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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3
4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
5(mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
6(defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
7case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
8
9Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
10parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
11
12 modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
13
14Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
15are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
16'.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
17
18 usbcore.blinkenlights=1
19
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20Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
21 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
22can also be entered as
23 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
24
25
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26This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
27"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
28module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
29reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
30parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
31"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
32
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33The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
34enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
35the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
36parameter is applicable:
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37
38 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
c99c108a 39 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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40 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
41 APIC APIC support is enabled.
42 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
e7ba176b 43 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 44 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
0ae53640 45 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
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46 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
47 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
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48 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
49 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
50 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
51 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
2521f2c2 52 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
1da177e4 53 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
1da177e4 54 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
6146f0d5 55 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
1da177e4 56 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
41e2e8be 57 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
b0f83b28 58 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
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59 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
60 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
61 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
84c08fd6 62 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
fef07aae 63 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
11ef697b 64 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
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65 LP Printer support is enabled.
66 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
67 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
68 These options have more detailed description inside of
69 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
70 MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
71 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
72 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
309e57df 73 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
c8facbb6 74 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
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75 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
76 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
77 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
78 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
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79 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
80 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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81 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
82 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
7f785763 83 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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84 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
85 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
86 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
87 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
88 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
89 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
90 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
91 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
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92 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
93 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
20510f2f 94 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
1da177e4 95 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
c1c124e9 96 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
1da177e4 97 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
e523d93c 98 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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99 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
100 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
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101 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
102 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
f38f1d2a 103 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
225a9be2 104 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
1da177e4 105 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
d4f373e5 106 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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107 USB USB support is enabled.
108 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
109 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
110 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
111 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
112 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
113 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
cd4f0ef7 114 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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115 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
116 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
71cced6e 117 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
c0115606 118 X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
c1c5413a 119 XEN Xen support is enabled
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120
121In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
122
123 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
124 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
125 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
126
127Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
128loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
129Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
954a8b81 130need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
1da177e4 131
5558870b 132There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
71cced6e 133See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
5558870b 134
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135Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
136a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
137be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
138it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
139running once the system is up.
140
9c4751fd 141The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
142complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
143a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
144and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
145./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
146
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147Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
148parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
149multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
150bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
151
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6cececfc 153 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
03d926f8 154 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
68ca4069 155 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
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156 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
157 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
158 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 159 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 160 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 161 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 162 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
1da177e4 163
53471121 164 See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
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166 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
167 Format: <int>
168 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
169 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 170 default: 0
a1fdcc0d 171
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172 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
173 acpi_backlight=vendor
174 acpi_backlight=video
175 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
176 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
177 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
178
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179 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
180 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 181 Format: <int>
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182 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
183 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
184 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
185 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
186 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
187 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
188 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
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189 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
190 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
191 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 192
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193 Enable processor driver info messages:
194 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
195 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
196 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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197 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
198 object while interpreting AML:
199 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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200 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
201 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
202
203 Some values produce so much output that the system is
204 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
205 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 206
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207 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
208 ACPI will balance active IRQs
209 default in APIC mode
210
211 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
212 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
213 default in PIC mode
214
215 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
216 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
217
218 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
219 use by PCI
220 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
221
222 acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
223
224 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
225 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
226
227 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
228 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
229 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
230 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
231
6cececfc 232 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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233 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
234 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
235 and always returns good values.
236
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237 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
238 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
239
240 acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
241
242 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
243 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
244 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
245
246 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
247 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
d7f0eea9 248 old_ordering, s4_nonvs, sci_force_enable }
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249 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
250 s3_bios and s3_mode.
251 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
252 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
253 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
254 used during resume from hibernation.
255 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
256 control method, with respect to putting devices into
257 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
258 of _PTS is used by default).
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259 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
260 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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261 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
262 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
263 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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264
265 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
266 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
267 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
268
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269 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
270 { strict | lax | no }
271 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
272 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
273 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
274 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
275 can interfere with legacy drivers.
276 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
277 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
278 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
279 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
280 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
281 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
282 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
283 no further checks are performed.
284
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285 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
286 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
287
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288 agp= [AGP]
289 { off | try_unsupported }
290 off: disable AGP support
291 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
292 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
293
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294 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
295 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
296
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297 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
298 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
299 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
300 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
301
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302 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
303 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
304 Possible values are:
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305 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
306 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
307 flushed before they will be reused, which
308 is a lot of faster
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309 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
310 the system
afa9fdc2 311
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312 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
313 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
314 Format: <a>,<b>
315 See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
316
317 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
318 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
319 connected to one of 16 gameports
320 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
321
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322 apc= [HW,SPARC]
323 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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324 Format: noidle
325 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
326 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
327 APC and your system crashes randomly.
328
ca1eda2d 329 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
c8facbb6 330 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
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331 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
332 Change the amount of debugging information output
333 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
a9913044 334
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335 autoconf= [IPV6]
336 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
337
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338 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
339 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
340 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
341 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
342 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
343 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
344 apic=verbose is specified.
345 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
346
1da177e4 347 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 348 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 349
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350 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
351 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
352
353 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
354
355 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
356
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357 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
358 EzKey and similar keyboards
359
360 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
361
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362 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
363 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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364
365 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
366 keyboards
367
368 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
369 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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370
371 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
372 Use software keyboard repeat
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373
374 autotest [IA64]
375
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376 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
377 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 378
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379 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
380 Format: <io>,<mode>
381 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
382
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383 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
384 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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385 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
386 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
387
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388 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
389 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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390 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
391 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
392
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393 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
394 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
395 no delay (0).
396 Format: integer
397
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398 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
399
1da177e4 400 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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401 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
402 kernel args too.
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403 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
404 bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
405
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406 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
407 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
408 at a time.
409
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410 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
411
cd4f0ef7 412 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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413 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
414 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
415 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
416 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
417 This option provides an override for these situations.
418
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419 capability.disable=
420 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
421 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
422 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
423 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
424
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425 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
426 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
1da177e4 427
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428 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
429 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
430 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
431
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432 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
433 Format: { "0" | "1" }
434 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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435 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
436 any implied execute protection).
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437 1 -- check protection requested by application.
438 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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439 Value can be changed at runtime via
440 /selinux/checkreqprot.
441
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442 cio_ignore= [S390]
443 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
444
cd4f0ef7 445 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 446 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 447 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 448 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 449 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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450 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
451
592913ec 452 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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453 Format: <string>
454 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
455 with the name specified.
456 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
457 the platform:
458 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
459 [ACPI] acpi_pm
460 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
461 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
462 [AVR32] avr32
9863c90f 463 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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464 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
465 [MIPS] MIPS
466 [PARISC] cr16
467 [S390] tod
468 [SH] SuperH
469 [SPARC64] tick
470 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
471
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472 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
473 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
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474 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
475 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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476 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
477 ones should be.
478 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
479 or using the feature without checking anything
480 will still see it. This just prevents it from
481 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
482 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
483 some critical bits.
484
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485 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
486 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
487 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
488 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
489 a hypervisor.
490 Default: yes
491
6cececfc 492 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
a25bd949 493 in an oops report.
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494 Range: 0 - 8192
495 Default: 64
496
1da177e4 497 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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498 Format:
499 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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500
501 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
502 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
503
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504 com90xx= [HW,NET]
505 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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506 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
507
508 condev= [HW,S390] console device
509 conmode=
a9913044 510
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511 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
512
513 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
514
515 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 516 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 517 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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518 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
519 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
520 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
521 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
522
523 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
524 information. See
525 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
526 alternative.
1da177e4 527
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528 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
529 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
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530 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
531 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
532 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
533 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
534
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535 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
536 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
537 console=brl,ttyS0
538 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
539
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540 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
541 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
542 disables the blank timer.
543
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544 coredump_filter=
545 [KNL] Change the default value for
546 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
547 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
548
1da177e4 549 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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550 Format:
551 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 552
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553 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
554 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
555 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
556 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
557 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
558 is selected automatically. Check
559 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
dc009d92 560
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561 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
562 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
563 in the running system. The syntax of range is
564 start-[end] where start and end are both
565 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
6f21e646 566 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
fb391599 567
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568 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
569 Format: <dma>
570
571 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
572 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
a9913044 573
a9913044 574 dasd= [HW,NET]
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575 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
576
577 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
578 (one device per port)
579 Format: <port#>,<type>
580 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
581
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582 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
583 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
584 details.
585
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586 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
587
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588 debug_locks_verbose=
589 [KNL] verbose self-tests
590 Format=<0|1>
591 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
592 self-tests.
593 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
594 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
595 only useful to kernel developers.
596
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597 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
598
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599 no_debug_objects
600 [KNL] Disable object debugging
601
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602 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
603
2d27a966 604 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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605 Format: <area>[,<node>]
606 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
607
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608 default_hugepagesz=
609 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
610 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
611 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
612 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
613 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
614 if not specified.
55ff9780 615
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616 dhash_entries= [KNL]
617 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
a9913044 618
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619 digi= [HW,SERIAL]
620 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
621
622 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
623 See drivers/char/README.epca and
31c00fc1 624 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
1da177e4 625
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626 disable= [IPV6]
627 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
628
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629 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
630 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
631 to workaround buggy firmware.
632
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633 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
634 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
635
95ffa243 636 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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637 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
638 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 639 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 640
093af8d7 641 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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642 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
643 memory out of your available memory pool based on
644 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
645 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
646
6cececfc 647 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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648 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
649 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
650
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651 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
652 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
653
654 dma_debug_entries=<number>
655 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
656 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
657 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
658 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
659 architectural default is too low.
660
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661 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
662 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
663 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
664 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
665 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
666 driver later using sysfs.
667
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668 dscc4.setup= [NET]
669
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670 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
671 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
672 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 673 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
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674 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
675 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
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676 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8bit (mmio)
677 or 32bit (mmio32).
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678 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
679
6cececfc 680 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
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681 earlyprintk=vga
682 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 683 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 684 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1da177e4 685
a9913044 686 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
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687 takes over.
688
5c05917e 689 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
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690
691 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
692
693 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
694 very good.
695
696 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
697 console.
698
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699 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
700 ekgdboc=kbd
701
702 This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
703 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
704
1da177e4 705 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 706 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 707
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708 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
709 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
710
cd4f0ef7 711 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 712 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 713 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
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714
715 elevator= [IOSCHED]
17a9e7bb 716 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
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717 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
718 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
719
6cececfc 720 elfcorehdr= [IA64,PPC,SH,X86]
a9913044 721 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
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722 image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
723 pass this option to capture kernel.
724 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1da177e4 725
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726 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
727 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
728 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
729 entry later. This parameter enables that.
730
ca1eda2d 731 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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732 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
733 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
734 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
735 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
736
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737 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
738 Format: {"0" | "1"}
739 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
740 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
741 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
742 Default value is 0.
743 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
744
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745 erst_disable [ACPI]
746 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
747 support.
748
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749 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
750 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
751 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
752
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753 failslab=
754 fail_page_alloc=
755 fail_make_request=[KNL]
756 General fault injection mechanism.
757 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
758 See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
759
1da177e4 760 floppy= [HW]
31c00fc1 761 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1da177e4 762
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763 force_pal_cache_flush
764 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
765 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
766 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
767 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
768
d9e54076 769 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 770 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
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771 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
772 boot debugging.
773
cecbca96 774 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 775 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
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776 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
777 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
778 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
779 oops.
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780
781 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
782 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
783 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
784 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
785 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
786 tracing directory.
787
788 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
789 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
790 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
791 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
792 tracing directory.
d9e54076 793
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794 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
795 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
796 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
797 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
798 that can be changed at run time by the
799 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
800
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801 gamecon.map[2|3]=
802 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
803 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
804 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
805 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
806
807 gamma= [HW,DRM]
808
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809 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
810 Format: off | on
811 default: on
812
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813 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
814 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
815 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
816 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
817 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
818
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819 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
820 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
821
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822 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
823 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
429aa0fc 824 for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 825 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
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826
827 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
828
829 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
830 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
831
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832 hest_disable [ACPI]
833 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
834 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
835 logic will be disabled.
836
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837 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
838 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
839 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
840 size on bigger boxes.
841
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842 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
843 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
844 Default: "on"
845
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846 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
847 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
848
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849 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
850
851 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
852 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
853 verbose }
854 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
855 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
856 VIA, nVidia)
857 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
858
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859 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
860 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
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861 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
862 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
863 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
864 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
865 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
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866 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
867 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
6902aa84 868
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869 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
870 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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871 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
872 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
873 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
cef7125d 874
3a853fb9 875 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
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876 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
877 registered from board initialization code.
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878 Format:
879 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
880
36d95739 881 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1da177e4 882 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
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883 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
884 keyboard and cannot control its state
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885 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
886 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 887 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
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888 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
889 for the AUX port
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890 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
891 controller
892 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
893 controllers
f8313ef1 894 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
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895 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
896 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
897
898 i810= [HW,DRM]
899
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900 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
901 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
902 hardware.
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903 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
904 does not match list of supported models.
905 i8k.power_status
906 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
907 (disabled by default)
908 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
909 capability is set.
910
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911 icn= [HW,ISDN]
912 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
913
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914 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
915 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
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916 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
917 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1c10e938 918 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1da177e4 919
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920 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
921 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
922
f039b754 923 idle= [X86]
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924 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
925 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
926 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
927 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
928 Not recommended.
929 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
930 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
931 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
932 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
933 the same as idle=poll.
934 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 935 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 936 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 937
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938 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
939 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
940 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
941
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942 ihash_entries= [KNL]
943 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
944
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945 ima_audit= [IMA]
946 Format: { "0" | "1" }
947 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
948 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
949
950 ima_hash= [IMA]
a9ed83a5 951 Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
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952 default: "sha1"
953
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954 ima_tcb [IMA]
955 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
956 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
957 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
958 opened for read by uid=0.
959
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960 init= [KNL]
961 Format: <full_path>
962 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
963 process.
964
965 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
966 for working out where the kernel is dying during
967 startup.
968
969 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
970
971 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
972 Format: <irq>
973
ba395927 974 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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975 on
976 Enable intel iommu driver.
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977 off
978 Disable intel iommu driver.
979 igfx_off [Default Off]
980 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
981 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
982 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
983 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
984 DMA.
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985 forcedac [x86_64]
986 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
987 for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
988 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
989 than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
990 for translation below 32 bit and if not available
991 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 992 strict [Default Off]
993 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
994 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
995 to batching them for performance.
ba395927 996
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997 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
998 Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
999 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1000 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1001 nosid disable Source ID checking
1002
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1003 inttest= [IA64]
1004
1005 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1006 strict regions from userspace.
1007 relaxed
1008
1009 iommu= [x86]
1010 off
1011 force
1012 noforce
1013 biomerge
1014 panic
1015 nopanic
1016 merge
1017 nomerge
1018 forcesac
1019 soft
4ed0d3e6 1020 pt [x86, IA64]
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1021
1022 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1023 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1024 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1025
6cececfc 1026 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1027 0x80
1028 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1029 0xed
1030 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1031 udelay
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1032 Simple two microseconds delay
1033 none
1034 No delay
b02aae9c 1035
1da177e4 1036 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1037 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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1038
1039 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
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1040 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1041 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
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1043 irqfixup [HW]
1044 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1045 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1046 firmware running.
1047
1048 irqpoll [HW]
1049 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1050 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1051 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1052 firmware running.
1053
1da177e4 1054 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1055 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
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1056
1057 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
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1058 Format:
1059 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1060 or
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1061 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1062 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
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1063 or a mixture
1064 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
b225d44e 1065
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1066 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1067 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
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1068 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1069 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
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1070 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1071 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1072
1073 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
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1074 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1075 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1076 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1da177e4 1077
a9913044 1078 iucv= [HW,NET]
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1079
1080 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1081 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1082
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1083 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1084
6cececfc 1085 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1086 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1087 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1088 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1089 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1090 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1091 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1092 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1093 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1094 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1095 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1096 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1097 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1098 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1099 zone if it does not.
1100
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1101 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1102 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1103 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1104 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1105 optional and is the number seconds in between
1106 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1107 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1108 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1109 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1110 the kernel debugger.
1111
84c08fd6 1112 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1113 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1114 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1115 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1116 keyboard only format: kbd
1117 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1118 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1119 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1120 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 1121
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1122 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1123 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1124
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1125 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1126 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1127 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1128
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1129 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1130 Valid arguments: on, off
1131 Default: on
1132
6cececfc 1133 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
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1134 in oops dumps.
1135
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1136 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1137 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1138
1139 kvm.oos_shadow= [KVM] Disable out-of-sync shadow paging.
1140 Default is 1 (enabled)
1141
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1142 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1143 KVM MMU at runtime.
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1144 Default is 0 (off)
1145
fef07aae 1146 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 1147 Default is 1 (enabled)
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1148
1149 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1150 for all guests.
1151 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64bit or 32bit-PAE mode
1152
1153 kvm-intel.bypass_guest_pf=
1154 [KVM,Intel] Disables bypassing of guest page faults
1155 on Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1156
1157 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1158 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1159 Default is 1 (enabled)
1160
1161 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1162 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1163 Default is 0 (disabled)
1164
1165 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1166 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1167 Default is 1 (enabled)
1168
1169 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1170 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1171 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1172 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1173
1174 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1175 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1176 Default is 1 (enabled)
1177
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1178 l2cr= [PPC]
1179
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1180 l3cr= [PPC]
1181
cd4f0ef7 1182 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 1183 disabled it.
1da177e4 1184
6cececfc 1185 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 1186 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 1187
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1188 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1189 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1190 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1191 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1192 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1193 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1194 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
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1195
1196 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1197 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1198 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 1199
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1200 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1201 when set.
1202 Format: <int>
1203
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1204 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1205 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 1206 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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1207 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1208 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1209 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1210 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1211 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1212
1213 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1214 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1215 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1216 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1217 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1218 host link and device attached to it.
1219
1220 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1221 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1222 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1223 The following configurations can be forced.
1224
1225 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1226 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1227
1228 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1229
1230 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1231 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1232 allowed.
1233
1234 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1235
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1236 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1237 and both resets.
1238
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1239 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1240
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1241 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1242 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1243
95f72d1e 1244 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 1245
1da177e4 1246 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
31c00fc1 1247 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 1248
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1249 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1250 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 1251
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1252 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1253 Format: <integer>
1254
1255 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1256 Format: <integer>
1257
1258 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1259 Format: <integer>
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1260
1261 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1262 Format: <irq>
1263
1264 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1265 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1266 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1267 loglevels are defined as follows:
1268
1269 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1270 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1271 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1272 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1273 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1274 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1275 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1276 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1277
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1278 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1279 in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
1280 size is set in the kernel config file.
1da177e4 1281
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1282 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1283 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1284 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1285 kernel boot problems.
1286
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1287 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1288 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1289 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1290 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1291 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1292 attached printers to be reset. Using
1293 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1294 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1295 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1296 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1297 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1298 port specification list means that device IDs
1299 from each port should be examined, to see if
1300 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1301 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1302 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1303
1304 lpj=n [KNL]
1305 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1306 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1307 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1308 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1309 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1310 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1311 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1312 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1313 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1314 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1315 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1316 hardware.
1317
1318 ltpc= [NET]
1319 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1320
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1321 machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1322 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1323 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 1324
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1325 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1326 yeeloong laptop.
1327 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1328
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1329 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1330 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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1331
1332 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
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1333 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1334 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1335 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1336 the IO APIC.
1da177e4 1337
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1338 max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
1339 be mounted
1340 Format: <1-256>
2b2c3750 1341
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1342 mcatest= [IA-64]
1343
cd4f0ef7 1344 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 1345
71cced6e 1346 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
909dd324 1347
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1348 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1349 See Documentation/md.txt.
a9913044 1350
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LT
1351 mdacon= [MDA]
1352 Format: <first>,<last>
1353 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 1354
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1355 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1356 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1357 to see the whole system memory or for test.
cd4f0ef7 1358 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
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LT
1359 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1360 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1361
cd4f0ef7 1362 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
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1363 memory.
1364
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1365 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1366 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1367 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1368
6cececfc 1369 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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1370 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1371 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1372 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1373 option description.
1374
1375 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1376 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1377 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1378
1379 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1380 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1381 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1382
1383 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1384 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1385 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
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1386 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1387 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1388 or
1389 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1da177e4 1390
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1391 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1392 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1393 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1394 Setting this option will scan the memory
1395 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1396 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1397 from using the memory being corrupted.
1398 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1399 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1400 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1401 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1402
1403 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1404 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1405 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1406 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1407 corruption in more or less memory.
1408
1409 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1410 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1411 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1412 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1413
caadbdce 1414 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
c64df707 1415 Format: <integer>
c64df707 1416 default : 0 <disable>
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1417 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1418 performed. Each pass selects another test
1419 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1420 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1421 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1422 regions that are detected.
c64df707 1423
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1424 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1425 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1426
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1427 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1428 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1429 platforms.
1430
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1431 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1432 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1433 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1434 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1435
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1436 mga= [HW,DRM]
1437
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1438 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1439 physical address is ignored.
1440
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1441 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1442 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1443 Default: "0tb"
1444 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1445 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1446 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1447 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1448 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1449 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1450 unconfigured.
1451 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1452 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1453 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1454 VGA shield.
1455 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1456 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1457 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1458 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1459 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1460 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1461
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1462 mminit_loglevel=
1463 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1464 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1465 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1466 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1467 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1468 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1469
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1470 mousedev.tap_time=
1471 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1472 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1473 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1474 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1475 Format: <msecs>
1476 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1477 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1478 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1479 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1480
6cececfc 1481 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
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1482 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1483 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1484 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1485 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1486 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1487 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1488 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1489 is not too small.
1490
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1491 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1492 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1493
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1494 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1495 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
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1496
1497 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 1498 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 1499
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1500 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1501 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1502 at a time.
1503
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1504 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1505
1506 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1507
1508 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1509 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1510 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1511 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1512 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1513
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1514 mtdset= [ARM]
1515 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1516
1517 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1518
1da177e4 1519 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
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1520 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1521 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 1522
0cb55ad2 1523 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 1524 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
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1525 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1526
1527 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1528 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1529 Default is 1.
1530 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1531 using up MTRRs.
1532
1533 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1534 Format: <integer>
1535 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1536 Default : 1
1537 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1538 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1539
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1540 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1541
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1542 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1543 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1544 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1545 something different and driver-specific.
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1546 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1547 file if at all.
1548
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1549 nf_conntrack.acct=
1550 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1551 0 to disable accounting
1552 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 1553 Default value is 0.
58401572 1554
306a0753 1555 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 1556 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
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1557
1558 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 1559 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1560
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1561 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
1562 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1563
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1564 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1565 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1566 channel should listen.
1567
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1568 nfs.cache_getent=
1569 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
1570 to update the NFS client cache entries.
1571
1572 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
1573 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
1574 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
1575
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1576 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1577 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1578 entries.
1579
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1580 nfs.enable_ino64=
1581 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1582 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1583 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1584 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1585 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1586
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1587 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
1588 [NFSv4] When set, this option disables the NFSv4
1589 idmapper on the client, but only if the mount
1590 is using the 'sec=sys' security flavour. This may
1591 make migration from legacy NFSv2/v3 systems easier
1592 provided that the server has the appropriate support.
1593 The default is to always enable NFSv4 idmapping.
1594
1e1030dc 1595 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
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1596 when a NMI is triggered.
1597 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1598
6cececfc 1599 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 1600 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
5dc30558 1601 Valid num: 0
5b9a0e14 1602 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
0cb55ad2 1603 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
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1604 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
1605 default).
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1606 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1607 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 1608
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1609 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
1610 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
1611 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
1612 waits 4 seconds.
1613
cd4f0ef7 1614 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
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1615 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1616 is present.
1617
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1618 no_console_suspend
1619 [HW] Never suspend the console
1620 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1621 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1622 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1623 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1624 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1625 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1626 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1627
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CL
1628 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1629 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1630 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 1631
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1632 noalign [KNL,ARM]
1633
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LT
1634 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1635 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1636
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1637 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
1638
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LT
1639 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1640 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1641
1642 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 1643
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RD
1644 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1645
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SN
1646 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1647
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LT
1648 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1649
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1650 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1651
6cececfc 1652 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 1653
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LT
1654 noexec [IA-64]
1655
6cececfc 1656 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 1657 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 1658 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
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JS
1659 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1660
1661 noexec32 [X86-64]
1662 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1663 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1664 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1665 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1666 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 1667
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1668 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1669
cd4f0ef7 1670 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
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1671 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1672 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 1673
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SS
1674 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
1675 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
1676 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
1677
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PZ
1678 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1679 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1680 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 1681
cd4f0ef7 1682 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
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LT
1683 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1684 use it.
1685
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SH
1686 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1687 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1688 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1689
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LT
1690 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1691 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1692 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1693 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1694 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1695 real-time systems.
1696
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TG
1697 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1698 Valid arguments: on, off
1699 Default: on
1700
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1701 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1702
cd4f0ef7 1703 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
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LT
1704 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1705
6cececfc 1706 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
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ZA
1707 broken timer IRQ sources.
1708
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LT
1709 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1710
1711 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1712 initial RAM disk.
1713
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1714 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1715 remapping.
d1423d56 1716 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 1717
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LT
1718 nointroute [IA-64]
1719
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TL
1720 nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1721
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JK
1722 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
1723
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GN
1724 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
1725 fault handling.
1726
cd4f0ef7 1727 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 1728
cd4f0ef7 1729 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 1730
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LT
1731 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1732 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1733
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H
1734 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1735
cd4f0ef7 1736 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 1737
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AS
1738 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1739 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1740
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JK
1741 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
1742 pagetables) support.
1743
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1744 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1745 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1746
bbff2168 1747 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
959b4fdf 1748
cd4f0ef7 1749 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
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JF
1750 with UP alternatives
1751
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LT
1752 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1753
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1754 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1755 space.
1756
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LT
1757 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1758 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1759 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1760
1761 nosbagart [IA-64]
1762
cd4f0ef7 1763 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 1764
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LB
1765 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1766 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 1767
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DJ
1768 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1769
c077719b 1770 noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
21acb9ca 1771 controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
c077719b 1772
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LT
1773 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1774
cd4f0ef7 1775 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
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LT
1776
1777 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1778
55142374 1779 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
58687acb 1780
1da177e4 1781 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 1782
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1783 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1784
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FY
1785 nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1786 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1787 SAL PALO.
1788
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YL
1789 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1790 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
1791 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
1792 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
1793 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
1794
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1795 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1796
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KH
1797 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1798 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1799 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1800 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1801
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1802 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1803 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
1804 info.
1805
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AS
1806 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
1807 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
1808 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
1809 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
1810 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
1811 interrupts *may* be lost!
1812
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TL
1813 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
1814 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
1815 For example, to override I2C bus2:
1816 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
1817
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LT
1818 oprofile.timer= [HW]
1819 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
1820
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RR
1821 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
1822 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
1823 userland or if you want common events.
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RR
1824 Format: { arch_perfmon }
1825 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
1826 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
1827 CPU specific event set.
1dcdb5a9 1828
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OH
1829 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
1830 but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
1831 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
1832 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
1833
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RD
1834 OSS [HW,OSS]
1835 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
1836
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LT
1837 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
1838 Format: <timeout>
1839
1840 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
1841 connected to, default is 0.
1842 Format: <parport#>
1843 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
1844 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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1845 Format: <mode>
1846
1847 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
1848 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
1849 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
1850 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
1851 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
1852 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
1853 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
1854 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
1855 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
1856 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
1857 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
1858 are specified on the command line, starting
1859 with parport0.
1860
1861 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
1862 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
1863 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
1864 computer where firmware has no options for setting
1865 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
1866 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
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LT
1867 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
1868
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AM
1869 pause_on_oops=
1870 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
1871 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
1872 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
1873
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LT
1874 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
1875
1876 pcd. [PARIDE]
1877 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
31c00fc1 1878 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 1879
a9913044 1880 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
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BH
1881 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
1882 changes anything
c0115606 1883 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 1884 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
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RD
1885 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
1886 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 1887 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
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1888 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
1889 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
1890 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
c0115606 1891 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 1892 Mechanism 1.
c0115606 1893 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
a9913044 1894 Mechanism 2.
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1895 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
1896 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1897 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
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JG
1898 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
1899 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 1900 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 1901 Configuration
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AH
1902 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
1903 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
1904 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
1905 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
1906 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1907 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
1908 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
1909 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
1910 should never be necessary.
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SA
1911 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
1912 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
1913 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
1914 when the system masks IRQs.
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SA
1915 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
1916 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
1917 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
1918 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 1919 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
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RD
1920 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
1921 on several machines and they hang the machine
1922 when used, but on other computers it's the only
1923 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
1924 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
1925 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
1926 motherboard.
c0115606 1927 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
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RD
1928 Use with caution as certain devices share
1929 address decoders between ROMs and other
1930 resources.
c0115606 1931 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
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GH
1932 expansion ROMs that do not already have
1933 BIOS assigned address ranges.
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MH
1934 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
1935 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 1936 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
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RD
1937 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
1938 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
1939 this way.
c0115606 1940 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
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1941 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
1942 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
1943 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 1944 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
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RD
1945 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
1946 secondary buses and you want to tell it
1947 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 1948 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
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RD
1949 numbers ourselves, overriding
1950 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 1951 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
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RD
1952 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
1953 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
1954 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
1955 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
1956 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 1957 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 1958 or for PCI scanning.
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BH
1959 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
1960 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
1961 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
1962 please report a bug.
1963 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
1964 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
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1965 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
1966 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
1967 so this option is a temporary workaround
1968 for broken drivers that don't call it.
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YL
1969 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
1970 handle more pci cards
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1971 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
1972 just use the configuration from the
1973 bootloader. This is currently used on
1974 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
1975 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
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AK
1976 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
1977 This might help on some broken boards which
1978 machine check when some devices' config space
1979 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
1980 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
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1981 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
1982 This sorting is done to get a device
1983 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
1984 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
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AN
1985 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1986 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
1987 The default value is 256 bytes.
1988 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
1989 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
1990 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
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1991 resource_alignment=
1992 Format:
1993 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
1994 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
1995 aligned memory resources.
1996 If <order of align> is not specified,
1997 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
1998 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
1999 windows need to be expanded.
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2000 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2001 end-to-end CRC checking).
2002 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2003 the default.
2004 off: Turn ECRC off
2005 on: Turn ECRC on.
6b4b78fe 2006
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2007 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2008 Management.
2009 off Disable ASPM.
2010 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2011 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2012
79dd9182 2013 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
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2014 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2015 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2016 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2017 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2018 unconditionally.
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2019 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2020 ports driver.
2021
c7f48656 2022 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 2023 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 2024 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 2025
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LT
2026 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2027
2028 pd. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2029 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2030
2031 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2032 boot time.
2033 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2034 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2035
f58dc01b 2036 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
2037 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2038 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2039 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2040 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2041 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 2042
1da177e4 2043 pf. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2044 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2045
2046 pg. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2047 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2048
2049 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
71cced6e 2050 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2051
2052 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2053 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2054 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2055
de32a243
TG
2056 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
2057 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2058 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2059
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BH
2060 pnp.debug [PNP]
2061 Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
2062 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
2063
1da177e4
LT
2064 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2065 { off }
2066
2067 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2068 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2069
2070 pnp_reserve_irq=
2071 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2072
2073 pnp_reserve_dma=
2074 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2075
2076 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 2077 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
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LT
2078
2079 pnp_reserve_mem=
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RD
2080 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2081 autoconfiguration.
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LT
2082 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2083
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RD
2084 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2085 Default is 21.
2086 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2087 may be specified.
2088 Format: <port>,<port>....
2089
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2090 print-fatal-signals=
2091 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
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NO
2092
2093 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2094 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2095 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2096 coredump - etc.
2097
2098 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2099 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2100
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IM
2101 default: off.
2102
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RD
2103 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2104 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2105
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RD
2106 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2107 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2108 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2109
2110 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2111 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2112 instead using the legacy FADT method
2113
1da177e4 2114 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
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RD
2115 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2116 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2117 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2118 statistical time based profiling.
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2119 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2120 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 2121 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
1da177e4 2122
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LT
2123 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2124 before loading.
31c00fc1 2125 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2126
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RD
2127 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2128 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
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LT
2129 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2130 per second.
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RD
2131 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2132 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
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LT
2133 (0 = never).
2134 psmouse.resolution=
2135 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2136 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 2137 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
2138 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2139
1da177e4 2140 pt. [PARIDE]
31c00fc1 2141 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1da177e4 2142
dc8c8587
KS
2143 pty.legacy_count=
2144 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2145 default number.
2146
7d2c502f 2147 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 2148
1da177e4
LT
2149 r128= [HW,DRM]
2150
2151 raid= [HW,RAID]
2152 See Documentation/md.txt.
2153
a9913044 2154 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
31c00fc1 2155 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
a9913044 2156
1da177e4 2157 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
31c00fc1 2158 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1da177e4 2159
24aaef8d
RD
2160 rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
2161 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
2162 in one batch.
21a1ea9e 2163
24aaef8d
RD
2164 rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
2165 Set threshold of queued
21a1ea9e
DS
2166 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
2167
24aaef8d
RD
2168 rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
2169 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2170 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 2171
ffdfc409
OJ
2172 rdinit= [KNL]
2173 Format: <full_path>
2174 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2175 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2176
cd4f0ef7 2177 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
1da177e4 2178 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
ecb08d81 2179 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
1da177e4 2180
46b6d94e
PJ
2181 relax_domain_level=
2182 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
21acb9ca 2183 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
46b6d94e 2184
1da177e4
LT
2185 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2186
cd4f0ef7 2187 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
2188 Format: nn[KMG]
2189 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2190 address space.
2191
9ea77bdb
PA
2192 reservelow= [X86]
2193 Format: nn[K]
2194 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
2195 the bottom of the address space.
2196
7e96287d
VG
2197 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2198 during initialization.
2199
a9913044
RD
2200 resume= [SWSUSP]
2201 Specify the partition device for software suspend
1da177e4 2202
ecbd0da1
RW
2203 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2204 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2205 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2206 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2207 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2208
f996fc96
BS
2209 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
2210 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
2211 present during boot.
2212 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
2213
0a7b35cb
MN
2214 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2215
1da177e4
LT
2216 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2217 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2218
2219 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
2220 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
2221
2222 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2223
2224 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
2225
2226 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2227 mount the root filesystem
2228
2229 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2230
2231 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2232
cc1ed754
PO
2233 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2234 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2235 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2236
1da177e4
LT
2237 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2238
2239 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2240
2241 sa1100ir [NET]
2242 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2243
1da177e4 2244 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 2245
f6630114
MT
2246 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
2247
0cb55ad2
RD
2248 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2249 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2250 security module asking for security registration will be
2251 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2252 as if no module has been chosen.
2253
2254 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
2255 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2256 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2257 0 -- disable.
2258 1 -- enable.
2259 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2260 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2261 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2262
c1c124e9
JJ
2263 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
2264 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2265 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
2266 0 -- disable.
2267 1 -- enable.
2268 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2269
cd4f0ef7 2270 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 2271
1da177e4
LT
2272 shapers= [NET]
2273 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 2274
b05f78f5
YL
2275 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2276 Format: { <integer> }
2277 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2278 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2279 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2280
1da177e4
LT
2281 simeth= [IA-64]
2282 simscsi=
a9913044 2283
1da177e4
LT
2284 slram= [HW,MTD]
2285
f0630fff
CL
2286 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2287 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2288 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2289 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2290 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2291 last alloc / free. For more information see
2292 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
2293
2294 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
2295 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2296 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2297 fragmentation. For more information see
2298 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
c1aee215
CL
2299
2300 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
2301 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2302 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2303 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2304 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2305 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2306 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
c1aee215
CL
2307 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2308
2309 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2310 Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 2311 lower than slub_max_order.
c1aee215
CL
2312 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2313
2314 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff 2315 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
c1aee215 2316 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
f0630fff
CL
2317 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2318 merging on their own.
c1aee215
CL
2319 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2320
1da177e4
LT
2321 smart2= [HW]
2322 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2323
cd4f0ef7 2324 smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
b7fb4af0
JF
2325 attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
2326
d0d4f69b
BH
2327 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2328 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2329 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2330 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2331 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2332 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2333 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2334 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2335 1: Fast pin select (default)
2336 2: ATC IRMode
2337
9c44bc03
IM
2338 softlockup_panic=
2339 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2340
1da177e4
LT
2341 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2342 See Documentation/sonypi.txt
2343
2344 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
31c00fc1 2345 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2346
2347 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2348 spia_fio_base=
2349 spia_pedr=
2350 spia_peddr=
2351
f38f1d2a
SR
2352 stacktrace [FTRACE]
2353 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2354
1da177e4
LT
2355 sti= [PARISC,HW]
2356 Format: <num>
2357 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2358 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2359 as the initial boot-console.
2360 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2361
2362 sti_font= [HW]
2363 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2364
2365 stifb= [HW]
2366 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2367
cbf11071
TM
2368 sunrpc.min_resvport=
2369 sunrpc.max_resvport=
2370 [NFS,SUNRPC]
2371 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
2372 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
2373 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
2374 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
2375 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
2376 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
2377 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
2378 maximum port values.
2379
42a7fc4a
GB
2380 sunrpc.pool_mode=
2381 [NFS]
2382 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2383 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2384 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2385 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2386 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2387 NFS server is running.
2388
2389 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2390 automatically using heuristics
2391 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2392 percpu one pool for each CPU
2393 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2394 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2395
cbf11071
TM
2396 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
2397 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
2398 [NFS,SUNRPC]
2399 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
2400 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
2401 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
2402 improve throughput, but will also increase the
2403 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
2404
a42c390c
MH
2405 swapaccount[=0|1]
2406 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
2407 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
2408 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
2409
1da177e4 2410 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
a9913044 2411
1da177e4
LT
2412 switches= [HW,M68k]
2413
e52eec13
AK
2414 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
2415 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
2416 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
2417 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
2418 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
2419 in older udev will not work anymore.
2420 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
2421 the kernel configuration.
2422
5d6f647f
IM
2423 sysrq_always_enabled
2424 [KNL]
2425 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2426 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2427 Useful for debugging.
2428
1da177e4
LT
2429 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
2430
77437fd4
DB
2431 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2432 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2433 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2434 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2435 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2436
1da177e4
LT
2437 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2438 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2439
f8707ec9
LB
2440 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2441 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2442 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2443
c52a7419
LB
2444 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2445 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 2446 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 2447
f5487145
LB
2448 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2449 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2450 critical and hot trip points.
2451
72b33ef8
LB
2452 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2453 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2454
a70cdc52
LB
2455 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2456 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
2457 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2458 value
a70cdc52 2459
730ff34d
LB
2460 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2461 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2462 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2463 0: no polling (default)
2464
8d32a307
TG
2465 threadirqs [KNL]
2466 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
2467 marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
2468
2b1a61f0
HC
2469 topology= [S390]
2470 Format: {off | on}
2471 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2472 topology informations if the hardware supports these.
2473 The scheduler will make use of these informations and
2474 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 2475 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 2476
1da177e4
LT
2477 tp720= [HW,PS2]
2478
225a9be2
RA
2479 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
2480 Format: integer pcr id
2481 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
2482 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
2483 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
2484 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
2485 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
2486 are saved.
2487
9d612bef
LZ
2488 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
2489 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
631595fb 2490
020e5f85
LZ
2491 trace_event=[event-list]
2492 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
2493 to facilitate early boot debugging.
2494 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
2495
d3b8f889 2496 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
2497 Format: <string>
2498 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
2499 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
2500 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
2501 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
2502 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
2503 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
2504 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
2505 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
2506 can add overhead.
395628ef 2507
a9913044
RD
2508 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2509 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2510 Format:
2511 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1da177e4
LT
2512 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2513
f86dcc5a
ED
2514 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2515 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
2516
5f8364b7
AS
2517 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
2518 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2519 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2520 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2521 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2522 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2523 reported either.
2524
e3a61b0a 2525 unknown_nmi_panic
6cececfc 2526 [X86]
e3a61b0a
SA
2527 Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
2528
b5e795f8
AS
2529 usbcore.autosuspend=
2530 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2531 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2532 is the time required before an idle device will be
2533 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 2534 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 2535
fd7c519d
JK
2536 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2537 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2538
2539 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2540 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2541
2542 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2543 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2544 scheme (default 0 = off).
2545
2546 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2547 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2548 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2549
2550 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2551 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2552 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2553 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2554
1da177e4
LT
2555 usbhid.mousepoll=
2556 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 2557
d4f373e5
AS
2558 usb-storage.delay_use=
2559 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2560 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2561
2562 usb-storage.quirks=
2563 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2564 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2565 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2566 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2567 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2568 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2569 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
2570 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2571 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
2572 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
2573 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
2574 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2575 device capacity by one sector);
c838ea46
AS
2576 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2577 reported device capacity by one
2578 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
2579 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2580 device);
2581 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2582 unlock ejectable media);
2583 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2584 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
c838ea46
AS
2585 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2586 reported by the device);
d4f373e5
AS
2587 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2588 bogus residue values);
2589 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2590 Logical Unit);
2591 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2592 medium is write-protected).
2593 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2594
14315592
IC
2595 userpte=
2596 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
2597
2598 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
2599 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
2600 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
2601
6cececfc 2602 vdso= [X86,SH]
1dbf527c 2603 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
e6e5494c
IM
2604 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
2605 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
2606
6cececfc 2607 vdso32= [X86]
af65d648
RM
2608 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2609 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
2610 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
2611
d080d397
YI
2612 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
2613 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
2614
1da177e4
LT
2615 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
2616 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
2617
cd4f0ef7 2618 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
954a8b81 2619 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
a9913044 2620 Documentation/svga.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2621 Use vga=ask for menu.
2622 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
2623 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
2624
a9913044 2625 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
2626 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
2627 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
2628 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
2629 mapped kernel RAM.
2630
585c3047
PO
2631 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
2632 Format: <command>
1da177e4 2633
585c3047
PO
2634 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
2635 Format: <command>
2636
2637 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
2638 Format: <command>
a9913044 2639
9ea9a886
CL
2640 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
2641 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
2642 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
2643 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
2644
0cb55ad2
RD
2645 vt.default_blu= [VT]
2646 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
2647 Change the default blue palette of the console.
2648 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2649 ranging from 0-255.
2650
2651 vt.default_grn= [VT]
2652 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
2653 Change the default green palette of the console.
2654 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2655 ranging from 0-255.
2656
2657 vt.default_red= [VT]
2658 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
2659 Change the default red palette of the console.
2660 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2661 ranging from 0-255.
2662
2663 vt.default_utf8=
2664 [VT]
2665 Format=<0|1>
2666 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
2667 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
2668 newly opened terminals.
2669
f6c06b68
MG
2670 vt.global_cursor_default=
2671 [VT]
2672 Format=<-1|0|1>
2673 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
2674 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
2675 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
2676 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
2677 cursors, 1 will display them.
2678
4724ba57
RD
2679 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
2680 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
2681 or other driver-specific files in the
2682 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 2683
0cb55ad2
RD
2684 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
2685 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
2686 supporting x2apic.
2687
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2688 x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
2689 Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform.
2690 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
2691 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
2692 x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
2693
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2694 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
2695 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
2696
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2697 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
2698 Unplug Xen emulated devices
2699 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
2700 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
2701 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
2702 nics -- unplug network devices
2703 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
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2704 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
2705 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
2706 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 2707 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 2708
1da177e4 2709 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
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2710 Format:
2711 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
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2714
2715TODO:
2716
1da177e4 2717 Add more DRM drivers.