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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800117
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800125
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700138
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800143
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700226 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Rafael J. Wysocki57044032017-11-15 02:16:55 +0100241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
259 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
260
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900300
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700334 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Dou Liyang64e05d12017-12-04 12:03:13 +0800338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700342
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700366
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500393 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
394 until the next reboot
395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
398 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
399 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
400 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400401 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400402
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
434
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200449 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700450
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300464 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
465 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
466 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300467 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300468
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700469 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
470 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
471 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
472 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
473 others).
474
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100475 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
476 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700477
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700478 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
479 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800480 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
481 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
482 a single hierarchy
483 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
484 subsystem
485 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
486 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
487 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700488
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500489 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
490 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
491 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
492 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
493
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800494 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
495 Format: <string>
496 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800497 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
500 Format: { "0" | "1" }
501 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700502 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
503 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700504 1 -- check protection requested by application.
505 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700506 Value can be changed at runtime via
507 /selinux/checkreqprot.
508
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100509 cio_ignore= [S390]
510 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700511 clk_ignore_unused
512 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700513 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
514 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
515 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
516 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
517 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
518 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
519 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
520 platform with proper driver support. For more
521 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100522
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700523 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700524 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200525 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700526 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200527 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700528 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
529
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700530 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700531 Format: <string>
532 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
533 with the name specified.
534 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
535 the platform:
536 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
537 [ACPI] acpi_pm
538 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
539 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700540 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700541 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
542 [MIPS] MIPS
543 [PARISC] cr16
544 [S390] tod
545 [SH] SuperH
546 [SPARC64] tick
547 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
548
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100549 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
550 [ARM,ARM64]
551 Format: <bool>
552 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
553 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
554 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
555 systems.
556
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100557 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
558 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100559 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800560 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100561 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
562 ones should be.
563 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
564 or using the feature without checking anything
565 will still see it. This just prevents it from
566 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
567 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
568 some critical bits.
569
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700570 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
571 [ARM,X86,KNL]
572 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
573 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
574 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700575 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
576 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100577 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
578
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000579 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
580 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
581 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
582 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
583 a hypervisor.
584 Default: yes
585
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100586 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
587 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200588 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100589
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530590 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100591 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100592 Range: 0 - 8192
593 Default: 64
594
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700595 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 Format:
597 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598
599 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
600 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
601
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602 com90xx= [HW,NET]
603 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700604 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
605
606 condev= [HW,S390] console device
607 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700608
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
610
611 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
612
613 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800614 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700615 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
617 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
618 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
619 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700620
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200621 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800622 information. See
623 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
624 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700626 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
627 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900628 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400629 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
630 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700631 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
632 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
634 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900635 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
636 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
637 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
638 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400639 the h/w is not re-initialized.
640
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500641 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
642 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700643
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700644 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
645 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
646 console=brl,ttyS0
647 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
648
Sergey Senozhatskycca10d52017-12-21 14:41:49 +0900649 console_msg_format=
650 [KNL] Change console messages format
651 default
652 By default we print messages on consoles in
653 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
654 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
655 `printk_time' param).
656 syslog
657 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
658 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
659 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
660 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
661 from /proc/kmsg.
662
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700663 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700664 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
665 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700666
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800667 coredump_filter=
668 [KNL] Change the default value for
669 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
670 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
671
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600672 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
673 [ARM,ARM64]
674 Format: <bool>
675 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
676 0: default value, disable debugging
677 1: enable debugging at boot time
678
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400679 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
680 disable the cpuidle sub-system
681
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500682 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
683 disable the cpufreq sub-system
684
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400685 cpu_init_udelay=N
686 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
687 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
688 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
689 Default: 10000
690
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700691 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700692 Format:
693 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700694
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800695 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
696 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
697 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
698 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
699 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
700 is selected automatically. Check
701 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700702
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700703 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
704 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
705 in the running system. The syntax of range is
706 start-[end] where start and end are both
707 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800708 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700709
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700710 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700711 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
712 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
713 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
714 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
715 available.
716 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700717 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
718 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
719 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700720 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
721 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800722 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
723 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
724 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
725 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700726 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
727 for second kernel instead.
728 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700729 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700730 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700731
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100732 cryptomgr.notests
733 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
734
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
736 Format: <dma>
737
738 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
739 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700740
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700741 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700742 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
743
744 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
745 (one device per port)
746 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500747 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700748
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200749 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200750 time. See
751 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600752 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200753
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700754 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
755
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700756 debug_locks_verbose=
757 [KNL] verbose self-tests
758 Format=<0|1>
759 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
760 self-tests.
761 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
762 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
763 only useful to kernel developers.
764
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700765 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
766
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500767 no_debug_objects
768 [KNL] Disable object debugging
769
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800770 debug_guardpage_minorder=
771 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
772 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
773 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
774 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
775 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
776 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
777 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
778 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
779 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
780 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
781 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
782 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
783 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
784 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
785 bypassed) which are not detectable by
786 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
787 tracking down these problems.
788
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800789 debug_pagealloc=
790 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
791 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
792 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
793 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
794 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
795 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
796 on: enable the feature
797
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200798 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
799
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200800 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801 Format: <area>[,<node>]
802 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
803
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700804 default_hugepagesz=
805 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
806 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
807 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
808 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
809 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
810 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700812 dhash_entries= [KNL]
813 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700814
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000815 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
816 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
817 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
818 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
819 miss to occur.
820
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800821 disable= [IPV6]
822 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
823
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530824 disable_radix [PPC]
825 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
826
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900827 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
828 Format: <int>
829 The number of initial APIC ID for the
830 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
831 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
832 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
833 causing system reset or hang due to sending
834 INIT from AP to BSP.
835
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000836 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
837 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
838 to workaround buggy firmware.
839
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800840 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
841 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
842
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700843 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700844 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
845 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700846 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700847
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100848 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100849 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
850 memory out of your available memory pool based on
851 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
852 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
853
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530854 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700855 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
856 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
857
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400858 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
859
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700860 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
861 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
862
863 dma_debug_entries=<number>
864 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
865 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
866 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
867 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
868 architectural default is too low.
869
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200870 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
871 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
872 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
873 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
874 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
875 driver later using sysfs.
876
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300877 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700878 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
879 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
880 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
881 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100882 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
883 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
884 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
885 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
886 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
887 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
888 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
889 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700890 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
891 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
892 data set with no connector name will be used for
893 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100894
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700895 dscc4.setup= [NET]
896
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000897 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
898 Format: {"off" | "known"}
899 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
900 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
901 exists).
902 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
903 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
904 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
905
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000906 dump_apple_properties [X86]
907 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
908 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
909 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
910
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600911 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
912 module.dyndbg[="val"]
913 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200914 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
915 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600916
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700917 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
918 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
919 information about the feature.
920
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800921 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
922 in some Intel CPUs.
923
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700924 module.async_probe [KNL]
925 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
926
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700927 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
928 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
929 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
930 which are not unmapped.
931
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700932 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500933
Prarit Bhargava0231d002018-01-18 10:09:51 -0500934 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
935 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
936 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
937
938 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
939 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500940
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100941 cdns,<addr>[,options]
942 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
943 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
944 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
945 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
946 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200947
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700948 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
949 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700950 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300951 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400952 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700953 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
954 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700955 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300956 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
957 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
958 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
959 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400960 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700961
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500962 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600963 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500964 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
965 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600967 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
968 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
969 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500970
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100971 meson,<addr>
972 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
973 port at the specified address. The serial port must
974 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
975 supported.
976
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700977 msm_serial,<addr>
978 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
979 port at the specified address. The serial port
980 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
981 yet supported.
982
983 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
984 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
985 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
986 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
987 yet supported.
988
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200989 owl,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
991 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
992 specified address. The serial port must already be
993 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
994
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500995 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
996
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100997 s3c2410,<addr>
998 s3c2412,<addr>
999 s3c2440,<addr>
1000 s3c6400,<addr>
1001 s5pv210,<addr>
1002 exynos4210,<addr>
1003 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1004 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1005 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1006 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1007 Options are not yet supported.
1008
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +01001009 lantiq,<addr>
1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1011 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1012 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1013 yet supported.
1014
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001015 lpuart,<addr>
1016 lpuart32,<addr>
1017 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1018 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1019 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1020 port must already be setup and configured.
1021
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001022 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001023 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1024 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1025 address. The serial port must already be setup
1026 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1027
Arnd Bergmann4ba66a92018-03-07 22:23:24 +01001028 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001030 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001031 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001032 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001033 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001034 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001035 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001036 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001037 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001038 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001039
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001040 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1041 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1042 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1043
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001044 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001045 takes over.
1046
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001047 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1048 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001049
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001050 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1051 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1052 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1053 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1054 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1055 You can find the port for a given device in
1056 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1057 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001058
1059 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1060 very good.
1061
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001062 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1063 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001064
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001065 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1066
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001067 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1068
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001069 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1070 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1071 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1072 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1073 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1074 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1075 default: on.
1076
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001077 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1078 ekgdboc=kbd
1079
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001080 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001081 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1082
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001083 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001084 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001085
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001086 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001087 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001088 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1089 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1090 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001091 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1092 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1093 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001094 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001095 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001096
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001097 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1098 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1099 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1100 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1101 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1102
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001103 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1104 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1105 updating original EFI memory map.
1106 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1107 from ss to ss+nn.
1108 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1109 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1110 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1111 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1112
1113 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1114 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1115 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1116 doesn't support it.
1117
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001118 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1119 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1120 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1121 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1122 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1123
1124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001125 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1126 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1127
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001128 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001129 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001130 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001131
1132 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001133 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001134 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001135 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1136
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001137 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001138 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001139 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1140 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001141 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001142
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001143 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1144 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1145 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1146 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1147
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001148 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001149 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1150 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1151 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1152 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1153
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001154 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1155 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1156 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1157 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1158 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1159 Default value is 0.
1160 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1161
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001162 erst_disable [ACPI]
1163 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1164 support.
1165
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001166 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1167 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1168 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1169
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001170 evm= [EVM]
1171 Format: { "fix" }
1172 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1173 current integrity status.
1174
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001175 failslab=
1176 fail_page_alloc=
1177 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1178 General fault injection mechanism.
1179 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001180 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001181
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001182 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001183 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001184
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001185 force_pal_cache_flush
1186 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1187 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1188 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1189 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1190
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001191 forcepae [X86-32]
1192 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1193 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1194 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1195 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1196 and may cause unknown problems.
1197
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001198 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001199 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001200 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1201 boot debugging.
1202
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001203 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001204 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001205 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1206 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1207 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1208 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001209
1210 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1212 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1213 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1214 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001215 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001216
1217 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1218 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1219 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1220 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1221 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001222
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001223 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1224 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1225 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1226 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1227 that can be changed at run time by the
1228 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1229
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001230 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1231 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1232 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1233 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1234 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1235
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001236 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1237 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1238 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1239 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1240 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1241
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001242 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1243 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1244 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1245 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001246 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001247
1248 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1249
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001250 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1251 Format: off | on
1252 default: on
1253
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001254 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1255 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1256 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1257 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1258 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1259
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001260 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1261 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1262 android emulator
1263
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001264 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001265 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1266 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1267 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001268
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001269 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1270 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1271 Format: 0 | 1
1272 Default: 0
1273 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1274 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1275 Format: 0 | 1
1276 Default: 0
1277 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1278 Format: 0 | 1
1279 Default: 0
1280 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1281 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1282 Default: 1024
1283 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1284 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1285 Default: 1024
1286
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001287 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1288 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1289 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1290
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001291 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1292 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1293 backtraces on all cpus.
1294 Format: <integer>
1295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001296 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1297 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001298 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001299 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300
1301 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1302
1303 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1304 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1305
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001306 hest_disable [ACPI]
1307 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1308 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1309 logic will be disabled.
1310
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001311 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1312 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1313 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1314 size on bigger boxes.
1315
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001316 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1317 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1318 Default: "on"
1319
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1321 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1322
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001323 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1324
1325 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1326 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1327 verbose }
1328 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1329 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1330 VIA, nVidia)
1331 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1332
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001333 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1334 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1335
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001336 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1337 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001338 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1339 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1340 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1341 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001342 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001343
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001344 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1345 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001346 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1347 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1348 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001349
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001350 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1351 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1352 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1353 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1354 the real console.
1355
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001356 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001357 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1358 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001359 Format:
1360 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1361
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001362 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001363 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1364 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1365 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1366 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001367 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001368 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1369 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001370 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1371 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001372 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001373 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1374 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001375 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001376 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1378 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001379 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001380 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1381 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1382 transitions, or never reset
1383 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1384 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1385 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1386 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1387 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001388 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001389 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001390
1391 i810= [HW,DRM]
1392
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001393 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1394 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1395 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001396 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1397 does not match list of supported models.
1398 i8k.power_status
1399 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1400 (disabled by default)
1401 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1402 capability is set.
1403
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001404 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001405 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1406 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001407 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1408 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1409 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1410 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1411 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1412 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1413 value switches the backlight off.
1414 -1 -- never invert brightness
1415 0 -- machine default
1416 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001417
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001418 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1419 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1420
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001421 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1422 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001423 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1424 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001425 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001426
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001427 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1428 Format: <int>
1429 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1430 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1431 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1432 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1433 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1434 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1435 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1436 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1437 was 0x3.
1438
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001439 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1440 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1441
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001442 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001443 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001444 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1445 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1446 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1447 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001448 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001449 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001450 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001451
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001452 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1453 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1454 Default: strict
1455
1456 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1457 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1458 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1459 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1460 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1461 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1462 encoding mode.
1463
1464 Available settings are as follows:
1465 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1466 supported by the FPU
1467 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1468 by the FPU
1469 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1470 by the FPU
1471 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1472 supported by the FPU
1473
1474 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1475 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1476 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1477 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1478 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1479 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1480 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1481 MIPS64 CPUs.
1482
1483 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1484 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1485 except where unsupported by hardware.
1486
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001487 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1488 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1489 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001490 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1491 could change it dynamically, usually by
1492 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001493
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001494 ignore_rlimit_data
1495 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1496 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1497 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001499 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1500 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1501
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001502 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001503 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001504 default: "enforce"
1505
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001506 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1507 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1508 owned by uid=0.
1509
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001510 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1511 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1512 measurements, instead of host native format.
1513
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001514 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001515 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1516 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001517 default: "sha1"
1518
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001519 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1520 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1521
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001522 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001523 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001524 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001525
1526 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1527 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1528 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1529 uid=0.
1530
1531 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1532 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1533 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001534
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001535 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1536 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1537 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001538
1539 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001540 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1541 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1542 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1543 opened for read by uid=0.
1544
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001545 ima_template= [IMA]
1546 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001547 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001548 Default: "ima-ng"
1549
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001550 ima_template_fmt=
1551 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1552 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1553
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001554 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1555 Format: <min_file_size>
1556 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1557 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1558
1559 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1560 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1561 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1562
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001563 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1564 Format: <bufsize>
1565 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1566
1567 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1568 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1569 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1570
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001571 init= [KNL]
1572 Format: <full_path>
1573 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1574 process.
1575
1576 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1577 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1578 startup.
1579
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001580 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1581 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1582 modules and initcalls.
1583
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001584 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1585
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001586 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1587 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1588 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1589 override in debugfs after boot.
1590
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001591 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1592 Format: <irq>
1593
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001594 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1595
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001596 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1597 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1598 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1599 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1600
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001601 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001602 on
1603 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001604 off
1605 Disable intel iommu driver.
1606 igfx_off [Default Off]
1607 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1608 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1609 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1610 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1611 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001612 forcedac [x86_64]
1613 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001614 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001615 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001616 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1617 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001618 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001619 strict [Default Off]
1620 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1621 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1622 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001623 sp_off [Default Off]
1624 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1625 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1626 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001627 ecs_off [Default Off]
1628 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1629 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1630 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1631 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1632 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001633 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1634 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1635 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1636 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1637 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1638 mapping is enabled.
1639 Note that using this option lowers the security
1640 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1641 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001642
1643 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1644 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001645 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001646
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001647 intel_pstate= [X86]
1648 disable
1649 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1650 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001651 passive
1652 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1653 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1654 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1655 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1656 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001657 force
1658 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1659 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1660 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1661 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1662 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1663 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1664 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1665 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001666 no_hwp
1667 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1668 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001669 hwp_only
1670 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1671 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001672 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001673 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1674 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1675 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1676 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001677 per_cpu_perf_limits
1678 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1679 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001680
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001681 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001682 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1683 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1684 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001685 no_x2apic_optout
1686 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001687 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001688
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001689 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1690 strict regions from userspace.
1691 relaxed
1692
1693 iommu= [x86]
1694 off
1695 force
1696 noforce
1697 biomerge
1698 panic
1699 nopanic
1700 merge
1701 nomerge
1702 forcesac
1703 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001704 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001705 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1706 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001707
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001708 iommu.passthrough=
1709 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1710 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1711 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1712 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1713 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001714
1715 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1716 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1717 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1718
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301719 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001720 0x80
1721 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1722 0xed
1723 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001724 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001725 Simple two microseconds delay
1726 none
1727 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001728
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001729 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001730 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001731
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001732 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001733 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001734
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001735 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1736 [ARM, ARM64]
1737 Format: <bool>
1738 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1739 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1740 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1741
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001742 irqfixup [HW]
1743 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1744 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1745 firmware running.
1746
1747 irqpoll [HW]
1748 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1749 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1750 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1751 firmware running.
1752
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001753 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001754 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001755
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01001756 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001757 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1758 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001759
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001760 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1761 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001762
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001763 nohz
1764 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
Frederic Weisbecker083c6ee2018-02-21 05:17:29 +01001765
1766 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1767 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1768 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1769 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1770 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1771
1772 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1773 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1774 be configured manually after bootup.
1775
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001776 domain
1777 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1778 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1779 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1780 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1781 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1782 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1783 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1784 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1785
1786 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1787 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1788 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1789 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1790
1791 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1792
1793
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001794
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001795 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001796
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001797 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1798 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1799 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1800 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1801 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1802 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1803
1804 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1805 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1806 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1807 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1808 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1809 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1810
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001811 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1812 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1813 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1814 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1815 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1816 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001818 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001819 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001820
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001821 nokaslr [KNL]
1822 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1823 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1824 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001825
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001826 kasan_multi_shot
1827 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1828 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1829 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1830 invalid access.
1831
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001832 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1833
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001834 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1835 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1836 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001837 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1838 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1839 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1840 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1841 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1842 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1843 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001844 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001845 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1846 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1847 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1848 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1849 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1850 zone if it does not.
1851
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001852 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1853 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1854 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1855 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1856 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1857 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1858 time.
1859
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001860 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1861 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1862 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1863 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1864 optional and is the number seconds in between
1865 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1866 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1867 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1868 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1869 the kernel debugger.
1870
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001871 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001872 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1873 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001874 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1875 keyboard only format: kbd
1876 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1877 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1878 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1879 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001880
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001881 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1882 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1883
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001884 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1885 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1886 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1887
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001888 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1889 Valid arguments: on, off
1890 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001891 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1892 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001893
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001894 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1895 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1896
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001897 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1898 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001899 Default is 0 (off)
1900
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001901 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001902 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001903
1904 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1905 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001906 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001907
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001908 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1909 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1910 system registers
1911
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001912 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1913 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1914 system registers
1915
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001916 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1917 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1918 system registers
1919
Marc Zyngiera7546052017-10-27 15:28:54 +01001920 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1921 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1922 LPIs.
1923
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001924 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1925 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1926 Default is 1 (enabled)
1927
1928 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1929 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1930 Default is 0 (disabled)
1931
1932 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1933 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1934 Default is 1 (enabled)
1935
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001936 kvm-intel.nested=
1937 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1938 Default is 0 (disabled)
1939
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001940 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1941 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1942 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1943 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1944
1945 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1946 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1947 Default is 1 (enabled)
1948
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001949 l2cr= [PPC]
1950
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001951 l3cr= [PPC]
1952
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001953 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001954 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001955
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001956 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1957 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1958 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1959
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301960 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001961 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001962
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001963 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1964 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1965 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1966 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001967 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001968 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1969 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001970
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001971 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1972 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1973 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001974
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001975 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1976 when set.
1977 Format: <int>
1978
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001979 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1980 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001981 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001982 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1983 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1984 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1985 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1986 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1987
1988 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1989 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1990 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1991 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1992 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1993 host link and device attached to it.
1994
1995 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1996 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1997 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1998 The following configurations can be forced.
1999
2000 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2001 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2002
2003 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2004
2005 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2006 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2007 allowed.
2008
2009 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2010
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04002011 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2012
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09002013 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2014 and both resets.
2015
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07002016 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2017 hot-unplug link recovery
2018
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02002019 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2020
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02002021 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2022
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08002023 * disable: Disable this device.
2024
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09002025 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2026 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2027
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002028 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002029
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002030 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002031 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002032
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002033 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2034 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002035
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002036 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2037 Format: <integer>
2038
2039 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2040 Format: <integer>
2041
2042 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2043 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002044
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002045 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2046 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2047 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2048 number of online CPUs.
2049
2050 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2051 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2052
2053 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2054 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2055
2056 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2057 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2058 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2059
2060 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2061 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2062 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2063 mode during the locktorture test.
2064
2065 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2066 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2067 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2068
2069 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2070 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2071
2072 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2073 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2074 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2075 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2076 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2077 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2078
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002079 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2080 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2081
2082 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2083 Enable additional printk() statements.
2084
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002085 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2086 Format: <irq>
2087
2088 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2089 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2090 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2091 loglevels are defined as follows:
2092
2093 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2094 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2095 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2096 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2097 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2098 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2099 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2100 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2101
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002102 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002103 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2104 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2105 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2106 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2107 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2108 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002109
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002110 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2111 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2112 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2113 kernel boot problems.
2114
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002115 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2116 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2117 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2118 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2119 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2120 attached printers to be reset. Using
2121 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2122 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2123 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2124 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2125 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2126 port specification list means that device IDs
2127 from each port should be examined, to see if
2128 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2129 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2130 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2131
2132 lpj=n [KNL]
2133 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2134 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2135 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2136 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2137 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2138 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2139 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2140 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2141 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2142 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2143 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2144 hardware.
2145
2146 ltpc= [NET]
2147 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2148
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002149 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002150 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2151 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002152
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002153 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2154 yeeloong laptop.
2155 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2156
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002157 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2158 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002159
2160 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002161 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2162 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2163 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2164 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2165 only takes effect during system bootup.
2166 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2167 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002168
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002169 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2170 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2171 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2172 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2173 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2174 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002175
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002176 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002177
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002178 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002179
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002180 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002181 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002183 mdacon= [MDA]
2184 Format: <first>,<last>
2185 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002186
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002187 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2188 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2189 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002190 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2191 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2192 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2193 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002194
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002195 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002196 memory.
2197
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002198 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2199 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2200 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2201
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002202 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2203 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2204 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2205 set according to the
2206 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2207 option.
2208 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2209
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302210 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002211 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2212 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2213 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2214 option description.
2215
2216 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002217 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2218 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002219 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2220 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2221 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2222 comma delimited.
2223 Example:
2224 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002225
2226 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2227 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002228 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002229
2230 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2231 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002232 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002233 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2234 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2235 or
2236 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002237 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2238 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2239 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002240
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002241 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2242 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2243 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2244 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2245 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2246
Jan H. Schönherref61f8a2018-02-03 00:10:20 +01002247 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2248 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2249 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2250 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2251 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2252 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2253 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2254 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2255
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002256 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2257 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2258 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2259 Setting this option will scan the memory
2260 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2261 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2262 from using the memory being corrupted.
2263 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2264 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2265 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2266 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2267
2268 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2269 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2270 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2271 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2272 corruption in more or less memory.
2273
2274 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2275 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2276 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2277 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2278
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002279 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002280 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002281 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002282 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2283 performed. Each pass selects another test
2284 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2285 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2286 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2287 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002288
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002289 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2290 Valid arguments: on, off
2291 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2292 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2293 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2294 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2295 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2296
2297 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2298 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2299
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002300 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2301 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2302 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2303 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002304 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002305
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002306 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002307 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002308
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002309 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2310 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2311 platforms.
2312
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002313 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2314 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2315 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2316 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2317
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002318 mga= [HW,DRM]
2319
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002320 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2321 physical address is ignored.
2322
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002323 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2324 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2325 Default: "0tb"
2326 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2327 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2328 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2329 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2330 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2331 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2332 unconfigured.
2333 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2334 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2335 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2336 VGA shield.
2337 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2338 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2339 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2340 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2341 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2342 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2343
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002344 mminit_loglevel=
2345 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2346 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2347 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2348 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2349 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2350 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2351
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002352 module.sig_enforce
2353 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2354 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002355 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002356 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2357
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302358 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2359 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002361 mousedev.tap_time=
2362 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2363 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2364 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2365 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2366 Format: <msecs>
2367 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2368 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2369 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2370 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2371
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302372 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002373 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2374 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2375 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2376 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2377 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2378 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2379 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2380 is not too small.
2381
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002382 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2383 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2384 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2385 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2386 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002387
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002388 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2389 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2390
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002391 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2392 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002393
2394 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002395 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002396
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002397 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2398 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2399 at a time.
2400
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002401 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2402
2403 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2404
2405 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2406 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2407 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2408 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2409 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2410
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002411 mtdset= [ARM]
2412 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2413
2414 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2415
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002416 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002417 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2418 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002419
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002420 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002421 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002422 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2423
2424 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2425 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2426 Default is 1.
2427 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2428 using up MTRRs.
2429
2430 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2431 Format: <integer>
2432 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2433 Default : 1
2434 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2435 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2436
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002437 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002439 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2440 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2441 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2442 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002443 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2444 file if at all.
2445
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002446 nf_conntrack.acct=
2447 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2448 0 to disable accounting
2449 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002450 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002451
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002452 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002453 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002454
2455 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002456 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002457
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002458 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2459 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2460
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002461 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2462 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2463 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2464 requests.
2465
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002466 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2467 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2468 channel should listen.
2469
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002470 nfs.cache_getent=
2471 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2472 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2473
2474 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2475 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2476 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2477
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002478 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2479 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2480 entries.
2481
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002482 nfs.enable_ino64=
2483 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2484 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2485 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2486 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2487 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2488
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002489 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2490 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2491 slots the client will assign to the callback
2492 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2493 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2494 a particular server.
2495
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002496 nfs.max_session_slots=
2497 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2498 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2499 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2500 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2501 Note that there is little point in setting this
2502 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2503
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002504 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002505 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2506 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2507 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2508 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2509 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2510 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2511 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2512 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2513 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2514 back to using the idmapper.
2515 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002516 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2517 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2518 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2519 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2520 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002521
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002522 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2523 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2524 information in exchange_id requests.
2525 If zero, no implementation identification information
2526 will be sent.
2527 The default is to send the implementation identification
2528 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002529
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002530 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2531 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2532 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2533 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2534 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2535 after the locks are lost.
2536 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2537 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2538 parameter to '1'.
2539 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2540 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002541
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002542 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2543 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2544 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2545
2546 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2547 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2548 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2549 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2550
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002551 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2552 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2553 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2554 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2555 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2556 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002557
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002558 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002559 when a NMI is triggered.
2560 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2561
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302562 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002563 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002564 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002565 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2566 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002567 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002568 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002569 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2570 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002571 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2572 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002573
Scott Woodd22881d2017-12-10 01:48:46 -06002574 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2575 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2576
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002577 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2578 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2579 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2580 waits 4 seconds.
2581
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002582 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002583 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2584 is present.
2585
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002586 no_console_suspend
2587 [HW] Never suspend the console
2588 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2589 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2590 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2591 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2592 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2593 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2594 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002595 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2596 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2597 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2598 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2599 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002600
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002601 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2602 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2603 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002604
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002605 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2606
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002607 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2608 (CPU alternatives feature).
2609
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002610 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2611 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2612
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002613 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2614
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002615 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2616 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2617
2618 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002619
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002620 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2621
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002622 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2623
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002624 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2625
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002626 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002627
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002628 noexec [IA-64]
2629
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302630 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002631 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002632 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002633 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2634
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002635 nosmap [X86]
2636 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2637 even if it is supported by processor.
2638
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002639 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002640 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002641 even if it is supported by processor.
2642
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002643 noexec32 [X86-64]
2644 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2645 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2646 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2647 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2648 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002649
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002650 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002651
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002652 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002653 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2654 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002655
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002656 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2657
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002658 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2659 Equivalent to smt=1.
2660
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00002661 nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2662 (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2663 allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2664 to spectre_v2=off.
2665
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002666 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2667 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2668 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2669
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002670 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2671 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2672 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2673 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2674 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2675 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2676
2677 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2678 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2679 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2680 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2681 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2682 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2683 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2684
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002685 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2686 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2687 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002688
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002689 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2690 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2691 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2692
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002693 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2694 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2695 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2696 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2697 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2698 real-time systems.
2699
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002700 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2701
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002702 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2703 Valid arguments: on, off
2704 Default: on
2705
Frederic Weisbeckerd94d1052017-12-14 19:18:27 +01002706 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002707 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002708 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002709 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002710 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002711 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2712 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2713 just as if they had also been called out in the
2714 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002715
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002716 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2717
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002718 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002719 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2720
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302721 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002722 broken timer IRQ sources.
2723
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002724 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2725
2726 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2727 initial RAM disk.
2728
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002729 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2730 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002731 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002732
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002733 nointroute [IA-64]
2734
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002735 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2736
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002737 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002738
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002739 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2740
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002741 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2742 fault handling.
2743
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002744 no-vmw-sched-clock
2745 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2746 clock and use the default one.
2747
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002748 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2749 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2750 behaviour
2751
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002752 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002753
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002754 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002755
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002756 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002757 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002758
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002759 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2760
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002761 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002762
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002763 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2764 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2765
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002766 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2767 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2768 irq.
2769
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002770 nomodule Disable module load
2771
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002772 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2773 pagetables) support.
2774
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002775 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2776
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002777 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2778 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2779
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002780 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002781 with UP alternatives
2782
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002783 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2784 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2785 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2786 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002787
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002788 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2789 space.
2790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002791 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2792 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2793 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2794
2795 nosbagart [IA-64]
2796
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002797 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002798
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002799 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2800 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002801
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002802 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2803
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002804 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2805
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002806 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002807
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002808 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2809 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002810
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002811 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002812
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002813 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2814
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002815 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2816 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2817 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2818 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2819 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2820 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2821 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2822 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2823 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2824 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2825 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2826 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2827 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2828
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002829 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2830 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2831 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2832 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2833 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2834 parameter's value.
2835 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2836 Default: 255
2837
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002838 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002839 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2840 SAL PALO.
2841
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002842 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2843 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002844 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2845 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2846 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2847 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2848 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2849 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002850
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002851 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2852
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002853 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2854 Allowed values are enable and disable
2855
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002856 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002857 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002858 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2859 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2860
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002861 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2862 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2863 info.
2864
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002865 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2866 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2867 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2868 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2869 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2870 interrupts *may* be lost!
2871
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002872 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2873 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2874 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2875 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2876
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002877 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2878 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2879
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002880 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2881 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2882 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002883 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2884 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002885 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2886 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002887 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2888 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2889 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002890
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002891 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2892 process, but there is a small probability of
2893 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002894 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2895 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2896
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002897 OSS [HW,OSS]
2898 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2899
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002900 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2901 Storage of the information about who allocated
2902 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2903 we can turn it on.
2904 on: enable the feature
2905
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002906 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2907 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2908 off: turn off poisoning
2909 on: turn on poisoning
2910
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002911 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002912 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2913 timeout = 0: wait forever
2914 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002915 Format: <timeout>
2916
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002917 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2918 on a WARN().
2919
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002920 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2921 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2922 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2923 succeeds in any situation.
2924 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2925 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2926 kernel more unstable.
2927
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002928 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2929 connected to, default is 0.
2930 Format: <parport#>
2931 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2932 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002933 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002934
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002935 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2936 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2937 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2938 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2939 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2940 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2941 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2942 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2943 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2944 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2945 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2946 are specified on the command line, starting
2947 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002948
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002949 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2950 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2951 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2952 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2953 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2954 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002955 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2956
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002957 pause_on_oops=
2958 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2959 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2960 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2961
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002962 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2963
2964 pcd. [PARIDE]
2965 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002966 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002967
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002968 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002969 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2970 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002971 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002972 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002973 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2974 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002975 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002976 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2977 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2978 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002979 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2980 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2981 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2982 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2983 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2984 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2985 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2986 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2987 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2988 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002989 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2990 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2991 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002992 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2993 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302994 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002995 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002996 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2997 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2998 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002999 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3000 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3001 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02003002 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3003 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3004 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02003005 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3006 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3007 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3008 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02003009 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3010 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3011 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3012 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003013 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003014 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3015 on several machines and they hang the machine
3016 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3017 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3018 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3019 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3020 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003021 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003022 Use with caution as certain devices share
3023 address decoders between ROMs and other
3024 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003025 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07003026 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3027 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07003028 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3029 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003030 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003031 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3032 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3033 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003034 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003035 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3036 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3037 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003038 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003039 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3040 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3041 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003042 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003043 numbers ourselves, overriding
3044 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003045 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003046 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3047 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3048 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3049 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3050 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003051 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003052 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003053 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3054 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3055 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3056 please report a bug.
3057 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3058 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003059 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3060 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3061 so this option is a temporary workaround
3062 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003063 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3064 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003065 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3066 This might help on some broken boards which
3067 machine check when some devices' config space
3068 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3069 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003070 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3071 This sorting is done to get a device
3072 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3073 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003074 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3075 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3076 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3077 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3078 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3079 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3080 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3081 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3082 or bus can support) for best performance.
3083 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3084 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3085 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3086 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3087 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3088 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003089 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3090 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3091 The default value is 256 bytes.
3092 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3093 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3094 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003095 resource_alignment=
3096 Format:
3097 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003098 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3099 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003100 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3101 aligned memory resources.
3102 If <order of align> is not specified,
3103 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3104 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3105 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003106 To specify the alignment for several
3107 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3108 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3109 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003110 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3111 end-to-end CRC checking).
3112 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3113 the default.
3114 off: Turn ECRC off
3115 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003116 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3117 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3118 Default size is 256 bytes.
3119 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3120 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3121 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003122 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3123 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3124 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003125 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3126 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3127 accommodate resources required by all child
3128 devices.
3129 off: Turn realloc off
3130 on: Turn realloc on
3131 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003132 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003133 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3134 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3135 port.
=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=f32ab752018-01-11 14:23:29 +01003136 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3137 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3138 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3139 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3140 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3141 taints the kernel.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003142
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003143 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3144 Management.
3145 off Disable ASPM.
3146 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3147 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3148
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003149 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3150 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3151 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3152
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003153 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003154 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3155 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3156 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3157 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3158 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003159 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3160 ports driver.
3161
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003162 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3163 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3164 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3165
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003166 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003167 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003168 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003169
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003170 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3171
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303172 pd_ignore_unused
3173 [PM]
3174 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3175 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3176 for debug and development, but should not be
3177 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3178
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003179 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003180 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003181
3182 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3183 boot time.
3184 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3185 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3186
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003187 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003188 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3189 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3190 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3191 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3192 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003193
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003194 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003195 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003196
3197 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003198 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003199
3200 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003201 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003202
3203 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3204 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003205 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003206
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003207 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003208 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3209 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3210
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003211 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3212 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3213 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3214 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3215 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3216 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003217
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003218 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3219 { off }
3220
3221 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3222 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3223
3224 pnp_reserve_irq=
3225 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3226
3227 pnp_reserve_dma=
3228 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3229
3230 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003231 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003232
3233 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003234 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3235 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003236 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3237
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003238 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3239 Default is 21.
3240 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3241 may be specified.
3242 Format: <port>,<port>....
3243
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003244 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3245 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3246 platform machine description specific power_save
3247 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3248 execution priority.
3249
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003250 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3251 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3252 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3253 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3254 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3255
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003256 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3257 Format: {"off"}
3258 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3259
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003260 print-fatal-signals=
3261 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003262
3263 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3264 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3265 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3266 coredump - etc.
3267
3268 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3269 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3270
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003271 default: off.
3272
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003273 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3274 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3275 panics
3276 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3277 default: disabled
3278
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003279 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3280 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3281 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3282 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3283 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3284 Default: ratelimit
3285
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003286 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3287 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3288
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003289 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3290 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3291 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3292
3293 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3294 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3295 instead using the legacy FADT method
3296
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003297 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003298 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3299 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3300 [defaults to kernel profiling]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003301 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003302 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3303 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003304 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003305 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3306 statistical time based profiling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003307
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003308 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3309 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003310 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003311
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003312 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3313 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003314 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3315 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003316 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3317 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003318 (0 = never).
3319 psmouse.resolution=
3320 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3321 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003322 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003323 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3324
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003325 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3326
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003327 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003328 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003329
Dave Hansen01c9b172018-01-05 09:44:36 -08003330 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3331 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3332 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3333 system calls and interrupts.
3334
3335 on - unconditionally enable
3336 off - unconditionally disable
3337 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3338 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3339
3340 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3341
3342 nopti [X86_64]
3343 Equivalent to pti=off
Borislav Petkov41f4c202017-12-12 14:39:52 +01003344
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003345 pty.legacy_count=
3346 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3347 default number.
3348
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003349 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003350
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003351 r128= [HW,DRM]
3352
3353 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003354 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003355
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003356 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003357 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003358
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003359 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3360
3361 cec_disable [X86]
3362 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3363 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3364
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003365 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003366 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3367
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003368 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3369 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3370 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003371 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3372 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3373 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3374 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003375 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3376 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3377 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3378
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003379 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003380 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3381 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3382 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3383 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3384 This improves the real-time response for the
3385 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3386 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3387 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3388 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3389
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003390 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003391 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3392 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003393
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003394 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3395 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3396 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3397 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3398
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003399 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3400 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003401 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003402
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003403 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3404 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003405 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003406
3407 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3408 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3409 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3410 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003411 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003412
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003413 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3414 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3415 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3416 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3417 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003418
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003419 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003420 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3421 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3422 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3423 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3424 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3425 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003426
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003427 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3428 Set required age in jiffies for a
3429 given grace period before RCU starts
3430 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3431 rcu_note_context_switch().
3432
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003433 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003434 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3435 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3436 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3437 and maximum value is HZ.
3438
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003439 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003440 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3441 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3442 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3443
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003444 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003445 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3446 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3447 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3448 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3449 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3450 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3451 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3452 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3453 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003454
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003455 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3456 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3457 defaults to the square root of the number of
3458 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3459 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3460 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3461
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003462 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003463 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3464 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003465
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003466 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003467 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3468 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003469
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003470 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003471 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3472 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003473
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003474 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003475 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3476 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3477 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3478 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003479
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003480 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3481 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3482 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3483 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3484 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3485 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3486
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003487 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3488 Measure performance of asynchronous
3489 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3490
3491 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3492 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3493 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3494 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3495 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3496 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3497
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003498 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3499 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3500 grace-period primitives.
3501
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003502 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3503 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3504 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3505 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3506 interference.
3507
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003508 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3509 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3510 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3511 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3512 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3513 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3514 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3515 a single reader.
3516
3517 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3518 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3519 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3520 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3521
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003522 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3523 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3524
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003525 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3526 Shut the system down after performance tests
3527 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3528 testing.
3529
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003530 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3531 Enable additional printk() statements.
3532
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003533 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3534 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3535 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3536 no holdoff.
3537
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003538 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3539 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3540 callback-flood tests.
3541
3542 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3543 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3544 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3545 test.
3546
3547 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3548 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3549 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3550 disable callback-flood testing.
3551
3552 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3553 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3554 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3555
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003556 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003557 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3558 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003559
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003560 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003561 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3562 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003563
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003564 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003565 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3566 in seconds.
3567
3568 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3569 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3570 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003571
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003572 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003573 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003574
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003575 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003576 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3577 update-side primitives, if available.
3578
3579 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3580 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3581 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3582 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3583 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3584 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3585 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003586
3587 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003588 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3589
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003590 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003591 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3592 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3593 test, hence the "fake".
3594
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003595 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003596 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3597 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3598 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3599 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3600 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003601
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003602 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3603 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3604
3605 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003606 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3607
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003608 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003609 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3610 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3611
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003612 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003613 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3614 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3615 during the rcutorture test.
3616
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003617 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003618 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3619 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3620
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003621 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003622 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3623 warnings, zero to disable.
3624
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003625 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003626 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3627
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003628 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3629 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3630
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003631 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003632 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3633
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003634 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003635 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3636 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3637 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3638 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3639
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003640 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003641 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3642 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3643 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3644
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003645 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003646 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3647
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003648 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003649 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3650
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003651 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003652 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3653 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3654
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003655 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003656 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3657
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003658 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003659 Enable additional printk() statements.
3660
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003661 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3662 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3663
3664 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3665 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3666
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003667 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3668 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3669 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3670 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3671 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3672 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003673 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003674
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003675 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3676 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3677 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3678 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003679 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3680 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3681 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3682 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3683 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003684
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003685 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3686 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3687 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003688 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3689 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003690
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003691 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3692 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3693 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3694 to zero.
3695
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003696 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3697 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3698
3699 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3700 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3701
3702 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3703 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3704
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003705 rdinit= [KNL]
3706 Format: <full_path>
3707 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3708 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3709
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003710 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3711 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
Fenghua Yu31516de2017-12-20 14:57:24 -08003712 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
3713 mba.
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003714 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3715 rdt=cmt,!mba
3716
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003717 reboot= [KNL]
3718 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3719 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3720 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3721 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3722 [[,]f[orce]
3723 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3724 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3725 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3726 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3727 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003728
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003729 relax_domain_level=
3730 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003731 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003732
Bjorn Helgaasffd2e8d2017-12-01 11:50:33 -06003733 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3734 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3735 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3736 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3737 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003738
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003739 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003740 Format: nn[KMG]
3741 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3742 address space.
3743
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003744 reservelow= [X86]
3745 Format: nn[K]
3746 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3747 the bottom of the address space.
3748
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003749 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3750 during initialization.
3751
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003752 resume= [SWSUSP]
3753 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003754 Format:
3755 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003756
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003757 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3758 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3759 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3760 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3761 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3762
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003763 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3764 read the resume files
3765
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003766 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3767 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3768 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3769
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003770 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3771 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3772 present during boot.
3773 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003774 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003775 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3776 (that will set all pages holding image data
3777 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003778
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003779 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3780
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003781 rfkill.default_state=
3782 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3783 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3784 1 Unblocked.
3785
3786 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3787 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3788 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3789 blocked and the previous configuration.
3790 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3791 blocked and everything unblocked.
3792
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003793 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3794 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3795
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003796 ring3mwait=disable
3797 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3798 CPUs.
3799
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003800 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3801
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003802 rodata= [KNL]
3803 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3804 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3805
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003806 rockchip.usb_uart
3807 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3808 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3809 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3810 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003812 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003813 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003814
3815 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3816 mount the root filesystem
3817
3818 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3819
3820 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3821
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003822 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3823 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3824 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3825
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003826 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3827 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3828 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3829 managed by CMA.
3830
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003831 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3832
3833 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3834
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003835 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3836 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3837 strict
3838 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3839 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3840 which is faster.
3841
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003842 sa1100ir [NET]
3843 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3844
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003845 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003846
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003847 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3848
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003849 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3850 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3851 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3852 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3853
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003854 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3855 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3856 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3857 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3858 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3859 1 -- enable.
3860 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3861 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3862
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003863 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3864 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3865 security module asking for security registration will be
3866 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3867 as if no module has been chosen.
3868
3869 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003870 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3871 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3872 0 -- disable.
3873 1 -- enable.
3874 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3875 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3876 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3877
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003878 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3879 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3880 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3881 0 -- disable.
3882 1 -- enable.
3883 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3884
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003885 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003886
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003887 shapers= [NET]
3888 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003889
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003890 simeth= [IA-64]
3891 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003892
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003893 slram= [HW,MTD]
3894
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003895 slab_nomerge [MM]
3896 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3897 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003898 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3899 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3900 layout control by attackers can usually be
3901 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3902 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3903 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3904 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3905 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003906 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3907
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003908 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3909 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3910 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3911 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3912 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3913
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003914 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3915 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3916 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3917 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3918 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3919 last alloc / free. For more information see
3920 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003921
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003922 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3923 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3924 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3925 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3926 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3927 directories and files being created under
3928 /sys/kernel/slub.
3929
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003930 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003931 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3932 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3933 fragmentation. For more information see
3934 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003935
3936 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003937 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3938 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3939 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3940 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3941 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3942 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003943 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3944
3945 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003946 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003947 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003948 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3949
3950 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003951 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3952 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003953
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003954 smart2= [HW]
3955 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3956
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003957 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3958 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3959 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3960 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3961 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3962 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3963 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3964 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3965 1: Fast pin select (default)
3966 2: ATC IRMode
3967
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003968 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3969 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3970 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3971 actual hardware limit.
3972 Format: <integer>
3973 Default: -1 (no limit)
3974
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003975 softlockup_panic=
3976 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003977 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003978
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003979 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3980 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3981 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3982 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3983 functionality.
3984
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003985 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3986 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3987 backtraces on all cpus.
3988 Format: <integer>
3989
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003990 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003991 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003992
David Woodhouseda285122018-01-11 21:46:26 +00003993 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3994 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3995
3996 on - unconditionally enable
3997 off - unconditionally disable
3998 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3999 vulnerable
4000
4001 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4002 mitigation method at run time according to the
4003 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4004 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4005 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4006
4007 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4008
4009 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4010 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4011 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4012
4013 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4014 spectre_v2=auto.
4015
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004016 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4017 spia_fio_base=
4018 spia_pedr=
4019 spia_peddr=
4020
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07004021 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4022 Specifies how frequently to check for
4023 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4024 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4025 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4026 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4027 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4028 are ignored.
4029
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07004030 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4031 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4032 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4033 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4034 grace period will be considered for automatic
4035 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4036 expediting.
4037
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07004038 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4039 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4040 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4041 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4042 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4043 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4044
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05004045 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4046 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4047
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05004048 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4049 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4050 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4051 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4052 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4053 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4054 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4055
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004056 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4057 Format: <num>
4058 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4059 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4060 as the initial boot-console.
4061 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4062
4063 sti_font= [HW]
4064 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4065
4066 stifb= [HW]
4067 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4068
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004069 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4070 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4071 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4072 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4073 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4074 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4075 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4076 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4077 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4078 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4079 maximum port values.
4080
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004081 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4082 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4083 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4084 process in parallel from a single connection.
4085 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4086
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004087 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4088 [NFS]
4089 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4090 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4091 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4092 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4093 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4094 NFS server is running.
4095
4096 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4097 automatically using heuristics
4098 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4099 percpu one pool for each CPU
4100 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4101 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4102
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004103 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4104 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4105 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4106 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4107 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4108 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4109 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4110 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4111
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004112 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4113 [SUSPEND]
4114 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4115 mode before resuming the system (see
4116 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4117 is set. Default value is 5.
4118
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004119 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004120 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4121 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004122 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004123
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004124 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004125 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004126 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4127 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4128 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004129 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004130
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004131 switches= [HW,M68k]
4132
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004133 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4134 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4135 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4136 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4137 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4138 in older udev will not work anymore.
4139 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4140 the kernel configuration.
4141
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004142 sysrq_always_enabled
4143 [KNL]
4144 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4145 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4146 Useful for debugging.
4147
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004148 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4149 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4150 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4151 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4152 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4153 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4154
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004155 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4156
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004157 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004158 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004159 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4160 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4161 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4162 The system is woken from this state using a
4163 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004164
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004165 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4166 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4167
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004168 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4169 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4170 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4171
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004172 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4173 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004174 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004175
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004176 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4177 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4178 critical and hot trip points.
4179
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004180 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4181 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4182
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004183 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4184 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004185 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4186 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004187
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004188 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4189 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4190 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4191 0: no polling (default)
4192
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004193 threadirqs [KNL]
4194 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004195 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004196
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004197 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4198 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4199
4200 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4201 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4202 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4203
4204 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4205 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004206 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4207 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004208
4209 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4210 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4211 to the hypervisor.
4212
4213 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4214 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4215 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4216 kernel based on different criteria.
4217
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004218 topology= [S390]
4219 Format: {off | on}
4220 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004221 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4222 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004223 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004224 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004225
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004226 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4227 Format: {off}
4228 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4229 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4230 LPAR.
4231
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004232 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4233
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004234 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4235 Format: integer pcr id
4236 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4237 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4238 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4239 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4240 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4241 are saved.
4242
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004243 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004244 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004245
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004246 trace_event=[event-list]
4247 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004248 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4249 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4250 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004251
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004252 trace_options=[option-list]
4253 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4254 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4255 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4256 to echo the option name into
4257
4258 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4259
4260 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4261 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4262
4263 trace_options=stacktrace
4264
4265 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4266 section.
4267
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004268 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4269 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4270 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4271 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4272 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4273 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4274
4275 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4276 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4277 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4278 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4279
4280 ** CAUTION **
4281
4282 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4283 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4284 the system to live lock.
4285
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004286 traceoff_on_warning
4287 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4288 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4289 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4290 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4291
4292 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4293 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4294 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4295
4296 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4297 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4298
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004299 transparent_hugepage=
4300 [KNL]
4301 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4302 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4303 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4304 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4305
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004306 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004307 Format: <string>
4308 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004309 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4310 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4311 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4312 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004313 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4314 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4315 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4316 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004317 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4318 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4319 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004320
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004321 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4322 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4323 Format:
4324 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004325 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004326
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004327 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004328 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004329 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4330 help "seeing" what's going on.
4331
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004332 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4333 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4334
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004335 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4336 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4337 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4338 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4339 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4340 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4341 reported either.
4342
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004343 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004344 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004345
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004346 usbcore.authorized_default=
4347 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4348 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4349 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4350
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004351 usbcore.autosuspend=
4352 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4353 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4354 is the time required before an idle device will be
4355 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004356 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004357
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004358 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4359 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4360
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004361 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4362 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4363 (default = 65536).
4364
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004365 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4366 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4367
4368 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4369 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4370 scheme (default 0 = off).
4371
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004372 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4373 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4374 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4375
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004376 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4377 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4378 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4379
4380 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4381 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4382 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4383 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4384
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004385 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4386
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004387 usbhid.mousepoll=
4388 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004389
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004390 usbhid.jspoll=
4391 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4392
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004393 usb-storage.delay_use=
4394 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004395 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004396
4397 usb-storage.quirks=
4398 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4399 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4400 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4401 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4402 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4403 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4404 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004405 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4406 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004407 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4408 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004409 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4410 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004411 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4412 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4413 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4414 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004415 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4416 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004417 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4418 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004419 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4420 reported device capacity by one
4421 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004422 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4423 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004424 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4425 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004426 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4427 unlock ejectable media);
4428 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4429 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004430 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4431 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004432 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4433 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004434 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4435 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004436 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4437 bogus residue values);
4438 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4439 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004440 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4441 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004442 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004443 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4444 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004445 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4446 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004447 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4448
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004449 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4450 Format: <int>
4451 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4452 1 - undefined instruction events
4453 2 - system calls
4454 4 - invalid data aborts
4455 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4456 16 - SIGBUS faults
4457 Example: user_debug=31
4458
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004459 userpte=
4460 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4461
4462 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4463 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4464 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4465
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304466 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004467 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4468
4469 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004470 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4471
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004472 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4473 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4474 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4475
4476 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4477 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4478 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4479
4480 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4481 alias for vdso32=0.
4482
4483 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4484 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004485
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004486 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4487 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4488
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004489 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4490 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4491
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004492 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4493 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4494 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4495 level and then send out the event to user space through
4496 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4497 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4498 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004499 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004500
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004501 virtio_mmio.device=
4502 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4503
4504 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4505 where:
4506 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4507 like K, M and G)
4508 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4509 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4510 request_irq())
4511 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4512 example:
4513 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4514
4515 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004517 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004518 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004519 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004520 Use vga=ask for menu.
4521 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4522 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4523
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004524 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004525 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4526 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4527 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4528 mapped kernel RAM.
4529
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004530 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4531 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4532 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4533
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004534 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4535 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004536
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004537 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4538 Format: <command>
4539
4540 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4541 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004542
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004543 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4544 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4545 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4546 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4547 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4548 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4549 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4550
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004551 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4552 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004553
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004554 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004555 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4556 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4557 better than they would in emulation mode.
4558 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4559
4560 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4561 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4562 might break your system.
4563
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004564 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4565 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4566 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4567
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004568 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4569 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4570 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4571 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4572
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004573 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4574 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4575 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4576 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4577 ranging from 0-255.
4578
4579 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4580 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4581 Change the default green palette of the console.
4582 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4583 ranging from 0-255.
4584
4585 vt.default_red= [VT]
4586 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4587 Change the default red palette of the console.
4588 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4589 ranging from 0-255.
4590
4591 vt.default_utf8=
4592 [VT]
4593 Format=<0|1>
4594 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4595 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4596 newly opened terminals.
4597
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004598 vt.global_cursor_default=
4599 [VT]
4600 Format=<-1|0|1>
4601 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4602 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4603 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4604 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4605 cursors, 1 will display them.
4606
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004607 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4608 Default: 2 = green.
4609
4610 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4611 Default: 3 = cyan.
4612
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004613 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4614 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4615 or other driver-specific files in the
4616 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004617
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004618 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4619 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4620 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4621 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4622 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4623 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4624 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4625 corresponding sysfs file.
4626
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004627 workqueue.disable_numa
4628 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4629 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4630 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4631 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4632 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4633 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4634 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4635
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304636 workqueue.power_efficient
4637 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4638 they show better performance thanks to cache
4639 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4640 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4641
4642 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4643 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4644 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4645 power usage at the cost of small performance
4646 overhead.
4647
4648 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4649 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4650
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004651 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4652 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4653 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4654 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4655 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4656 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4657 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4658 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4659 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4660 impacted.
4661
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004662 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4663 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4664 supporting x2apic.
4665
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004666 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4667 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004668 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4669 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004670 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004671
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004672 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4673 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4674 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4675 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4676 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4677 domains.
4678
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004679 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4680 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4681 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4682 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4683 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4684 nics -- unplug network devices
4685 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004686 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4687 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4688 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004689 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004690
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004691 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4692 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4693 optimizations.
4694
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004695 xen_nopv [X86]
4696 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4697 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4698
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004699 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004700 Format:
4701 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]