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Al Stoneb10d79f2015-03-24 14:02:41 +00001 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
Bernhard Walle03d926f2007-03-06 02:29:44 -08002 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02003 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
Rami Rosene58d1542015-09-26 19:27:57 +03004 copy_dsdt }
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +02006 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07009 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
Zhao Yakui237889b2008-12-17 16:55:18 +080011 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
Lin Mingaa2110c2010-04-08 14:34:27 +080012 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
Ard Biesheuvel6a1f5472016-04-12 16:09:11 +020013 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +020016 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040018 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
Len Brown4e381a42007-03-30 14:16:10 -040022 default: 0
Len Browna1fdcc02007-03-11 03:26:14 -040023
Thomas Renningerc3d6de62008-08-01 17:37:55 +020024 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
Colin Ian Kingb2ca5da2016-01-21 17:05:47 +000031 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020037 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070045 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047 Format: <int>
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070048 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060055 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
56 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57 debug layers and levels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058
Bjorn Helgaase76f4272008-11-13 17:30:13 -060059 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070063 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070066 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
Thomas Renninger36eec5e2008-08-11 15:03:20 +020068
Bjorn Helgaasa0d84a92008-11-07 16:58:05 -070069 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
Zhang Ruif9891062007-04-24 13:53:22 +080072
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +020073 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
Lv Zheng4fc0a7e2014-05-31 08:15:02 +080089 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -070094 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
Lv Zheng9c4aa1e2016-12-16 12:07:57 +0800109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
117 Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800119 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
120 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800121 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123 auto-serialization feature.
Lv Zheng08e1d7c2014-03-24 14:49:22 +0800124 This feature is enabled by default.
125 This option allows to turn off the feature.
Bob Moore22b5afc2014-03-24 14:49:00 +0800126
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200127 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
128 kernels.
129
Lv Zhenga94e88c2014-04-04 12:39:11 +0800130 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
131 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133 installed automatically and they will appear under
134 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135 This option turns off this feature.
136 Note that specifying this option does not affect
137 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700139
Dominik Brodowskief694492015-05-14 15:31:28 +0200140 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143 second kernel for kdump.
Lv Zheng4dde5072014-02-11 11:01:52 +0800144
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700145 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
Rafael J. Wysocki18d78b62015-07-03 01:06:00 +0200148 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700154 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800155 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
156 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800157 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800158 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
159 strings
Lv Zhenga707ede2016-05-03 16:48:32 +0800160 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
161 strings
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700162 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
163
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800164 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
167 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800171 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
172 care about the state of the feature group strings which
173 should be controlled by the OSPM.
Lv Zheng5dc17982013-07-22 16:08:25 +0800174 Examples:
175 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
182 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183 multiple times through kernel command line is also
184 meaningless.
185 Examples:
186 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187 FALSE.
188
Lv Zheng741d8122013-07-22 16:08:36 +0800189 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
192 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
195 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196 there are quirks related to this string. This command
197 is useful when one want to control the state of the
198 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199 the OSPM features.
200 Examples:
201 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206 equivalent to
207 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208 and
209 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530212 acpi_pm_good [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700213 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215 and always returns good values.
216
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700217 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700220 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
Amerigo Wangc3b07952011-05-10 21:09:38 +0200226 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700227 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228 s3_bios and s3_mode.
229 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232 used during resume from hibernation.
233 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234 control method, with respect to putting devices into
235 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236 of _PTS is used by default).
Rafael J. Wysocki72ad5d72010-07-23 22:59:09 +0200237 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
Zhang Ruid7f0eea2009-12-30 15:36:42 +0800239 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241 but some broken systems don't work without it).
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700242
243 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -0700247 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700250 agp= [AGP]
251 { off | try_unsupported }
252 off: disable AGP support
253 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -0700256 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
257 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
Russell Kingd944d542010-02-20 16:13:29 +0000259 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
260 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
262 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200264 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
265 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
Borislav Petkov8360ee22011-11-21 12:10:19 +0100272 32: only for 32-bit processes
273 64: only for 64-bit processes
Borislav Petkovdfb09f92011-08-05 15:15:08 +0200274 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)55034cd2013-03-07 22:48:09 -0500277 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
278 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
Sedat Dilek89e0b9a2011-12-05 23:08:32 +0100284 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Joerg Roedel54b4cbd2008-06-26 21:28:10 +0200285 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286 Possible values are:
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900287 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289 flushed before they will be reused, which
290 is a lot of faster
Joerg Roedela5235722010-05-11 17:12:33 +0200291 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292 the system
Joerg Roedel5abcdba2011-12-01 15:49:45 +0100293 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295 allowed anymore to lift isolation
296 requirements as needed. This option
297 does not override iommu=pt
FUJITA Tomonoriafa9fdc2008-09-20 01:23:30 +0900298
Shuah Khanc099cf12012-05-24 15:58:25 -0600299 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
300 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303 IOMMU initialization.
304
Suravee Suthikulpanit3928aa32016-08-23 13:52:32 -0500305 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
306 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307 remapping modes:
308 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700314 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316 Format: <a>,<b>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500317 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700318
319 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321 connected to one of 16 gameports
322 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700324 apc= [HW,SPARC]
325 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700326 Format: noidle
327 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329 APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -0700331 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -0700332 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700333 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334 Change the amount of debugging information output
335 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700336
Hidehiro Kawaib7c49482015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100337 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341 backup of CPU 0
342 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344 shot down by NMI
345
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800346 autoconf= [IPV6]
347 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
Cyrill Gorcunov9636bc02009-10-14 19:09:04 +0400349 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355 apic=verbose is specified.
356 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -0700359 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700361 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
365
366 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700368 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369 EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700373 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
374 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700375
376 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377 keyboards
378
379 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700381
382 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383 Use software keyboard repeat
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700384
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400385 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
Eric Parisd7961142014-01-13 16:01:06 -0500387 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388 until the next reboot
389 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394 auditd.
Richard Guy Briggsa106fb02013-09-23 21:53:35 -0400395 Default: unset
Richard Guy Briggsf3411cb2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400396
Richard Guy Briggsf910fde2013-09-17 12:34:52 -0400397 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399 Default: 64
400
Alex Thorlton1c532e02016-03-31 14:18:29 -0500401 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
402 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403 Format: { "0" | "1" }
404 0 - Disable the BAU.
405 1 - Enable the BAU.
406 unset - Disable the BAU.
407
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700408 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 Format: <io>,<mode>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412 Format: <io>,<mode>
413 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700415 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
416 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700420 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
421 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
Paul Gortmaker080506a2013-09-30 13:45:19 -0700425 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426 embedded devices based on command line input.
427 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
Randy Dunlapbfe8df32007-10-16 01:23:46 -0700429 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431 no delay (0).
432 Format: integer
433
Andreas Herrmann35fc9082008-08-20 14:08:58 -0700434 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
Huang Yinga3e2acc2016-06-29 13:04:29 -0700436 bert_disable [ACPI]
437 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700439 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700440 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
441 kernel args too.
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -0500442 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +0200443 bttv.tuner=
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700444
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +0000445 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447 at a time.
448
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700451 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700452 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456 This option provides an override for these situations.
457
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300458 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460 trust validation.
Dmitry Kasatkin32c47412014-06-17 11:56:59 +0300461 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
Dmitry Kasatkinffb70f62014-06-17 11:56:58 +0300462
Florian Fainellifd1bb4c2014-06-25 16:41:13 -0700463 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467 others).
468
Sebastian Ott14ff56b2008-01-26 14:10:37 +0100469 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700472 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
Qiang Huangca0bdbb2013-11-06 13:18:09 -0800474 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476 a single hierarchy
477 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478 subsystem
479 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
Paul Menage8bab8dd2008-04-04 14:29:57 -0700482
Johannes Weiner1619b6d2016-02-16 13:21:14 -0500483 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800488 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489 Format: <string>
490 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
Vladimir Davydov04823c82016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800491 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
Johannes Weinerf7e1cb62016-01-14 15:21:29 -0800492
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700493 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
495 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700496 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497 any implied execute protection).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700498 1 -- check protection requested by application.
499 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700500 Value can be changed at runtime via
501 /selinux/checkreqprot.
502
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100503 cio_ignore= [S390]
504 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
Olof Johansson1e435252013-04-27 14:10:18 -0700505 clk_ignore_unused
506 [CLK]
Mike Turquettee156ee52014-09-30 14:24:38 -0700507 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514 platform with proper driver support. For more
515 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
Sebastian Ott661ca0d2008-01-26 14:10:36 +0100516
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -0700517 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700518 [Deprecated]
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200519 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
john stultz734efb42006-06-26 00:25:05 -0700520 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
Matt LaPlante3f6dee92006-10-03 22:45:33 +0200521 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700522 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
John Stultz592913e2010-07-13 17:56:20 -0700524 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700525 Format: <string>
526 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527 with the name specified.
528 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529 the platform:
530 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531 [ACPI] acpi_pm
532 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
Alok Kataria9863c902010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700534 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
Randy Dunlap3d6ac982007-05-23 13:58:16 -0700535 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536 [MIPS] MIPS
537 [PARISC] cr16
538 [S390] tod
539 [SH] SuperH
540 [SPARC64] tick
541 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
Will Deacon46fd5c62016-06-27 17:30:13 +0100543 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544 [ARM,ARM64]
545 Format: <bool>
546 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549 systems.
550
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100551 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
Borislav Petkovcd4d09e2016-01-26 22:12:04 +0100553 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
Randy Dunlap07983f02009-01-06 14:42:41 -0800554 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
Andi Kleenac72e782008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100555 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556 ones should be.
557 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558 or using the feature without checking anything
559 will still see it. This just prevents it from
560 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562 some critical bits.
563
Akinobu Mita5ea3b1b2014-06-04 16:06:54 -0700564 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565 [ARM,X86,KNL]
566 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568 placement constraint by the physical address range of
Jean Delvaref0d6d1f2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700569 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570 altogether. For more information, see
Marek Szyprowskic64be2b2011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100571 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
Robert Jennings14f966e2009-04-15 05:55:32 +0000573 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
576 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577 a hypervisor.
578 Default: yes
579
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100580 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
581 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
Marek Szyprowskie9da6e92012-07-30 09:11:33 +0200582 allocations, by default set to 256K.
Marek Szyprowskic7909502011-12-29 13:09:51 +0100583
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530584 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
Arjan van de Vena25bd942008-01-30 13:33:08 +0100585 in an oops report.
Chuck Ebbert86c41832007-02-13 13:26:25 +0100586 Range: 0 - 8192
587 Default: 64
588
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700589 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700590 Format:
591 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700592
593 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700596 com90xx= [HW,NET]
597 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700598 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600 condev= [HW,S390] console device
601 conmode=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700602
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700603 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607 ttyS<n>[,options]
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800608 ttyUSB0[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700609 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800610 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +0200615 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
Randy Dunlapf1a1c2d2006-03-25 03:08:17 -0800616 information. See
617 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618 alternative.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700619
Yinghai Lu18a8bd92007-07-15 23:37:59 -0700620 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900622 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400623 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700625 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400627 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Masahiro Yamadabd94c402015-10-28 12:46:05 +0900629 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400633 the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka2fd6412013-02-25 15:54:09 -0500635 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700637
Samuel Thibaultf7511d52008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700638 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640 console=brl,ttyS0
641 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700643 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
Daniel Xuac0a3142017-09-18 22:21:25 -0700644 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
645 Defaults to 0.
Daniel Mackf324edc2009-06-16 15:33:52 -0700646
Hidehiro Kawai4cb0e112009-01-06 14:42:47 -0800647 coredump_filter=
648 [KNL] Change the default value for
649 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
Leo Yan62a31ce2017-06-05 14:15:12 -0600652 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653 [ARM,ARM64]
654 Format: <bool>
655 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656 0: default value, disable debugging
657 1: enable debugging at boot time
658
Len Brown62027ae2011-04-01 18:13:10 -0400659 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
660 disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
Len Brownd82f2692017-02-28 16:44:16 -0500662 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
663 disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
Len Brownd68921f2015-05-11 17:27:09 -0400665 cpu_init_udelay=N
666 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
668 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669 Default: 10000
670
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700671 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700672 Format:
673 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700674
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800675 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680 is selected automatically. Check
681 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
Eric W. Biedermandc009d92005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700682
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700683 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685 in the running system. The syntax of range is
686 start-[end] where start and end are both
687 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Ahmed S. Darwish6f21e642011-02-20 20:08:35 -0800688 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
Bernhard Wallefb391592007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700689
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700690 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700691 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695 available.
696 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700697 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700700 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
Baoquan Hec6045032015-09-24 16:51:25 +0800702 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700706 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707 for second kernel instead.
708 0: to disable low allocation.
Yinghai Luadbc7422013-04-15 22:23:48 -0700709 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
Yinghai Lu55a20ee2013-04-15 22:23:47 -0700710 or memory reserved is below 4G.
Yinghai Luc729de82013-04-15 22:23:45 -0700711
Byungchul Parkd141bab2017-10-25 17:56:00 +0900712 crossrelease_fullstack
713 [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
714
Richard W.M. Jones9e5c9fe2016-05-03 10:00:17 +0100715 cryptomgr.notests
716 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
717
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700718 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
719 Format: <dma>
720
721 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
722 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700723
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700724 dasd= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700725 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
726
727 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
728 (one device per port)
729 Format: <port#>,<type>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -0500730 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700731
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200732 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200733 time. See
734 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600735 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
Thomas Renningera648ec02010-08-06 16:11:02 +0200736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700737 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
738
Ingo Molnarcae2ed92006-07-03 00:24:48 -0700739 debug_locks_verbose=
740 [KNL] verbose self-tests
741 Format=<0|1>
742 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
743 self-tests.
744 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
745 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
746 only useful to kernel developers.
747
Thomas Gleixner3ac7fe52008-04-30 00:55:01 -0700748 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
749
Kyle McMartin3e8ebb52009-03-01 20:41:41 -0500750 no_debug_objects
751 [KNL] Disable object debugging
752
Stanislaw Gruszkac0a32fc2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800753 debug_guardpage_minorder=
754 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
755 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
756 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
757 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
758 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
759 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
760 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
761 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
762 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
763 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
764 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
765 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
766 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
767 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
768 bypassed) which are not detectable by
769 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
770 tracking down these problems.
771
Joonsoo Kim031bc572014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800772 debug_pagealloc=
773 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
774 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
775 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
776 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
777 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
778 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
779 on: enable the feature
780
Thomas Gleixnerd3af01f2008-07-15 15:04:56 +0200781 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
782
Robert P. J. Day2d27a962008-02-03 15:18:45 +0200783 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700784 Format: <area>[,<node>]
785 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
786
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700787 default_hugepagesz=
788 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
789 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
790 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
791 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
792 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
793 if not specified.
Antonino A. Daplas55ff9782007-05-08 00:38:53 -0700794
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700795 dhash_entries= [KNL]
796 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -0700797
Oliver O'Halloranfaf78822016-07-05 11:43:21 +1000798 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
799 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
800 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
801 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
802 miss to occur.
803
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800804 disable= [IPV6]
805 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
806
Aneesh Kumar K.Vb275bfb2016-07-13 15:05:31 +0530807 disable_radix [PPC]
808 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
809
HATAYAMA Daisuke151e0c72014-01-15 15:44:58 +0900810 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
811 Format: <int>
812 The number of initial APIC ID for the
813 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
814 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
815 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
816 causing system reset or hang due to sending
817 INIT from AP to BSP.
818
Nishanth Aravamudan4e8b0cf2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000819 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
820 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
821 to workaround buggy firmware.
822
Brian Haleyb0f83b22010-02-04 13:36:50 -0800823 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
824 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
825
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700826 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700827 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
828 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700829 entry later. This parameter disables that.
Yinghai Lu95ffa242008-04-29 03:52:33 -0700830
Yinghai Lu093af8d2008-01-30 13:33:32 +0100831 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
Jesse Barnes99fc8d42008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100832 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
833 memory out of your available memory pool based on
834 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
835 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
836
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +0530837 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700838 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
839 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
840
Prarit Bhargavace14c582015-08-25 13:34:53 -0400841 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
842
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700843 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
844 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
845
846 dma_debug_entries=<number>
847 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
848 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
849 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
850 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
851 architectural default is too low.
852
Joerg Roedel1745de52009-05-22 21:49:51 +0200853 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
854 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
855 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
856 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
857 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
858 driver later using sysfs.
859
Jani Nikula53fd40a2017-09-12 11:19:26 +0300860 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700861 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
862 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
863 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
864 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100865 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
866 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
867 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
868 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
869 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
870 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
871 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
872 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
Bob Paauwe96206e22015-08-27 10:04:13 -0700873 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
874 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
875 data set with no connector name will be used for
876 any connectors not explicitly specified.
Carsten Emdeda0df922012-03-18 22:37:33 +0100877
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700878 dscc4.setup= [NET]
879
Nicholas Piggina2b05b72017-05-11 21:24:41 +1000880 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
881 Format: {"off" | "known"}
882 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
883 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
884 exists).
885 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
886 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
887 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
888
Lukas Wunner58c54752016-11-12 21:32:36 +0000889 dump_apple_properties [X86]
890 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
891 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
892 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
893
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600894 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
895 module.dyndbg[="val"]
896 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Steffen Maier787e3072017-06-14 12:24:12 +0200897 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
898 for details.
Jim Cromie29e36c92012-04-27 14:30:41 -0600899
Dave Hansen8c3641e2015-06-07 11:37:02 -0700900 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
901 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
902 information about the feature.
903
Dave Hansen06976942016-02-12 13:02:29 -0800904 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
905 in some Intel CPUs.
906
Luis R. Rodriguezf2411da2015-03-30 16:20:05 -0700907 module.async_probe [KNL]
908 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
909
Mark Salter56aeeba2014-04-07 15:39:53 -0700910 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
911 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
912 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
913 which are not unmapped.
914
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700915 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500916
Scott Wood5664f762015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500917 When used with no options, the early console is
918 determined by the stdout-path property in device
919 tree's chosen node.
920
Scott Telfordc41251b2016-09-22 16:58:16 +0100921 cdns,<addr>[,options]
922 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
923 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
924 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
925 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
926 configured.
Michal Simek6fa62fc2014-09-10 12:43:02 +0200927
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700928 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
929 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
Samium Gromoff1917ac72010-07-20 15:26:51 -0700930 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300931 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400932 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700933 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
934 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -0700935 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
Noam Camus6e63be32015-05-25 06:54:28 +0300936 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
937 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
938 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
939 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
Peter Hurleyca782f12015-04-06 10:52:39 -0400940 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -0700941
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500942 pl011,<addr>
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600943 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500944 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
945 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
946 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
Timur Tabi3b78fae2016-01-04 15:37:42 -0600947 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
948 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
949 the device registers.
Rob Herring0d3c6732014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500950
Andreas Färber736d5532016-03-06 12:21:24 +0100951 meson,<addr>
952 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
953 port at the specified address. The serial port must
954 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
955 supported.
956
Stephen Boyd0efe7292014-09-15 17:22:51 -0700957 msm_serial,<addr>
958 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
959 port at the specified address. The serial port
960 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
961 yet supported.
962
963 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
964 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
965 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
966 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
967 yet supported.
968
Andreas Färbere36361d2017-06-19 03:46:40 +0200969 owl,<addr>
970 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
971 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
972 specified address. The serial port must already be
973 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
974
Rob Herringd50d7262014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500975 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
976
Tomasz Figab94ba032015-01-23 14:47:41 +0100977 s3c2410,<addr>
978 s3c2412,<addr>
979 s3c2440,<addr>
980 s3c6400,<addr>
981 s5pv210,<addr>
982 exynos4210,<addr>
983 Use early console provided by serial driver available
984 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
985 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
986 serial port must already be setup and configured.
987 Options are not yet supported.
988
Martin Blumenstinglec84aa02016-12-11 21:42:23 +0100989 lantiq,<addr>
990 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
991 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
992 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
993 yet supported.
994
Stefan Agner1d59b382015-10-17 00:45:55 -0700995 lpuart,<addr>
996 lpuart32,<addr>
997 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
998 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
999 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1000 port must already be setup and configured.
1001
Andre Przywaraf7c864e2017-05-04 00:49:36 +01001002 ar3700_uart,<addr>
Wilson Ding30530792016-02-16 19:14:53 +01001003 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1004 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1005 address. The serial port must already be setup
1006 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1007
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001008 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001009 earlyprintk=vga
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001010 earlyprintk=efi
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001011 earlyprintk=sclp
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001012 earlyprintk=xen
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001013 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001014 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
Jason Wesselea3acb12009-09-24 09:08:30 -05001015 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
Jason Wessel9780bc42009-08-20 15:39:57 -05001016 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
Alexander Kuleshovc43088e2015-06-10 23:21:15 +06001017 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
Lu Baolu1b5aeeb2017-03-21 16:01:31 +08001018 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001019
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001020 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1021 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1022 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1023
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001024 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001025 takes over.
1026
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001027 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1028 be used at a time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001029
Dave Hansen147ea092013-04-10 14:03:38 -07001030 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1031 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1032 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1033 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1034 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1035 You can find the port for a given device in
1036 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1037 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001038
1039 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1040 very good.
1041
Matt Fleming72548e82013-10-04 09:36:56 +01001042 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1043 the real console.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001044
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2482a922013-02-25 15:54:08 -05001045 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1046
Heiko Carstens89175cf2017-01-11 09:14:52 +01001047 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1048
Chen, Gongc700f012013-12-06 01:17:08 -05001049 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1050 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1051 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1052 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1053 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1054 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1055 default: on.
1056
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001057 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1058 ekgdboc=kbd
1059
Lucas De Marchi25985ed2011-03-30 22:57:33 -03001060 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
Jason Wessel97311912010-05-20 21:04:30 -05001061 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1062
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001063 edd= [EDD]
Tim Gardner8c4dd602008-04-29 01:02:45 -07001064 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001065
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001066 efi= [EFI]
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001067 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001068 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1069 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1070 default.
Matt Fleming5a17dae2014-08-05 11:52:11 +01001071 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1072 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1073 firmware implementations.
Dave Young5ae36832014-08-14 17:15:28 +08001074 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
Borislav Petkovfed6cef2015-02-05 11:44:41 +01001075 debug: enable misc debug output
Borislav Petkovd2f7cbe2013-10-31 17:25:08 +01001076
Richard Weinberger8c58bf32013-04-17 01:00:53 +02001077 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1078 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1079 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1080 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1081 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1082
Taku Izumi0f96a992015-09-30 23:01:56 +09001083 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1084 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1085 updating original EFI memory map.
1086 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1087 from ss to ss+nn.
1088 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1089 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1090 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1091 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1092
1093 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1094 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1095 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1096 doesn't support it.
1097
Octavian Purdila475fb4e2016-07-08 19:13:12 +03001098 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1099 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1100 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1101 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1102 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1103
1104
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001105 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1106 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1107
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001108 elanfreq= [X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001109 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
Pavel Machek71f77052008-07-04 09:59:43 -07001110 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001111
1112 elevator= [IOSCHED]
Randy Dunlap17a9e7b2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01001113 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001114 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001115 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1116
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001117 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001118 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
Michael Holzheud3bf37952011-10-30 15:16:37 +01001119 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1120 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
Vivek Goyalaac04b32006-01-09 20:51:47 -08001121 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001122
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001123 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1124 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1125 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1126 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1127
Randy Dunlapca1eda22009-05-06 16:02:58 -07001128 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001129 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1131 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1132 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1133
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001134 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1135 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1136 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1137 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1138 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1139 Default value is 0.
1140 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1141
Huang Yinga08f82d2010-05-18 14:35:21 +08001142 erst_disable [ACPI]
1143 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1144 support.
1145
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001146 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1147 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1148 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1149
Mimi Zohar7102ebc2011-05-12 18:33:20 -04001150 evm= [EVM]
1151 Format: { "fix" }
1152 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1153 current integrity status.
1154
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001155 failslab=
1156 fail_page_alloc=
1157 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1158 General fault injection mechanism.
1159 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02001160 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
Akinobu Mitade1ba092006-12-08 02:39:42 -08001161
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001162 floppy= [HW]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00001163 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001164
Alex Chiangf13ae302008-05-08 14:03:23 -06001165 force_pal_cache_flush
1166 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1167 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1168 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1169 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1170
Chris Bainbridge69f23662014-03-07 18:40:42 +07001171 forcepae [X86-32]
1172 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1173 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1174 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1175 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1176 and may cause unknown problems.
1177
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001178 ftrace=[tracer]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001179 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001180 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1181 boot debugging.
1182
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001183 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001184 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
Frederic Weisbeckercecbca92010-04-18 19:08:41 +02001185 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1186 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1187 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1188 oops.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001189
1190 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1191 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1192 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1193 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1194 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001195 tracing directory.
Steven Rostedt2af15d62009-05-28 13:37:24 -04001196
1197 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1198 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1199 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1200 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1201 tracing directory.
Peter Zijlstrad9e54072008-11-01 19:57:37 +01001202
Stefan Assmann369bc182009-10-12 22:17:21 +02001203 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1204 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1205 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1206 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1207 that can be changed at run time by the
1208 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1209
Namhyung Kim0d7d9a12014-06-13 01:23:50 +09001210 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1211 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1212 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1213 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1214 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1215
Todd Brandt65a50c62017-03-02 16:12:15 -08001216 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1217 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1218 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1219 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1220 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1221
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001222 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1223 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1224 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1225 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001226 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001227
1228 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1229
Yinghai Luaaf23042008-01-30 13:33:09 +01001230 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1231 Format: off | on
1232 default: on
1233
Peter Oberparleiter2521f2c2009-06-17 16:28:08 -07001234 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1235 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1236 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1237 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1238 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1239
Thomas Gleixner47512cf2017-02-15 11:11:50 +01001240 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1241 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1242 android emulator
1243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001244 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
Davidlohr Bueso6c5de792014-01-23 15:56:03 -08001245 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1246 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1247 GPT to be used instead.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001248
Andreas Larsson6cec9b02012-11-15 08:47:14 +01001249 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1250 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1251 Format: 0 | 1
1252 Default: 0
1253 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1254 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1255 Format: 0 | 1
1256 Default: 0
1257 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1258 Format: 0 | 1
1259 Default: 0
1260 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1261 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262 Default: 1024
1263 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1264 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1265 Default: 1024
1266
Bamvor Jian Zhang0f98dd12016-08-31 11:45:46 +02001267 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1268 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1269 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1270
Jiri Kosina55537872015-11-05 18:44:41 -08001271 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1272 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1273 backtraces on all cpus.
1274 Format: <integer>
1275
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001276 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1277 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001278 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001279 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001280
1281 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1282
1283 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1284 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1285
Huang Yingea8c0712010-05-18 14:35:15 +08001286 hest_disable [ACPI]
1287 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1288 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1289 logic will be disabled.
1290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001291 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1292 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1293 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1294 size on bigger boxes.
1295
Thomas Gleixner54cdfdb2007-02-16 01:28:11 -08001296 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1297 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1298 Default: "on"
1299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1301 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1302
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001303 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1304
1305 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1306 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1307 verbose }
1308 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1309 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1310 VIA, nVidia)
1311 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1312
Prarit Bhargava3d035f52013-11-12 15:08:33 -08001313 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1314 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1315
Andi Kleenb4718e62008-07-23 21:27:51 -07001316 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1317 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
Jon Tollefson0d9ea752008-07-23 21:27:56 -07001318 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1319 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1320 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1321 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
Luiz Capitulino27ec26e2014-12-12 16:55:18 -08001322 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09001323
Hendrik Brueckner555d61d2009-01-09 12:15:02 +01001324 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1325 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
Hendrik Brueckner431429f2009-03-26 15:23:55 +01001326 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1327 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1328 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Hendrik Bruecknercef71252008-12-25 13:39:55 +01001329
James Hoganfdabf522012-10-09 11:00:27 +01001330 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1331 hardware thread id mappings.
1332 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1333
Fabio M. Di Nitto7bf69392011-03-22 16:34:20 -07001334 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1335 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1336 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1337 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1338 the real console.
1339
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001340 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
Jarkko Nikula79547632009-03-23 18:07:48 -07001341 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1342 registered from board initialization code.
Jarkko Nikula3a853fb2009-03-23 18:07:47 -07001343 Format:
1344 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1345
Jiri Kosina36d95732008-10-06 02:51:09 -04001346 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
Stephen Chandler Paule1443d22015-07-15 10:20:17 -07001347 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1348 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1349 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1350 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001351 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
Matt LaPlante84eb8d02006-10-03 22:53:09 +02001352 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1353 keyboard and cannot control its state
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001354 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1355 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
Dmitry Torokhov945ef0d2005-09-04 01:42:00 -05001356 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
Jiri Kosina75d08c72008-03-13 16:13:59 -04001357 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1358 for the AUX port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001359 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
Dmitry Torokhove55a3362014-10-31 09:35:53 -07001360 controller
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001361 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1362 controllers
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09001363 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
Marcos Paulo de Souza930e19242016-10-01 12:07:35 -07001364 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1365 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1366 transitions, or never reset
1367 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1368 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1369 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1370 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1371 architectures force reset to be always executed
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001372 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
Srihari Vijayaraghavan148e9a72015-01-07 16:25:53 -08001373 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001374
1375 i810= [HW,DRM]
1376
Dmitry Torokhove70c9d52005-06-25 14:54:25 -07001377 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1378 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1379 hardware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001380 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1381 does not match list of supported models.
1382 i8k.power_status
1383 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1384 (disabled by default)
1385 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1386 capability is set.
1387
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001388 i915.invert_brightness=
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001389 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1390 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
Carsten Emde4dca20e2012-03-15 15:56:26 +01001391 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1392 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1393 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1394 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1395 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1396 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1397 value switches the backlight off.
1398 -1 -- never invert brightness
1399 0 -- machine default
1400 1 -- force brightness inversion
Carsten Emde7bd90902012-03-15 15:56:25 +01001401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001402 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1403 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1404
David Fries0af80c02009-02-25 20:28:21 +01001405 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1406 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz075affc2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02001407 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1408 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
Randy Dunlap1c10e932008-03-07 21:53:50 +01001409 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001410
Maciej W. Rozycki0f8b7f52014-10-25 17:03:52 +01001411 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1412 Format: <int>
1413 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1414 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1415 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1416 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1417 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1418 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1419 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1420 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1421 was 0x3.
1422
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001423 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1424 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1425
Andi Kleenf039b752007-05-02 19:27:12 +02001426 idle= [X86]
Len Brown69fb3672013-02-10 01:38:39 -05001427 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001428 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1429 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1430 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1431 Not recommended.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001432 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
Zhao Yakuic1e3b372008-06-24 17:58:53 +08001433 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001434 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001435
Maciej W. Rozycki503943e2015-11-13 00:48:29 +00001436 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1437 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1438 Default: strict
1439
1440 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1441 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1442 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1443 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1444 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1445 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1446 encoding mode.
1447
1448 Available settings are as follows:
1449 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1450 supported by the FPU
1451 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1452 by the FPU
1453 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1454 by the FPU
1455 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1456 supported by the FPU
1457
1458 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1459 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1460 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1461 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1462 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1463 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1464 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1465 MIPS64 CPUs.
1466
1467 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1468 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1469 except where unsupported by hardware.
1470
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001471 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1472 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1473 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
Yanmin Zhang0eca6b72011-10-31 17:11:25 -07001474 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1475 could change it dynamically, usually by
1476 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
Ingo Molnar792908222006-12-06 20:40:51 -08001477
Konstantin Khlebnikovd977d562016-02-02 16:57:43 -08001478 ignore_rlimit_data
1479 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1480 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1481 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1482
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001483 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1484 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1485
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001486 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
Dmitry Kasatkin2faa6ef2014-05-08 13:11:29 +03001487 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
Mimi Zohar2fe5d6d2012-02-13 10:15:05 -05001488 default: "enforce"
1489
Mimi Zohar07f6a792011-03-09 22:25:48 -05001490 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1491 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1492 owned by uid=0.
1493
Mimi Zohard68a6fe2016-12-19 16:22:57 -08001494 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1495 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1496 measurements, instead of host native format.
1497
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001498 ima_hash= [IMA]
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001499 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1500 | sha512 | ... }
Mimi Zohar3323eec2009-02-04 09:06:58 -05001501 default: "sha1"
1502
Mimi Zohare7a2ad72013-06-07 12:16:37 +02001503 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1504 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1505
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001506 ima_policy= [IMA]
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001507 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001508 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
Mimi Zohar33ce9542017-04-24 12:04:09 -04001509
1510 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1511 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1512 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1513 uid=0.
1514
1515 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1516 all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1517 of ima_appraise_tcb.)
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001518
Mimi Zohar503ceae2017-04-21 18:58:27 -04001519 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1520 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1521 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
Mimi Zohar24fd03c2015-06-11 20:48:33 -04001522
1523 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
Eric Paris5789ba32009-05-21 15:47:06 -04001524 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1525 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1526 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1527 opened for read by uid=0.
1528
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001529 ima_template= [IMA]
1530 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Roberto Sassu8265a2f2015-04-11 17:07:03 +02001531 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Roberto Sassu9b9d4ce2013-06-07 12:16:35 +02001532 Default: "ima-ng"
1533
Roberto Sassuc2426d22014-10-13 14:08:42 +02001534 ima_template_fmt=
1535 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1536 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1537
Dmitry Kasatkin3bcced32014-02-26 17:05:20 +02001538 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1539 Format: <min_file_size>
1540 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1541 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1542
1543 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1544 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1545 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1546
Dmitry Kasatkin6edf7a82014-05-06 14:47:13 +03001547 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1548 Format: <bufsize>
1549 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1550
1551 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1552 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1553 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1554
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001555 init= [KNL]
1556 Format: <full_path>
1557 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1558 process.
1559
1560 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1561 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1562 startup.
1563
Prarit Bhargava7b0b73d2014-06-04 16:12:17 -07001564 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1565 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1566 modules and initcalls.
1567
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001568 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1569
Dave Hansenacd547b2016-07-29 09:30:21 -07001570 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1571 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1572 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1573 override in debugfs after boot.
1574
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001575 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1576 Format: <irq>
1577
Fenghua Yu6bb2ff82013-05-21 15:35:17 -04001578 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1579
Mimi Zohard726d8d2013-03-18 14:48:02 -04001580 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1581 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1582 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1583 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1584
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001585 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
Kyle McMartin0cd5c3c2009-02-04 14:29:19 -08001586 on
1587 Enable intel iommu driver.
Keshavamurthy, Anil Sba395922007-10-21 16:41:49 -07001588 off
1589 Disable intel iommu driver.
1590 igfx_off [Default Off]
1591 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1592 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1593 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1594 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1595 DMA.
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001596 forcedac [x86_64]
1597 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001598 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001599 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001600 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1601 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
Keshavamurthy, Anil S7d3b03c2007-10-21 16:41:53 -07001602 then look in the higher range.
mark gross5e0d2a62008-03-04 15:22:08 -08001603 strict [Default Off]
1604 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1605 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1606 to batching them for performance.
Youquan Song6dd9a7c2011-05-25 19:13:49 +01001607 sp_off [Default Off]
1608 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1609 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1610 not be supported.
David Woodhousec83b2f22015-06-12 10:15:49 +01001611 ecs_off [Default Off]
1612 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1613 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1614 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1615 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1616 on hardware which claims to support them.
Shaohua Libfd20f12017-04-26 09:18:35 -07001617 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1618 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1619 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1620 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1621 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1622 mapping is enabled.
1623 Note that using this option lowers the security
1624 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1625 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001626
1627 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1628 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
baolex.ni22c6bbe2016-07-11 09:57:37 +08001629 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
Masanari Iida2e92c7a2011-12-15 01:18:52 +09001630
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001631 intel_pstate= [X86]
1632 disable
1633 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1634 scaling driver for the supported processors
Rafael J. Wysocki001c76f2016-11-17 23:34:17 +01001635 passive
1636 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1637 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1638 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1639 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1640 feature.
Ethan Zhaoaa4ea342014-12-09 10:43:19 +09001641 force
1642 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1643 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1644 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1645 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1646 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1647 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1648 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1649 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
Dirk Brandewie2f86dc42014-11-06 09:40:47 -08001650 no_hwp
1651 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1652 if available.
Kristen Carlson Accardid64c3b02015-02-06 13:41:55 -08001653 hwp_only
1654 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1655 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
Srinivas Pandruvada9522a2f2016-04-27 15:48:06 -07001656 support_acpi_ppc
Srinivas Pandruvada2b3ec762016-04-27 15:48:08 -07001657 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1658 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1659 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1660 then this feature is turned on by default.
Srinivas Pandruvada22449c02016-10-25 13:20:43 -07001661 per_cpu_perf_limits
1662 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1663 cpufreq sysfs interface
Dirk Brandewie6be26492013-02-15 22:55:10 +01001664
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001665 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001666 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1667 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1668 nosid disable Source ID checking
Suresh Siddha41750d32011-08-23 17:05:18 -07001669 no_x2apic_optout
1670 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
Feng Wub7d20632015-09-18 22:29:56 +08001671 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07001672
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001673 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1674 strict regions from userspace.
1675 relaxed
1676
1677 iommu= [x86]
1678 off
1679 force
1680 noforce
1681 biomerge
1682 panic
1683 nopanic
1684 merge
1685 nomerge
1686 forcesac
1687 soft
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001688 pt [x86, IA-64]
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo4e287842014-10-23 19:19:35 -02001689 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1690 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
Alex Williamsonbcb71ab2011-10-21 15:56:24 -04001691
Will Deaconfccb4e32017-01-05 18:38:26 +00001692 iommu.passthrough=
1693 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1694 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1695 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1696 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1697 unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001698
1699 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1700 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1701 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1702
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301703 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001704 0x80
1705 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1706 0xed
1707 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001708 udelay
Ingo Molnar6e7c4022008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001709 Simple two microseconds delay
1710 none
1711 No delay
Rene Hermanb02aae92008-01-30 13:30:05 +01001712
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001713 ip= [IP_PNP]
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04001714 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001715
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001716 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07001717 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Thomas Gleixnerfbf19802016-02-03 19:52:23 +01001718
Marc Zyngier09622892017-10-27 10:34:22 +02001719 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1720 [ARM, ARM64]
1721 Format: <bool>
1722 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1723 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1724 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1725
Alan Cox200803d2005-06-28 20:45:18 -07001726 irqfixup [HW]
1727 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1728 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1729 firmware running.
1730
1731 irqpoll [HW]
1732 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1733 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1734 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1735 firmware running.
1736
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001737 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001738 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001739
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001740 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1741 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1742 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
Li Zefanb225d442008-11-06 12:53:39 -08001743
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001744 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1745 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001746
Frederic Weisbeckerb0d40d22017-10-31 04:18:34 +01001747 nohz
1748 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1749 domain
1750 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1751 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1752 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1753 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1754 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1755 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1756 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1757 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1758
1759 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1760 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1761 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1762 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1763
1764 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1765
1766
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001767
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001768 iucv= [HW,NET]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001769
Joerg Roedel7d8bfa22013-04-09 21:27:19 +02001770 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1771 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1772 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1773 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1774 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1775 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1776
1777 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1778 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1779 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1780 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1781 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1782 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1783
Suravee Suthikulpanitca3bf5d2016-04-01 09:06:01 -04001784 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1785 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1786 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1787 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1788 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1789 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1790
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001791 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05001792 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001793
Kees Cook65fe9352016-06-13 15:10:02 -07001794 nokaslr [KNL]
1795 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1796 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1797 Layout Randomization).
Kees Cook24f2e022014-06-13 13:30:36 -07001798
Mark Rutlandb0845ce2017-03-31 15:12:04 -07001799 kasan_multi_shot
1800 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1801 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1802 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1803 invalid access.
1804
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07001805 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1806
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001807 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1808 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1809 This parameter
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001810 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1811 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1812 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1813 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1814 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1815 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1816 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
Weiping Pan675217f2013-09-30 13:45:10 -07001817 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
Mel Gormaned7ed362007-07-17 04:03:14 -07001818 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1819 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1820 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1821 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1822 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1823 zone if it does not.
1824
Taku Izumi342332e2016-03-15 14:55:22 -07001825 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1826 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1827 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1828 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1829 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1830 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1831 time.
1832
Jason Wessel4fe1da42010-05-20 21:04:31 -05001833 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1834 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1835 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1836 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1837 optional and is the number seconds in between
1838 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1839 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1840 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1841 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1842 the kernel debugger.
1843
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001844 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
Jason Wesselada64e42010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001845 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1846 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
Jason Wessel65b5ac12010-08-05 09:22:33 -05001847 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1848 keyboard only format: kbd
1849 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1850 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1851 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1852 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
Jason Wessel6cdf6e02008-04-17 20:05:38 +02001853
Jason Wessel84c08fd2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05001854 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1855 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1856
Florian Fainelli9bed90c62008-08-23 18:54:37 +02001857 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1858 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1859 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1860
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001861 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1862 Valid arguments: on, off
1863 Default: on
Masanari Iida47aeedd2014-10-24 21:24:59 +09001864 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1865 the default is off.
Catalin Marinas04f70332009-06-11 13:22:39 +01001866
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001867 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1868 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1869
Xiao Guangronga182d872010-09-20 22:17:48 +08001870 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1871 KVM MMU at runtime.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001872 Default is 0 (off)
1873
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001874 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
Xiao Guangrong8475f942010-09-20 22:16:45 +08001875 Default is 1 (enabled)
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001876
1877 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1878 for all guests.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001879 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001880
Marc Zyngiere23f62f2017-06-09 12:49:46 +01001881 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1882 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1883 system registers
1884
Marc Zyngier182936e2017-06-09 12:49:41 +01001885 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1886 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1887 system registers
1888
Marc Zyngierff895112017-06-09 12:49:53 +01001889 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1890 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1891 system registers
1892
Marc Zyngiera7546052017-10-27 15:28:54 +01001893 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1894 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1895 LPIs.
1896
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001897 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1898 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1899 Default is 1 (enabled)
1900
1901 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1902 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1903 Default is 0 (disabled)
1904
1905 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1906 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1907 Default is 1 (enabled)
1908
Sasha Levine1a72ae2011-08-09 14:28:35 +03001909 kvm-intel.nested=
1910 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1911 Default is 0 (disabled)
1912
Andre Przywarafef07aa2009-07-10 14:20:35 +02001913 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1914 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1915 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1916 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1917
1918 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1919 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1920 Default is 1 (enabled)
1921
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001922 l2cr= [PPC]
1923
Robert Brosea78bfbf2008-03-29 07:20:23 +11001924 l3cr= [PPC]
1925
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07001926 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07001927 disabled it.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001928
Suresh Siddha279f1462012-10-22 14:37:58 -07001929 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1930 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1931 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1932
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05301933 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08001934 in C2 power state.
Thomas Gleixnere585bef2007-03-23 16:08:01 +01001935
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001936 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1937 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1938 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1939 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001940 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001941 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1942 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07001943
Michael Prokop20308872009-08-06 00:14:10 +02001944 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1945 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1946 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
FD Camifcb71f62008-01-06 19:08:56 +01001947
Dave Jones78e70c22007-09-27 11:50:13 -04001948 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1949 when set.
1950 Format: <int>
1951
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001952 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1953 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
Roman Fietze4c44f302010-04-21 12:17:12 +02001954 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001955 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1956 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1957 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1958 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1959 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1960
1961 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1962 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1963 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1964 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1965 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1966 host link and device attached to it.
1967
1968 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1969 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1970 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1971 The following configurations can be forced.
1972
1973 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1974 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1975
1976 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1977
1978 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1979 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1980 allowed.
1981
1982 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1983
Martin K. Petersend7b16e42015-05-04 21:54:18 -04001984 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1985
Tejun Heo05944bd2008-08-13 20:19:09 +09001986 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1987 and both resets.
1988
Dan Williamsca6d43b2012-06-21 23:41:41 -07001989 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1990 hot-unplug link recovery
1991
Tejun Heo43c9c592010-05-23 12:59:11 +02001992 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1993
Vincent Pelletier966fbe12013-05-21 22:30:58 +02001994 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1995
Robin H. Johnsonb8bd6dc2013-12-16 09:31:19 -08001996 * disable: Disable this device.
1997
Tejun Heo33267322008-02-13 09:15:09 +09001998 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1999 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2000
Yinghai Lu95f72d12010-07-12 14:36:09 +10002001 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002002
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002003 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002004 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002005
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002006 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2007 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002008
Randy Dunlapa6b25b62006-01-14 13:21:19 -08002009 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2010 Format: <integer>
2011
2012 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2013 Format: <integer>
2014
2015 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2016 Format: <integer>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002017
Paul E. McKenneyec4518a2014-09-12 10:50:01 -07002018 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2019 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2020 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2021 number of online CPUs.
2022
2023 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2024 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2025
2026 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2027 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2028
2029 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2030 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2031 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2032
2033 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2034 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2035 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2036 mode during the locktorture test.
2037
2038 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2039 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2040 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2041
2042 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2043 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2044
2045 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2046 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2047 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2048 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2049 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2050 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2051
2052 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2053 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2054
2055 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2056 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2057
2058 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2059 Enable additional printk() statements.
2060
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002061 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2062 Format: <irq>
2063
2064 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2065 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2066 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2067 loglevels are defined as follows:
2068
2069 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2070 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2071 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2072 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2073 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2074 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2075 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2076 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2077
Randy Dunlapc756d082011-02-20 20:08:35 -08002078 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
Luis R. Rodriguez23b28992014-08-06 16:08:56 -07002079 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2080 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2081 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2082 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2083 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2084 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002085
Randy Dunlapaccaa242007-10-16 01:29:37 -07002086 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2087 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2088 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2089 kernel boot problems.
2090
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002091 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2092 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2093 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2094 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2095 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2096 attached printers to be reset. Using
2097 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2098 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2099 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2100 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2101 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2102 port specification list means that device IDs
2103 from each port should be examined, to see if
2104 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2105 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2106 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2107
2108 lpj=n [KNL]
2109 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2110 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2111 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2112 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2113 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2114 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2115 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2116 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2117 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2118 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2119 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2120 hardware.
2121
2122 ltpc= [NET]
2123 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2124
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002125 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002126 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2127 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002128
Wu Zhangjin3209e702009-07-02 23:27:12 +08002129 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2130 yeeloong laptop.
2131 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2132
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002133 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2134 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002135
2136 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002137 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2138 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2139 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2140 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2141 only takes effect during system bootup.
2142 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2143 which also disables the IO APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002144
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +02002145 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2146 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2147 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2148 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2149 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2150 /dev/loop-control interface.
Bob Picco2b2c3752005-06-29 18:00:00 -07002151
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002152 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002153
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07002154 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
Andi Kleen909dd322007-10-17 18:04:38 +02002155
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002156 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002157 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002158
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002159 mdacon= [MDA]
2160 Format: <first>,<last>
2161 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002162
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002163 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2164 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2165 to see the whole system memory or for test.
Wen Congyangfbb97d82012-12-17 15:59:29 -08002166 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2167 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2168 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2169 belonging to unused RAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002170
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002171 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002172 memory.
2173
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002174 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2175 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2176 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2177
Vitaly Kuznetsov86dd9952016-05-19 17:13:06 -07002178 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2179 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2180 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2181 set according to the
2182 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2183 option.
2184 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2185
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302186 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002187 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2188 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2189 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2190 option description.
2191
2192 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002193 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2194 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002195 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2196 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2197 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2198 comma delimited.
2199 Example:
2200 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002201
2202 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2203 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002204 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002205
2206 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2207 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Randy Dunlap277cba12014-02-06 12:04:19 -08002208 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Pavel Machek13128482008-03-24 12:29:43 -07002209 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2210 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2211 or
2212 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
Baoquan He8fcc9bc2017-05-13 13:46:30 +08002213 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2214 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2215 will be eaten.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002216
Christoph Hellwigec776ef2015-04-01 09:12:18 +02002217 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2218 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2219 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2220 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2221 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2222
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f077872008-09-07 01:51:34 -07002223 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2224 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2225 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2226 Setting this option will scan the memory
2227 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2228 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2229 from using the memory being corrupted.
2230 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2231 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2232 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2233 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2234
2235 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2236 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2237 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2238 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2239 corruption in more or less memory.
2240
2241 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2242 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2243 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2244 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2245
Vladimir Murzine4b0db72015-04-14 15:48:43 -07002246 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002247 Format: <integer>
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002248 default : 0 <disable>
Andreas Herrmann9e5f6cf2009-02-25 11:30:45 +01002249 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2250 performed. Each pass selects another test
2251 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2252 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2253 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2254 regions that are detected.
Yinghai Luc64df702008-03-21 18:56:19 -07002255
Tom Lendackyc262f3b2017-07-17 16:09:58 -05002256 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2257 Valid arguments: on, off
2258 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2259 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2260 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2261 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2262 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2263
2264 Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2265 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2266
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002267 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2268 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2269 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2270 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
Rafael J. Wysocki58e7cb92017-10-06 00:38:49 +02002271 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
Rafael J. Wysocki406e7932016-11-21 22:45:40 +01002272
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002273 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
Tom Saegera405ed82017-10-10 12:36:37 -05002274 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002275
Andres Salomon8f368812007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002276 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2277 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2278 platforms.
2279
Willy Tarreaue6c4dc62008-01-30 13:33:33 +01002280 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2281 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2282 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2283 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2284
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002285 mga= [HW,DRM]
2286
Randy Dunlap1c207f952008-11-19 15:36:16 -08002287 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2288 physical address is ignored.
2289
Michel Pollet39f45d72009-05-20 11:10:31 +01002290 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2291 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2292 Default: "0tb"
2293 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2294 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2295 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2296 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2297 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2298 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2299 unconfigured.
2300 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2301 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2302 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2303 VGA shield.
2304 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2305 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2306 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2307 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2308 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2309 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2310
Mel Gorman6b74ab92008-07-23 21:26:49 -07002311 mminit_loglevel=
2312 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2313 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2314 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2315 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2316 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2317 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2318
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002319 module.sig_enforce
2320 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2321 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
Paul Bolle2a039be2013-03-25 20:42:06 +01002322 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
Rusty Russell106a4ee2012-09-26 10:09:40 +01002323 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2324
Prarit Bhargavabe7de5f2016-07-21 15:37:56 +09302325 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2326 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2327
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002328 mousedev.tap_time=
2329 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2330 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2331 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2332 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2333 Format: <msecs>
2334 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2335 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2336 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2337 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2338
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302339 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002340 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2341 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2342 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2343 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2344 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2345 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2346 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2347 is not too small.
2348
Michal Hockof70029b2017-07-06 15:41:02 -07002349 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2350 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2351 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2352 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2353 allocations. Use with caution!
Tang Chenc5320922013-11-12 15:08:10 -08002354
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002355 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2356 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2357
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002358 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2359 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002360
2361 mtdparts= [MTD]
Randy Dunlapc8facbb2007-07-31 00:37:40 -07002362 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002363
Will Schmidt4e89a2d2010-09-28 15:33:12 +00002364 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2365 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2366 at a time.
2367
Rohit Hagargundgi5988af22009-05-12 13:46:57 -07002368 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2369
2370 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2371
2372 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2373 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2374 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2375 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2376 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2377
Ben Dooks9db829f2008-07-03 11:24:29 +01002378 mtdset= [ARM]
2379 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2380
2381 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2382
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002383 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002384 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2385 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002386
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002387 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +02002388 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002389 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2390
2391 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2392 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2393 Default is 1.
2394 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2395 using up MTRRs.
2396
2397 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2398 Format: <integer>
2399 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2400 Default : 1
2401 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2402 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2403
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002404 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2405
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002406 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2407 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2408 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2409 something different and driver-specific.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002410 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2411 file if at all.
2412
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002413 nf_conntrack.acct=
2414 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2415 0 to disable accounting
2416 1 to enable accounting
Tim Gardnerd70a0112010-06-25 14:46:56 +02002417 Default value is 0.
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki58401572008-07-21 10:01:34 -07002418
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002419 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002420 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002421
2422 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -04002423 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002424
Chuck Lever306a0752010-09-17 10:54:37 -04002425 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2426 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2427
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002428 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2429 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2430 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2431 requests.
2432
Trond Myklebusta72b4422006-01-03 09:55:41 +01002433 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2434 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2435 channel should listen.
2436
Trond Myklebuste571cbf2009-08-19 18:12:27 -04002437 nfs.cache_getent=
2438 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2439 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2440
2441 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2442 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2443 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2444
Trond Myklebust58df0952006-01-03 09:55:57 +01002445 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2446 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2447 entries.
2448
Trond Myklebustf43bf0b2007-10-09 12:01:04 -04002449 nfs.enable_ino64=
2450 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2451 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2452 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2453 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2454 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2455
Trond Myklebust5405fc42016-08-29 20:03:52 -04002456 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2457 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2458 slots the client will assign to the callback
2459 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2460 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2461 a particular server.
2462
Trond Myklebustef159e92012-02-06 19:50:40 -05002463 nfs.max_session_slots=
2464 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2465 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2466 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2467 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2468 Note that there is little point in setting this
2469 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2470
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002471 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
Trond Myklebust074b1d12012-01-09 13:46:26 -05002472 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2473 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2474 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2475 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2476 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2477 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2478 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2479 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2480 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2481 back to using the idmapper.
2482 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
Chuck Lever6f2ea7f2012-09-14 17:24:41 -04002483 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2484 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2485 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2486 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2487 UUID that is generated at system install time.
Trond Myklebustb064eca22011-02-22 15:44:32 -08002488
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002489 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2490 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2491 information in exchange_id requests.
2492 If zero, no implementation identification information
2493 will be sent.
2494 The default is to send the implementation identification
2495 information.
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02002496
Trond Myklebustf6de7a32013-09-04 10:08:54 -04002497 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2498 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2499 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2500 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2501 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2502 after the locks are lost.
2503 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2504 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2505 parameter to '1'.
2506 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2507 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002508
Trond Myklebustbbf58bf2015-08-24 20:39:18 -04002509 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2510 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2511 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2512
2513 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2514 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2515 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2516 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2517
J. Bruce Fieldse9541ce2012-03-22 16:07:18 -04002518 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2519 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2520 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2521 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2522 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2523 migration from NFSv2/v3.
Weston Andros Adamsondb8ac8b2012-02-17 15:20:24 -05002524
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedtc0c74ac2017-02-26 13:17:39 +01002525 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
Haavard Skinnemoene7ba1762007-10-10 14:58:29 +02002526 when a NMI is triggered.
2527 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2528
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302529 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002530 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002531 Valid num: 0 or 1
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002532 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2533 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002534 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
Don Zickusfef2c9b2011-03-22 16:34:16 -07002535 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
Pranith Kumar334bb792015-10-10 15:40:42 -04002536 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2537 please see 'nowatchdog'.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002538 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2539 need the box quickly up again.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002540
Anton Vorontsovbff38772009-07-08 11:10:56 -07002541 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2542 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2543 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2544 waits 4 seconds.
2545
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002546 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002547 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2548 is present.
2549
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002550 no_console_suspend
2551 [HW] Never suspend the console
2552 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2553 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2554 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2555 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2556 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2557 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2558 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
Yanmin Zhang134620f2011-10-31 17:11:27 -07002559 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2560 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2561 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2562 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2563 turn on/off it dynamically.
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002564
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07002565 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2566 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2567 but will impact performance.
Paul Menage3395ee02006-12-06 20:32:16 -08002568
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002569 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2570
Vasily Gorbik686140a2017-10-12 13:01:47 +02002571 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2572 (CPU alternatives feature).
2573
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002574 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2575 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2576
Mike Galbraith5091faa2010-11-30 14:18:03 +01002577 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2578
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002579 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2580 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2581
2582 nocache [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002583
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002584 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2585
Shailabh Nagar163ecdf2006-07-30 03:03:11 -07002586 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2587
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002588 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2589
Dave Youngb2e0a542014-08-14 17:15:26 +08002590 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
Huang, Ying8b2cb7a2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01002591
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002592 noexec [IA-64]
2593
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302594 noexec [X86]
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002595 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002596 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002597 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2598
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002599 nosmap [X86]
2600 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2601 even if it is supported by processor.
2602
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002603 nosmep [X86]
H. Peter Anvin52b61792012-09-21 12:43:13 -07002604 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
Fenghua Yude5397a2011-05-11 16:51:05 -07002605 even if it is supported by processor.
2606
Jiri Slabyf5a1b192008-04-12 10:28:25 +02002607 noexec32 [X86-64]
2608 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2609 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2610 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2611 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2612 read implies executable mappings
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002613
Maciej W. Rozyckifab43ef2015-04-03 23:23:34 +01002614 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
Paul Mundt6902aa82008-09-21 17:14:42 +09002615
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002616 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002617 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2618 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002619
Toshi Kani0ddab1d2015-04-14 15:47:20 -07002620 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2621
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02002622 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2623 Equivalent to smt=1.
2624
Suresh Siddha0c752a92009-05-22 12:17:45 -07002625 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2626 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2627 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2628
Fenghua Yub6f42a42014-05-29 11:12:31 -07002629 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2630 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2631 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2632 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2633 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2634 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2635
2636 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2637 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2638 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2639 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2640 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2641 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2642 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2643
Paulius Zaleckas01a24d22009-03-31 13:55:44 +01002644 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2645 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2646 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002647
Serge E. Hallyn1f29fae2008-11-05 16:08:52 -06002648 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2649 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2650 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2651
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002652 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2653 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2654 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2655 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2656 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2657 real-time systems.
2658
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07002659 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2660
Thomas Gleixner79bf2bb2007-02-16 01:28:03 -08002661 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2662 Valid arguments: on, off
2663 Default: on
2664
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002665 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07002666 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
Frederic Weisbeckerc5bfece2013-04-12 16:45:34 +02002667 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002668 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
Frederic Weisbecker0453b432013-03-27 02:18:34 +01002669 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
Paul E. McKenneyf99bcb22017-06-02 11:26:43 -07002670 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
2671 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2672 just as if they had also been called out in the
2673 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
Frederic Weisbeckera8318812012-12-18 17:32:19 +01002674
Paul Mundteeee7852009-04-02 12:31:16 +09002675 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2676
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002677 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002678 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2679
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302680 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
Zachary Amsden8542b202006-12-07 02:14:09 +01002681 broken timer IRQ sources.
2682
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002683 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2684
2685 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2686 initial RAM disk.
2687
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002688 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2689 remapping.
Chris Wrightd1423d52010-07-20 11:06:49 -07002690 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
Weidong Han03ea8152009-04-17 16:42:15 +08002691
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002692 nointroute [IA-64]
2693
Andy Lutomirskid12a72b2016-01-29 11:42:58 -08002694 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2695
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002696 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
Tony Luck0aa366f2007-07-20 11:22:30 -07002697
Jiri Kosina9cf4c4f2010-08-16 17:51:20 +02002698 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2699
Gleb Natapovfd10cde2010-10-14 11:22:51 +02002700 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2701 fault handling.
2702
Alexey Makhalov80e9a4f2016-10-28 00:54:32 -07002703 no-vmw-sched-clock
2704 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2705 clock and use the default one.
2706
Glauber Costad910f5c2011-07-11 15:28:19 -04002707 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2708 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2709 behaviour
2710
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002711 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002712
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002713 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
Thomas Gleixnerad62ca22007-03-22 00:11:21 -08002714
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002715 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
Christophe Leroyf15eea62016-02-09 17:07:52 +01002716 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002717
Horms312f1f02006-02-22 09:57:55 +09002718 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2719
Masanari Iida13696e02015-05-16 02:16:43 +09002720 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
Hormsabe37e52006-04-01 01:36:09 +02002721
Andres Salomon83d73842007-10-12 23:04:06 +02002722 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2723 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2724
Don Zickusbda62632011-10-13 15:14:27 -04002725 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2726 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2727 irq.
2728
Dave Young02608be2012-02-01 10:33:14 +08002729 nomodule Disable module load
2730
Jiri Kosina016ddd92010-01-18 17:05:40 +01002731 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2732 pagetables) support.
2733
Andy Lutomirski0790c9a2017-06-29 08:53:20 -07002734 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2735
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002736 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2737 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2738
Jiri Kosinabbff2162010-08-11 18:34:09 +02002739 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
Jeremy Fitzhardinge959b4fd2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02002740
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002741 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
Jeremy Fitzhardingeb7fb4af2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02002742 with UP alternatives
2743
H. Peter Anvin7a5091d2014-05-11 20:25:20 -07002744 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2745 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2746 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2747 available to user space applications.
H. Peter Anvin49d859d2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07002748
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002749 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2750 space.
2751
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002752 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2753 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2754 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2755
2756 nosbagart [IA-64]
2757
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002758 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
Chuck Ebbert4f886512006-03-23 02:59:34 -08002759
Len Brown61ec7562007-08-16 03:34:22 -04002760 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2761 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002762
Dave Jones97842212007-07-15 23:41:05 -07002763 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2764
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002765 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2766
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002767 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002768
Ulrich Obergfell195daf62015-04-14 15:44:13 -07002769 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2770 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
Don Zickus58687ac2010-05-07 17:11:44 -04002771
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002772 nowb [ARM]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002773
Weidong Han2b2fd872009-04-17 16:42:12 +08002774 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2775
Fenghua Yuf78cff42012-11-13 11:32:38 -08002776 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2777 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2778 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2779 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2780 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2781 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2782 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2783 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2784 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2785 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2786 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2787 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2788 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2789
Noam Camus35b55ef2017-06-15 11:43:57 +03002790 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2791 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2792 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2793 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2794 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2795 parameter's value.
2796 Format: integer between 1 and 255
2797 Default: 255
2798
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07002799 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
Fenghua Yua6c75b862008-03-14 13:57:08 -07002800 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2801 SAL PALO.
2802
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002803 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2804 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
Baoquan He7c142bf2016-08-24 13:06:45 +08002805 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2806 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2807 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2808 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2809 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2810 hot plugging.
Yinghai Lu2b633e32010-02-10 01:20:37 -08002811
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07002812 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2813
Mel Gorman1a687c22012-11-22 11:16:36 +00002814 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2815 Allowed values are enable and disable
2816
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002817 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
Michal Hockoc9bff3e2017-09-06 16:20:13 -07002818 'node', 'default' can be specified
KAMEZAWA Hiroyukif0c0b2b2007-07-15 23:38:01 -07002819 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2820 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2821
Randy Dunlap7c4be252009-01-06 14:42:44 -08002822 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2823 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2824 info.
2825
Andres Salomon3ef0e1f2008-04-29 00:59:53 -07002826 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2827 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2828 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2829 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2830 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2831 interrupts *may* be lost!
2832
Tony Lindgren15ac7af2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08002833 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2834 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2835 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2836 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2837
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002838 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2839 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2840
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002841 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2842 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2843 userland or if you want common events.
Robert Richter8d7ff4f2009-06-23 11:48:14 +02002844 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2845 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
Robert Richter7e4e0bd2009-05-06 12:10:23 +02002846 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2847 CPU specific event set.
Robert Richter159a80b2011-10-11 19:39:16 +02002848 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2849 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2850 for generic hr timer mode)
Andi Kleen1dcdb5a2009-04-27 17:44:11 +02002851
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002852 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2853 process, but there is a small probability of
2854 deadlocking the machine.
Olaf Heringd404ab02011-03-22 16:34:04 -07002855 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2856 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2857
Randy Dunlapbcfde332010-06-07 17:10:38 -07002858 OSS [HW,OSS]
2859 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2860
Joonsoo Kim48c96a32014-12-12 16:56:01 -08002861 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2862 Storage of the information about who allocated
2863 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2864 we can turn it on.
2865 on: enable the feature
2866
Laura Abbott8823b1d2016-03-15 14:56:27 -07002867 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2868 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2869 off: turn off poisoning
2870 on: turn on poisoning
2871
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07002872 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
Hugh Dickins4302fbc2011-07-26 16:08:52 -07002873 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2874 timeout = 0: wait forever
2875 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002876 Format: <timeout>
2877
Prarit Bhargava9e3961a2014-12-10 15:45:50 -08002878 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2879 on a WARN().
2880
Masami Hiramatsuf06e5152014-06-06 14:37:07 -07002881 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2882 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2883 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2884 succeeds in any situation.
2885 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2886 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2887 kernel more unstable.
2888
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002889 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2890 connected to, default is 0.
2891 Format: <parport#>
2892 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2893 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002894 Format: <mode>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002895
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002896 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2897 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2898 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2899 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2900 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2901 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2902 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2903 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2904 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2905 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2906 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2907 are specified on the command line, starting
2908 with parport0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002909
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002910 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2911 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2912 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2913 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2914 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2915 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002916 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2917
Andrew Mortondd287792006-03-23 03:00:57 -08002918 pause_on_oops=
2919 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2920 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2921 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2922
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002923 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2924
2925 pcd. [PARIDE]
2926 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00002927 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002928
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002929 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
Bjorn Helgaas1cc0ca22009-01-14 10:04:36 -07002930 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2931 changes anything
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002932 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002933 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002934 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2935 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002936 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002937 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2938 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2939 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
Borislav Petkovafd8c082016-01-13 16:48:51 +01002940 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2941 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2942 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2943 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2944 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2945 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2946 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2947 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2948 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2949 on the configuration access mechanisms.
Randy Dunlap7f785762007-10-05 13:17:58 -07002950 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2951 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2952 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
Jeff Garzik32a2eea2007-10-11 16:57:27 -04002953 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2954 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05302955 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
Bjorn Helgaas61be6d62006-02-15 15:17:43 -08002956 Configuration
Andreas Herrmann12983072009-06-07 16:15:16 +02002957 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2958 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2959 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
Matthew Wilcox309e57d2006-03-05 22:33:34 -07002960 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2961 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2962 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
Stefan Assmanna9322f62008-06-11 16:35:14 +02002963 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2964 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2965 should never be necessary.
Stefan Assmann91979792008-06-11 16:35:15 +02002966 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2967 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2968 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2969 when the system masks IRQs.
Stefan Assmann41b9eb22008-07-15 13:48:55 +02002970 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2971 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2972 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2973 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07002974 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002975 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2976 on several machines and they hang the machine
2977 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2978 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2979 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2980 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2981 motherboard.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002982 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002983 Use with caution as certain devices share
2984 address decoders between ROMs and other
2985 resources.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002986 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
Gary Hadebb71ad82008-05-12 13:57:46 -07002987 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2988 BIOS assigned address ranges.
Mike Habeck7bd1c362010-05-12 11:14:32 -07002989 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2990 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002991 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002992 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2993 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2994 this way.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002995 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07002996 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2997 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2998 F0000h-100000h range.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02002999 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003000 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3001 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3002 explicitly which ones they are.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003003 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003004 numbers ourselves, overriding
3005 whatever the firmware may have done.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003006 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003007 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3008 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3009 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3010 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3011 IRQ routing is enabled.
Andi Kleenc0115602008-08-22 09:53:39 +02003012 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003013 or for PCI scanning.
Bjorn Helgaas7bc5e3f2010-02-23 10:24:41 -07003014 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3015 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3016 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3017 please report a bug.
3018 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3019 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003020 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3021 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3022 so this option is a temporary workaround
3023 for broken drivers that don't call it.
Yinghai Lu13a6ddb2008-03-27 01:31:18 -07003024 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3025 handle more pci cards
Andi Kleen0637a702006-09-26 10:52:41 +02003026 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3027 This might help on some broken boards which
3028 machine check when some devices' config space
3029 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3030 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003031 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3032 This sorting is done to get a device
3033 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3034 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
Yijing Wangfa238712013-01-30 09:40:52 +08003035 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3036 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3037 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3038 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3039 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3040 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3041 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3042 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3043 or bus can support) for best performance.
3044 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3045 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3046 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3047 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3048 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3049 that hot-added devices will work.
Atsushi Nemoto4516a612007-02-05 16:36:06 -08003050 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3051 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3052 The default value is 256 bytes.
3053 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3054 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3055 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003056 resource_alignment=
3057 Format:
3058 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5)644a5442016-06-07 14:24:17 +00003059 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3060 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
Yuji Shimada32a9a6822009-03-16 17:13:39 +09003061 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3062 aligned memory resources.
3063 If <order of align> is not specified,
3064 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3065 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3066 windows need to be expanded.
Mathias Koehrer8b078c62016-08-09 10:33:31 +02003067 To specify the alignment for several
3068 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3069 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3070 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
Andrew Patterson43c16402009-04-22 16:52:09 -06003071 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3072 end-to-end CRC checking).
3073 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3074 the default.
3075 off: Turn ECRC off
3076 on: Turn ECRC on.
Yijing Wang8c8803c2013-01-23 20:29:06 +08003077 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3078 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3079 Default size is 256 bytes.
3080 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3081 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3082 Default size is 2 megabytes.
Keith Busche16b4662016-07-21 21:40:28 -06003083 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3084 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3085 Default is 1.
Yinghai Lub55438f2012-02-23 19:23:30 -08003086 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3087 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3088 accommodate resources required by all child
3089 devices.
3090 off: Turn realloc off
3091 on: Turn realloc on
3092 realloc same as realloc=on
Rafael J. Wysocki6748dcc2012-03-01 00:06:33 +01003093 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
Bjorn Helgaas284f5f92012-04-30 15:21:02 -06003094 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3095 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3096 port.
Matt Domsch6b4b78f2006-09-29 15:23:23 -05003097
Chuck Ebberte5665a42008-09-24 20:40:34 -04003098 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3099 Management.
3100 off Disable ASPM.
3101 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3102 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3103
MUNEDA Takahiro7570a332012-02-02 11:09:22 -05003104 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3105 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3106 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3107
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003108 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003109 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3110 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3111 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3112 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3113 unconditionally.
Rafael J. Wysocki79dd9182010-08-21 01:51:44 +02003114 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3115 ports driver.
3116
Mika Westerberg9d26d3a2016-06-02 11:17:12 +03003117 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3118 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3119 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3120
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003121 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
Rafael J. Wysockic39fae12010-02-17 23:40:07 +01003122 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
Rafael J. Wysocki28eb5f22010-08-21 22:02:38 +02003123 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
Rafael J. Wysockic7f48652010-02-17 23:39:08 +01003124
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003125 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3126
Tushar Behera39ac5ba2014-03-28 10:50:21 +05303127 pd_ignore_unused
3128 [PM]
3129 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3130 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3131 for debug and development, but should not be
3132 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3133
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003134 pd. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003135 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003136
3137 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3138 boot time.
3139 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3140 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3141
Tejun Heof58dc012009-08-14 15:00:50 +09003142 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
Tejun Heoe933a732009-08-14 15:00:53 +09003143 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3144 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3145 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3146 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3147 and performance comparison.
Tejun Heofa8a7092009-06-22 11:56:24 +09003148
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003149 pf. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003150 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003151
3152 pg. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003153 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003154
3155 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
Uwe Hermann71cced62008-10-20 09:32:21 -07003156 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003157
3158 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3159 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
Tom Saeger3ba9b1b2017-10-10 12:36:16 -05003160 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003161
Randy Dunlap16290242011-08-13 12:34:52 -07003162 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Thomas Gleixnerde32a242008-07-12 05:33:30 +02003163 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3164 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3165
Bjorn Helgaas96242112011-08-11 12:14:05 -06003166 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3167 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3168 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3169 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3170 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3171 possible settings and some assignment information.
Bjorn Helgaas97ef0622008-08-19 16:53:41 -06003172
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003173 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3174 { off }
3175
3176 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3177 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3178
3179 pnp_reserve_irq=
3180 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3181
3182 pnp_reserve_dma=
3183 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3184
3185 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003186 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003187
3188 pnp_reserve_mem=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003189 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3190 autoconfiguration.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003191 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3192
Randy Dunlap4af94f32009-04-17 18:30:28 -07003193 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3194 Default is 21.
3195 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3196 may be specified.
3197 Format: <port>,<port>....
3198
Balbir Singhc3cbd072016-12-02 00:08:26 +11003199 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3200 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3201 platform machine description specific power_save
3202 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3203 execution priority.
3204
Anton Blanchard3eb5d582015-10-29 11:44:06 +11003205 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3206 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3207 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3208 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3209 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3210
Cyril Bur07fd1762017-10-12 21:17:16 +11003211 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3212 Format: {"off"}
3213 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3214
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003215 print-fatal-signals=
3216 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
Naohiro Ooiwaf84d49b2009-11-09 00:46:42 +09003217
3218 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3219 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3220 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3221 coredump - etc.
3222
3223 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3224 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3225
Ingo Molnar45807a12007-07-15 23:40:10 -07003226 default: off.
3227
Matthew Garrettc22ab3322012-03-05 14:59:10 -08003228 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3229 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3230 panics
3231 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3232 default: disabled
3233
Borislav Petkov750afe72016-08-02 14:04:07 -07003234 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3235 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3236 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3237 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3238 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3239 Default: ratelimit
3240
Randy Dunlape84845c2007-07-15 23:40:25 -07003241 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3242 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3243
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003244 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3245 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3246 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3247
3248 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3249 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3250 instead using the legacy FADT method
3251
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003252 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003253 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3254 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3255 [defaults to kernel profiling]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003256 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Mel Gormanb3da2a72007-10-24 18:23:50 +02003257 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3258 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
Dave Jonesc0fe2e62007-10-20 03:08:22 +02003259 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
Randy Dunlape7e61fc2017-11-19 21:08:11 -08003260 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3261 statistical time based profiling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003262
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003263 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3264 before loading.
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003265 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003266
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003267 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3268 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003269 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3270 per second.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003271 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3272 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003273 (0 = never).
3274 psmouse.resolution=
3275 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3276 psmouse.smartscroll=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003277 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003278 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3279
Matthew Garrettdee28e72011-07-21 16:57:55 -04003280 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3281
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003282 pt. [PARIDE]
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003283 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003284
Kay Sieversdc8c8582007-08-15 12:25:38 +02003285 pty.legacy_count=
3286 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3287 default number.
3288
Randy Dunlap7d2c5022006-09-29 02:01:02 -07003289 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003291 r128= [HW,DRM]
3292
3293 raid= [HW,RAID]
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02003294 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003296 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +00003297 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003298
Borislav Petkov011d8262017-03-27 11:33:02 +02003299 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3300
3301 cec_disable [X86]
3302 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3303 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3304
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003305 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
Noam Camus2d13e6c2016-10-11 13:51:35 -07003306 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3307
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003308 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3309 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3310 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
Paul E. McKenneya4889852012-12-03 08:16:28 -08003311 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3312 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3313 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3314 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003315 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3316 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3317 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3318
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003319 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3fbfbf72012-08-19 21:35:53 -07003320 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3321 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3322 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3323 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3324 This improves the real-time response for the
3325 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3326 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3327 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3328 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3329
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003330 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003331 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3332 process in one batch.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003333
Paul E. McKenneya3dc2942015-04-20 11:40:50 -07003334 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3335 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3336 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3337 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3338
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003339 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3340 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003341 RCU grace-period cleanup.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003342
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003343 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3344 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003345 RCU grace-period initialization.
Paul E. McKenney0f41c0d2015-03-10 18:33:20 -07003346
3347 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3348 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3349 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3350 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
Paul E. McKenney90040c92017-05-10 14:36:55 -07003351 the rcu_node combining tree.
Paul E. McKenney37745d22015-01-22 18:24:08 -08003352
Paul E. McKenney7fa27002015-04-20 10:27:15 -07003353 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3354 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3355 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3356 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3357 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003358
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003359 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyee968ac2015-07-31 08:28:35 -07003360 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3361 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3362 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3363 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3364 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3365 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
Paul E. McKenneyf885b7f2012-04-23 15:52:53 -07003366
Paul E. McKenney4a81e832014-06-20 16:49:01 -07003367 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3368 Set required age in jiffies for a
3369 given grace period before RCU starts
3370 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3371 rcu_note_context_switch().
3372
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003373 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003374 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3375 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3376 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3377 and maximum value is HZ.
3378
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003379 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003380 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3381 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3382 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3383
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003384 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Paul E. McKenneyd2af1ad2015-01-20 23:54:59 -08003385 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3386 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3387 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3388 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3389 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3390 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3391 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3392 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3393 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
Clark Williams21871d72014-09-12 21:21:09 -05003394
Paul E. McKenneyfbce7492014-06-24 09:26:11 -07003395 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3396 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3397 defaults to the square root of the number of
3398 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3399 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3400 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3401
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003402 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney97e63f02013-10-27 09:44:03 -07003403 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3404 batch limiting is disabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003405
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003406 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
Robert P. J. Day24aaef82008-02-03 15:20:26 +02003407 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3408 batch limiting is re-enabled.
Dipankar Sarma21a1ea92006-03-07 21:55:33 -08003409
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003410 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003411 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3412 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003413
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003414 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneyc0f4dfd2012-12-28 11:30:36 -08003415 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3416 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3417 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3418 prove do nothing more than free memory.
Paul E. McKenneyd40011f2012-06-26 20:45:57 -07003419
Paul E. McKenneye3c50df2017-01-06 15:14:11 -08003420 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3421 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3422 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3423 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3424 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3425 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3426
Paul E. McKenney881ed592017-04-17 12:47:10 -07003427 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3428 Measure performance of asynchronous
3429 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3430
3431 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3432 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3433 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3434 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3435 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3436 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3437
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003438 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3439 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3440 grace-period primitives.
3441
Paul E. McKenneydf37e662016-01-30 20:56:38 -08003442 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3443 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3444 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3445 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3446 interference.
3447
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003448 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3449 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3450 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3451 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3452 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3453 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3454 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3455 a single reader.
3456
3457 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3458 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3459 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3460 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3461
3462 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3463 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3464
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003465 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3466 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3467
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003468 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3469 Shut the system down after performance tests
3470 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3471 testing.
3472
Paul E. McKenneybdea9e32016-01-01 13:47:19 -08003473 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3474 Enable additional printk() statements.
3475
Paul E. McKenney820687a2017-04-25 15:12:56 -07003476 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3477 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3478 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3479 no holdoff.
3480
Paul E. McKenney38706bc2014-08-18 21:12:17 -07003481 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3482 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3483 callback-flood tests.
3484
3485 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3486 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3487 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3488 test.
3489
3490 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3491 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3492 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3493 disable callback-flood testing.
3494
3495 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3496 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3497 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3498
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003499 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003500 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3501 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003502
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003503 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003504 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3505 in microseconds.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003506
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003507 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003508 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3509 in seconds.
3510
3511 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3512 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3513 primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003514
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003515 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003516 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003517
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003518 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003519 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3520 update-side primitives, if available.
3521
3522 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3523 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3524 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3525 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3526 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3527 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3528 they are all non-zero.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003529
3530 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003531 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3532
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003533 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003534 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3535 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3536 test, hence the "fake".
3537
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003538 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenney3838cc12015-03-12 13:55:48 -07003539 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3540 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3541 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3542 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3543 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003544
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003545 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3546 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3547
3548 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003549 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3550
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003551 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003552 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3553 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3554
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003555 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003556 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3557 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3558 during the rcutorture test.
3559
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003560 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003561 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3562 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3563
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003564 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003565 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3566 warnings, zero to disable.
3567
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003568 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003569 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3570
Paul E. McKenney2b1516e2017-08-18 16:11:37 -07003571 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3572 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3573
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003574 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003575 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3576
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003577 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003578 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3579 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3580 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3581 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3582
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003583 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003584 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3585 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3586 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3587
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003588 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003589 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3590
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003591 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003592 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3593
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003594 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003595 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3596 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3597
Paul E. McKenney21b05de2015-05-14 17:29:51 -07003598 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3599 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3600
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003601 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003602 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3603
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003604 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
Paul E. McKenneydabb8aa2012-04-23 10:54:45 -07003605 Enable additional printk() statements.
3606
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003607 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3608 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3609
3610 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3611 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3612
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003613 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3614 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3615 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3616 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3617 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3618 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003619 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003620
Paul E. McKenney5a9be7c2015-11-24 15:44:06 -08003621 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3622 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3623 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3624 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003625 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3626 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3627 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3628 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3629 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney4102ada2013-10-08 20:23:47 -07003630
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003631 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3632 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3633 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
Paul E. McKenney79cfea022015-12-07 13:09:52 -08003634 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3635 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
Paul E. McKenney3e42ec12015-11-25 18:56:00 -08003636
Paul E. McKenney52db30a2014-07-01 18:16:30 -07003637 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3638 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3639 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3640 to zero.
3641
Pranith Kumar74860fe2014-09-19 11:34:09 -04003642 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3643 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3644
3645 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3646 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3647
3648 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3649 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3650
Olof Johanssonffdfc402005-09-06 15:17:19 -07003651 rdinit= [KNL]
3652 Format: <full_path>
3653 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3654 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3655
Tony Luck1d9807f2017-08-24 09:26:51 -07003656 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
3657 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3658 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3659 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3660 rdt=cmt,!mba
3661
Robin Holt1b3a5d02013-07-08 16:01:42 -07003662 reboot= [KNL]
3663 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3664 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3665 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3666 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3667 [[,]f[orce]
3668 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3669 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3670 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3671 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3672 to be used for rebooting.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003673
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003674 relax_domain_level=
3675 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09003676 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
Paul Jackson46b6d942008-07-04 10:00:09 -07003677
Bjorn Helgaasffd2e8d2017-12-01 11:50:33 -06003678 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
3679 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
3680 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
3681 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
3682 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003683
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003684 reservetop= [X86-32]
Zachary Amsden461a9aff2006-09-25 23:32:25 -07003685 Format: nn[KMG]
3686 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3687 address space.
3688
H. Peter Anvin9ea77bd2010-08-25 16:38:20 -07003689 reservelow= [X86]
3690 Format: nn[K]
3691 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3692 the bottom of the address space.
3693
Vivek Goyal7e962872006-09-27 01:50:44 -07003694 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3695 during initialization.
3696
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003697 resume= [SWSUSP]
3698 Specify the partition device for software suspend
Minho Ban2df83fa2012-05-14 21:45:31 +02003699 Format:
3700 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003701
Rafael J. Wysockiecbd0da2006-12-06 20:34:13 -08003702 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3703 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3704 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3705 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3706 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3707
Barry Songf126f732011-10-10 23:38:41 +02003708 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3709 read the resume files
3710
Barry Song6f8d7022011-10-06 20:34:46 +02003711 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3712 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3713 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3714
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003715 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3716 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3717 present during boot.
3718 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
Kees Cooka6e15a32014-06-13 13:30:35 -07003719 no Disable hibernation and resume.
Rafael J. Wysocki4c0b6c12016-07-10 02:12:10 +02003720 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3721 (that will set all pages holding image data
3722 during restoration read-only).
Bojan Smojverf996fc92010-09-09 23:06:23 +02003723
Michael Neuling0a7b35cb2007-02-10 01:44:33 -08003724 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3725
Andrew Clausen0efbb782015-01-09 20:24:55 +00003726 rfkill.default_state=
3727 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3728 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3729 1 Unblocked.
3730
3731 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3732 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3733 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3734 blocked and the previous configuration.
3735 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3736 blocked and everything unblocked.
3737
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003738 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3739 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3740
Grzegorz Andrejczuke16fd002017-01-20 14:22:36 +01003741 ring3mwait=disable
3742 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3743 CPUs.
3744
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003745 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3746
Kees Cookd2aa1ac2016-02-17 14:41:13 -08003747 rodata= [KNL]
3748 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3749 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3750
Heiko Stuebner605df8a2016-02-22 12:55:01 +01003751 rockchip.usb_uart
3752 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3753 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3754 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3755 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3756
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003757 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
Will Drewryf2d34fd92011-08-03 16:21:08 -07003758 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003759
3760 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3761 mount the root filesystem
3762
3763 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3764
3765 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3766
Pierre Ossmancc1ed752007-07-15 23:40:35 -07003767 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3768 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3769 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3770
Robert Tivy5c71d612013-03-28 18:41:46 -07003771 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3772 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3773 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3774 managed by CMA.
3775
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003776 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3777
3778 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3779
Gerald Schaeferc60d1ae2014-07-18 17:37:08 +02003780 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3781 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3782 strict
3783 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3784 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3785 which is faster.
3786
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003787 sa1100ir [NET]
3788 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3789
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003790 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003791
Mike Travisf6630112009-11-17 18:22:15 -06003792 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3793
Mel Gormancb251762016-02-05 09:08:36 +00003794 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3795 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3796 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3797 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3798
Mike Galbraith5307c952012-05-08 12:20:58 +02003799 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3800 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3801 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3802 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3803 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3804 1 -- enable.
3805 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3806 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3807
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07003808 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3809 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3810 security module asking for security registration will be
3811 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3812 as if no module has been chosen.
3813
3814 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003815 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3816 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3817 0 -- disable.
3818 1 -- enable.
3819 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3820 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3821 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3822
John Johansenc1c124e2010-07-29 14:48:09 -07003823 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3824 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3825 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3826 0 -- disable.
3827 1 -- enable.
3828 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3829
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07003830 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003831
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003832 shapers= [NET]
3833 Maximal number of shapers.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003834
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003835 simeth= [IA-64]
3836 simscsi=
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07003837
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003838 slram= [HW,MTD]
3839
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003840 slab_nomerge [MM]
3841 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3842 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
Kees Cook7660a6f2017-07-06 15:36:40 -07003843 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3844 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3845 layout control by attackers can usually be
3846 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3847 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3848 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3849 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3850 own.
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003851 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3852
David Rientjes3df1ccc2011-10-18 22:09:28 -07003853 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3854 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3855 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3856 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3857 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3858
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003859 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3860 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3861 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3862 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3863 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3864 last alloc / free. For more information see
3865 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003866
Tejun Heo1663f262017-02-22 15:41:39 -08003867 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
3868 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3869 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3870 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3871 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
3872 directories and files being created under
3873 /sys/kernel/slub.
3874
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003875 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003876 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3877 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3878 fragmentation. For more information see
3879 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003880
3881 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003882 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3883 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3884 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3885 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3886 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3887 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003888 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3889
3890 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09003891 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
Christoph Lameterf0630ff2007-07-15 23:38:14 -07003892 lower than slub_max_order.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003893 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3894
3895 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Joonsoo Kim423c9292014-10-09 15:26:22 -07003896 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3897 See slab_nomerge for more information.
Christoph Lameterc1aee212007-05-31 00:40:47 -07003898
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003899 smart2= [HW]
3900 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3901
Bjorn Helgaasd0d4f692007-05-08 00:36:05 -07003902 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3903 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3904 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3905 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3906 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3907 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3908 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3909 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3910 1: Fast pin select (default)
3911 2: ATC IRMode
3912
Sascha Silbe52c48c52016-04-05 12:53:38 +02003913 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3914 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3915 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3916 actual hardware limit.
3917 Format: <integer>
3918 Default: -1 (no limit)
3919
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003920 softlockup_panic=
3921 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07003922 Format: <integer>
Ingo Molnar9c44bc02008-05-12 21:21:04 +02003923
Borislav Petkov3ce62382017-10-03 17:54:07 +02003924 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3925 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3926 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3927 which is the respective build-time switch to that
3928 functionality.
3929
Aaron Tomlined235872014-06-23 13:22:05 -07003930 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3931 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3932 backtraces on all cpus.
3933 Format: <integer>
3934
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003935 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
Paul Bolle395cf962011-08-15 02:02:26 +02003936 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003937
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003938 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3939 spia_fio_base=
3940 spia_pedr=
3941 spia_peddr=
3942
Paul E. McKenneyc350c002017-05-03 15:35:32 -07003943 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3944 Specifies how frequently to check for
3945 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3946 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3947 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3948 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3949 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
3950 are ignored.
3951
Paul E. McKenney22607d62017-04-25 14:03:11 -07003952 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3953 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3954 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3955 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3956 grace period will be considered for automatic
3957 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
3958 expediting.
3959
Hugh Dickins1be71072017-06-19 04:03:24 -07003960 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
3961 override the default stack gap protection. The value
3962 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3963 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3964 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3965 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3966
Steven Rostedtf38f1d22008-12-16 23:06:40 -05003967 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3968 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3969
Steven Rostedt762e1202011-12-19 22:01:00 -05003970 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3971 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3972 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3973 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3974 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3975 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3976 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3977
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003978 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3979 Format: <num>
3980 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3981 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3982 as the initial boot-console.
3983 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3984
3985 sti_font= [HW]
3986 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3987
3988 stifb= [HW]
3989 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3990
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04003991 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3992 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3993 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3994 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3995 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3996 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3997 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3998 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3999 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4000 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4001 maximum port values.
4002
Trond Myklebustff3ac5c2016-06-24 10:55:50 -04004003 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4004 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4005 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4006 process in parallel from a single connection.
4007 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4008
Greg Banks42a7fc42007-03-06 01:42:23 -08004009 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4010 [NFS]
4011 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4012 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4013 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4014 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4015 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4016 NFS server is running.
4017
4018 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4019 automatically using heuristics
4020 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4021 percpu one pool for each CPU
4022 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4023 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4024
Trond Myklebustcbf11072009-08-09 15:06:19 -04004025 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4026 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4027 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4028 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4029 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4030 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4031 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4032 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4033
Brian Norris1d4a9c12015-02-22 21:16:49 -08004034 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4035 [SUSPEND]
4036 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4037 mode before resuming the system (see
4038 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4039 is set. Default value is 5.
4040
Michal Hocko07555ac2013-08-22 16:35:46 -07004041 swapaccount=[0|1]
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004042 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4043 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
seokhoon.yoon09c3bcc2016-08-02 23:23:57 +09004044 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
Michal Hockoa42c3902010-11-24 12:57:08 -08004045
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004046 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004047 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
Jiri Kosina91fec0f2013-11-27 13:48:09 +01004048 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4049 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4050 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
Geert Uytterhoevenfff5d992016-12-16 14:28:42 +01004051 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004052
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004053 switches= [HW,M68k]
4054
Andi Kleene52eec12010-09-08 16:54:17 +02004055 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4056 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4057 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4058 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4059 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4060 in older udev will not work anymore.
4061 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4062 the kernel configuration.
4063
Ingo Molnar5d6f6472006-12-13 00:34:36 -08004064 sysrq_always_enabled
4065 [KNL]
4066 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4067 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4068 Useful for debugging.
4069
Fabian Frederick747029a2014-11-06 19:46:50 +01004070 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4071 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4072 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4073 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4074 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4075 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4076
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004077 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4078
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004079 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004080 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
Srinivas Pandruvadaacc82342014-09-02 11:54:41 -07004081 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4082 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4083 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4084 The system is woken from this state using a
4085 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
David Brownell77437fd2008-07-23 21:28:33 -07004086
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004087 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4088 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4089
Len Brownf8707ec2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04004090 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4091 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4092 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4093
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004094 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4095 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
Zhang Rui22a94d72008-10-17 02:41:20 -04004096 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
Len Brownc52a7412007-08-14 15:49:32 -04004097
Len Brownf5487142007-08-12 00:12:44 -04004098 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4099 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4100 critical and hot trip points.
4101
Len Brown72b33ef2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04004102 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4103 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4104
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004105 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4106 -1: disable all passive trip points
Randy Dunlapada9cfd2008-12-19 10:57:32 -08004107 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4108 value
Len Browna70cdc52007-08-12 00:12:35 -04004109
Len Brown730ff342007-08-12 00:12:26 -04004110 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4111 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4112 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4113 0: no polling (default)
4114
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004115 threadirqs [KNL]
4116 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
Masanari Iida24775d62012-02-15 00:26:42 +09004117 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
Thomas Gleixner8d32a302011-02-23 23:52:23 +00004118
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004119 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4120 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4121
4122 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4123 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4124 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4125
4126 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4127 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk37d46e12013-05-14 13:56:42 -04004128 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4129 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2ca62b02013-05-08 17:12:44 -04004130
4131 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4132 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4133 to the hypervisor.
4134
4135 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4136 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4137 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4138 kernel based on different criteria.
4139
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004140 topology= [S390]
4141 Format: {off | on}
4142 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
Sylvestre Ledruf65e51d2011-04-04 15:04:46 -07004143 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4144 The scheduler will make use of this information and
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004145 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
Heiko Carstensc9af3fa2010-10-25 16:10:43 +02004146 Default is on.
Heiko Carstens2b1a61f2008-12-25 13:39:23 +01004147
Nishanth Aravamudan2d73bae2014-10-10 09:04:49 -07004148 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4149 Format: {off}
4150 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4151 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4152 LPAR.
4153
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004154 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4155
Rajiv Andrade225a9be2010-03-25 00:55:32 -03004156 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4157 Format: integer pcr id
4158 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4159 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4160 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4161 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4162 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4163 are saved.
4164
Li Zefan9d612be2009-06-24 17:33:15 +08004165 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
Joonsoo Kim3e6fb8e2014-12-03 10:39:20 +09004166 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
KOSAKI Motohiro631595f2009-03-10 13:57:10 +09004167
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004168 trace_event=[event-list]
4169 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
Brian Norrisd81749e2016-05-23 13:37:58 -07004170 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4171 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4172 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
Li Zefan020e5f82009-07-01 10:47:05 +08004173
Steven Rostedt7bcfaf52012-11-01 22:56:07 -04004174 trace_options=[option-list]
4175 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4176 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4177 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4178 to echo the option name into
4179
4180 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4181
4182 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4183 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4184
4185 trace_options=stacktrace
4186
4187 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4188 section.
4189
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)0daa23022014-12-12 22:27:10 -05004190 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4191 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4192 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4193 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4194 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4195 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4196
4197 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4198 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4199 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4200 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4201
4202 ** CAUTION **
4203
4204 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4205 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4206 the system to live lock.
4207
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)de7edd32013-06-14 16:21:43 -04004208 traceoff_on_warning
4209 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4210 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4211 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4212 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4213
4214 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4215 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4216 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4217
4218 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4219 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4220
Jiri Kosinafcf4d822012-03-21 16:34:02 -07004221 transparent_hugepage=
4222 [KNL]
4223 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4224 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4225 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4226 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4227
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004228 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004229 Format: <string>
4230 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
john stultzd3b8f882009-08-17 16:40:47 -07004231 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4232 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4233 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4234 virtualized environment.
Venkatesh Pallipadie82b8e42010-10-04 17:03:20 -07004235 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4236 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4237 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4238 can add overhead.
Dou Liyang6be53522017-10-09 17:03:33 +08004239 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4240 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4241 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
Alok Kataria395628e2008-10-24 17:22:01 -07004242
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004243 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4244 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4245 Format:
4246 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
Tom Saeger17521182017-10-10 12:36:23 -05004247 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004248
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004249 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
Jani Nikulae52347b2016-11-03 12:10:10 +02004250 happen after console_init() and before a proper
Christian Kujaub6935f82011-05-31 15:22:05 +00004251 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4252 help "seeing" what's going on.
4253
Eric Dumazetf86dcc52009-10-07 00:37:59 +00004254 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4255 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4256
Alan Stern5f8364b2006-12-05 16:29:55 -05004257 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4258 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4259 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4260 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4261 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4262 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4263 reported either.
4264
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004265 unknown_nmi_panic
Randy Dunlap44a4dcf2011-04-04 15:02:24 -07004266 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
Simon Arlotte3a61b02008-07-19 23:32:54 +01004267
Carl-Daniel Hailfingerc4fc2342011-05-31 21:31:08 +02004268 usbcore.authorized_default=
4269 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4270 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4271 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4272
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004273 usbcore.autosuspend=
4274 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4275 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4276 is the time required before an idle device will be
4277 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
Alan Sterneaafbc32007-03-13 16:39:15 -04004278 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
Alan Sternb5e795f2007-02-20 15:00:53 -05004279
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004280 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4281 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4282
Alan Stern0290cc92015-11-20 13:53:22 -05004283 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4284 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4285 (default = 65536).
4286
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004287 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4288 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4289
4290 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4291 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4292 scheme (default 0 = off).
4293
Alan Stern3f5eb8d2011-11-17 16:41:35 -05004294 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4295 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4296 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4297
Jaroslav Kyselafd7c5192008-10-10 16:24:45 +02004298 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4299 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4300 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4301
4302 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4303 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4304 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4305 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4306
Oliver Neukum40d58142015-12-03 15:03:32 +01004307 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4308
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004309 usbhid.mousepoll=
4310 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004311
Tobias Jakobi933bfe42017-02-25 20:27:27 +01004312 usbhid.jspoll=
4313 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4314
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004315 usb-storage.delay_use=
4316 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
Mark Knibbs19101952014-11-04 13:00:15 +00004317 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004318
4319 usb-storage.quirks=
4320 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4321 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4322 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4323 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4324 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4325 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4326 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004327 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4328 of sense data);
Alan Sterna0bb1082009-12-07 16:39:16 -05004329 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4330 bytes of sense data);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004331 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4332 device capacity by one sector);
Karl Relton51169012011-05-18 21:42:34 +01004333 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4334 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4335 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4336 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
Hans de Goede734016b2014-09-16 18:36:52 +02004337 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4338 command, uas only);
Hans de Goedeee136af2015-04-21 11:20:31 +02004339 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4340 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004341 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4342 reported device capacity by one
4343 sector if the number is odd);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004344 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4345 device);
Hans de Goede13630742016-04-12 12:27:09 +02004346 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4347 command, uas only);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004348 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4349 unlock ejectable media);
4350 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4351 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
Alan Stern21c13a42011-06-07 11:35:52 -04004352 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4353 initial READ(10) command);
Alan Sternc838ea42008-12-15 10:40:06 -05004354 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4355 reported by the device);
Namjae Jeoneaa05df2012-07-07 23:05:28 -04004356 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4357 by default);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004358 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4359 bogus residue values);
4360 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4361 Logical Unit);
Hans de Goede59307852014-09-15 16:04:12 +02004362 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4363 commands, uas only);
Alan Sternb6089f12014-09-02 15:42:18 -04004364 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004365 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4366 medium is write-protected).
Oliver Neukum050bc4e2016-09-12 15:19:41 +02004367 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4368 even if the device claims no cache)
Alan Sternd4f373e2008-11-10 14:07:45 -05004369 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4370
Stephen Boydac1667d2011-08-13 12:34:50 -07004371 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4372 Format: <int>
4373 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4374 1 - undefined instruction events
4375 2 - system calls
4376 4 - invalid data aborts
4377 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4378 16 - SIGBUS faults
4379 Example: user_debug=31
4380
Ian Campbell14315592010-02-17 10:38:10 +00004381 userpte=
4382 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4383
4384 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4385 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4386 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4387
Jaswinder Singh Rajput6cececf2009-04-14 14:03:43 +05304388 vdso= [X86,SH]
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004389 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4390
4391 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
Ingo Molnare6e54942006-06-27 02:53:50 -07004392 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4393
Andy Lutomirskib0b49f22014-03-13 16:01:26 -07004394 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4395 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4396 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4397
4398 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4399 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4400 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4401
4402 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4403 alias for vdso32=0.
4404
4405 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4406 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
Roland McGrathaf65d642008-01-30 13:30:43 +01004407
Yasuaki Ishimatsud080d392007-07-17 21:22:55 +09004408 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4409 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004411 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4412 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4413
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004414 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4415 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4416 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4417 level and then send out the event to user space through
4418 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4419 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4420 brightness level.
Rafael J. Wysocki28437682014-07-14 19:35:45 +02004421 default: 1
Aaron Lu3afe6da2013-06-20 15:08:55 +08004422
Pawel Moll81a054c2012-05-09 18:30:16 +01004423 virtio_mmio.device=
4424 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4425
4426 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4427 where:
4428 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4429 like K, M and G)
4430 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4431 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4432 request_irq())
4433 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4434 example:
4435 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4436
4437 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4438
Alan Coxcd4f0ef2007-07-31 00:37:59 -07004439 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
Kyle McMartin954a8b82009-02-19 16:48:14 -05004440 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004441 Documentation/svga.txt.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004442 Use vga=ask for menu.
4443 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4444 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4445
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004446 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004447 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4448 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4449 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4450 mapped kernel RAM.
4451
Heiko Carstens3f429842017-08-07 15:16:15 +02004452 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
4453 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4454 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4455
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004456 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4457 Format: <command>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004458
Peter Oberparleiter585c3042006-06-29 15:08:25 +02004459 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4460 Format: <command>
4461
4462 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4463 Format: <command>
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004464
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004465 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4466 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4467 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4468 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4469 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4470 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4471 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4472
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004473 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4474 emulated reasonably safely.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004475
Andy Lutomirski2e57ae02011-11-07 16:33:41 -08004476 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
Andy Lutomirski3ae36652011-08-10 11:15:32 -04004477 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4478 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4479 better than they would in emulation mode.
4480 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4481
4482 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4483 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4484 might break your system.
4485
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004486 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4487 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4488 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4489
Clemens Ladisch9ea9a882009-12-15 16:45:39 -08004490 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4491 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4492 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4493 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4494
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004495 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4496 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4497 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4498 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4499 ranging from 0-255.
4500
4501 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4502 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4503 Change the default green palette of the console.
4504 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4505 ranging from 0-255.
4506
4507 vt.default_red= [VT]
4508 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4509 Change the default red palette of the console.
4510 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4511 ranging from 0-255.
4512
4513 vt.default_utf8=
4514 [VT]
4515 Format=<0|1>
4516 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4517 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4518 newly opened terminals.
4519
Matthew Garrettf6c06b62009-11-13 15:14:11 -05004520 vt.global_cursor_default=
4521 [VT]
4522 Format=<-1|0|1>
4523 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4524 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4525 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4526 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4527 cursors, 1 will display them.
4528
Clemens Ladisch3855ae12013-08-04 13:09:50 +02004529 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4530 Default: 2 = green.
4531
4532 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4533 Default: 3 = cyan.
4534
Randy Dunlap4724ba572010-05-03 11:42:52 -07004535 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4536 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4537 or other driver-specific files in the
4538 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004539
Tejun Heo82607adc2015-12-08 11:28:04 -05004540 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4541 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4542 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4543 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4544 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4545 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4546 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4547 corresponding sysfs file.
4548
Tejun Heod55262c2013-04-01 11:23:38 -07004549 workqueue.disable_numa
4550 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4551 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4552 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4553 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4554 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4555 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4556 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4557
Viresh Kumarcee22a12013-04-08 16:45:40 +05304558 workqueue.power_efficient
4559 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4560 they show better performance thanks to cache
4561 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4562 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4563
4564 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4565 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4566 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4567 power usage at the cost of small performance
4568 overhead.
4569
4570 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4571 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4572
Tejun Heof303fccb2016-02-09 17:59:38 -05004573 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4574 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4575 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4576 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4577 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4578 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4579 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4580 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4581 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4582 impacted.
4583
Randy Dunlap0cb55ad2009-04-05 15:55:22 -07004584 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4585 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4586 supporting x2apic.
4587
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004588 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4589 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004590 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4591 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan712b6aa2013-10-17 15:35:29 -07004592 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
Jacob Panbb24c472009-09-02 07:37:17 -07004593
Juergen Grossc70727a2015-07-17 06:51:36 +02004594 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4595 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4596 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4597 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4598 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4599 domains.
4600
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004601 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4602 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4603 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4604 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4605 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4606 nics -- unplug network devices
4607 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
Ian Campbell1dc7ce92010-08-23 11:59:29 +01004608 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4609 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4610 the unplug protocol
Ian Campbellc93a4df2010-08-23 11:59:28 +01004611 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
Stefano Stabellinic1c54132010-05-14 12:44:30 +01004612
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk15a3eac2013-09-25 10:07:20 -04004613 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4614 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4615 optimizations.
4616
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk8d693b92014-07-11 11:51:35 -04004617 xen_nopv [X86]
4618 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4619 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4620
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07004621 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Randy Dunlapa9913042005-10-23 12:57:11 -07004622 Format:
4623 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]