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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3
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.
27
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
33 Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
35
36 cpu lists:
37 ----------
38
39 Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
40 nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
41
42 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
43
44 or
45
46 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
47 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
48
49 or a mixture
50
51 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
52
53 Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
54 sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
55 group:
56
57 <cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
58
59 For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
60
61 isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
62
63 where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
64
65
66
67 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
68 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
69 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
70 reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
71 parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
72 "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
73
74 The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
75 enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
76 the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
77 parameter is applicable:
78
79 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
80 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
81 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
82 APIC APIC support is enabled.
83 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
84 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
85 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
86 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
87 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
88 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
89 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
90 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
91 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
92 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
93 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
94 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
95 EVM Extended Verification Module
96 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
97 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
98 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
99 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
100 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
101 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
102 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
103 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
104 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
105 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
106 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
107 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
108 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
109 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
110 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
111 LP Printer support is enabled.
112 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
113 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
114 These options have more detailed description inside of
115 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
116 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
117 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
118 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
119 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
120 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
121 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
122 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
123 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
124 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
125 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
126 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
127 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
128 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
129 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
130 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
131 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
132 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
133 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
134 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
135 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
136 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
137 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
138 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
139 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
140 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
141 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
142 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
143 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
144 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
145 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
146 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
147 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
148 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
149 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
150 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
151 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
152 USB USB support is enabled.
153 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
154 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
155 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
156 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
157 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
158 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
159 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
160 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
161 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
162 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
163 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
164 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
165 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
166 XEN Xen support is enabled
167
168 In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
169
170 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
171 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
172 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
173
174 Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
175 loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
176 Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
177 need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
178
179 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
180 See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
181
182 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
183 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
184 be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
185 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
186 running once the system is up.
187
188 The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
189 complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
190 a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
191 and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
192 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
193
194 Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
195 parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
196 multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
197 bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
198
199
200 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
201 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
202 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
203 copy_dsdt }
204 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
205 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
206 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
207 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
208 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
209 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
210 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
211 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
212 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
213 are available
214
215 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
216
217 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
218 Format: <int>
219 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
220 1,0: use 1st APIC table
221 default: 0
222
223 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
224 acpi_backlight=vendor
225 acpi_backlight=video
226 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
227 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
228 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
229
230 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
231 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
232 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
233 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
234 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
235
236 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
237 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
238 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
239 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
240 This option is useful for developers to identify the
241 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
242 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
243
244 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
245 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
246 Format: <int>
247 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
248 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
249 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
250 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
251 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
252 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
253 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
254 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
255 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
256 debug layers and levels.
257
258 Enable processor driver info messages:
259 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
260 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
261 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
262 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
263 object while interpreting AML:
264 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
265 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
266 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
267
268 Some values produce so much output that the system is
269 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
270 if you need to capture more output.
271
272 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
273 { strict | lax | no }
274 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
275 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
276 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
277 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
278 can interfere with legacy drivers.
279 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
280 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
281 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
282 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
283 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
284 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
285 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
286 no further checks are performed.
287
288 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
289 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
290 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
291 size limitation.
292
293 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
294 ACPI will balance active IRQs
295 default in APIC mode
296
297 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
298 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
299 default in PIC mode
300
301 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
302 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
303
304 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
305 use by PCI
306 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
307
308 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
309 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
310 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
311 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
312 auto-serialization feature.
313 This feature is enabled by default.
314 This option allows to turn off the feature.
315
316 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
317 kernels.
318
319 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
320 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
321 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
322 installed automatically and they will appear under
323 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
324 This option turns off this feature.
325 Note that specifying this option does not affect
326 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
327 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
328
329 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
330 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
331 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
332 second kernel for kdump.
333
334 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
335 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
336
337 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
338 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
339 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
340 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
341 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
342
343 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
344 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
345 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
346 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
347 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
348 strings
349 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
350 strings
351 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
352
353 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
354 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
355 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
356 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
357 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
358 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
359 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
360 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
361 care about the state of the feature group strings which
362 should be controlled by the OSPM.
363 Examples:
364 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
365 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
366 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
367
368 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
369 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
370 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
371 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
372 multiple times through kernel command line is also
373 meaningless.
374 Examples:
375 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
376 FALSE.
377
378 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
379 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
380 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
381 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
382 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
383 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
384 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
385 there are quirks related to this string. This command
386 is useful when one want to control the state of the
387 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
388 the OSPM features.
389 Examples:
390 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
391 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
392 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
393 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
394 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
395 equivalent to
396 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
397 and
398 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
399 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
400
401 acpi_pm_good [X86]
402 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
403 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
404 and always returns good values.
405
406 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
407 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
408
409 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
410 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
411 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
412
413 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
414 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
415 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
416 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
417 s3_bios and s3_mode.
418 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
419 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
420 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
421 used during resume from hibernation.
422 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
423 control method, with respect to putting devices into
424 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
425 of _PTS is used by default).
426 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
427 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
428 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
429 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
430 but some broken systems don't work without it).
431
432 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
433 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
434 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
435
436 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
437 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
438
439 agp= [AGP]
440 { off | try_unsupported }
441 off: disable AGP support
442 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
443 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
444
445 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
446 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
447
448 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
449 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
450 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
451 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
452
453 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
454 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
455 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
456 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
457 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
458 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
459 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
460
461 32: only for 32-bit processes
462 64: only for 64-bit processes
463 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
464 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
465
466 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
467 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
468 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
469 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
470 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
471 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
472
473 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
474 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
475 Possible values are:
476 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
477 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
478 flushed before they will be reused, which
479 is a lot of faster
480 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
481 the system
482 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
483 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
484 allowed anymore to lift isolation
485 requirements as needed. This option
486 does not override iommu=pt
487
488 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
489 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
490 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
491 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
492 IOMMU initialization.
493
494 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
495 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
496 remapping modes:
497 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
498 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
499 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
500 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
501 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
502
503 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
504 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
505 Format: <a>,<b>
506 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
507
508 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
509 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
510 connected to one of 16 gameports
511 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
512
513 apc= [HW,SPARC]
514 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
515 Format: noidle
516 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
517 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
518 APC and your system crashes randomly.
519
520 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
521 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
522 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
523 Change the amount of debugging information output
524 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
525
526 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
527 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
528 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
529 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
530 backup of CPU 0
531 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
532 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
533 shot down by NMI
534
535 autoconf= [IPV6]
536 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
537
538 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
539 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
540 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
541 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
542 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
543 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
544 apic=verbose is specified.
545 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
546
547 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
548 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
549
550 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
551 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
552
553 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
554
555 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
556
557 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
558 EzKey and similar keyboards
559
560 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
561
562 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
563 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
564
565 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
566 keyboards
567
568 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
569 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
570
571 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
572 Use software keyboard repeat
573
574 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
575 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
576 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
577 until the next reboot
578 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
579 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
580 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
581 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
582 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
583 auditd.
584 Default: unset
585
586 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
587 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
588 Default: 64
589
590 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
591 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
592 Format: { "0" | "1" }
593 0 - Disable the BAU.
594 1 - Enable the BAU.
595 unset - Disable the BAU.
596
597 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
598 Format: <io>,<mode>
599
600 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
601 Format: <io>,<mode>
602 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
603
604 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
605 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
606 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
607 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
608
609 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
610 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
611 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
612 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
613
614 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
615 embedded devices based on command line input.
616 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
617
618 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
619 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
620 no delay (0).
621 Format: integer
622
623 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
624
625 bert_disable [ACPI]
626 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
627
628 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
629 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
630 kernel args too.
631 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
632 bttv.tuner=
633
634 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
635 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
636 at a time.
637
638 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
639
640 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
641 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
642 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
643 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
644 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
645 This option provides an override for these situations.
646
647 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
648 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
649 trust validation.
650 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
651
652 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
653 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
654 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
655 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
656 others).
657
658 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
659 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
660
661 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
662 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
663 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
664 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
665 a single hierarchy
666 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
667 subsystem
668 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
669 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
670 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
671
672 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
673 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
674 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
675 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
676
677 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
678 Format: <string>
679 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
680 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
681
682 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
683 Format: { "0" | "1" }
684 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
685 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
686 any implied execute protection).
687 1 -- check protection requested by application.
688 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
689 Value can be changed at runtime via
690 /selinux/checkreqprot.
691
692 cio_ignore= [S390]
693 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
694 clk_ignore_unused
695 [CLK]
696 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
697 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
698 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
699 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
700 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
701 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
702 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
703 platform with proper driver support. For more
704 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
705
706 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
707 [Deprecated]
708 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
709 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
710 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
711 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
712
713 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
714 Format: <string>
715 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
716 with the name specified.
717 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
718 the platform:
719 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
720 [ACPI] acpi_pm
721 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
722 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
723 [AVR32] avr32
724 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
725 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
726 [MIPS] MIPS
727 [PARISC] cr16
728 [S390] tod
729 [SH] SuperH
730 [SPARC64] tick
731 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
732
733 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
734 [ARM,ARM64]
735 Format: <bool>
736 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
737 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
738 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
739 systems.
740
741 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
742 [ARM64]
743 Format: <bool>
744 Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
745 erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM
746 guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
747 erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is
748 enabled based on the device tree.
749
750 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
751 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
752 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
753 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
754 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
755 ones should be.
756 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
757 or using the feature without checking anything
758 will still see it. This just prevents it from
759 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
760 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
761 some critical bits.
762
763 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
764 [ARM,X86,KNL]
765 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
766 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
767 placement constraint by the physical address range of
768 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
769 altogether. For more information, see
770 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
771
772 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
773 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
774 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
775 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
776 a hypervisor.
777 Default: yes
778
779 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
780 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
781 allocations, by default set to 256K.
782
783 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
784 in an oops report.
785 Range: 0 - 8192
786 Default: 64
787
788 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
789 Format:
790 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
791
792 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
793 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
794
795 com90xx= [HW,NET]
796 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
797 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
798
799 condev= [HW,S390] console device
800 conmode=
801
802 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
803
804 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
805
806 ttyS<n>[,options]
807 ttyUSB0[,options]
808 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
809 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
810 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
811 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
812 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
813
814 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
815 information. See
816 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
817 alternative.
818
819 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
820 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
821 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
822 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
823 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
824 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
825 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
826 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
827 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
828 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
829 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
830 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
831 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
832 the h/w is not re-initialized.
833
834 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
835 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
836
837 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
838 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
839 console=brl,ttyS0
840 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
841
842 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
843 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
844 disables the blank timer.
845
846 coredump_filter=
847 [KNL] Change the default value for
848 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
849 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
850
851 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
852 disable the cpuidle sub-system
853
854 cpu_init_udelay=N
855 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
856 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
857 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
858 Default: 10000
859
860 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
861 Format:
862 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
863
864 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
865 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
866 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
867 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
868 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
869 is selected automatically. Check
870 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
871
872 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
873 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
874 in the running system. The syntax of range is
875 start-[end] where start and end are both
876 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
877 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
878
879 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
880 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
881 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
882 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
883 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
884 available.
885 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
886 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
887 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
888 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
889 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
890 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
891 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
892 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
893 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
894 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
895 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
896 for second kernel instead.
897 0: to disable low allocation.
898 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
899 or memory reserved is below 4G.
900
901 cryptomgr.notests
902 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
903
904 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
905 Format: <dma>
906
907 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
908 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
909
910 dasd= [HW,NET]
911 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
912
913 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
914 (one device per port)
915 Format: <port#>,<type>
916 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
917
918 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
919 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
920 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
921
922 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
923
924 debug_locks_verbose=
925 [KNL] verbose self-tests
926 Format=<0|1>
927 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
928 self-tests.
929 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
930 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
931 only useful to kernel developers.
932
933 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
934
935 no_debug_objects
936 [KNL] Disable object debugging
937
938 debug_guardpage_minorder=
939 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
940 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
941 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
942 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
943 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
944 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
945 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
946 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
947 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
948 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
949 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
950 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
951 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
952 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
953 bypassed) which are not detectable by
954 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
955 tracking down these problems.
956
957 debug_pagealloc=
958 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
959 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
960 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
961 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
962 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
963 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
964 on: enable the feature
965
966 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
967
968 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
969 Format: <area>[,<node>]
970 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
971
972 default_hugepagesz=
973 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
974 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
975 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
976 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
977 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
978 if not specified.
979
980 dhash_entries= [KNL]
981 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
982
983 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
984 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
985 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
986 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
987 miss to occur.
988
989 disable= [IPV6]
990 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
991
992 disable_radix [PPC]
993 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
994
995 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
996 Format: <int>
997 The number of initial APIC ID for the
998 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
999 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1000 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1001 causing system reset or hang due to sending
1002 INIT from AP to BSP.
1003
1004 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
1005 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
1006 to workaround buggy firmware.
1007
1008 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
1009 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
1010
1011 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1012 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1013 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1014 entry later. This parameter disables that.
1015
1016 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1017 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1018 memory out of your available memory pool based on
1019 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
1020 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1021
1022 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1023 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1024 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1025
1026 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1027
1028 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1029 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1030
1031 dma_debug_entries=<number>
1032 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1033 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1034 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1035 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1036 architectural default is too low.
1037
1038 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1039 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1040 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1041 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1042 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1043 driver later using sysfs.
1044
1045 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1046 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1047 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1048 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1049 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1050 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1051 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1052 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1053 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1054 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1055 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1056 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1057 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1058 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1059 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1060 data set with no connector name will be used for
1061 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1062
1063 dscc4.setup= [NET]
1064
1065 dump_apple_properties [X86]
1066 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1067 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
1068 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1069
1070 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1071 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1072 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1073 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1074
1075 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1076 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1077 information about the feature.
1078
1079 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1080 in some Intel CPUs.
1081
1082 eagerfpu= [X86]
1083 on enable eager fpu restore
1084 off disable eager fpu restore
1085 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1086 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1087
1088 module.async_probe [KNL]
1089 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1090
1091 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1092 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1093 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1094 which are not unmapped.
1095
1096 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1097
1098 When used with no options, the early console is
1099 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1100 tree's chosen node.
1101
1102 cdns,<addr>[,options]
1103 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1104 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1105 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1106 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1107 configured.
1108
1109 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1110 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1111 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1112 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1113 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1114 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1115 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1116 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1117 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1118 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1119 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1120 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1121 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1122
1123 pl011,<addr>
1124 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1125 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1126 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1127 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1128 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1129 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1130 the device registers.
1131
1132 meson,<addr>
1133 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1134 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1135 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1136 supported.
1137
1138 msm_serial,<addr>
1139 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1140 port at the specified address. The serial port
1141 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1142 yet supported.
1143
1144 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1145 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1146 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1147 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1148 yet supported.
1149
1150 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1151
1152 s3c2410,<addr>
1153 s3c2412,<addr>
1154 s3c2440,<addr>
1155 s3c6400,<addr>
1156 s5pv210,<addr>
1157 exynos4210,<addr>
1158 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1159 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1160 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1161 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1162 Options are not yet supported.
1163
1164 lpuart,<addr>
1165 lpuart32,<addr>
1166 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1167 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1168 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1169 port must already be setup and configured.
1170
1171 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1172 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1173 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1174 address. The serial port must already be setup
1175 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1176
1177 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1178 earlyprintk=vga
1179 earlyprintk=efi
1180 earlyprintk=xen
1181 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1182 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1183 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1184 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1185 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1186
1187 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1188 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1189 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1190
1191 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1192 takes over.
1193
1194 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1195 be used at a time.
1196
1197 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1198 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1199 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1200 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1201 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1202 You can find the port for a given device in
1203 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1204 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1205
1206 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1207 very good.
1208
1209 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1210 the real console.
1211
1212 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1213
1214 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1215 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1216 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1217 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1218 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1219 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1220 default: on.
1221
1222 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1223 ekgdboc=kbd
1224
1225 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1226 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1227
1228 edd= [EDD]
1229 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1230
1231 efi= [EFI]
1232 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1233 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1234 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1235 default.
1236 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1237 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1238 firmware implementations.
1239 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1240 debug: enable misc debug output
1241
1242 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1243 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1244 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1245 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1246 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1247
1248 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1249 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1250 updating original EFI memory map.
1251 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1252 from ss to ss+nn.
1253 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1254 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1255 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1256 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1257
1258 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1259 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1260 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1261 doesn't support it.
1262
1263 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1264 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1265 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1266 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1267 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1268
1269
1270 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1271 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1272
1273 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1274 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1275 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1276
1277 elevator= [IOSCHED]
1278 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1279 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1280 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1281
1282 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1283 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1284 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1285 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1286 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1287
1288 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1289 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1290 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1291 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1292
1293 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1294 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1295 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1296 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1297 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1298
1299 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1300 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1301 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1302 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1303 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1304 Default value is 0.
1305 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1306
1307 erst_disable [ACPI]
1308 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1309 support.
1310
1311 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1312 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1313 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1314
1315 evm= [EVM]
1316 Format: { "fix" }
1317 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1318 current integrity status.
1319
1320 failslab=
1321 fail_page_alloc=
1322 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1323 General fault injection mechanism.
1324 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1325 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1326
1327 floppy= [HW]
1328 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1329
1330 force_pal_cache_flush
1331 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1332 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1333 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1334 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1335
1336 forcepae [X86-32]
1337 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1338 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1339 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1340 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1341 and may cause unknown problems.
1342
1343 ftrace=[tracer]
1344 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1345 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1346 boot debugging.
1347
1348 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1349 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1350 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1351 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1352 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1353 oops.
1354
1355 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1356 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1357 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1358 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1359 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1360 tracing directory.
1361
1362 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1363 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1364 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1365 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1366 tracing directory.
1367
1368 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1369 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1370 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1371 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1372 that can be changed at run time by the
1373 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1374
1375 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1376 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1377 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1378 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1379 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1380
1381 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1382 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1383 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1384 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1385 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1386
1387 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1388
1389 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1390 Format: off | on
1391 default: on
1392
1393 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1394 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1395 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1396 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1397 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1398
1399 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1400 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1401 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1402 GPT to be used instead.
1403
1404 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1405 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1406 Format: 0 | 1
1407 Default: 0
1408 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1409 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1410 Format: 0 | 1
1411 Default: 0
1412 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1413 Format: 0 | 1
1414 Default: 0
1415 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1416 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1417 Default: 1024
1418 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1419 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1420 Default: 1024
1421
1422 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1423 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1424 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1425
1426 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1427 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1428 backtraces on all cpus.
1429 Format: <integer>
1430
1431 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1432 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1433 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1434 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1435
1436 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1437
1438 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1439 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1440
1441 hest_disable [ACPI]
1442 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1443 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1444 logic will be disabled.
1445
1446 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1447 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1448 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1449 size on bigger boxes.
1450
1451 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1452 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1453 Default: "on"
1454
1455 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1456 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1457
1458 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1459
1460 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1461 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1462 verbose }
1463 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1464 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1465 VIA, nVidia)
1466 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1467
1468 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1469 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1470
1471 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1472 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1473 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1474 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1475 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1476 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1477 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1478
1479 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1480 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1481 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1482 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1483 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1484
1485 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1486 hardware thread id mappings.
1487 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1488
1489 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1490 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1491 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1492 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1493 the real console.
1494
1495 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1496 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1497 registered from board initialization code.
1498 Format:
1499 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1500
1501 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1502 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1503 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1504 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1505 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1506 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1507 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1508 keyboard and cannot control its state
1509 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1510 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1511 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1512 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1513 for the AUX port
1514 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1515 controller
1516 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1517 controllers
1518 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1519 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1520 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1521 transitions, or never reset
1522 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1523 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1524 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1525 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1526 architectures force reset to be always executed
1527 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1528 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1529
1530 i810= [HW,DRM]
1531
1532 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1533 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1534 hardware.
1535 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1536 does not match list of supported models.
1537 i8k.power_status
1538 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1539 (disabled by default)
1540 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1541 capability is set.
1542
1543 i915.invert_brightness=
1544 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1545 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1546 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1547 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1548 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1549 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1550 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1551 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1552 value switches the backlight off.
1553 -1 -- never invert brightness
1554 0 -- machine default
1555 1 -- force brightness inversion
1556
1557 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1558 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1559
1560 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1561 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1562 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1563 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1564 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1565
1566 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1567 Format: <int>
1568 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1569 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1570 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1571 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1572 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1573 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1574 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1575 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1576 was 0x3.
1577
1578 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1579 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1580
1581 idle= [X86]
1582 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1583 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1584 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1585 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1586 Not recommended.
1587 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1588 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1589 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1590
1591 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1592 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1593 Default: strict
1594
1595 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1596 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1597 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1598 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1599 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1600 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1601 encoding mode.
1602
1603 Available settings are as follows:
1604 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1605 supported by the FPU
1606 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1607 by the FPU
1608 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1609 by the FPU
1610 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1611 supported by the FPU
1612
1613 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1614 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1615 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1616 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1617 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1618 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1619 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1620 MIPS64 CPUs.
1621
1622 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1623 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1624 except where unsupported by hardware.
1625
1626 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1627 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1628 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1629 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1630 could change it dynamically, usually by
1631 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1632
1633 ignore_rlimit_data
1634 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1635 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1636 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1637
1638 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1639 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1640
1641 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1642 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1643 default: "enforce"
1644
1645 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1646 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1647 owned by uid=0.
1648
1649 ima_hash= [IMA]
1650 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1651 | sha512 | ... }
1652 default: "sha1"
1653
1654 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1655 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1656
1657 ima_policy= [IMA]
1658 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1659 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1660 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1661 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1662 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1663 Format: "tcb"
1664
1665 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1666 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1667 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1668 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1669 opened for read by uid=0.
1670
1671 ima_template= [IMA]
1672 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1673 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1674 Default: "ima-ng"
1675
1676 ima_template_fmt=
1677 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1678 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1679
1680 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1681 Format: <min_file_size>
1682 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1683 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1684
1685 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1686 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1687 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1688
1689 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1690 Format: <bufsize>
1691 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1692
1693 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1694 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1695 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1696
1697 init= [KNL]
1698 Format: <full_path>
1699 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1700 process.
1701
1702 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1703 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1704 startup.
1705
1706 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1707 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1708 modules and initcalls.
1709
1710 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1711
1712 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1713 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1714 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1715 override in debugfs after boot.
1716
1717 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1718 Format: <irq>
1719
1720 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1721
1722 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1723 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1724 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1725 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1726
1727 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1728 on
1729 Enable intel iommu driver.
1730 off
1731 Disable intel iommu driver.
1732 igfx_off [Default Off]
1733 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1734 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1735 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1736 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1737 DMA.
1738 forcedac [x86_64]
1739 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1740 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1741 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1742 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1743 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1744 then look in the higher range.
1745 strict [Default Off]
1746 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1747 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1748 to batching them for performance.
1749 sp_off [Default Off]
1750 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1751 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1752 not be supported.
1753 ecs_off [Default Off]
1754 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1755 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1756 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1757 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1758 on hardware which claims to support them.
1759
1760 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1761 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1762 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1763
1764 intel_pstate= [X86]
1765 disable
1766 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1767 scaling driver for the supported processors
1768 force
1769 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1770 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1771 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1772 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1773 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1774 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1775 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1776 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1777 no_hwp
1778 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1779 if available.
1780 hwp_only
1781 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1782 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1783 support_acpi_ppc
1784 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1785 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1786 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1787 then this feature is turned on by default.
1788
1789 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1790 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1791 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1792 nosid disable Source ID checking
1793 no_x2apic_optout
1794 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1795 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1796
1797 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1798 strict regions from userspace.
1799 relaxed
1800
1801 iommu= [x86]
1802 off
1803 force
1804 noforce
1805 biomerge
1806 panic
1807 nopanic
1808 merge
1809 nomerge
1810 forcesac
1811 soft
1812 pt [x86, IA-64]
1813 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1814 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1815
1816
1817 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1818 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1819 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1820
1821 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1822 0x80
1823 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1824 0xed
1825 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1826 udelay
1827 Simple two microseconds delay
1828 none
1829 No delay
1830
1831 ip= [IP_PNP]
1832 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1833
1834 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1835 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1836
1837 irqfixup [HW]
1838 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1839 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1840 firmware running.
1841
1842 irqpoll [HW]
1843 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1844 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1845 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1846 firmware running.
1847
1848 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1849 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1850
1851 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1852 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1853
1854 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1855 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1856 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1857 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1858 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1859 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1860
1861 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1862 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1863 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1864 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1865
1866 iucv= [HW,NET]
1867
1868 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1869 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1870 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1871 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1872 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1873 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1874
1875 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1876 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1877 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1878 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1879 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1880 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1881
1882 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1883 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1884 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1885 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1886 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1887 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1888
1889 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1890 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1891
1892 nokaslr [KNL]
1893 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1894 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1895 Layout Randomization).
1896
1897 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1898
1899 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1900 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1901 This parameter
1902 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1903 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1904 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1905 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1906 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1907 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1908 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1909 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1910 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1911 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1912 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1913 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1914 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1915 zone if it does not.
1916
1917 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1918 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1919 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1920 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1921 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1922 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1923 time.
1924
1925 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1926 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1927 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1928 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1929 optional and is the number seconds in between
1930 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1931 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1932 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1933 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1934 the kernel debugger.
1935
1936 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1937 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1938 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1939 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1940 keyboard only format: kbd
1941 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1942 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1943 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1944 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1945
1946 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1947 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1948
1949 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1950 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1951 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1952
1953 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1954 Valid arguments: on, off
1955 Default: on
1956 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1957 the default is off.
1958
1959 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1960 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1961 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1962 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1963 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1964 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1965
1966 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1967 in oops dumps.
1968
1969 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1970 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1971
1972 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1973 KVM MMU at runtime.
1974 Default is 0 (off)
1975
1976 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1977 Default is 1 (enabled)
1978
1979 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1980 for all guests.
1981 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1982
1983 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1984 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1985 Default is 1 (enabled)
1986
1987 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1988 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1989 Default is 0 (disabled)
1990
1991 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1992 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1993 Default is 1 (enabled)
1994
1995 kvm-intel.nested=
1996 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1997 Default is 0 (disabled)
1998
1999 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2000 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2001 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2002 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2003
2004 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2005 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2006 Default is 1 (enabled)
2007
2008 l2cr= [PPC]
2009
2010 l3cr= [PPC]
2011
2012 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2013 disabled it.
2014
2015 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2016 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2017 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2018
2019 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2020 in C2 power state.
2021
2022 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2023 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2024 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2025 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2026 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
2027 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2028 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2029
2030 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2031 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2032 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
2033
2034 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2035 when set.
2036 Format: <int>
2037
2038 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2039 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2040 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2041 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2042 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2043 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2044 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2045 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2046
2047 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2048 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2049 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2050 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2051 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2052 host link and device attached to it.
2053
2054 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2055 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2056 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2057 The following configurations can be forced.
2058
2059 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2060 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2061
2062 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2063
2064 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2065 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2066 allowed.
2067
2068 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2069
2070 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2071
2072 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2073 and both resets.
2074
2075 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2076 hot-unplug link recovery
2077
2078 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2079
2080 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2081
2082 * disable: Disable this device.
2083
2084 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2085 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2086
2087 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2088
2089 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2090 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2091
2092 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2093 Format: <integer>
2094
2095 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2096 Format: <integer>
2097
2098 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2099 Format: <integer>
2100
2101 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2102 Format: <integer>
2103
2104 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2105 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2106 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2107 number of online CPUs.
2108
2109 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2110 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2111
2112 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2113 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2114
2115 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2116 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2117 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2118
2119 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2120 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2121 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2122 mode during the locktorture test.
2123
2124 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2125 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2126 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2127
2128 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2129 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2130
2131 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2132 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2133 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2134 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2135 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2136 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2137
2138 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2139 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2140
2141 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2142 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2143
2144 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2145 Enable additional printk() statements.
2146
2147 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2148 Format: <irq>
2149
2150 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2151 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2152 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2153 loglevels are defined as follows:
2154
2155 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2156 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2157 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2158 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2159 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2160 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2161 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2162 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2163
2164 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2165 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2166 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2167 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2168 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2169 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2170 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2171
2172 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2173 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2174 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2175 kernel boot problems.
2176
2177 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2178 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2179 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2180 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2181 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2182 attached printers to be reset. Using
2183 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2184 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2185 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2186 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2187 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2188 port specification list means that device IDs
2189 from each port should be examined, to see if
2190 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2191 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2192 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2193
2194 lpj=n [KNL]
2195 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2196 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2197 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2198 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2199 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2200 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2201 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2202 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2203 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2204 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2205 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2206 hardware.
2207
2208 ltpc= [NET]
2209 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2210
2211 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2212 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2213 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2214
2215 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2216 yeeloong laptop.
2217 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2218
2219 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2220 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2221
2222 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2223 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2224 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2225 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2226 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2227 only takes effect during system bootup.
2228 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2229 which also disables the IO APIC.
2230
2231 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2232 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2233 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2234 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2235 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2236 /dev/loop-control interface.
2237
2238 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2239
2240 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2241
2242 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2243 See Documentation/md.txt.
2244
2245 mdacon= [MDA]
2246 Format: <first>,<last>
2247 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2248
2249 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2250 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2251 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2252 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2253 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2254 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2255 belonging to unused RAM.
2256
2257 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2258 memory.
2259
2260 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2261 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2262 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2263
2264 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2265 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2266 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2267 set according to the
2268 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2269 option.
2270 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2271
2272 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2273 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2274 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2275 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2276 option description.
2277
2278 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2279 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2280 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2281
2282 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2283 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2284 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2285
2286 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2287 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2288 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2289 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2290 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2291 or
2292 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2293
2294 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2295 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2296 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2297 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2298 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2299
2300 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2301 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2302 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2303 Setting this option will scan the memory
2304 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2305 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2306 from using the memory being corrupted.
2307 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2308 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2309 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2310 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2311
2312 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2313 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2314 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2315 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2316 corruption in more or less memory.
2317
2318 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2319 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2320 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2321 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2322
2323 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2324 Format: <integer>
2325 default : 0 <disable>
2326 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2327 performed. Each pass selects another test
2328 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2329 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2330 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2331 regions that are detected.
2332
2333 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2334 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2335
2336 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2337 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2338 platforms.
2339
2340 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2341 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2342 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2343 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2344
2345 mga= [HW,DRM]
2346
2347 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2348 physical address is ignored.
2349
2350 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2351 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2352 Default: "0tb"
2353 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2354 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2355 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2356 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2357 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2358 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2359 unconfigured.
2360 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2361 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2362 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2363 VGA shield.
2364 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2365 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2366 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2367 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2368 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2369 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2370
2371 mminit_loglevel=
2372 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2373 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2374 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2375 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2376 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2377 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2378
2379 module.sig_enforce
2380 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2381 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2382 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2383 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2384
2385 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2386 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2387
2388 mousedev.tap_time=
2389 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2390 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2391 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2392 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2393 Format: <msecs>
2394 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2395 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2396 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2397 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2398
2399 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2400 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2401 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2402 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2403 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2404 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2405 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2406 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2407 is not too small.
2408
2409 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2410 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2411
2412 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2413 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2414
2415 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2416 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2417
2418 mtdparts= [MTD]
2419 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2420
2421 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2422 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2423 at a time.
2424
2425 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2426
2427 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2428
2429 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2430 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2431 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2432 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2433 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2434
2435 mtdset= [ARM]
2436 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2437
2438 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2439
2440 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2441 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2442 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2443
2444 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2445 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2446 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2447
2448 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2449 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2450 Default is 1.
2451 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2452 using up MTRRs.
2453
2454 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2455 Format: <integer>
2456 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2457 Default : 1
2458 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2459 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2460
2461 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2462
2463 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2464 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2465 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2466 something different and driver-specific.
2467 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2468 file if at all.
2469
2470 nf_conntrack.acct=
2471 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2472 0 to disable accounting
2473 1 to enable accounting
2474 Default value is 0.
2475
2476 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2477 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2478
2479 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2480 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2481
2482 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2483 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2484
2485 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2486 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2487 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2488 requests.
2489
2490 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2491 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2492 channel should listen.
2493
2494 nfs.cache_getent=
2495 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2496 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2497
2498 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2499 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2500 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2501
2502 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2503 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2504 entries.
2505
2506 nfs.enable_ino64=
2507 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2508 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2509 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2510 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2511 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2512
2513 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2514 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2515 slots the client will assign to the callback
2516 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2517 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2518 a particular server.
2519
2520 nfs.max_session_slots=
2521 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2522 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2523 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2524 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2525 Note that there is little point in setting this
2526 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2527
2528 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2529 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2530 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2531 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2532 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2533 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2534 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2535 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2536 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2537 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2538 back to using the idmapper.
2539 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2540 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2541 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2542 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2543 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2544 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2545
2546 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2547 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2548 information in exchange_id requests.
2549 If zero, no implementation identification information
2550 will be sent.
2551 The default is to send the implementation identification
2552 information.
2553
2554 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2555 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2556 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2557 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2558 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2559 after the locks are lost.
2560 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2561 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2562 parameter to '1'.
2563 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2564 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2565
2566 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2567 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2568 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2569
2570 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2571 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2572 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2573 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2574
2575 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2576 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2577 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2578 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2579 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2580 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2581
2582 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2583 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2584 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2585 osd-targets. Please see:
2586 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2587
2588 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2589 when a NMI is triggered.
2590 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2591
2592 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2593 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2594 Valid num: 0 or 1
2595 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2596 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2597 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2598 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2599 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2600 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2601 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2602 need the box quickly up again.
2603
2604 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2605 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2606 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2607 waits 4 seconds.
2608
2609 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2610 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2611 is present.
2612
2613 no_console_suspend
2614 [HW] Never suspend the console
2615 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2616 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2617 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2618 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2619 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2620 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2621 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2622 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2623 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2624 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2625 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2626 turn on/off it dynamically.
2627
2628 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2629 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2630 but will impact performance.
2631
2632 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2633
2634 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2635 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2636
2637 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2638
2639 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2640 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2641
2642 nocache [ARM]
2643
2644 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2645
2646 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2647
2648 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2649
2650 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2651
2652 noexec [IA-64]
2653
2654 noexec [X86]
2655 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2656 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2657 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2658
2659 nosmap [X86]
2660 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2661 even if it is supported by processor.
2662
2663 nosmep [X86]
2664 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2665 even if it is supported by processor.
2666
2667 noexec32 [X86-64]
2668 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2669 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2670 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2671 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2672 read implies executable mappings
2673
2674 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2675
2676 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2677 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2678 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2679
2680 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2681
2682 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2683 Equivalent to smt=1.
2684
2685 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2686 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2687 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2688
2689 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2690 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2691 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2692 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2693 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2694 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2695
2696 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2697 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2698 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2699 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2700 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2701 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2702 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2703
2704 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2705 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2706 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2707
2708 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2709 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2710 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2711
2712 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2713 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2714 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2715 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2716 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2717 real-time systems.
2718
2719 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2720
2721 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2722 Valid arguments: on, off
2723 Default: on
2724
2725 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2726 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2727 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2728 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2729 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2730 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
2731 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2732 rcu_nocbs= set.
2733
2734 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2735
2736 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2737 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2738
2739 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2740 broken timer IRQ sources.
2741
2742 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2743
2744 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2745 initial RAM disk.
2746
2747 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2748 remapping.
2749 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2750
2751 nointroute [IA-64]
2752
2753 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2754
2755 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2756
2757 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2758
2759 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2760 fault handling.
2761
2762 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2763 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2764 behaviour
2765
2766 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2767
2768 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2769
2770 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2771 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2772
2773 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2774
2775 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2776
2777 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2778 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2779
2780 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2781 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2782 irq.
2783
2784 nomodule Disable module load
2785
2786 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2787 pagetables) support.
2788
2789 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2790 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2791
2792 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2793
2794 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2795 with UP alternatives
2796
2797 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2798 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2799 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2800 available to user space applications.
2801
2802 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2803 space.
2804
2805 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2806 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2807 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2808
2809 nosbagart [IA-64]
2810
2811 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2812
2813 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2814 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2815
2816 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2817
2818 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2819
2820 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2821
2822 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2823 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2824
2825 nowb [ARM]
2826
2827 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2828
2829 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2830 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2831 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2832 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2833 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2834 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2835 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2836 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2837 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2838 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2839 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2840 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2841 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2842
2843 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2844 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2845 SAL PALO.
2846
2847 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2848 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2849 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2850 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2851 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2852 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2853 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2854 hot plugging.
2855
2856 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2857
2858 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2859 Allowed values are enable and disable
2860
2861 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2862 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2863 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2864 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2865
2866 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2867 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2868 info.
2869
2870 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2871 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2872 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2873 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2874 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2875 interrupts *may* be lost!
2876
2877 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2878 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2879 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2880 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2881
2882 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2883 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2884
2885 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2886 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2887 userland or if you want common events.
2888 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2889 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2890 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2891 CPU specific event set.
2892 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2893 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2894 for generic hr timer mode)
2895
2896 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2897 process, but there is a small probability of
2898 deadlocking the machine.
2899 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2900 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2901
2902 OSS [HW,OSS]
2903 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2904
2905 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2906 Storage of the information about who allocated
2907 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2908 we can turn it on.
2909 on: enable the feature
2910
2911 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2912 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2913 off: turn off poisoning
2914 on: turn on poisoning
2915
2916 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2917 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2918 timeout = 0: wait forever
2919 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2920 Format: <timeout>
2921
2922 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2923 on a WARN().
2924
2925 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2926 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2927 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2928 succeeds in any situation.
2929 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2930 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2931 kernel more unstable.
2932
2933 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2934 connected to, default is 0.
2935 Format: <parport#>
2936 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2937 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2938 Format: <mode>
2939
2940 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2941 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2942 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2943 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2944 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2945 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2946 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2947 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2948 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2949 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2950 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2951 are specified on the command line, starting
2952 with parport0.
2953
2954 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2955 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2956 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2957 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2958 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2959 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2960 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2961
2962 pause_on_oops=
2963 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2964 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2965 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2966
2967 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2968
2969 pcd. [PARIDE]
2970 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2971 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2972
2973 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2974 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2975 changes anything
2976 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2977 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2978 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2979 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2980 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2981 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2982 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2983 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2984 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2985 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2986 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2987 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2988 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2989 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2990 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2991 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2992 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2993 on the configuration access mechanisms.
2994 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2995 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2996 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2997 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2998 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2999 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3000 Configuration
3001 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3002 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3003 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3004 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3005 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3006 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3007 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3008 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3009 should never be necessary.
3010 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3011 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3012 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3013 when the system masks IRQs.
3014 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3015 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3016 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3017 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3018 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3019 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3020 on several machines and they hang the machine
3021 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3022 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3023 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3024 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3025 motherboard.
3026 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3027 Use with caution as certain devices share
3028 address decoders between ROMs and other
3029 resources.
3030 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
3031 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3032 BIOS assigned address ranges.
3033 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3034 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3035 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3036 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3037 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3038 this way.
3039 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
3040 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3041 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3042 F0000h-100000h range.
3043 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3044 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3045 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3046 explicitly which ones they are.
3047 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3048 numbers ourselves, overriding
3049 whatever the firmware may have done.
3050 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3051 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3052 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3053 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3054 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3055 IRQ routing is enabled.
3056 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3057 or for PCI scanning.
3058 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3059 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3060 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3061 please report a bug.
3062 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3063 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3064 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3065 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3066 so this option is a temporary workaround
3067 for broken drivers that don't call it.
3068 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3069 handle more pci cards
3070 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3071 This might help on some broken boards which
3072 machine check when some devices' config space
3073 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3074 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3075 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3076 This sorting is done to get a device
3077 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3078 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3079 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3080 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3081 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3082 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3083 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3084 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3085 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3086 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3087 or bus can support) for best performance.
3088 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3089 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3090 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3091 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3092 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3093 that hot-added devices will work.
3094 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3095 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3096 The default value is 256 bytes.
3097 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3098 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3099 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3100 resource_alignment=
3101 Format:
3102 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3103 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3104 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3105 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3106 aligned memory resources.
3107 If <order of align> is not specified,
3108 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3109 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3110 windows need to be expanded.
3111 To specify the alignment for several
3112 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3113 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3114 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3115 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3116 end-to-end CRC checking).
3117 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3118 the default.
3119 off: Turn ECRC off
3120 on: Turn ECRC on.
3121 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3122 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3123 Default size is 256 bytes.
3124 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3125 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3126 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3127 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3128 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3129 Default is 1.
3130 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3131 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3132 accommodate resources required by all child
3133 devices.
3134 off: Turn realloc off
3135 on: Turn realloc on
3136 realloc same as realloc=on
3137 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3138 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3139 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3140 port.
3141
3142 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3143 Management.
3144 off Disable ASPM.
3145 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3146 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3147
3148 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3149 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3150 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3151
3152 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3153 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3154 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3155 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3156 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3157 unconditionally.
3158 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3159 ports driver.
3160
3161 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3162 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3163 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3164
3165 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3166 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3167 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3168
3169 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3170
3171 pd_ignore_unused
3172 [PM]
3173 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3174 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3175 for debug and development, but should not be
3176 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3177
3178 pd. [PARIDE]
3179 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3180
3181 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3182 boot time.
3183 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3184 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3185
3186 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3187 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3188 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3189 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3190 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3191 and performance comparison.
3192
3193 pf. [PARIDE]
3194 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3195
3196 pg. [PARIDE]
3197 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3198
3199 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3200 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3201
3202 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3203 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3204 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3205
3206 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3207 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3208 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3209
3210 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3211 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3212 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3213 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3214 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3215 possible settings and some assignment information.
3216
3217 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3218 { off }
3219
3220 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3221 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3222
3223 pnp_reserve_irq=
3224 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3225
3226 pnp_reserve_dma=
3227 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3228
3229 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3230 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3231
3232 pnp_reserve_mem=
3233 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3234 autoconfiguration.
3235 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3236
3237 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3238 Default is 21.
3239 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3240 may be specified.
3241 Format: <port>,<port>....
3242
3243 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3244 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3245 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3246 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3247 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3248
3249 print-fatal-signals=
3250 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3251
3252 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3253 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3254 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3255 coredump - etc.
3256
3257 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3258 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3259
3260 default: off.
3261
3262 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3263 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3264 panics
3265 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3266 default: disabled
3267
3268 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3269 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3270 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3271 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3272 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3273 Default: ratelimit
3274
3275 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3276 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3277
3278 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3279 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3280 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3281
3282 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3283 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3284 instead using the legacy FADT method
3285
3286 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3287 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3288 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3289 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3290 statistical time based profiling.
3291 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3292 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3293 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3294
3295 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3296 before loading.
3297 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3298
3299 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3300 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3301 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3302 per second.
3303 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3304 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3305 (0 = never).
3306 psmouse.resolution=
3307 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3308 psmouse.smartscroll=
3309 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3310 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3311
3312 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3313
3314 pt. [PARIDE]
3315 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3316
3317 pty.legacy_count=
3318 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3319 default number.
3320
3321 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3322
3323 r128= [HW,DRM]
3324
3325 raid= [HW,RAID]
3326 See Documentation/md.txt.
3327
3328 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3329 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3330
3331 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3332 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3333
3334 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3335 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3336 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3337 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3338 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3339 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3340 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3341 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3342 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3343 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3344
3345 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3346 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3347 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3348 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3349 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3350 This improves the real-time response for the
3351 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3352 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3353 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3354 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3355
3356 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3357 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3358 process in one batch.
3359
3360 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3361 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3362 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3363 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3364
3365 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3366 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3367 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3368 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3369
3370 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3371 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3372 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
3373 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3374 is set.
3375
3376 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3377 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3378 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3379 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3380 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3381 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
3382
3383 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3384 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3385 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3386 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3387 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3388
3389 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3390 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3391 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3392 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3393 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3394 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3395 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3396
3397 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3398 Set required age in jiffies for a
3399 given grace period before RCU starts
3400 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3401 rcu_note_context_switch().
3402
3403 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3404 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3405 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3406 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3407 and maximum value is HZ.
3408
3409 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3410 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3411 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3412 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3413
3414 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3415 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3416 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3417 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3418 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3419 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3420 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3421 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3422 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3423 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3424
3425 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3426 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3427 defaults to the square root of the number of
3428 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3429 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3430 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3431
3432 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3433 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3434 batch limiting is disabled.
3435
3436 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3437 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3438 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3439
3440 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3441 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3442 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3443
3444 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3445 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3446 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3447 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3448 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3449
3450 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3451 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3452 grace-period primitives.
3453
3454 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3455 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3456 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3457 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3458 interference.
3459
3460 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3461 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3462 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3463 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3464 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3465 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3466 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3467 a single reader.
3468
3469 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3470 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3471 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3472 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3473
3474 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3475 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3476
3477 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3478 Shut the system down after performance tests
3479 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3480 testing.
3481
3482 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3483 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3484
3485 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3486 Enable additional printk() statements.
3487
3488 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3489 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3490 callback-flood tests.
3491
3492 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3493 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3494 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3495 test.
3496
3497 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3498 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3499 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3500 disable callback-flood testing.
3501
3502 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3503 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3504 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3505
3506 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3507 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3508 in microseconds.
3509
3510 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3511 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3512 in microseconds.
3513
3514 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3515 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3516 in seconds.
3517
3518 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3519 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3520 primitives, if available.
3521
3522 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3523 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3524
3525 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3526 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3527 update-side primitives, if available.
3528
3529 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3530 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3531 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3532 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3533 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3534 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3535 they are all non-zero.
3536
3537 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3538 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3539
3540 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3541 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3542 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3543 test, hence the "fake".
3544
3545 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3546 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3547 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3548 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3549 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3550 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3551
3552 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3553 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3554
3555 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3556 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3557
3558 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3559 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3560 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3561
3562 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3563 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3564 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3565 during the rcutorture test.
3566
3567 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3568 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3569 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3570
3571 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3572 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3573 warnings, zero to disable.
3574
3575 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3576 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3577
3578 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3579 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3580
3581 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3582 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3583 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3584 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3585 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3586
3587 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3588 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3589 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3590 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3591
3592 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3593 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3594
3595 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3596 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3597
3598 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3599 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3600 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3601
3602 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3603 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3604
3605 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3606 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3607
3608 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3609 Enable additional printk() statements.
3610
3611 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3612 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3613
3614 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3615 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3616
3617 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3618 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3619 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3620 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3621 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3622 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3623 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3624
3625 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3626 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3627 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3628 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3629 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3630 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3631 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3632 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3633 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3634
3635 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3636 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3637 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3638 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3639 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3640
3641 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3642 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3643 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3644 to zero.
3645
3646 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3647 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3648
3649 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3650 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3651
3652 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3653 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3654
3655 rdinit= [KNL]
3656 Format: <full_path>
3657 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3658 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3659
3660 reboot= [KNL]
3661 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3662 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3663 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3664 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3665 [[,]f[orce]
3666 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3667 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3668 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3669 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3670 to be used for rebooting.
3671
3672 relax_domain_level=
3673 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3674 See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3675
3676 relative_sleep_states=
3677 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3678 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3679 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3680 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3681 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3682
3683 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3684
3685 reservetop= [X86-32]
3686 Format: nn[KMG]
3687 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3688 address space.
3689
3690 reservelow= [X86]
3691 Format: nn[K]
3692 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3693 the bottom of the address space.
3694
3695 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3696 during initialization.
3697
3698 resume= [SWSUSP]
3699 Specify the partition device for software suspend
3700 Format:
3701 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3702
3703 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3704 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3705 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3706 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3707 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3708
3709 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3710 read the resume files
3711
3712 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3713 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3714 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3715
3716 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3717 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3718 present during boot.
3719 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3720 no Disable hibernation and resume.
3721 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3722 (that will set all pages holding image data
3723 during restoration read-only).
3724
3725 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3726
3727 rfkill.default_state=
3728 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3729 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3730 1 Unblocked.
3731
3732 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3733 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3734 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3735 blocked and the previous configuration.
3736 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3737 blocked and everything unblocked.
3738
3739 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3740 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3741
3742 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3743
3744 rodata= [KNL]
3745 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3746 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3747
3748 rockchip.usb_uart
3749 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3750 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3751 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3752 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3753
3754 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
3755 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3756
3757 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3758 mount the root filesystem
3759
3760 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3761
3762 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3763
3764 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3765 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3766 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3767
3768 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3769 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3770 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3771 managed by CMA.
3772
3773 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3774
3775 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3776
3777 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3778 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3779 strict
3780 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3781 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3782 which is faster.
3783
3784 sa1100ir [NET]
3785 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3786
3787 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3788
3789 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3790
3791 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3792 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3793 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3794 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3795
3796 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3797 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3798 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3799 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3800 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3801 1 -- enable.
3802 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3803 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3804
3805 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3806 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3807 security module asking for security registration will be
3808 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3809 as if no module has been chosen.
3810
3811 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3812 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3813 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3814 0 -- disable.
3815 1 -- enable.
3816 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3817 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3818 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3819
3820 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3821 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3822 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3823 0 -- disable.
3824 1 -- enable.
3825 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3826
3827 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
3828
3829 shapers= [NET]
3830 Maximal number of shapers.
3831
3832 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3833 Format: { <integer> }
3834 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3835 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3836 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3837
3838 simeth= [IA-64]
3839 simscsi=
3840
3841 slram= [HW,MTD]
3842
3843 slab_nomerge [MM]
3844 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3845 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3846 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3847 merging on their own.
3848 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3849
3850 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3851 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3852 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3853 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3854 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3855
3856 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3857 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3858 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3859 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3860 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3861 last alloc / free. For more information see
3862 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3863
3864 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3865 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3866 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3867 fragmentation. For more information see
3868 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3869
3870 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
3871 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3872 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3873 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3874 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3875 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3876 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3877 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3878
3879 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
3880 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3881 lower than slub_max_order.
3882 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3883
3884 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
3885 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3886 See slab_nomerge for more information.
3887
3888 smart2= [HW]
3889 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3890
3891 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3892 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3893 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3894 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3895 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3896 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3897 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3898 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3899 1: Fast pin select (default)
3900 2: ATC IRMode
3901
3902 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3903 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3904 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3905 actual hardware limit.
3906 Format: <integer>
3907 Default: -1 (no limit)
3908
3909 softlockup_panic=
3910 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3911 Format: <integer>
3912
3913 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3914 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3915 backtraces on all cpus.
3916 Format: <integer>
3917
3918 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3919 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3920
3921 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3922 spia_fio_base=
3923 spia_pedr=
3924 spia_peddr=
3925
3926 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3927 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3928
3929 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3930 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3931 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3932 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3933 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3934 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3935 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3936
3937 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3938 Format: <num>
3939 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3940 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3941 as the initial boot-console.
3942 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3943
3944 sti_font= [HW]
3945 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3946
3947 stifb= [HW]
3948 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3949
3950 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3951 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3952 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3953 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3954 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3955 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3956 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3957 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3958 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3959 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3960 maximum port values.
3961
3962 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3963 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3964 Limit the number of requests that the server will
3965 process in parallel from a single connection.
3966 The default value is 0 (no limit).
3967
3968 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3969 [NFS]
3970 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3971 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3972 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3973 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3974 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3975 NFS server is running.
3976
3977 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3978 automatically using heuristics
3979 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3980 percpu one pool for each CPU
3981 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3982 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3983
3984 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3985 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3986 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3987 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3988 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3989 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3990 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3991 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3992
3993 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3994 [SUSPEND]
3995 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3996 mode before resuming the system (see
3997 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3998 is set. Default value is 5.
3999
4000 swapaccount=[0|1]
4001 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4002 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4003 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4004
4005 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4006 Format: { <int> | force }
4007 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4008 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4009 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4010
4011 switches= [HW,M68k]
4012
4013 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4014 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4015 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4016 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4017 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4018 in older udev will not work anymore.
4019 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4020 the kernel configuration.
4021
4022 sysrq_always_enabled
4023 [KNL]
4024 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4025 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4026 Useful for debugging.
4027
4028 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4029 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4030 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4031 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4032 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4033 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4034
4035 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4036
4037 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
4038 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4039 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4040 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4041 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4042 The system is woken from this state using a
4043 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4044
4045 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4046 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4047
4048 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4049 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4050 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4051
4052 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4053 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4054 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4055
4056 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4057 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4058 critical and hot trip points.
4059
4060 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4061 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4062
4063 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4064 -1: disable all passive trip points
4065 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4066 value
4067
4068 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4069 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4070 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4071 0: no polling (default)
4072
4073 threadirqs [KNL]
4074 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4075 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4076
4077 tmem [KNL,XEN]
4078 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4079
4080 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4081 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4082 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4083
4084 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4085 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4086 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4087 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4088
4089 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4090 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4091 to the hypervisor.
4092
4093 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4094 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4095 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4096 kernel based on different criteria.
4097
4098 topology= [S390]
4099 Format: {off | on}
4100 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4101 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4102 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4103 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4104 Default is on.
4105
4106 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4107 Format: {off}
4108 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4109 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4110 LPAR.
4111
4112 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4113
4114 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4115 Format: integer pcr id
4116 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4117 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4118 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4119 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4120 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4121 are saved.
4122
4123 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4124 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4125
4126 trace_event=[event-list]
4127 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4128 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4129 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4130 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4131
4132 trace_options=[option-list]
4133 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4134 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4135 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4136 to echo the option name into
4137
4138 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4139
4140 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4141 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4142
4143 trace_options=stacktrace
4144
4145 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4146 section.
4147
4148 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4149 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4150 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4151 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4152 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4153 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4154
4155 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4156 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4157 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4158 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4159
4160 ** CAUTION **
4161
4162 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4163 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4164 the system to live lock.
4165
4166 traceoff_on_warning
4167 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4168 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4169 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4170 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4171
4172 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4173 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4174 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4175
4176 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4177 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4178
4179 transparent_hugepage=
4180 [KNL]
4181 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4182 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4183 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4184 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4185
4186 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4187 Format: <string>
4188 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4189 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4190 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4191 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4192 virtualized environment.
4193 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4194 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4195 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4196 can add overhead.
4197
4198 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4199 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4200 Format:
4201 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4202 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4203
4204 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4205 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4206 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4207 help "seeing" what's going on.
4208
4209 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4210 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4211
4212 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4213 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4214 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4215 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4216 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4217 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4218 reported either.
4219
4220 unknown_nmi_panic
4221 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4222
4223 usbcore.authorized_default=
4224 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4225 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4226 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4227
4228 usbcore.autosuspend=
4229 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4230 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4231 is the time required before an idle device will be
4232 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4233 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4234
4235 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4236 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4237
4238 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4239 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4240 (default = 65536).
4241
4242 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4243 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4244
4245 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4246 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4247 scheme (default 0 = off).
4248
4249 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4250 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4251 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4252
4253 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4254 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4255 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4256
4257 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4258 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4259 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4260 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4261
4262 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4263
4264 usbhid.mousepoll=
4265 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4266
4267 usb-storage.delay_use=
4268 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4269 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4270
4271 usb-storage.quirks=
4272 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4273 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4274 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4275 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4276 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4277 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4278 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4279 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4280 of sense data);
4281 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4282 bytes of sense data);
4283 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4284 device capacity by one sector);
4285 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4286 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4287 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4288 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4289 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4290 command, uas only);
4291 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4292 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4293 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4294 reported device capacity by one
4295 sector if the number is odd);
4296 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4297 device);
4298 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4299 command, uas only);
4300 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4301 unlock ejectable media);
4302 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4303 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4304 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4305 initial READ(10) command);
4306 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4307 reported by the device);
4308 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4309 by default);
4310 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4311 bogus residue values);
4312 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4313 Logical Unit);
4314 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4315 commands, uas only);
4316 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4317 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4318 medium is write-protected).
4319 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4320 even if the device claims no cache)
4321 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4322
4323 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4324 Format: <int>
4325 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4326 1 - undefined instruction events
4327 2 - system calls
4328 4 - invalid data aborts
4329 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4330 16 - SIGBUS faults
4331 Example: user_debug=31
4332
4333 userpte=
4334 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4335
4336 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4337 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4338 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4339
4340 vdso= [X86,SH]
4341 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4342
4343 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4344 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4345
4346 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4347 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4348 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4349
4350 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4351 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4352 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4353
4354 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4355 alias for vdso32=0.
4356
4357 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4358 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4359
4360 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4361 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4362
4363 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4364 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4365
4366 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4367 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4368 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4369 level and then send out the event to user space through
4370 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4371 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4372 brightness level.
4373 default: 1
4374
4375 virtio_mmio.device=
4376 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4377
4378 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4379 where:
4380 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4381 like K, M and G)
4382 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4383 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4384 request_irq())
4385 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4386 example:
4387 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4388
4389 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4390
4391 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4392 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4393 Documentation/svga.txt.
4394 Use vga=ask for menu.
4395 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4396 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4397
4398 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4399 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4400 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4401 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4402 mapped kernel RAM.
4403
4404 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4405 Format: <command>
4406
4407 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4408 Format: <command>
4409
4410 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4411 Format: <command>
4412
4413 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4414 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4415 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4416 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4417 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4418 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4419 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4420
4421 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4422 emulated reasonably safely.
4423
4424 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4425 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4426 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4427 better than they would in emulation mode.
4428 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4429
4430 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4431 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4432 might break your system.
4433
4434 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4435 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4436 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4437
4438 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4439 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4440 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4441 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4442
4443 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4444 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4445 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4446 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4447 ranging from 0-255.
4448
4449 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4450 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4451 Change the default green palette of the console.
4452 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4453 ranging from 0-255.
4454
4455 vt.default_red= [VT]
4456 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4457 Change the default red palette of the console.
4458 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4459 ranging from 0-255.
4460
4461 vt.default_utf8=
4462 [VT]
4463 Format=<0|1>
4464 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4465 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4466 newly opened terminals.
4467
4468 vt.global_cursor_default=
4469 [VT]
4470 Format=<-1|0|1>
4471 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4472 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4473 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4474 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4475 cursors, 1 will display them.
4476
4477 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4478 Default: 2 = green.
4479
4480 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4481 Default: 3 = cyan.
4482
4483 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4484 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4485 or other driver-specific files in the
4486 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4487
4488 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4489 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4490 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4491 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4492 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4493 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4494 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4495 corresponding sysfs file.
4496
4497 workqueue.disable_numa
4498 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4499 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4500 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4501 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4502 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4503 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4504 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4505
4506 workqueue.power_efficient
4507 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4508 they show better performance thanks to cache
4509 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4510 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4511
4512 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4513 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4514 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4515 power usage at the cost of small performance
4516 overhead.
4517
4518 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4519 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4520
4521 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4522 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4523 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4524 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4525 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4526 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4527 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4528 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4529 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4530 impacted.
4531
4532 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4533 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4534 supporting x2apic.
4535
4536 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4537 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4538 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4539 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4540 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4541
4542 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4543 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4544 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4545 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4546 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4547 domains.
4548
4549 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4550 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4551 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4552 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4553 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4554 nics -- unplug network devices
4555 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4556 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4557 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4558 the unplug protocol
4559 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4560
4561 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4562 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4563 optimizations.
4564
4565 xen_nopv [X86]
4566 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4567 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4568
4569 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
4570 Format:
4571 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4572
4573 ______________________________________________________________________
4574
4575 TODO:
4576
4577 Add more DRM drivers.