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Mauro Carvalho Chehabe53dd082007-09-15 07:38:47 -03001 Kernel Parameters
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +09304The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093010The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093016Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093019 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093022Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070028Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
Rusty Russell5888bcc2014-05-14 10:33:45 +093033Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -070035
Stefan Richtera901ebb2006-04-01 01:43:18 +020036This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
Stefan Richter6585fa82006-04-01 01:44:30 +020043The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
Chuck Ebbertc99c1082007-07-27 10:46:20 +100049 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070050 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070053 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +020054 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Robin Getz0ae53642007-10-09 17:24:49 +080056 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -070057 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -070058 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Alan Cox9cfe2682011-01-25 14:18:38 +000059 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070061 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -040064 EVM Extended Verification Module
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070066 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -070067 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070068 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070069 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Mimi Zohar6146f0d2009-02-04 09:06:57 -050070 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070071 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
Adrian Bunk41e2e8b2005-07-12 13:58:33 -070072 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -080073 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070074 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -050077 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +020078 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
Kristen Carlson Accardi11ef6972006-09-28 11:29:01 -070079 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -070086 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070087 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -070088 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070089 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070090 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -070094 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -070098 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Randy Dunlap163475f2010-08-14 12:36:14 -0700107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
James Morris20510f22007-10-16 23:31:32 -0700109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -0700111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
Paul Mundte523d932007-02-28 18:30:01 +0900113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -0700116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -0300118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -0500120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +0100124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +0100134 XEN Xen support is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -0500145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700146
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -0700148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
Karsten Weiss55588702007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100149
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
Ahmed S. Darwish7a19a232011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
jens m. noedler9c4751f2006-09-29 02:00:27 -0700167
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -0800169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +0300170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
171 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700172 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
173 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
174 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700175 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700176 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +0800177 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +0800178 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +0000179 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off" or "acpi=force" are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700180
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200181 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700182
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400183 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
184 Format: <int>
185 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
186 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -0400187 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -0400188
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +0200189 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
190 acpi_backlight=vendor
191 acpi_backlight=video
192 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
193 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
194 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
195
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200196 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
197 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
198 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
199 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
200 This option is useful for developers to identify the
201 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
202 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
203
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700204 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
205 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700206 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700207 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
208 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
209 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
210 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
211 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
212 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
213 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600214 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
215 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
216 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700217
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -0600218 Enable processor driver info messages:
219 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
220 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
221 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700222 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
223 object while interpreting AML:
224 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700225 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
226 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +0200227
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -0700228 Some values produce so much output that the system is
229 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
230 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +0800231
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200232 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
233 { strict | lax | no }
234 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
235 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
236 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
237 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
238 can interfere with legacy drivers.
239 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
240 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
241 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
242 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
243 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
244 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
245 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
246 no further checks are performed.
247
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +0800248 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
249 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
250 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
251 size limitation.
252
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700253 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
254 ACPI will balance active IRQs
255 default in APIC mode
256
257 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
258 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
259 default in PIC mode
260
261 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
262 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
263
264 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
265 use by PCI
266 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
267
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800268 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
269 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800270 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
271 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
272 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800273 This feature is enabled by default.
274 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800275
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200276 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
277 kernels.
278
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800279 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
280 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
281 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
282 installed automatically and they will appear under
283 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
284 This option turns off this feature.
285 Note that specifying this option does not affect
286 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
287 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700288
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200289 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
290 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
291 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
292 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800293
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700294 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
295 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
296
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200297 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
298 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
299 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
300 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
301 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
302
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700303 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800304 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
305 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800306 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800307 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
308 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700309 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
310
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800311 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
312 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
313 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
314 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
315 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
316 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
317 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800318 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
319 care about the state of the feature group strings which
320 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800321 Examples:
322 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
323 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
324 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
325
326 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
327 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
328 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
329 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
330 multiple times through kernel command line is also
331 meaningless.
332 Examples:
333 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
334 FALSE.
335
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800336 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
337 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
338 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
339 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
340 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
341 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
342 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
343 there are quirks related to this string. This command
344 is useful when one want to control the state of the
345 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
346 the OSPM features.
347 Examples:
348 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
349 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
350 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
351 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
352 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
353 equivalent to
354 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
355 and
356 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
357 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
358
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530359 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700360 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
361 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
362 and always returns good values.
363
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700364 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
365 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
366
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700367 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
368 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
369 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
370
371 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
372 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200373 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700374 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
375 s3_bios and s3_mode.
376 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
377 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
378 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
379 used during resume from hibernation.
380 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
381 control method, with respect to putting devices into
382 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
383 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200384 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
385 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800386 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
387 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
388 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700389
390 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
391 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
392 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
393
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700394 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
395 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
396
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700397 agp= [AGP]
398 { off | try_unsupported }
399 off: disable AGP support
400 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
401 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
402
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700403 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
404 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
405
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000406 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
407 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
408 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
409 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
410
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200411 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
412 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
413 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
414 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
415 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
416 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
417 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
418
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100419 32: only for 32-bit processes
420 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200421 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
422 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
423
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500424 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
425 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
426 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
427 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
428 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
429 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
430
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100431 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200432 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
433 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900434 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
435 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
436 flushed before they will be reused, which
437 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200438 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
439 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100440 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
441 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
442 allowed anymore to lift isolation
443 requirements as needed. This option
444 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900445
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600446 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
447 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
448 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
449 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
450 IOMMU initialization.
451
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
453 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
454 Format: <a>,<b>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200455 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700456
457 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
458 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
459 connected to one of 16 gameports
460 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
461
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700462 apc= [HW,SPARC]
463 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700464 Format: noidle
465 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
466 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
467 APC and your system crashes randomly.
468
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700469 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700470 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
472 Change the amount of debugging information output
473 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700474
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100475 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
476 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
477 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
478 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
479 backup of CPU 0
480 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
481 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
482 shot down by NMI
483
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800484 autoconf= [IPV6]
485 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
486
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400487 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
488 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
489 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
490 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
491 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
492 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
493 apic=verbose is specified.
494 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
495
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700496 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700497 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700499 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
500 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
501
502 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
503
504 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
505
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700506 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
507 EzKey and similar keyboards
508
509 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
510
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700511 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
512 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700513
514 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
515 keyboards
516
517 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
518 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700519
520 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
521 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400523 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
524 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500525 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
526 until the next reboot
527 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
528 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
529 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
530 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
531 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
532 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400533 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400534
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400535 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
536 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
537 Default: 64
538
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700539 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
540 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700541
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700542 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
543 Format: <io>,<mode>
544 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
545
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700546 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
547 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700548 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
549 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
550
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700551 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
552 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700553 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
554 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
555
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700556 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
557 embedded devices based on command line input.
558 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
559
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700560 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
562 no delay (0).
563 Format: integer
564
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700565 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
566
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700567 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700568 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
569 kernel args too.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700570 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200571 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700572
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000573 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
574 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
575 at a time.
576
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700577 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
578
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700579 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700580 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
581 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
582 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
583 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
584 This option provides an override for these situations.
585
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300586 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
587 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
588 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300589 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300590
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700591 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
592 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
593 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
594 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
595 others).
596
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100597 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
598 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700599
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700600 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
601 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800602 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
603 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
604 a single hierarchy
605 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
606 subsystem
607 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
608 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
609 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700610
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800611 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612 Format: <string>
613 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800614 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800615
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700616 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
617 Format: { "0" | "1" }
618 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700619 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
620 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700621 1 -- check protection requested by application.
622 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700623 Value can be changed at runtime via
624 /selinux/checkreqprot.
625
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100626 cio_ignore= [S390]
627 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700628 clk_ignore_unused
629 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700630 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
631 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
632 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
633 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
634 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
635 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
636 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
637 platform with proper driver support. For more
638 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100639
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700640 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700641 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200642 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700643 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200644 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700645 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
646
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700647 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700648 Format: <string>
649 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
650 with the name specified.
651 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
652 the platform:
653 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
654 [ACPI] acpi_pm
655 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
656 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
657 [AVR32] avr32
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700658 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700659 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
660 [MIPS] MIPS
661 [PARISC] cr16
662 [S390] tod
663 [SH] SuperH
664 [SPARC64] tick
665 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
666
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100667 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
668 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800669 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
670 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100671 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
672 ones should be.
673 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
674 or using the feature without checking anything
675 will still see it. This just prevents it from
676 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
677 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
678 some critical bits.
679
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700680 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
681 [ARM,X86,KNL]
682 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
683 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
684 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700685 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
686 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100687 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
688
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000689 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
690 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
691 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
692 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
693 a hypervisor.
694 Default: yes
695
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100696 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
697 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200698 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100699
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530700 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100701 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100702 Range: 0 - 8192
703 Default: 64
704
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700705 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700706 Format:
707 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700708
709 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
710 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
711
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700712 com90xx= [HW,NET]
713 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700714 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
715
716 condev= [HW,S390] console device
717 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700718
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700719 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
720
721 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
722
723 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800724 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700725 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800726 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
727 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
728 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
729 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700730
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800731 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
732 information. See
733 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
734 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700735
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700736 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
737 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900738 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400739 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
740 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700741 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
742 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400743 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
744 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900745 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
746 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
747 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
748 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400749 the h/w is not re-initialized.
750
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500751 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
752 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700753
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700754 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
755 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
756 console=brl,ttyS0
757 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
758
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700759 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
760 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
761 disables the blank timer.
762
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800763 coredump_filter=
764 [KNL] Change the default value for
765 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
766 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
767
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400768 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
769 disable the cpuidle sub-system
770
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400771 cpu_init_udelay=N
772 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
773 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
774 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
775 Default: 10000
776
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700777 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700778 Format:
779 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700780
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800781 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
782 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
783 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
784 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
785 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
786 is selected automatically. Check
787 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700788
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700789 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
790 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
791 in the running system. The syntax of range is
792 start-[end] where start and end are both
793 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800794 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700795
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700796 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700797 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
798 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
799 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
800 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
801 available.
802 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700803 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
804 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
805 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700806 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
807 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800808 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
809 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
810 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
811 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700812 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
813 for second kernel instead.
814 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700815 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700816 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700817
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700818 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
819 Format: <dma>
820
821 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
822 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700823
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700824 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700825 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
826
827 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
828 (one device per port)
829 Format: <port#>,<type>
830 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
831
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200832 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
833 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600834 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200835
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700836 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
837
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700838 debug_locks_verbose=
839 [KNL] verbose self-tests
840 Format=<0|1>
841 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
842 self-tests.
843 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
844 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
845 only useful to kernel developers.
846
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700847 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
848
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500849 no_debug_objects
850 [KNL] Disable object debugging
851
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800852 debug_guardpage_minorder=
853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
854 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
855 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
856 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
857 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
858 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
859 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
860 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
861 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
862 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
863 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
864 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
865 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
866 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
867 bypassed) which are not detectable by
868 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
869 tracking down these problems.
870
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800871 debug_pagealloc=
872 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
873 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
874 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
875 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
876 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
877 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
878 on: enable the feature
879
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200880 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
881
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200882 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700883 Format: <area>[,<node>]
884 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
885
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700886 default_hugepagesz=
887 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
888 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
889 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
890 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
891 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
892 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700893
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700894 dhash_entries= [KNL]
895 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700896
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800897 disable= [IPV6]
898 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
899
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900900 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
901 Format: <int>
902 The number of initial APIC ID for the
903 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
904 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
905 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
906 causing system reset or hang due to sending
907 INIT from AP to BSP.
908
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000909 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
910 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
911 to workaround buggy firmware.
912
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800913 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
914 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
915
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700916 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700917 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
918 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700919 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700920
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100921 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100922 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
923 memory out of your available memory pool based on
924 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
925 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
926
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530927 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700928 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
929 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
930
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400931 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
932
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700933 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
934 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
935
936 dma_debug_entries=<number>
937 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
938 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
939 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
940 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
941 architectural default is too low.
942
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200943 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
944 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
945 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
946 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
947 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
948 driver later using sysfs.
949
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700950 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
951 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
952 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
953 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
954 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100955 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
956 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
957 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
958 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
959 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
960 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
961 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
962 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700963 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
964 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
965 data set with no connector name will be used for
966 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100967
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700968 dscc4.setup= [NET]
969
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600970 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
971 module.dyndbg[="val"]
972 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
973 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
974
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700975 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
976 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
977 information about the feature.
978
Borislav Petkovf29ba612015-03-27 16:15:18 +0100979 eagerfpu= [X86]
980 on enable eager fpu restore
981 off disable eager fpu restore
982 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
983 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
984
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700985 module.async_probe [KNL]
986 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
987
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700988 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
989 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
990 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
991 which are not unmapped.
992
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700993 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500994
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500995 When used with no options, the early console is
996 determined by the stdout-path property in device
997 tree's chosen node.
998
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200999 cdns,<addr>
1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
1001 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
1002 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1003 yet supported.
1004
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001005 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1006 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -07001007 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001008 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001009 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001010 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1011 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001012 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +03001013 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1014 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1015 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1016 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -04001017 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001018
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001019 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001020 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001021 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1022 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1023 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -06001024 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1025 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1026 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -05001027
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -07001028 msm_serial,<addr>
1029 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1030 port at the specified address. The serial port
1031 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1032 yet supported.
1033
1034 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1035 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1036 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1037 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1038 yet supported.
1039
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -05001040 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1041
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +01001042 s3c2410,<addr>
1043 s3c2412,<addr>
1044 s3c2440,<addr>
1045 s3c6400,<addr>
1046 s5pv210,<addr>
1047 exynos4210,<addr>
1048 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1049 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1050 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1051 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1052 Options are not yet supported.
1053
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -07001054 lpuart,<addr>
1055 lpuart32,<addr>
1056 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1057 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1058 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1059 port must already be setup and configured.
1060
Finn Thain7913ad12014-04-12 23:48:56 +10001061 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001062 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001063 earlyprintk=efi
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001064 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001066 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001067 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001068 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001069 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001070
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001071 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1072 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1073 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1074
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001075 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001076 takes over.
1077
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001078 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1079 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001080
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001081 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1082 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1083 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1084 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1085 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1086 You can find the port for a given device in
1087 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1088 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001089
1090 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1091 very good.
1092
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001093 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1094 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001095
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001096 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1097
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001098 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1099 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1100 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1101 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1102 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1103 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1104 default: on.
1105
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001106 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1107 ekgdboc=kbd
1108
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001109 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001110 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1111
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001112 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001113 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001114
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001115 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001116 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001117 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1118 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1119 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001120 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1121 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1122 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001123 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001124 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001125
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001126 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1127 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1128 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1129 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1130 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1131
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001132 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1133 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1134 updating original EFI memory map.
1135 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1136 from ss to ss+nn.
1137 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1138 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1139 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1140 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1141
1142 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1143 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1144 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1145 doesn't support it.
1146
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001147 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1148 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1149
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001150 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001151 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001152 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001153
1154 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001155 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001156 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001157 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1158
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001159 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001160 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001161 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1162 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001163 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001164
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001165 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1166 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1167 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1168 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1169
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001170 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001171 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1172 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1173 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1174 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1175
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001176 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1177 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1178 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1179 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1180 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1181 Default value is 0.
1182 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1183
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001184 erst_disable [ACPI]
1185 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1186 support.
1187
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001188 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1189 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1190 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1191
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001192 evm= [EVM]
1193 Format: { "fix" }
1194 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1195 current integrity status.
1196
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001197 failslab=
1198 fail_page_alloc=
1199 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1200 General fault injection mechanism.
1201 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001202 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001203
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001204 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001205 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001206
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001207 force_pal_cache_flush
1208 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1209 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1210 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1211 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1212
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001213 forcepae [X86-32]
1214 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1215 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1216 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1217 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1218 and may cause unknown problems.
1219
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001220 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001221 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001222 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1223 boot debugging.
1224
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001225 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001226 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001227 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1228 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1229 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1230 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001231
1232 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1233 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1234 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1235 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1236 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001237 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001238
1239 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1240 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1241 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1242 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1243 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001244
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001245 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1246 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1247 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1248 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1249 that can be changed at run time by the
1250 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1251
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001252 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1253 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1254 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1255 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1256 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1257
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001258 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1259 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1260 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1261 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1262 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1263
1264 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1265
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001266 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1267 Format: off | on
1268 default: on
1269
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001270 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1271 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1272 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1273 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1274 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001276 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001277 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1278 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1279 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001281 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1282 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1283 Format: 0 | 1
1284 Default: 0
1285 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1286 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1287 Format: 0 | 1
1288 Default: 0
1289 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1290 Format: 0 | 1
1291 Default: 0
1292 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1293 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1294 Default: 1024
1295 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1296 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1297 Default: 1024
1298
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001299 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1300 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1301 backtraces on all cpus.
1302 Format: <integer>
1303
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001304 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1305 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001306 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001307 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001308
1309 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1310
1311 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1312 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1313
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001314 hest_disable [ACPI]
1315 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1316 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1317 logic will be disabled.
1318
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001319 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1320 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1321 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1322 size on bigger boxes.
1323
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001324 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1325 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1326 Default: "on"
1327
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001328 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1329 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1330
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001331 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1332
1333 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1334 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1335 verbose }
1336 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1337 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1338 VIA, nVidia)
1339 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1340
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001341 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1342 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1343
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001344 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1345 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001346 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1347 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1348 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1349 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001350 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001351
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001352 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1353 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001354 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1355 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1356 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001357
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001358 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1359 hardware thread id mappings.
1360 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1361
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001362 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1363 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1364 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1365 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1366 the real console.
1367
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001368 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001369 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1370 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001371 Format:
1372 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1373
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001374 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001375 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1376 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1377 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1378 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001379 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001380 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1381 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001382 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1383 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001384 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001385 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1386 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001387 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001388 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001389 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1390 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001391 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001392 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1393 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001394 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001395
1396 i810= [HW,DRM]
1397
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001398 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1399 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1400 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001401 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1402 does not match list of supported models.
1403 i8k.power_status
1404 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1405 (disabled by default)
1406 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1407 capability is set.
1408
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001409 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001410 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1411 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001412 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1413 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1414 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1415 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1416 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1417 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1418 value switches the backlight off.
1419 -1 -- never invert brightness
1420 0 -- machine default
1421 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001422
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001423 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1424 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1425
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001426 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1427 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001428 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1429 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001430 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001431
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001432 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1433 Format: <int>
1434 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1435 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1436 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1437 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1438 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1439 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1440 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1441 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1442 was 0x3.
1443
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001444 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1445 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1446
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001447 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001448 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001449 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1450 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1451 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1452 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001453 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001454 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001455 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001456
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001457 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1458 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1459 Default: strict
1460
1461 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1462 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1463 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1464 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1465 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1466 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1467 encoding mode.
1468
1469 Available settings are as follows:
1470 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1471 supported by the FPU
1472 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1473 by the FPU
1474 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1475 by the FPU
1476 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1477 supported by the FPU
1478
1479 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1480 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1481 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1482 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1483 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1484 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1485 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1486 MIPS64 CPUs.
1487
1488 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1489 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1490 except where unsupported by hardware.
1491
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001492 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1493 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1494 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001495 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1496 could change it dynamically, usually by
1497 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001498
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001499 ignore_rlimit_data
1500 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1501 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1502 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1503
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001504 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1505 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1506
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001507 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001508 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001509 default: "enforce"
1510
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001511 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1512 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1513 owned by uid=0.
1514
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001515 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001516 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1517 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001518 default: "sha1"
1519
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001520 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1521 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1522
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001523 ima_policy= [IMA]
1524 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1525 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1526 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1528 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1529 Format: "tcb"
1530
1531 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001532 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1533 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1534 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1535 opened for read by uid=0.
1536
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001537 ima_template= [IMA]
1538 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001539 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001540 Default: "ima-ng"
1541
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001542 ima_template_fmt=
1543 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1544 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1545
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001546 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1547 Format: <min_file_size>
1548 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1549 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1550
1551 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1552 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1554
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001555 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1556 Format: <bufsize>
1557 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1558
1559 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1560 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1561 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1562
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001563 init= [KNL]
1564 Format: <full_path>
1565 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1566 process.
1567
1568 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1569 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1570 startup.
1571
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001572 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1573 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1574 modules and initcalls.
1575
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001576 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1577
1578 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1579 Format: <irq>
1580
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001581 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1582
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001583 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1584 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1585 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1586 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1587
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001588 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001589 on
1590 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001591 off
1592 Disable intel iommu driver.
1593 igfx_off [Default Off]
1594 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1595 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1596 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1597 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1598 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 forcedac [x86_64]
1600 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001601 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001602 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001603 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1604 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001605 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001606 strict [Default Off]
1607 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1608 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1609 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001610 sp_off [Default Off]
1611 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1612 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1613 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001614 ecs_off [Default Off]
1615 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1616 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1617 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1618 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1619 on hardware which claims to support them.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001620
1621 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1622 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1623 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1624
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001625 intel_pstate= [X86]
1626 disable
1627 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1628 scaling driver for the supported processors
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001629 force
1630 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1631 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1632 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1633 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1634 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1635 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1636 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1637 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001638 no_hwp
1639 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1640 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001641 hwp_only
1642 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1643 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001644
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001645 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001646 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1647 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1648 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001649 no_x2apic_optout
1650 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001651 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001652
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001653 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1654 strict regions from userspace.
1655 relaxed
1656
1657 iommu= [x86]
1658 off
1659 force
1660 noforce
1661 biomerge
1662 panic
1663 nopanic
1664 merge
1665 nomerge
1666 forcesac
1667 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001668 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001669 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1670 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001671
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001672
1673 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1674 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1675 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1676
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301677 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001678 0x80
1679 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1680 0xed
1681 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001682 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001683 Simple two microseconds delay
1684 none
1685 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001686
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001687 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001688 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001689
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001690 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1691 Format:
1692 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1693 or
1694 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1695 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1696 or a mixture
1697 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1698
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001699 irqfixup [HW]
1700 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1701 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1702 firmware running.
1703
1704 irqpoll [HW]
1705 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1706 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1707 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1708 firmware running.
1709
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001710 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001711 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001712
1713 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001714 Format:
1715 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1716 or
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001717 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1718 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
Derek Fults22f2e282006-12-06 20:37:11 -08001719 or a mixture
1720 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001721
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001722 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1723 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001724 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1725 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001726 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1727 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1728
1729 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001730 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1731 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1732 suboptimal load balancer performance.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001733
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001734 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001735
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001736 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1737 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1738 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1739 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1740 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1741 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1742
1743 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1744 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1745 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1746 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1747 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1748 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1749
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001750 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1751 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1752
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001753 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1754 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1755 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1756 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1757 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1758 hibernation will be disabled.
1759
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001760 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1761
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301762 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001763 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1764 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1765 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1766 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1767 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1768 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1769 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001770 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001771 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1772 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1773 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1774 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1775 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1776 zone if it does not.
1777
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001778 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1779 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1780 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1781 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1782 optional and is the number seconds in between
1783 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1784 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1785 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1786 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1787 the kernel debugger.
1788
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001789 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001790 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1791 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001792 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1793 keyboard only format: kbd
1794 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1795 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1796 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1797 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001798
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001799 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1800 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1801
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001802 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1803 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1804 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1805
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001806 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1807 Valid arguments: on, off
1808 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001809 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1810 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001811
Xishi Qiuc3ac14b2014-01-23 15:53:33 -08001812 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1813 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1814 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1815 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1816 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1817 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1818
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301819 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001820 in oops dumps.
1821
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001822 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1823 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1824
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001825 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1826 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001827 Default is 0 (off)
1828
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001829 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001830 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001831
1832 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1833 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001834 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001835
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001836 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1837 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1838 Default is 1 (enabled)
1839
1840 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1841 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1842 Default is 0 (disabled)
1843
1844 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1845 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1846 Default is 1 (enabled)
1847
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001848 kvm-intel.nested=
1849 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1850 Default is 0 (disabled)
1851
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001852 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1853 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1854 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1855 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1856
1857 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1858 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1859 Default is 1 (enabled)
1860
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001861 l2cr= [PPC]
1862
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001863 l3cr= [PPC]
1864
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001865 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001866 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001867
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001868 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1869 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1870 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1871
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301872 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001873 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001874
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001875 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1876 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1877 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1878 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001879 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001880 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1881 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001882
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001883 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1884 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1885 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001886
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001887 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1888 when set.
1889 Format: <int>
1890
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001891 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1892 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001893 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001894 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1895 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1896 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1897 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1898 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1899
1900 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1901 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1902 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1903 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1904 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1905 host link and device attached to it.
1906
1907 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1908 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1909 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1910 The following configurations can be forced.
1911
1912 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1913 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1914
1915 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1916
1917 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1918 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1919 allowed.
1920
1921 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1922
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001923 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1924
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001925 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1926 and both resets.
1927
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001928 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1929 hot-unplug link recovery
1930
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001931 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1932
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001933 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1934
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001935 * disable: Disable this device.
1936
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001937 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1938 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1939
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10001940 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08001941
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001942 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001943 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001944
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001945 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1946 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001947
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08001948 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1949 Format: <integer>
1950
1951 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1952 Format: <integer>
1953
1954 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1955 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001956
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07001957 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1958 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1959 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1960 number of online CPUs.
1961
1962 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1963 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1964
1965 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1966 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1967
1968 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1969 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1970 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1971
1972 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1973 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1974 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1975 mode during the locktorture test.
1976
1977 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1978 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1979 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1980
1981 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1982 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1983
1984 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1985 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1986 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1987 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1988 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1989 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1990
1991 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1992 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1993
1994 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1995 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1996
1997 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1998 Enable additional printk() statements.
1999
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002000 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2001 Format: <irq>
2002
2003 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2004 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2005 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2006 loglevels are defined as follows:
2007
2008 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2009 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2010 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2011 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2012 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2013 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2014 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2015 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2016
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002017 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002018 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2019 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2020 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2021 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2022 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2023 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002024
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002025 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2026 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2027 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2028 kernel boot problems.
2029
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002030 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2031 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2032 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2033 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2034 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2035 attached printers to be reset. Using
2036 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2037 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2038 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2039 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2040 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2041 port specification list means that device IDs
2042 from each port should be examined, to see if
2043 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2044 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2045 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2046
2047 lpj=n [KNL]
2048 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2049 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2050 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2051 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2052 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2053 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2054 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2055 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2056 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2057 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2058 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2059 hardware.
2060
2061 ltpc= [NET]
2062 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2063
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002064 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002065 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2066 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002067
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002068 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2069 yeeloong laptop.
2070 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2071
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002072 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2073 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002074
2075 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002076 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
2077 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
2078 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
2079 the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002080
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002081 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2082 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2083 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2084 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2085 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2086 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002087
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002088 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002089
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002090 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002091
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002092 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2093 See Documentation/md.txt.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002094
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002095 mdacon= [MDA]
2096 Format: <first>,<last>
2097 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002098
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002099 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2100 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2101 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002102 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2103 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2104 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2105 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002106
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002107 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002108 memory.
2109
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002110 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2111 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2112 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2113
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302114 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002115 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2116 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2117 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2118 option description.
2119
2120 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002121 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2122 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002123
2124 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2125 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002126 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002127
2128 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2129 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002130 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002131 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2132 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2133 or
2134 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002135
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002136 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2137 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2138 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2139 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2140 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2141
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002142 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2143 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2144 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2145 Setting this option will scan the memory
2146 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2147 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2148 from using the memory being corrupted.
2149 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2150 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2151 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2152 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2153
2154 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2155 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2156 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2157 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2158 corruption in more or less memory.
2159
2160 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2161 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2162 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2163 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2164
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002165 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002166 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002167 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002168 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2169 performed. Each pass selects another test
2170 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2171 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2172 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2173 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002174
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002175 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2176 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2177
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002178 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2179 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2180 platforms.
2181
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002182 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2183 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2184 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2185 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2186
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002187 mga= [HW,DRM]
2188
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002189 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2190 physical address is ignored.
2191
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002192 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2193 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2194 Default: "0tb"
2195 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2196 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2197 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2198 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2199 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2200 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2201 unconfigured.
2202 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2203 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2204 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2205 VGA shield.
2206 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2207 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2208 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2209 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2210 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2211 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2212
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002213 mminit_loglevel=
2214 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2215 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2216 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2217 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2218 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2219 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2220
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002221 module.sig_enforce
2222 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2223 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002224 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002225 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2226
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002227 mousedev.tap_time=
2228 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2229 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2230 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2231 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2232 Format: <msecs>
2233 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2234 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2235 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2236 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2237
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302238 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002239 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2240 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2241 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2242 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2243 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2244 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2245 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2246 is not too small.
2247
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002248 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2249 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002251 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2252 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2253
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002254 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2255 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002256
2257 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002258 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002259
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002260 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2261 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2262 at a time.
2263
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002264 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2265
2266 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2267
2268 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2269 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2270 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2271 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2272 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2273
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002274 mtdset= [ARM]
2275 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2276
2277 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2278
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002279 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002280 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2281 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002282
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002283 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002284 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002285 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2286
2287 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2288 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2289 Default is 1.
2290 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2291 using up MTRRs.
2292
2293 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2294 Format: <integer>
2295 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2296 Default : 1
2297 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2298 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002300 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2301
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002302 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2303 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2304 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2305 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002306 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2307 file if at all.
2308
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002309 nf_conntrack.acct=
2310 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2311 0 to disable accounting
2312 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002313 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002314
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002315 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002316 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002317
2318 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002319 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002320
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002321 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2322 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2323
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002324 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2325 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2326 channel should listen.
2327
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002328 nfs.cache_getent=
2329 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2330 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2331
2332 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2333 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2334 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2335
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002336 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2337 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2338 entries.
2339
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002340 nfs.enable_ino64=
2341 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2342 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2343 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2344 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2345 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2346
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002347 nfs.max_session_slots=
2348 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2349 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2350 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2351 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2352 Note that there is little point in setting this
2353 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2354
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002355 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002356 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2357 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2358 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2359 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2360 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2361 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2362 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2363 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2364 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2365 back to using the idmapper.
2366 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002367 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2368 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2369 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2370 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2371 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002372
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002373 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2374 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2375 information in exchange_id requests.
2376 If zero, no implementation identification information
2377 will be sent.
2378 The default is to send the implementation identification
2379 information.
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002380
2381 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2382 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2383 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2384 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2385 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2386 after the locks are lost.
2387 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2388 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2389 parameter to '1'.
2390 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2391 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002392
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002393 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2394 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2395 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2396
2397 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2398 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2399 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2400 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2401
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002402 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2403 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2404 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2405 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2406 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2407 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002408
Sachin Bhamare18d98f62012-03-19 20:47:58 -07002409 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2410 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2411 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2412 osd-targets. Please see:
2413 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2414
Paul Mundt1e1030d2009-09-01 17:38:32 +09002415 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002416 when a NMI is triggered.
2417 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2418
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302419 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002420 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002421 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002422 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2423 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002424 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002425 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002426 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2427 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002428 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2429 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002430
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002431 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2432 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2433 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2434 waits 4 seconds.
2435
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002436 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002437 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2438 is present.
2439
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002440 no_console_suspend
2441 [HW] Never suspend the console
2442 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2443 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2444 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2445 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2446 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2447 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2448 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002449 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2450 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2451 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2452 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2453 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002454
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002455 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2456 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2457 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002458
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002459 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2460
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002461 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2462 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2463
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002464 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2465
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002466 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2467 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2468
2469 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002470
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002471 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2472
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002473 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2474
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002475 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2476
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002477 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2478
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002479 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002480
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002481 noexec [IA-64]
2482
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302483 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002484 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002485 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002486 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2487
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002488 nosmap [X86]
2489 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2490 even if it is supported by processor.
2491
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002492 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002493 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002494 even if it is supported by processor.
2495
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002496 noexec32 [X86-64]
2497 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2498 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2499 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2500 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2501 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002502
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002503 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002504
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002505 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002506 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2507 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002508
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002509 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2510
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002511 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2512 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2513 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2514
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002515 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2516 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2517 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2518 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2519 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2520 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2521
2522 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2523 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2524 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2525 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2526 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2527 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2528 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2529
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002530 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2531 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2532 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002533
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002534 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2535 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2536 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2537
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002538 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2539 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2540 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2541 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2542 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2543 real-time systems.
2544
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002545 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2546
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002547 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2548 Valid arguments: on, off
2549 Default: on
2550
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002551 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2552 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002553 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002554 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2555 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
Frederic Weisbeckerd1e43fa2013-03-26 23:47:24 +01002556 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2557 rcu_nocbs= set.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002558
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002559 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2560
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002561 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002562 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2563
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302564 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002565 broken timer IRQ sources.
2566
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002567 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2568
2569 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2570 initial RAM disk.
2571
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002572 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2573 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002574 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002575
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002576 nointroute [IA-64]
2577
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002578 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002579
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002580 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2581
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002582 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2583 fault handling.
2584
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002585 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2586 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2587 behaviour
2588
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002589 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002590
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002591 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002592
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002593 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2594 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2595
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002596 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2597
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002598 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002599
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002600 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2601 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2602
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002603 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2604 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2605 irq.
2606
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002607 nomodule Disable module load
2608
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002609 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2610 pagetables) support.
2611
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002612 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2613 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2614
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002615 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002616
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002617 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002618 with UP alternatives
2619
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002620 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2621 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2622 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2623 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002624
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002625 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2626 space.
2627
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002628 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2629 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2630 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2631
2632 nosbagart [IA-64]
2633
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002634 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002635
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002636 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2637 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002638
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002639 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2640
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002641 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2642
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002643 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002644
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002645 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2646 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002647
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002648 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002649
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002650 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2651
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002652 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2653 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2654 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2655 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2656 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2657 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2658 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2659 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2660 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2661 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2662 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2663 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2664 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2665
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002666 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002667 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2668 SAL PALO.
2669
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002670 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2671 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2672 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2673 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2674 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2675
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002676 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2677
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002678 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2679 Allowed values are enable and disable
2680
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002681 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2682 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2683 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2684 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2685
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002686 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2687 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2688 info.
2689
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002690 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2691 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2692 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2693 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2694 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2695 interrupts *may* be lost!
2696
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002697 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2698 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2699 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2700 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2701
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002702 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2703 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2704
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002705 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2706 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2707 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002708 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2709 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002710 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2711 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002712 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2713 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2714 for generic hr timer mode)
Andreas Krebbeldd3c4672011-11-25 20:03:05 +01002715 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2716 (report cpu_type "timer")
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002717
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002718 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2719 process, but there is a small probability of
2720 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002721 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2722 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2723
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002724 OSS [HW,OSS]
2725 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2726
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002727 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2728 Storage of the information about who allocated
2729 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2730 we can turn it on.
2731 on: enable the feature
2732
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002733 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002734 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2735 timeout = 0: wait forever
2736 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002737 Format: <timeout>
2738
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002739 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2740 on a WARN().
2741
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002742 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2743 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2744 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2745 succeeds in any situation.
2746 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2747 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2748 kernel more unstable.
2749
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002750 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2751 connected to, default is 0.
2752 Format: <parport#>
2753 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2754 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002755 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002756
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002757 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2758 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2759 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2760 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2761 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2762 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2763 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2764 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2765 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2766 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2767 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2768 are specified on the command line, starting
2769 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002770
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002771 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2772 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2773 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2774 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2775 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2776 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002777 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2778
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002779 pause_on_oops=
2780 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2781 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2782 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2783
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002784 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2785
2786 pcd. [PARIDE]
2787 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002788 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002789
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002790 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002791 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2792 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002793 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002794 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002795 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2796 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002797 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002798 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2799 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2800 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002801 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2802 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2803 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2804 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2805 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2806 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2807 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2808 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2809 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2810 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002811 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2812 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2813 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002814 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2815 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302816 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002817 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002818 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2819 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2820 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002821 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2822 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2823 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002824 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2825 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2826 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002827 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2828 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2829 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2830 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002831 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2832 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2833 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2834 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002835 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002836 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2837 on several machines and they hang the machine
2838 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2839 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2840 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2841 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2842 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002843 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002844 Use with caution as certain devices share
2845 address decoders between ROMs and other
2846 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002847 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002848 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2849 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002850 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2851 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002852 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002853 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2854 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2855 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002856 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002857 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2858 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2859 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002860 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002861 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2862 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2863 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002864 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002865 numbers ourselves, overriding
2866 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002867 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002868 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2869 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2870 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2871 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2872 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002873 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002874 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07002875 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2876 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2877 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2878 please report a bug.
2879 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2880 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002881 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2882 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2883 so this option is a temporary workaround
2884 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07002885 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2886 handle more pci cards
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002887 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2888 just use the configuration from the
2889 bootloader. This is currently used on
2890 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2891 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02002892 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2893 This might help on some broken boards which
2894 machine check when some devices' config space
2895 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2896 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002897 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2898 This sorting is done to get a device
2899 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2900 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08002901 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2902 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2903 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2904 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2905 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2906 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2907 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2908 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2909 or bus can support) for best performance.
2910 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2911 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2912 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2913 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2914 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2915 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08002916 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2917 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2918 The default value is 256 bytes.
2919 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2920 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2921 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09002922 resource_alignment=
2923 Format:
2924 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2925 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2926 aligned memory resources.
2927 If <order of align> is not specified,
2928 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2929 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2930 windows need to be expanded.
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06002931 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2932 end-to-end CRC checking).
2933 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2934 the default.
2935 off: Turn ECRC off
2936 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08002937 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2938 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2939 Default size is 256 bytes.
2940 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2941 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2942 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08002943 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2944 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2945 accommodate resources required by all child
2946 devices.
2947 off: Turn realloc off
2948 on: Turn realloc on
2949 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01002950 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06002951 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2952 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2953 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05002954
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04002955 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2956 Management.
2957 off Disable ASPM.
2958 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2959 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2960
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05002961 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2962 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2963 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2964
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002965 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002966 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2967 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2968 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2969 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2970 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02002971 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2972 ports driver.
2973
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002974 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01002975 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02002976 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01002977
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002978 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2979
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05302980 pd_ignore_unused
2981 [PM]
2982 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2983 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2984 for debug and development, but should not be
2985 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2986
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002987 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002988 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002989
2990 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2991 boot time.
2992 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2993 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2994
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09002995 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09002996 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2997 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2998 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2999 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3000 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003001
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003002 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003003 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003004
3005 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003006 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003007
3008 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003009 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003010
3011 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3012 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3013 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3014
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003015 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003016 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3017 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3018
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003019 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3020 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3021 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3022 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3023 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3024 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003025
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003026 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3027 { off }
3028
3029 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3030 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3031
3032 pnp_reserve_irq=
3033 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3034
3035 pnp_reserve_dma=
3036 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3037
3038 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003039 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003040
3041 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003042 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3043 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003044 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3045
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003046 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3047 Default is 21.
3048 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3049 may be specified.
3050 Format: <port>,<port>....
3051
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003052 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3053 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3054 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3055 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3056 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3057
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003058 print-fatal-signals=
3059 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003060
3061 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3062 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3063 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3064 coredump - etc.
3065
3066 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3067 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3068
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003069 default: off.
3070
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003071 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3072 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3073 panics
3074 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3075 default: disabled
3076
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003077 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3078 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3079
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003080 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3081 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3082 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3083
3084 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3085 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3086 instead using the legacy FADT method
3087
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003088 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003089 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3090 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3091 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3092 statistical time based profiling.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003093 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3094 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003095 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003096
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003097 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3098 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003099 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003100
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003101 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3102 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003103 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3104 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003105 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3106 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003107 (0 = never).
3108 psmouse.resolution=
3109 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3110 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003111 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003112 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3113
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003114 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3115
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003116 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003117 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003118
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003119 pty.legacy_count=
3120 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3121 default number.
3122
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003123 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003125 r128= [HW,DRM]
3126
3127 raid= [HW,RAID]
3128 See Documentation/md.txt.
3129
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003130 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003131 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003132
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003133 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003134 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3135 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3136 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003137 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3138 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3139 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3140 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003141 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3142 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3143 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3144
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003145 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003146 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3147 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3148 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3149 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3150 This improves the real-time response for the
3151 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3152 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3153 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3154 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3155
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003156 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003157 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3158 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003159
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003160 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3161 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3162 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3163 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3164
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003165 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3166 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3167 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3168 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3169
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003170 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3171 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3172 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003173 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3174 is set.
3175
3176 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3177 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3178 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3179 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3180 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3181 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003182
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003183 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3184 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3185 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3186 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3187 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003188
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003189 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003190 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3191 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3192 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3193 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3194 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3195 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003196
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003197 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3198 Set required age in jiffies for a
3199 given grace period before RCU starts
3200 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3201 rcu_note_context_switch().
3202
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003203 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003204 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3205 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3206 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3207 and maximum value is HZ.
3208
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003209 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003210 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3211 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3212 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3213
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003214 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003215 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3216 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3217 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3218 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3219 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3220 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3221 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3222 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3223 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003224
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003225 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3226 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3227 defaults to the square root of the number of
3228 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3229 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3230 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3231
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003232 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003233 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3234 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003235
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003236 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003237 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3238 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003239
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003240 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003241 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3242 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003243
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003244 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003245 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3246 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3247 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3248 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003249
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003250 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3251 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3252 callback-flood tests.
3253
3254 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3255 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3256 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3257 test.
3258
3259 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3260 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3261 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3262 disable callback-flood testing.
3263
3264 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3265 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3266 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3267
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003268 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003269 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3270 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003271
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003272 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003273 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3274 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003275
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003276 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003277 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3278 in seconds.
3279
3280 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3281 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3282 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003283
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003284 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003285 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003286
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003287 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003288 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3289 update-side primitives, if available.
3290
3291 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3292 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3293 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3294 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3295 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3296 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3297 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003298
3299 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003300 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3301
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003302 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003303 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3304 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3305 test, hence the "fake".
3306
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003307 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003308 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3309 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3310 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3311 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3312 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003313
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003314 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3315 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3316
3317 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003318 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3319
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003320 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003321 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3322 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3323
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003324 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003325 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3326 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3327 during the rcutorture test.
3328
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003329 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003330 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3331 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3332
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003333 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003334 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3335 warnings, zero to disable.
3336
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003337 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003338 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3339
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003340 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003341 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3342
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003343 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003344 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3345 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3346 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3347 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3348
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003349 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003350 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3351 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3352 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3353
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003354 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003355 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3356
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003357 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003358 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3359
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003360 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003361 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3362 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3363
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003364 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3365 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3366
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003367 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003368 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3369
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003370 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003371 Enable additional printk() statements.
3372
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003373 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3374 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3375
3376 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3377 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3378
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003379 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3380 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3381 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3382 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3383 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3384 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003385 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003386
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003387 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3388 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3389 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3390 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003391 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3392 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3393 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3394 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3395 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003396
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003397 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3398 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3399 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003400 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3401 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003402
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003403 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3404 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3405 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3406 to zero.
3407
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003408 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3409 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3410
3411 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3412 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3413
3414 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3415 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3416
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003417 rdinit= [KNL]
3418 Format: <full_path>
3419 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3420 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3421
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003422 reboot= [KNL]
3423 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3424 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3425 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3426 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3427 [[,]f[orce]
3428 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3429 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3430 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3431 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3432 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003433
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003434 relax_domain_level=
3435 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo21acb9c2009-02-04 10:12:08 +01003436 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003437
Rafael J. Wysocki0399d4d2014-05-26 13:40:59 +02003438 relative_sleep_states=
3439 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3440 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3441 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3442 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3443 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3444
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003445 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3446
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003447 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003448 Format: nn[KMG]
3449 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3450 address space.
3451
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003452 reservelow= [X86]
3453 Format: nn[K]
3454 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3455 the bottom of the address space.
3456
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003457 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3458 during initialization.
3459
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003460 resume= [SWSUSP]
3461 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003462 Format:
3463 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003464
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003465 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3466 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3467 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3468 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3469 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3470
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003471 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3472 read the resume files
3473
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003474 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3475 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3476 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3477
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003478 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3479 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3480 present during boot.
3481 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003482 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003483
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003484 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3485
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003486 rfkill.default_state=
3487 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3488 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3489 1 Unblocked.
3490
3491 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3492 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3493 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3494 blocked and the previous configuration.
3495 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3496 blocked and everything unblocked.
3497
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003498 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3499 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3500
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003501 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3502
3503 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003504 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003505
3506 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3507 mount the root filesystem
3508
3509 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3510
3511 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3512
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003513 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3514 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3515 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3516
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003517 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3518 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3519 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3520 managed by CMA.
3521
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003522 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3523
3524 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3525
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003526 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3527 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3528 strict
3529 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3530 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3531 which is faster.
3532
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003533 sa1100ir [NET]
3534 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3535
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003536 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003537
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003538 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3539
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003540 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3541 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3542 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3543 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3544 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3545 1 -- enable.
3546 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3547 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3548
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003549 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3550 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3551 security module asking for security registration will be
3552 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3553 as if no module has been chosen.
3554
3555 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003556 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3557 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3558 0 -- disable.
3559 1 -- enable.
3560 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3561 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3562 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3563
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003564 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3565 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3566 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3567 0 -- disable.
3568 1 -- enable.
3569 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3570
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003571 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003572
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003573 shapers= [NET]
3574 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003575
Yinghai Lub05f78f2008-08-22 01:32:50 -07003576 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3577 Format: { <integer> }
3578 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3579 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3580 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3581
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003582 simeth= [IA-64]
3583 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003584
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003585 slram= [HW,MTD]
3586
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003587 slab_nomerge [MM]
3588 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3589 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3590 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3591 merging on their own.
3592 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3593
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003594 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3595 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3596 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3597 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3598 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3599
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003600 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3601 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3602 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3603 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3604 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3605 last alloc / free. For more information see
3606 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003607
3608 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003609 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3610 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3611 fragmentation. For more information see
3612 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003613
3614 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003615 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3616 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3617 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3618 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3619 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3620 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003621 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3622
3623 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003624 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003625 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003626 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3627
3628 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003629 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3630 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003631
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003632 smart2= [HW]
3633 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3634
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003635 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3636 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3637 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3638 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3639 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3640 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3641 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3642 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3643 1: Fast pin select (default)
3644 2: ATC IRMode
3645
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003646 softlockup_panic=
3647 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003648 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003649
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003650 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3651 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3652 backtraces on all cpus.
3653 Format: <integer>
3654
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003655 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003656 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003657
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003658 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3659 spia_fio_base=
3660 spia_pedr=
3661 spia_peddr=
3662
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003663 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3664 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3665
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003666 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3667 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3668 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3669 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3670 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3671 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3672 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3673
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003674 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3675 Format: <num>
3676 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3677 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3678 as the initial boot-console.
3679 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3680
3681 sti_font= [HW]
3682 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3683
3684 stifb= [HW]
3685 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3686
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003687 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3688 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3689 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3690 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3691 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3692 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3693 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3694 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3695 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3696 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3697 maximum port values.
3698
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08003699 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3700 [NFS]
3701 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3702 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3703 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3704 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3705 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3706 NFS server is running.
3707
3708 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3709 automatically using heuristics
3710 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3711 percpu one pool for each CPU
3712 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3713 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3714
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003715 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3716 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3717 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3718 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3719 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3720 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3721 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3722 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3723
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08003724 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3725 [SUSPEND]
3726 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3727 mode before resuming the system (see
3728 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3729 is set. Default value is 5.
3730
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07003731 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08003732 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3733 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3734 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3735
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01003736 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3737 Format: { <int> | force }
3738 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3739 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3740 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003741
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003742 switches= [HW,M68k]
3743
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02003744 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3745 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3746 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3747 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3748 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3749 in older udev will not work anymore.
3750 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3751 the kernel configuration.
3752
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08003753 sysrq_always_enabled
3754 [KNL]
3755 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3756 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3757 Useful for debugging.
3758
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01003759 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3760 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3761 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3762 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3763 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3764 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3765
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003766 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3767
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003768 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003769 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07003770 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3771 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3772 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3773 The system is woken from this state using a
3774 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07003775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003776 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3777 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3778
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04003779 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3780 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3781 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3782
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003783 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3784 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04003785 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04003786
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04003787 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3788 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3789 critical and hot trip points.
3790
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04003791 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3792 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3793
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003794 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3795 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08003796 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3797 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04003798
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04003799 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3800 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3801 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3802 0: no polling (default)
3803
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003804 threadirqs [KNL]
3805 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003806 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00003807
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003808 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3809 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3810
3811 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3812 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3813 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3814
3815 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3816 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04003817 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3818 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04003819
3820 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3821 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3822 to the hypervisor.
3823
3824 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3825 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3826 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3827 kernel based on different criteria.
3828
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003829 topology= [S390]
3830 Format: {off | on}
3831 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07003832 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3833 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003834 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02003835 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01003836
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07003837 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3838 Format: {off}
3839 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3840 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3841 LPAR.
3842
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003843 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3844
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03003845 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3846 Format: integer pcr id
3847 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3848 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3849 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3850 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3851 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3852 are saved.
3853
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08003854 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09003855 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09003856
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08003857 trace_event=[event-list]
3858 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3859 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3860 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3861
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04003862 trace_options=[option-list]
3863 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3864 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3865 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3866 to echo the option name into
3867
3868 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3869
3870 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3871 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3872
3873 trace_options=stacktrace
3874
3875 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3876 section.
3877
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05003878 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3879 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3880 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3881 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3882 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3883 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3884
3885 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3886 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3887 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3888 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3889
3890 ** CAUTION **
3891
3892 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3893 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3894 the system to live lock.
3895
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04003896 traceoff_on_warning
3897 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3898 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3899 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3900 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3901
3902 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3903 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3904 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3905
3906 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3907 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3908
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07003909 transparent_hugepage=
3910 [KNL]
3911 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3912 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3913 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3914 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3915
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003916 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003917 Format: <string>
3918 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07003919 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3920 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3921 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3922 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07003923 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3924 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3925 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3926 can add overhead.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07003927
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003928 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3929 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3930 Format:
3931 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003932 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3933
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00003934 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3935 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3936 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3937 help "seeing" what's going on.
3938
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00003939 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3940 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3941
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05003942 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3943 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3944 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3945 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3946 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3947 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3948 reported either.
3949
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003950 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003951 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01003952
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02003953 usbcore.authorized_default=
3954 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3955 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3956 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3957
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003958 usbcore.autosuspend=
3959 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3960 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3961 is the time required before an idle device will be
3962 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04003963 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05003964
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003965 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3966 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3967
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05003968 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
3969 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
3970 (default = 65536).
3971
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003972 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3973 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3974
3975 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3976 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3977 scheme (default 0 = off).
3978
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05003979 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3980 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3981 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3982
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02003983 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3984 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3985 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3986
3987 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3988 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3989 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3990 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3991
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01003992 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
3993
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003994 usbhid.mousepoll=
3995 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003996
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05003997 usb-storage.delay_use=
3998 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00003999 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004000
4001 usb-storage.quirks=
4002 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4003 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4004 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4005 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4006 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4007 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4008 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004009 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4010 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004011 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4012 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004013 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4014 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004015 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4016 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4017 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4018 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004019 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4020 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004021 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4022 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004023 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4024 reported device capacity by one
4025 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004026 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4027 device);
4028 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4029 unlock ejectable media);
4030 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4031 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004032 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4033 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004034 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4035 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004036 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4037 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004038 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4039 bogus residue values);
4040 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4041 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004042 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4043 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004044 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004045 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4046 medium is write-protected).
4047 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4048
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004049 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4050 Format: <int>
4051 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4052 1 - undefined instruction events
4053 2 - system calls
4054 4 - invalid data aborts
4055 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4056 16 - SIGBUS faults
4057 Example: user_debug=31
4058
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004059 userpte=
4060 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4061
4062 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4063 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4064 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4065
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304066 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004067 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4068
4069 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004070 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4071
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004072 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4073 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4074 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4075
4076 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4077 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4078 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4079
4080 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4081 alias for vdso32=0.
4082
4083 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4084 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004085
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004086 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4087 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4088
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004089 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4090 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4091
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004092 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4093 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4094 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4095 level and then send out the event to user space through
4096 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4097 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4098 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004099 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004100
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004101 virtio_mmio.device=
4102 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4103
4104 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4105 where:
4106 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4107 like K, M and G)
4108 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4109 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4110 request_irq())
4111 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4112 example:
4113 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4114
4115 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4116
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004117 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004118 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004119 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004120 Use vga=ask for menu.
4121 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4122 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4123
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004124 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004125 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4126 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4127 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4128 mapped kernel RAM.
4129
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004130 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4131 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004132
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004133 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4134 Format: <command>
4135
4136 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4137 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004138
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004139 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4140 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4141 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4142 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4143 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4144 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4145 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4146
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004147 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4148 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004149
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004150 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004151 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4152 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4153 better than they would in emulation mode.
4154 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4155
4156 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4157 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4158 might break your system.
4159
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004160 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4161 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4162 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4163
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004164 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4165 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4166 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4167 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4168
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004169 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4170 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4171 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4172 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4173 ranging from 0-255.
4174
4175 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4176 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4177 Change the default green palette of the console.
4178 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4179 ranging from 0-255.
4180
4181 vt.default_red= [VT]
4182 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4183 Change the default red palette of the console.
4184 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4185 ranging from 0-255.
4186
4187 vt.default_utf8=
4188 [VT]
4189 Format=<0|1>
4190 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4191 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4192 newly opened terminals.
4193
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004194 vt.global_cursor_default=
4195 [VT]
4196 Format=<-1|0|1>
4197 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4198 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4199 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4200 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4201 cursors, 1 will display them.
4202
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004203 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4204 Default: 2 = green.
4205
4206 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4207 Default: 3 = cyan.
4208
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004209 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4210 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4211 or other driver-specific files in the
4212 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004213
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004214 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4215 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4216 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4217 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4218 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4219 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4220 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4221 corresponding sysfs file.
4222
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004223 workqueue.disable_numa
4224 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4225 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4226 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4227 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4228 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4229 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4230 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4231
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304232 workqueue.power_efficient
4233 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4234 they show better performance thanks to cache
4235 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4236 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4237
4238 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4239 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4240 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4241 power usage at the cost of small performance
4242 overhead.
4243
4244 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4245 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4246
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004247 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4248 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4249 supporting x2apic.
4250
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004251 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4252 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004253 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4254 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004255 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004256
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004257 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4258 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4259 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4260 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4261 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4262 domains.
4263
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004264 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4265 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4266 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4267 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4268 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4269 nics -- unplug network devices
4270 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004271 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4272 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4273 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004274 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004275
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004276 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4277 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4278 optimizations.
4279
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004280 xen_nopv [X86]
4281 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4282 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4283
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004284 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004285 Format:
4286 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004287
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004288______________________________________________________________________
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004289
4290TODO:
4291
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004292 Add more DRM drivers.