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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800117
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800125
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700138
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800143
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900300
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700342
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700366
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500393 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394 until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400401 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400402
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200449 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700450
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300468
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700477
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700488
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100522
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700524 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100589
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530590 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100591 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100592 Range: 0 - 8192
593 Default: 64
594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700595 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 Format:
597 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598
599 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602 com90xx= [HW,NET]
603 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700604 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606 condev= [HW,S390] console device
607 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800614 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700615 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700620
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200621 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800622 information. See
623 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700626 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900628 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400629 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900635 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400639 the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500641 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
642 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
Sergey Senozhatskycca10d52017-12-21 14:41:49 +0900649 console_msg_format=
650 [KNL] Change console messages format
651 default
652 By default we print messages on consoles in
653 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655 `printk_time' param).
656 syslog
657 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661 from /proc/kmsg.
662
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700663 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700664 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
665 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700666
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800667 coredump_filter=
668 [KNL] Change the default value for
669 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600672 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673 [ARM,ARM64]
674 Format: <bool>
675 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676 0: default value, disable debugging
677 1: enable debugging at boot time
678
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400679 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
680 disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500682 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
683 disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400685 cpu_init_udelay=N
686 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
688 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689 Default: 10000
690
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700691 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700692 Format:
693 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700694
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800695 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700 is selected automatically. Check
701 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700702
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700703 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705 in the running system. The syntax of range is
706 start-[end] where start and end are both
707 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700709
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700710 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700711 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715 available.
716 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700717 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700720 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800722 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700726 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727 for second kernel instead.
728 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700729 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700730 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700731
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100732 cryptomgr.notests
733 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
736 Format: <dma>
737
738 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
739 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700740
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700741 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700742 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745 (one device per port)
746 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500747 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700748
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200749 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200750 time. See
751 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600752 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700754 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700756 debug_locks_verbose=
757 [KNL] verbose self-tests
758 Format=<0|1>
759 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760 self-tests.
761 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763 only useful to kernel developers.
764
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700765 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
766
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500767 no_debug_objects
768 [KNL] Disable object debugging
769
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800770 debug_guardpage_minorder=
771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
778 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785 bypassed) which are not detectable by
786 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787 tracking down these problems.
788
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800789 debug_pagealloc=
790 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796 on: enable the feature
797
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200798 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200800 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801 Format: <area>[,<node>]
802 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700804 default_hugepagesz=
805 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700812 dhash_entries= [KNL]
813 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700814
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000815 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
816 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819 miss to occur.
820
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800821 disable= [IPV6]
822 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530824 disable_radix [PPC]
825 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900827 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828 Format: <int>
829 The number of initial APIC ID for the
830 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833 causing system reset or hang due to sending
834 INIT from AP to BSP.
835
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000836 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
837 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838 to workaround buggy firmware.
839
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800840 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700843 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700844 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700846 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700847
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100848 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100849 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850 memory out of your available memory pool based on
851 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
852 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530854 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700855 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400858 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700860 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863 dma_debug_entries=<number>
864 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868 architectural default is too low.
869
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200870 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875 driver later using sysfs.
876
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300877 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700878 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100882 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700890 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
892 data set with no connector name will be used for
893 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100894
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700895 dscc4.setup= [NET]
896
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000897 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
898 Format: {"off" | "known"}
899 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901 exists).
902 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000906 dump_apple_properties [X86]
907 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
909 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600911 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912 module.dyndbg[="val"]
913 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200914 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600916
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700917 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919 information about the feature.
920
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800921 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922 in some Intel CPUs.
923
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700924 module.async_probe [KNL]
925 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700927 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930 which are not unmapped.
931
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700932 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500933
Prarit Bhargava0231d002018-01-18 10:09:51 -0500934 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
939 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500940
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100941 cdns,<addr>[,options]
942 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200947
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700948 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700950 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300951 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400952 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700953 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700955 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300956 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
957 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400960 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700961
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500962 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600963 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600967 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500970
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100971 meson,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port must
974 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975 supported.
976
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700977 msm_serial,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
983 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987 yet supported.
988
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200989 owl,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992 specified address. The serial port must already be
993 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500995 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100997 s3c2410,<addr>
998 s3c2412,<addr>
999 s3c2440,<addr>
1000 s3c6400,<addr>
1001 s5pv210,<addr>
1002 exynos4210,<addr>
1003 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007 Options are not yet supported.
1008
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +01001009 lantiq,<addr>
1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001015 lpuart,<addr>
1016 lpuart32,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020 port must already be setup and configured.
1021
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001022 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025 address. The serial port must already be setup
1026 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001028 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001030 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001031 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001032 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001033 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001034 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001035 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001036 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001037 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001038 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001039
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001040 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001044 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001045 takes over.
1046
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001047 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001049
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001050 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055 You can find the port for a given device in
1056 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001058
1059 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060 very good.
1061
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001062 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001064
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001065 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001067 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001069 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075 default: on.
1076
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001077 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078 ekgdboc=kbd
1079
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001080 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001081 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001083 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001084 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001085
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001086 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001087 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001088 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001091 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001094 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001095 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001096
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001097 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001103 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105 updating original EFI memory map.
1106 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107 from ss to ss+nn.
1108 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116 doesn't support it.
1117
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001118 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001125 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1126 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001128 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001129 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001130 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001131
1132 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001133 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001134 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001135 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001137 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001138 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001139 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001141 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001142
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001143 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001148 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001149 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001154 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159 Default value is 0.
1160 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001162 erst_disable [ACPI]
1163 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164 support.
1165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001166 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001170 evm= [EVM]
1171 Format: { "fix" }
1172 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173 current integrity status.
1174
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001175 failslab=
1176 fail_page_alloc=
1177 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178 General fault injection mechanism.
1179 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001180 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001182 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001183 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001184
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001185 force_pal_cache_flush
1186 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001191 forcepae [X86-32]
1192 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196 and may cause unknown problems.
1197
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001198 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001199 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001200 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201 boot debugging.
1202
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001203 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001204 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001205 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001209
1210 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001215 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001216
1217 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001222
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001223 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227 that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001230 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1233 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001236 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001242 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001246 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247
1248 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1249
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001250 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1251 Format: off | on
1252 default: on
1253
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001254 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001260 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262 android emulator
1263
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001264 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001265 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001268
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001269 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271 Format: 0 | 1
1272 Default: 0
1273 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275 Format: 0 | 1
1276 Default: 0
1277 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278 Format: 0 | 1
1279 Default: 0
1280 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282 Default: 1024
1283 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285 Default: 1024
1286
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001287 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001291 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293 backtraces on all cpus.
1294 Format: <integer>
1295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001296 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001298 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001299 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300
1301 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001306 hest_disable [ACPI]
1307 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309 logic will be disabled.
1310
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001311 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314 size on bigger boxes.
1315
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001316 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318 Default: "on"
1319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1321 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001323 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327 verbose }
1328 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330 VIA, nVidia)
1331 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001333 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001336 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001338 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001342 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001343
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001344 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1345 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001346 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1347 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1348 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001349
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001350 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1351 hardware thread id mappings.
1352 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1353
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001354 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1355 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1356 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1357 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1358 the real console.
1359
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001360 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001361 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1362 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001363 Format:
1364 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1365
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001366 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001367 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1368 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1369 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1370 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001371 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001372 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1373 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001374 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1375 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001376 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001377 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1378 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001379 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001380 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001381 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1382 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001383 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001384 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1385 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1386 transitions, or never reset
1387 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1388 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1389 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1390 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1391 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001392 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001393 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001394
1395 i810= [HW,DRM]
1396
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001397 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1398 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1399 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001400 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1401 does not match list of supported models.
1402 i8k.power_status
1403 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1404 (disabled by default)
1405 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1406 capability is set.
1407
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001408 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001409 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1410 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001411 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1412 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1413 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1414 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1415 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1416 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1417 value switches the backlight off.
1418 -1 -- never invert brightness
1419 0 -- machine default
1420 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001421
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001422 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1423 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1424
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001425 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1426 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001427 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1428 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001429 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001430
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001431 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1432 Format: <int>
1433 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1434 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1435 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1436 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1437 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1438 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1439 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1440 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1441 was 0x3.
1442
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001443 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1444 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1445
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001446 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001447 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001448 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1449 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1450 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1451 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001452 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001453 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001454 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001455
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001456 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1457 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1458 Default: strict
1459
1460 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1461 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1462 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1463 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1464 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1465 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1466 encoding mode.
1467
1468 Available settings are as follows:
1469 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1470 supported by the FPU
1471 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1472 by the FPU
1473 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1474 by the FPU
1475 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1476 supported by the FPU
1477
1478 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1479 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1480 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1481 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1482 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1483 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1484 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1485 MIPS64 CPUs.
1486
1487 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1488 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1489 except where unsupported by hardware.
1490
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001491 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1492 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1493 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001494 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1495 could change it dynamically, usually by
1496 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001497
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001498 ignore_rlimit_data
1499 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1500 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1501 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1502
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001503 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1504 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1505
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001506 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001507 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001508 default: "enforce"
1509
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001510 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1511 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1512 owned by uid=0.
1513
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001514 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1515 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1516 measurements, instead of host native format.
1517
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001518 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001519 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1520 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001521 default: "sha1"
1522
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001523 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1524 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1525
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001526 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001527 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001528 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001529
1530 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1531 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1532 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1533 uid=0.
1534
1535 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1536 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1537 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001538
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001539 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1540 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1541 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001542
1543 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001544 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1545 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1546 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1547 opened for read by uid=0.
1548
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001549 ima_template= [IMA]
1550 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001551 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001552 Default: "ima-ng"
1553
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001554 ima_template_fmt=
1555 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1556 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1557
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001558 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1559 Format: <min_file_size>
1560 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1561 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1562
1563 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1564 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1565 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1566
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001567 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1568 Format: <bufsize>
1569 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1570
1571 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1572 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1573 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1574
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001575 init= [KNL]
1576 Format: <full_path>
1577 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1578 process.
1579
1580 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1581 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1582 startup.
1583
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001584 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1585 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1586 modules and initcalls.
1587
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001588 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1589
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001590 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1591 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1592 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1593 override in debugfs after boot.
1594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001595 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1596 Format: <irq>
1597
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001598 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1599
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001600 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1601 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1602 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1603 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1604
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001605 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001606 on
1607 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001608 off
1609 Disable intel iommu driver.
1610 igfx_off [Default Off]
1611 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1612 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1613 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1614 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1615 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001616 forcedac [x86_64]
1617 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001618 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001619 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001620 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1621 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001622 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001623 strict [Default Off]
1624 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1625 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1626 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001627 sp_off [Default Off]
1628 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1629 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1630 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001631 ecs_off [Default Off]
1632 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1633 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1634 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1635 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1636 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001637 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1638 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1639 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1640 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1641 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1642 mapping is enabled.
1643 Note that using this option lowers the security
1644 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1645 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001646
1647 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1648 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001649 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001650
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001651 intel_pstate= [X86]
1652 disable
1653 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1654 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001655 passive
1656 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1657 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1658 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1659 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1660 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001661 force
1662 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1663 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1664 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1665 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1666 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1667 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1668 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1669 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001670 no_hwp
1671 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1672 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001673 hwp_only
1674 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1675 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001676 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001677 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1678 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1679 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1680 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001681 per_cpu_perf_limits
1682 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1683 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001684
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001685 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001686 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1687 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1688 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001689 no_x2apic_optout
1690 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001691 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001692
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001693 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1694 strict regions from userspace.
1695 relaxed
1696
1697 iommu= [x86]
1698 off
1699 force
1700 noforce
1701 biomerge
1702 panic
1703 nopanic
1704 merge
1705 nomerge
1706 forcesac
1707 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001708 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001709 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1710 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001711
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001712 iommu.passthrough=
1713 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1714 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1715 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1716 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1717 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001718
1719 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1720 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1721 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1722
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301723 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001724 0x80
1725 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1726 0xed
1727 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001728 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001729 Simple two microseconds delay
1730 none
1731 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001732
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001733 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001734 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001735
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001736 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001737 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001738
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001739 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1740 [ARM, ARM64]
1741 Format: <bool>
1742 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1743 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1744 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1745
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001746 irqfixup [HW]
1747 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1748 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1749 firmware running.
1750
1751 irqpoll [HW]
1752 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1753 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1754 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1755 firmware running.
1756
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001757 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001758 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001759
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01001760 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001761 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1762 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001763
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001764 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1765 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001766
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001767 nohz
1768 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1769 domain
1770 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1771 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1772 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1773 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1774 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1775 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1776 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1777 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1778
1779 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1780 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1781 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1782 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1783
1784 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1785
1786
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001787
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001788 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001789
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001790 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1791 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1792 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1793 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1794 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1795 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1796
1797 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1798 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1799 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1800 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1801 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1802 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1803
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001804 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1805 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1806 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1807 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1808 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1809 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1810
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001811 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001812 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001813
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001814 nokaslr [KNL]
1815 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1816 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1817 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001818
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001819 kasan_multi_shot
1820 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1821 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1822 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1823 invalid access.
1824
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001825 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1826
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001827 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1828 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1829 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001830 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1831 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1832 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1833 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1834 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1835 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1836 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001837 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001838 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1839 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1840 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1841 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1842 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1843 zone if it does not.
1844
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001845 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1846 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1847 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1848 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1849 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1850 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1851 time.
1852
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001853 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1854 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1855 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1856 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1857 optional and is the number seconds in between
1858 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1859 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1860 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1861 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1862 the kernel debugger.
1863
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001864 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001865 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1866 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001867 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1868 keyboard only format: kbd
1869 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1870 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1871 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1872 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001873
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001874 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1875 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1876
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001877 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1878 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1879 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1880
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001881 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1882 Valid arguments: on, off
1883 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001884 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1885 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001886
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001887 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1888 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1889
Liran Alonc4ae60e2018-03-12 13:12:47 +02001890 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
1891 Default is false (don't support).
1892
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001893 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1894 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001895 Default is 0 (off)
1896
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001897 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001898 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001899
1900 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1901 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001902 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001903
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001904 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1905 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1906 system registers
1907
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001908 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1909 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1910 system registers
1911
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001912 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1913 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1914 system registers
1915
Marc Zyngiera7546052017-10-27 15:28:54 +01001916 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1917 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1918 LPIs.
1919
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001920 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1921 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1922 Default is 1 (enabled)
1923
1924 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1925 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1926 Default is 0 (disabled)
1927
1928 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1929 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1930 Default is 1 (enabled)
1931
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001932 kvm-intel.nested=
1933 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1934 Default is 0 (disabled)
1935
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001936 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1937 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1938 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1939 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1940
1941 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1942 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1943 Default is 1 (enabled)
1944
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001945 l2cr= [PPC]
1946
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001947 l3cr= [PPC]
1948
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001949 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001950 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001951
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001952 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1953 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1954 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1955
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301956 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001957 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001958
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001959 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1960 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1961 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1962 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001963 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001964 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1965 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001966
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001967 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1968 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1969 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001970
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001971 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1972 when set.
1973 Format: <int>
1974
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001975 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1976 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001977 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001978 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1979 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1980 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1981 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1982 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1983
1984 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1985 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1986 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1987 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1988 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1989 host link and device attached to it.
1990
1991 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1992 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1993 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1994 The following configurations can be forced.
1995
1996 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1997 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1998
1999 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2000
2001 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2002 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2003 allowed.
2004
2005 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2006
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002007 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2008
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002009 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2010 and both resets.
2011
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002012 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2013 hot-unplug link recovery
2014
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002015 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2016
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002017 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2018
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002019 * disable: Disable this device.
2020
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002021 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2022 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2023
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002024 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002025
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002026 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002027 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002028
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002029 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2030 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002031
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002032 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2033 Format: <integer>
2034
2035 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2036 Format: <integer>
2037
2038 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2039 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002040
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002041 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2042 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2043 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2044 number of online CPUs.
2045
2046 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2047 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2048
2049 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2050 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2051
2052 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2053 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2054 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2055
2056 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2057 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2058 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2059 mode during the locktorture test.
2060
2061 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2062 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2063 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2064
2065 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2066 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2067
2068 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2069 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2070 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2071 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2072 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2073 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2074
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002075 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2076 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2077
2078 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2079 Enable additional printk() statements.
2080
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002081 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2082 Format: <irq>
2083
2084 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2085 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2086 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2087 loglevels are defined as follows:
2088
2089 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2090 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2091 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2092 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2093 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2094 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2095 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2096 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2097
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002098 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002099 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2100 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2101 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2102 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2103 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2104 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002105
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002106 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2107 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2108 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2109 kernel boot problems.
2110
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002111 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2112 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2113 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2114 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2115 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2116 attached printers to be reset. Using
2117 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2118 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2119 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2120 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2121 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2122 port specification list means that device IDs
2123 from each port should be examined, to see if
2124 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2125 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2126 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2127
2128 lpj=n [KNL]
2129 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2130 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2131 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2132 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2133 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2134 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2135 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2136 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2137 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2138 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2139 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2140 hardware.
2141
2142 ltpc= [NET]
2143 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2144
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002145 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002146 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2147 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002148
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002149 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2150 yeeloong laptop.
2151 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2152
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002153 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2154 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002155
2156 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002157 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2158 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2159 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2160 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2161 only takes effect during system bootup.
2162 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2163 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002164
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002165 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2166 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2167 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2168 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2169 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2170 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002171
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002172 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002173
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002174 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002176 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002177 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002178
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002179 mdacon= [MDA]
2180 Format: <first>,<last>
2181 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002183 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2184 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2185 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002186 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2187 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2188 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2189 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002190
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002191 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002192 memory.
2193
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002194 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2195 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2196 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2197
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002198 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2199 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2200 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2201 set according to the
2202 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2203 option.
2204 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2205
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302206 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002207 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2208 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2209 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2210 option description.
2211
2212 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002213 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2214 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002215 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2216 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2217 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2218 comma delimited.
2219 Example:
2220 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002221
2222 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2223 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002224 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002225
2226 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2227 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002228 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002229 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2230 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2231 or
2232 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002233 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2234 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2235 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002236
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002237 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2238 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2239 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2240 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2241 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2242
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002243 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2244 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2245 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2246 Setting this option will scan the memory
2247 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2248 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2249 from using the memory being corrupted.
2250 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2251 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2252 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2253 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2254
2255 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2256 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2257 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2258 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2259 corruption in more or less memory.
2260
2261 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2262 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2263 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2264 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2265
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002266 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002267 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002268 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002269 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2270 performed. Each pass selects another test
2271 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2272 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2273 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2274 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002275
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002276 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2277 Valid arguments: on, off
2278 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2279 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2280 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2281 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2282 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2283
2284 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2285 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2286
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002287 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2288 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2289 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2290 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002291 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002292
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002293 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002294 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002295
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002296 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2297 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2298 platforms.
2299
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002300 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2301 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2302 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2303 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2304
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002305 mga= [HW,DRM]
2306
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002307 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2308 physical address is ignored.
2309
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002310 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2311 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2312 Default: "0tb"
2313 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2314 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2315 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2316 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2317 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2318 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2319 unconfigured.
2320 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2321 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2322 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2323 VGA shield.
2324 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2325 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2326 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2327 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2328 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2329 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2330
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002331 mminit_loglevel=
2332 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2333 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2334 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2335 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2336 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2337 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2338
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002339 module.sig_enforce
2340 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2341 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002342 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002343 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2344
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302345 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2346 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2347
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002348 mousedev.tap_time=
2349 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2350 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2351 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2352 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2353 Format: <msecs>
2354 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2355 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2356 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2357 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2358
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302359 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002360 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2361 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2362 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2363 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2364 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2365 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2366 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2367 is not too small.
2368
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002369 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2370 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2371 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2372 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2373 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002374
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002375 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2376 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2377
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002378 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2379 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002380
2381 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002382 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002383
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002384 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2385 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2386 at a time.
2387
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002388 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2389
2390 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2391
2392 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2393 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2394 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2395 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2396 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2397
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002398 mtdset= [ARM]
2399 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2400
2401 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2402
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002403 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002404 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2405 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002406
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002407 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002408 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002409 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2410
2411 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2412 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2413 Default is 1.
2414 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2415 using up MTRRs.
2416
2417 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2418 Format: <integer>
2419 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2420 Default : 1
2421 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2422 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2423
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002424 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2425
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002426 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2427 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2428 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2429 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002430 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2431 file if at all.
2432
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002433 nf_conntrack.acct=
2434 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2435 0 to disable accounting
2436 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002437 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002438
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002439 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002440 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002441
2442 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002443 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002444
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002445 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2446 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2447
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002448 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2449 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2450 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2451 requests.
2452
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002453 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2454 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2455 channel should listen.
2456
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002457 nfs.cache_getent=
2458 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2459 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2460
2461 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2462 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2463 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2464
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002465 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2466 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2467 entries.
2468
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002469 nfs.enable_ino64=
2470 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2471 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2472 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2473 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2474 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2475
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002476 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2477 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2478 slots the client will assign to the callback
2479 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2480 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2481 a particular server.
2482
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002483 nfs.max_session_slots=
2484 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2485 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2486 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2487 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2488 Note that there is little point in setting this
2489 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2490
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002491 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002492 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2493 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2494 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2495 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2496 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2497 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2498 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2499 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2500 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2501 back to using the idmapper.
2502 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002503 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2504 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2505 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2506 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2507 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002508
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002509 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2510 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2511 information in exchange_id requests.
2512 If zero, no implementation identification information
2513 will be sent.
2514 The default is to send the implementation identification
2515 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002516
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002517 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2518 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2519 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2520 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2521 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2522 after the locks are lost.
2523 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2524 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2525 parameter to '1'.
2526 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2527 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002528
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002529 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2530 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2531 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2532
2533 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2534 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2535 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2536 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2537
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002538 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2539 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2540 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2541 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2542 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2543 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002544
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002545 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002546 when a NMI is triggered.
2547 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2548
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302549 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002550 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002551 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002552 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2553 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002554 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002555 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002556 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2557 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002558 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2559 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002560
Scott Woodd22881d2017-12-10 01:48:46 -06002561 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2562 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2563
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002564 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2565 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2566 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2567 waits 4 seconds.
2568
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002569 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002570 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2571 is present.
2572
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002573 no_console_suspend
2574 [HW] Never suspend the console
2575 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2576 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2577 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2578 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2579 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2580 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2581 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002582 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2583 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2584 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2585 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2586 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002587
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002588 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2589 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2590 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002591
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002592 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2593
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002594 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2595 (CPU alternatives feature).
2596
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002597 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2598 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2599
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002600 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2601
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002602 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2603 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2604
2605 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002606
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002607 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2608
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002609 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2610
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002611 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2612
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002613 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002614
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002615 noexec [IA-64]
2616
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302617 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002618 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002619 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002620 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2621
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002622 nosmap [X86]
2623 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2624 even if it is supported by processor.
2625
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002626 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002627 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002628 even if it is supported by processor.
2629
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002630 noexec32 [X86-64]
2631 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2632 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2633 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2634 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2635 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002636
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002637 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002638
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002639 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002640 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2641 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002642
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002643 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2644
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002645 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2646 Equivalent to smt=1.
2647
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002648 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2649 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2650 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2651 to spectre_v2=off.
2652
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002653 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2654 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2655 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2656
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002657 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2658 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2659 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2660 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2661 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2662 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2663
2664 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2665 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2666 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2667 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2668 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2669 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2670 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2671
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002672 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2673 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2674 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002675
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002676 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2677 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2678 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2679
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002680 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2681 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2682 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2683 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2684 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2685 real-time systems.
2686
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002687 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2688
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002689 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2690 Valid arguments: on, off
2691 Default: on
2692
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01002693 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002694 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002695 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002696 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002697 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002698 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2699 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2700 just as if they had also been called out in the
2701 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002702
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002703 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2704
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002705 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002706 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2707
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302708 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002709 broken timer IRQ sources.
2710
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002711 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2712
2713 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2714 initial RAM disk.
2715
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002716 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2717 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002718 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002719
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002720 nointroute [IA-64]
2721
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002722 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2723
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002724 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002725
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002726 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2727
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002728 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2729 fault handling.
2730
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002731 no-vmw-sched-clock
2732 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2733 clock and use the default one.
2734
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002735 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2736 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2737 behaviour
2738
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002739 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002740
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002741 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002742
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002743 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002744 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002745
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002746 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2747
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002748 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002749
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002750 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2751 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2752
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002753 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2754 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2755 irq.
2756
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002757 nomodule Disable module load
2758
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002759 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2760 pagetables) support.
2761
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002762 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2763
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002764 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2765 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2766
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002767 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002768 with UP alternatives
2769
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002770 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2771 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2772 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2773 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002774
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002775 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2776 space.
2777
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002778 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2779 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2780 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2781
2782 nosbagart [IA-64]
2783
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002784 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002785
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002786 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2787 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002788
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002789 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002791 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2792
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002793 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002794
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002795 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2796 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002797
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002798 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002799
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002800 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2801
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002802 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2803 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2804 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2805 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2806 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2807 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2808 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2809 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2810 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2811 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2812 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2813 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2814 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2815
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002816 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2817 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2818 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2819 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2820 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2821 parameter's value.
2822 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2823 Default: 255
2824
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002825 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002826 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2827 SAL PALO.
2828
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002829 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2830 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002831 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2832 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2833 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2834 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2835 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2836 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002837
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002838 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2839
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002840 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2841 Allowed values are enable and disable
2842
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002843 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002844 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002845 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2846 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2847
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002848 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2849 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2850 info.
2851
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002852 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2853 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2854 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2855 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2856 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2857 interrupts *may* be lost!
2858
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002859 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2860 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2861 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2862 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2863
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002864 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2865 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2866
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002867 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2868 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2869 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002870 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2871 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002872 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2873 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002874 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2875 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2876 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002877
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002878 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2879 process, but there is a small probability of
2880 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002881 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2882 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2883
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002884 OSS [HW,OSS]
2885 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2886
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002887 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2888 Storage of the information about who allocated
2889 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2890 we can turn it on.
2891 on: enable the feature
2892
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002893 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2894 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2895 off: turn off poisoning
2896 on: turn on poisoning
2897
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002898 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002899 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2900 timeout = 0: wait forever
2901 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002902 Format: <timeout>
2903
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002904 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2905 on a WARN().
2906
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002907 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2908 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2909 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2910 succeeds in any situation.
2911 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2912 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2913 kernel more unstable.
2914
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002915 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2916 connected to, default is 0.
2917 Format: <parport#>
2918 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2919 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002920 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002921
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002922 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2923 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2924 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2925 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2926 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2927 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2928 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2929 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2930 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2931 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2932 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2933 are specified on the command line, starting
2934 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002935
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002936 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2937 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2938 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2939 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2940 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2941 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002942 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2943
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002944 pause_on_oops=
2945 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2946 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2947 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2948
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002949 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2950
2951 pcd. [PARIDE]
2952 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002953 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002954
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002955 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002956 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2957 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002958 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002959 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002960 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2961 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002962 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002963 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2964 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2965 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002966 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2967 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2968 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2969 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2970 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2971 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2972 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2973 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2974 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2975 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002976 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2977 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2978 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002979 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2980 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302981 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002982 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002983 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2984 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2985 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002986 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2987 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2988 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002989 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2990 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2991 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002992 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2993 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2994 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2995 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002996 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2997 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2998 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2999 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003000 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003001 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3002 on several machines and they hang the machine
3003 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3004 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3005 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3006 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3007 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003008 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003009 Use with caution as certain devices share
3010 address decoders between ROMs and other
3011 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003012 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003013 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3014 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003015 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3016 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003017 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003018 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3019 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3020 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003021 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003022 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3023 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3024 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003025 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003026 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3027 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3028 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003029 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003030 numbers ourselves, overriding
3031 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003032 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003033 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3034 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3035 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3036 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3037 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003038 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003039 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003040 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3041 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3042 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3043 please report a bug.
3044 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3045 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003046 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3047 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3048 so this option is a temporary workaround
3049 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003050 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3051 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003052 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3053 This might help on some broken boards which
3054 machine check when some devices' config space
3055 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3056 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003057 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3058 This sorting is done to get a device
3059 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3060 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003061 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3062 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3063 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3064 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3065 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3066 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3067 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3068 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3069 or bus can support) for best performance.
3070 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3071 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3072 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3073 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3074 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3075 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003076 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3077 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3078 The default value is 256 bytes.
3079 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3080 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3081 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003082 resource_alignment=
3083 Format:
3084 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003085 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3086 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003087 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3088 aligned memory resources.
3089 If <order of align> is not specified,
3090 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3091 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3092 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003093 To specify the alignment for several
3094 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3095 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3096 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003097 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3098 end-to-end CRC checking).
3099 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3100 the default.
3101 off: Turn ECRC off
3102 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003103 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3104 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3105 Default size is 256 bytes.
3106 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3107 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3108 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003109 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3110 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3111 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003112 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3113 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3114 accommodate resources required by all child
3115 devices.
3116 off: Turn realloc off
3117 on: Turn realloc on
3118 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003119 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003120 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3121 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3122 port.
=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=f32ab752018-01-11 14:23:29 +01003123 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3124 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3125 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3126 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3127 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3128 taints the kernel.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003129
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003130 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3131 Management.
3132 off Disable ASPM.
3133 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3134 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3135
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003136 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3137 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3138 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3139
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003140 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003141 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3142 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3143 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3144 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3145 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003146 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3147 ports driver.
3148
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003149 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3150 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3151 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3152
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003153 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003154 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003155 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003156
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003157 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3158
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303159 pd_ignore_unused
3160 [PM]
3161 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3162 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3163 for debug and development, but should not be
3164 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003166 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003167 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003168
3169 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3170 boot time.
3171 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3172 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3173
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003174 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003175 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3176 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3177 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3178 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3179 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003180
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003181 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003182 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003183
3184 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003185 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003186
3187 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003188 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003189
3190 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3191 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003192 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003193
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003194 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003195 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3196 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3197
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003198 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3199 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3200 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3201 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3202 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3203 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003204
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003205 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3206 { off }
3207
3208 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3209 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3210
3211 pnp_reserve_irq=
3212 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3213
3214 pnp_reserve_dma=
3215 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3216
3217 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003218 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003219
3220 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003221 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3222 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003223 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3224
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003225 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3226 Default is 21.
3227 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3228 may be specified.
3229 Format: <port>,<port>....
3230
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003231 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3232 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3233 platform machine description specific power_save
3234 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3235 execution priority.
3236
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003237 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3238 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3239 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3240 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3241 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3242
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003243 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3244 Format: {"off"}
3245 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3246
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003247 print-fatal-signals=
3248 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003249
3250 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3251 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3252 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3253 coredump - etc.
3254
3255 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3256 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3257
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003258 default: off.
3259
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003260 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3261 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3262 panics
3263 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3264 default: disabled
3265
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003266 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3267 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3268 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3269 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3270 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3271 Default: ratelimit
3272
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003273 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3274 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3275
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003276 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3277 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3278 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3279
3280 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3281 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3282 instead using the legacy FADT method
3283
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003284 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003285 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3286 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3287 [defaults to kernel profiling]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003288 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003289 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3290 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003291 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003292 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3293 statistical time based profiling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003294
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003295 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3296 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003297 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003298
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003299 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3300 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003301 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3302 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003303 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3304 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003305 (0 = never).
3306 psmouse.resolution=
3307 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3308 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003309 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003310 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3311
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003312 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003314 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003315 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003316
Dave Hansen01c9b172018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003317 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3318 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3319 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3320 system calls and interrupts.
3321
3322 on - unconditionally enable
3323 off - unconditionally disable
3324 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3325 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3326
3327 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3328
3329 nopti [X86_64]
3330 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov41f4c202017-12-12 14:39:52 +01003331
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003332 pty.legacy_count=
3333 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3334 default number.
3335
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003336 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003337
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003338 r128= [HW,DRM]
3339
3340 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003341 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003342
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003343 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003344 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003345
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003346 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3347
3348 cec_disable [X86]
3349 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3350 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3351
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003352 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003353 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3354
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003355 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3356 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3357 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003358 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3359 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3360 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3361 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003362 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3363 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3364 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3365
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003366 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003367 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3368 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3369 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3370 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3371 This improves the real-time response for the
3372 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3373 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3374 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3375 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3376
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003377 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003378 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3379 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003380
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003381 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3382 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3383 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3384 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3385
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003386 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3387 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003388 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003389
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003390 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3391 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003392 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003393
3394 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3395 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3396 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3397 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003398 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003399
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003400 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3401 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3402 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3403 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3404 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003405
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003406 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003407 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3408 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3409 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3410 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3411 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3412 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003413
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003414 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3415 Set required age in jiffies for a
3416 given grace period before RCU starts
3417 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3418 rcu_note_context_switch().
3419
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003420 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003421 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3422 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3423 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3424 and maximum value is HZ.
3425
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003426 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003427 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3428 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3429 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3430
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003431 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003432 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3433 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3434 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3435 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3436 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3437 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3438 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3439 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3440 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003441
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003442 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3443 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3444 defaults to the square root of the number of
3445 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3446 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3447 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3448
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003449 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003450 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3451 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003452
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003453 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003454 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3455 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003456
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003457 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003458 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3459 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003460
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003461 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003462 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3463 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3464 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3465 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003466
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003467 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3468 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3469 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3470 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3471 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3472 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3473
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003474 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3475 Measure performance of asynchronous
3476 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3477
3478 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3479 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3480 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3481 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3482 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3483 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3484
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003485 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3486 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3487 grace-period primitives.
3488
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003489 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3490 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3491 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3492 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3493 interference.
3494
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003495 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3496 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3497 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3498 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3499 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3500 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3501 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3502 a single reader.
3503
3504 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3505 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3506 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3507 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3508
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003509 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3510 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3511
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003512 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3513 Shut the system down after performance tests
3514 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3515 testing.
3516
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003517 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3518 Enable additional printk() statements.
3519
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003520 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3521 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3522 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3523 no holdoff.
3524
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003525 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3526 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3527 callback-flood tests.
3528
3529 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3530 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3531 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3532 test.
3533
3534 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3535 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3536 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3537 disable callback-flood testing.
3538
3539 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3540 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3541 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3542
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003543 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003544 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3545 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003546
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003547 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003548 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3549 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003550
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003551 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003552 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3553 in seconds.
3554
3555 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3556 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3557 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003558
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003559 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003560 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003561
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003562 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003563 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3564 update-side primitives, if available.
3565
3566 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3567 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3568 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3569 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3570 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3571 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3572 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003573
3574 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003575 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3576
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003577 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003578 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3579 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3580 test, hence the "fake".
3581
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003582 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003583 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3584 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3585 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3586 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3587 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003588
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003589 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3590 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3591
3592 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003593 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3594
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003595 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003596 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3597 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3598
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003599 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003600 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3601 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3602 during the rcutorture test.
3603
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003604 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003605 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3606 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3607
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003608 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003609 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3610 warnings, zero to disable.
3611
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003612 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003613 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3614
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003615 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3616 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3617
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003618 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003619 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3620
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003621 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003622 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3623 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3624 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3625 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3626
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003627 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003628 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3629 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3630 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3631
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003632 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003633 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3634
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003635 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003636 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3637
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003638 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003639 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3640 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3641
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003642 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003643 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3644
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003645 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003646 Enable additional printk() statements.
3647
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003648 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3649 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3650
3651 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3652 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3653
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003654 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3655 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3656 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3657 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3658 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3659 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003660 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003661
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003662 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3663 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3664 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3665 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003666 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3667 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3668 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3669 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3670 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003671
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003672 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3673 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3674 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003675 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3676 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003677
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003678 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3679 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3680 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3681 to zero.
3682
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003683 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3684 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3685
3686 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3687 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3688
3689 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3690 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3691
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003692 rdinit= [KNL]
3693 Format: <full_path>
3694 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3695 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3696
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003697 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3698 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
Fenghua Yu31516de2017-12-20 14:57:24 -08003699 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3700 mba.
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003701 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3702 rdt=cmt,!mba
3703
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003704 reboot= [KNL]
3705 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3706 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3707 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3708 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3709 [[,]f[orce]
3710 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3711 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3712 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3713 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3714 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003715
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003716 relax_domain_level=
3717 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003718 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003719
Bjorn Helgaasffd2e8d2017-12-01 11:50:33 -06003720 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3721 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3722 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3723 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3724 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003725
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003726 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003727 Format: nn[KMG]
3728 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3729 address space.
3730
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003731 reservelow= [X86]
3732 Format: nn[K]
3733 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3734 the bottom of the address space.
3735
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003736 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3737 during initialization.
3738
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003739 resume= [SWSUSP]
3740 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003741 Format:
3742 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003743
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003744 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3745 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3746 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3747 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3748 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3749
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003750 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3751 read the resume files
3752
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003753 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3754 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3755 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3756
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003757 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3758 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3759 present during boot.
3760 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003761 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003762 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3763 (that will set all pages holding image data
3764 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003765
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003766 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3767
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003768 rfkill.default_state=
3769 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3770 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3771 1 Unblocked.
3772
3773 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3774 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3775 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3776 blocked and the previous configuration.
3777 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3778 blocked and everything unblocked.
3779
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003780 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3781 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3782
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003783 ring3mwait=disable
3784 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3785 CPUs.
3786
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003787 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3788
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003789 rodata= [KNL]
3790 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3791 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3792
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003793 rockchip.usb_uart
3794 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3795 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3796 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3797 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3798
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003799 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003800 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003801
3802 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3803 mount the root filesystem
3804
3805 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3806
3807 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3808
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003809 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3810 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3811 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3812
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003813 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3814 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3815 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3816 managed by CMA.
3817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003818 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3819
3820 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3821
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003822 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3823 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3824 strict
3825 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3826 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3827 which is faster.
3828
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003829 sa1100ir [NET]
3830 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3831
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003832 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003833
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003834 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3835
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003836 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3837 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3838 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3839 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3840
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003841 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3842 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3843 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3844 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3845 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3846 1 -- enable.
3847 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3848 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3849
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003850 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3851 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3852 security module asking for security registration will be
3853 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3854 as if no module has been chosen.
3855
3856 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003857 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3858 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3859 0 -- disable.
3860 1 -- enable.
3861 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3862 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3863 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3864
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003865 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3866 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3867 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3868 0 -- disable.
3869 1 -- enable.
3870 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3871
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003872 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003873
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003874 shapers= [NET]
3875 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003876
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003877 simeth= [IA-64]
3878 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003879
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003880 slram= [HW,MTD]
3881
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003882 slab_nomerge [MM]
3883 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3884 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003885 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3886 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3887 layout control by attackers can usually be
3888 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3889 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3890 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3891 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3892 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003893 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3894
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003895 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3896 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3897 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3898 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3899 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3900
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003901 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3902 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3903 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3904 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3905 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3906 last alloc / free. For more information see
3907 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003908
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003909 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3910 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3911 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3912 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3913 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3914 directories and files being created under
3915 /sys/kernel/slub.
3916
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003917 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003918 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3919 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3920 fragmentation. For more information see
3921 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003922
3923 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003924 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3925 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3926 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3927 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3928 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3929 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003930 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3931
3932 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003933 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003934 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003935 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3936
3937 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003938 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3939 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003940
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003941 smart2= [HW]
3942 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3943
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003944 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3945 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3946 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3947 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3948 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3949 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3950 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3951 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3952 1: Fast pin select (default)
3953 2: ATC IRMode
3954
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003955 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3956 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3957 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3958 actual hardware limit.
3959 Format: <integer>
3960 Default: -1 (no limit)
3961
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003962 softlockup_panic=
3963 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003964 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003965
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003966 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3967 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3968 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3969 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3970 functionality.
3971
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003972 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3973 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3974 backtraces on all cpus.
3975 Format: <integer>
3976
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003977 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003978 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003979
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00003980 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3981 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3982
3983 on - unconditionally enable
3984 off - unconditionally disable
3985 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3986 vulnerable
3987
3988 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3989 mitigation method at run time according to the
3990 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3991 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3992 compiler with which the kernel was built.
3993
3994 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3995
3996 retpoline - replace indirect branches
3997 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3998 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3999
4000 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4001 spectre_v2=auto.
4002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004003 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4004 spia_fio_base=
4005 spia_pedr=
4006 spia_peddr=
4007
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07004008 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4009 Specifies how frequently to check for
4010 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4011 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4012 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4013 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4014 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4015 are ignored.
4016
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07004017 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4018 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4019 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4020 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4021 grace period will be considered for automatic
4022 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4023 expediting.
4024
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004025 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4026 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4027 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4028 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4029 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4030 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4031
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004032 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4033 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4034
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004035 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4036 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4037 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4038 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4039 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4040 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4041 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4042
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004043 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4044 Format: <num>
4045 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4046 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4047 as the initial boot-console.
4048 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4049
4050 sti_font= [HW]
4051 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4052
4053 stifb= [HW]
4054 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4055
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004056 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4057 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4058 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4059 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4060 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4061 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4062 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4063 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4064 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4065 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4066 maximum port values.
4067
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004068 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4069 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4070 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4071 process in parallel from a single connection.
4072 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4073
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004074 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4075 [NFS]
4076 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4077 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4078 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4079 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4080 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4081 NFS server is running.
4082
4083 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4084 automatically using heuristics
4085 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4086 percpu one pool for each CPU
4087 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4088 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4089
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004090 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4091 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4092 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4093 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4094 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4095 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4096 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4097 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4098
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004099 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4100 [SUSPEND]
4101 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4102 mode before resuming the system (see
4103 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4104 is set. Default value is 5.
4105
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004106 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004107 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4108 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004109 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004110
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004111 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004112 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004113 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4114 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4115 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004116 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004117
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004118 switches= [HW,M68k]
4119
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004120 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4121 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4122 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4123 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4124 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4125 in older udev will not work anymore.
4126 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4127 the kernel configuration.
4128
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004129 sysrq_always_enabled
4130 [KNL]
4131 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4132 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4133 Useful for debugging.
4134
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004135 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4136 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4137 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4138 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4139 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4140 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4141
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004142 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4143
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004144 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004145 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004146 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4147 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4148 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4149 The system is woken from this state using a
4150 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004152 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4153 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4154
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004155 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4156 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4157 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4158
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004159 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4160 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004161 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004162
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004163 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4164 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4165 critical and hot trip points.
4166
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004167 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4168 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4169
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004170 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4171 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004172 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4173 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004174
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004175 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4176 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4177 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4178 0: no polling (default)
4179
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004180 threadirqs [KNL]
4181 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004182 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004183
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004184 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4185 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4186
4187 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4188 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4189 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4190
4191 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4192 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004193 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4194 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004195
4196 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4197 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4198 to the hypervisor.
4199
4200 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4201 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4202 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4203 kernel based on different criteria.
4204
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004205 topology= [S390]
4206 Format: {off | on}
4207 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004208 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4209 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004210 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004211 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004212
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004213 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4214 Format: {off}
4215 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4216 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4217 LPAR.
4218
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004219 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4220
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004221 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4222 Format: integer pcr id
4223 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4224 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4225 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4226 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4227 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4228 are saved.
4229
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004230 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004231 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004232
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004233 trace_event=[event-list]
4234 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004235 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4236 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4237 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004238
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004239 trace_options=[option-list]
4240 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4241 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4242 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4243 to echo the option name into
4244
4245 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4246
4247 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4248 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4249
4250 trace_options=stacktrace
4251
4252 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4253 section.
4254
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004255 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4256 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4257 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4258 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4259 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4260 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4261
4262 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4263 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4264 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4265 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4266
4267 ** CAUTION **
4268
4269 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4270 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4271 the system to live lock.
4272
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004273 traceoff_on_warning
4274 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4275 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4276 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4277 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4278
4279 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4280 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4281 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4282
4283 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4284 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4285
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004286 transparent_hugepage=
4287 [KNL]
4288 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4289 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4290 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4291 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4292
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004293 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004294 Format: <string>
4295 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004296 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4297 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4298 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4299 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004300 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4301 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4302 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4303 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004304 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4305 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4306 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004307
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004308 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4309 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4310 Format:
4311 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004312 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004313
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004314 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004315 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004316 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4317 help "seeing" what's going on.
4318
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004319 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4320 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4321
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004322 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4323 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4324 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4325 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4326 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4327 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4328 reported either.
4329
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004330 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004331 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004332
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004333 usbcore.authorized_default=
4334 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4335 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4336 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4337
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004338 usbcore.autosuspend=
4339 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4340 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4341 is the time required before an idle device will be
4342 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004343 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004344
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004345 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4346 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4347
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004348 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4349 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4350 (default = 65536).
4351
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004352 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4353 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4354
4355 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4356 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4357 scheme (default 0 = off).
4358
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004359 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4360 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4361 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4362
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004363 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4364 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4365 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4366
4367 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4368 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4369 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4370 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4371
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004372 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004374 usbhid.mousepoll=
4375 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004376
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004377 usbhid.jspoll=
4378 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4379
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004380 usb-storage.delay_use=
4381 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004382 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004383
4384 usb-storage.quirks=
4385 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4386 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4387 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4388 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4389 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4390 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4391 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004392 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4393 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004394 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4395 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004396 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4397 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004398 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4399 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4400 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4401 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004402 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4403 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004404 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4405 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004406 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4407 reported device capacity by one
4408 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004409 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4410 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004411 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4412 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004413 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4414 unlock ejectable media);
4415 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4416 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004417 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4418 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004419 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4420 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004421 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4422 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004423 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4424 bogus residue values);
4425 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4426 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004427 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4428 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004429 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004430 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4431 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004432 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4433 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004434 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4435
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004436 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4437 Format: <int>
4438 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4439 1 - undefined instruction events
4440 2 - system calls
4441 4 - invalid data aborts
4442 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4443 16 - SIGBUS faults
4444 Example: user_debug=31
4445
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004446 userpte=
4447 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4448
4449 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4450 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4451 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4452
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304453 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004454 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4455
4456 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004457 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4458
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004459 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4460 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4461 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4462
4463 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4464 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4465 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4466
4467 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4468 alias for vdso32=0.
4469
4470 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4471 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004472
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004473 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4474 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4475
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004476 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4477 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4478
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004479 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4480 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4481 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4482 level and then send out the event to user space through
4483 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4484 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4485 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004486 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004487
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004488 virtio_mmio.device=
4489 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4490
4491 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4492 where:
4493 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4494 like K, M and G)
4495 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4496 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4497 request_irq())
4498 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4499 example:
4500 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4501
4502 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4503
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004504 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004505 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004506 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004507 Use vga=ask for menu.
4508 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4509 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4510
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004511 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004512 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4513 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4514 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4515 mapped kernel RAM.
4516
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004517 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4518 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4519 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4520
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004521 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4522 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004523
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004524 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4525 Format: <command>
4526
4527 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4528 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004529
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004530 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4531 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4532 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4533 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4534 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4535 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4536 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4537
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004538 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4539 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004540
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004541 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004542 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4543 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4544 better than they would in emulation mode.
4545 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4546
4547 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4548 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4549 might break your system.
4550
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004551 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4552 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4553 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4554
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004555 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4556 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4557 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4558 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4559
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004560 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4561 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4562 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4563 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4564 ranging from 0-255.
4565
4566 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4567 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4568 Change the default green palette of the console.
4569 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4570 ranging from 0-255.
4571
4572 vt.default_red= [VT]
4573 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4574 Change the default red palette of the console.
4575 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4576 ranging from 0-255.
4577
4578 vt.default_utf8=
4579 [VT]
4580 Format=<0|1>
4581 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4582 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4583 newly opened terminals.
4584
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004585 vt.global_cursor_default=
4586 [VT]
4587 Format=<-1|0|1>
4588 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4589 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4590 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4591 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4592 cursors, 1 will display them.
4593
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004594 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4595 Default: 2 = green.
4596
4597 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4598 Default: 3 = cyan.
4599
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004600 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4601 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4602 or other driver-specific files in the
4603 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004604
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004605 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4606 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4607 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4608 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4609 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4610 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4611 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4612 corresponding sysfs file.
4613
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004614 workqueue.disable_numa
4615 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4616 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4617 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4618 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4619 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4620 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4621 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4622
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304623 workqueue.power_efficient
4624 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4625 they show better performance thanks to cache
4626 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4627 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4628
4629 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4630 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4631 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4632 power usage at the cost of small performance
4633 overhead.
4634
4635 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4636 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4637
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004638 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4639 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4640 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4641 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4642 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4643 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4644 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4645 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4646 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4647 impacted.
4648
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004649 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4650 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4651 supporting x2apic.
4652
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004653 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4654 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004655 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4656 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004657 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004658
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004659 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4660 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4661 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4662 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4663 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4664 domains.
4665
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004666 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4667 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4668 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4669 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4670 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4671 nics -- unplug network devices
4672 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004673 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4674 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4675 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004676 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004677
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004678 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4679 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4680 optimizations.
4681
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004682 xen_nopv [X86]
4683 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4684 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4685
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004686 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004687 Format:
4688 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]