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1 | Kernel Parameters |
2 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
1da177e4 | 3 | |
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4 | The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as |
5 | implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros | |
6 | and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all | |
7 | punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive | |
8 | manner), and with descriptions where known. | |
9 | ||
10 | The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--"; | |
11 | if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the | |
12 | parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's | |
13 | environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init. | |
14 | Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init. | |
15 | ||
16 | Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command | |
17 | line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.: | |
18 | ||
19 | (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1 | |
20 | (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1 | |
21 | ||
22 | Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be | |
23 | specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the | |
24 | kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters | |
25 | when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for | |
26 | loadable modules too. | |
1da177e4 | 27 | |
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28 | Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so |
29 | log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1 | |
30 | can also be entered as | |
31 | log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 | |
32 | ||
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33 | Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.: |
34 | param="spaces in here" | |
ca1eda2d | 35 | |
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36 | This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command |
37 | "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable | |
38 | module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also | |
39 | reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these | |
40 | parameters may be changed at runtime by the command | |
41 | "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}". | |
42 | ||
6585fa8a SR |
43 | The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were |
44 | enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at | |
45 | the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a | |
46 | parameter is applicable: | |
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47 | |
48 | ACPI ACPI support is enabled. | |
c99c108a | 49 | AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
50 | ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled. |
51 | APIC APIC support is enabled. | |
52 | APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. | |
16290246 | 53 | ARM ARM architecture is enabled. |
e7ba176b | 54 | AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 55 | AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. |
0ae53640 | 56 | BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled. |
1e435256 | 57 | CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled. |
5c71d618 | 58 | CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. |
9cfe268e AC |
59 | DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. |
60 | DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime | |
1da177e4 LT |
61 | EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled |
62 | EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled | |
63 | EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. | |
7102ebcd | 64 | EVM Extended Verification Module |
1da177e4 | 65 | FB The frame buffer device is enabled. |
16290246 | 66 | FTRACE Function tracing enabled. |
2521f2c2 | 67 | GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 68 | HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 69 | IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. |
6146f0d5 | 70 | IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 71 | IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled. |
41e2e8be | 72 | IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. |
b0f83b28 | 73 | IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
74 | ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. |
75 | ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. | |
76 | JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. | |
84c08fd6 | 77 | KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled. |
fef07aae | 78 | KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. |
11ef697b | 79 | LIBATA Libata driver is enabled |
1da177e4 LT |
80 | LP Printer support is enabled. |
81 | LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. | |
82 | M68k M68k architecture is enabled. | |
83 | These options have more detailed description inside of | |
84 | Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt. | |
1da177e4 | 85 | MDA MDA console support is enabled. |
16290246 | 86 | MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 87 | MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. |
309e57df | 88 | MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). |
c8facbb6 | 89 | MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
90 | NET Appropriate network support is enabled. |
91 | NUMA NUMA support is enabled. | |
92 | NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. | |
93 | OSS OSS sound support is enabled. | |
c8facbb6 RD |
94 | PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. |
95 | PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled. | |
1da177e4 LT |
96 | PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. |
97 | PCI PCI bus support is enabled. | |
7f785763 | 98 | PCIE PCI Express support is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
99 | PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. |
100 | PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. | |
101 | PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. | |
102 | PPT Parallel port support is enabled. | |
103 | PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. | |
104 | RAM RAM disk support is enabled. | |
105 | S390 S390 architecture is enabled. | |
106 | SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. | |
163475fb RD |
107 | A lot of drivers have their options described inside |
108 | the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory. | |
20510f2f | 109 | SECURITY Different security models are enabled. |
1da177e4 | 110 | SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. |
c1c124e9 | 111 | APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. |
1da177e4 | 112 | SERIAL Serial support is enabled. |
e523d93c | 113 | SH SuperH architecture is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
114 | SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. |
115 | SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled. | |
77437fd4 DB |
116 | SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled. |
117 | SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. | |
225a9be2 | 118 | TPM TPM drivers are enabled. |
1da177e4 | 119 | TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. |
d4f373e5 | 120 | UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
121 | USB USB support is enabled. |
122 | USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. | |
123 | V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. | |
81a054ce | 124 | VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
125 | VGA The VGA console has been enabled. |
126 | VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. | |
127 | WDT Watchdog support is enabled. | |
128 | XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled. | |
cd4f0ef7 | 129 | X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled. |
1da177e4 LT |
130 | X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled. |
131 | More X86-64 boot options can be found in | |
71cced6e | 132 | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt . |
16290246 | 133 | X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64) |
c1c5413a | 134 | XEN Xen support is enabled |
1da177e4 LT |
135 | |
136 | In addition, the following text indicates that the option: | |
137 | ||
138 | BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. | |
139 | KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. | |
140 | BOOT Is a boot loader parameter. | |
141 | ||
142 | Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot | |
143 | loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. | |
144 | Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme | |
954a8b81 | 145 | need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>. |
1da177e4 | 146 | |
5558870b | 147 | There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here. |
71cced6e | 148 | See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>. |
5558870b | 149 | |
1da177e4 LT |
150 | Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that |
151 | a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will | |
152 | be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that | |
153 | it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs | |
154 | running once the system is up. | |
155 | ||
9c4751fd | 156 | The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the |
157 | complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to | |
158 | a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture | |
159 | and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file | |
160 | ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. | |
161 | ||
7a19a237 AD |
162 | Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel |
163 | parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_ | |
164 | multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 | |
165 | bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. | |
166 | ||
9c4751fd | 167 | |
6cececfc | 168 | acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86] |
03d926f8 | 169 | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
68ca4069 | 170 | Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt } |
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171 | force -- enable ACPI if default was off |
172 | off -- disable ACPI if default was on | |
173 | noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing | |
a9913044 | 174 | strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not |
1da177e4 | 175 | strictly ACPI specification compliant. |
237889bf | 176 | rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT |
aa2110cb | 177 | copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory |
1da177e4 | 178 | |
395cf969 | 179 | See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi |
1da177e4 | 180 | |
4996c023 TI |
181 | acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] |
182 | Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used | |
183 | on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the | |
184 | second kernel for kdump. | |
185 | ||
a1fdcc0d LB |
186 | acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] |
187 | Format: <int> | |
188 | 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available | |
189 | 1,0: use 1st APIC table | |
4e381a4f | 190 | default: 0 |
a1fdcc0d | 191 | |
c3d6de69 TR |
192 | acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] |
193 | acpi_backlight=vendor | |
194 | acpi_backlight=video | |
195 | If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver | |
196 | (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead | |
197 | of the ACPI video.ko driver. | |
198 | ||
a0d84a92 BH |
199 | acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] |
200 | acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] | |
1da177e4 | 201 | Format: <int> |
a0d84a92 BH |
202 | CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI |
203 | debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a | |
204 | _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., | |
205 | #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT | |
206 | Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in | |
207 | ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., | |
208 | ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... | |
e76f4276 BH |
209 | The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See |
210 | Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about | |
211 | debug layers and levels. | |
a0d84a92 | 212 | |
e76f4276 BH |
213 | Enable processor driver info messages: |
214 | acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 | |
215 | Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: | |
216 | acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 | |
a0d84a92 BH |
217 | Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug |
218 | object while interpreting AML: | |
219 | acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 | |
a0d84a92 BH |
220 | Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: |
221 | acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff | |
222 | ||
223 | Some values produce so much output that the system is | |
224 | unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful | |
225 | if you need to capture more output. | |
f989106c | 226 | |
4fc0a7e8 LZ |
227 | acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] |
228 | Enable table checksum verification during early stage. | |
229 | By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping | |
230 | size limitation. | |
231 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
232 | acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] |
233 | ACPI will balance active IRQs | |
234 | default in APIC mode | |
235 | ||
236 | acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] | |
237 | ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) | |
238 | default in PIC mode | |
239 | ||
240 | acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA | |
241 | Format: <irq>,<irq>... | |
242 | ||
243 | acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for | |
244 | use by PCI | |
245 | Format: <irq>,<irq>... | |
246 | ||
08e1d7c0 LZ |
247 | acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] |
248 | Disable auto-serialization of AML methods | |
22b5afce BM |
249 | AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create |
250 | named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the | |
251 | auto-serialization feature. | |
08e1d7c0 LZ |
252 | This feature is enabled by default. |
253 | This option allows to turn off the feature. | |
22b5afce | 254 | |
a94e88cd LZ |
255 | acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] |
256 | Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time | |
257 | By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be | |
258 | installed automatically and they will appear under | |
259 | /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. | |
260 | This option turns off this feature. | |
261 | Note that specifying this option does not affect | |
262 | dynamic table installation which will install SSDT | |
263 | tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. | |
0cb55ad2 | 264 | |
4dde507f LZ |
265 | acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] |
266 | Disable AML predefined validation mechanism | |
267 | This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make | |
268 | the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. | |
269 | This option is useful for developers to identify the | |
270 | root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue | |
271 | has something to do with the repair mechanism. | |
272 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
273 | acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS |
274 | Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" | |
275 | ||
276 | acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings | |
5dc17986 LZ |
277 | acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 |
278 | acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 | |
741d8128 | 279 | acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings |
5dc17986 LZ |
280 | acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor |
281 | strings | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
282 | acpi_osi= # disable all strings |
283 | ||
5dc17986 LZ |
284 | 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or |
285 | multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS | |
286 | vendor string(s). Note that such command can only | |
287 | affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus | |
288 | it cannot affect the default state of the feature group | |
289 | strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, | |
290 | specifying it multiple times through kernel command line | |
741d8128 LZ |
291 | is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not |
292 | care about the state of the feature group strings which | |
293 | should be controlled by the OSPM. | |
5dc17986 LZ |
294 | Examples: |
295 | 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent | |
296 | to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all | |
297 | can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. | |
298 | ||
299 | 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other | |
300 | 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not | |
301 | exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can | |
302 | only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it | |
303 | multiple times through kernel command line is also | |
304 | meaningless. | |
305 | Examples: | |
306 | 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' | |
307 | FALSE. | |
308 | ||
741d8128 LZ |
309 | 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or |
310 | multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific | |
311 | string(s). Note that such command can affect the | |
312 | current state of both the OS vendor strings and the | |
313 | feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times | |
314 | through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may | |
315 | still not able to affect the final state of a string if | |
316 | there are quirks related to this string. This command | |
317 | is useful when one want to control the state of the | |
318 | feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to | |
319 | the OSPM features. | |
320 | Examples: | |
321 | 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make | |
322 | '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. | |
323 | 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make | |
324 | '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. | |
325 | 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is | |
326 | equivalent to | |
327 | 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' | |
328 | and | |
329 | 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', | |
330 | they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. | |
331 | ||
6cececfc | 332 | acpi_pm_good [X86] |
0cb55ad2 RD |
333 | Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel |
334 | to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value | |
335 | and always returns good values. | |
336 | ||
4af94f39 RD |
337 | acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode |
338 | Format: { level | edge | high | low } | |
339 | ||
4af94f39 RD |
340 | acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] |
341 | Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. | |
342 | For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. | |
343 | ||
344 | acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options | |
345 | Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, | |
c3b0795c | 346 | old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } |
4af94f39 RD |
347 | See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on |
348 | s3_bios and s3_mode. | |
349 | s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep | |
350 | as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. | |
351 | s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being | |
352 | used during resume from hibernation. | |
353 | old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS | |
354 | control method, with respect to putting devices into | |
355 | low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering | |
356 | of _PTS is used by default). | |
72ad5d77 RW |
357 | nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the |
358 | ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. | |
d7f0eea9 ZR |
359 | sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly |
360 | on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, | |
361 | but some broken systems don't work without it). | |
4af94f39 RD |
362 | |
363 | acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] | |
364 | Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards | |
365 | that require a timer override, but don't have HPET | |
366 | ||
7e90560c LT |
367 | acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] |
368 | { strict | lax | no } | |
369 | Check for resource conflicts between native drivers | |
370 | and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory | |
371 | only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be | |
372 | used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and | |
373 | can interfere with legacy drivers. | |
374 | strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI | |
375 | is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved | |
376 | resources will fail to bind to device using them. | |
377 | lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; | |
378 | legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources | |
379 | will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. | |
380 | no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, | |
381 | no further checks are performed. | |
382 | ||
00159a20 PB |
383 | acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump |
384 | kernels. | |
385 | ||
4af94f39 RD |
386 | add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in |
387 | kernel's map of available physical RAM. | |
388 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
389 | agp= [AGP] |
390 | { off | try_unsupported } | |
391 | off: disable AGP support | |
392 | try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets | |
393 | (may crash computer or cause data corruption) | |
394 | ||
bcfde334 RD |
395 | ALSA [HW,ALSA] |
396 | See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt | |
397 | ||
d944d549 RK |
398 | alignment= [KNL,ARM] |
399 | Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler | |
400 | behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, | |
401 | bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. | |
402 | ||
dfb09f9b BP |
403 | align_va_addr= [X86-64] |
404 | Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when | |
405 | allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option | |
406 | gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h | |
407 | machines (where it is enabled by default) for a | |
408 | CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in | |
409 | a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. | |
410 | ||
8360ee2f BP |
411 | 32: only for 32-bit processes |
412 | 64: only for 64-bit processes | |
dfb09f9b BP |
413 | on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes |
414 | off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes | |
415 | ||
55034cd6 SRRH |
416 | alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] |
417 | Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the | |
418 | main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging | |
419 | and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and | |
420 | do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs | |
421 | to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. | |
422 | ||
89e0b9a3 | 423 | amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] |
54b4cbd2 JR |
424 | Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. |
425 | Possible values are: | |
afa9fdc2 FT |
426 | fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when |
427 | they are unmapped. Otherwise they are | |
428 | flushed before they will be reused, which | |
429 | is a lot of faster | |
a5235725 JR |
430 | off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in |
431 | the system | |
5abcdba4 JR |
432 | force_isolation - Force device isolation for all |
433 | devices. The IOMMU driver is not | |
434 | allowed anymore to lift isolation | |
435 | requirements as needed. This option | |
436 | does not override iommu=pt | |
afa9fdc2 | 437 | |
c099cf17 SK |
438 | amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] |
439 | Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table | |
440 | for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU | |
441 | driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during | |
442 | IOMMU initialization. | |
443 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
444 | amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support |
445 | Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT | |
446 | Format: <a>,<b> | |
395cf969 | 447 | See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt |
1da177e4 LT |
448 | |
449 | analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support | |
450 | Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick | |
451 | connected to one of 16 gameports | |
452 | Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> | |
453 | ||
a9913044 RD |
454 | apc= [HW,SPARC] |
455 | Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) | |
1da177e4 LT |
456 | Format: noidle |
457 | Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does | |
458 | not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have | |
459 | APC and your system crashes randomly. | |
460 | ||
ca1eda2d | 461 | apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
c8facbb6 | 462 | Change the output verbosity whilst booting |
1da177e4 LT |
463 | Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } |
464 | Change the amount of debugging information output | |
465 | when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. | |
a9913044 | 466 | |
b0f83b28 BH |
467 | autoconf= [IPV6] |
468 | See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. | |
469 | ||
9636bc05 CG |
470 | show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
471 | Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal | |
472 | number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible | |
473 | to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. | |
474 | Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. | |
475 | The parameter valid if only apic=debug or | |
476 | apic=verbose is specified. | |
477 | Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all | |
478 | ||
1da177e4 | 479 | apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management |
71f77055 | 480 | See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. |
1da177e4 | 481 | |
1da177e4 LT |
482 | arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards |
483 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> | |
484 | ||
485 | ataflop= [HW,M68k] | |
486 | ||
487 | atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse | |
488 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
489 | atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, |
490 | EzKey and similar keyboards | |
491 | ||
492 | atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization | |
493 | ||
a9913044 RD |
494 | atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set |
495 | Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) | |
1da177e4 LT |
496 | |
497 | atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar | |
498 | keyboards | |
499 | ||
500 | atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode | |
501 | Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) | |
a9913044 RD |
502 | |
503 | atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] | |
504 | Use software keyboard repeat | |
1da177e4 | 505 | |
a106fb0c RGB |
506 | audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system |
507 | Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) | |
d7961148 EP |
508 | 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled |
509 | until the next reboot | |
510 | unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and | |
511 | will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. | |
512 | 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, | |
513 | storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in | |
514 | RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace | |
515 | auditd. | |
a106fb0c | 516 | Default: unset |
f3411cb2 | 517 | |
f910fde7 RGB |
518 | audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. |
519 | Format: <int> (must be >=0) | |
520 | Default: 64 | |
521 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
522 | baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] |
523 | Format: <io>,<mode> | |
a9913044 | 524 | |
1da177e4 LT |
525 | baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem |
526 | Format: <io>,<mode> | |
527 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. | |
528 | ||
a9913044 RD |
529 | baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] |
530 | BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) | |
1da177e4 LT |
531 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] |
532 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. | |
533 | ||
a9913044 RD |
534 | baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] |
535 | BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) | |
1da177e4 LT |
536 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> |
537 | See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. | |
538 | ||
080506ad PG |
539 | blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for |
540 | embedded devices based on command line input. | |
541 | See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt | |
542 | ||
bfe8df3d RD |
543 | boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. |
544 | Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to | |
545 | no delay (0). | |
546 | Format: integer | |
547 | ||
35fc908d AH |
548 | bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. |
549 | ||
1da177e4 | 550 | bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) |
a9913044 RD |
551 | bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as |
552 | kernel args too. | |
1da177e4 | 553 | bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options |
395cf969 | 554 | bttv.tuner= |
1da177e4 | 555 | |
4e89a2d8 WS |
556 | bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries |
557 | firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries | |
558 | at a time. | |
559 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
560 | c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card |
561 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 562 | cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. |
1da177e4 LT |
563 | Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache |
564 | size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds | |
565 | to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not | |
566 | possible to determine what the correct size should be. | |
567 | This option provides an override for these situations. | |
568 | ||
ffb70f61 DK |
569 | ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on |
570 | the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate | |
571 | trust validation. | |
32c4741c | 572 | format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } |
ffb70f61 | 573 | |
fd1bb4c9 FF |
574 | cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency |
575 | algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 | |
576 | inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h | |
577 | for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and | |
578 | others). | |
579 | ||
14ff56bb SO |
580 | ccw_timeout_log [S390] |
581 | See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. | |
1da177e4 | 582 | |
8bab8dde PM |
583 | cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller |
584 | Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} | |
ca0bdbb5 QH |
585 | The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: |
586 | - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in | |
587 | a single hierarchy | |
588 | - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable | |
589 | subsystem | |
590 | {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and | |
591 | cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So | |
592 | only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} | |
8bab8dde | 593 | |
1da177e4 LT |
594 | checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. |
595 | Format: { "0" | "1" } | |
596 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. | |
a9913044 RD |
597 | 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes |
598 | any implied execute protection). | |
1da177e4 LT |
599 | 1 -- check protection requested by application. |
600 | Default value is set via a kernel config option. | |
a9913044 RD |
601 | Value can be changed at runtime via |
602 | /selinux/checkreqprot. | |
603 | ||
661ca0da SO |
604 | cio_ignore= [S390] |
605 | See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. | |
1e435256 OJ |
606 | clk_ignore_unused |
607 | [CLK] | |
608 | Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on, | |
609 | even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful | |
610 | for debug and development, but should not be | |
611 | needed on a platform with proper driver support. | |
612 | For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt. | |
661ca0da | 613 | |
cd4f0ef7 | 614 | clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. |
734efb46 | 615 | [Deprecated] |
3f6dee9b | 616 | Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used |
734efb46 | 617 | when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified |
3f6dee9b | 618 | clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. |
1da177e4 LT |
619 | Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } |
620 | ||
592913ec | 621 | clocksource= Override the default clocksource |
3d6ac984 RD |
622 | Format: <string> |
623 | Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource | |
624 | with the name specified. | |
625 | Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on | |
626 | the platform: | |
627 | [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) | |
628 | [ACPI] acpi_pm | |
629 | [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, | |
630 | pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 | |
631 | [AVR32] avr32 | |
9863c90f | 632 | [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; |
3d6ac984 RD |
633 | scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 |
634 | [MIPS] MIPS | |
635 | [PARISC] cr16 | |
636 | [S390] tod | |
637 | [SH] SuperH | |
638 | [SPARC64] tick | |
639 | [X86-64] hpet,tsc | |
640 | ||
ac72e788 AK |
641 | clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] |
642 | Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See | |
07983f0e RD |
643 | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit |
644 | numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily | |
ac72e788 AK |
645 | stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific |
646 | ones should be. | |
647 | Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly | |
648 | or using the feature without checking anything | |
649 | will still see it. This just prevents it from | |
650 | being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. | |
651 | Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable | |
652 | some critical bits. | |
653 | ||
5ea3b1b2 AM |
654 | cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] |
655 | [ARM,X86,KNL] | |
656 | Sets the size of kernel global memory area for | |
657 | contiguous memory allocations and optionally the | |
658 | placement constraint by the physical address range of | |
c64be2bb MS |
659 | memory allocations. For more information, see |
660 | include/linux/dma-contiguous.h | |
661 | ||
14f966e7 RJ |
662 | cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } |
663 | Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive | |
664 | when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments | |
665 | to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by | |
666 | a hypervisor. | |
667 | Default: yes | |
668 | ||
c7909509 MS |
669 | coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] |
670 | Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma | |
e9da6e99 | 671 | allocations, by default set to 256K. |
c7909509 | 672 | |
6cececfc | 673 | code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print |
a25bd949 | 674 | in an oops report. |
86c41837 CE |
675 | Range: 0 - 8192 |
676 | Default: 64 | |
677 | ||
1da177e4 | 678 | com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset |
a9913044 RD |
679 | Format: |
680 | <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] | |
1da177e4 LT |
681 | |
682 | com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) | |
683 | Format: <io>[,<irq>] | |
684 | ||
a9913044 RD |
685 | com90xx= [HW,NET] |
686 | ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) | |
1da177e4 LT |
687 | Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] |
688 | ||
689 | condev= [HW,S390] console device | |
690 | conmode= | |
a9913044 | 691 | |
1da177e4 LT |
692 | console= [KNL] Output console device and options. |
693 | ||
694 | tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. | |
695 | ||
696 | ttyS<n>[,options] | |
f1a1c2dc | 697 | ttyUSB0[,options] |
1da177e4 | 698 | Use the specified serial port. The options are of |
f1a1c2dc RD |
699 | the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, |
700 | "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of | |
701 | bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or | |
702 | omit it). Default is "9600n8". | |
703 | ||
704 | See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more | |
705 | information. See | |
706 | Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an | |
707 | alternative. | |
1da177e4 | 708 | |
18a8bd94 YL |
709 | uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] |
710 | uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] | |
1da177e4 LT |
711 | Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 |
712 | UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, | |
713 | switching to the matching ttyS device later. The | |
714 | options are the same as for ttyS, above. | |
a2fd6419 KRW |
715 | hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for |
716 | both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. | |
1da177e4 | 717 | |
f7511d5f ST |
718 | If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille |
719 | device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance | |
720 | console=brl,ttyS0 | |
721 | For now, only VisioBraille is supported. | |
722 | ||
f324edc8 DM |
723 | consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in |
724 | seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 | |
725 | disables the blank timer. | |
726 | ||
4cb0e11b HK |
727 | coredump_filter= |
728 | [KNL] Change the default value for | |
729 | /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. | |
730 | See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. | |
731 | ||
62027aea LB |
732 | cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] |
733 | disable the cpuidle sub-system | |
734 | ||
1da177e4 | 735 | cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver |
a9913044 RD |
736 | Format: |
737 | <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] | |
1da177e4 | 738 | |
6f21e646 AD |
739 | crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] |
740 | [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' | |
741 | upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical | |
742 | memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel | |
743 | image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset | |
744 | is selected automatically. Check | |
745 | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. | |
dc009d92 | 746 | |
fb391599 BW |
747 | crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] |
748 | [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory | |
749 | in the running system. The syntax of range is | |
750 | start-[end] where start and end are both | |
751 | a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also | |
6f21e646 | 752 | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. |
fb391599 | 753 | |
adbc742b | 754 | crashkernel=size[KMG],high |
55a20ee7 YL |
755 | [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel |
756 | to allocate physical memory region from top, so could | |
757 | be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. | |
758 | Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if | |
759 | available. | |
760 | It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. | |
adbc742b YL |
761 | crashkernel=size[KMG],low |
762 | [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high | |
763 | is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region | |
c729de8f YL |
764 | above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system |
765 | that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb | |
766 | requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would | |
767 | try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically. | |
768 | This one let user to specify own low range under 4G | |
769 | for second kernel instead. | |
770 | 0: to disable low allocation. | |
adbc742b | 771 | It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used |
55a20ee7 | 772 | or memory reserved is below 4G. |
c729de8f | 773 | |
1da177e4 LT |
774 | cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] |
775 | Format: <dma> | |
776 | ||
777 | cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] | |
778 | Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } | |
a9913044 | 779 | |
a9913044 | 780 | dasd= [HW,NET] |
1da177e4 LT |
781 | See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. |
782 | ||
783 | db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port | |
784 | (one device per port) | |
785 | Format: <port#>,<type> | |
786 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt | |
787 | ||
a648ec05 TR |
788 | ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot |
789 | time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for | |
29e36c9f | 790 | details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. |
a648ec05 | 791 | |
1da177e4 LT |
792 | debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). |
793 | ||
cae2ed9a IM |
794 | debug_locks_verbose= |
795 | [KNL] verbose self-tests | |
796 | Format=<0|1> | |
797 | Print debugging info while doing the locking API | |
798 | self-tests. | |
799 | We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to | |
800 | 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally | |
801 | only useful to kernel developers. | |
802 | ||
3ac7fe5a TG |
803 | debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging |
804 | ||
3e8ebb5c KM |
805 | no_debug_objects |
806 | [KNL] Disable object debugging | |
807 | ||
c0a32fc5 SG |
808 | debug_guardpage_minorder= |
809 | [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this | |
810 | parameter allows control of the order of pages that will | |
811 | be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the | |
812 | buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability | |
813 | of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the | |
814 | amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum | |
815 | possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter | |
816 | to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random | |
817 | memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or | |
818 | driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a | |
819 | random memory location. Note that there exists a class | |
820 | of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or | |
821 | F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when | |
822 | memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is | |
823 | bypassed) which are not detectable by | |
824 | CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help | |
825 | tracking down these problems. | |
826 | ||
d3af01f1 TG |
827 | debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging |
828 | ||
2d27a966 | 829 | decnet.addr= [HW,NET] |
1da177e4 LT |
830 | Format: <area>[,<node>] |
831 | See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. | |
832 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
833 | default_hugepagesz= |
834 | [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default | |
835 | HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by | |
836 | the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and | |
837 | default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. | |
838 | Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size | |
839 | if not specified. | |
55ff9780 | 840 | |
1da177e4 LT |
841 | dhash_entries= [KNL] |
842 | Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. | |
a9913044 | 843 | |
b0f83b28 BH |
844 | disable= [IPV6] |
845 | See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. | |
846 | ||
151e0c7d HD |
847 | disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] |
848 | Format: <int> | |
849 | The number of initial APIC ID for the | |
850 | corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, | |
851 | mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to | |
852 | disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without | |
853 | causing system reset or hang due to sending | |
854 | INIT from AP to BSP. | |
855 | ||
4e8b0cf4 NA |
856 | disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] |
857 | Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if | |
858 | to workaround buggy firmware. | |
859 | ||
b0f83b28 BH |
860 | disable_ipv6= [IPV6] |
861 | See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. | |
862 | ||
95ffa243 | 863 | disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] |
95ffa243 YL |
864 | The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous |
865 | to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB | |
0cb55ad2 | 866 | entry later. This parameter disables that. |
95ffa243 | 867 | |
093af8d7 | 868 | disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] |
99fc8d42 JB |
869 | By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable |
870 | memory out of your available memory pool based on | |
871 | MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, | |
872 | possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. | |
873 | ||
6cececfc | 874 | disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] |
0cb55ad2 RD |
875 | Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer |
876 | Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. | |
877 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
878 | dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, |
879 | this option disables the debugging code at boot. | |
880 | ||
881 | dma_debug_entries=<number> | |
882 | This option allows to tune the number of preallocated | |
883 | entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is | |
884 | required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the | |
885 | DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the | |
886 | architectural default is too low. | |
887 | ||
1745de5e JR |
888 | dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> |
889 | With this option the DMA-API debugging driver | |
890 | filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just | |
891 | pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. | |
892 | The filter can be disabled or changed to another | |
893 | driver later using sysfs. | |
894 | ||
da0df92b CE |
895 | drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file> |
896 | Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may | |
897 | send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter | |
898 | allows to specify an EDID data set in the | |
899 | /lib/firmware directory that is used instead. | |
900 | Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of | |
901 | edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, | |
902 | edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given | |
903 | and no file with the same name exists. Details and | |
904 | instructions how to build your own EDID data are | |
905 | available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID | |
906 | data set will only be used for a particular connector, | |
907 | if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID | |
908 | name. | |
909 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
910 | dscc4.setup= [NET] |
911 | ||
29e36c9f JC |
912 | dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] |
913 | module.dyndbg[="val"] | |
914 | Enable debug messages at boot time. See | |
915 | Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details. | |
916 | ||
56aeeba8 MS |
917 | early_ioremap_debug [KNL] |
918 | Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This | |
919 | is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings | |
920 | which are not unmapped. | |
921 | ||
0cb55ad2 | 922 | earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. |
0d3c673e | 923 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
924 | uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] |
925 | uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] | |
1917ac76 | 926 | uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] |
0cb55ad2 RD |
927 | Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 |
928 | UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. | |
16290246 RD |
929 | MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit |
930 | (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32). | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
931 | The options are the same as for ttyS, above. |
932 | ||
0d3c673e RH |
933 | pl011,<addr> |
934 | Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial | |
935 | port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port | |
936 | must already be setup and configured. Options are not | |
937 | yet supported. | |
938 | ||
d50d7269 RH |
939 | smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. |
940 | ||
7913ad1a | 941 | earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k] |
1da177e4 | 942 | earlyprintk=vga |
72548e83 | 943 | earlyprintk=efi |
2482a92e | 944 | earlyprintk=xen |
1da177e4 | 945 | earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] |
147ea091 | 946 | earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] |
ea3acb19 | 947 | earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] |
9780bc41 | 948 | earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] |
1da177e4 | 949 | |
147ea091 DH |
950 | earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before |
951 | the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by | |
952 | default because it has some cosmetic problems. | |
953 | ||
a9913044 | 954 | Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console |
1da177e4 LT |
955 | takes over. |
956 | ||
72548e83 MF |
957 | Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can |
958 | be used at a time. | |
1da177e4 | 959 | |
147ea091 DH |
960 | Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by |
961 | name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified | |
962 | on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by | |
963 | replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: | |
964 | earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 | |
965 | You can find the port for a given device in | |
966 | /proc/tty/driver/serial: | |
967 | 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... | |
1da177e4 LT |
968 | |
969 | Interaction with the standard serial driver is not | |
970 | very good. | |
971 | ||
72548e83 MF |
972 | The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by |
973 | the real console. | |
1da177e4 | 974 | |
2482a92e KRW |
975 | The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. |
976 | ||
c700f013 CG |
977 | edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event |
978 | Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} | |
979 | on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden | |
980 | by other higher priority error reporting module. | |
981 | off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. | |
982 | force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. | |
983 | default: on. | |
984 | ||
9731191f JW |
985 | ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging |
986 | ekgdboc=kbd | |
987 | ||
25985edc | 988 | This is designed to be used in conjunction with |
9731191f JW |
989 | the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga |
990 | ||
1da177e4 | 991 | edd= [EDD] |
8c4dd606 | 992 | Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} |
1da177e4 | 993 | |
d2f7cbe7 BP |
994 | efi= [EFI] |
995 | Format: { "old_map" } | |
996 | old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI | |
997 | runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by | |
998 | default. | |
999 | ||
8c58bf3e RW |
1000 | efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] |
1001 | Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of | |
1002 | your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if | |
1003 | you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and | |
1004 | fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. | |
1005 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1006 | eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] |
1007 | See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. | |
1008 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 1009 | elanfreq= [X86-32] |
1da177e4 | 1010 | See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in |
71f77055 | 1011 | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. |
1da177e4 LT |
1012 | |
1013 | elevator= [IOSCHED] | |
17a9e7bb | 1014 | Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} |
395cf969 | 1015 | See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and |
a9913044 RD |
1016 | Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. |
1017 | ||
d3bf3795 | 1018 | elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] |
a9913044 | 1019 | Specifies physical address of start of kernel core |
d3bf3795 MH |
1020 | image elf header and optionally the size. Generally |
1021 | kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. | |
aac04b32 | 1022 | See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. |
1da177e4 | 1023 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1024 | enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] |
1025 | The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous | |
1026 | to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB | |
1027 | entry later. This parameter enables that. | |
1028 | ||
ca1eda2d | 1029 | enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1030 | Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer |
1031 | Can be useful to work around chipset bugs | |
1032 | (in particular on some ATI chipsets). | |
1033 | The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. | |
1034 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1035 | enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. |
1036 | Format: {"0" | "1"} | |
1037 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. | |
1038 | 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). | |
1039 | 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). | |
1040 | Default value is 0. | |
1041 | Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. | |
1042 | ||
a08f82d0 HY |
1043 | erst_disable [ACPI] |
1044 | Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) | |
1045 | support. | |
1046 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1047 | ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters |
1048 | This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which | |
1049 | has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. | |
1050 | ||
7102ebcd MZ |
1051 | evm= [EVM] |
1052 | Format: { "fix" } | |
1053 | Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of | |
1054 | current integrity status. | |
1055 | ||
de1ba09b AM |
1056 | failslab= |
1057 | fail_page_alloc= | |
1058 | fail_make_request=[KNL] | |
1059 | General fault injection mechanism. | |
1060 | Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> | |
395cf969 | 1061 | See also Documentation/fault-injection/. |
de1ba09b | 1062 | |
1da177e4 | 1063 | floppy= [HW] |
31c00fc1 | 1064 | See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. |
1da177e4 | 1065 | |
f13ae30e AC |
1066 | force_pal_cache_flush |
1067 | [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on | |
1068 | buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this | |
1069 | parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call | |
1070 | ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. | |
1071 | ||
69f2366c CB |
1072 | forcepae [X86-32] |
1073 | Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). | |
1074 | Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a | |
1075 | functionally usable PAE implementation. | |
1076 | Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel | |
1077 | and may cause unknown problems. | |
1078 | ||
d9e54076 | 1079 | ftrace=[tracer] |
2af15d6a | 1080 | [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer |
d9e54076 PZ |
1081 | as early as possible in order to facilitate early |
1082 | boot debugging. | |
1083 | ||
cecbca96 | 1084 | ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] |
2af15d6a | 1085 | [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. |
cecbca96 FW |
1086 | If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump |
1087 | buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will | |
1088 | dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the | |
1089 | oops. | |
2af15d6a SR |
1090 | |
1091 | ftrace_filter=[function-list] | |
1092 | [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function | |
1093 | tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated | |
1094 | list of functions. This list can be changed at run | |
1095 | time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs | |
16290246 | 1096 | tracing directory. |
2af15d6a SR |
1097 | |
1098 | ftrace_notrace=[function-list] | |
1099 | [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in | |
1100 | function-list. This list can be changed at run time | |
1101 | by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs | |
1102 | tracing directory. | |
d9e54076 | 1103 | |
369bc18f SA |
1104 | ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] |
1105 | [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced | |
1106 | by the function graph tracer at boot up. | |
1107 | function-list is a comma separated list of functions | |
1108 | that can be changed at run time by the | |
1109 | set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. | |
1110 | ||
0d7d9a16 NK |
1111 | ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] |
1112 | [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in | |
1113 | function-list. This list is a comma separated list of | |
1114 | functions that can be changed at run time by the | |
1115 | set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. | |
1116 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1117 | gamecon.map[2|3]= |
1118 | [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad | |
1119 | support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) | |
1120 | Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> | |
1121 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt | |
1122 | ||
1123 | gamma= [HW,DRM] | |
1124 | ||
aaf23042 YL |
1125 | gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART |
1126 | Format: off | on | |
1127 | default: on | |
1128 | ||
2521f2c2 PO |
1129 | gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for |
1130 | kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via | |
1131 | debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. | |
1132 | When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated | |
1133 | debugfs files are removed at module unload time. | |
1134 | ||
1da177e4 | 1135 | gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but |
6c5de79b DB |
1136 | invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the |
1137 | primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate | |
1138 | GPT to be used instead. | |
1da177e4 | 1139 | |
6cec9b07 AL |
1140 | grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines |
1141 | the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. | |
1142 | Format: 0 | 1 | |
1143 | Default: 0 | |
1144 | grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines | |
1145 | the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. | |
1146 | Format: 0 | 1 | |
1147 | Default: 0 | |
1148 | grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. | |
1149 | Format: 0 | 1 | |
1150 | Default: 0 | |
1151 | grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. | |
1152 | Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. | |
1153 | Default: 1024 | |
1154 | grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. | |
1155 | Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. | |
1156 | Default: 1024 | |
1157 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1158 | hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot |
1159 | are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on | |
16290246 | 1160 | for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. |
a9913044 | 1161 | Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) |
1da177e4 LT |
1162 | |
1163 | hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer | |
1164 | ||
1165 | hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry | |
1166 | Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> | |
1167 | ||
ea8c071c HY |
1168 | hest_disable [ACPI] |
1169 | Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; | |
1170 | corresponding firmware-first mode error processing | |
1171 | logic will be disabled. | |
1172 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1173 | highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact |
1174 | size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no | |
1175 | highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem | |
1176 | size on bigger boxes. | |
1177 | ||
54cdfdb4 TG |
1178 | highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. |
1179 | Valid parameters: "on", "off" | |
1180 | Default: "on" | |
1181 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1182 | hisax= [HW,ISDN] |
1183 | See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. | |
1184 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
1185 | hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] |
1186 | ||
1187 | hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage | |
1188 | Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | | |
1189 | verbose } | |
1190 | disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead | |
1191 | force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, | |
1192 | VIA, nVidia) | |
1193 | verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup | |
1194 | ||
3d035f58 PB |
1195 | hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET |
1196 | registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. | |
1197 | ||
b4718e62 AK |
1198 | hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. |
1199 | hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. | |
0d9ea754 JT |
1200 | On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified |
1201 | multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve | |
1202 | huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on | |
1203 | x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G | |
1204 | (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) | |
b4718e62 AK |
1205 | Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time |
1206 | using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. | |
6902aa84 | 1207 | |
555d61d6 HB |
1208 | hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) |
1209 | terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 | |
431429ff HB |
1210 | hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. |
1211 | If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections | |
1212 | from listed z/VM user IDs only. | |
cef7125d | 1213 | |
fdabf525 JH |
1214 | hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to |
1215 | hardware thread id mappings. | |
1216 | Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> | |
1217 | ||
7bf69395 FDN |
1218 | keep_bootcon [KNL] |
1219 | Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only | |
1220 | useful for debugging when something happens in the window | |
1221 | between unregistering the boot console and initializing | |
1222 | the real console. | |
1223 | ||
3a853fb9 | 1224 | i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed |
7954763b JN |
1225 | or register an additional I2C bus that is not |
1226 | registered from board initialization code. | |
3a853fb9 JN |
1227 | Format: |
1228 | <bus_id>,<clkrate> | |
1229 | ||
36d95739 | 1230 | i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode |
1da177e4 | 1231 | i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode |
84eb8d06 ML |
1232 | i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from |
1233 | keyboard and cannot control its state | |
1da177e4 LT |
1234 | (Don't attempt to blink the leds) |
1235 | i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port | |
945ef0d4 | 1236 | i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port |
75d08c78 JK |
1237 | i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing |
1238 | for the AUX port | |
1da177e4 LT |
1239 | i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing |
1240 | controller | |
1241 | i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX | |
1242 | controllers | |
24775d65 | 1243 | i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller |
1da177e4 LT |
1244 | i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup |
1245 | i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock | |
1246 | ||
1247 | i810= [HW,DRM] | |
1248 | ||
e70c9d5e DT |
1249 | i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data |
1250 | indicates that the driver is running on unsupported | |
1251 | hardware. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1252 | i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature |
1253 | does not match list of supported models. | |
1254 | i8k.power_status | |
1255 | [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k | |
1256 | (disabled by default) | |
1257 | i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN | |
1258 | capability is set. | |
1259 | ||
4dca20ef | 1260 | i915.invert_brightness= |
7bd90909 CE |
1261 | [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to |
1262 | set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a | |
4dca20ef CE |
1263 | brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, |
1264 | and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight | |
1265 | to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 | |
1266 | (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter | |
1267 | is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight | |
1268 | to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness | |
1269 | value switches the backlight off. | |
1270 | -1 -- never invert brightness | |
1271 | 0 -- machine default | |
1272 | 1 -- force brightness inversion | |
7bd90909 | 1273 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1274 | icn= [HW,ISDN] |
1275 | Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] | |
1276 | ||
0af80c04 DF |
1277 | ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem |
1278 | Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc | |
075affcb BZ |
1279 | .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr |
1280 | .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options | |
1c10e938 | 1281 | See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. |
1da177e4 | 1282 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1283 | ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem |
1284 | Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. | |
1285 | ||
f039b754 | 1286 | idle= [X86] |
69fb3676 | 1287 | Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait |
ada9cfdd RD |
1288 | Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly |
1289 | improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but | |
1290 | will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. | |
1291 | Not recommended. | |
ada9cfdd | 1292 | idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. |
c1e3b377 | 1293 | In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. |
ada9cfdd | 1294 | idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states |
a9913044 | 1295 | |
79290822 IM |
1296 | ignore_loglevel [KNL] |
1297 | Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ | |
1298 | kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. | |
0eca6b7c YZ |
1299 | We also add it as printk module parameter, so users |
1300 | could change it dynamically, usually by | |
1301 | /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. | |
79290822 | 1302 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1303 | ihash_entries= [KNL] |
1304 | Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. | |
1305 | ||
2fe5d6de MZ |
1306 | ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements |
1307 | Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" } | |
1308 | default: "enforce" | |
1309 | ||
07f6a794 MZ |
1310 | ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] |
1311 | The builtin appraise policy appraises all files | |
1312 | owned by uid=0. | |
1313 | ||
3323eec9 | 1314 | ima_hash= [IMA] |
e7a2ad7e MZ |
1315 | Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 |
1316 | | sha512 | ... } | |
3323eec9 MZ |
1317 | default: "sha1" |
1318 | ||
e7a2ad7e MZ |
1319 | The list of supported hash algorithms is defined |
1320 | in crypto/hash_info.h. | |
1321 | ||
5789ba3b EP |
1322 | ima_tcb [IMA] |
1323 | Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted | |
1324 | Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all | |
1325 | programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files | |
1326 | opened for read by uid=0. | |
1327 | ||
9b9d4ce5 RS |
1328 | ima_template= [IMA] |
1329 | Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. | |
1330 | Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" } | |
1331 | Default: "ima-ng" | |
1332 | ||
3bcced39 DK |
1333 | ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage |
1334 | Format: <min_file_size> | |
1335 | Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. | |
1336 | If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. | |
1337 | ||
1338 | ahash performance varies for different data sizes on | |
1339 | different crypto accelerators. This option can be used | |
1340 | to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. | |
1341 | ||
6edf7a89 DK |
1342 | ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size |
1343 | Format: <bufsize> | |
1344 | Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. | |
1345 | ||
1346 | ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on | |
1347 | different crypto accelerators. This option can be used | |
1348 | to achieve best performance for particular HW. | |
1349 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1350 | init= [KNL] |
1351 | Format: <full_path> | |
1352 | Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init | |
1353 | process. | |
1354 | ||
1355 | initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful | |
1356 | for working out where the kernel is dying during | |
1357 | startup. | |
1358 | ||
7b0b73d7 PB |
1359 | initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of |
1360 | initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in | |
1361 | modules and initcalls. | |
1362 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1363 | initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk |
1364 | ||
1365 | inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver | |
1366 | Format: <irq> | |
1367 | ||
6bb2ff84 FY |
1368 | int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt |
1369 | ||
d726d8d7 MZ |
1370 | integrity_audit=[IMA] |
1371 | Format: { "0" | "1" } | |
1372 | 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) | |
1373 | 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. | |
1374 | ||
ba395927 | 1375 | intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option |
0cd5c3c8 KM |
1376 | on |
1377 | Enable intel iommu driver. | |
ba395927 KA |
1378 | off |
1379 | Disable intel iommu driver. | |
1380 | igfx_off [Default Off] | |
1381 | By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx | |
1382 | device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is | |
1383 | bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In | |
1384 | this case, gfx device will use physical address for | |
1385 | DMA. | |
7d3b03ce KA |
1386 | forcedac [x86_64] |
1387 | With this option iommu will not optimize to look | |
16290246 | 1388 | for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual |
7d3b03ce | 1389 | address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater |
16290246 RD |
1390 | than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look |
1391 | for translation below 32-bit and if not available | |
7d3b03ce | 1392 | then look in the higher range. |
5e0d2a6f | 1393 | strict [Default Off] |
1394 | With this option on every unmap_single operation will | |
1395 | result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed | |
1396 | to batching them for performance. | |
6dd9a7c7 YS |
1397 | sp_off [Default Off] |
1398 | By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU | |
1399 | has the capability. With this option, super page will | |
1400 | not be supported. | |
2e92c7ad MI |
1401 | |
1402 | intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] | |
1403 | 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. | |
1404 | 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state. | |
1405 | ||
6be26498 DB |
1406 | intel_pstate= [X86] |
1407 | disable | |
1408 | Do not enable intel_pstate as the default | |
1409 | scaling driver for the supported processors | |
1410 | ||
d1423d56 | 1411 | intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] |
d1423d56 CW |
1412 | on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) |
1413 | off disable Interrupt Remapping | |
1414 | nosid disable Source ID checking | |
41750d31 SS |
1415 | no_x2apic_optout |
1416 | BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored | |
d1423d56 | 1417 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1418 | iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory |
1419 | strict regions from userspace. | |
1420 | relaxed | |
1421 | ||
1422 | iommu= [x86] | |
1423 | off | |
1424 | force | |
1425 | noforce | |
1426 | biomerge | |
1427 | panic | |
1428 | nopanic | |
1429 | merge | |
1430 | nomerge | |
1431 | forcesac | |
1432 | soft | |
bcb71abe | 1433 | pt [x86, IA-64] |
bcb71abe | 1434 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1435 | |
1436 | io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems | |
1437 | See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in | |
1438 | arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. | |
1439 | ||
6cececfc | 1440 | io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method |
6e7c4025 IM |
1441 | 0x80 |
1442 | Standard port 0x80 based delay | |
1443 | 0xed | |
1444 | Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) | |
b02aae9c | 1445 | udelay |
6e7c4025 IM |
1446 | Simple two microseconds delay |
1447 | none | |
1448 | No delay | |
b02aae9c | 1449 | |
1da177e4 | 1450 | ip= [IP_PNP] |
dc7a0816 | 1451 | See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. |
1da177e4 | 1452 | |
200803df AC |
1453 | irqfixup [HW] |
1454 | When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers | |
1455 | for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken | |
1456 | firmware running. | |
1457 | ||
1458 | irqpoll [HW] | |
1459 | When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers | |
1460 | for it. Also check all handlers each timer | |
1461 | interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken | |
1462 | firmware running. | |
1463 | ||
1da177e4 | 1464 | isapnp= [ISAPNP] |
a9913044 | 1465 | Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> |
1da177e4 LT |
1466 | |
1467 | isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. | |
22f2e280 DF |
1468 | Format: |
1469 | <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> | |
1470 | or | |
b225d44e LZ |
1471 | <cpu number>-<cpu number> |
1472 | (must be a positive range in ascending order) | |
22f2e280 DF |
1473 | or a mixture |
1474 | <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> | |
b225d44e | 1475 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1476 | This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs |
1477 | to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling | |
b225d44e LZ |
1478 | algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an |
1479 | "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1480 | <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is |
1481 | "number of CPUs in system - 1". | |
1482 | ||
1483 | This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The | |
a9913044 RD |
1484 | alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all |
1485 | tasks in the system -- can cause problems and | |
1486 | suboptimal load balancer performance. | |
1da177e4 | 1487 | |
a9913044 | 1488 | iucv= [HW,NET] |
1da177e4 | 1489 | |
7d8bfa26 JR |
1490 | ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] |
1491 | Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID | |
1492 | mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For | |
1493 | example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to | |
1494 | PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: | |
1495 | ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 | |
1496 | ||
1497 | ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] | |
1498 | Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID | |
1499 | mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For | |
1500 | example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to | |
1501 | PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: | |
1502 | ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 | |
1503 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1504 | js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick |
1505 | See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. | |
1506 | ||
24f2e027 KC |
1507 | kaslr/nokaslr [X86] |
1508 | Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR | |
1509 | (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into | |
1510 | the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected, | |
1511 | kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled, | |
1512 | hibernation will be disabled. | |
1513 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
1514 | keepinitrd [HW,ARM] |
1515 | ||
6cececfc | 1516 | kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter |
ed7ed365 MG |
1517 | specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel |
1518 | for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is | |
1519 | spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The | |
1520 | remaining memory in each node is used for Movable | |
1521 | pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both | |
1522 | kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will | |
1523 | take priority and other nodes will have a larger number | |
675217fd | 1524 | of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the |
ed7ed365 MG |
1525 | allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved |
1526 | by the page migration subsystem. This means that | |
1527 | HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. | |
1528 | Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still | |
1529 | use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal | |
1530 | zone if it does not. | |
1531 | ||
4fe1da4e JW |
1532 | kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. |
1533 | Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] | |
1534 | The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug | |
1535 | port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is | |
1536 | optional and is the number seconds in between | |
1537 | each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need | |
1538 | the functionality for interrupting the kernel with | |
1539 | gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When | |
1540 | not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into | |
1541 | the kernel debugger. | |
1542 | ||
84c08fd6 | 1543 | kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. |
ada64e4c JW |
1544 | Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, |
1545 | or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). | |
65b5ac14 JW |
1546 | Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] |
1547 | keyboard only format: kbd | |
1548 | keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] | |
1549 | Optional Kernel mode setting: | |
1550 | kms, kbd format: kms,kbd | |
1551 | kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] | |
6cdf6e06 | 1552 | |
84c08fd6 JW |
1553 | kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the |
1554 | kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. | |
1555 | ||
9bed90c6 FF |
1556 | kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. |
1557 | Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip | |
1558 | Ethernet adapter MAC address. | |
1559 | ||
04f70336 CM |
1560 | kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable |
1561 | Valid arguments: on, off | |
1562 | Default: on | |
1563 | ||
c3ac14b2 XQ |
1564 | kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode |
1565 | Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 | |
1566 | kmemcheck=0 (disabled) | |
1567 | kmemcheck=1 (enabled) | |
1568 | kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) | |
1569 | Default: 2 (one-shot mode) | |
1570 | ||
6cececfc | 1571 | kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1572 | in oops dumps. |
1573 | ||
fef07aae AP |
1574 | kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. |
1575 | Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) | |
1576 | ||
a182d873 XG |
1577 | kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit |
1578 | KVM MMU at runtime. | |
fef07aae AP |
1579 | Default is 0 (off) |
1580 | ||
fef07aae | 1581 | kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. |
8475f94a | 1582 | Default is 1 (enabled) |
fef07aae AP |
1583 | |
1584 | kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) | |
1585 | for all guests. | |
16290246 | 1586 | Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. |
fef07aae | 1587 | |
fef07aae AP |
1588 | kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables |
1589 | (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. | |
1590 | Default is 1 (enabled) | |
1591 | ||
1592 | kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= | |
1593 | [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states | |
1594 | Default is 0 (disabled) | |
1595 | ||
1596 | kvm-intel.flexpriority= | |
1597 | [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). | |
1598 | Default is 1 (enabled) | |
1599 | ||
e1a72ae2 SL |
1600 | kvm-intel.nested= |
1601 | [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). | |
1602 | Default is 0 (disabled) | |
1603 | ||
fef07aae AP |
1604 | kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= |
1605 | [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature | |
1606 | (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable | |
1607 | Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) | |
1608 | ||
1609 | kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification | |
1610 | feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. | |
1611 | Default is 1 (enabled) | |
1612 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1613 | l2cr= [PPC] |
1614 | ||
a78bfbfc RB |
1615 | l3cr= [PPC] |
1616 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 1617 | lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS |
a9913044 | 1618 | disabled it. |
1da177e4 | 1619 | |
279f1461 SS |
1620 | lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline |
1621 | value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default | |
1622 | back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. | |
1623 | ||
6cececfc | 1624 | lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer |
ada9cfdd | 1625 | in C2 power state. |
e585bef8 | 1626 | |
fcb71f6f FC |
1627 | libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control |
1628 | libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA | |
1629 | libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only | |
1630 | libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only | |
16290246 | 1631 | libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only |
fcb71f6f FC |
1632 | Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA |
1633 | for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. | |
16290246 | 1634 | |
20308871 MP |
1635 | libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit |
1636 | libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) | |
1637 | libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk | |
fcb71f6f | 1638 | |
78e70c23 DJ |
1639 | libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume |
1640 | when set. | |
1641 | Format: <int> | |
1642 | ||
33267325 TH |
1643 | libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma |
1644 | separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is | |
4c44f309 | 1645 | PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers |
33267325 TH |
1646 | matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches |
1647 | the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If | |
1648 | the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE | |
1649 | values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the | |
1650 | configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. | |
1651 | ||
1652 | If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to | |
1653 | the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE | |
1654 | number of 0 either selects the first device or the | |
1655 | first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not | |
1656 | select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the | |
1657 | host link and device attached to it. | |
1658 | ||
1659 | The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long | |
1660 | as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. | |
1661 | For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. | |
1662 | The following configurations can be forced. | |
1663 | ||
1664 | * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. | |
1665 | Any ID with matching PORT is used. | |
1666 | ||
1667 | * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. | |
1668 | ||
1669 | * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. | |
1670 | udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also | |
1671 | allowed. | |
1672 | ||
1673 | * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. | |
1674 | ||
05944bdf TH |
1675 | * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft |
1676 | and both resets. | |
1677 | ||
ca6d43b0 DW |
1678 | * rstonce: only attempt one reset during |
1679 | hot-unplug link recovery | |
1680 | ||
43c9c591 TH |
1681 | * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. |
1682 | ||
966fbe19 VP |
1683 | * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support |
1684 | ||
b8bd6dc3 RJ |
1685 | * disable: Disable this device. |
1686 | ||
33267325 TH |
1687 | If there are multiple matching configurations changing |
1688 | the same attribute, the last one is used. | |
1689 | ||
95f72d1e | 1690 | memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. |
7c4be253 | 1691 | |
1da177e4 | 1692 | load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy |
31c00fc1 | 1693 | See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. |
1da177e4 | 1694 | |
a6b25b67 RD |
1695 | lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. |
1696 | Format: <integer> | |
1da177e4 | 1697 | |
a6b25b67 RD |
1698 | lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. |
1699 | Format: <integer> | |
1700 | ||
1701 | lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. | |
1702 | Format: <integer> | |
1703 | ||
1704 | lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. | |
1705 | Format: <integer> | |
1da177e4 LT |
1706 | |
1707 | logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver | |
1708 | Format: <irq> | |
1709 | ||
1710 | loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the | |
1711 | console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can | |
1712 | also be changed with klogd or other programs. The | |
1713 | loglevels are defined as follows: | |
1714 | ||
1715 | 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable | |
1716 | 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately | |
1717 | 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions | |
1718 | 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions | |
1719 | 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions | |
1720 | 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition | |
1721 | 6 (KERN_INFO) informational | |
1722 | 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages | |
1723 | ||
c756d08a | 1724 | log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, |
23b2899f LR |
1725 | in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater |
1726 | than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined | |
1727 | by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is | |
1728 | also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter | |
1729 | that allows to increase the default size depending on | |
1730 | the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. | |
1da177e4 | 1731 | |
accaa24c RD |
1732 | logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. |
1733 | This may be used to provide more screen space for | |
1734 | kernel log messages and is useful when debugging | |
1735 | kernel boot problems. | |
1736 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1737 | lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, |
1738 | lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses | |
1739 | lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the | |
1740 | lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be | |
1741 | specified in addition to the ports) causes | |
1742 | attached printers to be reset. Using | |
1743 | lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports | |
1744 | to associate lp devices with, starting with | |
1745 | lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip | |
1746 | that lp device, or a parport name such as | |
1747 | 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a | |
1748 | port specification list means that device IDs | |
1749 | from each port should be examined, to see if | |
1750 | an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if | |
1751 | so, the driver will manage that printer. | |
1752 | See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. | |
1753 | ||
1754 | lpj=n [KNL] | |
1755 | Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding | |
1756 | time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per | |
1757 | CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine | |
1758 | the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal | |
1759 | autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that | |
1760 | on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, | |
1761 | which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need | |
1762 | significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value | |
1763 | will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to | |
1764 | unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although | |
1765 | unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your | |
1766 | hardware. | |
1767 | ||
1768 | ltpc= [NET] | |
1769 | Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> | |
1770 | ||
16290246 | 1771 | machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector |
a9913044 RD |
1772 | (machvec) in a generic kernel. |
1773 | Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb | |
1da177e4 | 1774 | |
3209e70e WZ |
1775 | machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different |
1776 | yeeloong laptop. | |
1777 | Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch | |
1778 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
1779 | max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater |
1780 | than or equal to this physical address is ignored. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1781 | |
1782 | maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel | |
61ec7567 LB |
1783 | should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the |
1784 | kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case, | |
1785 | it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables | |
1786 | the IO APIC. | |
1da177e4 | 1787 | |
d134b00b KS |
1788 | max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get |
1789 | (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default | |
1790 | number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead | |
1791 | of statically allocating a predefined number, loop | |
1792 | devices can be requested on-demand with the | |
1793 | /dev/loop-control interface. | |
2b2c3750 | 1794 | |
cd4f0ef7 | 1795 | mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception |
1da177e4 | 1796 | |
71cced6e | 1797 | mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |
909dd324 | 1798 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1799 | md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level |
1800 | See Documentation/md.txt. | |
a9913044 | 1801 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1802 | mdacon= [MDA] |
1803 | Format: <first>,<last> | |
1804 | Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. | |
a9913044 | 1805 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1806 | mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory |
1807 | Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able | |
1808 | to see the whole system memory or for test. | |
fbb97d87 WC |
1809 | [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together |
1810 | with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. | |
1811 | Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses | |
1812 | belonging to unused RAM. | |
1da177e4 | 1813 | |
cd4f0ef7 | 1814 | mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel |
1da177e4 LT |
1815 | memory. |
1816 | ||
6902aa84 PM |
1817 | memchunk=nn[KMG] |
1818 | [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for | |
1819 | per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. | |
1820 | ||
6cececfc | 1821 | memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact |
1da177e4 LT |
1822 | E820 memory map, as specified by the user. |
1823 | Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on | |
1824 | BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss | |
1825 | option description. | |
1826 | ||
1827 | memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] | |
277cba1d RD |
1828 | [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. |
1829 | Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. | |
1da177e4 LT |
1830 | |
1831 | memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] | |
1832 | [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. | |
277cba1d | 1833 | Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. |
1da177e4 LT |
1834 | |
1835 | memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] | |
1836 | [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. | |
277cba1d | 1837 | Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. |
1312848e PM |
1838 | Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff |
1839 | memmap=64K$0x18690000 | |
1840 | or | |
1841 | memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 | |
1da177e4 | 1842 | |
9f077871 JF |
1843 | memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] |
1844 | Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of | |
1845 | memory when doing things like suspend/resume. | |
1846 | Setting this option will scan the memory | |
1847 | looking for corruption. Enabling this will | |
1848 | both detect corruption and prevent the kernel | |
1849 | from using the memory being corrupted. | |
1850 | However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if | |
1851 | repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always | |
1852 | affects the same memory, you can use memmap= | |
1853 | to prevent the kernel from using that memory. | |
1854 | ||
1855 | memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] | |
1856 | By default it checks for corruption in the low | |
1857 | 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal | |
1858 | use. Use this parameter to scan for | |
1859 | corruption in more or less memory. | |
1860 | ||
1861 | memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] | |
1862 | By default it checks for corruption every 60 | |
1863 | seconds. Use this parameter to check at some | |
1864 | other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. | |
1865 | ||
caadbdce | 1866 | memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest |
c64df707 | 1867 | Format: <integer> |
c64df707 | 1868 | default : 0 <disable> |
9e5f6cf5 AH |
1869 | Specifies the number of memtest passes to be |
1870 | performed. Each pass selects another test | |
1871 | pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest | |
1872 | fills the memory with this pattern, validates | |
1873 | memory contents and reserves bad memory | |
1874 | regions that are detected. | |
c64df707 | 1875 | |
1da177e4 LT |
1876 | meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters |
1877 | See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. | |
1878 | ||
8f36881b AS |
1879 | mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the |
1880 | Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode | |
1881 | platforms. | |
1882 | ||
e6c4dc6c WT |
1883 | mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when |
1884 | the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS | |
1885 | version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the | |
1886 | problem by letting the user disable the workaround. | |
1887 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1888 | mga= [HW,DRM] |
1889 | ||
1c207f95 RD |
1890 | min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this |
1891 | physical address is ignored. | |
1892 | ||
39f45d7b MP |
1893 | mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] |
1894 | Format:[0..2][b][c][t] | |
1895 | Default: "0tb" | |
1896 | MINI2440 configuration specification: | |
1897 | 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT | |
1898 | 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT | |
1899 | 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) | |
1900 | Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load | |
1901 | the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left | |
1902 | unconfigured. | |
1903 | b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be | |
1904 | linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO | |
1905 | LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the | |
1906 | VGA shield. | |
1907 | c - Enable the s3c camera interface. | |
1908 | t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The | |
1909 | touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream | |
1910 | kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found | |
1911 | in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at | |
1912 | http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git | |
1913 | ||
6b74ab97 MG |
1914 | mminit_loglevel= |
1915 | [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this | |
1916 | parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for | |
1917 | the additional memory initialisation checks. A value | |
1918 | of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will | |
1919 | log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG | |
1920 | so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. | |
1921 | ||
106a4ee2 RR |
1922 | module.sig_enforce |
1923 | [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that | |
1924 | modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. | |
2a039be7 | 1925 | Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that |
106a4ee2 RR |
1926 | is always true, so this option does nothing. |
1927 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1928 | mousedev.tap_time= |
1929 | [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and | |
1930 | leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered | |
1931 | a tap and be reported as a left button click (for | |
1932 | touchpads working in absolute mode only). | |
1933 | Format: <msecs> | |
1934 | mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices | |
1935 | reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets | |
1936 | mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices | |
1937 | reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets | |
1938 | ||
6cececfc | 1939 | movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1940 | is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the |
1941 | amount of memory used for migratable allocations. | |
1942 | If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, | |
1943 | then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified | |
1944 | value but may be more. If movablecore on its own | |
1945 | is specified, the administrator must be careful | |
1946 | that the amount of memory usable for all allocations | |
1947 | is not too small. | |
1948 | ||
c5320926 TC |
1949 | movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects |
1950 | of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. | |
1951 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
1952 | MTD_Partition= [MTD] |
1953 | Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> | |
1954 | ||
a9913044 RD |
1955 | MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: |
1956 | <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] | |
1da177e4 LT |
1957 | |
1958 | mtdparts= [MTD] | |
c8facbb6 | 1959 | See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. |
1da177e4 | 1960 | |
4e89a2d8 WS |
1961 | multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries |
1962 | firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries | |
1963 | at a time. | |
1964 | ||
5988af23 RH |
1965 | onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration |
1966 | ||
1967 | Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] | |
1968 | ||
1969 | boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. | |
1970 | The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. | |
1971 | lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. | |
1972 | Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. | |
1973 | 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. | |
1974 | ||
9db829f4 BD |
1975 | mtdset= [ARM] |
1976 | ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control | |
1977 | ||
1978 | See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c | |
1979 | ||
1da177e4 | 1980 | mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= |
a9913044 RD |
1981 | [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates |
1982 | ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') | |
1da177e4 | 1983 | |
0cb55ad2 | 1984 | mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] |
19f59460 | 1985 | used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk |
0cb55ad2 RD |
1986 | that could hold holes aka. UC entries. |
1987 | ||
1988 | mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] | |
1989 | Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. | |
1990 | Default is 1. | |
1991 | Large value could prevent small alignment from | |
1992 | using up MTRRs. | |
1993 | ||
1994 | mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] | |
1995 | Format: <integer> | |
1996 | Range: 0,7 : spare reg number | |
1997 | Default : 1 | |
1998 | Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. | |
1999 | Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. | |
2000 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2001 | n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card |
2002 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2003 | netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters |
2004 | Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> | |
2005 | Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean | |
2006 | something different and driver-specific. | |
a9913044 RD |
2007 | This usage is only documented in each driver source |
2008 | file if at all. | |
2009 | ||
58401572 KPO |
2010 | nf_conntrack.acct= |
2011 | [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting | |
2012 | 0 to disable accounting | |
2013 | 1 to enable accounting | |
d70a011d | 2014 | Default value is 0. |
58401572 | 2015 | |
306a0753 | 2016 | nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. |
dc7a0816 | 2017 | See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
2018 | |
2019 | nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. | |
dc7a0816 | 2020 | See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. |
1da177e4 | 2021 | |
306a0753 CL |
2022 | nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. |
2023 | See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. | |
2024 | ||
a72b4422 TM |
2025 | nfs.callback_tcpport= |
2026 | [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback | |
2027 | channel should listen. | |
2028 | ||
e571cbf1 TM |
2029 | nfs.cache_getent= |
2030 | [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used | |
2031 | to update the NFS client cache entries. | |
2032 | ||
2033 | nfs.cache_getent_timeout= | |
2034 | [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to | |
2035 | update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. | |
2036 | ||
58df095b TM |
2037 | nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= |
2038 | [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache | |
2039 | entries. | |
2040 | ||
f43bf0be TM |
2041 | nfs.enable_ino64= |
2042 | [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. | |
2043 | If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode | |
2044 | number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead | |
2045 | of returning the full 64-bit number. | |
2046 | The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. | |
2047 | ||
ef159e91 TM |
2048 | nfs.max_session_slots= |
2049 | [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots | |
2050 | the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. | |
2051 | This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests | |
2052 | that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. | |
2053 | Note that there is little point in setting this | |
2054 | value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. | |
2055 | ||
b064eca2 | 2056 | nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= |
074b1d12 TM |
2057 | [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option |
2058 | ensures that both the RPC level authentication | |
2059 | scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use | |
2060 | numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the | |
2061 | 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is | |
2062 | disabling idmapping, which can make migration from | |
2063 | legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. | |
2064 | Servers that do not support this mode of operation | |
2065 | will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall | |
2066 | back to using the idmapper. | |
2067 | To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. | |
6f2ea7f2 CL |
2068 | nfs.nfs4_unique_id= |
2069 | [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- | |
2070 | ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into | |
2071 | their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a | |
2072 | UUID that is generated at system install time. | |
b064eca2 | 2073 | |
db8ac8ba WAA |
2074 | nfs.send_implementation_id = |
2075 | [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification | |
2076 | information in exchange_id requests. | |
2077 | If zero, no implementation identification information | |
2078 | will be sent. | |
2079 | The default is to send the implementation identification | |
2080 | information. | |
f6de7a39 TM |
2081 | |
2082 | nfs.recover_lost_locks = | |
2083 | [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due | |
2084 | to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that | |
2085 | doing this risks data corruption, since there are | |
2086 | no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged | |
2087 | after the locks are lost. | |
2088 | If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of | |
2089 | attempting to recover these locks, then set this | |
2090 | parameter to '1'. | |
2091 | The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel | |
2092 | not to attempt recovery of lost locks. | |
db8ac8ba | 2093 | |
e9541ce8 BF |
2094 | nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= |
2095 | [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 | |
2096 | server will return only numeric uids and gids to | |
2097 | clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids | |
2098 | and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease | |
2099 | migration from NFSv2/v3. | |
db8ac8ba | 2100 | |
18d98f6c SB |
2101 | objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog= |
2102 | [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which | |
2103 | is used to automatically discover and login into new | |
2104 | osd-targets. Please see: | |
2105 | Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations | |
2106 | ||
1e1030dc | 2107 | nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take |
e7ba176b HS |
2108 | when a NMI is triggered. |
2109 | Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] | |
2110 | ||
6cececfc | 2111 | nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels |
fef2c9bc | 2112 | Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] |
5dc30558 | 2113 | Valid num: 0 |
5b9a0e14 | 2114 | 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off |
0cb55ad2 | 2115 | When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog |
fef2c9bc DZ |
2116 | timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite |
2117 | default). | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
2118 | This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and |
2119 | need the box quickly up again. | |
1da177e4 | 2120 | |
bff38771 AV |
2121 | netpoll.carrier_timeout= |
2122 | [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that | |
2123 | netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll | |
2124 | waits 4 seconds. | |
2125 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2126 | no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths |
1da177e4 LT |
2127 | emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor |
2128 | is present. | |
2129 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
2130 | no_console_suspend |
2131 | [HW] Never suspend the console | |
2132 | Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and | |
2133 | hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging | |
2134 | messages can reach various consoles while the rest | |
2135 | of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while | |
2136 | debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may | |
2137 | not work reliably with all consoles, but is known | |
2138 | to work with serial and VGA consoles. | |
134620f7 YZ |
2139 | To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add |
2140 | console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control | |
2141 | it. Users could use console_suspend (usually | |
2142 | /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to | |
2143 | turn on/off it dynamically. | |
0cb55ad2 | 2144 | |
c1aee215 CL |
2145 | noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien |
2146 | caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, | |
2147 | but will impact performance. | |
3395ee05 | 2148 | |
a9913044 RD |
2149 | noalign [KNL,ARM] |
2150 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2151 | noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any |
2152 | IOAPICs that may be present in the system. | |
2153 | ||
5091faa4 MG |
2154 | noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. |
2155 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2156 | nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem |
2157 | on "Classic" PPC cores. | |
2158 | ||
2159 | nocache [ARM] | |
a9913044 | 2160 | |
0cb55ad2 RD |
2161 | noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction |
2162 | ||
163ecdff SN |
2163 | nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting |
2164 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2165 | nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. |
2166 | ||
6902aa84 PM |
2167 | nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. |
2168 | ||
6cececfc | 2169 | noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support. |
8b2cb7a8 | 2170 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2171 | noexec [IA-64] |
2172 | ||
6cececfc | 2173 | noexec [X86] |
f5a1b191 | 2174 | On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. |
1da177e4 | 2175 | noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) |
f5a1b191 JS |
2176 | noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings |
2177 | ||
52b6179a PA |
2178 | nosmap [X86] |
2179 | Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) | |
2180 | even if it is supported by processor. | |
2181 | ||
de5397ad | 2182 | nosmep [X86] |
52b6179a | 2183 | Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) |
de5397ad FY |
2184 | even if it is supported by processor. |
2185 | ||
f5a1b191 JS |
2186 | noexec32 [X86-64] |
2187 | This affects only 32-bit executables. | |
2188 | noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) | |
2189 | read doesn't imply executable mappings | |
2190 | noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings | |
2191 | read implies executable mappings | |
1da177e4 | 2192 | |
6902aa84 PM |
2193 | nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. |
2194 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2195 | nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended |
4f886511 CE |
2196 | register save and restore. The kernel will only save |
2197 | legacy floating-point registers on task switch. | |
1da177e4 | 2198 | |
0c752a93 SS |
2199 | noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save |
2200 | and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to | |
2201 | enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. | |
2202 | ||
b6f42a4a FY |
2203 | noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended |
2204 | register states. The kernel will fall back to use | |
2205 | xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, | |
2206 | performance of saving the states is degraded because | |
2207 | xsave doesn't support modified optimization while | |
2208 | xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. | |
2209 | ||
2210 | noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and | |
2211 | restoring x86 extended register state in compacted | |
2212 | form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use | |
2213 | xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states | |
2214 | in standard form of xsave area. By using this | |
2215 | parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more | |
2216 | memory on xsaves enabled systems. | |
2217 | ||
5d2bd700 | 2218 | eagerfpu= [X86] |
e0022981 | 2219 | on enable eager fpu restore |
5d2bd700 | 2220 | off disable eager fpu restore |
e0022981 SS |
2221 | auto selects the default scheme, which automatically |
2222 | enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt. | |
5d2bd700 | 2223 | |
01a24d2b PZ |
2224 | nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or |
2225 | wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to | |
2226 | use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. | |
a9913044 | 2227 | |
1f29fae2 SH |
2228 | no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The |
2229 | only way then for a file to be executed with privilege | |
2230 | is to be setuid root or executed by root. | |
2231 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2232 | nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving |
2233 | function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases | |
2234 | power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces | |
2235 | interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance | |
2236 | in certain environments such as networked servers or | |
2237 | real-time systems. | |
2238 | ||
a6e15a39 KC |
2239 | nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. |
2240 | ||
79bf2bb3 TG |
2241 | nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks |
2242 | Valid arguments: on, off | |
2243 | Default: on | |
2244 | ||
c5bfece2 FW |
2245 | nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] |
2246 | In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set | |
a831881b | 2247 | the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped |
0453b435 FW |
2248 | whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside |
2249 | the range to maintain the timekeeping. | |
d1e43fa5 FW |
2250 | The CPUs in this range must also be included in the |
2251 | rcu_nocbs= set. | |
a831881b | 2252 | |
eeee7853 PM |
2253 | noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. |
2254 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2255 | noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and |
1da177e4 LT |
2256 | disable unhandled interrupt sources. |
2257 | ||
6cececfc | 2258 | no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for |
8542b200 ZA |
2259 | broken timer IRQ sources. |
2260 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2261 | noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. |
2262 | ||
2263 | noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured | |
2264 | initial RAM disk. | |
2265 | ||
03ea8155 WH |
2266 | nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt |
2267 | remapping. | |
d1423d56 | 2268 | [Deprecated - use intremap=off] |
03ea8155 | 2269 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2270 | nointroute [IA-64] |
2271 | ||
16290246 | 2272 | nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. |
0aa366f3 | 2273 | |
9cf4c4fc JK |
2274 | no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver |
2275 | ||
fd10cde9 GN |
2276 | no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page |
2277 | fault handling. | |
2278 | ||
d910f5c1 GC |
2279 | no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. |
2280 | steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler | |
2281 | behaviour | |
2282 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2283 | nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. |
1da177e4 | 2284 | |
cd4f0ef7 | 2285 | nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. |
ad62ca2b | 2286 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2287 | noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel |
2288 | lowmem mapping on PPC40x. | |
2289 | ||
312f1f01 H |
2290 | nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling |
2291 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2292 | nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception |
abe37e5a | 2293 | |
83d7384f AS |
2294 | nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose |
2295 | Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). | |
2296 | ||
bda62633 DZ |
2297 | nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to |
2298 | shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR | |
2299 | irq. | |
2300 | ||
02608bef DY |
2301 | nomodule Disable module load |
2302 | ||
016ddd9b JK |
2303 | nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of |
2304 | pagetables) support. | |
2305 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
2306 | norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to |
2307 | echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space | |
2308 | ||
bbff2168 | 2309 | noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops |
959b4fdf | 2310 | |
cd4f0ef7 | 2311 | noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions |
b7fb4af0 JF |
2312 | with UP alternatives |
2313 | ||
7a5091d5 PA |
2314 | nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and |
2315 | RDSEED instructions even if they are supported | |
2316 | by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still | |
2317 | available to user space applications. | |
49d859d7 | 2318 | |
a9913044 RD |
2319 | noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap |
2320 | space. | |
2321 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2322 | no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. |
2323 | This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille | |
2324 | reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). | |
2325 | ||
2326 | nosbagart [IA-64] | |
2327 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2328 | nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. |
4f886511 | 2329 | |
61ec7567 LB |
2330 | nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, |
2331 | and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". | |
1da177e4 | 2332 | |
97842216 DJ |
2333 | nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. |
2334 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2335 | nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. |
2336 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 2337 | notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter |
1da177e4 LT |
2338 | |
2339 | nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem | |
2340 | ||
55142374 | 2341 | nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog). |
58687acb | 2342 | |
1da177e4 | 2343 | nowb [ARM] |
a9913044 | 2344 | |
2b2fd87a WH |
2345 | nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. |
2346 | ||
f78cff48 FY |
2347 | cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when |
2348 | CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. | |
2349 | Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: | |
2350 | 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. | |
2351 | Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you | |
2352 | need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. | |
2353 | 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be | |
2354 | removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. | |
2355 | It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some | |
2356 | machines although I haven't seen such issues so far | |
2357 | after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. | |
2358 | If the dependencies are under your control, you can | |
2359 | turn on cpu0_hotplug. | |
2360 | ||
16290246 | 2361 | nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB |
a6c75b86 FY |
2362 | purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or |
2363 | SAL PALO. | |
2364 | ||
2b633e3f YL |
2365 | nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel |
2366 | could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to | |
2367 | supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not | |
2368 | use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online. | |
2369 | just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n | |
2370 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
2371 | nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. |
2372 | ||
1a687c2e MG |
2373 | numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. |
2374 | Allowed values are enable and disable | |
2375 | ||
f0c0b2b8 KH |
2376 | numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. |
2377 | one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified | |
2378 | This can be set from sysctl after boot. | |
2379 | See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. | |
2380 | ||
7c4be253 RD |
2381 | ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. |
2382 | See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more | |
2383 | info. | |
2384 | ||
3ef0e1f8 AS |
2385 | olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands |
2386 | Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC | |
2387 | command is not properly ACKed, override the length | |
2388 | of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while | |
2389 | waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high | |
2390 | interrupts *may* be lost! | |
2391 | ||
15ac7afe TL |
2392 | omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. |
2393 | Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... | |
2394 | For example, to override I2C bus2: | |
2395 | omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 | |
2396 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2397 | oprofile.timer= [HW] |
2398 | Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters | |
2399 | ||
7e4e0bd5 RR |
2400 | oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type |
2401 | This might be useful if you have an older oprofile | |
2402 | userland or if you want common events. | |
8d7ff4f2 RR |
2403 | Format: { arch_perfmon } |
2404 | arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural | |
7e4e0bd5 RR |
2405 | perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the |
2406 | CPU specific event set. | |
159a80b2 RR |
2407 | timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI |
2408 | timer mode (see also oprofile.timer | |
2409 | for generic hr timer mode) | |
dd3c4670 AK |
2410 | [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling |
2411 | (report cpu_type "timer") | |
1dcdb5a9 | 2412 | |
44a4dcf7 RD |
2413 | oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the |
2414 | process, but there is a small probability of | |
2415 | deadlocking the machine. | |
d404ab0a OH |
2416 | This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. |
2417 | Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. | |
2418 | ||
bcfde334 RD |
2419 | OSS [HW,OSS] |
2420 | See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt | |
2421 | ||
44a4dcf7 | 2422 | panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> |
4302fbc8 HD |
2423 | timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting |
2424 | timeout = 0: wait forever | |
2425 | timeout < 0: reboot immediately | |
1da177e4 LT |
2426 | Format: <timeout> |
2427 | ||
f06e5153 MH |
2428 | crash_kexec_post_notifiers |
2429 | Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping | |
2430 | kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always | |
2431 | succeeds in any situation. | |
2432 | Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, | |
2433 | because some panic notifiers can make the crashed | |
2434 | kernel more unstable. | |
2435 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2436 | parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is |
2437 | connected to, default is 0. | |
2438 | Format: <parport#> | |
2439 | parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, | |
2440 | 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). | |
a9913044 RD |
2441 | Format: <mode> |
2442 | ||
2443 | parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. | |
2444 | Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } | |
2445 | Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any | |
2446 | IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to | |
2447 | ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of | |
2448 | possible conflicts). You can specify the base | |
2449 | address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA | |
2450 | should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected | |
2451 | settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' | |
2452 | (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). | |
2453 | Parallel ports are assigned in the order they | |
2454 | are specified on the command line, starting | |
2455 | with parport0. | |
2456 | ||
2457 | parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] | |
2458 | Configure VIA parallel port to operate in | |
2459 | a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos | |
2460 | computer where firmware has no options for setting | |
2461 | up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. | |
2462 | Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. | |
1da177e4 LT |
2463 | Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] |
2464 | ||
dd287796 AM |
2465 | pause_on_oops= |
2466 | Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for | |
2467 | the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if | |
2468 | your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. | |
2469 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
2470 | pcbit= [HW,ISDN] |
2471 | ||
2472 | pcd. [PARIDE] | |
2473 | See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. | |
31c00fc1 | 2474 | See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |
1da177e4 | 2475 | |
a9913044 | 2476 | pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: |
1cc0ca26 BH |
2477 | earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel |
2478 | changes anything | |
c0115606 | 2479 | off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus |
cd4f0ef7 | 2480 | bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access |
a9913044 RD |
2481 | the hardware directly. Use this if your machine |
2482 | has a non-standard PCI host bridge. | |
cd4f0ef7 | 2483 | nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct |
a9913044 RD |
2484 | hardware access methods are allowed. Use this |
2485 | if you experience crashes upon bootup and you | |
2486 | suspect they are caused by the BIOS. | |
c0115606 | 2487 | conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration |
a9913044 | 2488 | Mechanism 1. |
c0115606 | 2489 | conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration |
a9913044 | 2490 | Mechanism 2. |
7f785763 RD |
2491 | noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is |
2492 | enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to | |
2493 | disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. | |
32a2eea7 JG |
2494 | nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI |
2495 | root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). | |
6cececfc | 2496 | nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI |
61be6d66 | 2497 | Configuration |
12983077 AH |
2498 | check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable |
2499 | properly configured MMIO access to PCI | |
2500 | config space on AMD family 10h CPU | |
309e57df MW |
2501 | nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is |
2502 | enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to | |
2503 | disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. | |
a9322f64 SA |
2504 | noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. |
2505 | Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This | |
2506 | should never be necessary. | |
9197979b SA |
2507 | ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the |
2508 | primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable | |
2509 | boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs | |
2510 | when the system masks IRQs. | |
41b9eb26 SA |
2511 | noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the |
2512 | boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to | |
2513 | a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. | |
2514 | The opposite of ioapicreroute. | |
cd4f0ef7 | 2515 | biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt |
a9913044 RD |
2516 | routing table. These calls are known to be buggy |
2517 | on several machines and they hang the machine | |
2518 | when used, but on other computers it's the only | |
2519 | way to get the interrupt routing table. Try | |
2520 | this option if the kernel is unable to allocate | |
2521 | IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your | |
2522 | motherboard. | |
c0115606 | 2523 | rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. |
a9913044 RD |
2524 | Use with caution as certain devices share |
2525 | address decoders between ROMs and other | |
2526 | resources. | |
c0115606 | 2527 | norom [X86] Do not assign address space to |
bb71ad88 GH |
2528 | expansion ROMs that do not already have |
2529 | BIOS assigned address ranges. | |
7bd1c365 MH |
2530 | nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the |
2531 | BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. | |
c0115606 | 2532 | irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be |
a9913044 RD |
2533 | assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can |
2534 | make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards | |
2535 | this way. | |
c0115606 | 2536 | pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address |
a9913044 RD |
2537 | of the PIRQ table (normally generated |
2538 | by the BIOS) if it is outside the | |
2539 | F0000h-100000h range. | |
c0115606 | 2540 | lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be |
a9913044 RD |
2541 | useful if the kernel is unable to find your |
2542 | secondary buses and you want to tell it | |
2543 | explicitly which ones they are. | |
c0115606 | 2544 | assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus |
a9913044 RD |
2545 | numbers ourselves, overriding |
2546 | whatever the firmware may have done. | |
c0115606 | 2547 | usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored |
a9913044 RD |
2548 | in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on |
2549 | some systems with broken BIOSes, notably | |
2550 | some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 | |
2551 | notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI | |
2552 | IRQ routing is enabled. | |
c0115606 | 2553 | noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing |
a9913044 | 2554 | or for PCI scanning. |
7bc5e3f2 BH |
2555 | use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information |
2556 | from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this | |
2557 | is enabled by default. If you need to use this, | |
2558 | please report a bug. | |
2559 | nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. | |
2560 | If you need to use this, please report a bug. | |
a9913044 RD |
2561 | routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. |
2562 | This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), | |
2563 | so this option is a temporary workaround | |
2564 | for broken drivers that don't call it. | |
13a6ddb0 YL |
2565 | skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can |
2566 | handle more pci cards | |
a9913044 RD |
2567 | firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead |
2568 | just use the configuration from the | |
2569 | bootloader. This is currently used on | |
2570 | IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be | |
2571 | configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs. | |
0637a70a AK |
2572 | noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. |
2573 | This might help on some broken boards which | |
2574 | machine check when some devices' config space | |
2575 | is read. But various workarounds are disabled | |
2576 | and some IOMMU drivers will not work. | |
6b4b78fe MD |
2577 | bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. |
2578 | This sorting is done to get a device | |
2579 | order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. | |
2580 | nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. | |
fa238712 YW |
2581 | pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) |
2582 | tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. | |
2583 | pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value | |
2584 | supported by all devices below the root complex. | |
2585 | pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS | |
2586 | based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max | |
2587 | Read Request Size) to the largest supported | |
2588 | value (no larger than the MPS that the device | |
2589 | or bus can support) for best performance. | |
2590 | pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which | |
2591 | every device is guaranteed to support. This | |
2592 | configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between | |
2593 | any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of | |
2594 | reduced performance. This also guarantees | |
2595 | that hot-added devices will work. | |
4516a618 AN |
2596 | cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is |
2597 | reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. | |
2598 | The default value is 256 bytes. | |
2599 | cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is | |
2600 | reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory | |
2601 | window. The default value is 64 megabytes. | |
32a9a682 YS |
2602 | resource_alignment= |
2603 | Format: | |
2604 | [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] | |
2605 | Specifies alignment and device to reassign | |
2606 | aligned memory resources. | |
2607 | If <order of align> is not specified, | |
2608 | PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. | |
2609 | PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource | |
2610 | windows need to be expanded. | |
43c16408 AP |
2611 | ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer |
2612 | end-to-end CRC checking). | |
2613 | bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the | |
2614 | the default. | |
2615 | off: Turn ECRC off | |
2616 | on: Turn ECRC on. | |
8c8803c5 YW |
2617 | hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is |
2618 | reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. | |
2619 | Default size is 256 bytes. | |
2620 | hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is | |
2621 | reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. | |
2622 | Default size is 2 megabytes. | |
b55438fd YL |
2623 | realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources |
2624 | if allocations done by BIOS are too small to | |
2625 | accommodate resources required by all child | |
2626 | devices. | |
2627 | off: Turn realloc off | |
2628 | on: Turn realloc on | |
2629 | realloc same as realloc=on | |
6748dcc2 | 2630 | noari do not use PCIe ARI. |
284f5f9d BH |
2631 | pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we |
2632 | only look for one device below a PCIe downstream | |
2633 | port. | |
6b4b78fe | 2634 | |
e5665a45 CE |
2635 | pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power |
2636 | Management. | |
2637 | off Disable ASPM. | |
2638 | force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. | |
2639 | WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. | |
2640 | ||
7570a333 MT |
2641 | pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: |
2642 | nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this | |
2643 | makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). | |
2644 | ||
79dd9182 | 2645 | pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: |
28eb5f27 RW |
2646 | auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services |
2647 | associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use | |
2648 | them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. | |
2649 | native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports | |
2650 | unconditionally. | |
79dd9182 RW |
2651 | compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe |
2652 | ports driver. | |
2653 | ||
c7f48656 | 2654 | pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: |
c39fae14 | 2655 | nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes |
28eb5f27 | 2656 | all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). |
c7f48656 | 2657 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2658 | pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 |
2659 | ||
39ac5ba5 TB |
2660 | pd_ignore_unused |
2661 | [PM] | |
2662 | Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, | |
2663 | even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful | |
2664 | for debug and development, but should not be | |
2665 | needed on a platform with proper driver support. | |
2666 | ||
1da177e4 | 2667 | pd. [PARIDE] |
31c00fc1 | 2668 | See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
2669 | |
2670 | pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at | |
2671 | boot time. | |
2672 | Format: { 0 | 1 } | |
2673 | See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c | |
2674 | ||
f58dc01b | 2675 | percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. |
e933a73f TH |
2676 | Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". |
2677 | Archs may support subset or none of the selections. | |
2678 | See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each | |
2679 | allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging | |
2680 | and performance comparison. | |
fa8a7094 | 2681 | |
1da177e4 | 2682 | pf. [PARIDE] |
31c00fc1 | 2683 | See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
2684 | |
2685 | pg. [PARIDE] | |
31c00fc1 | 2686 | See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
2687 | |
2688 | pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup | |
71cced6e | 2689 | See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
2690 | |
2691 | plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link | |
2692 | Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } | |
2693 | See also Documentation/parport.txt. | |
2694 | ||
16290246 | 2695 | pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. |
de32a243 TG |
2696 | Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. |
2697 | e.g. pmtmr=0x508 | |
2698 | ||
96242116 BH |
2699 | pnp.debug=1 [PNP] |
2700 | Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the | |
2701 | CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time | |
2702 | via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show | |
2703 | current resource usage; turning this on also shows | |
2704 | possible settings and some assignment information. | |
97ef062b | 2705 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2706 | pnpacpi= [ACPI] |
2707 | { off } | |
2708 | ||
2709 | pnpbios= [ISAPNP] | |
2710 | { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } | |
2711 | ||
2712 | pnp_reserve_irq= | |
2713 | [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration | |
2714 | ||
2715 | pnp_reserve_dma= | |
2716 | [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration | |
2717 | ||
2718 | pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration | |
a9913044 | 2719 | Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). |
1da177e4 LT |
2720 | |
2721 | pnp_reserve_mem= | |
a9913044 RD |
2722 | [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the |
2723 | autoconfiguration. | |
1da177e4 LT |
2724 | Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). |
2725 | ||
4af94f39 RD |
2726 | ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module |
2727 | Default is 21. | |
2728 | Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports | |
2729 | may be specified. | |
2730 | Format: <port>,<port>.... | |
2731 | ||
45807a1d IM |
2732 | print-fatal-signals= |
2733 | [KNL] debug: print fatal signals | |
f84d49b2 NO |
2734 | |
2735 | If enabled, warn about various signal handling | |
2736 | related application anomalies: too many signals, | |
2737 | too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a | |
2738 | coredump - etc. | |
2739 | ||
2740 | If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, | |
2741 | you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". | |
2742 | ||
45807a1d IM |
2743 | default: off. |
2744 | ||
c22ab332 MG |
2745 | printk.always_kmsg_dump= |
2746 | Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or | |
2747 | panics | |
2748 | Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) | |
2749 | default: disabled | |
2750 | ||
e84845c4 RD |
2751 | printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line |
2752 | Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) | |
2753 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
2754 | processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] |
2755 | Limit processor to maximum C-state | |
2756 | max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. | |
2757 | ||
2758 | processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] | |
2759 | Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, | |
2760 | instead using the legacy FADT method | |
2761 | ||
1da177e4 | 2762 | profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile |
a9913044 RD |
2763 | Format: [schedule,]<number> |
2764 | Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. | |
2765 | Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for | |
2766 | statistical time based profiling. | |
b3da2a73 MG |
2767 | Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). |
2768 | Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS | |
c0fe2e69 | 2769 | Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. |
1da177e4 | 2770 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2771 | prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk |
2772 | before loading. | |
31c00fc1 | 2773 | See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. |
1da177e4 | 2774 | |
a9913044 RD |
2775 | psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to |
2776 | probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). | |
1da177e4 LT |
2777 | psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports |
2778 | per second. | |
a9913044 RD |
2779 | psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] |
2780 | Try to reset the device after so many bad packets | |
1da177e4 LT |
2781 | (0 = never). |
2782 | psmouse.resolution= | |
2783 | [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. | |
2784 | psmouse.smartscroll= | |
a9913044 | 2785 | [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. |
1da177e4 LT |
2786 | 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). |
2787 | ||
dee28e72 MG |
2788 | pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use |
2789 | ||
1da177e4 | 2790 | pt. [PARIDE] |
31c00fc1 | 2791 | See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. |
1da177e4 | 2792 | |
dc8c8587 KS |
2793 | pty.legacy_count= |
2794 | [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in | |
2795 | default number. | |
2796 | ||
7d2c502f | 2797 | quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages |
a9913044 | 2798 | |
1da177e4 LT |
2799 | r128= [HW,DRM] |
2800 | ||
2801 | raid= [HW,RAID] | |
2802 | See Documentation/md.txt. | |
2803 | ||
a9913044 | 2804 | ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] |
31c00fc1 | 2805 | See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. |
a9913044 | 2806 | |
1da177e4 | 2807 | ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes |
31c00fc1 | 2808 | See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. |
1da177e4 | 2809 | |
4102adab | 2810 | rcu_nocbs= [KNL] |
3fbfbf7a PM |
2811 | In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set |
2812 | the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. | |
2813 | Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will | |
a4889858 PM |
2814 | be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for |
2815 | that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" | |
2816 | for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" | |
2817 | is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the | |
3fbfbf7a PM |
2818 | offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and |
2819 | real-time workloads. It can also improve energy | |
2820 | efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. | |
2821 | ||
4102adab | 2822 | rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] |
3fbfbf7a PM |
2823 | Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs |
2824 | (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly | |
2825 | awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, | |
2826 | make these kthreads poll for callbacks. | |
2827 | This improves the real-time response for the | |
2828 | offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to | |
2829 | wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades | |
2830 | energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads | |
2831 | periodically wake up to do the polling. | |
2832 | ||
4102adab | 2833 | rcutree.blimit= [KNL] |
97e63f0c PM |
2834 | Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to |
2835 | process in one batch. | |
21a1ea9e | 2836 | |
4102adab | 2837 | rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] |
f885b7f2 PM |
2838 | Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each |
2839 | leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large | |
2840 | systems. | |
2841 | ||
4a81e832 PM |
2842 | rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] |
2843 | Set required age in jiffies for a | |
2844 | given grace period before RCU starts | |
2845 | soliciting quiescent-state help from | |
2846 | rcu_note_context_switch(). | |
2847 | ||
4102adab | 2848 | rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] |
c0f4dfd4 PM |
2849 | Set delay from grace-period initialization to |
2850 | first attempt to force quiescent states. | |
2851 | Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, | |
2852 | and maximum value is HZ. | |
2853 | ||
4102adab | 2854 | rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] |
c0f4dfd4 PM |
2855 | Set delay between subsequent attempts to force |
2856 | quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum | |
2857 | value is one, and maximum value is HZ. | |
2858 | ||
fbce7497 PM |
2859 | rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] |
2860 | Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which | |
2861 | defaults to the square root of the number of | |
2862 | CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead | |
2863 | on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases | |
2864 | that same overhead on each group's leader. | |
2865 | ||
4102adab | 2866 | rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] |
97e63f0c PM |
2867 | Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which |
2868 | batch limiting is disabled. | |
21a1ea9e | 2869 | |
4102adab | 2870 | rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] |
24aaef8d RD |
2871 | Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which |
2872 | batch limiting is re-enabled. | |
21a1ea9e | 2873 | |
4102adab | 2874 | rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] |
c0f4dfd4 PM |
2875 | Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have |
2876 | RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). | |
d40011f6 | 2877 | |
4102adab | 2878 | rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] |
c0f4dfd4 PM |
2879 | Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have |
2880 | only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). | |
2881 | Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can | |
2882 | prove do nothing more than free memory. | |
d40011f6 | 2883 | |
4102adab | 2884 | rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2885 | Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts. |
2886 | ||
4102adab | 2887 | rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2888 | Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts. |
2889 | ||
4102adab | 2890 | rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2891 | Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts. |
2892 | ||
4102adab PM |
2893 | rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] |
2894 | Use expedited update-side primitives. | |
2895 | ||
2896 | rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] | |
2897 | Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives. | |
2898 | If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both. | |
2899 | If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still | |
2900 | do both. | |
dabb8aa9 | 2901 | |
4102adab | 2902 | rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2903 | Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. |
2904 | ||
4102adab | 2905 | rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2906 | Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just |
2907 | stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual | |
2908 | test, hence the "fake". | |
2909 | ||
4102adab | 2910 | rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2911 | Set number of RCU readers. |
2912 | ||
4102adab PM |
2913 | rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] |
2914 | Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. | |
2915 | ||
2916 | rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] | |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2917 | Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. |
2918 | ||
4102adab | 2919 | rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2920 | Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or |
2921 | zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. | |
2922 | ||
4102adab PM |
2923 | rcutorture.rcutorture_runnable= [BOOT] |
2924 | Start rcutorture running at boot time. | |
2925 | ||
2926 | rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] | |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2927 | Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks |
2928 | allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode | |
2929 | during the rcutorture test. | |
2930 | ||
4102adab | 2931 | rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2932 | Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This |
2933 | is useful for hands-off automated testing. | |
2934 | ||
4102adab | 2935 | rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2936 | Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall |
2937 | warnings, zero to disable. | |
2938 | ||
4102adab | 2939 | rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2940 | Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. |
2941 | ||
4102adab | 2942 | rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2943 | Time (s) between statistics printk()s. |
2944 | ||
4102adab | 2945 | rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2946 | Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying |
2947 | five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, | |
2948 | wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's | |
2949 | ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. | |
2950 | ||
4102adab | 2951 | rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2952 | Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. |
2953 | "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation | |
2954 | under test support RCU priority boosting. | |
2955 | ||
4102adab | 2956 | rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2957 | Duration (s) of each individual boost test. |
2958 | ||
4102adab | 2959 | rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2960 | Interval (s) between each boost test. |
2961 | ||
4102adab | 2962 | rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2963 | Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the |
2964 | rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. | |
2965 | ||
4102adab | 2966 | rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2967 | Specify the RCU implementation to test. |
2968 | ||
4102adab | 2969 | rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] |
dabb8aa9 PM |
2970 | Enable additional printk() statements. |
2971 | ||
4102adab PM |
2972 | rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] |
2973 | Use expedited grace-period primitives, for | |
2974 | example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead | |
2975 | of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, | |
2976 | but can increase CPU utilization, degrade | |
2977 | real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. | |
2978 | ||
2979 | rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] | |
2980 | Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. | |
2981 | ||
2982 | rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] | |
2983 | Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. | |
2984 | ||
ffdfc409 OJ |
2985 | rdinit= [KNL] |
2986 | Format: <full_path> | |
2987 | Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, | |
2988 | used for early userspace startup. See initrd. | |
2989 | ||
1b3a5d02 RH |
2990 | reboot= [KNL] |
2991 | Format (x86 or x86_64): | |
2992 | [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ | |
2993 | [[,]s[mp]#### \ | |
2994 | [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ | |
2995 | [[,]f[orce] | |
2996 | Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, | |
2997 | reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, | |
2998 | reboot_force is either force or not specified, | |
2999 | reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor | |
3000 | to be used for rebooting. | |
1da177e4 | 3001 | |
46b6d94e PJ |
3002 | relax_domain_level= |
3003 | [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. | |
21acb9ca | 3004 | See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. |
46b6d94e | 3005 | |
0399d4db RW |
3006 | relative_sleep_states= |
3007 | [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest | |
3008 | state available other than hibernation is always "mem". | |
3009 | Format: { "0" | "1" } | |
3010 | 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels. | |
3011 | 1 -- Relative sleep state labels. | |
3012 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3013 | reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area |
3014 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 3015 | reservetop= [X86-32] |
461a9aff ZA |
3016 | Format: nn[KMG] |
3017 | Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual | |
3018 | address space. | |
3019 | ||
9ea77bdb PA |
3020 | reservelow= [X86] |
3021 | Format: nn[K] | |
3022 | Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at | |
3023 | the bottom of the address space. | |
3024 | ||
7e96287d VG |
3025 | reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device |
3026 | during initialization. | |
3027 | ||
a9913044 RD |
3028 | resume= [SWSUSP] |
3029 | Specify the partition device for software suspend | |
2df83fa4 MB |
3030 | Format: |
3031 | {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} | |
1da177e4 | 3032 | |
ecbd0da1 RW |
3033 | resume_offset= [SWSUSP] |
3034 | Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition | |
3035 | given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, | |
3036 | in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). | |
3037 | See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt | |
3038 | ||
f126f733 BS |
3039 | resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to |
3040 | read the resume files | |
3041 | ||
6f8d7022 BS |
3042 | resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. |
3043 | Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously | |
3044 | (e.g. USB and MMC devices). | |
3045 | ||
f996fc96 BS |
3046 | hibernate= [HIBERNATION] |
3047 | noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image | |
3048 | present during boot. | |
3049 | nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. | |
a6e15a39 | 3050 | no Disable hibernation and resume. |
f996fc96 | 3051 | |
0a7b35cb MN |
3052 | retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction |
3053 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3054 | rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] |
3055 | Set number of hash buckets for route cache | |
3056 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3057 | ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot |
3058 | ||
3059 | root= [KNL] Root filesystem | |
f2d34fd9 | 3060 | See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. |
1da177e4 LT |
3061 | |
3062 | rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to | |
3063 | mount the root filesystem | |
3064 | ||
3065 | rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string | |
3066 | ||
3067 | rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type | |
3068 | ||
cc1ed754 PO |
3069 | rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. |
3070 | Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously | |
3071 | (e.g. USB and MMC devices). | |
3072 | ||
5c71d618 RT |
3073 | rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] |
3074 | [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. | |
3075 | Memory area to be used by remote processor image, | |
3076 | managed by CMA. | |
3077 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3078 | rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot |
3079 | ||
3080 | S [KNL] Run init in single mode | |
3081 | ||
c60d1ae4 GS |
3082 | s390_iommu= [HW,S390] |
3083 | Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode | |
3084 | strict | |
3085 | With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in | |
3086 | an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, | |
3087 | which is faster. | |
3088 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3089 | sa1100ir [NET] |
3090 | See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. | |
3091 | ||
1da177e4 | 3092 | sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter |
a9913044 | 3093 | |
f6630114 MT |
3094 | sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. |
3095 | ||
5307c955 MG |
3096 | skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate |
3097 | xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock | |
3098 | contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. | |
3099 | Format: { "0" | "1" } | |
3100 | 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" | |
3101 | 1 -- enable. | |
3102 | Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be | |
3103 | enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. | |
3104 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
3105 | security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. |
3106 | If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first | |
3107 | security module asking for security registration will be | |
3108 | loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated | |
3109 | as if no module has been chosen. | |
3110 | ||
3111 | selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. | |
1da177e4 LT |
3112 | Format: { "0" | "1" } |
3113 | See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. | |
3114 | 0 -- disable. | |
3115 | 1 -- enable. | |
3116 | Default value is set via kernel config option. | |
3117 | If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used | |
3118 | later to disable prior to initial policy load. | |
3119 | ||
c1c124e9 JJ |
3120 | apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time |
3121 | Format: { "0" | "1" } | |
3122 | See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text | |
3123 | 0 -- disable. | |
3124 | 1 -- enable. | |
3125 | Default value is set via kernel config option. | |
3126 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 3127 | serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] |
1da177e4 | 3128 | |
1da177e4 LT |
3129 | shapers= [NET] |
3130 | Maximal number of shapers. | |
a9913044 | 3131 | |
b05f78f5 YL |
3132 | show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings |
3133 | Format: { <integer> } | |
3134 | Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings. | |
3135 | The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, | |
3136 | for example 1 means boot CPU only. | |
3137 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3138 | simeth= [IA-64] |
3139 | simscsi= | |
a9913044 | 3140 | |
1da177e4 LT |
3141 | slram= [HW,MTD] |
3142 | ||
3df1cccd DR |
3143 | slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] |
3144 | Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. | |
3145 | A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory | |
3146 | fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with | |
3147 | more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. | |
3148 | ||
f0630fff CL |
3149 | slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] |
3150 | Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the | |
3151 | culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling | |
3152 | slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and | |
3153 | may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the | |
3154 | last alloc / free. For more information see | |
3155 | Documentation/vm/slub.txt. | |
c1aee215 CL |
3156 | |
3157 | slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] | |
f0630fff CL |
3158 | Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. |
3159 | A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory | |
3160 | fragmentation. For more information see | |
3161 | Documentation/vm/slub.txt. | |
c1aee215 CL |
3162 | |
3163 | slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] | |
f0630fff CL |
3164 | The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will |
3165 | increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to | |
3166 | generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain | |
3167 | the number of objects indicated. The higher the number | |
3168 | of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs | |
3169 | and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. | |
c1aee215 CL |
3170 | For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. |
3171 | ||
3172 | slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] | |
24775d65 | 3173 | Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be |
f0630fff | 3174 | lower than slub_max_order. |
c1aee215 CL |
3175 | For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. |
3176 | ||
3177 | slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] | |
f0630fff | 3178 | Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be |
c1aee215 | 3179 | necessary if there is some reason to distinguish |
f0630fff CL |
3180 | allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable |
3181 | merging on their own. | |
c1aee215 CL |
3182 | For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. |
3183 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3184 | smart2= [HW] |
3185 | Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] | |
3186 | ||
d0d4f69b BH |
3187 | smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices |
3188 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port | |
3189 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port | |
3190 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port | |
3191 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line | |
3192 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel | |
3193 | smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: | |
3194 | 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) | |
3195 | 1: Fast pin select (default) | |
3196 | 2: ATC IRMode | |
3197 | ||
9c44bc03 IM |
3198 | softlockup_panic= |
3199 | [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. | |
44a4dcf7 | 3200 | Format: <integer> |
9c44bc03 | 3201 | |
ed235875 AT |
3202 | softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= |
3203 | [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate | |
3204 | backtraces on all cpus. | |
3205 | Format: <integer> | |
3206 | ||
1da177e4 | 3207 | sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver |
395cf969 | 3208 | See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt |
1da177e4 | 3209 | |
1da177e4 LT |
3210 | spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] |
3211 | spia_fio_base= | |
3212 | spia_pedr= | |
3213 | spia_peddr= | |
3214 | ||
f38f1d2a SR |
3215 | stacktrace [FTRACE] |
3216 | Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. | |
3217 | ||
762e1207 SR |
3218 | stacktrace_filter=[function-list] |
3219 | [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer | |
3220 | will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated | |
3221 | list of functions. This list can be changed at run | |
3222 | time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs | |
3223 | tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing | |
3224 | and the stacktrace above is not needed. | |
3225 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3226 | sti= [PARISC,HW] |
3227 | Format: <num> | |
3228 | Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC | |
3229 | machines) console (graphic card) which should be used | |
3230 | as the initial boot-console. | |
3231 | See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. | |
3232 | ||
3233 | sti_font= [HW] | |
3234 | See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. | |
3235 | ||
3236 | stifb= [HW] | |
3237 | Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] | |
3238 | ||
cbf11071 TM |
3239 | sunrpc.min_resvport= |
3240 | sunrpc.max_resvport= | |
3241 | [NFS,SUNRPC] | |
3242 | SunRPC servers often require that client requests | |
3243 | originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the | |
3244 | range 0 < portnr < 1024). | |
3245 | An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these | |
3246 | ports for other uses may adjust the range that the | |
3247 | kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged | |
3248 | using these two parameters to set the minimum and | |
3249 | maximum port values. | |
3250 | ||
42a7fc4a GB |
3251 | sunrpc.pool_mode= |
3252 | [NFS] | |
3253 | Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to | |
3254 | service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs | |
3255 | you have and where their interrupts are bound, this | |
3256 | option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. | |
3257 | Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the | |
3258 | NFS server is running. | |
3259 | ||
3260 | auto the server chooses an appropriate mode | |
3261 | automatically using heuristics | |
3262 | global a single global pool contains all CPUs | |
3263 | percpu one pool for each CPU | |
3264 | pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent | |
3265 | to global on non-NUMA machines) | |
3266 | ||
cbf11071 TM |
3267 | sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= |
3268 | sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= | |
3269 | [NFS,SUNRPC] | |
3270 | Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous | |
3271 | RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a | |
3272 | server. Increasing these values may allow you to | |
3273 | improve throughput, but will also increase the | |
3274 | amount of memory reserved for use by the client. | |
3275 | ||
07555ac1 | 3276 | swapaccount=[0|1] |
a42c390c MH |
3277 | [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource |
3278 | controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable | |
3279 | it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) | |
3280 | ||
91fec0f5 JK |
3281 | swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] |
3282 | Format: { <int> | force } | |
3283 | <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs | |
3284 | force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they | |
3285 | wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel | |
a9913044 | 3286 | |
1da177e4 LT |
3287 | switches= [HW,M68k] |
3288 | ||
e52eec13 AK |
3289 | sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] |
3290 | Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev | |
3291 | on older distributions. When this option is enabled | |
3292 | very new udev will not work anymore. When this option | |
3293 | is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) | |
3294 | in older udev will not work anymore. | |
3295 | Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in | |
3296 | the kernel configuration. | |
3297 | ||
5d6f647f IM |
3298 | sysrq_always_enabled |
3299 | [KNL] | |
3300 | Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will | |
3301 | neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. | |
3302 | Useful for debugging. | |
3303 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3304 | tdfx= [HW,DRM] |
3305 | ||
77437fd4 DB |
3306 | test_suspend= [SUSPEND] |
3307 | Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for | |
3308 | standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly | |
3309 | enter during system startup. The system is woken from | |
3310 | this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm. | |
3311 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3312 | thash_entries= [KNL,NET] |
3313 | Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection | |
3314 | ||
f8707ec9 LB |
3315 | thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] |
3316 | -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones | |
3317 | <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points | |
3318 | ||
c52a7419 LB |
3319 | thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] |
3320 | -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones | |
22a94d79 | 3321 | <degrees C>: override all critical trip points |
c52a7419 | 3322 | |
f5487145 LB |
3323 | thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] |
3324 | Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone | |
3325 | critical and hot trip points. | |
3326 | ||
72b33ef8 LB |
3327 | thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] |
3328 | 1: disable ACPI thermal control | |
3329 | ||
a70cdc52 LB |
3330 | thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] |
3331 | -1: disable all passive trip points | |
ada9cfdd RD |
3332 | <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this |
3333 | value | |
a70cdc52 | 3334 | |
730ff34d LB |
3335 | thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] |
3336 | Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate | |
3337 | <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency | |
3338 | 0: no polling (default) | |
3339 | ||
8d32a307 TG |
3340 | threadirqs [KNL] |
3341 | Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those | |
24775d65 | 3342 | marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. |
8d32a307 | 3343 | |
2ca62b04 KRW |
3344 | tmem [KNL,XEN] |
3345 | Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. | |
3346 | ||
3347 | tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] | |
3348 | Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache | |
3349 | API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. | |
3350 | ||
3351 | tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] | |
3352 | Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap | |
37d46e15 KRW |
3353 | API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled |
3354 | the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. | |
2ca62b04 KRW |
3355 | |
3356 | tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] | |
3357 | Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages | |
3358 | to the hypervisor. | |
3359 | ||
3360 | tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] | |
3361 | Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately | |
3362 | transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the | |
3363 | kernel based on different criteria. | |
3364 | ||
2b1a61f0 HC |
3365 | topology= [S390] |
3366 | Format: {off | on} | |
3367 | Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu | |
f65e51d7 SL |
3368 | topology information if the hardware supports this. |
3369 | The scheduler will make use of this information and | |
2b1a61f0 | 3370 | e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. |
c9af3fa9 | 3371 | Default is on. |
2b1a61f0 | 3372 | |
1da177e4 LT |
3373 | tp720= [HW,PS2] |
3374 | ||
225a9be2 RA |
3375 | tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] |
3376 | Format: integer pcr id | |
3377 | Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver | |
3378 | should extend the specified pcr with zeros, | |
3379 | as a workaround for some chips which fail to | |
3380 | flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. | |
3381 | This will guarantee that all the other pcrs | |
3382 | are saved. | |
3383 | ||
9d612bef LZ |
3384 | trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] |
3385 | [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. | |
631595fb | 3386 | |
020e5f85 LZ |
3387 | trace_event=[event-list] |
3388 | [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order | |
3389 | to facilitate early boot debugging. | |
3390 | See also Documentation/trace/events.txt | |
3391 | ||
7bcfaf54 SR |
3392 | trace_options=[option-list] |
3393 | [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. | |
3394 | The option-list is a comma delimited list of options | |
3395 | that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were | |
3396 | to echo the option name into | |
3397 | ||
3398 | /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options | |
3399 | ||
3400 | For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the | |
3401 | stack trace of each event), add to the command line: | |
3402 | ||
3403 | trace_options=stacktrace | |
3404 | ||
3405 | See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" | |
3406 | section. | |
3407 | ||
de7edd31 SRRH |
3408 | traceoff_on_warning |
3409 | [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a | |
3410 | warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can | |
3411 | be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" | |
3412 | file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ | |
3413 | ||
3414 | This option is useful, as it disables the trace before | |
3415 | the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to | |
3416 | be filled with content caused by the warning output. | |
3417 | ||
3418 | This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl | |
3419 | option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning | |
3420 | ||
fcf4d821 JK |
3421 | transparent_hugepage= |
3422 | [KNL] | |
3423 | Format: [always|madvise|never] | |
3424 | Can be used to control the default behavior of the system | |
3425 | with respect to transparent hugepages. | |
3426 | See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. | |
3427 | ||
d3b8f889 | 3428 | tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. |
395628ef AK |
3429 | Format: <string> |
3430 | [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this | |
d3b8f889 JS |
3431 | disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well |
3432 | as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable | |
3433 | high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in | |
3434 | virtualized environment. | |
e82b8e4e VP |
3435 | [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. |
3436 | Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any | |
3437 | platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting | |
3438 | can add overhead. | |
395628ef | 3439 | |
a9913044 RD |
3440 | turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] |
3441 | TurboGraFX parallel port interface | |
3442 | Format: | |
3443 | <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> | |
1da177e4 LT |
3444 | See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt |
3445 | ||
b6935f8c CK |
3446 | udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that |
3447 | happen after console_init() and before a proper | |
3448 | console driver takes over, this boot options might | |
3449 | help "seeing" what's going on. | |
3450 | ||
f86dcc5a ED |
3451 | uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] |
3452 | Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections | |
3453 | ||
5f8364b7 AS |
3454 | uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= |
3455 | [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). | |
3456 | Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of | |
3457 | bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to | |
3458 | anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. | |
3459 | Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be | |
3460 | reported either. | |
3461 | ||
e3a61b0a | 3462 | unknown_nmi_panic |
44a4dcf7 | 3463 | [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. |
e3a61b0a | 3464 | |
c4fc2342 CDH |
3465 | usbcore.authorized_default= |
3466 | [USB] Default USB device authorization: | |
3467 | (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, | |
3468 | 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) | |
3469 | ||
b5e795f8 AS |
3470 | usbcore.autosuspend= |
3471 | [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used | |
3472 | for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This | |
3473 | is the time required before an idle device will be | |
3474 | autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set | |
eaafbc3a | 3475 | to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. |
b5e795f8 | 3476 | |
fd7c519d JK |
3477 | usbcore.usbfs_snoop= |
3478 | [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). | |
3479 | ||
3480 | usbcore.blinkenlights= | |
3481 | [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). | |
3482 | ||
3483 | usbcore.old_scheme_first= | |
3484 | [USB] Start with the old device initialization | |
3485 | scheme (default 0 = off). | |
3486 | ||
3f5eb8d5 AS |
3487 | usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= |
3488 | [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by | |
3489 | usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). | |
3490 | ||
fd7c519d JK |
3491 | usbcore.use_both_schemes= |
3492 | [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme | |
3493 | if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). | |
3494 | ||
3495 | usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= | |
3496 | [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte | |
3497 | USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds | |
3498 | (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). | |
3499 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3500 | usbhid.mousepoll= |
3501 | [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. | |
a9913044 | 3502 | |
d4f373e5 AS |
3503 | usb-storage.delay_use= |
3504 | [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is | |
3505 | scanned for Logical Units (default 5). | |
3506 | ||
3507 | usb-storage.quirks= | |
3508 | [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or | |
3509 | override the built-in unusual_devs list. List | |
3510 | entries are separated by commas. Each entry has | |
3511 | the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor | |
3512 | and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and | |
3513 | Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding | |
3514 | to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: | |
c838ea46 AS |
3515 | a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes |
3516 | of sense data); | |
a0bb1081 AS |
3517 | b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 |
3518 | bytes of sense data); | |
d4f373e5 AS |
3519 | c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported |
3520 | device capacity by one sector); | |
5116901d KR |
3521 | d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use |
3522 | READ_DISC_INFO command); | |
3523 | e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use | |
3524 | READ_CAPACITY_16 command); | |
c838ea46 AS |
3525 | h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the |
3526 | reported device capacity by one | |
3527 | sector if the number is odd); | |
d4f373e5 AS |
3528 | i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this |
3529 | device); | |
3530 | l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and | |
3531 | unlock ejectable media); | |
3532 | m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more | |
3533 | than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); | |
21c13a4f AS |
3534 | n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the |
3535 | initial READ(10) command); | |
c838ea46 AS |
3536 | o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity |
3537 | reported by the device); | |
eaa05dfc NJ |
3538 | p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON |
3539 | by default); | |
d4f373e5 AS |
3540 | r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports |
3541 | bogus residue values); | |
3542 | s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one | |
3543 | Logical Unit); | |
3544 | w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the | |
3545 | medium is write-protected). | |
3546 | Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc | |
3547 | ||
ac1667db SB |
3548 | user_debug= [KNL,ARM] |
3549 | Format: <int> | |
3550 | See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. | |
3551 | 1 - undefined instruction events | |
3552 | 2 - system calls | |
3553 | 4 - invalid data aborts | |
3554 | 8 - SIGSEGV faults | |
3555 | 16 - SIGBUS faults | |
3556 | Example: user_debug=31 | |
3557 | ||
14315592 IC |
3558 | userpte= |
3559 | [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. | |
3560 | ||
3561 | nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in | |
3562 | HIGHMEM regardless of setting | |
3563 | of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. | |
3564 | ||
6cececfc | 3565 | vdso= [X86,SH] |
b0b49f26 AL |
3566 | On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: |
3567 | ||
3568 | vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) | |
e6e5494c IM |
3569 | vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping |
3570 | ||
b0b49f26 AL |
3571 | vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO |
3572 | vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO | |
3573 | vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO | |
3574 | ||
3575 | See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more | |
3576 | details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is | |
3577 | vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. | |
3578 | ||
3579 | For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an | |
3580 | alias for vdso32=0. | |
3581 | ||
3582 | Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: | |
3583 | dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! | |
af65d648 | 3584 | |
d080d397 YI |
3585 | vector= [IA-64,SMP] |
3586 | vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain | |
3587 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
3588 | video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration |
3589 | See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. | |
3590 | ||
3afe6dab AL |
3591 | video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] |
3592 | If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event | |
3593 | generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness | |
3594 | level and then send out the event to user space through | |
3595 | the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver | |
3596 | will only send out the event without touching backlight | |
3597 | brightness level. | |
2843768b | 3598 | default: 1 |
3afe6dab | 3599 | |
81a054ce PM |
3600 | virtio_mmio.device= |
3601 | [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. | |
3602 | ||
3603 | <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] | |
3604 | where: | |
3605 | <size> := size (can use standard suffixes | |
3606 | like K, M and G) | |
3607 | <baseaddr> := physical base address | |
3608 | <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to | |
3609 | request_irq()) | |
3610 | <id> := (optional) platform device id | |
3611 | example: | |
3612 | virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 | |
3613 | ||
3614 | Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. | |
3615 | ||
cd4f0ef7 | 3616 | vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode |
954a8b81 | 3617 | See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and |
a9913044 | 3618 | Documentation/svga.txt. |
1da177e4 LT |
3619 | Use vga=ask for menu. |
3620 | This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is | |
3621 | passed to the kernel using a special protocol. | |
3622 | ||
a9913044 | 3623 | vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact |
1da177e4 LT |
3624 | size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the |
3625 | minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to | |
3626 | decrease the size and leave more room for directly | |
3627 | mapped kernel RAM. | |
3628 | ||
585c3047 PO |
3629 | vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. |
3630 | Format: <command> | |
1da177e4 | 3631 | |
585c3047 PO |
3632 | vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. |
3633 | Format: <command> | |
3634 | ||
3635 | vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. | |
3636 | Format: <command> | |
a9913044 | 3637 | |
3ae36655 AL |
3638 | vsyscall= [X86-64] |
3639 | Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to | |
3640 | fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy | |
3641 | code). Most statically-linked binaries and older | |
3642 | versions of glibc use these calls. Because these | |
3643 | functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice | |
3644 | targets for exploits that can control RIP. | |
3645 | ||
2e57ae05 AL |
3646 | emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are |
3647 | emulated reasonably safely. | |
3ae36655 | 3648 | |
2e57ae05 | 3649 | native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. |
3ae36655 AL |
3650 | This is a little bit faster than trapping |
3651 | and makes a few dynamic recompilers work | |
3652 | better than they would in emulation mode. | |
3653 | It also makes exploits much easier to write. | |
3654 | ||
3655 | none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes | |
3656 | them quite hard to use for exploits but | |
3657 | might break your system. | |
3658 | ||
3855ae1c CL |
3659 | vt.color= [VT] Default text color. |
3660 | Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. | |
3661 | Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. | |
3662 | ||
9ea9a886 CL |
3663 | vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. |
3664 | Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as | |
3665 | the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; | |
3666 | see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. | |
3667 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
3668 | vt.default_blu= [VT] |
3669 | Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> | |
3670 | Change the default blue palette of the console. | |
3671 | This is a 16-member array composed of values | |
3672 | ranging from 0-255. | |
3673 | ||
3674 | vt.default_grn= [VT] | |
3675 | Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> | |
3676 | Change the default green palette of the console. | |
3677 | This is a 16-member array composed of values | |
3678 | ranging from 0-255. | |
3679 | ||
3680 | vt.default_red= [VT] | |
3681 | Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> | |
3682 | Change the default red palette of the console. | |
3683 | This is a 16-member array composed of values | |
3684 | ranging from 0-255. | |
3685 | ||
3686 | vt.default_utf8= | |
3687 | [VT] | |
3688 | Format=<0|1> | |
3689 | Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. | |
3690 | Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all | |
3691 | newly opened terminals. | |
3692 | ||
f6c06b68 MG |
3693 | vt.global_cursor_default= |
3694 | [VT] | |
3695 | Format=<-1|0|1> | |
3696 | Set system-wide default for whether a cursor | |
3697 | is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, | |
3698 | i.e. cursors will be created by default unless | |
3699 | overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide | |
3700 | cursors, 1 will display them. | |
3701 | ||
3855ae1c CL |
3702 | vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. |
3703 | Default: 2 = green. | |
3704 | ||
3705 | vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. | |
3706 | Default: 3 = cyan. | |
3707 | ||
4724ba57 RD |
3708 | watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, |
3709 | see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt | |
3710 | or other driver-specific files in the | |
3711 | Documentation/watchdog/ directory. | |
1da177e4 | 3712 | |
d55262c4 TH |
3713 | workqueue.disable_numa |
3714 | By default, all work items queued to unbound | |
3715 | workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're | |
3716 | issued on, which results in better behavior in | |
3717 | general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for | |
3718 | whatever reason, this option can be used. Note | |
3719 | that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for | |
3720 | workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. | |
3721 | ||
cee22a15 VK |
3722 | workqueue.power_efficient |
3723 | Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because | |
3724 | they show better performance thanks to cache | |
3725 | locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to | |
3726 | be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. | |
3727 | ||
3728 | Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which | |
3729 | were observed to contribute significantly to power | |
3730 | consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower | |
3731 | power usage at the cost of small performance | |
3732 | overhead. | |
3733 | ||
3734 | The default value of this parameter is determined by | |
3735 | the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. | |
3736 | ||
0cb55ad2 RD |
3737 | x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of |
3738 | default x2apic cluster mode on platforms | |
3739 | supporting x2apic. | |
3740 | ||
712b6aa8 KS |
3741 | x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] |
3742 | Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. | |
bb24c471 JP |
3743 | Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer |
3744 | plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. | |
712b6aa8 | 3745 | x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt |
bb24c471 | 3746 | |
c1c5413a SS |
3747 | xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] |
3748 | Unplug Xen emulated devices | |
3749 | Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] | |
3750 | ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices | |
3751 | aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices | |
3752 | nics -- unplug network devices | |
3753 | all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) | |
1dc7ce99 IC |
3754 | unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is |
3755 | unnecessary even if the host did not respond to | |
3756 | the unplug protocol | |
c93a4dfb | 3757 | never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds |
c1c5413a | 3758 | |
15a3eac0 KRW |
3759 | xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] |
3760 | Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV | |
3761 | optimizations. | |
3762 | ||
8d693b91 KRW |
3763 | xen_nopv [X86] |
3764 | Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to | |
3765 | run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. | |
3766 | ||
1da177e4 | 3767 | xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] |
a9913044 RD |
3768 | Format: |
3769 | <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] | |
1da177e4 | 3770 | |
a9913044 | 3771 | ______________________________________________________________________ |
1da177e4 LT |
3772 | |
3773 | TODO: | |
3774 | ||
1da177e4 | 3775 | Add more DRM drivers. |