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 MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
74 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
75 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
76 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
77 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
78 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
79 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
80 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
81 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
82 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
83 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
84 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
85 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
86 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
87 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
88 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
89 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
90 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
91 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
92 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
93 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
94 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
95 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
96 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
97 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
98 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
99 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
100 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
101 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
102 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
103 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
104 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
105 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
106 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
107 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
108 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
109 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
110 USB USB support is enabled.
111 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
112 V4L Video For Linux support 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 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
339 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
341 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
343 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
344 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
345 connected to one of 16 gameports
346 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
351 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
352 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
353 APC and your system crashes randomly.
355 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
357 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
358 Change the amount of debugging information output
359 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
364 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
365 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
366 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
367 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
368 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
369 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
370 apic=verbose is specified.
371 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
373 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
374 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
376 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
377 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
381 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
383 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
384 EzKey and similar keyboards
386 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
388 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
389 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
391 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
394 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
395 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
397 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
398 Use software keyboard repeat
402 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
405 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
407 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
409 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
410 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
411 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
412 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
414 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
415 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
416 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
417 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
419 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
420 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
424 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
426 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
427 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
429 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
432 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
433 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
436 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
438 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
439 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
440 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
441 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
442 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
443 This option provides an override for these situations.
446 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
447 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
448 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
449 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
451 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
452 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
454 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
455 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
456 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
458 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
459 Format: { "0" | "1" }
460 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
461 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
462 any implied execute protection).
463 1 -- check protection requested by application.
464 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
465 Value can be changed at runtime via
466 /selinux/checkreqprot.
469 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
471 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
473 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
474 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
475 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
476 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
478 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
480 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
481 with the name specified.
482 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
484 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
486 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
487 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
489 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
490 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
498 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
499 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
500 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
501 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
502 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
504 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
505 or using the feature without checking anything
506 will still see it. This just prevents it from
507 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
508 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
511 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
512 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
513 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
514 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
518 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
523 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
525 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
527 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
531 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
532 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
534 condev= [HW,S390] console device
537 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
539 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
543 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
544 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
545 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
546 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
547 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
549 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
551 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
554 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
555 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
556 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
557 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
558 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
559 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
561 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
562 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
564 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
566 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
567 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
568 disables the blank timer.
571 [KNL] Change the default value for
572 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
573 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
575 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
576 disable the cpuidle sub-system
578 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
580 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
582 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
583 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
584 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
585 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
586 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
587 is selected automatically. Check
588 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
590 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
591 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
592 in the running system. The syntax of range is
593 start-[end] where start and end are both
594 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
595 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
600 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
601 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
604 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
606 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
607 (one device per port)
608 Format: <port#>,<type>
609 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
611 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
612 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
615 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
618 [KNL] verbose self-tests
620 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
622 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
623 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
624 only useful to kernel developers.
626 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
629 [KNL] Disable object debugging
631 debug_guardpage_minorder=
632 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
633 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
634 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
635 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
636 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
637 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
638 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
639 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
640 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
641 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
642 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
643 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
644 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
645 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
646 bypassed) which are not detectable by
647 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
648 tracking down these problems.
650 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
652 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
653 Format: <area>[,<node>]
654 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
657 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
658 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
659 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
660 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
661 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
665 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
668 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
670 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
671 See drivers/char/README.epca and
672 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
675 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
677 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
678 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
679 to workaround buggy firmware.
682 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
684 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
685 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
686 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
687 entry later. This parameter disables that.
689 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
690 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
691 memory out of your available memory pool based on
692 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
693 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
695 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
696 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
697 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
699 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
700 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
702 dma_debug_entries=<number>
703 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
704 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
705 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
706 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
707 architectural default is too low.
709 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
710 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
711 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
712 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
713 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
714 driver later using sysfs.
718 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
719 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
720 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
721 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
722 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
723 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
724 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
725 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
726 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
728 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
730 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
731 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
732 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
734 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
737 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
739 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
741 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
744 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
747 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
750 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
751 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
754 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
756 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
757 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
760 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
761 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
764 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
765 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
766 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
768 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
769 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
770 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
771 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
772 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
774 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
775 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
776 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
777 entry later. This parameter enables that.
779 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
780 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
781 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
782 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
783 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
785 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
787 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
788 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
789 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
791 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
794 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
797 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
798 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
799 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
803 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
804 current integrity status.
808 fail_make_request=[KNL]
809 General fault injection mechanism.
810 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
811 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
814 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
816 force_pal_cache_flush
817 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
818 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
819 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
820 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
823 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
824 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
827 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
828 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
829 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
830 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
831 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
834 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
835 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
836 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
837 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
838 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
841 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
842 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
843 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
844 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
847 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
848 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
849 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
850 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
851 that can be changed at run time by the
852 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
855 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
856 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
857 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
858 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
862 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
866 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
867 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
868 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
869 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
870 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
872 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
873 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
875 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
876 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
877 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
878 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
880 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
882 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
883 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
886 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
887 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
888 logic will be disabled.
890 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
891 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
892 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
893 size on bigger boxes.
895 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
896 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
900 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
904 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
905 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
907 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
908 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
910 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
912 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
913 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
914 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
915 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
916 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
917 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
918 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
919 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
920 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
922 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
923 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
924 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
925 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
926 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
929 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
930 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
931 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
934 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
935 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
936 registered from board initialization code.
940 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
941 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
942 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
943 keyboard and cannot control its state
944 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
945 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
946 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
947 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
949 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
951 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
953 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
954 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
955 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
959 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
960 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
962 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
963 does not match list of supported models.
965 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
966 (disabled by default)
967 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
971 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
973 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
974 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
975 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
976 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
977 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
979 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
980 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
983 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
984 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
985 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
986 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
988 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
989 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
990 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
991 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
992 the same as idle=poll.
993 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
994 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
995 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
997 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
998 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
999 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1000 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1001 could change it dynamically, usually by
1002 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1004 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1005 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1008 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1009 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1010 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
1013 Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
1017 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1018 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1019 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1020 opened for read by uid=0.
1024 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1027 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1028 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1031 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1033 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1036 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1038 Enable intel iommu driver.
1040 Disable intel iommu driver.
1041 igfx_off [Default Off]
1042 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1043 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1044 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1045 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1048 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1049 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1050 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1051 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1052 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1053 then look in the higher range.
1054 strict [Default Off]
1055 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1056 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1057 to batching them for performance.
1058 sp_off [Default Off]
1059 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1060 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1062 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1063 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1064 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1065 nosid disable Source ID checking
1067 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1071 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1072 strict regions from userspace.
1087 group_mf [x86, IA-64]
1090 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1091 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1092 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1094 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1096 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1098 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1100 Simple two microseconds delay
1105 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1107 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
1108 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1109 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
1112 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1113 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1117 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1118 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1119 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1123 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1125 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1127 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1129 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1130 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1132 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1134 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1135 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1136 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1137 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1138 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1139 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1141 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1142 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1143 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1144 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1148 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1149 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1153 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1154 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1155 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1156 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1157 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1158 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1159 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1160 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1161 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1162 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1163 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1164 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1165 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1166 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1167 zone if it does not.
1169 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1170 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1171 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1172 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1173 optional and is the number seconds in between
1174 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1175 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1176 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1177 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1178 the kernel debugger.
1180 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1181 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1182 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1183 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1184 keyboard only format: kbd
1185 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1186 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1187 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1188 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1190 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1191 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1193 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1194 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1195 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1197 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1198 Valid arguments: on, off
1201 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1204 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1205 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1207 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1211 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1212 Default is 1 (enabled)
1214 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1216 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1218 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1219 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1220 Default is 1 (enabled)
1222 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1223 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1224 Default is 0 (disabled)
1226 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1227 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1228 Default is 1 (enabled)
1231 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1232 Default is 0 (disabled)
1234 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1235 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1236 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1237 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1239 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1240 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1241 Default is 1 (enabled)
1247 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1250 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1253 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1254 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1255 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1256 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1257 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1258 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1259 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1261 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1262 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1263 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
1265 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1269 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1270 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1271 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1272 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1273 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1274 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1275 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1276 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1278 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1279 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1280 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1281 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1282 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1283 host link and device attached to it.
1285 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1286 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1287 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1288 The following configurations can be forced.
1290 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1291 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1293 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1295 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1296 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1299 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1301 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1304 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1306 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1307 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1309 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1311 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1312 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1314 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1317 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1320 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1323 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1326 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1329 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1330 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1331 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1332 loglevels are defined as follows:
1334 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1335 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1336 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1337 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1338 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1339 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1340 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1341 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1343 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1344 in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
1345 size is set in the kernel config file.
1347 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1348 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1349 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1350 kernel boot problems.
1352 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1353 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1354 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1355 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1356 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1357 attached printers to be reset. Using
1358 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1359 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1360 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1361 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1362 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1363 port specification list means that device IDs
1364 from each port should be examined, to see if
1365 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1366 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1367 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1370 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1371 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1372 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1373 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1374 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1375 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1376 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1377 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1378 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1379 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1380 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1384 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1386 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1387 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1388 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1390 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1392 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1394 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1395 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1397 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1398 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1399 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1400 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1403 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
1404 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
1405 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
1406 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
1407 devices can be requested on-demand with the
1408 /dev/loop-control interface.
1412 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1414 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
1416 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1417 See Documentation/md.txt.
1420 Format: <first>,<last>
1421 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
1423 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1424 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1425 to see the whole system memory or for test.
1426 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
1427 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1428 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1430 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1434 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1435 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1437 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1438 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1439 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1440 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1443 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1444 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1445 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1447 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1448 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1449 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1451 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1452 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1453 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1454 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1455 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1457 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1459 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1460 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1461 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1462 Setting this option will scan the memory
1463 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1464 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1465 from using the memory being corrupted.
1466 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1467 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1468 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1469 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1471 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1472 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1473 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1474 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1475 corruption in more or less memory.
1477 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1478 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1479 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1480 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1482 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
1484 default : 0 <disable>
1485 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1486 performed. Each pass selects another test
1487 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1488 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1489 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1490 regions that are detected.
1492 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1493 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1495 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1496 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1499 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1500 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1501 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1502 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1506 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1507 physical address is ignored.
1509 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1510 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1512 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1513 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1514 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1515 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1516 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1517 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1519 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1520 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1521 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1523 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1524 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1525 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1526 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1527 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1528 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1531 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1532 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1533 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1534 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1535 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1536 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1539 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1540 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1541 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1542 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1544 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1545 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1546 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1547 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1549 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1550 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1551 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1552 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1553 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1554 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1555 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1556 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1559 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1560 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1562 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1563 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1566 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1568 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1569 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1572 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1574 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1576 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1577 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1578 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1579 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1580 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1583 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1585 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1587 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
1588 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1589 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1591 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1592 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
1593 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1595 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1596 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1598 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1601 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1603 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1605 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1606 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1608 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1610 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1611 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1612 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1613 something different and driver-specific.
1614 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1618 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1619 0 to disable accounting
1620 1 to enable accounting
1623 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
1624 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1626 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
1627 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1629 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
1630 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1632 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1633 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1634 channel should listen.
1637 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
1638 to update the NFS client cache entries.
1640 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
1641 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
1642 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
1644 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1645 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1649 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1650 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1651 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1652 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1653 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1655 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
1656 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
1657 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
1658 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
1659 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
1660 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
1661 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
1662 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
1663 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
1664 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
1665 back to using the idmapper.
1666 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
1668 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
1669 when a NMI is triggered.
1670 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1672 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1673 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
1675 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1676 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
1677 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
1679 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1680 need the box quickly up again.
1682 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
1683 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
1684 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
1687 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1688 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1692 [HW] Never suspend the console
1693 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1694 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1695 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1696 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1697 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1698 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1699 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1700 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
1701 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
1702 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
1703 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
1704 turn on/off it dynamically.
1706 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1707 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1708 but will impact performance.
1712 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1713 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1715 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
1717 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1718 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1722 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1724 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1726 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1728 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1730 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
1735 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1736 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1737 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1740 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection)
1741 even if it is supported by processor.
1744 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1745 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1746 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1747 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1748 read implies executable mappings
1750 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1752 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
1753 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1754 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1756 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
1757 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
1758 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
1760 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1761 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1762 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
1764 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
1765 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1768 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1769 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1770 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1772 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1773 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1774 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1775 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1776 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1779 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1780 Valid arguments: on, off
1783 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1785 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1786 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1788 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
1789 broken timer IRQ sources.
1791 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1793 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1796 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1798 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
1802 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1804 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
1806 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
1809 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
1810 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
1813 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1815 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
1817 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1818 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1820 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1822 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1824 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1825 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1827 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
1828 pagetables) support.
1830 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1831 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1833 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
1835 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
1836 with UP alternatives
1838 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1840 nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
1841 instruction even if it is supported by the
1842 processor. RDRAND is still available to user
1845 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1848 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1849 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1850 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1854 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
1856 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1857 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1859 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1861 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1863 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1865 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1867 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
1871 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1873 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1874 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1877 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1878 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
1879 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
1880 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
1881 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
1883 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1885 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1886 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1887 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1888 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1890 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1891 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
1894 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
1895 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
1896 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
1897 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
1898 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
1899 interrupts *may* be lost!
1901 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
1902 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
1903 For example, to override I2C bus2:
1904 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
1906 oprofile.timer= [HW]
1907 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
1909 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
1910 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
1911 userland or if you want common events.
1912 Format: { arch_perfmon }
1913 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
1914 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
1915 CPU specific event set.
1916 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
1917 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
1918 for generic hr timer mode)
1919 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
1920 (report cpu_type "timer")
1922 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
1923 process, but there is a small probability of
1924 deadlocking the machine.
1925 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
1926 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
1929 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
1931 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
1932 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
1933 timeout = 0: wait forever
1934 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1937 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
1938 connected to, default is 0.
1940 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
1941 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
1944 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
1945 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
1946 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
1947 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
1948 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
1949 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
1950 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
1951 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
1952 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
1953 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
1954 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
1955 are specified on the command line, starting
1958 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
1959 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
1960 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
1961 computer where firmware has no options for setting
1962 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
1963 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1964 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
1967 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
1968 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
1969 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
1974 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
1975 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1977 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1978 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
1980 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
1981 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
1982 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
1983 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
1984 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
1985 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
1986 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
1987 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
1988 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1990 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1992 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
1993 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1994 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
1995 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
1996 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
1997 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
1999 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2000 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2001 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2002 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2003 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2004 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2005 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2006 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2007 should never be necessary.
2008 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2009 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2010 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2011 when the system masks IRQs.
2012 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2013 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2014 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2015 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2016 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2017 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2018 on several machines and they hang the machine
2019 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2020 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2021 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2022 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2024 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2025 Use with caution as certain devices share
2026 address decoders between ROMs and other
2028 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
2029 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2030 BIOS assigned address ranges.
2031 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2032 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2033 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2034 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2035 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2037 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
2038 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2039 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2040 F0000h-100000h range.
2041 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2042 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2043 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2044 explicitly which ones they are.
2045 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2046 numbers ourselves, overriding
2047 whatever the firmware may have done.
2048 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2049 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2050 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2051 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2052 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2053 IRQ routing is enabled.
2054 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2055 or for PCI scanning.
2056 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2057 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2058 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2059 please report a bug.
2060 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2061 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2062 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2063 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2064 so this option is a temporary workaround
2065 for broken drivers that don't call it.
2066 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2067 handle more pci cards
2068 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2069 just use the configuration from the
2070 bootloader. This is currently used on
2071 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2072 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
2073 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2074 This might help on some broken boards which
2075 machine check when some devices' config space
2076 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2077 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2078 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2079 This sorting is done to get a device
2080 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2081 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2082 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2083 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2084 The default value is 256 bytes.
2085 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2086 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2087 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
2090 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2091 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2092 aligned memory resources.
2093 If <order of align> is not specified,
2094 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2095 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2096 windows need to be expanded.
2097 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2098 end-to-end CRC checking).
2099 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2103 realloc reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
2106 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2109 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2110 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2112 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
2113 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2114 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2115 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2116 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2118 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2121 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
2122 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
2123 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
2125 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2128 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2130 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2133 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2135 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
2136 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2137 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2138 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2139 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2140 and performance comparison.
2143 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2146 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2148 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
2149 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
2151 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2152 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2153 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2155 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
2156 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2160 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2161 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2162 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2163 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2164 possible settings and some assignment information.
2170 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2173 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2176 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2178 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
2179 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
2182 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2184 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2186 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2188 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2190 Format: <port>,<port>....
2192 print-fatal-signals=
2193 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
2195 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2196 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2197 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2200 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2201 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2205 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2206 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2208 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2209 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2210 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2212 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2213 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2214 instead using the legacy FADT method
2216 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
2217 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2218 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2219 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2220 statistical time based profiling.
2221 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2222 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
2223 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
2225 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2227 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2229 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2230 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
2231 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2233 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2234 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
2237 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2238 psmouse.smartscroll=
2239 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
2240 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2242 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2245 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2248 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2251 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
2256 See Documentation/md.txt.
2258 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
2259 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2261 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
2262 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2264 rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
2265 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
2268 rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
2269 Set threshold of queued
2270 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
2272 rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
2273 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2274 batch limiting is re-enabled.
2278 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2279 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2281 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
2282 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
2283 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
2286 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
2287 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
2289 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2291 reservetop= [X86-32]
2293 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2298 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
2299 the bottom of the address space.
2301 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2302 during initialization.
2305 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2307 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2308 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2309 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2310 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2311 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2313 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2314 read the resume files
2316 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
2317 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2318 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2320 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
2321 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
2322 present during boot.
2323 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
2325 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2327 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2328 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2330 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
2331 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
2333 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2335 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
2336 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
2338 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2339 mount the root filesystem
2341 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2343 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2345 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2346 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2347 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2349 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2351 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2354 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2356 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
2358 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
2360 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2361 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2362 security module asking for security registration will be
2363 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2364 as if no module has been chosen.
2366 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
2367 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2368 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2371 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2372 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2373 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2375 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
2376 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2377 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
2380 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2382 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
2385 Maximal number of shapers.
2387 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2388 Format: { <integer> }
2389 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2390 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2391 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2398 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
2399 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2400 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2401 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
2402 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
2404 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2405 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2406 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2407 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2408 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2409 last alloc / free. For more information see
2410 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2412 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
2413 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2414 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2415 fragmentation. For more information see
2416 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2418 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
2419 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2420 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2421 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2422 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2423 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2424 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
2425 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2427 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2428 Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
2429 lower than slub_max_order.
2430 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2432 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
2433 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
2434 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
2435 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2436 merging on their own.
2437 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2440 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2442 smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
2443 attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
2445 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2446 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2447 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2448 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2449 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2450 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2451 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2452 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2453 1: Fast pin select (default)
2457 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2460 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2461 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
2463 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
2464 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
2466 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2472 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2476 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2477 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2478 as the initial boot-console.
2479 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2482 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2485 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2487 sunrpc.min_resvport=
2488 sunrpc.max_resvport=
2490 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
2491 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
2492 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
2493 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
2494 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
2495 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
2496 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
2497 maximum port values.
2501 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2502 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2503 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2504 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2505 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2506 NFS server is running.
2508 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2509 automatically using heuristics
2510 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2511 percpu one pool for each CPU
2512 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2513 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2515 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
2516 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
2518 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
2519 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
2520 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
2521 improve throughput, but will also increase the
2522 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
2525 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
2526 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
2527 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
2529 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
2533 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
2534 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
2535 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
2536 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
2537 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
2538 in older udev will not work anymore.
2539 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
2540 the kernel configuration.
2542 sysrq_always_enabled
2544 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2545 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2546 Useful for debugging.
2550 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2551 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2552 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2553 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2554 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2556 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2557 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2559 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2560 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2561 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2563 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2564 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
2565 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
2567 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2568 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2569 critical and hot trip points.
2571 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2572 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2574 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2575 -1: disable all passive trip points
2576 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2579 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2580 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2581 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2582 0: no polling (default)
2585 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
2586 marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
2590 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2591 topology information if the hardware supports this.
2592 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2593 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
2598 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
2599 Format: integer pcr id
2600 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
2601 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
2602 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
2603 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
2604 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
2607 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
2608 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
2610 trace_event=[event-list]
2611 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
2612 to facilitate early boot debugging.
2613 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
2615 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
2617 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
2618 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
2619 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
2620 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
2621 virtualized environment.
2622 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
2623 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
2624 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
2627 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2628 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2630 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
2631 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2633 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
2634 happen after console_init() and before a proper
2635 console driver takes over, this boot options might
2636 help "seeing" what's going on.
2638 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2639 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
2642 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2643 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2644 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2645 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2646 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2650 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
2652 usbcore.authorized_default=
2653 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
2654 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
2655 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
2657 usbcore.autosuspend=
2658 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2659 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2660 is the time required before an idle device will be
2661 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
2662 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
2664 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2665 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2667 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2668 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2670 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2671 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2672 scheme (default 0 = off).
2674 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
2675 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
2676 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
2678 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2679 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2680 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2682 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2683 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2684 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2685 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2688 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
2690 usb-storage.delay_use=
2691 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2692 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2695 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2696 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2697 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2698 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2699 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2700 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2701 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
2702 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2704 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
2705 bytes of sense data);
2706 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2707 device capacity by one sector);
2708 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
2709 READ_DISC_INFO command);
2710 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
2711 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
2712 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2713 reported device capacity by one
2714 sector if the number is odd);
2715 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2717 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2718 unlock ejectable media);
2719 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2720 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
2721 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
2722 initial READ(10) command);
2723 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2724 reported by the device);
2725 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2726 bogus residue values);
2727 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2729 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2730 medium is write-protected).
2731 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2733 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
2735 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
2736 1 - undefined instruction events
2738 4 - invalid data aborts
2741 Example: user_debug=31
2744 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
2746 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
2747 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
2751 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2752 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
2753 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
2756 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2757 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
2758 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
2761 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
2763 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
2764 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
2766 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
2767 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
2768 Documentation/svga.txt.
2769 Use vga=ask for menu.
2770 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
2771 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
2773 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
2774 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
2775 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
2776 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
2779 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
2782 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
2785 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
2789 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
2790 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
2791 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
2792 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
2793 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
2794 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
2796 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
2797 emulated reasonably safely.
2799 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
2800 This is a little bit faster than trapping
2801 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
2802 better than they would in emulation mode.
2803 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
2805 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
2806 them quite hard to use for exploits but
2807 might break your system.
2809 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
2810 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
2811 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
2812 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
2814 vt.default_blu= [VT]
2815 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
2816 Change the default blue palette of the console.
2817 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2820 vt.default_grn= [VT]
2821 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
2822 Change the default green palette of the console.
2823 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2826 vt.default_red= [VT]
2827 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
2828 Change the default red palette of the console.
2829 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2835 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
2836 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
2837 newly opened terminals.
2839 vt.global_cursor_default=
2842 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
2843 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
2844 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
2845 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
2846 cursors, 1 will display them.
2848 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
2849 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
2850 or other driver-specific files in the
2851 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
2853 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
2854 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
2857 x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
2858 Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform.
2859 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
2860 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
2861 x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
2863 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
2864 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
2866 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
2867 Unplug Xen emulated devices
2868 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
2869 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
2870 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
2871 nics -- unplug network devices
2872 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
2873 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
2874 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
2876 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
2878 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
2880 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
2882 ______________________________________________________________________
2886 Add more DRM drivers.
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