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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8manner), and with descriptions where known.
9
10The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
15
16Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
18
19 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
21
22Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
26loadable modules too.
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28Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
32
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33Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
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36This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
42
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43The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46parameter is applicable:
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47
48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
c99c108a 49 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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50 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
51 APIC APIC support is enabled.
52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
16290246 53 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
e7ba176b 54 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 55 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
0ae53640 56 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
1e435256 57 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
5c71d618 58 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
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59 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
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61 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
7102ebcd 64 EVM Extended Verification Module
1da177e4 65 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
16290246 66 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
2521f2c2 67 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
1da177e4 68 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
1da177e4 69 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
6146f0d5 70 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 71 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
41e2e8be 72 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
b0f83b28 73 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
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74 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
84c08fd6 77 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
fef07aae 78 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
11ef697b 79 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
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80 LP Printer support is enabled.
81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
83 These options have more detailed description inside of
84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
1da177e4 85 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
16290246 86 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 87 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
309e57df 88 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
c8facbb6 89 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
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90 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
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94 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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96 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
7f785763 98 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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99 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
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107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
20510f2f 109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
1da177e4 110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
c1c124e9 111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
1da177e4 112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
e523d93c 113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
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116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
225a9be2 118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
1da177e4 119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
d4f373e5 120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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121 USB USB support is enabled.
122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
81a054ce 124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
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125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
cd4f0ef7 129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
71cced6e 132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
16290246 133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
c1c5413a 134 XEN Xen support is enabled
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135
136In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
137
138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
141
142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
954a8b81 145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
1da177e4 146
5558870b 147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
71cced6e 148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
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150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
154running once the system is up.
155
9c4751fd 156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
161
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162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
166
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b10d79f7 168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
171 copy_dsdt }
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172 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
173 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
174 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 175 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 176 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 177 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 178 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
b10d79f7 179 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off" or "acpi=force" are available
1da177e4 180
395cf969 181 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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183 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
184 Format: <int>
185 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
186 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 187 default: 0
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189 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
190 acpi_backlight=vendor
191 acpi_backlight=video
192 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
193 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
194 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
195
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196 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
197 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
198 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
199 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
200 This option is useful for developers to identify the
201 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
202 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
203
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204 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
205 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 206 Format: <int>
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207 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
208 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
209 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
210 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
211 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
212 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
213 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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214 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
215 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
216 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 217
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218 Enable processor driver info messages:
219 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
220 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
221 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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222 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
223 object while interpreting AML:
224 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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225 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
226 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
227
228 Some values produce so much output that the system is
229 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
230 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 231
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232 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
233 { strict | lax | no }
234 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
235 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
236 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
237 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
238 can interfere with legacy drivers.
239 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
240 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
241 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
242 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
243 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
244 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
245 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
246 no further checks are performed.
247
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248 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
249 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
250 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
251 size limitation.
252
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253 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
254 ACPI will balance active IRQs
255 default in APIC mode
256
257 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
258 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
259 default in PIC mode
260
261 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
262 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
263
264 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
265 use by PCI
266 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
267
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268 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
269 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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270 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
271 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
272 auto-serialization feature.
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273 This feature is enabled by default.
274 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 275
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276 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
277 kernels.
278
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279 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
280 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
281 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
282 installed automatically and they will appear under
283 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
284 This option turns off this feature.
285 Note that specifying this option does not affect
286 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
287 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 288
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289 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
290 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
291 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
292 second kernel for kdump.
4dde507f 293
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294 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
295 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
296
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297 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
298 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
299 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
300 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
301 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
302
0cb55ad2 303 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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304 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
305 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 306 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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307 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
308 strings
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309 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
310
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311 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
312 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
313 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
314 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
315 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
316 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
317 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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318 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
319 care about the state of the feature group strings which
320 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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321 Examples:
322 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
323 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
324 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
325
326 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
327 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
328 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
329 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
330 multiple times through kernel command line is also
331 meaningless.
332 Examples:
333 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
334 FALSE.
335
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336 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
337 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
338 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
339 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
340 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
341 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
342 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
343 there are quirks related to this string. This command
344 is useful when one want to control the state of the
345 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
346 the OSPM features.
347 Examples:
348 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
349 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
350 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
351 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
352 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
353 equivalent to
354 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
355 and
356 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
357 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
358
6cececfc 359 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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360 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
361 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
362 and always returns good values.
363
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364 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
365 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
366
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367 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
368 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
369 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
370
371 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
372 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
c3b0795c 373 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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374 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
375 s3_bios and s3_mode.
376 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
377 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
378 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
379 used during resume from hibernation.
380 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
381 control method, with respect to putting devices into
382 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
383 of _PTS is used by default).
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384 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
385 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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386 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
387 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
388 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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389
390 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
391 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
392 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
393
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394 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
395 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
396
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397 agp= [AGP]
398 { off | try_unsupported }
399 off: disable AGP support
400 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
401 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
402
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403 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
404 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
405
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406 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
407 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
408 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
409 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
410
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411 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
412 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
413 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
414 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
415 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
416 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
417 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
418
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419 32: only for 32-bit processes
420 64: only for 64-bit processes
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421 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
422 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
423
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424 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
425 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
426 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
427 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
428 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
429 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
430
89e0b9a3 431 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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432 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
433 Possible values are:
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434 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
435 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
436 flushed before they will be reused, which
437 is a lot of faster
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438 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
439 the system
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440 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
441 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
442 allowed anymore to lift isolation
443 requirements as needed. This option
444 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 445
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446 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
447 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
448 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
449 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
450 IOMMU initialization.
451
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452 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
453 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
454 Format: <a>,<b>
395cf969 455 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
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456
457 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
458 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
459 connected to one of 16 gameports
460 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
461
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462 apc= [HW,SPARC]
463 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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464 Format: noidle
465 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
466 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
467 APC and your system crashes randomly.
468
ca1eda2d 469 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 470 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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471 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
472 Change the amount of debugging information output
473 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 474
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475 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
476 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
477 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
478 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
479 backup of CPU 0
480 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
481 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
482 shot down by NMI
483
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484 autoconf= [IPV6]
485 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
486
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487 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
488 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
489 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
490 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
491 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
492 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
493 apic=verbose is specified.
494 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
495
1da177e4 496 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 497 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 498
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499 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
500 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
501
502 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
503
504 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
505
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506 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
507 EzKey and similar keyboards
508
509 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
510
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511 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
512 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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513
514 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
515 keyboards
516
517 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
518 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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519
520 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
521 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 522
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523 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
524 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
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525 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
526 until the next reboot
527 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
528 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
529 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
530 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
531 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
532 auditd.
a106fb0c 533 Default: unset
f3411cb2 534
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535 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
536 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
537 Default: 64
538
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539 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
540 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 541
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542 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
543 Format: <io>,<mode>
544 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
545
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546 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
547 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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548 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
549 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
550
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551 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
552 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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553 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
554 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
555
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556 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
557 embedded devices based on command line input.
558 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
559
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560 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
562 no delay (0).
563 Format: integer
564
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565 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
566
1da177e4 567 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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568 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
569 kernel args too.
1da177e4 570 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
395cf969 571 bttv.tuner=
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573 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
574 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
575 at a time.
576
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577 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
578
cd4f0ef7 579 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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580 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
581 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
582 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
583 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
584 This option provides an override for these situations.
585
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586 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
587 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
588 trust validation.
32c4741c 589 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
ffb70f61 590
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591 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
592 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
593 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
594 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
595 others).
596
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597 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
598 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 599
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600 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
601 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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602 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
603 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
604 a single hierarchy
605 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
606 subsystem
607 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
608 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
609 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 610
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611 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612 Format: <string>
613 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 614 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 615
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616 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
617 Format: { "0" | "1" }
618 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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619 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
620 any implied execute protection).
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621 1 -- check protection requested by application.
622 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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623 Value can be changed at runtime via
624 /selinux/checkreqprot.
625
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626 cio_ignore= [S390]
627 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
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628 clk_ignore_unused
629 [CLK]
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630 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
631 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
632 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
633 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
634 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
635 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
636 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
637 platform with proper driver support. For more
638 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
661ca0da 639
cd4f0ef7 640 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 641 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 642 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 643 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 644 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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645 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
646
592913ec 647 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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648 Format: <string>
649 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
650 with the name specified.
651 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
652 the platform:
653 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
654 [ACPI] acpi_pm
655 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
656 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
657 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 658 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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659 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
660 [MIPS] MIPS
661 [PARISC] cr16
662 [S390] tod
663 [SH] SuperH
664 [SPARC64] tick
665 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
666
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667 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
668 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
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669 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
670 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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671 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
672 ones should be.
673 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
674 or using the feature without checking anything
675 will still see it. This just prevents it from
676 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
677 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
678 some critical bits.
679
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680 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
681 [ARM,X86,KNL]
682 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
683 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
684 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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685 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
686 altogether. For more information, see
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687 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
688
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689 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
690 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
691 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
692 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
693 a hypervisor.
694 Default: yes
695
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696 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
697 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 698 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 699
6cececfc 700 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 701 in an oops report.
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702 Range: 0 - 8192
703 Default: 64
704
1da177e4 705 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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706 Format:
707 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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708
709 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
710 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
711
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712 com90xx= [HW,NET]
713 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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714 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
715
716 condev= [HW,S390] console device
717 conmode=
a9913044 718
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719 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
720
721 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
722
723 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 724 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 725 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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726 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
727 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
728 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
729 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
730
731 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
732 information. See
733 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
734 alternative.
1da177e4 735
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736 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
737 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 738 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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739 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
740 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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741 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
742 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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743 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
744 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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745 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
746 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
747 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
748 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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749 the h/w is not re-initialized.
750
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751 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
752 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 753
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754 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
755 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
756 console=brl,ttyS0
757 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
758
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759 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
760 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
761 disables the blank timer.
762
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763 coredump_filter=
764 [KNL] Change the default value for
765 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
766 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
767
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768 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
769 disable the cpuidle sub-system
770
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771 cpu_init_udelay=N
772 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
773 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
774 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
775 Default: 10000
776
1da177e4 777 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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778 Format:
779 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 780
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781 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
782 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
783 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
784 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
785 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
786 is selected automatically. Check
787 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 788
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789 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
790 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
791 in the running system. The syntax of range is
792 start-[end] where start and end are both
793 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 794 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 795
adbc742b 796 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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797 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
798 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
799 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
800 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
801 available.
802 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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803 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
804 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
805 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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806 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
807 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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808 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
809 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
810 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
811 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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812 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
813 for second kernel instead.
814 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 815 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 816 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 817
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818 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
819 Format: <dma>
820
821 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
822 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 823
a9913044 824 dasd= [HW,NET]
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825 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
826
827 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
828 (one device per port)
829 Format: <port#>,<type>
830 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
831
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832 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
833 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
29e36c9f 834 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 835
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836 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
837
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838 debug_locks_verbose=
839 [KNL] verbose self-tests
840 Format=<0|1>
841 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
842 self-tests.
843 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
844 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
845 only useful to kernel developers.
846
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847 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
848
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849 no_debug_objects
850 [KNL] Disable object debugging
851
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852 debug_guardpage_minorder=
853 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
854 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
855 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
856 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
857 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
858 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
859 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
860 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
861 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
862 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
863 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
864 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
865 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
866 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
867 bypassed) which are not detectable by
868 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
869 tracking down these problems.
870
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871 debug_pagealloc=
872 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
873 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
874 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
875 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
876 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
877 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
878 on: enable the feature
879
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880 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
881
2d27a966 882 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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883 Format: <area>[,<node>]
884 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
885
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886 default_hugepagesz=
887 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
888 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
889 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
890 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
891 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
892 if not specified.
55ff9780 893
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894 dhash_entries= [KNL]
895 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 896
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897 disable= [IPV6]
898 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
899
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900 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
901 Format: <int>
902 The number of initial APIC ID for the
903 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
904 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
905 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
906 causing system reset or hang due to sending
907 INIT from AP to BSP.
908
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909 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
910 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
911 to workaround buggy firmware.
912
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913 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
914 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
915
95ffa243 916 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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917 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
918 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 919 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 920
093af8d7 921 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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922 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
923 memory out of your available memory pool based on
924 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
925 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
926
6cececfc 927 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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928 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
929 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
930
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931 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
932
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933 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
934 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
935
936 dma_debug_entries=<number>
937 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
938 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
939 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
940 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
941 architectural default is too low.
942
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943 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
944 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
945 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
946 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
947 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
948 driver later using sysfs.
949
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950 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
951 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
952 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
953 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
954 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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955 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
956 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
957 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
958 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
959 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
960 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
961 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
962 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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963 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
964 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
965 data set with no connector name will be used for
966 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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968 dscc4.setup= [NET]
969
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970 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
971 module.dyndbg[="val"]
972 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
973 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
974
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975 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
976 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
977 information about the feature.
978
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979 eagerfpu= [X86]
980 on enable eager fpu restore
981 off disable eager fpu restore
982 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
983 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
984
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985 module.async_probe [KNL]
986 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
987
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988 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
989 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
990 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
991 which are not unmapped.
992
0cb55ad2 993 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
0d3c673e 994
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995 When used with no options, the early console is
996 determined by the stdout-path property in device
997 tree's chosen node.
998
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999 cdns,<addr>
1000 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
1001 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
1002 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1003 yet supported.
1004
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1005 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1006 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1007 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1008 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1009 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1010 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1011 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1012 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1013 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1014 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1015 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1016 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1017 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
0cb55ad2 1018
0d3c673e 1019 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1020 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1021 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1022 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1023 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1024 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1025 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1026 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1027
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1028 msm_serial,<addr>
1029 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1030 port at the specified address. The serial port
1031 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1032 yet supported.
1033
1034 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1035 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1036 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1037 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1038 yet supported.
1039
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1040 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1041
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1042 s3c2410,<addr>
1043 s3c2412,<addr>
1044 s3c2440,<addr>
1045 s3c6400,<addr>
1046 s5pv210,<addr>
1047 exynos4210,<addr>
1048 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1049 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1050 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1051 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1052 Options are not yet supported.
1053
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1054 lpuart,<addr>
1055 lpuart32,<addr>
1056 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1057 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1058 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1059 port must already be setup and configured.
1060
7913ad1a 1061 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1da177e4 1062 earlyprintk=vga
72548e83 1063 earlyprintk=efi
2482a92e 1064 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1065 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1066 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1067 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1068 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
c43088e3 1069 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1da177e4 1070
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DH
1071 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1072 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1073 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1074
a9913044 1075 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1076 takes over.
1077
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MF
1078 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1079 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1080
147ea091
DH
1081 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1082 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1083 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1084 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1085 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1086 You can find the port for a given device in
1087 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1088 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1da177e4
LT
1089
1090 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1091 very good.
1092
72548e83
MF
1093 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1094 the real console.
1da177e4 1095
2482a92e
KRW
1096 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1097
c700f013
CG
1098 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1099 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1100 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1101 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1102 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1103 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1104 default: on.
1105
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JW
1106 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1107 ekgdboc=kbd
1108
25985edc 1109 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1110 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1111
1da177e4 1112 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1113 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1114
d2f7cbe7 1115 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1116 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1117 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1118 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1119 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1120 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1121 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1122 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1123 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1124 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1125
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RW
1126 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1127 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1128 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1129 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1130 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1131
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TI
1132 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1133 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1134 updating original EFI memory map.
1135 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1136 from ss to ss+nn.
1137 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1138 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1139 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1140 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1141
1142 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1143 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1144 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1145 doesn't support it.
1146
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1147 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1148 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1149
cd4f0ef7 1150 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1151 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1152 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1153
1154 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 1155 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
395cf969 1156 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
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RD
1157 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1158
d3bf3795 1159 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1160 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1161 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1162 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
aac04b32 1163 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 1164
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1165 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1166 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1167 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1168 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1169
ca1eda2d 1170 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1171 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1172 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1173 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1174 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1175
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LT
1176 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1177 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1178 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1179 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1180 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1181 Default value is 0.
1182 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1183
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HY
1184 erst_disable [ACPI]
1185 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1186 support.
1187
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LT
1188 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1189 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1190 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1191
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MZ
1192 evm= [EVM]
1193 Format: { "fix" }
1194 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1195 current integrity status.
1196
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1197 failslab=
1198 fail_page_alloc=
1199 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1200 General fault injection mechanism.
1201 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1202 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1203
1da177e4 1204 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 1205 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 1206
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AC
1207 force_pal_cache_flush
1208 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1209 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1210 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1211 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1212
69f2366c
CB
1213 forcepae [X86-32]
1214 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1215 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1216 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1217 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1218 and may cause unknown problems.
1219
d9e54076 1220 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1221 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1222 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1223 boot debugging.
1224
cecbca96 1225 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1226 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1227 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1228 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1229 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1230 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1231
1232 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1233 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1234 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1235 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1236 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1237 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1238
1239 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1240 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1241 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1242 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1243 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1244
369bc18f
SA
1245 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1246 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1247 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1248 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1249 that can be changed at run time by the
1250 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1251
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NK
1252 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1253 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1254 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1255 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1256 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1257
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LT
1258 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1259 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1260 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1261 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1262 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1263
1264 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1265
aaf23042
YL
1266 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1267 Format: off | on
1268 default: on
1269
2521f2c2
PO
1270 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1271 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1272 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1273 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1274 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1275
1da177e4 1276 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1277 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1278 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1279 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1280
6cec9b07
AL
1281 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1282 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1283 Format: 0 | 1
1284 Default: 0
1285 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1286 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1287 Format: 0 | 1
1288 Default: 0
1289 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1290 Format: 0 | 1
1291 Default: 0
1292 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1293 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1294 Default: 1024
1295 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1296 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1297 Default: 1024
1298
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JK
1299 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1300 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1301 backtraces on all cpus.
1302 Format: <integer>
1303
1da177e4
LT
1304 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1305 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1306 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1307 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1308
1309 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1310
1311 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1312 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1313
ea8c071c
HY
1314 hest_disable [ACPI]
1315 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1316 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1317 logic will be disabled.
1318
1da177e4
LT
1319 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1320 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1321 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1322 size on bigger boxes.
1323
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TG
1324 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1325 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1326 Default: "on"
1327
1da177e4
LT
1328 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
1329 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1330
0cb55ad2
RD
1331 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1332
1333 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1334 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1335 verbose }
1336 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1337 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1338 VIA, nVidia)
1339 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1340
3d035f58
PB
1341 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1342 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1343
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AK
1344 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1345 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1346 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1347 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1348 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1349 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1350 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1351
555d61d6
HB
1352 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1353 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
431429ff
HB
1354 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1355 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1356 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 1357
fdabf525
JH
1358 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1359 hardware thread id mappings.
1360 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1361
7bf69395
FDN
1362 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1363 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1364 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1365 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1366 the real console.
1367
3a853fb9 1368 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
7954763b
JN
1369 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1370 registered from board initialization code.
3a853fb9
JN
1371 Format:
1372 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1373
36d95739 1374 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1375 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1376 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1377 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1378 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1379 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1380 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1381 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1382 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1383 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1384 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1385 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1386 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1387 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1388 controller
1da177e4
LT
1389 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1390 controllers
24775d65 1391 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1da177e4
LT
1392 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1393 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
148e9a71 1394 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1395
1396 i810= [HW,DRM]
1397
e70c9d5e
DT
1398 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1399 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1400 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1401 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1402 does not match list of supported models.
1403 i8k.power_status
1404 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1405 (disabled by default)
1406 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1407 capability is set.
1408
4dca20ef 1409 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1410 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1411 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1412 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1413 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1414 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1415 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1416 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1417 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1418 value switches the backlight off.
1419 -1 -- never invert brightness
1420 0 -- machine default
1421 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1422
1da177e4
LT
1423 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1424 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1425
0af80c04
DF
1426 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1427 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1428 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1429 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 1430 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 1431
0f8b7f5d
MR
1432 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1433 Format: <int>
1434 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1435 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1436 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1437 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1438 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1439 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1440 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1441 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1442 was 0x3.
1443
0cb55ad2
RD
1444 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1445 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1446
f039b754 1447 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1448 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1449 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1450 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1451 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1452 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1453 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1454 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1455 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1456
79290822
IM
1457 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1458 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1459 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1460 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1461 could change it dynamically, usually by
1462 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1463
1da177e4
LT
1464 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1465 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1466
2fe5d6de 1467 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1468 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2fe5d6de
MZ
1469 default: "enforce"
1470
07f6a794
MZ
1471 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1472 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1473 owned by uid=0.
1474
3323eec9 1475 ima_hash= [IMA]
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1476 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1477 | sha512 | ... }
3323eec9
MZ
1478 default: "sha1"
1479
e7a2ad7e
MZ
1480 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1481 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1482
24fd03c8
MZ
1483 ima_policy= [IMA]
1484 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1485 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1486 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1487 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1488 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1489 Format: "tcb"
1490
1491 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
5789ba3b
EP
1492 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1493 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1494 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1495 opened for read by uid=0.
1496
9b9d4ce5
RS
1497 ima_template= [IMA]
1498 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1499 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
9b9d4ce5
RS
1500 Default: "ima-ng"
1501
c2426d2a
RS
1502 ima_template_fmt=
1503 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1504 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1505
3bcced39
DK
1506 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1507 Format: <min_file_size>
1508 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1509 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1510
1511 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1512 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1513 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1514
6edf7a89
DK
1515 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1516 Format: <bufsize>
1517 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1518
1519 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1520 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1521 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1522
1da177e4
LT
1523 init= [KNL]
1524 Format: <full_path>
1525 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1526 process.
1527
1528 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1529 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1530 startup.
1531
7b0b73d7
PB
1532 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1533 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1534 modules and initcalls.
1535
1da177e4
LT
1536 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1537
1538 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1539 Format: <irq>
1540
6bb2ff84
FY
1541 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1542
d726d8d7
MZ
1543 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1544 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1545 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1546 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1547
ba395927 1548 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
0cd5c3c8
KM
1549 on
1550 Enable intel iommu driver.
ba395927
KA
1551 off
1552 Disable intel iommu driver.
1553 igfx_off [Default Off]
1554 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1555 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1556 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1557 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1558 DMA.
7d3b03ce
KA
1559 forcedac [x86_64]
1560 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1561 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1562 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
16290246
RD
1563 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1564 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1565 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1566 strict [Default Off]
1567 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1568 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1569 to batching them for performance.
6dd9a7c7
YS
1570 sp_off [Default Off]
1571 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1572 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1573 not be supported.
c83b2f20
DW
1574 ecs_off [Default Off]
1575 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1576 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1577 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1578 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1579 on hardware which claims to support them.
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1580
1581 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1582 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1583 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1584
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1585 intel_pstate= [X86]
1586 disable
1587 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1588 scaling driver for the supported processors
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1589 force
1590 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1591 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1592 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1593 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1594 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1595 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1596 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1597 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
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1598 no_hwp
1599 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1600 if available.
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1601 hwp_only
1602 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1603 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
6be26498 1604
d1423d56 1605 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1606 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1607 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1608 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1609 no_x2apic_optout
1610 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1611 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1612
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1613 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1614 strict regions from userspace.
1615 relaxed
1616
1617 iommu= [x86]
1618 off
1619 force
1620 noforce
1621 biomerge
1622 panic
1623 nopanic
1624 merge
1625 nomerge
1626 forcesac
1627 soft
bcb71abe 1628 pt [x86, IA-64]
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1629 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1630 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1631
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1632
1633 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1634 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1635 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1636
6cececfc 1637 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1638 0x80
1639 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1640 0xed
1641 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1642 udelay
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1643 Simple two microseconds delay
1644 none
1645 No delay
b02aae9c 1646
1da177e4 1647 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1648 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1649
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1650 irqfixup [HW]
1651 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1652 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1653 firmware running.
1654
1655 irqpoll [HW]
1656 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1657 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1658 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1659 firmware running.
1660
1da177e4 1661 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1662 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1663
1664 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
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1665 Format:
1666 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1667 or
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1668 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1669 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
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1670 or a mixture
1671 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
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1673 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1674 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1675 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1676 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1677 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1678 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1679
1680 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1681 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1682 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1683 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1684
a9913044 1685 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1686
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1687 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1688 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1689 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1690 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1691 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1692 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1693
1694 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1695 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1696 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1697 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1698 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1699 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1700
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1701 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1702 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1703
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1704 kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
1705 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
1706 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
1707 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
1708 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
1709 hibernation will be disabled.
1710
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1711 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1712
6cececfc 1713 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1714 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1715 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1716 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1717 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1718 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1719 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1720 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
675217fd 1721 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
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1722 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1723 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1724 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1725 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1726 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1727 zone if it does not.
1728
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1729 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1730 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1731 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1732 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1733 optional and is the number seconds in between
1734 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1735 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1736 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1737 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1738 the kernel debugger.
1739
84c08fd6 1740 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1741 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1742 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1743 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1744 keyboard only format: kbd
1745 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1746 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1747 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1748 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1749
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1750 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1751 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1752
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1753 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1754 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1755 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1756
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1757 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1758 Valid arguments: on, off
1759 Default: on
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1760 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1761 the default is off.
04f70336 1762
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1763 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1764 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1765 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1766 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1767 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1768 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1769
6cececfc 1770 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
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1771 in oops dumps.
1772
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1773 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1774 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1775
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1776 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1777 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1778 Default is 0 (off)
1779
fef07aae 1780 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1781 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1782
1783 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1784 for all guests.
16290246 1785 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 1786
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1787 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1788 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1789 Default is 1 (enabled)
1790
1791 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1792 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1793 Default is 0 (disabled)
1794
1795 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1796 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1797 Default is 1 (enabled)
1798
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1799 kvm-intel.nested=
1800 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1801 Default is 0 (disabled)
1802
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1803 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1804 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1805 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1806 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1807
1808 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1809 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1810 Default is 1 (enabled)
1811
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1812 l2cr= [PPC]
1813
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1814 l3cr= [PPC]
1815
cd4f0ef7 1816 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1817 disabled it.
1da177e4 1818
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1819 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1820 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1821 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1822
6cececfc 1823 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1824 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1825
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1826 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1827 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1828 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1829 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 1830 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
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1831 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1832 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 1833
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1834 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1835 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1836 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1837
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1838 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1839 when set.
1840 Format: <int>
1841
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1842 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1843 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1844 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1845 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1846 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1847 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1848 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1849 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1850
1851 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1852 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1853 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1854 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1855 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1856 host link and device attached to it.
1857
1858 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1859 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1860 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1861 The following configurations can be forced.
1862
1863 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1864 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1865
1866 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1867
1868 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1869 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1870 allowed.
1871
1872 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1873
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1874 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1875
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1876 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1877 and both resets.
1878
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1879 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1880 hot-unplug link recovery
1881
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1882 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1883
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1884 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1885
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1886 * disable: Disable this device.
1887
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1888 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1889 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1890
95f72d1e 1891 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1892
1da177e4 1893 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1894 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1895
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1896 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1897 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1898
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1899 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1900 Format: <integer>
1901
1902 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1903 Format: <integer>
1904
1905 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1906 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1907
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1908 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1909 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1910 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1911 number of online CPUs.
1912
1913 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1914 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1915
1916 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1917 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1918
1919 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1920 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1921 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1922
1923 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1924 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
1925 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1926 mode during the locktorture test.
1927
1928 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1929 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
1930 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1931
1932 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1933 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1934
1935 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1936 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1937 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1938 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1939 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1940 transition abruptly to and from idle.
1941
1942 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1943 Start locktorture running at boot time.
1944
1945 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1946 Specify the locking implementation to test.
1947
1948 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1949 Enable additional printk() statements.
1950
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1951 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1952 Format: <irq>
1953
1954 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1955 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1956 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1957 loglevels are defined as follows:
1958
1959 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1960 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1961 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1962 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1963 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1964 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1965 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1966 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1967
c756d08a 1968 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
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1969 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
1970 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1971 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1972 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1973 that allows to increase the default size depending on
1974 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 1975
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1976 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1977 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1978 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1979 kernel boot problems.
1980
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1981 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1982 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1983 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1984 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1985 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1986 attached printers to be reset. Using
1987 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1988 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1989 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1990 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1991 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1992 port specification list means that device IDs
1993 from each port should be examined, to see if
1994 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1995 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1996 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1997
1998 lpj=n [KNL]
1999 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2000 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2001 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2002 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2003 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2004 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2005 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2006 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2007 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2008 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2009 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2010 hardware.
2011
2012 ltpc= [NET]
2013 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2014
16290246 2015 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2016 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2017 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2018
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2019 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2020 yeeloong laptop.
2021 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2022
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2023 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2024 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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2025
2026 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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2027 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
2028 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
2029 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
2030 the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2031
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2032 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2033 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2034 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2035 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2036 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2037 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2038
cd4f0ef7 2039 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2040
71cced6e 2041 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 2042
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2043 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2044 See Documentation/md.txt.
a9913044 2045
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2046 mdacon= [MDA]
2047 Format: <first>,<last>
2048 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2049
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2050 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2051 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2052 to see the whole system memory or for test.
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2053 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2054 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2055 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2056 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2057
cd4f0ef7 2058 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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2059 memory.
2060
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2061 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2062 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2063 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2064
6cececfc 2065 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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2066 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2067 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2068 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2069 option description.
2070
2071 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
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2072 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2073 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
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2074
2075 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2076 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2077 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
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2078
2079 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2080 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2081 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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2082 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2083 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2084 or
2085 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 2086
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2087 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2088 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2089 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2090 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2091 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2092
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2093 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2094 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2095 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2096 Setting this option will scan the memory
2097 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2098 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2099 from using the memory being corrupted.
2100 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2101 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2102 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2103 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2104
2105 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2106 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2107 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2108 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2109 corruption in more or less memory.
2110
2111 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2112 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2113 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2114 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2115
e4b0db72 2116 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
c64df707 2117 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2118 default : 0 <disable>
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2119 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2120 performed. Each pass selects another test
2121 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2122 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2123 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2124 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2125
1da177e4
LT
2126 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2127 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2128
8f36881b
AS
2129 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2130 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2131 platforms.
2132
e6c4dc6c
WT
2133 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2134 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2135 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2136 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2137
1da177e4
LT
2138 mga= [HW,DRM]
2139
1c207f95
RD
2140 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2141 physical address is ignored.
2142
39f45d7b
MP
2143 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2144 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2145 Default: "0tb"
2146 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2147 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2148 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2149 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2150 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2151 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2152 unconfigured.
2153 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2154 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2155 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2156 VGA shield.
2157 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2158 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2159 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2160 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2161 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2162 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2163
6b74ab97
MG
2164 mminit_loglevel=
2165 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2166 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2167 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2168 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2169 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2170 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2171
106a4ee2
RR
2172 module.sig_enforce
2173 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2174 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2175 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
106a4ee2
RR
2176 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2177
1da177e4
LT
2178 mousedev.tap_time=
2179 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2180 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2181 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2182 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2183 Format: <msecs>
2184 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2185 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2186 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2187 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2188
6cececfc 2189 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
0cb55ad2
RD
2190 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2191 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2192 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2193 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2194 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2195 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2196 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2197 is not too small.
2198
c5320926
TC
2199 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2200 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2201
1da177e4
LT
2202 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2203 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2204
a9913044
RD
2205 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2206 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2207
2208 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2209 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2210
4e89a2d8
WS
2211 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2212 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2213 at a time.
2214
5988af23
RH
2215 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2216
2217 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2218
2219 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2220 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2221 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2222 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2223 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2224
9db829f4
BD
2225 mtdset= [ARM]
2226 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2227
2228 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2229
1da177e4 2230 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2231 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2232 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2233
0cb55ad2 2234 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2235 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2236 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2237
2238 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2239 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2240 Default is 1.
2241 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2242 using up MTRRs.
2243
2244 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2245 Format: <integer>
2246 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2247 Default : 1
2248 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2249 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2250
1da177e4
LT
2251 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2252
1da177e4
LT
2253 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2254 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2255 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2256 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2257 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2258 file if at all.
2259
58401572
KPO
2260 nf_conntrack.acct=
2261 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2262 0 to disable accounting
2263 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2264 Default value is 0.
58401572 2265
306a0753 2266 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2267 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2268
2269 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2270 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2271
306a0753
CL
2272 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2273 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2274
a72b4422
TM
2275 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2276 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2277 channel should listen.
2278
e571cbf1
TM
2279 nfs.cache_getent=
2280 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2281 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2282
2283 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2284 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2285 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2286
58df095b
TM
2287 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2288 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2289 entries.
2290
f43bf0be
TM
2291 nfs.enable_ino64=
2292 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2293 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2294 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2295 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2296 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2297
ef159e91
TM
2298 nfs.max_session_slots=
2299 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2300 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2301 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2302 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2303 Note that there is little point in setting this
2304 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2305
b064eca2 2306 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2307 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2308 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2309 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2310 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2311 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2312 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2313 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2314 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2315 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2316 back to using the idmapper.
2317 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2318 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2319 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2320 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2321 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2322 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2323
db8ac8ba
WAA
2324 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2325 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2326 information in exchange_id requests.
2327 If zero, no implementation identification information
2328 will be sent.
2329 The default is to send the implementation identification
2330 information.
f6de7a39
TM
2331
2332 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2333 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2334 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2335 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2336 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2337 after the locks are lost.
2338 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2339 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2340 parameter to '1'.
2341 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2342 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2343
bbf58bf3
TM
2344 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2345 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2346 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2347
2348 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2349 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2350 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2351 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2352
e9541ce8
BF
2353 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2354 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2355 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2356 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2357 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2358 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2359
18d98f6c
SB
2360 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2361 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2362 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2363 osd-targets. Please see:
2364 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2365
1e1030dc 2366 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2367 when a NMI is triggered.
2368 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2369
6cececfc 2370 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2371 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2372 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2373 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2374 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2375 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
fef2c9bc 2376 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
334bb79c
PK
2377 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2378 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2379 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2380 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2381
bff38771
AV
2382 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2383 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2384 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2385 waits 4 seconds.
2386
cd4f0ef7 2387 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2388 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2389 is present.
2390
0cb55ad2
RD
2391 no_console_suspend
2392 [HW] Never suspend the console
2393 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2394 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2395 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2396 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2397 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2398 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2399 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2400 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2401 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2402 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2403 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2404 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2405
c1aee215
CL
2406 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2407 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2408 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2409
a9913044
RD
2410 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2411
1da177e4
LT
2412 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2413 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2414
5091faa4
MG
2415 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2416
1da177e4
LT
2417 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2418 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2419
2420 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2421
0cb55ad2
RD
2422 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2423
163ecdff
SN
2424 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2425
1da177e4
LT
2426 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2427
6902aa84
PM
2428 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2429
b2e0a54a 2430 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2431
1da177e4
LT
2432 noexec [IA-64]
2433
6cececfc 2434 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2435 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2436 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2437 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2438
52b6179a
PA
2439 nosmap [X86]
2440 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2441 even if it is supported by processor.
2442
de5397ad 2443 nosmep [X86]
52b6179a 2444 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2445 even if it is supported by processor.
2446
f5a1b191
JS
2447 noexec32 [X86-64]
2448 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2449 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2450 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2451 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2452 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2453
fab43ef4 2454 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2455
cd4f0ef7 2456 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2457 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2458 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2459
0ddab1d2
TK
2460 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2461
0c752a93
SS
2462 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2463 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2464 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2465
b6f42a4a
FY
2466 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2467 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2468 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2469 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2470 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2471 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2472
2473 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2474 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2475 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2476 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2477 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2478 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2479 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2480
01a24d2b
PZ
2481 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2482 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2483 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 2484
1f29fae2
SH
2485 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2486 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2487 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2488
1da177e4
LT
2489 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2490 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2491 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2492 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2493 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2494 real-time systems.
2495
a6e15a39
KC
2496 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2497
79bf2bb3
TG
2498 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2499 Valid arguments: on, off
2500 Default: on
2501
c5bfece2
FW
2502 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2503 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 2504 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435
FW
2505 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2506 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
d1e43fa5
FW
2507 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2508 rcu_nocbs= set.
a831881b 2509
eeee7853
PM
2510 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2511
cd4f0ef7 2512 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
2513 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2514
6cececfc 2515 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
2516 broken timer IRQ sources.
2517
1da177e4
LT
2518 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2519
2520 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2521 initial RAM disk.
2522
03ea8155
WH
2523 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2524 remapping.
d1423d56 2525 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 2526
1da177e4
LT
2527 nointroute [IA-64]
2528
16290246 2529 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 2530
9cf4c4fc
JK
2531 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2532
fd10cde9
GN
2533 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2534 fault handling.
2535
d910f5c1
GC
2536 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2537 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2538 behaviour
2539
cd4f0ef7 2540 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 2541
cd4f0ef7 2542 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 2543
1da177e4
LT
2544 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2545 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
2546
312f1f01
H
2547 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2548
13696e0a 2549 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 2550
83d7384f
AS
2551 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2552 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2553
bda62633
DZ
2554 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2555 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2556 irq.
2557
02608bef
DY
2558 nomodule Disable module load
2559
016ddd9b
JK
2560 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2561 pagetables) support.
2562
0cb55ad2
RD
2563 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2564 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2565
bbff2168 2566 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 2567
cd4f0ef7 2568 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
2569 with UP alternatives
2570
7a5091d5
PA
2571 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2572 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2573 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2574 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 2575
a9913044
RD
2576 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2577 space.
2578
1da177e4
LT
2579 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2580 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2581 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2582
2583 nosbagart [IA-64]
2584
cd4f0ef7 2585 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 2586
61ec7567
LB
2587 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2588 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 2589
97842216
DJ
2590 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2591
1da177e4
LT
2592 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2593
cd4f0ef7 2594 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1da177e4 2595
195daf66
UO
2596 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2597 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 2598
1da177e4 2599 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 2600
2b2fd87a
WH
2601 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2602
f78cff48
FY
2603 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2604 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2605 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2606 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2607 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2608 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2609 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2610 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2611 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2612 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2613 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2614 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2615 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2616
16290246 2617 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
2618 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2619 SAL PALO.
2620
2b633e3f
YL
2621 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2622 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2623 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2624 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2625 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2626
0cb55ad2
RD
2627 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2628
1a687c2e
MG
2629 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2630 Allowed values are enable and disable
2631
f0c0b2b8
KH
2632 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2633 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2634 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2635 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2636
7c4be253
RD
2637 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2638 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2639 info.
2640
3ef0e1f8
AS
2641 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2642 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2643 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2644 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2645 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2646 interrupts *may* be lost!
2647
15ac7afe
TL
2648 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2649 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2650 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2651 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2652
1da177e4
LT
2653 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2654 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2655
7e4e0bd5
RR
2656 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2657 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2658 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
2659 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2660 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
2661 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2662 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
2663 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2664 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2665 for generic hr timer mode)
dd3c4670
AK
2666 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
2667 (report cpu_type "timer")
1dcdb5a9 2668
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RD
2669 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2670 process, but there is a small probability of
2671 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
2672 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2673 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2674
bcfde334
RD
2675 OSS [HW,OSS]
2676 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2677
48c96a36
JK
2678 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2679 Storage of the information about who allocated
2680 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2681 we can turn it on.
2682 on: enable the feature
2683
44a4dcf7 2684 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
2685 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2686 timeout = 0: wait forever
2687 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
2688 Format: <timeout>
2689
9e3961a0
PB
2690 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2691 on a WARN().
2692
f06e5153
MH
2693 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2694 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2695 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2696 succeeds in any situation.
2697 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2698 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2699 kernel more unstable.
2700
1da177e4
LT
2701 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2702 connected to, default is 0.
2703 Format: <parport#>
2704 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2705 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
2706 Format: <mode>
2707
2708 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2709 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2710 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2711 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2712 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2713 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2714 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2715 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2716 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2717 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2718 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2719 are specified on the command line, starting
2720 with parport0.
2721
2722 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2723 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2724 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2725 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2726 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2727 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
2728 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2729
dd287796
AM
2730 pause_on_oops=
2731 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2732 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2733 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2734
1da177e4
LT
2735 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
2736
2737 pcd. [PARIDE]
2738 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 2739 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2740
a9913044 2741 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1cc0ca26
BH
2742 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2743 changes anything
c0115606 2744 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 2745 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
2746 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2747 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 2748 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
2749 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2750 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2751 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
2752 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2753 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2754 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2755 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2756 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2757 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2758 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2759 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2760 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2761 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
2762 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2763 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2764 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
2765 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2766 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 2767 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 2768 Configuration
12983077
AH
2769 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2770 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2771 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
2772 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2773 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2774 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
2775 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2776 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2777 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
2778 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2779 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2780 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2781 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
2782 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2783 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2784 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2785 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 2786 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
2787 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2788 on several machines and they hang the machine
2789 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2790 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2791 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2792 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2793 motherboard.
c0115606 2794 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
2795 Use with caution as certain devices share
2796 address decoders between ROMs and other
2797 resources.
c0115606 2798 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
2799 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2800 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
2801 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2802 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 2803 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
2804 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2805 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2806 this way.
c0115606 2807 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
2808 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2809 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2810 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 2811 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
2812 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2813 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2814 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 2815 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
2816 numbers ourselves, overriding
2817 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 2818 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
2819 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2820 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2821 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2822 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2823 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 2824 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 2825 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
2826 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2827 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2828 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2829 please report a bug.
2830 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2831 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
2832 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2833 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2834 so this option is a temporary workaround
2835 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
2836 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2837 handle more pci cards
a9913044
RD
2838 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
2839 just use the configuration from the
2840 bootloader. This is currently used on
2841 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
2842 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
0637a70a
AK
2843 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2844 This might help on some broken boards which
2845 machine check when some devices' config space
2846 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2847 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
2848 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2849 This sorting is done to get a device
2850 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2851 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
2852 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2853 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2854 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2855 supported by all devices below the root complex.
2856 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2857 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2858 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2859 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2860 or bus can support) for best performance.
2861 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2862 every device is guaranteed to support. This
2863 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2864 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2865 reduced performance. This also guarantees
2866 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
2867 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2868 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2869 The default value is 256 bytes.
2870 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2871 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2872 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
2873 resource_alignment=
2874 Format:
2875 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2876 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2877 aligned memory resources.
2878 If <order of align> is not specified,
2879 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2880 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2881 windows need to be expanded.
43c16408
AP
2882 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2883 end-to-end CRC checking).
2884 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2885 the default.
2886 off: Turn ECRC off
2887 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
2888 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2889 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2890 Default size is 256 bytes.
2891 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2892 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2893 Default size is 2 megabytes.
b55438fd
YL
2894 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2895 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2896 accommodate resources required by all child
2897 devices.
2898 off: Turn realloc off
2899 on: Turn realloc on
2900 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 2901 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
284f5f9d
BH
2902 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
2903 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2904 port.
6b4b78fe 2905
e5665a45
CE
2906 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2907 Management.
2908 off Disable ASPM.
2909 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2910 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2911
7570a333
MT
2912 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2913 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2914 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2915
79dd9182 2916 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
28eb5f27
RW
2917 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2918 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2919 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2920 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2921 unconditionally.
79dd9182
RW
2922 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2923 ports driver.
2924
c7f48656 2925 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2926 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2927 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2928
1da177e4
LT
2929 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2930
39ac5ba5
TB
2931 pd_ignore_unused
2932 [PM]
2933 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2934 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2935 for debug and development, but should not be
2936 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2937
1da177e4 2938 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2939 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2940
2941 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2942 boot time.
2943 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2944 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2945
f58dc01b 2946 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
2947 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2948 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2949 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2950 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2951 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 2952
1da177e4 2953 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2954 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2955
2956 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2957 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2958
2959 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 2960 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2961
2962 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2963 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2964 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2965
16290246 2966 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
2967 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2968 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2969
96242116
BH
2970 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
2971 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
2972 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
2973 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
2974 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
2975 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 2976
1da177e4
LT
2977 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2978 { off }
2979
2980 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2981 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2982
2983 pnp_reserve_irq=
2984 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2985
2986 pnp_reserve_dma=
2987 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2988
2989 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 2990 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
2991
2992 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
2993 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2994 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
2995 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2996
4af94f39
RD
2997 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2998 Default is 21.
2999 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3000 may be specified.
3001 Format: <port>,<port>....
3002
3eb5d588
AB
3003 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3004 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3005 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3006 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3007 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3008
45807a1d
IM
3009 print-fatal-signals=
3010 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3011
3012 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3013 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3014 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3015 coredump - etc.
3016
3017 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3018 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3019
45807a1d
IM
3020 default: off.
3021
c22ab332
MG
3022 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3023 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3024 panics
3025 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3026 default: disabled
3027
e84845c4
RD
3028 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3029 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3030
0cb55ad2
RD
3031 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3032 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3033 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3034
3035 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3036 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3037 instead using the legacy FADT method
3038
1da177e4 3039 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
a9913044
RD
3040 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3041 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3042 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3043 statistical time based profiling.
b3da2a73
MG
3044 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3045 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3046 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 3047
1da177e4
LT
3048 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3049 before loading.
31c00fc1 3050 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3051
a9913044
RD
3052 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3053 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3054 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3055 per second.
a9913044
RD
3056 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3057 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3058 (0 = never).
3059 psmouse.resolution=
3060 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3061 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3062 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3063 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3064
dee28e72
MG
3065 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3066
1da177e4 3067 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 3068 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 3069
dc8c8587
KS
3070 pty.legacy_count=
3071 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3072 default number.
3073
7d2c502f 3074 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3075
1da177e4
LT
3076 r128= [HW,DRM]
3077
3078 raid= [HW,RAID]
3079 See Documentation/md.txt.
3080
1da177e4 3081 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 3082 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 3083
4102adab 3084 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3085 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3086 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3087 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
a4889858
PM
3088 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3089 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3090 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3091 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3fbfbf7a
PM
3092 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3093 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3094 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3095
4102adab 3096 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3097 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3098 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3099 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3100 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3101 This improves the real-time response for the
3102 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3103 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3104 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3105 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3106
4102adab 3107 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3108 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3109 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3110
a3dc2948
PM
3111 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3112 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3113 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3114 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3115
0f41c0dd
PM
3116 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3117 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3118 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3119 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3120
37745d28
PM
3121 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3122 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3123 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
0f41c0dd
PM
3124 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3125 is set.
3126
3127 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3128 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3129 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3130 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3131 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3132 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
37745d28 3133
7fa27001
PM
3134 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3135 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3136 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3137 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3138 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3139
4102adab 3140 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3141 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3142 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3143 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3144 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3145 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3146 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3147
4a81e832
PM
3148 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3149 Set required age in jiffies for a
3150 given grace period before RCU starts
3151 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3152 rcu_note_context_switch().
3153
4102adab 3154 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3155 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3156 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3157 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3158 and maximum value is HZ.
3159
4102adab 3160 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3161 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3162 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3163 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3164
21871d7e 3165 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3166 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3167 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3168 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3169 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3170 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3171 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3172 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3173 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3174 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3175
fbce7497
PM
3176 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3177 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3178 defaults to the square root of the number of
3179 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3180 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3181 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3182
4102adab 3183 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3184 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3185 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3186
4102adab 3187 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3188 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3189 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3190
4102adab 3191 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3192 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3193 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3194
4102adab 3195 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3196 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3197 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3198 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3199 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3200
38706bc5
PM
3201 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3202 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3203 callback-flood tests.
3204
3205 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3206 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3207 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3208 test.
3209
3210 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3211 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3212 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3213 disable callback-flood testing.
3214
3215 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3216 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3217 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3218
4102adab 3219 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3220 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3221 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3222
4102adab 3223 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3224 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3225 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3226
4102adab 3227 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3228 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3229 in seconds.
3230
3231 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3232 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3233 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3234
4102adab 3235 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3236 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3237
3238 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3239 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3240 update-side primitives, if available.
3241
3242 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3243 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3244 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3245 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3246 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3247 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3248 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3249
4102adab 3250 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3251 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3252
4102adab 3253 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3254 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3255 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3256 test, hence the "fake".
3257
4102adab 3258 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3259 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3260 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3261 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3262 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3263 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3264
4102adab
PM
3265 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3266 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3267
3268 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3269 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3270
4102adab 3271 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3272 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3273 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3274
4102adab 3275 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3276 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3277 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3278 during the rcutorture test.
3279
4102adab 3280 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3281 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3282 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3283
4102adab 3284 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3285 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3286 warnings, zero to disable.
3287
4102adab 3288 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3289 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3290
4102adab 3291 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3292 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3293
4102adab 3294 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3295 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3296 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3297 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3298 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3299
4102adab 3300 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3301 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3302 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3303 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3304
4102adab 3305 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3306 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3307
4102adab 3308 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3309 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3310
4102adab 3311 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3312 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3313 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3314
21b05de4
PM
3315 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3316 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3317
4102adab 3318 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3319 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3320
4102adab 3321 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3322 Enable additional printk() statements.
3323
5a9be7c6
PM
3324 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3325 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3326
3327 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3328 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3329
4102adab
PM
3330 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3331 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3332 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3333 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3334 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3335 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 3336 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3337
5a9be7c6
PM
3338 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3339 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3340 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3341 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
3342 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3343 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3344 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3345 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3346 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 3347
3e42ec1a
PM
3348 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3349 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3350 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
3351 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3352 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 3353
52db30ab
PM
3354 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3355 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3356 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3357 to zero.
3358
74860fee
PK
3359 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3360 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3361
3362 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3363 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3364
3365 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3366 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3367
ffdfc409
OJ
3368 rdinit= [KNL]
3369 Format: <full_path>
3370 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3371 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3372
1b3a5d02
RH
3373 reboot= [KNL]
3374 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3375 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3376 [[,]s[mp]#### \
3377 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3378 [[,]f[orce]
3379 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3380 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3381 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3382 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3383 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 3384
46b6d94e
PJ
3385 relax_domain_level=
3386 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
21acb9ca 3387 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 3388
0399d4db
RW
3389 relative_sleep_states=
3390 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3391 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3392 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3393 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3394 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3395
1da177e4
LT
3396 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3397
cd4f0ef7 3398 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
3399 Format: nn[KMG]
3400 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3401 address space.
3402
9ea77bdb
PA
3403 reservelow= [X86]
3404 Format: nn[K]
3405 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3406 the bottom of the address space.
3407
7e96287d
VG
3408 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3409 during initialization.
3410
a9913044
RD
3411 resume= [SWSUSP]
3412 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
3413 Format:
3414 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 3415
ecbd0da1
RW
3416 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3417 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3418 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3419 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3420 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3421
f126f733
BS
3422 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3423 read the resume files
3424
6f8d7022
BS
3425 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3426 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3427 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3428
f996fc96
BS
3429 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3430 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3431 present during boot.
3432 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 3433 no Disable hibernation and resume.
f996fc96 3434
0a7b35cb
MN
3435 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3436
0efbb786
AC
3437 rfkill.default_state=
3438 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3439 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3440 1 Unblocked.
3441
3442 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3443 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3444 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3445 blocked and the previous configuration.
3446 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3447 blocked and everything unblocked.
3448
1da177e4
LT
3449 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3450 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3451
1da177e4
LT
3452 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3453
3454 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 3455 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
3456
3457 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3458 mount the root filesystem
3459
3460 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3461
3462 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3463
cc1ed754
PO
3464 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3465 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3466 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3467
5c71d618
RT
3468 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3469 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3470 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3471 managed by CMA.
3472
1da177e4
LT
3473 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3474
3475 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3476
c60d1ae4
GS
3477 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3478 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3479 strict
3480 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3481 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3482 which is faster.
3483
1da177e4
LT
3484 sa1100ir [NET]
3485 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3486
1da177e4 3487 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 3488
f6630114
MT
3489 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3490
5307c955
MG
3491 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3492 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3493 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3494 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3495 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3496 1 -- enable.
3497 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3498 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3499
0cb55ad2
RD
3500 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3501 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3502 security module asking for security registration will be
3503 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3504 as if no module has been chosen.
3505
3506 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
3507 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3508 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3509 0 -- disable.
3510 1 -- enable.
3511 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3512 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3513 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3514
c1c124e9
JJ
3515 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3516 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3517 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3518 0 -- disable.
3519 1 -- enable.
3520 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3521
cd4f0ef7 3522 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 3523
1da177e4
LT
3524 shapers= [NET]
3525 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 3526
b05f78f5
YL
3527 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3528 Format: { <integer> }
3529 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3530 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3531 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3532
1da177e4
LT
3533 simeth= [IA-64]
3534 simscsi=
a9913044 3535
1da177e4
LT
3536 slram= [HW,MTD]
3537
423c929c
JK
3538 slab_nomerge [MM]
3539 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3540 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3541 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3542 merging on their own.
3543 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3544
3df1cccd
DR
3545 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3546 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3547 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3548 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3549 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3550
f0630fff
CL
3551 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3552 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3553 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3554 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3555 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3556 last alloc / free. For more information see
3557 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3558
3559 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3560 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3561 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3562 fragmentation. For more information see
3563 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
3564
3565 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
3566 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3567 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3568 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3569 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3570 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3571 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
3572 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3573
3574 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 3575 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 3576 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
3577 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3578
3579 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
3580 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3581 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 3582
1da177e4
LT
3583 smart2= [HW]
3584 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3585
d0d4f69b
BH
3586 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3587 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3588 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3589 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3590 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3591 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3592 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3593 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3594 1: Fast pin select (default)
3595 2: ATC IRMode
3596
9c44bc03
IM
3597 softlockup_panic=
3598 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 3599 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 3600
ed235875
AT
3601 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3602 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3603 backtraces on all cpus.
3604 Format: <integer>
3605
1da177e4 3606 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
395cf969 3607 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
1da177e4 3608
1da177e4
LT
3609 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3610 spia_fio_base=
3611 spia_pedr=
3612 spia_peddr=
3613
f38f1d2a
SR
3614 stacktrace [FTRACE]
3615 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3616
762e1207
SR
3617 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3618 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3619 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3620 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3621 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3622 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3623 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3624
1da177e4
LT
3625 sti= [PARISC,HW]
3626 Format: <num>
3627 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3628 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3629 as the initial boot-console.
3630 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3631
3632 sti_font= [HW]
3633 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3634
3635 stifb= [HW]
3636 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3637
cbf11071
TM
3638 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3639 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3640 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3641 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3642 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3643 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3644 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3645 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3646 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3647 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3648 maximum port values.
3649
42a7fc4a
GB
3650 sunrpc.pool_mode=
3651 [NFS]
3652 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3653 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3654 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3655 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3656 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3657 NFS server is running.
3658
3659 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3660 automatically using heuristics
3661 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3662 percpu one pool for each CPU
3663 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3664 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3665
cbf11071
TM
3666 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3667 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3668 [NFS,SUNRPC]
3669 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3670 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3671 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3672 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3673 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3674
1d4a9c17
BN
3675 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3676 [SUSPEND]
3677 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3678 mode before resuming the system (see
3679 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3680 is set. Default value is 5.
3681
07555ac1 3682 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
3683 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3684 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3685 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3686
91fec0f5
JK
3687 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3688 Format: { <int> | force }
3689 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3690 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3691 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
a9913044 3692
1da177e4
LT
3693 switches= [HW,M68k]
3694
e52eec13
AK
3695 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3696 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3697 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3698 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3699 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3700 in older udev will not work anymore.
3701 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3702 the kernel configuration.
3703
5d6f647f
IM
3704 sysrq_always_enabled
3705 [KNL]
3706 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3707 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3708 Useful for debugging.
3709
747029a5
FF
3710 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3711 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3712 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3713 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3714 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3715 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3716
1da177e4
LT
3717 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
3718
acc82342 3719 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 3720 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
3721 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3722 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3723 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3724 The system is woken from this state using a
3725 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 3726
1da177e4
LT
3727 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3728 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3729
f8707ec9
LB
3730 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3731 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3732 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3733
c52a7419
LB
3734 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3735 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 3736 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 3737
f5487145
LB
3738 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3739 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3740 critical and hot trip points.
3741
72b33ef8
LB
3742 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3743 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3744
a70cdc52
LB
3745 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3746 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
3747 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3748 value
a70cdc52 3749
730ff34d
LB
3750 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3751 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3752 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3753 0: no polling (default)
3754
8d32a307
TG
3755 threadirqs [KNL]
3756 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 3757 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 3758
2ca62b04
KRW
3759 tmem [KNL,XEN]
3760 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3761
3762 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3763 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3764 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3765
3766 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3767 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
37d46e15
KRW
3768 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3769 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
2ca62b04
KRW
3770
3771 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3772 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3773 to the hypervisor.
3774
3775 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3776 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3777 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3778 kernel based on different criteria.
3779
2b1a61f0
HC
3780 topology= [S390]
3781 Format: {off | on}
3782 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
3783 topology information if the hardware supports this.
3784 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 3785 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 3786 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 3787
2d73bae1
NA
3788 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3789 Format: {off}
3790 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3791 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3792 LPAR.
3793
1da177e4
LT
3794 tp720= [HW,PS2]
3795
225a9be2
RA
3796 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3797 Format: integer pcr id
3798 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3799 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3800 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3801 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3802 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3803 are saved.
3804
9d612bef 3805 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 3806 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 3807
020e5f85
LZ
3808 trace_event=[event-list]
3809 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3810 to facilitate early boot debugging.
3811 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3812
7bcfaf54
SR
3813 trace_options=[option-list]
3814 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3815 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3816 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3817 to echo the option name into
3818
3819 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3820
3821 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3822 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3823
3824 trace_options=stacktrace
3825
3826 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3827 section.
3828
0daa2302
SRRH
3829 tp_printk[FTRACE]
3830 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3831 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3832 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3833 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3834 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3835
3836 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3837 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3838 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3839 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3840
3841 ** CAUTION **
3842
3843 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3844 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3845 the system to live lock.
3846
de7edd31
SRRH
3847 traceoff_on_warning
3848 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3849 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3850 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3851 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3852
3853 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3854 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3855 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3856
3857 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3858 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3859
fcf4d821
JK
3860 transparent_hugepage=
3861 [KNL]
3862 Format: [always|madvise|never]
3863 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3864 with respect to transparent hugepages.
3865 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3866
d3b8f889 3867 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
3868 Format: <string>
3869 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
3870 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3871 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
3872 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3873 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
3874 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3875 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3876 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3877 can add overhead.
395628ef 3878
a9913044
RD
3879 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
3880 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
3881 Format:
3882 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
3883 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
3884
b6935f8c
CK
3885 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
3886 happen after console_init() and before a proper
3887 console driver takes over, this boot options might
3888 help "seeing" what's going on.
3889
f86dcc5a
ED
3890 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3891 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
3892
5f8364b7
AS
3893 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
3894 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
3895 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
3896 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
3897 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
3898 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
3899 reported either.
3900
e3a61b0a 3901 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 3902 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 3903
c4fc2342
CDH
3904 usbcore.authorized_default=
3905 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
3906 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
3907 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
3908
b5e795f8
AS
3909 usbcore.autosuspend=
3910 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
3911 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
3912 is the time required before an idle device will be
3913 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 3914 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 3915
fd7c519d
JK
3916 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
3917 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
3918
0290cc9f
AS
3919 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
3920 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
3921 (default = 65536).
3922
fd7c519d
JK
3923 usbcore.blinkenlights=
3924 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
3925
3926 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
3927 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
3928 scheme (default 0 = off).
3929
3f5eb8d5
AS
3930 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
3931 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
3932 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
3933
fd7c519d
JK
3934 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
3935 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
3936 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
3937
3938 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
3939 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
3940 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
3941 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
3942
40d58148
ON
3943 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
3944
1da177e4
LT
3945 usbhid.mousepoll=
3946 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 3947
d4f373e5
AS
3948 usb-storage.delay_use=
3949 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 3950 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
3951
3952 usb-storage.quirks=
3953 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
3954 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
3955 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
3956 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
3957 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
3958 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
3959 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
3960 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
3961 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
3962 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
3963 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
3964 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
3965 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
3966 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
3967 READ_DISC_INFO command);
3968 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
3969 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
3970 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
3971 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
3972 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
3973 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
3974 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
3975 reported device capacity by one
3976 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
3977 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
3978 device);
3979 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
3980 unlock ejectable media);
3981 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
3982 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
3983 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
3984 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
3985 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
3986 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
3987 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
3988 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
3989 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
3990 bogus residue values);
3991 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
3992 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
3993 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
3994 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 3995 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
3996 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
3997 medium is write-protected).
3998 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
3999
ac1667db
SB
4000 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4001 Format: <int>
4002 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4003 1 - undefined instruction events
4004 2 - system calls
4005 4 - invalid data aborts
4006 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4007 16 - SIGBUS faults
4008 Example: user_debug=31
4009
14315592
IC
4010 userpte=
4011 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4012
4013 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4014 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4015 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4016
6cececfc 4017 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
4018 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4019
4020 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
4021 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4022
b0b49f26
AL
4023 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4024 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4025 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4026
4027 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4028 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4029 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4030
4031 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4032 alias for vdso32=0.
4033
4034 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4035 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 4036
d080d397
YI
4037 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
4038 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4039
1da177e4
LT
4040 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4041 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4042
3afe6dab
AL
4043 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4044 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4045 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4046 level and then send out the event to user space through
4047 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4048 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4049 brightness level.
2843768b 4050 default: 1
3afe6dab 4051
81a054ce
PM
4052 virtio_mmio.device=
4053 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4054
4055 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4056 where:
4057 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4058 like K, M and G)
4059 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4060 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4061 request_irq())
4062 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4063 example:
4064 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4065
4066 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4067
cd4f0ef7 4068 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 4069 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 4070 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
4071 Use vga=ask for menu.
4072 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4073 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4074
a9913044 4075 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
4076 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4077 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4078 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4079 mapped kernel RAM.
4080
585c3047
PO
4081 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4082 Format: <command>
1da177e4 4083
585c3047
PO
4084 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4085 Format: <command>
4086
4087 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4088 Format: <command>
a9913044 4089
3ae36655
AL
4090 vsyscall= [X86-64]
4091 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4092 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4093 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4094 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4095 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4096 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4097
2e57ae05
AL
4098 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4099 emulated reasonably safely.
3ae36655 4100
2e57ae05 4101 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
3ae36655
AL
4102 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4103 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4104 better than they would in emulation mode.
4105 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4106
4107 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4108 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4109 might break your system.
4110
3855ae1c
CL
4111 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4112 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4113 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4114
9ea9a886
CL
4115 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4116 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4117 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4118 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4119
0cb55ad2
RD
4120 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4121 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4122 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4123 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4124 ranging from 0-255.
4125
4126 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4127 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4128 Change the default green palette of the console.
4129 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4130 ranging from 0-255.
4131
4132 vt.default_red= [VT]
4133 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4134 Change the default red palette of the console.
4135 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4136 ranging from 0-255.
4137
4138 vt.default_utf8=
4139 [VT]
4140 Format=<0|1>
4141 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4142 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4143 newly opened terminals.
4144
f6c06b68
MG
4145 vt.global_cursor_default=
4146 [VT]
4147 Format=<-1|0|1>
4148 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4149 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4150 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4151 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4152 cursors, 1 will display them.
4153
3855ae1c
CL
4154 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4155 Default: 2 = green.
4156
4157 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4158 Default: 3 = cyan.
4159
4724ba57
RD
4160 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4161 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4162 or other driver-specific files in the
4163 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 4164
82607adc
TH
4165 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4166 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4167 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4168 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4169 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4170 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4171 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4172 corresponding sysfs file.
4173
d55262c4
TH
4174 workqueue.disable_numa
4175 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4176 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4177 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4178 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4179 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4180 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4181 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4182
cee22a15
VK
4183 workqueue.power_efficient
4184 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4185 they show better performance thanks to cache
4186 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4187 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4188
4189 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4190 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4191 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4192 power usage at the cost of small performance
4193 overhead.
4194
4195 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4196 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4197
0cb55ad2
RD
4198 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4199 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4200 supporting x2apic.
4201
712b6aa8
KS
4202 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4203 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
4204 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4205 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 4206 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 4207
c70727a5
JG
4208 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4209 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4210 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4211 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4212 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4213 domains.
4214
c1c5413a
SS
4215 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4216 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4217 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4218 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4219 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4220 nics -- unplug network devices
4221 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
4222 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4223 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4224 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 4225 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 4226
15a3eac0
KRW
4227 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4228 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4229 optimizations.
4230
8d693b91
KRW
4231 xen_nopv [X86]
4232 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4233 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4234
1da177e4 4235 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
4236 Format:
4237 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
1da177e4 4238
a9913044 4239______________________________________________________________________
1da177e4
LT
4240
4241TODO:
4242
1da177e4 4243 Add more DRM drivers.