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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500317 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700644 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
645 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700674
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700682
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700689
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700711
Byungchul Parkd141bab2017-10-25 17:56:00 +0900712 crossrelease_fullstack
713 [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
714
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100715 cryptomgr.notests
716 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
717
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700718 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
719 Format: <dma>
720
721 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
722 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700723
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700724 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700725 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
726
727 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
728 (one device per port)
729 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500730 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700731
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200732 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200733 time. See
734 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600735 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700737 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
738
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700739 debug_locks_verbose=
740 [KNL] verbose self-tests
741 Format=<0|1>
742 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
743 self-tests.
744 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
745 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
746 only useful to kernel developers.
747
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700748 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
749
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500750 no_debug_objects
751 [KNL] Disable object debugging
752
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800753 debug_guardpage_minorder=
754 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
755 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
756 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
757 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
758 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
759 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
760 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
761 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
762 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
763 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
764 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
765 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
766 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
767 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
768 bypassed) which are not detectable by
769 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
770 tracking down these problems.
771
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800772 debug_pagealloc=
773 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
774 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
775 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
776 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
777 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
778 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
779 on: enable the feature
780
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200781 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
782
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200783 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700784 Format: <area>[,<node>]
785 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
786
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700787 default_hugepagesz=
788 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
789 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
790 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
791 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
792 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
793 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700794
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700795 dhash_entries= [KNL]
796 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700797
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000798 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
799 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
800 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
801 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
802 miss to occur.
803
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800804 disable= [IPV6]
805 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
806
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530807 disable_radix [PPC]
808 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
809
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900810 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
811 Format: <int>
812 The number of initial APIC ID for the
813 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
814 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
815 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
816 causing system reset or hang due to sending
817 INIT from AP to BSP.
818
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000819 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
820 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
821 to workaround buggy firmware.
822
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800823 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
824 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
825
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700826 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700827 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
828 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700829 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700830
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100831 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100832 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
833 memory out of your available memory pool based on
834 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
835 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
836
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530837 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700838 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
839 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
840
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400841 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
842
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700843 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
844 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
845
846 dma_debug_entries=<number>
847 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
848 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
849 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
850 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
851 architectural default is too low.
852
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200853 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
854 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
855 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
856 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
857 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
858 driver later using sysfs.
859
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300860 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700861 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
862 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
863 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
864 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100865 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
866 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
867 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
868 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
869 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
870 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
871 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
872 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700873 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
874 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
875 data set with no connector name will be used for
876 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100877
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700878 dscc4.setup= [NET]
879
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000880 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
881 Format: {"off" | "known"}
882 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
883 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
884 exists).
885 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
886 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
887 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
888
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000889 dump_apple_properties [X86]
890 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
891 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
892 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
893
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600894 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
895 module.dyndbg[="val"]
896 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200897 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
898 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600899
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700900 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
901 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
902 information about the feature.
903
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800904 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
905 in some Intel CPUs.
906
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700907 module.async_probe [KNL]
908 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
909
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700910 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
911 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
912 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
913 which are not unmapped.
914
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700915 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500916
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500917 When used with no options, the early console is
918 determined by the stdout-path property in device
919 tree's chosen node.
920
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100921 cdns,<addr>[,options]
922 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
923 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
924 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
925 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
926 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200927
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700928 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
929 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700930 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300931 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400932 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700933 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
934 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700935 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300936 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
937 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
938 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
939 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400940 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700941
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500942 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600943 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500944 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
945 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
946 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600947 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
948 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
949 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500950
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100951 meson,<addr>
952 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
953 port at the specified address. The serial port must
954 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
955 supported.
956
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700957 msm_serial,<addr>
958 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
959 port at the specified address. The serial port
960 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
961 yet supported.
962
963 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
964 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
965 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967 yet supported.
968
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200969 owl,<addr>
970 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
971 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
972 specified address. The serial port must already be
973 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
974
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500975 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
976
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100977 s3c2410,<addr>
978 s3c2412,<addr>
979 s3c2440,<addr>
980 s3c6400,<addr>
981 s5pv210,<addr>
982 exynos4210,<addr>
983 Use early console provided by serial driver available
984 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
985 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
986 serial port must already be setup and configured.
987 Options are not yet supported.
988
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100989 lantiq,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
991 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
992 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
993 yet supported.
994
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700995 lpuart,<addr>
996 lpuart32,<addr>
997 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
998 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
999 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1000 port must already be setup and configured.
1001
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001002 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001003 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1004 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1005 address. The serial port must already be setup
1006 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1007
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001008 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001009 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001010 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001011 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001012 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001013 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001014 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001015 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001016 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001017 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001018 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001019
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001020 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1021 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1022 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1023
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001024 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001025 takes over.
1026
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001027 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1028 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001030 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1031 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1032 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1033 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1034 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1035 You can find the port for a given device in
1036 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1037 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001038
1039 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1040 very good.
1041
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001042 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1043 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001044
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001045 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1046
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001047 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1048
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001049 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1050 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1051 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1052 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1053 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1054 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1055 default: on.
1056
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001057 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1058 ekgdboc=kbd
1059
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001060 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001061 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1062
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001063 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001064 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001066 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001067 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001068 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1069 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1070 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001071 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1072 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1073 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001074 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001075 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001076
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001077 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1078 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1079 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1080 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1081 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1082
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001083 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1084 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1085 updating original EFI memory map.
1086 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1087 from ss to ss+nn.
1088 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1089 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1090 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1091 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1092
1093 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1094 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1095 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1096 doesn't support it.
1097
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001098 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1099 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1100 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1101 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1102 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1103
1104
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001105 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1106 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1107
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001108 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001109 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001110 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001111
1112 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001113 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001114 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001115 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1116
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001117 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001118 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001119 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1120 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001121 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001122
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001123 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1124 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1125 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1126 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1127
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001128 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001129 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1131 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1132 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1133
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001134 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1135 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1136 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1137 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1138 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1139 Default value is 0.
1140 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1141
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001142 erst_disable [ACPI]
1143 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1144 support.
1145
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001146 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1147 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1148 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1149
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001150 evm= [EVM]
1151 Format: { "fix" }
1152 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1153 current integrity status.
1154
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001155 failslab=
1156 fail_page_alloc=
1157 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1158 General fault injection mechanism.
1159 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001160 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001162 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001163 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001164
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001165 force_pal_cache_flush
1166 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1167 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1168 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1169 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1170
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001171 forcepae [X86-32]
1172 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1173 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1174 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1175 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1176 and may cause unknown problems.
1177
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001178 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001179 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001180 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1181 boot debugging.
1182
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001183 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001184 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001185 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1186 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1187 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1188 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001189
1190 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1191 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1192 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1193 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1194 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001195 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001196
1197 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1198 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1199 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1200 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1201 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001202
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001203 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1204 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1205 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1206 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1207 that can be changed at run time by the
1208 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1209
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001210 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1212 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1213 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1214 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1215
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001216 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1217 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1218 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1219 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1220 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1221
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001222 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1223 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1224 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1225 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001226 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001227
1228 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1229
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001230 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1231 Format: off | on
1232 default: on
1233
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001234 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1235 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1236 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1237 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1238 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1239
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001240 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1241 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1242 android emulator
1243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001244 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001245 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1246 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1247 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001248
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001249 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1250 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1251 Format: 0 | 1
1252 Default: 0
1253 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1254 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1255 Format: 0 | 1
1256 Default: 0
1257 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1258 Format: 0 | 1
1259 Default: 0
1260 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262 Default: 1024
1263 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1264 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265 Default: 1024
1266
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001267 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1268 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1269 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1270
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001271 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1272 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1273 backtraces on all cpus.
1274 Format: <integer>
1275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001276 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1277 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001278 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001279 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280
1281 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1282
1283 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1284 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1285
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001286 hest_disable [ACPI]
1287 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1288 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1289 logic will be disabled.
1290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001291 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1292 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1293 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1294 size on bigger boxes.
1295
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001296 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1297 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1298 Default: "on"
1299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1301 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1302
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001303 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1304
1305 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1306 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1307 verbose }
1308 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1309 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1310 VIA, nVidia)
1311 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1312
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001313 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1314 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1315
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001316 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1317 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001318 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1319 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1320 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1321 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001322 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001323
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001324 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1325 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001326 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1327 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1328 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001329
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001330 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1331 hardware thread id mappings.
1332 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1333
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001334 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1335 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1336 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1337 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1338 the real console.
1339
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001340 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001341 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1342 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001343 Format:
1344 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1345
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001346 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001347 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1348 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1349 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1350 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001351 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001352 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1353 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001354 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1355 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001356 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001357 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1358 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001359 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001360 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001361 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1362 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001363 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001364 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1365 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1366 transitions, or never reset
1367 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1368 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1369 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1370 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1371 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001372 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001373 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001374
1375 i810= [HW,DRM]
1376
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001377 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1378 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1379 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001380 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1381 does not match list of supported models.
1382 i8k.power_status
1383 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1384 (disabled by default)
1385 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1386 capability is set.
1387
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001388 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001389 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1390 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001391 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1392 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1393 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1394 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1395 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1396 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1397 value switches the backlight off.
1398 -1 -- never invert brightness
1399 0 -- machine default
1400 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001402 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1403 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1404
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001405 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1406 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001407 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1408 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001409 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001410
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001411 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1412 Format: <int>
1413 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1414 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1415 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1416 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1417 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1418 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1419 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1420 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1421 was 0x3.
1422
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001423 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1424 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1425
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001426 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001427 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001428 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1429 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1430 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1431 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001432 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001433 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001434 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001435
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001436 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1437 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1438 Default: strict
1439
1440 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1441 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1442 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1443 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1444 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1445 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1446 encoding mode.
1447
1448 Available settings are as follows:
1449 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1450 supported by the FPU
1451 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1452 by the FPU
1453 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1454 by the FPU
1455 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1456 supported by the FPU
1457
1458 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1459 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1460 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1461 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1462 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1463 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1464 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1465 MIPS64 CPUs.
1466
1467 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1468 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1469 except where unsupported by hardware.
1470
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001471 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1472 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1473 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001474 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1475 could change it dynamically, usually by
1476 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001477
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001478 ignore_rlimit_data
1479 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1480 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1481 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1482
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001483 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1484 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1485
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001486 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001487 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001488 default: "enforce"
1489
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001490 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1491 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1492 owned by uid=0.
1493
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001494 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1495 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1496 measurements, instead of host native format.
1497
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001498 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001499 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1500 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001501 default: "sha1"
1502
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001503 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1504 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1505
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001506 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001507 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001508 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001509
1510 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1511 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1512 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1513 uid=0.
1514
1515 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1516 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1517 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001518
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001519 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1520 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1521 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001522
1523 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001524 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1525 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1526 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527 opened for read by uid=0.
1528
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001529 ima_template= [IMA]
1530 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001531 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001532 Default: "ima-ng"
1533
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001534 ima_template_fmt=
1535 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1536 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1537
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001538 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1539 Format: <min_file_size>
1540 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1541 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1542
1543 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1544 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1545 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1546
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001547 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1548 Format: <bufsize>
1549 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1550
1551 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1552 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1554
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001555 init= [KNL]
1556 Format: <full_path>
1557 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1558 process.
1559
1560 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1561 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1562 startup.
1563
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001564 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1565 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1566 modules and initcalls.
1567
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001568 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1569
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001570 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1571 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1572 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1573 override in debugfs after boot.
1574
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001575 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1576 Format: <irq>
1577
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001578 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1579
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001580 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1581 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1582 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1583 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1584
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001585 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001586 on
1587 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001588 off
1589 Disable intel iommu driver.
1590 igfx_off [Default Off]
1591 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1592 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1593 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1594 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1595 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001596 forcedac [x86_64]
1597 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001598 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001600 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1601 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001602 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001603 strict [Default Off]
1604 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1605 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1606 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001607 sp_off [Default Off]
1608 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1609 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1610 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001611 ecs_off [Default Off]
1612 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1613 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1614 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1615 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1616 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001617 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1618 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1619 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1620 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1621 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1622 mapping is enabled.
1623 Note that using this option lowers the security
1624 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1625 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001626
1627 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1628 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001629 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001630
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001631 intel_pstate= [X86]
1632 disable
1633 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1634 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001635 passive
1636 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1637 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1638 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1639 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1640 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001641 force
1642 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1643 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1644 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1645 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1646 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1647 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1648 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1649 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001650 no_hwp
1651 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1652 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001653 hwp_only
1654 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1655 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001656 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001657 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1658 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1659 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1660 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001661 per_cpu_perf_limits
1662 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1663 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001664
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001665 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001666 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1667 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1668 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001669 no_x2apic_optout
1670 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001671 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001672
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001673 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1674 strict regions from userspace.
1675 relaxed
1676
1677 iommu= [x86]
1678 off
1679 force
1680 noforce
1681 biomerge
1682 panic
1683 nopanic
1684 merge
1685 nomerge
1686 forcesac
1687 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001688 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001689 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1690 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001691
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001692 iommu.passthrough=
1693 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1694 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1695 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1696 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1697 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001698
1699 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1700 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1701 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1702
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301703 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001704 0x80
1705 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1706 0xed
1707 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001708 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001709 Simple two microseconds delay
1710 none
1711 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001712
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001713 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001714 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001715
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001716 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001717 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001718
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001719 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1720 [ARM, ARM64]
1721 Format: <bool>
1722 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1723 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1724 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1725
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001726 irqfixup [HW]
1727 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1728 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1729 firmware running.
1730
1731 irqpoll [HW]
1732 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1733 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1734 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1735 firmware running.
1736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001737 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001738 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001739
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001740 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1741 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1742 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001743
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001744 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1745 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001746
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001747 nohz
1748 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1749 domain
1750 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1751 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1752 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1753 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1754 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1755 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1756 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1757 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1758
1759 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1760 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1761 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1762 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1763
1764 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1765
1766
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001767
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001768 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001769
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001770 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1771 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1772 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1773 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1774 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1775 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1776
1777 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1778 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1779 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1780 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1781 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1782 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1783
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001784 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1785 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1786 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1787 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1788 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1789 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001791 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001792 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001793
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001794 nokaslr [KNL]
1795 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1796 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1797 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001798
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001799 kasan_multi_shot
1800 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1801 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1802 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1803 invalid access.
1804
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001805 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1806
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001807 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1808 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1809 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001810 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1811 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1812 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1813 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1814 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1815 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1816 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001817 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001818 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1819 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1820 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1821 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1822 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1823 zone if it does not.
1824
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001825 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1826 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1827 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1828 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1829 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1830 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1831 time.
1832
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001833 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1834 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1835 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1836 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1837 optional and is the number seconds in between
1838 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1839 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1840 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1841 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1842 the kernel debugger.
1843
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001844 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001845 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1846 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001847 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1848 keyboard only format: kbd
1849 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1850 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1851 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1852 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001853
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001854 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1855 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1856
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001857 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1858 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1859 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1860
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001861 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1862 Valid arguments: on, off
1863 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001864 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1865 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001866
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001867 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1868 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1869
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001870 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1871 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001872 Default is 0 (off)
1873
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001874 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001875 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001876
1877 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1878 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001879 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001880
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001881 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1882 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1883 system registers
1884
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001885 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1886 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1887 system registers
1888
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001889 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1890 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1891 system registers
1892
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001893 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1894 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1895 Default is 1 (enabled)
1896
1897 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1898 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1899 Default is 0 (disabled)
1900
1901 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1902 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1903 Default is 1 (enabled)
1904
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001905 kvm-intel.nested=
1906 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1907 Default is 0 (disabled)
1908
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001909 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1910 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1911 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1912 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1913
1914 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1915 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1916 Default is 1 (enabled)
1917
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001918 l2cr= [PPC]
1919
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001920 l3cr= [PPC]
1921
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001922 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001923 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001924
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001925 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1926 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1927 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1928
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301929 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001930 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001931
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001932 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1933 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1934 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1935 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001936 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001937 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1938 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001939
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001940 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1941 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1942 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001943
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001944 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1945 when set.
1946 Format: <int>
1947
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001948 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1949 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001950 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001951 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1952 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1953 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1954 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1955 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1956
1957 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1958 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1959 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1960 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1961 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1962 host link and device attached to it.
1963
1964 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1965 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1966 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1967 The following configurations can be forced.
1968
1969 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1970 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1971
1972 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1973
1974 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1975 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1976 allowed.
1977
1978 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1979
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001980 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1981
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001982 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1983 and both resets.
1984
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001985 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1986 hot-unplug link recovery
1987
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001988 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1989
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001990 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1991
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001992 * disable: Disable this device.
1993
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001994 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1995 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1996
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001997 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001998
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001999 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002000 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002001
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002002 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2003 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002004
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002005 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2006 Format: <integer>
2007
2008 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2009 Format: <integer>
2010
2011 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2012 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002013
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002014 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2015 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2016 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2017 number of online CPUs.
2018
2019 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2020 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2021
2022 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2023 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2024
2025 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2026 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2027 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2028
2029 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2030 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2031 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2032 mode during the locktorture test.
2033
2034 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2035 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2036 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2037
2038 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2039 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2040
2041 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2042 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2043 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2044 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2045 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2046 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2047
2048 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2049 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2050
2051 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2052 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2053
2054 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2055 Enable additional printk() statements.
2056
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002057 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2058 Format: <irq>
2059
2060 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2061 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2062 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2063 loglevels are defined as follows:
2064
2065 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2066 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2067 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2068 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2069 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2070 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2071 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2072 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2073
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002074 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002075 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2076 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2077 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2078 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2079 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2080 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002081
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002082 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2083 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2084 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2085 kernel boot problems.
2086
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002087 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2088 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2089 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2090 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2091 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2092 attached printers to be reset. Using
2093 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2094 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2095 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2096 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2097 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2098 port specification list means that device IDs
2099 from each port should be examined, to see if
2100 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2101 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2102 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2103
2104 lpj=n [KNL]
2105 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2106 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2107 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2108 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2109 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2110 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2111 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2112 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2113 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2114 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2115 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2116 hardware.
2117
2118 ltpc= [NET]
2119 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2120
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002121 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002122 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2123 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002124
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002125 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2126 yeeloong laptop.
2127 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2128
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002129 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2130 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002131
2132 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002133 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2134 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2135 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2136 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2137 only takes effect during system bootup.
2138 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2139 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002140
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002141 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2142 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2143 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2144 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2145 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2146 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002147
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002148 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002149
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002150 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002151
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002152 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002153 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002154
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002155 mdacon= [MDA]
2156 Format: <first>,<last>
2157 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002159 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2160 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2161 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002162 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2163 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2164 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2165 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002166
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002167 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002168 memory.
2169
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002170 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2171 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2172 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2173
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002174 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2175 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2176 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2177 set according to the
2178 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2179 option.
2180 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2181
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302182 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002183 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2184 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2185 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2186 option description.
2187
2188 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002189 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2190 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002191 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2192 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2193 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2194 comma delimited.
2195 Example:
2196 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002197
2198 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2199 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002200 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002201
2202 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2203 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002204 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002205 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2206 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2207 or
2208 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002209 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2210 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2211 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002212
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002213 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2214 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2215 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2216 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2217 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2218
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002219 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2220 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2221 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2222 Setting this option will scan the memory
2223 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2224 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2225 from using the memory being corrupted.
2226 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2227 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2228 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2229 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2230
2231 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2232 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2233 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2234 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2235 corruption in more or less memory.
2236
2237 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2238 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2239 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2240 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2241
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002242 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002243 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002244 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002245 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2246 performed. Each pass selects another test
2247 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2248 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2249 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2250 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002251
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002252 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2253 Valid arguments: on, off
2254 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2255 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2256 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2257 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2258 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2259
2260 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2261 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2262
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002263 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2264 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2265 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2266 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002267 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002268
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002269 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002270 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002271
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002272 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2273 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2274 platforms.
2275
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002276 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2277 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2278 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2279 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2280
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002281 mga= [HW,DRM]
2282
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002283 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2284 physical address is ignored.
2285
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002286 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2287 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2288 Default: "0tb"
2289 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2290 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2291 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2292 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2293 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2294 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2295 unconfigured.
2296 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2297 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2298 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2299 VGA shield.
2300 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2301 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2302 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2303 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2304 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2305 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2306
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002307 mminit_loglevel=
2308 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2309 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2310 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2311 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2312 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2313 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2314
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002315 module.sig_enforce
2316 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2317 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002318 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002319 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2320
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302321 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2322 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2323
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002324 mousedev.tap_time=
2325 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2326 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2327 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2328 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2329 Format: <msecs>
2330 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2331 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2332 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2333 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2334
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302335 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002336 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2337 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2338 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2339 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2340 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2341 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2342 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2343 is not too small.
2344
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002345 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2346 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2347 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2348 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2349 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002350
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002351 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2352 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2353
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002354 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2355 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002356
2357 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002358 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002359
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002360 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2361 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2362 at a time.
2363
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002364 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2365
2366 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2367
2368 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2369 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2370 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2371 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2372 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2373
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002374 mtdset= [ARM]
2375 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2376
2377 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2378
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002379 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002380 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2381 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002382
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002383 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002384 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002385 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2386
2387 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2388 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2389 Default is 1.
2390 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2391 using up MTRRs.
2392
2393 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2394 Format: <integer>
2395 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2396 Default : 1
2397 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2398 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2399
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002400 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002402 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2403 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2404 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2405 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002406 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2407 file if at all.
2408
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002409 nf_conntrack.acct=
2410 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2411 0 to disable accounting
2412 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002413 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002414
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002415 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002416 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002417
2418 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002419 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002420
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002421 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2422 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2423
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002424 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2425 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2426 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2427 requests.
2428
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002429 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2430 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2431 channel should listen.
2432
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002433 nfs.cache_getent=
2434 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2435 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2436
2437 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2438 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2439 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2440
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002441 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2442 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2443 entries.
2444
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002445 nfs.enable_ino64=
2446 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2447 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2448 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2449 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2450 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2451
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002452 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2453 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2454 slots the client will assign to the callback
2455 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2456 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2457 a particular server.
2458
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002459 nfs.max_session_slots=
2460 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2461 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2462 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2463 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2464 Note that there is little point in setting this
2465 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2466
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002467 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002468 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2469 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2470 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2471 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2472 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2473 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2474 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2475 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2476 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2477 back to using the idmapper.
2478 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002479 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2480 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2481 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2482 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2483 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002484
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002485 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2486 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2487 information in exchange_id requests.
2488 If zero, no implementation identification information
2489 will be sent.
2490 The default is to send the implementation identification
2491 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002492
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002493 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2494 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2495 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2496 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2497 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2498 after the locks are lost.
2499 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2500 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2501 parameter to '1'.
2502 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2503 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002504
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002505 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2506 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2507 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2508
2509 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2510 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2511 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2512 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2513
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002514 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2515 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2516 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2517 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2518 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2519 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002520
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002521 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002522 when a NMI is triggered.
2523 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2524
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302525 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002526 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002527 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002528 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2529 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002530 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002531 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002532 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2533 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002534 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2535 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002536
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002537 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2538 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2539 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2540 waits 4 seconds.
2541
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002542 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002543 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2544 is present.
2545
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002546 no_console_suspend
2547 [HW] Never suspend the console
2548 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2549 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2550 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2551 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2552 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2553 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2554 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002555 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2556 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2557 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2558 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2559 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002560
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002561 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2562 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2563 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002564
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002565 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2566
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002567 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2568 (CPU alternatives feature).
2569
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002570 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2571 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2572
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002573 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2574
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002575 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2576 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2577
2578 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002579
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002580 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2581
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002582 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2583
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002584 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2585
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002586 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002587
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002588 noexec [IA-64]
2589
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302590 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002591 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002592 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002593 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2594
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002595 nosmap [X86]
2596 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2597 even if it is supported by processor.
2598
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002599 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002600 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002601 even if it is supported by processor.
2602
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002603 noexec32 [X86-64]
2604 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2605 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2606 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2607 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2608 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002609
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002610 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002611
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002612 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002613 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2614 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002615
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002616 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2617
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002618 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2619 Equivalent to smt=1.
2620
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002621 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2622 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2623 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2624
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002625 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2626 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2627 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2628 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2629 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2630 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2631
2632 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2633 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2634 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2635 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2636 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2637 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2638 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2639
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002640 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2641 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2642 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002643
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002644 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2645 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2646 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2647
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002648 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2649 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2650 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2651 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2652 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2653 real-time systems.
2654
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002655 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2656
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002657 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2658 Valid arguments: on, off
2659 Default: on
2660
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002661 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002662 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002663 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002664 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002665 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002666 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2667 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2668 just as if they had also been called out in the
2669 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002670
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002671 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2672
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002673 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002674 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2675
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302676 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002677 broken timer IRQ sources.
2678
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002679 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2680
2681 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2682 initial RAM disk.
2683
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002684 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2685 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002686 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002687
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002688 nointroute [IA-64]
2689
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002690 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2691
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002692 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002693
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002694 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2695
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002696 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2697 fault handling.
2698
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002699 no-vmw-sched-clock
2700 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2701 clock and use the default one.
2702
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002703 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2704 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2705 behaviour
2706
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002707 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002708
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002709 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002710
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002711 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002712 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002713
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002714 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2715
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002716 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002717
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002718 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2719 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2720
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002721 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2722 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2723 irq.
2724
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002725 nomodule Disable module load
2726
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002727 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2728 pagetables) support.
2729
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002730 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2731
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002732 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2733 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2734
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002735 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002736
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002737 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002738 with UP alternatives
2739
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002740 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2741 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2742 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2743 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002744
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002745 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2746 space.
2747
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002748 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2749 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2750 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2751
2752 nosbagart [IA-64]
2753
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002754 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002755
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002756 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2757 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002758
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002759 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2760
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002761 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2762
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002763 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002764
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002765 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2766 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002767
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002768 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002769
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002770 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2771
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002772 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2773 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2774 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2775 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2776 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2777 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2778 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2779 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2780 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2781 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2782 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2783 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2784 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2785
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002786 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2787 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2788 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2789 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2790 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2791 parameter's value.
2792 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2793 Default: 255
2794
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002795 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002796 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2797 SAL PALO.
2798
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002799 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2800 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002801 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2802 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2803 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2804 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2805 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2806 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002807
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002808 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2809
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002810 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2811 Allowed values are enable and disable
2812
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002813 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002814 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002815 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2816 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2817
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002818 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2819 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2820 info.
2821
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002822 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2823 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2824 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2825 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2826 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2827 interrupts *may* be lost!
2828
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002829 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2830 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2831 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2832 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2833
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002834 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2835 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2836
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002837 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2838 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2839 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002840 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2841 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002842 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2843 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002844 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2845 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2846 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002847
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002848 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2849 process, but there is a small probability of
2850 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002851 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2852 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2853
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002854 OSS [HW,OSS]
2855 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2856
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002857 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2858 Storage of the information about who allocated
2859 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2860 we can turn it on.
2861 on: enable the feature
2862
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002863 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2864 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2865 off: turn off poisoning
2866 on: turn on poisoning
2867
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002868 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002869 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2870 timeout = 0: wait forever
2871 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002872 Format: <timeout>
2873
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002874 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2875 on a WARN().
2876
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002877 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2878 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2879 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2880 succeeds in any situation.
2881 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2882 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2883 kernel more unstable.
2884
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002885 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2886 connected to, default is 0.
2887 Format: <parport#>
2888 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2889 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002890 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002891
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002892 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2893 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2894 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2895 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2896 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2897 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2898 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2899 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2900 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2901 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2902 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2903 are specified on the command line, starting
2904 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002905
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002906 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2907 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2908 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2909 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2910 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2911 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002912 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2913
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002914 pause_on_oops=
2915 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2916 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2917 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2918
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002919 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2920
2921 pcd. [PARIDE]
2922 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002923 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002924
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002925 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002926 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2927 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002928 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002929 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002930 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2931 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002932 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002933 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2934 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2935 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002936 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2937 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2938 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2939 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2940 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2941 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2942 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2943 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2944 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2945 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002946 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2947 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2948 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002949 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2950 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302951 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002952 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002953 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2954 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2955 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002956 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2957 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2958 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002959 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2960 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2961 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002962 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2963 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2964 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2965 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002966 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2967 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2968 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2969 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002970 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002971 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2972 on several machines and they hang the machine
2973 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2974 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2975 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2976 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2977 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002978 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002979 Use with caution as certain devices share
2980 address decoders between ROMs and other
2981 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002982 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002983 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2984 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002985 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2986 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002987 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002988 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2989 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2990 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002991 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002992 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2993 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2994 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002995 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002996 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2997 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2998 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002999 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003000 numbers ourselves, overriding
3001 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003002 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003003 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3004 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3005 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3006 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3007 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003008 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003009 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003010 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3011 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3012 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3013 please report a bug.
3014 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3015 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003016 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3017 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3018 so this option is a temporary workaround
3019 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003020 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3021 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003022 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3023 This might help on some broken boards which
3024 machine check when some devices' config space
3025 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3026 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003027 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3028 This sorting is done to get a device
3029 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3030 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003031 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3032 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3033 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3034 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3035 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3036 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3037 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3038 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3039 or bus can support) for best performance.
3040 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3041 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3042 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3043 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3044 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3045 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003046 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3047 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3048 The default value is 256 bytes.
3049 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3050 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3051 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003052 resource_alignment=
3053 Format:
3054 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003055 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3056 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003057 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3058 aligned memory resources.
3059 If <order of align> is not specified,
3060 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3061 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3062 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003063 To specify the alignment for several
3064 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3065 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3066 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003067 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3068 end-to-end CRC checking).
3069 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3070 the default.
3071 off: Turn ECRC off
3072 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003073 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3074 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3075 Default size is 256 bytes.
3076 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3077 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3078 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003079 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3080 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3081 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003082 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3083 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3084 accommodate resources required by all child
3085 devices.
3086 off: Turn realloc off
3087 on: Turn realloc on
3088 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003089 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003090 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3091 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3092 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003093
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003094 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3095 Management.
3096 off Disable ASPM.
3097 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3098 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3099
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003100 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3101 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3102 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3103
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003104 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003105 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3106 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3107 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3108 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3109 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003110 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3111 ports driver.
3112
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003113 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3114 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3115 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3116
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003117 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003118 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003119 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003120
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003121 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3122
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303123 pd_ignore_unused
3124 [PM]
3125 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3126 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3127 for debug and development, but should not be
3128 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3129
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003130 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003131 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003132
3133 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3134 boot time.
3135 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3136 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3137
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003138 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003139 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3140 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3141 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3142 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3143 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003144
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003145 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003146 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003147
3148 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003149 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003150
3151 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003152 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003153
3154 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3155 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003156 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003157
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003158 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003159 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3160 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3161
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003162 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3163 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3164 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3165 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3166 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3167 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003168
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003169 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3170 { off }
3171
3172 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3173 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3174
3175 pnp_reserve_irq=
3176 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3177
3178 pnp_reserve_dma=
3179 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3180
3181 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003182 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003183
3184 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003185 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3186 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003187 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3188
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003189 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3190 Default is 21.
3191 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3192 may be specified.
3193 Format: <port>,<port>....
3194
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003195 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3196 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3197 platform machine description specific power_save
3198 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3199 execution priority.
3200
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003201 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3202 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3203 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3204 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3205 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3206
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003207 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3208 Format: {"off"}
3209 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3210
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003211 print-fatal-signals=
3212 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003213
3214 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3215 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3216 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3217 coredump - etc.
3218
3219 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3220 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3221
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003222 default: off.
3223
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003224 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3225 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3226 panics
3227 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3228 default: disabled
3229
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003230 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3231 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3232 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3233 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3234 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3235 Default: ratelimit
3236
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003237 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3238 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3239
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003240 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3241 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3242 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3243
3244 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3245 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3246 instead using the legacy FADT method
3247
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003248 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003249 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3250 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3251 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3252 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003253 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3254 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003255 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003256
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003257 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3258 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003259 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003260
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003261 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3262 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003263 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3264 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003265 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3266 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003267 (0 = never).
3268 psmouse.resolution=
3269 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3270 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003271 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003272 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3273
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003274 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003276 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003277 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003278
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003279 pty.legacy_count=
3280 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3281 default number.
3282
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003283 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003284
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003285 r128= [HW,DRM]
3286
3287 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003288 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003289
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003290 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003291 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003292
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003293 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3294
3295 cec_disable [X86]
3296 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3297 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3298
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003299 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003300 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3301
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003302 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3303 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3304 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003305 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3306 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3307 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3308 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003309 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3310 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3311 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3312
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003313 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003314 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3315 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3316 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3317 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3318 This improves the real-time response for the
3319 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3320 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3321 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3322 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3323
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003324 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003325 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3326 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003327
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003328 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3329 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3330 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3331 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3332
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003333 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3334 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003335 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003336
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003337 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3338 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003339 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003340
3341 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3342 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3343 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3344 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003345 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003346
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003347 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3348 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3349 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3350 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3351 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003352
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003353 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003354 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3355 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3356 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3357 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3358 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3359 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003360
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003361 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3362 Set required age in jiffies for a
3363 given grace period before RCU starts
3364 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3365 rcu_note_context_switch().
3366
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003367 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003368 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3369 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3370 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3371 and maximum value is HZ.
3372
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003373 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003374 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3375 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3376 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3377
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003378 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003379 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3380 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3381 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3382 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3383 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3384 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3385 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3386 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3387 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003388
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003389 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3390 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3391 defaults to the square root of the number of
3392 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3393 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3394 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3395
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003396 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003397 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3398 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003399
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003400 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003401 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3402 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003403
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003404 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003405 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3406 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003407
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003408 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003409 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3410 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3411 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3412 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003413
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003414 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3415 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3416 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3417 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3418 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3419 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3420
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003421 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3422 Measure performance of asynchronous
3423 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3424
3425 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3426 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3427 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3428 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3429 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3430 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3431
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003432 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3433 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3434 grace-period primitives.
3435
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003436 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3437 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3438 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3439 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3440 interference.
3441
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003442 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3443 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3444 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3445 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3446 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3447 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3448 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3449 a single reader.
3450
3451 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3452 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3453 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3454 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3455
3456 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3457 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3458
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003459 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3460 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3461
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003462 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3463 Shut the system down after performance tests
3464 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3465 testing.
3466
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003467 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3468 Enable additional printk() statements.
3469
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003470 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3471 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3472 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3473 no holdoff.
3474
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003475 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3476 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3477 callback-flood tests.
3478
3479 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3480 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3481 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3482 test.
3483
3484 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3485 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3486 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3487 disable callback-flood testing.
3488
3489 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3490 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3491 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3492
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003493 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003494 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3495 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003496
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003497 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003498 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3499 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003500
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003501 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003502 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3503 in seconds.
3504
3505 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3506 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3507 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003508
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003509 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003510 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003511
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003512 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003513 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3514 update-side primitives, if available.
3515
3516 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3517 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3518 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3519 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3520 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3521 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3522 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003523
3524 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003525 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3526
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003527 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003528 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3529 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3530 test, hence the "fake".
3531
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003532 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003533 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3534 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3535 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3536 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3537 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003538
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003539 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3540 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3541
3542 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003543 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3544
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003545 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003546 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3547 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3548
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003549 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003550 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3551 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3552 during the rcutorture test.
3553
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003554 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003555 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3556 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3557
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003558 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003559 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3560 warnings, zero to disable.
3561
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003562 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003563 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3564
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003565 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3566 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3567
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003568 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003569 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3570
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003571 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003572 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3573 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3574 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3575 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3576
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003577 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003578 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3579 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3580 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3581
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003582 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003583 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3584
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003585 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003586 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3587
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003588 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003589 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3590 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3591
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003592 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3593 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3594
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003595 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003596 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3597
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003598 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003599 Enable additional printk() statements.
3600
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003601 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3602 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3603
3604 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3605 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3606
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003607 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3608 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3609 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3610 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3611 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3612 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003613 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003614
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003615 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3616 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3617 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3618 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003619 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3620 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3621 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3622 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3623 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003624
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003625 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3626 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3627 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003628 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3629 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003630
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003631 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3632 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3633 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3634 to zero.
3635
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003636 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3637 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3638
3639 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3640 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3641
3642 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3643 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3644
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003645 rdinit= [KNL]
3646 Format: <full_path>
3647 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3648 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3649
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003650 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3651 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3652 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3653 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3654 rdt=cmt,!mba
3655
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003656 reboot= [KNL]
3657 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3658 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3659 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3660 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3661 [[,]f[orce]
3662 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3663 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3664 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3665 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3666 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003667
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003668 relax_domain_level=
3669 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003670 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003671
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003672 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3673
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003674 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003675 Format: nn[KMG]
3676 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3677 address space.
3678
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003679 reservelow= [X86]
3680 Format: nn[K]
3681 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3682 the bottom of the address space.
3683
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003684 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3685 during initialization.
3686
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003687 resume= [SWSUSP]
3688 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003689 Format:
3690 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003691
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003692 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3693 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3694 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3695 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3696 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3697
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003698 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3699 read the resume files
3700
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003701 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3702 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3703 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3704
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003705 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3706 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3707 present during boot.
3708 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003709 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003710 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3711 (that will set all pages holding image data
3712 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003713
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003714 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3715
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003716 rfkill.default_state=
3717 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3718 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3719 1 Unblocked.
3720
3721 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3722 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3723 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3724 blocked and the previous configuration.
3725 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3726 blocked and everything unblocked.
3727
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003728 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3729 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3730
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003731 ring3mwait=disable
3732 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3733 CPUs.
3734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003735 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3736
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003737 rodata= [KNL]
3738 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3739 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3740
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003741 rockchip.usb_uart
3742 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3743 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3744 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3745 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3746
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003747 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003748 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003749
3750 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3751 mount the root filesystem
3752
3753 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3754
3755 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3756
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003757 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3758 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3759 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3760
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003761 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3762 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3763 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3764 managed by CMA.
3765
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003766 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3767
3768 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3769
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003770 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3771 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3772 strict
3773 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3774 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3775 which is faster.
3776
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003777 sa1100ir [NET]
3778 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3779
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003780 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003781
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003782 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3783
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003784 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3785 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3786 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3787 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3788
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003789 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3790 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3791 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3792 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3793 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3794 1 -- enable.
3795 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3796 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3797
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003798 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3799 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3800 security module asking for security registration will be
3801 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3802 as if no module has been chosen.
3803
3804 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003805 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3806 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3807 0 -- disable.
3808 1 -- enable.
3809 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3810 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3811 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3812
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003813 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3814 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3815 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3816 0 -- disable.
3817 1 -- enable.
3818 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3819
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003820 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003821
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003822 shapers= [NET]
3823 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003824
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003825 simeth= [IA-64]
3826 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003827
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003828 slram= [HW,MTD]
3829
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003830 slab_nomerge [MM]
3831 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3832 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003833 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3834 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3835 layout control by attackers can usually be
3836 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3837 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3838 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3839 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3840 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003841 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3842
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003843 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3844 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3845 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3846 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3847 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3848
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003849 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3850 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3851 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3852 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3853 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3854 last alloc / free. For more information see
3855 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003856
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003857 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3858 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3859 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3860 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3861 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3862 directories and files being created under
3863 /sys/kernel/slub.
3864
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003865 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003866 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3867 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3868 fragmentation. For more information see
3869 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003870
3871 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003872 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3873 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3874 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3875 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3876 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3877 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003878 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3879
3880 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003881 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003882 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003883 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3884
3885 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003886 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3887 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003888
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003889 smart2= [HW]
3890 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3891
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003892 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3893 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3894 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3895 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3896 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3897 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3898 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3899 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3900 1: Fast pin select (default)
3901 2: ATC IRMode
3902
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003903 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3904 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3905 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3906 actual hardware limit.
3907 Format: <integer>
3908 Default: -1 (no limit)
3909
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003910 softlockup_panic=
3911 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003912 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003913
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003914 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3915 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3916 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3917 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3918 functionality.
3919
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003920 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3921 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3922 backtraces on all cpus.
3923 Format: <integer>
3924
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003925 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003926 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003927
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003928 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3929 spia_fio_base=
3930 spia_pedr=
3931 spia_peddr=
3932
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07003933 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3934 Specifies how frequently to check for
3935 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3936 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3937 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3938 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3939 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3940 are ignored.
3941
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003942 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3943 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3944 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3945 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3946 grace period will be considered for automatic
3947 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3948 expediting.
3949
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07003950 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3951 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3952 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3953 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3954 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3955 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3956
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003957 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3958 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3959
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003960 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3961 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3962 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3963 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3964 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3965 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3966 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3967
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003968 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3969 Format: <num>
3970 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3971 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3972 as the initial boot-console.
3973 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3974
3975 sti_font= [HW]
3976 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3977
3978 stifb= [HW]
3979 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3980
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003981 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3982 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3983 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3984 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3985 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3986 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3987 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3988 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3989 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3990 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3991 maximum port values.
3992
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04003993 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3994 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3995 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3996 process in parallel from a single connection.
3997 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3998
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003999 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4000 [NFS]
4001 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4002 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4003 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4004 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4005 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4006 NFS server is running.
4007
4008 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4009 automatically using heuristics
4010 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4011 percpu one pool for each CPU
4012 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4013 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4014
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004015 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4016 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4017 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4018 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4019 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4020 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4021 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4022 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4023
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004024 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4025 [SUSPEND]
4026 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4027 mode before resuming the system (see
4028 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4029 is set. Default value is 5.
4030
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004031 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004032 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4033 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004034 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004035
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004036 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004037 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004038 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4039 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4040 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004041 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004042
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004043 switches= [HW,M68k]
4044
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004045 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4046 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4047 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4048 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4049 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4050 in older udev will not work anymore.
4051 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4052 the kernel configuration.
4053
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004054 sysrq_always_enabled
4055 [KNL]
4056 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4057 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4058 Useful for debugging.
4059
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004060 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4061 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4062 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4063 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4064 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4065 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4066
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004067 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4068
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004069 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004070 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004071 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4072 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4073 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4074 The system is woken from this state using a
4075 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004077 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4078 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4079
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004080 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4081 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4082 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4083
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004084 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4085 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004086 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004087
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004088 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4089 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4090 critical and hot trip points.
4091
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004092 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4093 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4094
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004095 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4096 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004097 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4098 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004099
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004100 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4101 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4102 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4103 0: no polling (default)
4104
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004105 threadirqs [KNL]
4106 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004107 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004108
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004109 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4110 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4111
4112 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4113 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4114 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4115
4116 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4117 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004118 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4119 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004120
4121 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4122 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4123 to the hypervisor.
4124
4125 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4126 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4127 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4128 kernel based on different criteria.
4129
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004130 topology= [S390]
4131 Format: {off | on}
4132 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004133 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4134 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004135 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004136 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004137
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004138 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4139 Format: {off}
4140 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4141 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4142 LPAR.
4143
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004144 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4145
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004146 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4147 Format: integer pcr id
4148 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4149 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4150 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4151 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4152 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4153 are saved.
4154
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004155 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004156 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004157
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004158 trace_event=[event-list]
4159 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004160 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4161 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4162 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004163
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004164 trace_options=[option-list]
4165 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4166 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4167 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4168 to echo the option name into
4169
4170 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4171
4172 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4173 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4174
4175 trace_options=stacktrace
4176
4177 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4178 section.
4179
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004180 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4181 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4182 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4183 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4184 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4185 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4186
4187 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4188 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4189 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4190 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4191
4192 ** CAUTION **
4193
4194 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4195 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4196 the system to live lock.
4197
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004198 traceoff_on_warning
4199 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4200 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4201 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4202 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4203
4204 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4205 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4206 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4207
4208 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4209 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4210
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004211 transparent_hugepage=
4212 [KNL]
4213 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4214 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4215 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4216 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4217
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004218 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004219 Format: <string>
4220 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004221 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4222 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4223 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4224 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004225 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4226 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4227 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4228 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004229 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4230 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4231 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004232
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004233 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4234 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4235 Format:
4236 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004237 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004238
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004239 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004240 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004241 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4242 help "seeing" what's going on.
4243
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004244 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4245 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4246
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004247 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4248 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4249 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4250 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4251 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4252 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4253 reported either.
4254
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004255 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004256 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004257
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004258 usbcore.authorized_default=
4259 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4260 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4261 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4262
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004263 usbcore.autosuspend=
4264 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4265 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4266 is the time required before an idle device will be
4267 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004268 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004269
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004270 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4271 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4272
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004273 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4274 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4275 (default = 65536).
4276
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004277 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4278 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4279
4280 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4281 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4282 scheme (default 0 = off).
4283
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004284 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4285 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4286 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4287
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004288 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4289 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4290 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4291
4292 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4293 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4294 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4295 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4296
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004297 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4298
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004299 usbhid.mousepoll=
4300 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004301
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004302 usbhid.jspoll=
4303 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4304
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004305 usb-storage.delay_use=
4306 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004307 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004308
4309 usb-storage.quirks=
4310 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4311 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4312 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4313 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4314 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4315 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4316 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004317 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4318 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004319 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4320 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004321 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4322 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004323 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4324 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4325 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4326 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004327 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4328 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004329 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4330 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004331 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4332 reported device capacity by one
4333 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004334 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4335 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004336 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4337 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004338 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4339 unlock ejectable media);
4340 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4341 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004342 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4343 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004344 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4345 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004346 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4347 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004348 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4349 bogus residue values);
4350 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4351 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004352 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4353 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004354 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004355 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4356 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004357 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4358 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004359 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4360
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004361 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4362 Format: <int>
4363 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4364 1 - undefined instruction events
4365 2 - system calls
4366 4 - invalid data aborts
4367 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4368 16 - SIGBUS faults
4369 Example: user_debug=31
4370
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004371 userpte=
4372 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4373
4374 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4375 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4376 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4377
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304378 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004379 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4380
4381 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004382 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4383
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004384 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4385 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4386 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4387
4388 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4389 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4390 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4391
4392 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4393 alias for vdso32=0.
4394
4395 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4396 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004397
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004398 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4399 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4400
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004401 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4402 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4403
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004404 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4405 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4406 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4407 level and then send out the event to user space through
4408 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4409 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4410 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004411 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004412
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004413 virtio_mmio.device=
4414 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4415
4416 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4417 where:
4418 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4419 like K, M and G)
4420 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4421 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4422 request_irq())
4423 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4424 example:
4425 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4426
4427 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4428
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004429 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004430 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004431 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004432 Use vga=ask for menu.
4433 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4434 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4435
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004436 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004437 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4438 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4439 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4440 mapped kernel RAM.
4441
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004442 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4443 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4444 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4445
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004446 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4447 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004448
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004449 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4450 Format: <command>
4451
4452 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4453 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004454
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004455 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4456 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4457 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4458 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4459 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4460 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4461 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4462
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004463 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4464 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004465
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004466 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004467 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4468 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4469 better than they would in emulation mode.
4470 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4471
4472 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4473 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4474 might break your system.
4475
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004476 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4477 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4478 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4479
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004480 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4481 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4482 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4483 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4484
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004485 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4486 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4487 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4488 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4489 ranging from 0-255.
4490
4491 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4492 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4493 Change the default green palette of the console.
4494 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4495 ranging from 0-255.
4496
4497 vt.default_red= [VT]
4498 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4499 Change the default red palette of the console.
4500 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4501 ranging from 0-255.
4502
4503 vt.default_utf8=
4504 [VT]
4505 Format=<0|1>
4506 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4507 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4508 newly opened terminals.
4509
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004510 vt.global_cursor_default=
4511 [VT]
4512 Format=<-1|0|1>
4513 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4514 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4515 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4516 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4517 cursors, 1 will display them.
4518
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004519 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4520 Default: 2 = green.
4521
4522 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4523 Default: 3 = cyan.
4524
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004525 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4526 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4527 or other driver-specific files in the
4528 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004529
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004530 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4531 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4532 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4533 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4534 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4535 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4536 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4537 corresponding sysfs file.
4538
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004539 workqueue.disable_numa
4540 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4541 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4542 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4543 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4544 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4545 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4546 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4547
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304548 workqueue.power_efficient
4549 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4550 they show better performance thanks to cache
4551 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4552 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4553
4554 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4555 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4556 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4557 power usage at the cost of small performance
4558 overhead.
4559
4560 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4561 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4562
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004563 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4564 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4565 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4566 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4567 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4568 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4569 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4570 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4571 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4572 impacted.
4573
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004574 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4575 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4576 supporting x2apic.
4577
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004578 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4579 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004580 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4581 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004582 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004583
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004584 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4585 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4586 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4587 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4588 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4589 domains.
4590
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004591 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4592 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4593 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4594 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4595 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4596 nics -- unplug network devices
4597 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004598 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4599 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4600 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004601 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004602
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004603 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4604 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4605 optimizations.
4606
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004607 xen_nopv [X86]
4608 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4609 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4610
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004611 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004612 Format:
4613 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]