 merge
1716 nomerge
1717 forcesac
1718 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001719 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001720 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1721 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001722
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001723 iommu.passthrough=
1724 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1725 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1726 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1727 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1728 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001729
1730 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1731 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1732 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1733
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301734 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001735 0x80
1736 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1737 0xed
1738 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001739 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001740 Simple two microseconds delay
1741 none
1742 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001743
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001744 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001745 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001746
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001747 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001748 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001749
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001750 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1751 [ARM, ARM64]
1752 Format: <bool>
1753 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1754 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1755 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1756
Marc Zyngierf736d652018-02-25 11:27:04 +00001757 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1758 [ARM, ARM64]
1759 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1760 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1761 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1762 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1763 LPIs.
1764
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001765 irqfixup [HW]
1766 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1767 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1768 firmware running.
1769
1770 irqpoll [HW]
1771 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1772 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1773 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1774 firmware running.
1775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001776 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001777 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001778
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01001779 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001780 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1781 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001782
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001783 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1784 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001785
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001786 nohz
1787 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
Frederic Weisbecker083c6ee2018-02-21 05:17:29 +01001788
1789 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1790 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1791 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1792 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1793 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1794
1795 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1796 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1797 be configured manually after bootup.
1798
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001799 domain
1800 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1801 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1802 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1803 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1804 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1805 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1806 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1807 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1808
1809 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1810 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1811 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1812 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1813
1814 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1815
1816
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001817
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001818 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001819
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001820 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1821 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1822 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1823 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1824 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1825 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1826
1827 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1828 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1829 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1830 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1831 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1832 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1833
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001834 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1835 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1836 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1837 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1838 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1839 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1840
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001841 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001842 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001843
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001844 nokaslr [KNL]
1845 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1846 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1847 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001848
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001849 kasan_multi_shot
1850 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1851 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1852 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1853 invalid access.
1854
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001855 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1856
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001857 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
David Rientjesa5c6d652018-04-05 16:23:09 -07001858 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1859 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1860 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1861 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1862 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1863 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1864 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1865 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1866 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1867
1868 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1869 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1870 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1871 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001872 zone if it does not.
1873
David Rientjesa5c6d652018-04-05 16:23:09 -07001874 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1875 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1876 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001877 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1878 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
David Rientjesa5c6d652018-04-05 16:23:09 -07001879 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1880 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001881
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001882 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1883 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1884 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1885 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1886 optional and is the number seconds in between
1887 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1888 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1889 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1890 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1891 the kernel debugger.
1892
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001893 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001894 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1895 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001896 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1897 keyboard only format: kbd
1898 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1899 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1900 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1901 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001902
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001903 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1904 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1905
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001906 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1907 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1908 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1909
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001910 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1911 Valid arguments: on, off
1912 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001913 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1914 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001915
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001916 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1917 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1918
Liran Alonc4ae60e2018-03-12 13:12:47 +02001919 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1920 Default is false (don't support).
1921
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001922 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1923 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001924 Default is 0 (off)
1925
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001926 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001927 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001928
1929 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1930 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001931 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001932
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001933 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1934 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1935 system registers
1936
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001937 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1938 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1939 system registers
1940
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001941 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1942 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1943 system registers
1944
Marc Zyngiera7546052017-10-27 15:28:54 +01001945 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1946 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1947 LPIs.
1948
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001949 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1950 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1951 Default is 1 (enabled)
1952
1953 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1954 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1955 Default is 0 (disabled)
1956
1957 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1958 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1959 Default is 1 (enabled)
1960
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001961 kvm-intel.nested=
1962 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1963 Default is 0 (disabled)
1964
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001965 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1966 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1967 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1968 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1969
1970 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1971 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1972 Default is 1 (enabled)
1973
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001974 l2cr= [PPC]
1975
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001976 l3cr= [PPC]
1977
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001978 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001979 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001980
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001981 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1982 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1983 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1984
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301985 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001986 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001987
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001988 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1989 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1990 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1991 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001992 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001993 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1994 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001995
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001996 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1997 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1998 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001999
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04002000 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2001 when set.
2002 Format: <int>
2003
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002004 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2005 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02002006 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002007 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2008 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2009 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2010 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2011 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2012
2013 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2014 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2015 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2016 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2017 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2018 host link and device attached to it.
2019
2020 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2021 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2022 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2023 The following configurations can be forced.
2024
2025 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2026 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2027
2028 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2029
2030 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2031 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2032 allowed.
2033
2034 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2035
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002036 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2037
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002038 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002039 and both resets.
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002040
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002041 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2042 hot-unplug link recovery
2043
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002044 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2045
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002046 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2047
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002048 * disable: Disable this device.
2049
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002050 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2051 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2052
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002053 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002054
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002055 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002056 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002057
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002058 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2059 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002060
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002061 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2062 Format: <integer>
2063
2064 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2065 Format: <integer>
2066
2067 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2068 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002069
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002070 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2071 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2072 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2073 number of online CPUs.
2074
2075 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2076 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2077
2078 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2079 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2080
2081 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2082 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2083 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2084
2085 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2086 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2087 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2088 mode during the locktorture test.
2089
2090 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2091 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2092 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2093
2094 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2095 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2096
2097 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2098 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2099 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2100 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2101 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2102 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2103
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002104 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2105 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2106
2107 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2108 Enable additional printk() statements.
2109
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002110 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2111 Format: <irq>
2112
2113 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2114 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2115 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2116 loglevels are defined as follows:
2117
2118 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2119 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2120 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2121 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2122 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2123 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2124 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2125 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2126
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002127 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002128 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2129 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2130 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2131 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2132 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2133 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002134
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002135 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2136 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2137 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2138 kernel boot problems.
2139
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002140 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2141 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2142 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2143 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2144 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2145 attached printers to be reset. Using
2146 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2147 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2148 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2149 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2150 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2151 port specification list means that device IDs
2152 from each port should be examined, to see if
2153 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2154 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2155 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2156
2157 lpj=n [KNL]
2158 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2159 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2160 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2161 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2162 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2163 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2164 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2165 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2166 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2167 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2168 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2169 hardware.
2170
2171 ltpc= [NET]
2172 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2173
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002174 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002175 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2176 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002177
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002178 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2179 yeeloong laptop.
2180 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2181
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002182 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2183 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002184
2185 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002186 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2187 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2188 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2189 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2190 only takes effect during system bootup.
2191 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2192 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002193
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002194 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2195 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2196 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2197 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2198 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2199 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002200
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002201 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002202
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002203 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002205 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002206 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002207
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002208 mdacon= [MDA]
2209 Format: <first>,<last>
2210 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002211
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002212 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2213 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2214 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002215 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2216 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2217 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2218 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002219
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002220 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002221 memory.
2222
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002223 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2224 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2225 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2226
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002227 memhp_default_state=online/offline
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002228 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2229 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2230 set according to the
2231 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2232 option.
2233 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2234
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302235 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002236 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2237 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2238 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2239 option description.
2240
2241 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002242 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2243 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002244 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2245 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2246 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2247 comma delimited.
2248 Example:
2249 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002250
2251 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2252 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002253 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002254
2255 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2256 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002257 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002258 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2259 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2260 or
2261 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002262 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2263 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2264 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002265
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002266 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2267 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2268 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2269 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2270 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2271
Jan H. Schönherref61f8a2018-02-03 00:10:20 +01002272 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2273 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2274 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2275 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2276 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2277 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2278 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2279 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2280
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002281 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2282 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2283 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2284 Setting this option will scan the memory
2285 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2286 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2287 from using the memory being corrupted.
2288 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2289 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2290 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2291 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2292
2293 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2294 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2295 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2296 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2297 corruption in more or less memory.
2298
2299 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2300 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2301 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2302 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2303
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002304 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002305 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002306 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002307 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2308 performed. Each pass selects another test
2309 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2310 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2311 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2312 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002313
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002314 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2315 Valid arguments: on, off
2316 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2317 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2318 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2319 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2320 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2321
2322 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2323 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2324
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002325 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2326 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2327 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2328 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002329 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002330
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002331 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002332 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002333
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002334 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2335 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2336 platforms.
2337
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002338 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2339 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2340 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2341 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2342
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002343 mga= [HW,DRM]
2344
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002345 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2346 physical address is ignored.
2347
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002348 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2349 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2350 Default: "0tb"
2351 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2352 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2353 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2354 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2355 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2356 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2357 unconfigured.
2358 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2359 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2360 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2361 VGA shield.
2362 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2363 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2364 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2365 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2366 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2367 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2368
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002369 mminit_loglevel=
2370 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2371 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2372 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2373 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2374 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2375 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2376
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002377 module.sig_enforce
2378 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2379 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002380 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002381 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2382
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302383 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2384 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2385
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002386 mousedev.tap_time=
2387 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2388 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2389 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2390 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2391 Format: <msecs>
2392 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2393 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2394 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2395 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2396
David Rientjesa5c6d652018-04-05 16:23:09 -07002397 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2398 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2399 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2400 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2401 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2402 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2403 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2404 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002405 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2406 is not too small.
2407
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002408 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2409 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2410 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2411 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2412 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002414 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2415 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2416
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002417 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2418 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002419
2420 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002421 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002422
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002423 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2424 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2425 at a time.
2426
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002427 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2428
2429 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2430
2431 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2432 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2433 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2434 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2435 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2436
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002437 mtdset= [ARM]
2438 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2439
2440 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2441
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002442 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002443 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2444 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002445
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002446 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002447 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002448 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2449
2450 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2451 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2452 Default is 1.
2453 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2454 using up MTRRs.
2455
2456 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2457 Format: <integer>
2458 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2459 Default : 1
2460 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2461 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2462
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002463 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2464
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002465 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2466 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2467 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2468 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002469 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2470 file if at all.
2471
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002472 nf_conntrack.acct=
2473 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2474 0 to disable accounting
2475 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002476 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002477
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002478 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002479 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002480
2481 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002482 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002483
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002484 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2485 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2486
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002487 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2488 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2489 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2490 requests.
2491
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002492 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2493 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2494 channel should listen.
2495
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002496 nfs.cache_getent=
2497 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2498 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2499
2500 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2501 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2502 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2503
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002504 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2505 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2506 entries.
2507
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002508 nfs.enable_ino64=
2509 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2510 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2511 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2512 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2513 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2514
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002515 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2516 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2517 slots the client will assign to the callback
2518 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2519 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2520 a particular server.
2521
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002522 nfs.max_session_slots=
2523 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2524 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2525 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2526 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2527 Note that there is little point in setting this
2528 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2529
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002530 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002531 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2532 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2533 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2534 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2535 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2536 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2537 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2538 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2539 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2540 back to using the idmapper.
2541 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002542 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2543 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2544 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2545 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2546 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002547
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002548 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2549 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2550 information in exchange_id requests.
2551 If zero, no implementation identification information
2552 will be sent.
2553 The default is to send the implementation identification
2554 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002555
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002556 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2557 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2558 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2559 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2560 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2561 after the locks are lost.
2562 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2563 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2564 parameter to '1'.
2565 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2566 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002567
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002568 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2569 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2570 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2571
2572 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2573 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2574 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2575 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2576
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002577 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2578 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2579 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2580 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2581 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2582 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002583
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002584 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002585 when a NMI is triggered.
2586 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2587
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302588 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002589 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002590 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002591 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2592 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002593 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002594 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002595 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2596 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002597 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2598 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002599
Scott Woodd22881d2017-12-10 01:48:46 -06002600 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2601 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2602
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002603 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2604 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2605 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2606 waits 4 seconds.
2607
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002608 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002609 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2610 is present.
2611
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002612 no_console_suspend
2613 [HW] Never suspend the console
2614 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2615 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2616 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2617 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2618 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2619 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2620 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002621 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2622 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2623 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2624 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2625 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002626
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002627 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2628 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2629 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002630
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002631 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2632
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002633 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2634 (CPU alternatives feature).
2635
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002636 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2637 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2638
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002639 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2640
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002641 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2642 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2643
2644 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002645
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002646 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2647
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002648 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2649
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002650 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2651
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002652 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002653
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002654 noexec [IA-64]
2655
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302656 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002657 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002658 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002659 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2660
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002661 nosmap [X86]
2662 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2663 even if it is supported by processor.
2664
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002665 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002666 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002667 even if it is supported by processor.
2668
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002669 noexec32 [X86-64]
2670 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2671 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2672 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2673 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2674 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002675
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002676 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002677
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002678 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002679 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2680 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002681
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002682 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2683
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002684 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2685 Equivalent to smt=1.
2686
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002687 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2688 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2689 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2690 to spectre_v2=off.
2691
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002692 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2693 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2694 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2695
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002696 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2697 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2698 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2699 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2700 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2701 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2702
2703 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2704 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2705 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2706 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2707 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2708 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2709 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2710
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002711 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2712 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2713 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002714
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002715 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2716 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2717 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2718
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002719 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2720 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2721 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2722 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2723 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2724 real-time systems.
2725
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002726 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2727
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002728 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2729 Valid arguments: on, off
2730 Default: on
2731
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01002732 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002733 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002734 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002735 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002736 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002737 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2738 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2739 just as if they had also been called out in the
2740 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002741
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002742 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2743
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002744 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002745 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2746
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302747 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002748 broken timer IRQ sources.
2749
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002750 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2751
2752 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2753 initial RAM disk.
2754
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002755 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2756 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002757 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002758
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002759 nointroute [IA-64]
2760
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002761 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2762
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002763 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002764
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002765 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2766
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002767 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2768 fault handling.
2769
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002770 no-vmw-sched-clock
2771 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2772 clock and use the default one.
2773
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002774 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002775 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2776 behaviour
2777
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002778 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002779
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002780 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002781
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002782 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002783 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002784
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002785 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2786
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002787 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002788
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002789 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2790 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2791
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002792 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2793 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2794 irq.
2795
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002796 nomodule Disable module load
2797
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002798 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2799 pagetables) support.
2800
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002801 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2802
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002803 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2804 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2805
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002806 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002807 with UP alternatives
2808
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002809 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2810 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2811 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2812 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002813
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002814 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2815 space.
2816
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002817 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2818 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2819 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2820
2821 nosbagart [IA-64]
2822
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002823 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002824
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002825 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2826 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002827
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002828 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2829
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002830 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2831
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002832 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002833
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002834 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002835 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002836
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002837 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002838
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002839 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2840
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002841 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2842 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2843 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2844 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2845 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2846 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2847 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2848 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2849 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2850 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2851 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2852 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2853 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2854
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002855 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002856 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2857 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2858 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2859 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2860 parameter's value.
2861 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2862 Default: 255
2863
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002864 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002865 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2866 SAL PALO.
2867
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002868 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2869 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002870 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2871 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2872 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2873 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2874 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2875 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002876
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002877 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2878
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002879 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2880 Allowed values are enable and disable
2881
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002882 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002883 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002884 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2885 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2886
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002887 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2888 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2889 info.
2890
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002891 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2892 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2893 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2894 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2895 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2896 interrupts *may* be lost!
2897
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002898 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2899 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2900 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2901 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2902
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002903 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2904 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2905
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002906 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2907 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2908 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002909 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2910 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002911 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2912 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002913 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2914 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2915 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002916
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002917 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2918 process, but there is a small probability of
2919 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002920 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2921 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2922
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002923 OSS [HW,OSS]
2924 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2925
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002926 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2927 Storage of the information about who allocated
2928 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2929 we can turn it on.
2930 on: enable the feature
2931
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002932 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2933 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2934 off: turn off poisoning
2935 on: turn on poisoning
2936
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002937 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002938 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2939 timeout = 0: wait forever
2940 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002941 Format: <timeout>
2942
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002943 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2944 on a WARN().
2945
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002946 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2947 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2948 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2949 succeeds in any situation.
2950 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2951 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2952 kernel more unstable.
2953
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002954 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2955 connected to, default is 0.
2956 Format: <parport#>
2957 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2958 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002959 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002960
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002961 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2962 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2963 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2964 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2965 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2966 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2967 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2968 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2969 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2970 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2971 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2972 are specified on the command line, starting
2973 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002974
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002975 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2976 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2977 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2978 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2979 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2980 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002981 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2982
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002983 pause_on_oops=
2984 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2985 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2986 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2987
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002988 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2989
2990 pcd. [PARIDE]
2991 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002992 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002993
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002994 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002995 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02002996 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002997 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002998 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002999 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3000 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003001 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003002 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3003 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3004 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01003005 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3006 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3007 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3008 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3009 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3010 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3011 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3012 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3013 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3014 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07003015 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3016 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3017 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04003018 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3019 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05303020 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08003021 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02003022 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3023 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3024 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07003025 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3026 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3027 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003028 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3029 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3030 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003031 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3032 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3033 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3034 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003035 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3036 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3037 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3038 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003039 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003040 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3041 on several machines and they hang the machine
3042 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3043 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3044 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3045 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3046 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003047 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003048 Use with caution as certain devices share
3049 address decoders between ROMs and other
3050 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003051 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003052 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3053 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003054 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3055 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003056 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003057 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3058 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3059 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003060 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003061 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3062 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3063 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003064 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003065 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3066 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3067 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003068 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003069 numbers ourselves, overriding
3070 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003071 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003072 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3073 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3074 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3075 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3076 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003077 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003078 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003079 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3080 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3081 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3082 please report a bug.
3083 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02003084 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003085 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3086 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3087 so this option is a temporary workaround
3088 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003089 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3090 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003091 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3092 This might help on some broken boards which
3093 machine check when some devices' config space
3094 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3095 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003096 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3097 This sorting is done to get a device
3098 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3099 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003100 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3101 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3102 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3103 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3104 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3105 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3106 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3107 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3108 or bus can support) for best performance.
3109 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3110 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3111 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3112 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3113 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3114 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003115 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3116 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3117 The default value is 256 bytes.
3118 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3119 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3120 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003121 resource_alignment=
3122 Format:
3123 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003124 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3125 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003126 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3127 aligned memory resources.
3128 If <order of align> is not specified,
3129 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3130 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3131 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003132 To specify the alignment for several
3133 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3134 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3135 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003136 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3137 end-to-end CRC checking).
3138 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3139 the default.
3140 off: Turn ECRC off
3141 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003142 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3143 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3144 Default size is 256 bytes.
3145 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3146 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3147 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003148 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3149 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3150 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003151 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3152 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3153 accommodate resources required by all child
3154 devices.
3155 off: Turn realloc off
3156 on: Turn realloc on
3157 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003158 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003159 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3160 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3161 port.
=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=f32ab752018-01-11 14:23:29 +01003162 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3163 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3164 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3165 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3166 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3167 taints the kernel.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003168
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003169 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3170 Management.
3171 off Disable ASPM.
3172 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3173 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3174
Bjorn Helgaas4c0fd762018-03-09 11:21:28 -06003175 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3176 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3177 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3178 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3179 also tries to use these services.
3180 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3181 hotplug).
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003182
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003183 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3184 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3185 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3186
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003187 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003188 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003189 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003190
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003191 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3192
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303193 pd_ignore_unused
3194 [PM]
3195 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3196 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3197 for debug and development, but should not be
3198 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3199
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003200 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003201 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003202
3203 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3204 boot time.
3205 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3206 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3207
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003208 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003209 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3210 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3211 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3212 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3213 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003214
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003215 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003216 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003217
3218 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003219 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003220
3221 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003222 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003223
3224 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3225 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003226 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003227
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003228 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003229 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3230 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3231
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003232 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3233 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3234 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3235 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3236 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3237 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003238
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003239 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3240 { off }
3241
3242 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3243 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3244
3245 pnp_reserve_irq=
3246 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3247
3248 pnp_reserve_dma=
3249 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3250
3251 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003252 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003253
3254 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003255 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3256 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003257 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3258
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003259 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3260 Default is 21.
3261 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3262 may be specified.
3263 Format: <port>,<port>....
3264
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003265 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3266 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3267 platform machine description specific power_save
3268 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3269 execution priority.
3270
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003271 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3272 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3273 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3274 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3275 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3276
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003277 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3278 Format: {"off"}
3279 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3280
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003281 print-fatal-signals=
3282 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003283
3284 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3285 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3286 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3287 coredump - etc.
3288
3289 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3290 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3291
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003292 default: off.
3293
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003294 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3295 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3296 panics
3297 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3298 default: disabled
3299
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003300 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3301 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3302 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3303 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3304 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3305 Default: ratelimit
3306
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003307 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3308 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3309
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003310 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3311 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3312 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3313
3314 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3315 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3316 instead using the legacy FADT method
3317
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003318 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003319 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3320 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3321 [defaults to kernel profiling]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003322 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003323 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3324 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003325 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003326 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3327 statistical time based profiling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003328
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003329 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3330 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003331 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003332
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003333 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3334 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003335 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3336 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003337 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3338 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003339 (0 = never).
3340 psmouse.resolution=
3341 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3342 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003343 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003344 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3345
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003346 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003348 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003349 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003350
Dave Hansen01c9b172018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003351 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3352 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3353 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3354 system calls and interrupts.
3355
3356 on - unconditionally enable
3357 off - unconditionally disable
3358 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3359 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3360
3361 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3362
3363 nopti [X86_64]
3364 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov41f4c202017-12-12 14:39:52 +01003365
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003366 pty.legacy_count=
3367 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3368 default number.
3369
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003370 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003371
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003372 r128= [HW,DRM]
3373
3374 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003375 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003376
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003377 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003378 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003379
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003380 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3381
3382 cec_disable [X86]
3383 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3384 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3385
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003386 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003387 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3388
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003389 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3390 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3391 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003392 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3393 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3394 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3395 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003396 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3397 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3398 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3399
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003400 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003401 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3402 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3403 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3404 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3405 This improves the real-time response for the
3406 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3407 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3408 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3409 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3410
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003411 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003412 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3413 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003414
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003415 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3416 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3417 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3418 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3419
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003420 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3421 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003422 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003423
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003424 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3425 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003426 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003427
3428 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3429 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3430 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3431 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003432 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003433
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003434 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3435 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3436 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3437 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3438 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003439
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003440 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003441 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3442 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3443 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3444 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3445 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3446 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003447
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003448 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3449 Set required age in jiffies for a
3450 given grace period before RCU starts
3451 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3452 rcu_note_context_switch().
3453
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003454 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003455 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3456 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3457 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3458 and maximum value is HZ.
3459
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003460 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003461 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3462 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3463 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3464
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003465 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003466 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3467 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3468 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3469 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3470 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3471 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3472 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3473 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3474 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003475
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003476 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3477 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3478 defaults to the square root of the number of
3479 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3480 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3481 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3482
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003483 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003484 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3485 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003486
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003487 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003488 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3489 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003490
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003491 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003492 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3493 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003494
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003495 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003496 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3497 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3498 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3499 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003500
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003501 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3502 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3503 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3504 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3505 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3506 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3507
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003508 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3509 Measure performance of asynchronous
3510 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3511
3512 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3513 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3514 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3515 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3516 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3517 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3518
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003519 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3520 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3521 grace-period primitives.
3522
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003523 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3524 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3525 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3526 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3527 interference.
3528
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003529 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3530 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3531 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3532 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3533 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3534 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3535 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3536 a single reader.
3537
3538 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3539 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3540 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3541 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3542
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003543 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3544 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3545
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003546 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3547 Shut the system down after performance tests
3548 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3549 testing.
3550
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003551 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3552 Enable additional printk() statements.
3553
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003554 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3555 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3556 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3557 no holdoff.
3558
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003559 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3560 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3561 callback-flood tests.
3562
3563 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3564 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3565 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3566 test.
3567
3568 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3569 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3570 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3571 disable callback-flood testing.
3572
3573 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3574 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3575 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3576
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003577 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003578 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3579 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003580
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003581 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003582 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3583 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003584
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003585 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003586 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3587 in seconds.
3588
3589 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3590 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3591 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003592
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003593 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003594 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003595
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003596 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003597 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3598 update-side primitives, if available.
3599
3600 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3601 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3602 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3603 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3604 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3605 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3606 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003607
3608 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003609 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3610
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003611 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003612 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3613 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3614 test, hence the "fake".
3615
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003616 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003617 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3618 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3619 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3620 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3621 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003622
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003623 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3624 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3625
3626 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003627 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3628
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003629 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003630 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3631 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3632
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003633 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003634 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3635 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3636 during the rcutorture test.
3637
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003638 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003639 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3640 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3641
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003642 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003643 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3644 warnings, zero to disable.
3645
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003646 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003647 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3648
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003649 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3650 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3651
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003652 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003653 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3654
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003655 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003656 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3657 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3658 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3659 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3660
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003661 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003662 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3663 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3664 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3665
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003666 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003667 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3668
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003669 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003670 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3671
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003672 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003673 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3674 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3675
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003676 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003677 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3678
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003679 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003680 Enable additional printk() statements.
3681
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003682 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3683 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3684
3685 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3686 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3687
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003688 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3689 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3690 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3691 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3692 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3693 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003694 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003695
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003696 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3697 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3698 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3699 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003700 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3701 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3702 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3703 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3704 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003705
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003706 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3707 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3708 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003709 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3710 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003711
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003712 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3713 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3714 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3715 to zero.
3716
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003717 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3718 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3719
3720 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3721 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3722
3723 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3724 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3725
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003726 rdinit= [KNL]
3727 Format: <full_path>
3728 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3729 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3730
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003731 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3732 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
Fenghua Yu31516de2017-12-20 14:57:24 -08003733 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3734 mba.
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003735 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3736 rdt=cmt,!mba
3737
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003738 reboot= [KNL]
3739 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3740 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3741 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3742 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3743 [[,]f[orce]
3744 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3745 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3746 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3747 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3748 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003749
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003750 relax_domain_level=
3751 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003752 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003753
Bjorn Helgaasffd2e8d2017-12-01 11:50:33 -06003754 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3755 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3756 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3757 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3758 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003759
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003760 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003761 Format: nn[KMG]
3762 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3763 address space.
3764
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003765 reservelow= [X86]
3766 Format: nn[K]
3767 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3768 the bottom of the address space.
3769
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003770 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3771 during initialization.
3772
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003773 resume= [SWSUSP]
3774 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003775 Format:
3776 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003777
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003778 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3779 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3780 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3781 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3782 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3783
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003784 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3785 read the resume files
3786
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003787 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3788 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3789 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3790
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003791 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3792 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3793 present during boot.
3794 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003795 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003796 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3797 (that will set all pages holding image data
3798 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003799
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003800 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3801
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003802 rfkill.default_state=
3803 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3804 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3805 1 Unblocked.
3806
3807 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3808 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3809 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3810 blocked and the previous configuration.
3811 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3812 blocked and everything unblocked.
3813
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003814 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3815 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3816
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003817 ring3mwait=disable
3818 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3819 CPUs.
3820
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003821 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3822
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003823 rodata= [KNL]
3824 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3825 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3826
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003827 rockchip.usb_uart
3828 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3829 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3830 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3831 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3832
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003833 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003834 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003835
3836 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3837 mount the root filesystem
3838
3839 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3840
3841 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3842
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003843 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3844 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3845 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3846
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003847 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3848 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3849 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3850 managed by CMA.
3851
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003852 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3853
3854 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3855
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003856 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3857 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3858 strict
3859 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3860 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3861 which is faster.
3862
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003863 sa1100ir [NET]
3864 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3865
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003866 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003867
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003868 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3869
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003870 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3871 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3872 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3873 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3874
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003875 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3876 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3877 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3878 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3879 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3880 1 -- enable.
3881 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3882 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3883
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003884 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3885 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3886 security module asking for security registration will be
3887 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3888 as if no module has been chosen.
3889
3890 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003891 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3892 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3893 0 -- disable.
3894 1 -- enable.
3895 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3896 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3897 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3898
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003899 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3900 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3901 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3902 0 -- disable.
3903 1 -- enable.
3904 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3905
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003906 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003907
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003908 shapers= [NET]
3909 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003910
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003911 simeth= [IA-64]
3912 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003913
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003914 slram= [HW,MTD]
3915
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003916 slab_nomerge [MM]
3917 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3918 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003919 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3920 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3921 layout control by attackers can usually be
3922 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3923 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3924 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3925 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3926 own.
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +02003927 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003928
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003929 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3930 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3931 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3932 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3933 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3934
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003935 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3936 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3937 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3938 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3939 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3940 last alloc / free. For more information see
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +02003941 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003942
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003943 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3944 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3945 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3946 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3947 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3948 directories and files being created under
3949 /sys/kernel/slub.
3950
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003951 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003952 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3953 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3954 fragmentation. For more information see
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +02003955 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003956
3957 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003958 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3959 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3960 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3961 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3962 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3963 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +02003964 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003965
3966 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003967 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003968 lower than slub_max_order.
Mike Rapoportad56b732018-03-21 21:22:47 +02003969 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003970
3971 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003972 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3973 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003974
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003975 smart2= [HW]
3976 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3977
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003978 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3979 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3980 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3981 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3982 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3983 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3984 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3985 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3986 1: Fast pin select (default)
3987 2: ATC IRMode
3988
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003989 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3990 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3991 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3992 actual hardware limit.
3993 Format: <integer>
3994 Default: -1 (no limit)
3995
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003996 softlockup_panic=
3997 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003998 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003999
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02004000 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4001 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4002 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4003 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4004 functionality.
4005
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07004006 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4007 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4008 backtraces on all cpus.
4009 Format: <integer>
4010
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004011 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02004012 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004013
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00004014 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4015 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4016
4017 on - unconditionally enable
4018 off - unconditionally disable
4019 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4020 vulnerable
4021
4022 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4023 mitigation method at run time according to the
4024 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4025 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4026 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4027
4028 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4029
4030 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4031 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4032 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4033
4034 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4035 spectre_v2=auto.
4036
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004037 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4038 spia_fio_base=
4039 spia_pedr=
4040 spia_peddr=
4041
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07004042 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4043 Specifies how frequently to check for
4044 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4045 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4046 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4047 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4048 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4049 are ignored.
4050
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07004051 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4052 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4053 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4054 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4055 grace period will be considered for automatic
4056 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4057 expediting.
4058
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004059 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4060 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4061 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4062 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4063 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4064 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4065
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004066 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4067 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4068
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004069 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4070 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4071 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4072 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4073 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4074 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4075 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004077 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4078 Format: <num>
4079 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4080 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4081 as the initial boot-console.
4082 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4083
4084 sti_font= [HW]
4085 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4086
4087 stifb= [HW]
4088 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4089
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004090 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4091 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4092 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4093 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4094 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4095 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4096 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4097 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4098 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4099 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4100 maximum port values.
4101
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004102 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4103 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4104 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4105 process in parallel from a single connection.
4106 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4107
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004108 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4109 [NFS]
4110 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4111 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4112 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4113 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4114 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4115 NFS server is running.
4116
4117 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4118 automatically using heuristics
4119 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4120 percpu one pool for each CPU
4121 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4122 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4123
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004124 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4125 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4126 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4127 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4128 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4129 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4130 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4131 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4132
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004133 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4134 [SUSPEND]
4135 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4136 mode before resuming the system (see
4137 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4138 is set. Default value is 5.
4139
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004140 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004141 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4142 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004143 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004144
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004145 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004146 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004147 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4148 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4149 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004150 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004152 switches= [HW,M68k]
4153
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004154 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4155 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4156 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4157 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4158 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4159 in older udev will not work anymore.
4160 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4161 the kernel configuration.
4162
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004163 sysrq_always_enabled
4164 [KNL]
4165 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4166 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4167 Useful for debugging.
4168
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004169 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4170 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4171 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4172 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4173 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4174 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004176 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4177
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004178 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004179 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004180 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4181 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4182 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4183 The system is woken from this state using a
4184 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004185
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004186 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4187 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4188
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004189 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4190 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4191 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4192
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004193 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4194 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004195 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004196
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004197 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4198 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4199 critical and hot trip points.
4200
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004201 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4202 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4203
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004204 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4205 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004206 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4207 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004208
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004209 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4210 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4211 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4212 0: no polling (default)
4213
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004214 threadirqs [KNL]
4215 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004216 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004217
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004218 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4219 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4220
4221 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4222 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4223 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4224
4225 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4226 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004227 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4228 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004229
4230 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4231 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4232 to the hypervisor.
4233
4234 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4235 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4236 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4237 kernel based on different criteria.
4238
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004239 topology= [S390]
4240 Format: {off | on}
4241 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004242 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4243 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004244 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004245 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004246
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004247 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4248 Format: {off}
4249 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4250 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4251 LPAR.
4252
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004253 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4254
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004255 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4256 Format: integer pcr id
4257 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4258 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4259 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4260 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4261 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4262 are saved.
4263
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004264 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004265 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004266
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004267 trace_event=[event-list]
4268 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004269 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4270 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4271 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004272
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004273 trace_options=[option-list]
4274 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4275 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4276 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4277 to echo the option name into
4278
4279 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4280
4281 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4282 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4283
4284 trace_options=stacktrace
4285
4286 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4287 section.
4288
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004289 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4290 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4291 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4292 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4293 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4294 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4295
4296 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4297 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4298 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4299 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4300
4301 ** CAUTION **
4302
4303 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4304 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4305 the system to live lock.
4306
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004307 traceoff_on_warning
4308 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4309 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4310 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4311 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4312
4313 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4314 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4315 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4316
4317 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4318 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4319
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004320 transparent_hugepage=
4321 [KNL]
4322 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4323 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4324 with respect to transparent hugepages.
Mike Rapoport45c9a742018-05-14 11:13:40 +03004325 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4326 for more details.
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004327
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004328 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004329 Format: <string>
4330 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004331 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4332 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4333 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4334 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004335 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4336 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4337 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4338 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004339 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4340 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4341 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004342
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004343 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4344 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4345 Format:
4346 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004347 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004348
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004349 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004350 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004351 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4352 help "seeing" what's going on.
4353
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004354 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4355 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4356
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004357 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4358 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4359 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4360 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4361 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4362 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4363 reported either.
4364
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004365 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004366 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004367
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004368 usbcore.authorized_default=
4369 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4370 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4371 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4372
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004373 usbcore.autosuspend=
4374 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4375 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4376 is the time required before an idle device will be
4377 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004378 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004379
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004380 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4381 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4382
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004383 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4384 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4385 (default = 65536).
4386
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004387 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4388 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4389
4390 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4391 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4392 scheme (default 0 = off).
4393
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004394 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4395 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4396 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4397
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004398 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4399 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4400 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4401
4402 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4403 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
Thymo van Beers6dddd7a2018-04-18 20:51:39 +02004404 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004405 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4406
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004407 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4408
Kai-Heng Feng027bd6c2018-03-20 00:26:06 +08004409 usbcore.quirks=
4410 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4411 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4412 commas. Each entry has the form
4413 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4414 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4415 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4416 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4417 the following meanings:
4418 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4419 descriptors must not be fetched using
4420 a 255-byte read);
4421 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4422 correctly so reset it instead);
4423 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4424 Set-Interface requests);
4425 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4426 handle its Configuration or Interface
4427 strings);
4428 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4429 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4430 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4431 more interface descriptions than the
4432 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4433 talking to these interfaces);
4434 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4435 during initialization, after we read
4436 the device descriptor);
4437 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4438 high speed and super speed interrupt
4439 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4440 require the interval in microframes (1
4441 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4442 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4443 (bInterval-1).
4444 Devices with this quirk report their
4445 bInterval as the result of this
4446 calculation instead of the exponent
4447 variable used in the calculation);
4448 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4449 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4450 requests);
4451 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4452 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4453 remote wakeup capability);
4454 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4455 Power Management);
4456 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4457 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4458 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4459 calculation);
4460 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4461 to be disconnected before suspend to
Kai-Heng Feng4d8d5a32018-03-24 03:26:36 +08004462 prevent spurious wakeup);
4463 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4464 pause after every control message);
Kai-Heng Feng027bd6c2018-03-20 00:26:06 +08004465 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4466
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004467 usbhid.mousepoll=
4468 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004469
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004470 usbhid.jspoll=
4471 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4472
Filip Alac2ddc8e22018-03-21 17:28:25 +01004473 usbhid.kbpoll=
4474 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4475
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004476 usb-storage.delay_use=
4477 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004478 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004479
4480 usb-storage.quirks=
4481 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4482 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4483 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4484 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4485 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4486 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4487 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004488 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4489 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004490 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4491 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004492 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4493 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004494 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4495 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4496 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4497 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004498 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4499 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004500 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4501 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004502 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4503 reported device capacity by one
4504 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004505 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4506 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004507 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4508 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004509 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4510 unlock ejectable media);
4511 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4512 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004513 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4514 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004515 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4516 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004517 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4518 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004519 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4520 bogus residue values);
4521 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4522 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004523 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4524 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004525 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004526 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4527 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004528 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4529 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004530 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4531
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004532 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4533 Format: <int>
4534 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4535 1 - undefined instruction events
4536 2 - system calls
4537 4 - invalid data aborts
4538 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4539 16 - SIGBUS faults
4540 Example: user_debug=31
4541
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004542 userpte=
4543 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4544
4545 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4546 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4547 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4548
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304549 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004550 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4551
4552 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004553 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4554
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004555 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4556 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4557 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4558
4559 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4560 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4561 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4562
4563 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4564 alias for vdso32=0.
4565
4566 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4567 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004568
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004569 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4570 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4571
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004572 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4573 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4574
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004575 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4576 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4577 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4578 level and then send out the event to user space through
4579 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4580 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4581 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004582 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004583
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004584 virtio_mmio.device=
4585 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4586
4587 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4588 where:
4589 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4590 like K, M and G)
4591 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4592 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4593 request_irq())
4594 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4595 example:
4596 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4597
4598 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4599
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004600 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004601 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004602 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004603 Use vga=ask for menu.
4604 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4605 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4606
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004607 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004608 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4609 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4610 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4611 mapped kernel RAM.
4612
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004613 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4614 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4615 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4616
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004617 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4618 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004619
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004620 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4621 Format: <command>
4622
4623 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4624 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004625
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004626 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4627 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4628 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4629 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4630 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4631 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4632 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4633
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004634 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4635 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004636
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004637 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004638 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4639 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4640 better than they would in emulation mode.
4641 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4642
4643 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4644 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4645 might break your system.
4646
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004647 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4648 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4649 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4650
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004651 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4652 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4653 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4654 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4655
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004656 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4657 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4658 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4659 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4660 ranging from 0-255.
4661
4662 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4663 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4664 Change the default green palette of the console.
4665 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4666 ranging from 0-255.
4667
4668 vt.default_red= [VT]
4669 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4670 Change the default red palette of the console.
4671 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4672 ranging from 0-255.
4673
4674 vt.default_utf8=
4675 [VT]
4676 Format=<0|1>
4677 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4678 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4679 newly opened terminals.
4680
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004681 vt.global_cursor_default=
4682 [VT]
4683 Format=<-1|0|1>
4684 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4685 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4686 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4687 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4688 cursors, 1 will display them.
4689
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004690 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4691 Default: 2 = green.
4692
4693 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4694 Default: 3 = cyan.
4695
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004696 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4697 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4698 or other driver-specific files in the
4699 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004700
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004701 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4702 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4703 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4704 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4705 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4706 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4707 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4708 corresponding sysfs file.
4709
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004710 workqueue.disable_numa
4711 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4712 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4713 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4714 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4715 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4716 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4717 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4718
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304719 workqueue.power_efficient
4720 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4721 they show better performance thanks to cache
4722 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4723 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4724
4725 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4726 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4727 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4728 power usage at the cost of small performance
4729 overhead.
4730
4731 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4732 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4733
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004734 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4735 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4736 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4737 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4738 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4739 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4740 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4741 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4742 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4743 impacted.
4744
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004745 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4746 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4747 supporting x2apic.
4748
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004749 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4750 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004751 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4752 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004753 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004754
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004755 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4756 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4757 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4758 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4759 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4760 domains.
4761
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004762 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4763 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4764 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4765 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4766 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4767 nics -- unplug network devices
4768 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004769 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4770 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4771 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004772 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004773
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004774 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4775 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4776 optimizations.
4777
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004778 xen_nopv [X86]
4779 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4780 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4781
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004782 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004783 Format:
4784 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]