4 The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
5 (mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
6 (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
7 case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
9 Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
10 parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
12 modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
14 Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
15 are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
16 '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
18 usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
21 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
22 can also be entered as
23 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
26 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
27 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
28 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
29 reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
30 parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
31 "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
33 The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
34 enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
35 the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
36 parameter is applicable:
38 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
39 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
40 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
41 APIC APIC support is enabled.
42 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
43 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
44 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
45 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
46 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
47 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
48 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
49 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
50 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
51 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
52 EVM Extended Verification Module
53 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
54 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
55 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
56 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
57 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
58 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
59 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
60 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
61 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
62 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
63 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
64 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
65 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
66 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
67 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
68 LP Printer support is enabled.
69 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
70 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
71 These options have more detailed description inside of
72 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
73 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
74 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
75 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
76 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
77 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
78 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
79 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
80 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
81 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
82 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
83 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
84 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
85 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
86 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
87 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
88 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
89 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
90 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
91 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
92 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
93 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
94 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
95 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
96 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
97 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
98 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
99 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
100 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
101 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
102 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
103 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
104 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
105 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
106 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
107 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
108 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
109 USB USB support is enabled.
110 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
111 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
112 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
113 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
114 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
115 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
116 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
117 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
118 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
119 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
120 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
121 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
122 XEN Xen support is enabled
124 In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
126 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
127 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
128 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
130 Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
131 loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
132 Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
133 need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
135 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
136 See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
138 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
139 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
140 be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
141 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
142 running once the system is up.
144 The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
145 complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
146 a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
147 and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
148 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
150 Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
151 parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
152 multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
153 bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
157 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
158 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
159 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
160 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
161 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
162 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
163 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
164 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
165 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
167 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
169 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
170 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
171 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
172 second kernel for kdump.
174 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
176 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
177 1,0: use 1st APIC table
180 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
181 acpi_backlight=vendor
183 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
184 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
185 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
187 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
188 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
190 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
191 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
192 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
193 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
194 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
195 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
196 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
197 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
198 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
199 debug layers and levels.
201 Enable processor driver info messages:
202 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
203 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
204 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
205 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
206 object while interpreting AML:
207 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
208 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
209 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
211 Some values produce so much output that the system is
212 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
213 if you need to capture more output.
215 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
216 ACPI will balance active IRQs
219 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
220 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
223 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
224 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
226 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
228 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
230 acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
232 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
233 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
235 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
236 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
237 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
238 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
241 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
242 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
243 and always returns good values.
245 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
246 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
248 acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
250 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
251 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
252 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
254 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
255 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
256 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
257 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
259 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
260 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
261 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
262 used during resume from hibernation.
263 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
264 control method, with respect to putting devices into
265 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
266 of _PTS is used by default).
267 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
268 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
269 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
270 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
271 but some broken systems don't work without it).
273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
277 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
278 { strict | lax | no }
279 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
280 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
281 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
282 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
283 can interfere with legacy drivers.
284 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
285 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
286 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
287 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
288 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
289 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
290 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
291 no further checks are performed.
293 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
294 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
297 { off | try_unsupported }
298 off: disable AGP support
299 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
300 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
303 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
306 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
307 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
308 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
310 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
311 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
312 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
313 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
314 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
315 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
316 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
318 32: only for 32-bit processes
319 64: only for 64-bit processes
320 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
321 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
323 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
324 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
326 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
327 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
328 flushed before they will be reused, which
330 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
332 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
333 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
334 allowed anymore to lift isolation
335 requirements as needed. This option
336 does not override iommu=pt
338 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
339 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
340 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
341 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
342 IOMMU initialization.
344 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
345 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
347 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
349 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
350 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
351 connected to one of 16 gameports
352 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
355 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
357 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
358 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
359 APC and your system crashes randomly.
361 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
363 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
364 Change the amount of debugging information output
365 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
368 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
370 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
371 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
372 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
373 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
374 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
375 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
376 apic=verbose is specified.
377 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
379 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
380 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
382 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
383 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
387 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
389 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
390 EzKey and similar keyboards
392 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
394 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
395 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
397 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
400 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
401 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
403 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
404 Use software keyboard repeat
406 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
409 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
411 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
413 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
414 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
415 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
416 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
418 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
419 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
420 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
421 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
423 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
424 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
428 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
430 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
431 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
433 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
436 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
437 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
440 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
442 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
443 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
444 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
445 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
446 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
447 This option provides an override for these situations.
450 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
451 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
452 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
453 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
455 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
456 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
458 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
459 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
460 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
462 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
463 Format: { "0" | "1" }
464 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
465 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
466 any implied execute protection).
467 1 -- check protection requested by application.
468 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
469 Value can be changed at runtime via
470 /selinux/checkreqprot.
473 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
475 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
477 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
478 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
479 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
480 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
482 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
484 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
485 with the name specified.
486 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
488 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
490 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
491 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
493 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
494 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
502 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
503 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
504 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
505 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
506 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
508 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
509 or using the feature without checking anything
510 will still see it. This just prevents it from
511 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
512 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
516 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous
517 memory allocations. For more information, see
518 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
520 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
521 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
522 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
523 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
527 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
528 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
529 allocations, by default set to 256K.
531 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
536 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
538 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
540 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
544 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
545 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
547 condev= [HW,S390] console device
550 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
552 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
556 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
557 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
558 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
559 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
560 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
562 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
564 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
567 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
568 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
569 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
570 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
571 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
572 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
574 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
575 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
577 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
579 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
580 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
581 disables the blank timer.
584 [KNL] Change the default value for
585 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
586 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
588 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
589 disable the cpuidle sub-system
591 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
593 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
595 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
596 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
597 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
598 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
599 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
600 is selected automatically. Check
601 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
603 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
604 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
605 in the running system. The syntax of range is
606 start-[end] where start and end are both
607 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
608 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
613 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
614 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
617 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
619 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
620 (one device per port)
621 Format: <port#>,<type>
622 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
624 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
625 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
626 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
628 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
631 [KNL] verbose self-tests
633 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
635 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
636 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
637 only useful to kernel developers.
639 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
642 [KNL] Disable object debugging
644 debug_guardpage_minorder=
645 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
646 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
647 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
648 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
649 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
650 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
651 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
652 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
653 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
654 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
655 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
656 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
657 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
658 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
659 bypassed) which are not detectable by
660 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
661 tracking down these problems.
663 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
665 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
666 Format: <area>[,<node>]
667 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
670 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
671 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
672 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
673 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
674 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
678 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
681 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
683 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
684 See drivers/char/README.epca and
685 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
688 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
690 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
691 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
692 to workaround buggy firmware.
695 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
697 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
698 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
699 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
700 entry later. This parameter disables that.
702 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
703 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
704 memory out of your available memory pool based on
705 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
706 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
708 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
709 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
710 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
712 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
713 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
715 dma_debug_entries=<number>
716 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
717 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
718 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
719 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
720 architectural default is too low.
722 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
723 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
724 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
725 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
726 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
727 driver later using sysfs.
729 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
730 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
731 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
732 allows to specify an EDID data set in the
733 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
734 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
735 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
736 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
737 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
738 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
739 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
740 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
741 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
746 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
747 module.dyndbg[="val"]
748 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
749 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
751 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
752 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
753 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
754 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
755 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
756 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
757 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
758 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
759 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
761 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
763 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
764 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
765 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
767 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
770 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
772 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
774 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
777 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
780 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
783 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
784 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
787 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
789 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
790 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
793 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
794 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
797 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
798 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
799 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
801 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
802 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
803 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
804 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
805 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
807 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
808 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
809 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
810 entry later. This parameter enables that.
812 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
813 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
814 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
815 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
816 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
818 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
820 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
821 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
822 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
824 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
827 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
830 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
831 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
832 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
836 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
837 current integrity status.
841 fail_make_request=[KNL]
842 General fault injection mechanism.
843 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
844 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
847 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
849 force_pal_cache_flush
850 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
851 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
852 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
853 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
856 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
857 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
860 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
861 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
862 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
863 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
864 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
867 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
868 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
869 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
870 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
871 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
874 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
875 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
876 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
877 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
880 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
881 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
882 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
883 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
884 that can be changed at run time by the
885 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
888 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
889 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
890 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
891 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
895 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
899 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
900 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
901 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
902 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
903 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
905 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
906 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
908 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
909 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
910 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
911 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
913 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
915 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
916 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
919 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
920 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
921 logic will be disabled.
923 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
924 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
925 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
926 size on bigger boxes.
928 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
929 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
933 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
937 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
938 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
940 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
941 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
943 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
945 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
946 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
947 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
948 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
949 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
950 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
951 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
952 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
953 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
955 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
956 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
957 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
958 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
959 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
962 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
963 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
964 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
967 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
968 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
969 registered from board initialization code.
973 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
974 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
975 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
976 keyboard and cannot control its state
977 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
978 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
979 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
980 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
982 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
984 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
986 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
987 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
988 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
992 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
993 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
995 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
996 does not match list of supported models.
998 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
999 (disabled by default)
1000 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1003 i915.invert_brightness=
1004 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1005 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1006 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1007 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1008 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1009 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1010 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1011 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1012 value switches the backlight off.
1013 -1 -- never invert brightness
1014 0 -- machine default
1015 1 -- force brightness inversion
1018 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1020 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1021 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1022 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1023 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1024 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1026 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1027 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1030 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1031 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1032 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1033 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1035 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
1036 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
1037 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
1038 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
1039 the same as idle=poll.
1040 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1041 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1042 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1044 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1045 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1046 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1047 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1048 could change it dynamically, usually by
1049 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1051 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1052 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1054 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1055 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" }
1058 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1059 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1063 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1064 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1065 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
1068 Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
1072 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1073 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1074 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1075 opened for read by uid=0.
1079 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1082 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1083 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1086 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1088 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1091 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1093 Enable intel iommu driver.
1095 Disable intel iommu driver.
1096 igfx_off [Default Off]
1097 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1098 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1099 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1100 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1103 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1104 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1105 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1106 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1107 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1108 then look in the higher range.
1109 strict [Default Off]
1110 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1111 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1112 to batching them for performance.
1113 sp_off [Default Off]
1114 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1115 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1118 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1119 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1120 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1122 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1123 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1124 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1125 nosid disable Source ID checking
1127 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1129 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1130 strict regions from userspace.
1147 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1148 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1149 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1151 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1153 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1155 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1157 Simple two microseconds delay
1162 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1164 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
1165 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1166 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
1169 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1170 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1174 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1175 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1176 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1180 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1182 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1184 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1186 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1187 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1189 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1191 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1192 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1193 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1194 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1195 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1196 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1198 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1199 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1200 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1201 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1205 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1206 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1210 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1211 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1212 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1213 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1214 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1215 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1216 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1217 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1218 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1219 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1220 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1221 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1222 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1223 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1224 zone if it does not.
1226 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1227 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1228 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1229 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1230 optional and is the number seconds in between
1231 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1232 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1233 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1234 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1235 the kernel debugger.
1237 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1238 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1239 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1240 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1241 keyboard only format: kbd
1242 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1243 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1244 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1245 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1247 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1248 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1250 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1251 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1252 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1254 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1255 Valid arguments: on, off
1258 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1261 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1262 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1264 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1268 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1269 Default is 1 (enabled)
1271 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1273 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1275 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1276 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1277 Default is 1 (enabled)
1279 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1280 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1281 Default is 0 (disabled)
1283 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1284 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1285 Default is 1 (enabled)
1288 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1289 Default is 0 (disabled)
1291 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1292 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1293 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1294 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1296 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1297 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1298 Default is 1 (enabled)
1304 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1307 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1310 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1311 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1312 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1313 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1314 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1315 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1316 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1318 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1319 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1320 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
1322 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1326 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1327 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1328 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1329 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1330 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1331 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1332 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1333 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1335 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1336 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1337 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1338 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1339 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1340 host link and device attached to it.
1342 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1343 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1344 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1345 The following configurations can be forced.
1347 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1348 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1350 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1352 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1353 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1356 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1358 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1361 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1362 hot-unplug link recovery
1364 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1366 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1367 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1369 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1371 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1372 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1374 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1377 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1380 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1383 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1386 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1389 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1390 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1391 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1392 loglevels are defined as follows:
1394 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1395 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1396 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1397 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1398 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1399 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1400 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1401 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1403 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1404 in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
1405 size is set in the kernel config file.
1407 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1408 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1409 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1410 kernel boot problems.
1412 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1413 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1414 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1415 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1416 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1417 attached printers to be reset. Using
1418 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1419 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1420 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1421 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1422 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1423 port specification list means that device IDs
1424 from each port should be examined, to see if
1425 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1426 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1427 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1430 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1431 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1432 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1433 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1434 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1435 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1436 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1437 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1438 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1439 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1440 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1444 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1446 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1447 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1448 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1450 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1452 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1454 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1455 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1457 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1458 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1459 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1460 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1463 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1464 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1465 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1466 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1467 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1468 /dev/loop-control interface.
1470 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1472 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
1474 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1475 See Documentation/md.txt.
1478 Format: <first>,<last>
1479 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
1481 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1482 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1483 to see the whole system memory or for test.
1484 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
1485 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1486 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1488 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1492 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1493 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1495 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1496 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1497 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1498 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1501 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1502 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1503 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1505 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1506 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1507 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1509 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1510 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1511 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1512 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1513 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1515 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1517 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1518 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1519 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1520 Setting this option will scan the memory
1521 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1522 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1523 from using the memory being corrupted.
1524 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1525 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1526 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1527 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1529 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1530 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1531 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1532 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1533 corruption in more or less memory.
1535 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1536 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1537 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1538 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1540 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
1542 default : 0 <disable>
1543 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1544 performed. Each pass selects another test
1545 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1546 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1547 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1548 regions that are detected.
1550 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1551 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1553 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1554 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1557 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1558 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1559 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1560 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1564 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1565 physical address is ignored.
1567 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1568 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1570 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1571 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1572 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1573 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1574 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1575 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1577 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1578 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1579 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1581 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1582 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1583 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1584 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1585 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1586 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1589 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1590 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1591 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1592 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1593 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1594 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1597 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1598 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1599 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1600 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1602 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1603 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1604 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1605 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1607 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1608 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1609 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1610 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1611 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1612 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1613 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1614 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1617 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1618 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1620 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1621 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1624 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1626 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1627 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1630 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1632 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1634 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1635 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1636 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1637 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1638 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1641 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1643 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1645 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
1646 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1647 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1649 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1650 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
1651 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1653 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1654 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1656 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1659 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1661 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1663 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1664 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1666 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1668 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1669 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1670 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1671 something different and driver-specific.
1672 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1676 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1677 0 to disable accounting
1678 1 to enable accounting
1681 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
1682 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1684 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
1685 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1687 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
1688 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1690 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1691 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1692 channel should listen.
1695 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
1696 to update the NFS client cache entries.
1698 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
1699 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
1700 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
1702 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1703 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1707 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1708 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1709 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1710 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1711 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1713 nfs.max_session_slots=
1714 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
1715 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
1716 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
1717 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
1718 Note that there is little point in setting this
1719 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
1721 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
1722 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
1723 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
1724 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
1725 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
1726 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
1727 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
1728 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
1729 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
1730 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
1731 back to using the idmapper.
1732 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
1734 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
1735 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
1736 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
1737 UUID that is generated at system install time.
1739 nfs.send_implementation_id =
1740 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
1741 information in exchange_id requests.
1742 If zero, no implementation identification information
1744 The default is to send the implementation identification
1747 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
1748 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
1749 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
1750 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
1751 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
1752 migration from NFSv2/v3.
1754 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
1755 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
1756 is used to automatically discover and login into new
1757 osd-targets. Please see:
1758 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
1760 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
1761 when a NMI is triggered.
1762 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1764 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1765 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
1767 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1768 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
1769 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
1771 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1772 need the box quickly up again.
1774 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
1775 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
1776 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
1779 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1780 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1784 [HW] Never suspend the console
1785 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1786 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1787 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1788 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1789 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1790 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1791 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1792 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
1793 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
1794 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
1795 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
1796 turn on/off it dynamically.
1798 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1799 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1800 but will impact performance.
1804 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1805 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1807 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
1809 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1810 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1814 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1816 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1818 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1820 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1822 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
1827 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1828 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1829 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1832 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
1833 even if it is supported by processor.
1836 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
1837 even if it is supported by processor.
1840 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1841 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1842 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1843 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1844 read implies executable mappings
1846 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1848 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
1849 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1850 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1852 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
1853 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
1854 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
1857 on enable eager fpu restore
1858 off disable eager fpu restore
1859 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1860 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1862 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1863 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1864 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
1866 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
1867 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1870 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1871 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1872 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1874 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1875 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1876 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1877 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1878 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1881 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1882 Valid arguments: on, off
1885 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1887 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1888 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1890 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
1891 broken timer IRQ sources.
1893 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1895 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1898 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1900 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
1904 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1906 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
1908 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
1911 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
1912 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
1915 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1917 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
1919 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1920 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1922 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1924 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1926 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1927 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1929 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
1930 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
1933 nomodule Disable module load
1935 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
1936 pagetables) support.
1938 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1939 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1941 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
1943 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
1944 with UP alternatives
1946 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1948 nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
1949 instruction even if it is supported by the
1950 processor. RDRAND is still available to user
1953 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1956 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1957 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1958 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1962 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
1964 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1965 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1967 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1969 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1971 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1973 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1975 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
1979 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1981 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1982 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1985 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1986 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
1987 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
1988 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
1989 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
1991 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1993 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1994 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1995 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1996 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1998 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1999 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2002 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2003 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2004 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2005 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2006 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2007 interrupts *may* be lost!
2009 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2010 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2011 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2012 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2014 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2015 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2017 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2018 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2019 userland or if you want common events.
2020 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2021 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2022 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2023 CPU specific event set.
2024 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2025 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2026 for generic hr timer mode)
2027 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2028 (report cpu_type "timer")
2030 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2031 process, but there is a small probability of
2032 deadlocking the machine.
2033 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2034 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2037 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2039 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2040 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2041 timeout = 0: wait forever
2042 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2045 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2046 connected to, default is 0.
2048 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2049 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2052 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2053 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2054 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2055 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2056 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2057 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2058 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2059 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2060 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2061 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2062 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2063 are specified on the command line, starting
2066 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2067 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2068 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2069 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2070 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2071 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2072 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2075 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2076 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2077 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2082 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2083 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2085 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2086 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2088 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2089 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2090 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2091 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2092 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2093 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2094 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2095 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2096 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
2098 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
2100 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2101 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2102 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2103 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2104 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2105 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2107 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2108 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2109 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2110 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2111 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2112 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2113 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2114 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2115 should never be necessary.
2116 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2117 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2118 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2119 when the system masks IRQs.
2120 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2121 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2122 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2123 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2124 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2125 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2126 on several machines and they hang the machine
2127 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2128 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2129 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2130 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2132 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2133 Use with caution as certain devices share
2134 address decoders between ROMs and other
2136 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
2137 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2138 BIOS assigned address ranges.
2139 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2140 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2141 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2142 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2143 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2145 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
2146 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2147 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2148 F0000h-100000h range.
2149 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2150 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2151 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2152 explicitly which ones they are.
2153 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2154 numbers ourselves, overriding
2155 whatever the firmware may have done.
2156 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2157 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2158 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2159 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2160 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2161 IRQ routing is enabled.
2162 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2163 or for PCI scanning.
2164 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2165 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2166 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2167 please report a bug.
2168 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2169 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2170 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2171 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2172 so this option is a temporary workaround
2173 for broken drivers that don't call it.
2174 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2175 handle more pci cards
2176 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2177 just use the configuration from the
2178 bootloader. This is currently used on
2179 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2180 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
2181 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2182 This might help on some broken boards which
2183 machine check when some devices' config space
2184 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2185 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2186 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2187 This sorting is done to get a device
2188 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2189 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2190 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2191 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2192 The default value is 256 bytes.
2193 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2194 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2195 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
2198 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2199 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2200 aligned memory resources.
2201 If <order of align> is not specified,
2202 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2203 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2204 windows need to be expanded.
2205 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2206 end-to-end CRC checking).
2207 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2211 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2212 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2213 accommodate resources required by all child
2215 off: Turn realloc off
2217 realloc same as realloc=on
2218 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
2219 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2220 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2223 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2226 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2227 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2229 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2230 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2231 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2233 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
2234 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2235 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2236 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2237 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2239 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2242 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
2243 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
2244 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
2246 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2249 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2251 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2254 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2256 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
2257 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2258 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2259 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2260 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2261 and performance comparison.
2264 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2267 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2269 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
2270 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
2272 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2273 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2274 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2276 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
2277 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2281 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2282 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2283 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2284 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2285 possible settings and some assignment information.
2291 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2294 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2297 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2299 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
2300 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
2303 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2305 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2307 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2309 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2311 Format: <port>,<port>....
2313 print-fatal-signals=
2314 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
2316 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2317 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2318 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2321 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2322 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2326 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
2327 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
2329 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2332 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2333 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2335 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2336 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2337 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2339 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2340 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2341 instead using the legacy FADT method
2343 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
2344 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2345 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2346 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2347 statistical time based profiling.
2348 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2349 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
2350 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
2352 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2354 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2356 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2357 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
2358 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2360 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2361 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
2364 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2365 psmouse.smartscroll=
2366 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
2367 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2369 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2372 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2375 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2378 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
2383 See Documentation/md.txt.
2385 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
2386 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2388 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
2389 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2391 rcutree.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
2392 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
2395 rcutree.fanout_leaf= [KNL,BOOT]
2396 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
2397 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
2400 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
2401 Set threshold of queued
2402 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
2404 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
2405 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2406 batch limiting is re-enabled.
2408 rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL,BOOT]
2409 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2411 rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL,BOOT]
2412 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
2414 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
2415 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
2416 first attempt to force quiescent states.
2417 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
2418 and maximum value is HZ.
2420 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
2421 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
2422 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
2423 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
2425 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
2426 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
2428 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
2429 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
2431 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
2432 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
2434 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL,BOOT]
2435 Test RCU readers from irq handlers.
2437 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL,BOOT]
2438 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
2440 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL,BOOT]
2441 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
2442 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
2443 test, hence the "fake".
2445 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL,BOOT]
2446 Set number of RCU readers.
2448 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
2449 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2451 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
2452 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2453 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2455 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
2456 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
2457 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
2458 during the rcutorture test.
2460 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL,BOOT]
2461 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2462 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2464 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL,BOOT]
2465 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
2466 warnings, zero to disable.
2468 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
2469 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
2471 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
2472 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2474 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
2475 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
2476 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
2477 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
2478 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
2480 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL,BOOT]
2481 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
2482 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
2483 under test support RCU priority boosting.
2485 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
2486 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
2488 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
2489 Interval (s) between each boost test.
2491 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL,BOOT]
2492 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
2493 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
2495 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL,BOOT]
2496 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
2498 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL,BOOT]
2499 Enable additional printk() statements.
2503 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2504 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2506 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
2507 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
2508 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
2511 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
2512 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
2514 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2516 reservetop= [X86-32]
2518 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2523 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
2524 the bottom of the address space.
2526 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2527 during initialization.
2530 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2532 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
2534 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2535 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2536 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2537 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2538 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2540 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2541 read the resume files
2543 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
2544 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2545 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2547 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
2548 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
2549 present during boot.
2550 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
2552 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2554 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2555 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2557 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
2558 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
2560 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2562 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
2563 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
2565 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2566 mount the root filesystem
2568 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2570 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2572 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2573 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2574 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2576 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2578 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2581 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2583 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
2585 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
2587 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
2588 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
2589 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
2590 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2591 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
2593 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
2594 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
2596 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2597 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2598 security module asking for security registration will be
2599 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2600 as if no module has been chosen.
2602 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
2603 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2604 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2607 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2608 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2609 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2611 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
2612 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2613 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
2616 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2618 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
2621 Maximal number of shapers.
2623 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2624 Format: { <integer> }
2625 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2626 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2627 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2634 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
2635 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2636 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2637 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
2638 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
2640 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2641 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2642 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2643 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2644 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2645 last alloc / free. For more information see
2646 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2648 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
2649 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2650 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2651 fragmentation. For more information see
2652 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2654 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
2655 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2656 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2657 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2658 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2659 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2660 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
2661 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2663 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2664 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
2665 lower than slub_max_order.
2666 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2668 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
2669 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
2670 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
2671 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2672 merging on their own.
2673 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2676 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2678 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2679 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2680 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2681 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2682 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2683 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2684 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2685 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2686 1: Fast pin select (default)
2690 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2693 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2694 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
2696 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
2697 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
2699 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2705 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2707 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
2708 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
2709 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
2710 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
2711 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
2712 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
2713 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
2717 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2718 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2719 as the initial boot-console.
2720 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2723 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2726 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2728 sunrpc.min_resvport=
2729 sunrpc.max_resvport=
2731 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
2732 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
2733 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
2734 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
2735 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
2736 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
2737 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
2738 maximum port values.
2742 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2743 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2744 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2745 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2746 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2747 NFS server is running.
2749 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2750 automatically using heuristics
2751 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2752 percpu one pool for each CPU
2753 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2754 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2756 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
2757 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
2759 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
2760 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
2761 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
2762 improve throughput, but will also increase the
2763 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
2766 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
2767 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
2768 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
2770 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
2774 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
2775 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
2776 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
2777 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
2778 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
2779 in older udev will not work anymore.
2780 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
2781 the kernel configuration.
2783 sysrq_always_enabled
2785 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2786 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2787 Useful for debugging.
2791 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2792 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2793 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2794 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2795 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2797 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2798 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2800 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2801 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2802 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2804 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2805 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
2806 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
2808 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2809 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2810 critical and hot trip points.
2812 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2813 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2815 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2816 -1: disable all passive trip points
2817 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2820 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2821 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2822 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2823 0: no polling (default)
2826 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
2827 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
2831 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2832 topology information if the hardware supports this.
2833 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2834 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
2839 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
2840 Format: integer pcr id
2841 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
2842 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
2843 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
2844 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
2845 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
2848 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
2849 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
2851 trace_event=[event-list]
2852 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
2853 to facilitate early boot debugging.
2854 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
2856 transparent_hugepage=
2858 Format: [always|madvise|never]
2859 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
2860 with respect to transparent hugepages.
2861 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
2863 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
2865 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
2866 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
2867 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
2868 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
2869 virtualized environment.
2870 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
2871 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
2872 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
2875 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2876 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2878 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
2879 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2881 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
2882 happen after console_init() and before a proper
2883 console driver takes over, this boot options might
2884 help "seeing" what's going on.
2886 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2887 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
2890 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2891 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2892 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2893 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2894 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2898 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
2900 usbcore.authorized_default=
2901 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
2902 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
2903 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
2905 usbcore.autosuspend=
2906 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2907 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2908 is the time required before an idle device will be
2909 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
2910 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
2912 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2913 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2915 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2916 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2918 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2919 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2920 scheme (default 0 = off).
2922 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
2923 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
2924 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
2926 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2927 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2928 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2930 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2931 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2932 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2933 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2936 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
2938 usb-storage.delay_use=
2939 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2940 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2943 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2944 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2945 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2946 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2947 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2948 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2949 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
2950 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2952 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
2953 bytes of sense data);
2954 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2955 device capacity by one sector);
2956 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
2957 READ_DISC_INFO command);
2958 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
2959 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
2960 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2961 reported device capacity by one
2962 sector if the number is odd);
2963 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2965 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2966 unlock ejectable media);
2967 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2968 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
2969 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
2970 initial READ(10) command);
2971 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2972 reported by the device);
2973 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
2975 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2976 bogus residue values);
2977 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2979 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2980 medium is write-protected).
2981 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2983 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
2985 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
2986 1 - undefined instruction events
2988 4 - invalid data aborts
2991 Example: user_debug=31
2994 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
2996 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
2997 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
3001 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
3002 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
3003 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
3006 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
3007 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
3008 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
3011 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
3013 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
3014 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
3017 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
3019 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
3021 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
3023 <baseaddr> := physical base address
3024 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
3026 <id> := (optional) platform device id
3028 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
3030 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
3032 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
3033 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
3034 Documentation/svga.txt.
3035 Use vga=ask for menu.
3036 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
3037 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
3039 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
3040 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
3041 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
3042 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
3045 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
3048 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
3051 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
3055 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
3056 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
3057 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
3058 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
3059 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
3060 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
3062 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
3063 emulated reasonably safely.
3065 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3066 This is a little bit faster than trapping
3067 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
3068 better than they would in emulation mode.
3069 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
3071 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
3072 them quite hard to use for exploits but
3073 might break your system.
3075 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
3076 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
3077 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
3078 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
3080 vt.default_blu= [VT]
3081 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
3082 Change the default blue palette of the console.
3083 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3086 vt.default_grn= [VT]
3087 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
3088 Change the default green palette of the console.
3089 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3092 vt.default_red= [VT]
3093 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
3094 Change the default red palette of the console.
3095 This is a 16-member array composed of values
3101 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
3102 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
3103 newly opened terminals.
3105 vt.global_cursor_default=
3108 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
3109 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
3110 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
3111 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
3112 cursors, 1 will display them.
3114 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
3115 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
3116 or other driver-specific files in the
3117 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
3119 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
3120 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
3123 x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
3124 Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform.
3125 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
3126 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
3127 x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
3129 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
3130 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
3132 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
3133 Unplug Xen emulated devices
3134 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
3135 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
3136 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
3137 nics -- unplug network devices
3138 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
3139 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
3140 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
3142 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
3144 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
3146 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
3148 ______________________________________________________________________
3152 Add more DRM drivers.
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