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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200317 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645 disables the blank timer.
646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400652 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
653 disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500655 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
656 disable the cpufreq sub-system
657
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400658 cpu_init_udelay=N
659 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
660 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
661 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
662 Default: 10000
663
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700664 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700665 Format:
666 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700667
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800668 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
669 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
670 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
671 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
672 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
673 is selected automatically. Check
674 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700675
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700676 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
677 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
678 in the running system. The syntax of range is
679 start-[end] where start and end are both
680 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700682
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700683 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700684 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
685 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
686 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
687 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
688 available.
689 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
691 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
692 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700693 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
694 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800695 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
696 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
697 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
698 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700699 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
700 for second kernel instead.
701 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700702 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700703 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700704
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100705 cryptomgr.notests
706 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
707
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
709 Format: <dma>
710
711 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
712 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700713
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700714 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
716
717 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
718 (one device per port)
719 Format: <port#>,<type>
720 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
721
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200722 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
723 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600724 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200725
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700726 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
727
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700728 debug_locks_verbose=
729 [KNL] verbose self-tests
730 Format=<0|1>
731 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
732 self-tests.
733 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
734 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
735 only useful to kernel developers.
736
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700737 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
738
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500739 no_debug_objects
740 [KNL] Disable object debugging
741
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800742 debug_guardpage_minorder=
743 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
744 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
745 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
746 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
747 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
748 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
749 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
750 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
751 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
752 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
753 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
754 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
755 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
756 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
757 bypassed) which are not detectable by
758 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
759 tracking down these problems.
760
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800761 debug_pagealloc=
762 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
763 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
764 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
765 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
766 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
767 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
768 on: enable the feature
769
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200770 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
771
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200772 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700773 Format: <area>[,<node>]
774 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
775
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700776 default_hugepagesz=
777 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
778 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
779 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
780 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
781 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
782 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700783
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700784 dhash_entries= [KNL]
785 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700786
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000787 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
788 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
789 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
790 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
791 miss to occur.
792
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800793 disable= [IPV6]
794 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
795
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530796 disable_radix [PPC]
797 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
798
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900799 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
800 Format: <int>
801 The number of initial APIC ID for the
802 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
803 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
804 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
805 causing system reset or hang due to sending
806 INIT from AP to BSP.
807
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000808 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
809 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
810 to workaround buggy firmware.
811
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800812 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
813 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
814
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700815 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700816 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
817 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700818 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700819
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100820 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100821 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
822 memory out of your available memory pool based on
823 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
824 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
825
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530826 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700827 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
828 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
829
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400830 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
831
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700832 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
833 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
834
835 dma_debug_entries=<number>
836 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
837 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
838 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
839 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
840 architectural default is too low.
841
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200842 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
843 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
844 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
845 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
846 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
847 driver later using sysfs.
848
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700849 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
850 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
851 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
852 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
853 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100854 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
855 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
856 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
857 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
858 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
859 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
860 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
861 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700862 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
863 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
864 data set with no connector name will be used for
865 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100866
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700867 dscc4.setup= [NET]
868
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000869 dump_apple_properties [X86]
870 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
871 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
872 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
873
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600874 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
875 module.dyndbg[="val"]
876 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
877 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
878
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700879 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
880 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
881 information about the feature.
882
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800883 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
884 in some Intel CPUs.
885
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700886 module.async_probe [KNL]
887 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
888
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700889 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
890 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
891 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
892 which are not unmapped.
893
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700894 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500895
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500896 When used with no options, the early console is
897 determined by the stdout-path property in device
898 tree's chosen node.
899
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100900 cdns,<addr>[,options]
901 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
902 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
903 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
904 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
905 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200906
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700907 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
908 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700909 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300910 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400911 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700912 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
913 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700914 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300915 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
916 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
917 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
918 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400919 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700920
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500921 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600922 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500923 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
924 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
925 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600926 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
927 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
928 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500929
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100930 meson,<addr>
931 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
932 port at the specified address. The serial port must
933 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
934 supported.
935
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700936 msm_serial,<addr>
937 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
938 port at the specified address. The serial port
939 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
940 yet supported.
941
942 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
943 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
944 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
945 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
946 yet supported.
947
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500948 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
949
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100950 s3c2410,<addr>
951 s3c2412,<addr>
952 s3c2440,<addr>
953 s3c6400,<addr>
954 s5pv210,<addr>
955 exynos4210,<addr>
956 Use early console provided by serial driver available
957 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
958 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
959 serial port must already be setup and configured.
960 Options are not yet supported.
961
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100962 lantiq,<addr>
963 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
964 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
965 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
966 yet supported.
967
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700968 lpuart,<addr>
969 lpuart32,<addr>
970 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
971 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
972 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
973 port must already be setup and configured.
974
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +0100975 armada3700_uart,<addr>
976 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
977 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
978 address. The serial port must already be setup
979 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
980
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100981 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700982 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100983 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +0100984 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -0500985 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700986 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700987 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -0500988 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -0500989 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +0600990 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700991
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -0700992 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
993 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
994 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
995
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700996 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700997 takes over.
998
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +0100999 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1000 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001001
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001002 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1003 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1004 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1005 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1006 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1007 You can find the port for a given device in
1008 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1009 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001010
1011 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1012 very good.
1013
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001014 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1015 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001016
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001017 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1018
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001019 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1020
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001021 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1022 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1023 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1024 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1025 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1026 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1027 default: on.
1028
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001029 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1030 ekgdboc=kbd
1031
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001032 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001033 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1034
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001035 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001036 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001037
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001038 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001039 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001040 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1041 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1042 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001043 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1044 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1045 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001046 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001047 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001048
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001049 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1050 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1051 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1052 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1053 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1054
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001055 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1056 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1057 updating original EFI memory map.
1058 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1059 from ss to ss+nn.
1060 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1061 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1062 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1063 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1064
1065 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1066 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1067 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1068 doesn't support it.
1069
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001070 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1071 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1072 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1073 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1074 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1075
1076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001077 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1078 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1079
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001080 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001081 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001082 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001083
1084 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001085 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001086 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001087 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1088
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001089 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001090 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001091 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1092 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001093 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001094
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001095 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1096 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1097 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1098 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1099
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001100 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001101 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1102 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1103 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1104 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1105
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001106 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1107 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1108 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1109 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1110 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1111 Default value is 0.
1112 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1113
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001114 erst_disable [ACPI]
1115 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1116 support.
1117
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001118 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1119 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1120 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1121
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001122 evm= [EVM]
1123 Format: { "fix" }
1124 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1125 current integrity status.
1126
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001127 failslab=
1128 fail_page_alloc=
1129 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1130 General fault injection mechanism.
1131 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001132 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001133
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001134 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001135 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001136
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001137 force_pal_cache_flush
1138 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1139 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1140 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1141 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1142
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001143 forcepae [X86-32]
1144 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1145 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1146 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1147 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1148 and may cause unknown problems.
1149
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001150 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001151 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001152 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1153 boot debugging.
1154
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001155 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001156 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001157 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1158 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1159 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1160 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001161
1162 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1163 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1164 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1165 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1166 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001167 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001168
1169 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1170 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1171 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1172 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1173 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001174
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001175 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1176 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1177 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1178 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1179 that can be changed at run time by the
1180 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1181
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001182 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1183 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1184 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1185 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1186 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1187
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001188 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1189 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1190 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1191 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1192 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1193
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001194 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1195 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1196 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1197 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1198 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1199
1200 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1201
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001202 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1203 Format: off | on
1204 default: on
1205
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001206 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1207 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1208 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1209 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1210 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1211
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001212 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1213 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1214 android emulator
1215
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001216 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001217 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1218 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1219 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001220
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001221 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1222 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1223 Format: 0 | 1
1224 Default: 0
1225 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1226 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1227 Format: 0 | 1
1228 Default: 0
1229 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1230 Format: 0 | 1
1231 Default: 0
1232 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1233 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1234 Default: 1024
1235 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1236 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1237 Default: 1024
1238
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001239 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1240 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1241 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1242
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001243 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1244 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1245 backtraces on all cpus.
1246 Format: <integer>
1247
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001248 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1249 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001250 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001251 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001252
1253 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1254
1255 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1256 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1257
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001258 hest_disable [ACPI]
1259 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1260 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1261 logic will be disabled.
1262
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001263 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1264 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1265 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1266 size on bigger boxes.
1267
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001268 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1269 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1270 Default: "on"
1271
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001272 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1273 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1274
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001275 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1276
1277 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1278 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1279 verbose }
1280 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1281 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1282 VIA, nVidia)
1283 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1284
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001285 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1286 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1287
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001288 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1289 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001290 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1291 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1292 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1293 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001294 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001295
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001296 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1297 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001298 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1299 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1300 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001301
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001302 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1303 hardware thread id mappings.
1304 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1305
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001306 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1307 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1308 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1309 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1310 the real console.
1311
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001312 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001313 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1314 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001315 Format:
1316 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1317
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001318 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001319 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1320 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1321 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1322 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001323 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001324 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1325 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001326 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1327 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001328 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001329 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1330 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001331 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001332 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001333 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1334 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001335 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001336 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1337 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1338 transitions, or never reset
1339 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1340 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1341 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1342 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1343 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001344 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001345 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001346
1347 i810= [HW,DRM]
1348
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001349 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1350 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1351 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001352 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1353 does not match list of supported models.
1354 i8k.power_status
1355 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1356 (disabled by default)
1357 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1358 capability is set.
1359
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001360 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001361 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1362 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001363 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1364 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1365 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1366 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1367 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1368 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1369 value switches the backlight off.
1370 -1 -- never invert brightness
1371 0 -- machine default
1372 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001374 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1375 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1376
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001377 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1378 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001379 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1380 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001381 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001382
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001383 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1384 Format: <int>
1385 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1386 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1387 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1388 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1389 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1390 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1391 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1392 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1393 was 0x3.
1394
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001395 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1396 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1397
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001398 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001399 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001400 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1401 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1402 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1403 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001404 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001405 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001406 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001407
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001408 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1409 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1410 Default: strict
1411
1412 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1413 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1414 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1415 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1416 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1417 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1418 encoding mode.
1419
1420 Available settings are as follows:
1421 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1422 supported by the FPU
1423 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1424 by the FPU
1425 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1426 by the FPU
1427 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1428 supported by the FPU
1429
1430 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1431 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1432 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1433 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1434 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1435 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1436 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1437 MIPS64 CPUs.
1438
1439 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1440 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1441 except where unsupported by hardware.
1442
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001443 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1444 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1445 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001446 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1447 could change it dynamically, usually by
1448 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001449
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001450 ignore_rlimit_data
1451 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1452 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1453 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1454
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001455 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1456 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1457
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001458 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001459 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001460 default: "enforce"
1461
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001462 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1463 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1464 owned by uid=0.
1465
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001466 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1467 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1468 measurements, instead of host native format.
1469
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001470 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001471 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1472 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001473 default: "sha1"
1474
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001475 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1476 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1477
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001478 ima_policy= [IMA]
1479 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1480 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1481 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1482 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1483 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1484 Format: "tcb"
1485
1486 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001487 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1488 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1489 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1490 opened for read by uid=0.
1491
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001492 ima_template= [IMA]
1493 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001494 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001495 Default: "ima-ng"
1496
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001497 ima_template_fmt=
1498 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1499 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1500
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001501 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1502 Format: <min_file_size>
1503 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1504 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1505
1506 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1507 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1508 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1509
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001510 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1511 Format: <bufsize>
1512 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1513
1514 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1515 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1516 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1517
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001518 init= [KNL]
1519 Format: <full_path>
1520 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1521 process.
1522
1523 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1524 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1525 startup.
1526
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001527 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1528 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1529 modules and initcalls.
1530
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001531 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1532
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001533 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1534 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1535 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1536 override in debugfs after boot.
1537
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001538 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1539 Format: <irq>
1540
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001541 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1542
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001543 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1544 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1545 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1546 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1547
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001548 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001549 on
1550 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001551 off
1552 Disable intel iommu driver.
1553 igfx_off [Default Off]
1554 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1555 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1556 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1557 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1558 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001559 forcedac [x86_64]
1560 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001561 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001562 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001563 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1564 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001565 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001566 strict [Default Off]
1567 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1568 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1569 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001570 sp_off [Default Off]
1571 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1572 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1573 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001574 ecs_off [Default Off]
1575 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1576 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1577 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1578 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1579 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001580
1581 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1582 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001583 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001584
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001585 intel_pstate= [X86]
1586 disable
1587 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1588 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001589 passive
1590 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1591 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1592 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1593 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1594 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001595 force
1596 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1597 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1598 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1599 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1600 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1601 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1602 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1603 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001604 no_hwp
1605 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1606 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001607 hwp_only
1608 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1609 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001610 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001611 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1612 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1613 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1614 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001615 per_cpu_perf_limits
1616 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1617 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001618
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001619 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001620 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1621 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1622 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001623 no_x2apic_optout
1624 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001625 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001626
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001627 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1628 strict regions from userspace.
1629 relaxed
1630
1631 iommu= [x86]
1632 off
1633 force
1634 noforce
1635 biomerge
1636 panic
1637 nopanic
1638 merge
1639 nomerge
1640 forcesac
1641 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001642 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001643 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1644 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001645
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001646
1647 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1648 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1649 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1650
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301651 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001652 0x80
1653 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1654 0xed
1655 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001656 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001657 Simple two microseconds delay
1658 none
1659 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001660
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001661 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001662 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001663
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001664 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001665 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001666
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001667 irqfixup [HW]
1668 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1669 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1670 firmware running.
1671
1672 irqpoll [HW]
1673 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1674 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1675 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1676 firmware running.
1677
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001678 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001679 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001680
1681 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001682 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001683
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001684 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1685 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001686 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1687 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001688 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1689 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1690
1691 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001692 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1693 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1694 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001695
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001696 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001697
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001698 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1699 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1700 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1701 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1702 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1703 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1704
1705 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1706 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1707 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1708 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1709 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1710 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1711
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001712 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1713 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1714 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1715 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1716 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1717 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1718
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001719 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1720 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1721
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001722 nokaslr [KNL]
1723 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1724 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1725 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001726
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001727 kasan_multi_shot
1728 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1729 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1730 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1731 invalid access.
1732
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001733 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1734
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001735 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1736 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1737 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001738 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1739 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1740 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1741 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1742 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1743 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1744 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001745 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001746 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1747 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1748 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1749 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1750 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1751 zone if it does not.
1752
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001753 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1754 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1755 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1756 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1757 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1758 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1759 time.
1760
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001761 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1762 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1763 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1764 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1765 optional and is the number seconds in between
1766 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1767 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1768 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1769 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1770 the kernel debugger.
1771
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001772 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001773 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1774 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001775 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1776 keyboard only format: kbd
1777 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1778 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1779 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1780 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001781
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001782 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1783 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1784
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001785 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1786 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1787 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1788
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001789 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1790 Valid arguments: on, off
1791 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001792 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1793 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001794
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001795 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1796 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1797 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1798 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1799 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1800 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1801
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001802 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1803 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1804
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001805 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1806 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001807 Default is 0 (off)
1808
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001809 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001810 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001811
1812 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1813 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001814 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001815
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001816 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1817 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1818 Default is 1 (enabled)
1819
1820 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1821 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1822 Default is 0 (disabled)
1823
1824 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1825 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1826 Default is 1 (enabled)
1827
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001828 kvm-intel.nested=
1829 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1830 Default is 0 (disabled)
1831
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001832 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1833 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1834 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1835 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1836
1837 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1838 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1839 Default is 1 (enabled)
1840
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001841 l2cr= [PPC]
1842
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001843 l3cr= [PPC]
1844
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001845 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001846 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001847
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001848 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1849 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1850 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1851
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301852 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001853 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001854
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001855 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1856 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1857 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1858 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001859 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001860 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1861 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001862
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001863 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1864 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1865 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001866
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001867 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1868 when set.
1869 Format: <int>
1870
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001871 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1872 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001873 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001874 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1875 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1876 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1877 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1878 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1879
1880 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1881 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1882 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1883 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1884 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1885 host link and device attached to it.
1886
1887 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1888 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1889 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1890 The following configurations can be forced.
1891
1892 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1893 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1894
1895 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1896
1897 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1898 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1899 allowed.
1900
1901 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1902
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001903 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1904
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001905 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1906 and both resets.
1907
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001908 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1909 hot-unplug link recovery
1910
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001911 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1912
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001913 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1914
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001915 * disable: Disable this device.
1916
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001917 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1918 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1919
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001920 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001921
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001922 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001923 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001924
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001925 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1926 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001927
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001928 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1929 Format: <integer>
1930
1931 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1932 Format: <integer>
1933
1934 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1935 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001936
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001937 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1938 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1939 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1940 number of online CPUs.
1941
1942 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1943 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1944
1945 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1946 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1947
1948 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1949 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1950 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1951
1952 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1953 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1954 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1955 mode during the locktorture test.
1956
1957 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1958 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1959 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1960
1961 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1962 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1963
1964 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1965 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1966 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1967 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1968 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1969 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1970
1971 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1972 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1973
1974 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1975 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1976
1977 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1978 Enable additional printk() statements.
1979
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001980 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1981 Format: <irq>
1982
1983 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1984 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1985 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1986 loglevels are defined as follows:
1987
1988 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1989 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1990 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1991 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1992 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1993 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1994 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1995 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1996
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08001997 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07001998 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1999 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2000 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2001 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2002 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2003 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002004
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002005 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2006 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2007 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2008 kernel boot problems.
2009
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002010 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2011 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2012 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2013 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2014 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2015 attached printers to be reset. Using
2016 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2017 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2018 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2019 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2020 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2021 port specification list means that device IDs
2022 from each port should be examined, to see if
2023 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2024 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2025 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2026
2027 lpj=n [KNL]
2028 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2029 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2030 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2031 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2032 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2033 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2034 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2035 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2036 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2037 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2038 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2039 hardware.
2040
2041 ltpc= [NET]
2042 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2043
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002044 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002045 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2046 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002047
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002048 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2049 yeeloong laptop.
2050 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2051
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002052 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2053 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002054
2055 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002056 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2057 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2058 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2059 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2060 only takes effect during system bootup.
2061 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2062 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002063
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002064 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2065 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2066 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2067 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2068 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2069 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002070
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002071 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002072
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002073 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002074
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002075 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002076 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002077
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002078 mdacon= [MDA]
2079 Format: <first>,<last>
2080 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002081
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002082 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2083 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2084 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002085 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2086 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2087 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2088 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002089
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002090 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002091 memory.
2092
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002093 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2094 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2095 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2096
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002097 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2098 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2099 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2100 set according to the
2101 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2102 option.
2103 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2104
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302105 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002106 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2107 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2108 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2109 option description.
2110
2111 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002112 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2113 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002114
2115 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2116 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002117 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002118
2119 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2120 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002121 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002122 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2123 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2124 or
2125 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002126
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002127 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2128 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2129 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2130 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2131 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2132
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002133 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2134 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2135 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2136 Setting this option will scan the memory
2137 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2138 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2139 from using the memory being corrupted.
2140 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2141 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2142 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2143 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2144
2145 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2146 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2147 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2148 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2149 corruption in more or less memory.
2150
2151 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2152 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2153 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2154 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2155
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002156 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002157 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002158 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002159 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2160 performed. Each pass selects another test
2161 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2162 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2163 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2164 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002165
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002166 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2167 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2168 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2169 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2170 See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2171
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002172 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2173 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2174
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002175 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2176 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2177 platforms.
2178
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002179 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2180 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2181 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2182 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2183
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002184 mga= [HW,DRM]
2185
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002186 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2187 physical address is ignored.
2188
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002189 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2190 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2191 Default: "0tb"
2192 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2193 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2194 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2195 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2196 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2197 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2198 unconfigured.
2199 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2200 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2201 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2202 VGA shield.
2203 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2204 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2205 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2206 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2207 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2208 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2209
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002210 mminit_loglevel=
2211 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2212 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2213 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2214 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2215 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2216 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2217
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002218 module.sig_enforce
2219 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2220 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002221 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002222 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2223
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302224 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2225 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2226
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002227 mousedev.tap_time=
2228 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2229 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2230 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2231 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2232 Format: <msecs>
2233 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2234 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2235 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2236 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2237
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302238 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002239 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2240 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2241 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2242 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2243 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2244 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2245 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2246 is not too small.
2247
Reza Arbab39fa104d2016-12-12 16:42:55 -08002248 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002249 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002251 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2252 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2253
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002254 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2255 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002256
2257 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002258 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002259
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002260 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2261 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2262 at a time.
2263
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002264 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2265
2266 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2267
2268 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2269 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2270 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2271 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2272 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2273
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002274 mtdset= [ARM]
2275 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2276
2277 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2278
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002279 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002280 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2281 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002282
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002283 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002284 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002285 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2286
2287 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2288 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2289 Default is 1.
2290 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2291 using up MTRRs.
2292
2293 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2294 Format: <integer>
2295 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2296 Default : 1
2297 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2298 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002300 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2301
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002302 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2303 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2304 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2305 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002306 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2307 file if at all.
2308
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002309 nf_conntrack.acct=
2310 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2311 0 to disable accounting
2312 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002313 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002314
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002315 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002316 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002317
2318 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002319 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002320
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002321 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2322 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2323
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002324 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2325 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2326 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2327 requests.
2328
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002329 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2330 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2331 channel should listen.
2332
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002333 nfs.cache_getent=
2334 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2335 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2336
2337 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2338 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2339 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2340
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002341 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2342 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2343 entries.
2344
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002345 nfs.enable_ino64=
2346 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2347 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2348 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2349 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2350 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2351
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002352 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2353 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2354 slots the client will assign to the callback
2355 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2356 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2357 a particular server.
2358
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002359 nfs.max_session_slots=
2360 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2361 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2362 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2363 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2364 Note that there is little point in setting this
2365 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2366
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002367 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002368 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2369 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2370 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2371 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2372 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2373 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2374 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2375 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2376 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2377 back to using the idmapper.
2378 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002379 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2380 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2381 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2382 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2383 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002384
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002385 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2386 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2387 information in exchange_id requests.
2388 If zero, no implementation identification information
2389 will be sent.
2390 The default is to send the implementation identification
2391 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002392
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002393 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2394 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2395 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2396 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2397 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2398 after the locks are lost.
2399 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2400 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2401 parameter to '1'.
2402 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2403 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002404
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002405 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2406 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2407 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2408
2409 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2410 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2411 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2412 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2413
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002414 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2415 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2416 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2417 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2418 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2419 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002420
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002421 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2422 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2423 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2424 osd-targets. Please see:
2425 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2426
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002427 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002428 when a NMI is triggered.
2429 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2430
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302431 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002432 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002433 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002434 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2435 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002436 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002437 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002438 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2439 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002440 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2441 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002442
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002443 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2444 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2445 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2446 waits 4 seconds.
2447
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002448 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002449 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2450 is present.
2451
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002452 no_console_suspend
2453 [HW] Never suspend the console
2454 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2455 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2456 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2457 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2458 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2459 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2460 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002461 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2462 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2463 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2464 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2465 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002466
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002467 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2468 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2469 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002470
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002471 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2472
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002473 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2474 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2475
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002476 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2477
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002478 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2479 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2480
2481 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002482
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002483 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2484
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002485 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2486
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002487 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2488
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002489 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002490
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002491 noexec [IA-64]
2492
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302493 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002494 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002495 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002496 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2497
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002498 nosmap [X86]
2499 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2500 even if it is supported by processor.
2501
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002502 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002503 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002504 even if it is supported by processor.
2505
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002506 noexec32 [X86-64]
2507 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2508 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2509 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2510 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2511 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002512
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002513 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002514
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002515 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002516 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2517 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002518
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002519 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2520
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002521 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2522 Equivalent to smt=1.
2523
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002524 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2525 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2526 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2527
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002528 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2529 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2530 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2531 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2532 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2533 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2534
2535 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2536 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2537 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2538 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2539 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2540 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2541 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2542
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002543 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2544 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2545 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002546
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002547 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2548 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2549 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2550
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002551 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2552 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2553 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2554 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2555 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2556 real-time systems.
2557
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002558 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2559
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002560 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2561 Valid arguments: on, off
2562 Default: on
2563
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002564 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002565 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002566 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002567 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002568 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2569 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002570 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2571 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002572
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002573 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2574
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002575 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002576 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2577
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302578 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002579 broken timer IRQ sources.
2580
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002581 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2582
2583 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2584 initial RAM disk.
2585
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002586 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2587 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002588 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002589
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002590 nointroute [IA-64]
2591
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002592 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2593
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002594 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002595
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002596 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2597
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002598 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2599 fault handling.
2600
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002601 no-vmw-sched-clock
2602 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2603 clock and use the default one.
2604
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002605 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2606 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2607 behaviour
2608
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002609 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002610
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002611 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002612
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002613 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002614 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002615
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002616 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2617
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002618 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002619
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002620 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2621 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2622
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002623 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2624 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2625 irq.
2626
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002627 nomodule Disable module load
2628
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002629 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2630 pagetables) support.
2631
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002632 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2633 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2634
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002635 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002636
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002637 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002638 with UP alternatives
2639
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002640 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2641 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2642 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2643 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002644
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002645 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2646 space.
2647
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002648 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2649 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2650 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2651
2652 nosbagart [IA-64]
2653
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002654 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002655
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002656 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2657 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002658
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002659 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2660
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002661 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2662
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002663 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002664
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002665 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2666 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002667
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002668 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002669
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002670 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2671
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002672 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2673 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2674 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2675 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2676 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2677 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2678 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2679 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2680 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2681 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2682 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2683 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2684 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2685
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002686 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002687 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2688 SAL PALO.
2689
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002690 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2691 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002692 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2693 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2694 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2695 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2696 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2697 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002698
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002699 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2700
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002701 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2702 Allowed values are enable and disable
2703
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002704 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2705 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2706 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2707 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2708
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002709 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2710 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2711 info.
2712
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002713 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2714 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2715 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2716 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2717 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2718 interrupts *may* be lost!
2719
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002720 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2721 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2722 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2723 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2724
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002725 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2726 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2727
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002728 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2729 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2730 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002731 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2732 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002733 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2734 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002735 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2736 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2737 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002738
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002739 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2740 process, but there is a small probability of
2741 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002742 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2743 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2744
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002745 OSS [HW,OSS]
2746 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2747
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002748 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2749 Storage of the information about who allocated
2750 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2751 we can turn it on.
2752 on: enable the feature
2753
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002754 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2755 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2756 off: turn off poisoning
2757 on: turn on poisoning
2758
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002759 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002760 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2761 timeout = 0: wait forever
2762 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002763 Format: <timeout>
2764
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002765 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2766 on a WARN().
2767
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002768 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2769 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2770 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2771 succeeds in any situation.
2772 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2773 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2774 kernel more unstable.
2775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002776 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2777 connected to, default is 0.
2778 Format: <parport#>
2779 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2780 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002781 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002782
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002783 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2784 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2785 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2786 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2787 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2788 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2789 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2790 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2791 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2792 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2793 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2794 are specified on the command line, starting
2795 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002796
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002797 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2798 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2799 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2800 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2801 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2802 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002803 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2804
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002805 pause_on_oops=
2806 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2807 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2808 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2809
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002810 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2811
2812 pcd. [PARIDE]
2813 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002814 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002815
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002816 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002817 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2818 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002819 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002820 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002821 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2822 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002823 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002824 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2825 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2826 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002827 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2828 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2829 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2830 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2831 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2832 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2833 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2834 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2835 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2836 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002837 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2838 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2839 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002840 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2841 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302842 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002843 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002844 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2845 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2846 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002847 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2848 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2849 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002850 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2851 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2852 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002853 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2854 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2855 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2856 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002857 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2858 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2859 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2860 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002861 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002862 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2863 on several machines and they hang the machine
2864 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2865 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2866 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2867 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2868 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002869 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002870 Use with caution as certain devices share
2871 address decoders between ROMs and other
2872 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002873 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002874 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2875 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002876 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2877 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002878 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002879 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2880 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2881 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002882 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002883 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2884 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2885 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002886 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002887 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2888 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2889 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002890 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002891 numbers ourselves, overriding
2892 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002893 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002894 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2895 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2896 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2897 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2898 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002899 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002900 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002901 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2902 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2903 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2904 please report a bug.
2905 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2906 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002907 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2908 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2909 so this option is a temporary workaround
2910 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002911 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2912 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002913 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2914 This might help on some broken boards which
2915 machine check when some devices' config space
2916 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2917 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002918 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2919 This sorting is done to get a device
2920 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2921 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002922 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2923 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2924 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2925 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2926 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2927 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2928 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2929 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2930 or bus can support) for best performance.
2931 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2932 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2933 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2934 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2935 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2936 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002937 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2938 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2939 The default value is 256 bytes.
2940 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2941 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2942 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002943 resource_alignment=
2944 Format:
2945 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00002946 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2947 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002948 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2949 aligned memory resources.
2950 If <order of align> is not specified,
2951 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2952 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2953 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02002954 To specify the alignment for several
2955 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2956 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2957 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002958 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2959 end-to-end CRC checking).
2960 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2961 the default.
2962 off: Turn ECRC off
2963 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002964 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2965 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2966 Default size is 256 bytes.
2967 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2968 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2969 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06002970 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2971 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2972 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002973 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2974 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2975 accommodate resources required by all child
2976 devices.
2977 off: Turn realloc off
2978 on: Turn realloc on
2979 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002980 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002981 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2982 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2983 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002984
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002985 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2986 Management.
2987 off Disable ASPM.
2988 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2989 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2990
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002991 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2992 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2993 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2994
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002995 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002996 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2997 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2998 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2999 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3000 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003001 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3002 ports driver.
3003
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003004 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3005 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3006 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3007
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003008 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003009 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003010 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003011
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003012 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3013
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303014 pd_ignore_unused
3015 [PM]
3016 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3017 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3018 for debug and development, but should not be
3019 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3020
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003021 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003022 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003023
3024 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3025 boot time.
3026 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3027 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3028
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003029 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003030 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3031 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3032 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3033 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3034 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003035
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003036 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003037 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003038
3039 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003040 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003041
3042 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003043 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003044
3045 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3046 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3047 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3048
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003049 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003050 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3051 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3052
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003053 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3054 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3055 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3056 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3057 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3058 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003059
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003060 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3061 { off }
3062
3063 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3064 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3065
3066 pnp_reserve_irq=
3067 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3068
3069 pnp_reserve_dma=
3070 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3071
3072 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003073 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003074
3075 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003076 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3077 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003078 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3079
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003080 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3081 Default is 21.
3082 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3083 may be specified.
3084 Format: <port>,<port>....
3085
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003086 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3087 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3088 platform machine description specific power_save
3089 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3090 execution priority.
3091
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003092 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3093 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3094 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3095 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3096 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3097
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003098 print-fatal-signals=
3099 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003100
3101 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3102 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3103 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3104 coredump - etc.
3105
3106 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3107 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3108
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003109 default: off.
3110
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003111 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3112 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3113 panics
3114 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3115 default: disabled
3116
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003117 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3118 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3119 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3120 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3121 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3122 Default: ratelimit
3123
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003124 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3125 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3126
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003127 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3128 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3129 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3130
3131 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3132 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3133 instead using the legacy FADT method
3134
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003135 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003136 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3137 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3138 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3139 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003140 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3141 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003142 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003143
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003144 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3145 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003146 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003147
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003148 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3149 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003150 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3151 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003152 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3153 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003154 (0 = never).
3155 psmouse.resolution=
3156 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3157 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003158 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003159 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3160
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003161 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3162
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003163 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003164 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003165
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003166 pty.legacy_count=
3167 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3168 default number.
3169
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003170 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003171
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003172 r128= [HW,DRM]
3173
3174 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003175 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003176
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003177 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003178 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003179
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003180 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003181 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3182
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003183 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3184 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3185 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003186 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3187 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3188 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3189 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003190 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3191 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3192 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3193
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003194 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003195 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3196 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3197 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3198 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3199 This improves the real-time response for the
3200 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3201 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3202 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3203 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3204
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003205 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003206 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3207 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003208
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003209 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3210 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3211 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3212 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3213
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003214 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3215 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3216 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3217 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3218
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003219 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3220 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3221 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003222 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3223 is set.
3224
3225 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3226 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3227 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3228 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3229 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3230 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003231
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003232 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3233 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3234 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3235 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3236 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003237
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003238 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003239 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3240 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3241 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3242 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3243 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3244 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003245
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003246 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3247 Set required age in jiffies for a
3248 given grace period before RCU starts
3249 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3250 rcu_note_context_switch().
3251
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003252 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003253 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3254 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3255 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3256 and maximum value is HZ.
3257
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003258 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003259 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3260 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3261 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3262
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003263 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003264 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3265 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3266 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3267 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3268 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3269 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3270 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3271 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3272 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003273
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003274 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3275 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3276 defaults to the square root of the number of
3277 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3278 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3279 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3280
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003281 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003282 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3283 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003284
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003285 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003286 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3287 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003288
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003289 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003290 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3291 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003292
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003293 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003294 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3295 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3296 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3297 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003298
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003299 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3300 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3301 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3302 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3303 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3304 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3305
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003306 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3307 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3308 grace-period primitives.
3309
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003310 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3311 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3312 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3313 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3314 interference.
3315
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003316 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3317 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3318 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3319 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3320 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3321 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3322 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3323 a single reader.
3324
3325 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3326 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3327 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3328 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3329
3330 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3331 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3332
3333 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3334 Shut the system down after performance tests
3335 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3336 testing.
3337
3338 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3339 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3340
3341 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3342 Enable additional printk() statements.
3343
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003344 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3345 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3346 callback-flood tests.
3347
3348 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3349 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3350 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3351 test.
3352
3353 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3354 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3355 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3356 disable callback-flood testing.
3357
3358 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3359 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3360 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3361
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003362 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003363 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3364 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003365
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003366 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003367 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3368 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003369
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003370 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003371 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3372 in seconds.
3373
3374 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3375 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3376 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003377
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003378 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003379 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003380
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003381 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003382 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3383 update-side primitives, if available.
3384
3385 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3386 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3387 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3388 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3389 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3390 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3391 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003392
3393 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003394 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3395
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003396 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003397 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3398 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3399 test, hence the "fake".
3400
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003401 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003402 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3403 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3404 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3405 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3406 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003407
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003408 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3409 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3410
3411 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003412 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003415 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3416 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3417
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003418 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003419 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3420 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3421 during the rcutorture test.
3422
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003423 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003424 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3425 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3426
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003427 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003428 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3429 warnings, zero to disable.
3430
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003431 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003432 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3433
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003434 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003435 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3436
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003437 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003438 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3439 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3440 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3441 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3442
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003443 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003444 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3445 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3446 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3447
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003448 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003449 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3450
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003451 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003452 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3453
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003454 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003455 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3456 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3457
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003458 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3459 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3460
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003462 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3463
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003464 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003465 Enable additional printk() statements.
3466
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003467 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3468 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3469
3470 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3471 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3472
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003473 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3474 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3475 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3476 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3477 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3478 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003479 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003480
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003481 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3482 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3483 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3484 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003485 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3486 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3487 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3488 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3489 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003490
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003491 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3492 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3493 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003494 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3495 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003496
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003497 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3498 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3499 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3500 to zero.
3501
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003502 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3503 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3504
3505 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3506 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3507
3508 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3509 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3510
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003511 rdinit= [KNL]
3512 Format: <full_path>
3513 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3514 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3515
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003516 reboot= [KNL]
3517 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3518 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3519 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3520 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3521 [[,]f[orce]
3522 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3523 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3524 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3525 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3526 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003527
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003528 relax_domain_level=
3529 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003530 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003531
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003532 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3533
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003534 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003535 Format: nn[KMG]
3536 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3537 address space.
3538
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003539 reservelow= [X86]
3540 Format: nn[K]
3541 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3542 the bottom of the address space.
3543
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003544 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3545 during initialization.
3546
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003547 resume= [SWSUSP]
3548 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003549 Format:
3550 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003551
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003552 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3553 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3554 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3555 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3556 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3557
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003558 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3559 read the resume files
3560
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003561 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3562 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3563 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3564
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003565 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3566 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3567 present during boot.
3568 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003569 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003570 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3571 (that will set all pages holding image data
3572 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003573
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003574 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3575
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003576 rfkill.default_state=
3577 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3578 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3579 1 Unblocked.
3580
3581 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3582 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3583 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3584 blocked and the previous configuration.
3585 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3586 blocked and everything unblocked.
3587
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003588 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3589 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3590
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003591 ring3mwait=disable
3592 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3593 CPUs.
3594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003595 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3596
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003597 rodata= [KNL]
3598 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3599 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3600
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003601 rockchip.usb_uart
3602 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3603 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3604 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3605 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3606
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003607 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003608 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003609
3610 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3611 mount the root filesystem
3612
3613 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3614
3615 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3616
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003617 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3618 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3619 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3620
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003621 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3622 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3623 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3624 managed by CMA.
3625
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003626 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3627
3628 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3629
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003630 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3631 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3632 strict
3633 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3634 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3635 which is faster.
3636
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003637 sa1100ir [NET]
3638 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3639
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003640 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003641
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003642 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3643
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003644 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3645 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3646 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3647 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3648
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003649 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3650 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3651 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3652 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3653 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3654 1 -- enable.
3655 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3656 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3657
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003658 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3659 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3660 security module asking for security registration will be
3661 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3662 as if no module has been chosen.
3663
3664 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003665 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3666 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3667 0 -- disable.
3668 1 -- enable.
3669 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3670 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3671 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3672
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003673 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3674 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3675 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3676 0 -- disable.
3677 1 -- enable.
3678 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3679
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003680 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003681
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003682 shapers= [NET]
3683 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003684
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003685 simeth= [IA-64]
3686 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003687
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003688 slram= [HW,MTD]
3689
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003690 slab_nomerge [MM]
3691 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3692 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3693 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3694 merging on their own.
3695 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3696
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003697 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3698 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3699 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3700 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3701 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3702
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003703 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3704 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3705 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3706 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3707 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3708 last alloc / free. For more information see
3709 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003710
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003711 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3712 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3713 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3714 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3715 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3716 directories and files being created under
3717 /sys/kernel/slub.
3718
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003719 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003720 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3721 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3722 fragmentation. For more information see
3723 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003724
3725 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003726 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3727 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3728 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3729 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3730 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3731 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003732 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3733
3734 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003735 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003736 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003737 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3738
3739 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003740 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3741 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003742
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003743 smart2= [HW]
3744 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3745
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003746 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3747 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3748 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3749 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3750 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3751 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3752 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3753 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3754 1: Fast pin select (default)
3755 2: ATC IRMode
3756
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003757 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3758 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3759 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3760 actual hardware limit.
3761 Format: <integer>
3762 Default: -1 (no limit)
3763
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003764 softlockup_panic=
3765 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003766 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003767
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003768 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3769 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3770 backtraces on all cpus.
3771 Format: <integer>
3772
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003773 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003774 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003776 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3777 spia_fio_base=
3778 spia_pedr=
3779 spia_peddr=
3780
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003781 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3782 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3783
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003784 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3785 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3786 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3787 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3788 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3789 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3790 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3791
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003792 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3793 Format: <num>
3794 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3795 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3796 as the initial boot-console.
3797 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3798
3799 sti_font= [HW]
3800 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3801
3802 stifb= [HW]
3803 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3804
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003805 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3806 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3807 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3808 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3809 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3810 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3811 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3812 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3813 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3814 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3815 maximum port values.
3816
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003817 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3818 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3819 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3820 process in parallel from a single connection.
3821 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3822
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003823 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3824 [NFS]
3825 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3826 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3827 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3828 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3829 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3830 NFS server is running.
3831
3832 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3833 automatically using heuristics
3834 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3835 percpu one pool for each CPU
3836 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3837 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3838
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003839 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3840 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3841 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3842 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3843 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3844 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3845 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3846 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3847
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003848 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3849 [SUSPEND]
3850 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3851 mode before resuming the system (see
3852 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3853 is set. Default value is 5.
3854
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003855 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003856 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3857 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003858 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003859
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003860 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003861 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003862 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3863 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3864 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01003865 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003866
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003867 switches= [HW,M68k]
3868
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003869 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3870 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3871 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3872 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3873 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3874 in older udev will not work anymore.
3875 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3876 the kernel configuration.
3877
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003878 sysrq_always_enabled
3879 [KNL]
3880 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3881 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3882 Useful for debugging.
3883
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003884 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3885 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3886 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3887 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3888 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3889 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3890
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003891 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3892
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003893 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003894 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003895 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3896 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3897 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3898 The system is woken from this state using a
3899 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003900
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003901 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3902 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3903
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003904 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3905 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3906 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3907
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003908 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3909 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003910 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003911
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003912 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3913 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3914 critical and hot trip points.
3915
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003916 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3917 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3918
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003919 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3920 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003921 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3922 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003923
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003924 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3925 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3926 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3927 0: no polling (default)
3928
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003929 threadirqs [KNL]
3930 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003931 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003932
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003933 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3934 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3935
3936 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3937 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3938 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3939
3940 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3941 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003942 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3943 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003944
3945 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3946 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3947 to the hypervisor.
3948
3949 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3950 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3951 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3952 kernel based on different criteria.
3953
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003954 topology= [S390]
3955 Format: {off | on}
3956 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003957 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3958 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003959 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003960 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003961
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003962 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3963 Format: {off}
3964 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3965 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3966 LPAR.
3967
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003968 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3969
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003970 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3971 Format: integer pcr id
3972 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3973 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3974 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3975 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3976 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3977 are saved.
3978
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003979 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003980 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003981
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003982 trace_event=[event-list]
3983 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07003984 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3985 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3986 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003987
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003988 trace_options=[option-list]
3989 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3990 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3991 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3992 to echo the option name into
3993
3994 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3995
3996 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3997 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3998
3999 trace_options=stacktrace
4000
4001 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4002 section.
4003
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004004 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4005 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4006 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4007 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4008 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4009 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4010
4011 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4012 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4013 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4014 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4015
4016 ** CAUTION **
4017
4018 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4019 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4020 the system to live lock.
4021
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004022 traceoff_on_warning
4023 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4024 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4025 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4026 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4027
4028 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4029 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4030 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4031
4032 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4033 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4034
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004035 transparent_hugepage=
4036 [KNL]
4037 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4038 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4039 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4040 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4041
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004042 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004043 Format: <string>
4044 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004045 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4046 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4047 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4048 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004049 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4050 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4051 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4052 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004053
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004054 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4055 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4056 Format:
4057 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004058 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4059
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004060 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004061 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004062 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4063 help "seeing" what's going on.
4064
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004065 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4066 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4067
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004068 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4069 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4070 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4071 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4072 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4073 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4074 reported either.
4075
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004076 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004077 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004078
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004079 usbcore.authorized_default=
4080 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4081 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4082 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4083
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004084 usbcore.autosuspend=
4085 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4086 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4087 is the time required before an idle device will be
4088 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004089 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004090
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004091 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4092 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4093
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004094 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4095 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4096 (default = 65536).
4097
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004098 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4099 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4100
4101 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4102 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4103 scheme (default 0 = off).
4104
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004105 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4106 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4107 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4108
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004109 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4110 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4111 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4112
4113 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4114 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4115 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4116 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4117
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004118 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4119
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004120 usbhid.mousepoll=
4121 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004122
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004123 usb-storage.delay_use=
4124 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004125 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004126
4127 usb-storage.quirks=
4128 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4129 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4130 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4131 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4132 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4133 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4134 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004135 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4136 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004137 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4138 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004139 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4140 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004141 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4142 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4143 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4144 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004145 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4146 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004147 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4148 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004149 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4150 reported device capacity by one
4151 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004152 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4153 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004154 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4155 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004156 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4157 unlock ejectable media);
4158 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4159 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004160 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4161 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004162 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4163 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004164 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4165 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004166 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4167 bogus residue values);
4168 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4169 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004170 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4171 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004172 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004173 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4174 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004175 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4176 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004177 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4178
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004179 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4180 Format: <int>
4181 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4182 1 - undefined instruction events
4183 2 - system calls
4184 4 - invalid data aborts
4185 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4186 16 - SIGBUS faults
4187 Example: user_debug=31
4188
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004189 userpte=
4190 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4191
4192 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4193 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4194 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4195
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304196 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004197 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4198
4199 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004200 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4201
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004202 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4203 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4204 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4205
4206 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4207 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4208 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4209
4210 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4211 alias for vdso32=0.
4212
4213 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4214 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004215
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004216 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4217 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4218
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004219 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4220 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4221
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004222 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4223 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4224 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4225 level and then send out the event to user space through
4226 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4227 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4228 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004229 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004230
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004231 virtio_mmio.device=
4232 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4233
4234 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4235 where:
4236 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4237 like K, M and G)
4238 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4239 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4240 request_irq())
4241 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4242 example:
4243 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4244
4245 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4246
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004247 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004248 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004249 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004250 Use vga=ask for menu.
4251 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4252 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4253
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004254 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004255 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4256 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4257 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4258 mapped kernel RAM.
4259
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004260 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4261 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004262
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004263 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4264 Format: <command>
4265
4266 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4267 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004268
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004269 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4270 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4271 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4272 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4273 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4274 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4275 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4276
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004277 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4278 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004279
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004280 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004281 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4282 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4283 better than they would in emulation mode.
4284 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4285
4286 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4287 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4288 might break your system.
4289
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004290 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4291 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4292 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4293
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004294 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4295 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4296 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4297 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4298
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004299 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4300 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4301 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4302 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4303 ranging from 0-255.
4304
4305 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4306 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4307 Change the default green palette of the console.
4308 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4309 ranging from 0-255.
4310
4311 vt.default_red= [VT]
4312 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4313 Change the default red palette of the console.
4314 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4315 ranging from 0-255.
4316
4317 vt.default_utf8=
4318 [VT]
4319 Format=<0|1>
4320 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4321 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4322 newly opened terminals.
4323
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004324 vt.global_cursor_default=
4325 [VT]
4326 Format=<-1|0|1>
4327 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4328 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4329 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4330 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4331 cursors, 1 will display them.
4332
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004333 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4334 Default: 2 = green.
4335
4336 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4337 Default: 3 = cyan.
4338
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004339 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4340 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4341 or other driver-specific files in the
4342 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004343
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004344 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4345 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4346 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4347 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4348 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4349 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4350 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4351 corresponding sysfs file.
4352
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004353 workqueue.disable_numa
4354 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4355 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4356 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4357 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4358 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4359 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4360 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4361
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304362 workqueue.power_efficient
4363 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4364 they show better performance thanks to cache
4365 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4366 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4367
4368 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4369 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4370 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4371 power usage at the cost of small performance
4372 overhead.
4373
4374 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4375 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4376
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004377 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4378 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4379 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4380 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4381 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4382 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4383 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4384 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4385 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4386 impacted.
4387
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004388 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4389 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4390 supporting x2apic.
4391
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004392 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4393 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004394 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4395 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004396 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004397
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004398 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4399 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4400 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4401 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4402 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4403 domains.
4404
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004405 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4406 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4407 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4408 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4409 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4410 nics -- unplug network devices
4411 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004412 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4413 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4414 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004415 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004416
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004417 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4418 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4419 optimizations.
4420
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004421 xen_nopv [X86]
4422 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4423 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4424
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004425 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004426 Format:
4427 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]