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1 Kernel Parameters 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 4The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as 5implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros 6and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all 7punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive 8manner), and with descriptions where known. 9 10The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--"; 11if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the 12parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's 13environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init. 14Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init. 15 16Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command 17line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.: 18 19 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1 20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1 21 22Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be 23specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the 24kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters 25when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for 26loadable modules too. 27 28Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so 29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1 30can also be entered as 31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 32 33Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.: 34 param="spaces in here" 35 36This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command 37"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable 38module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also 39reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these 40parameters may be changed at runtime by the command 41"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}". 42 43The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were 44enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at 45the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a 46parameter is applicable: 47 48 ACPI ACPI support is enabled. 49 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled. 50 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled. 51 APIC APIC support is enabled. 52 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. 53 ARM ARM architecture is enabled. 54 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled. 55 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. 56 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled. 57 CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled. 58 CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled. 59 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. 60 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime 61 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled 62 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled 63 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. 64 EVM Extended Verification Module 65 FB The frame buffer device is enabled. 66 FTRACE Function tracing enabled. 67 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled. 68 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. 69 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. 70 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. 71 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled. 72 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. 73 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled. 74 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. 75 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. 76 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. 77 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled. 78 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. 79 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled 80 LP Printer support is enabled. 81 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. 82 M68k M68k architecture is enabled. 83 These options have more detailed description inside of 84 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt. 85 MDA MDA console support is enabled. 86 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled. 87 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. 88 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI). 89 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. 90 NET Appropriate network support is enabled. 91 NUMA NUMA support is enabled. 92 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. 93 OSS OSS sound support is enabled. 94 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. 95 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled. 96 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled. 97 PCI PCI bus support is enabled. 98 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled. 99 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. 100 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. 101 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled. 102 PPT Parallel port support is enabled. 103 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. 104 RAM RAM disk support is enabled. 105 S390 S390 architecture is enabled. 106 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. 107 A lot of drivers have their options described inside 108 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory. 109 SECURITY Different security models are enabled. 110 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. 111 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. 112 SERIAL Serial support is enabled. 113 SH SuperH architecture is enabled. 114 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. 115 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled. 116 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled. 117 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. 118 TPM TPM drivers are enabled. 119 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. 120 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. 121 USB USB support is enabled. 122 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. 123 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. 124 VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled. 125 VGA The VGA console has been enabled. 126 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. 127 WDT Watchdog support is enabled. 128 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled. 129 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled. 130 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled. 131 More X86-64 boot options can be found in 132 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt . 133 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64) 134 XEN Xen support is enabled 135 136In addition, the following text indicates that the option: 137 138 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. 139 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. 140 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter. 141 142Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot 143loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. 144Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme 145need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>. 146 147There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here. 148See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>. 149 150Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that 151a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will 152be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that 153it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs 154running once the system is up. 155 156The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the 157complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to 158a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture 159and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 160./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. 161 162Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel 163parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_ 164multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 165bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 166 167 168 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86] 169 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 170 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt } 171 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 172 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 173 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 174 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 175 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 176 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 177 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 178 179 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi 180 181 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] 182 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 183 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 184 second kernel for kdump. 185 186 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC] 187 Format: <int> 188 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 189 1,0: use 1st APIC table 190 default: 0 191 192 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 193 acpi_backlight=vendor 194 acpi_backlight=video 195 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver 196 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 197 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 198 199 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 200 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 201 Format: <int> 202 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 203 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 204 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 205 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT 206 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 207 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 208 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 209 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 210 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about 211 debug layers and levels. 212 213 Enable processor driver info messages: 214 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 215 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages: 216 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000 217 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 218 object while interpreting AML: 219 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 220 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 221 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 222 223 Some values produce so much output that the system is 224 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 225 if you need to capture more output. 226 227 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI] 228 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 229 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 230 size limitation. 231 232 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 233 ACPI will balance active IRQs 234 default in APIC mode 235 236 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 237 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 238 default in PIC mode 239 240 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 241 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 242 243 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 244 use by PCI 245 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 246 247 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 248 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 249 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 250 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 251 auto-serialization feature. 252 This feature is enabled by default. 253 This option allows to turn off the feature. 254 255 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI] 256 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 257 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 258 installed automatically and they will appear under 259 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 260 This option turns off this feature. 261 Note that specifying this option does not affect 262 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 263 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 264 265 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 266 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 267 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 268 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 269 This option is useful for developers to identify the 270 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 271 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 272 273 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 274 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 275 276 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 277 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 278 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 279 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 280 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 281 strings 282 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 283 284 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 285 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 286 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 287 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 288 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 289 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 290 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 291 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 292 care about the state of the feature group strings which 293 should be controlled by the OSPM. 294 Examples: 295 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 296 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 297 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 298 299 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 300 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 301 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 302 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 303 multiple times through kernel command line is also 304 meaningless. 305 Examples: 306 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 307 FALSE. 308 309 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 310 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 311 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 312 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 313 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 314 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 315 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 316 there are quirks related to this string. This command 317 is useful when one want to control the state of the 318 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 319 the OSPM features. 320 Examples: 321 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 322 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 323 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 324 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 325 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 326 equivalent to 327 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 328 and 329 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 330 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 331 332 acpi_pm_good [X86] 333 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 334 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 335 and always returns good values. 336 337 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 338 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 339 340 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 341 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 342 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 343 344 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 345 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, 346 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable } 347 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on 348 s3_bios and s3_mode. 349 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 350 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 351 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 352 used during resume from hibernation. 353 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 354 control method, with respect to putting devices into 355 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 356 of _PTS is used by default). 357 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 358 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 359 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 360 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 361 but some broken systems don't work without it). 362 363 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] 364 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 365 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 366 367 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 368 { strict | lax | no } 369 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 370 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 371 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 372 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 373 can interfere with legacy drivers. 374 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 375 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 376 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 377 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 378 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 379 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 380 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 381 no further checks are performed. 382 383 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 384 kernels. 385 386 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in 387 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 388 389 agp= [AGP] 390 { off | try_unsupported } 391 off: disable AGP support 392 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 393 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 394 395 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 396 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt 397 398 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 399 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 400 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 401 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 402 403 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 404 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 405 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 406 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 407 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 408 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 409 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 410 411 32: only for 32-bit processes 412 64: only for 64-bit processes 413 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 414 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 415 416 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 417 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 418 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 419 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 420 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 421 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 422 423 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 424 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 425 Possible values are: 426 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when 427 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are 428 flushed before they will be reused, which 429 is a lot of faster 430 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 431 the system 432 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 433 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 434 allowed anymore to lift isolation 435 requirements as needed. This option 436 does not override iommu=pt 437 438 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 439 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 440 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 441 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 442 IOMMU initialization. 443 444 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 445 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 446 Format: <a>,<b> 447 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt 448 449 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 450 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 451 connected to one of 16 gameports 452 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 453 454 apc= [HW,SPARC] 455 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 456 Format: noidle 457 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 458 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 459 APC and your system crashes randomly. 460 461 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 462 Change the output verbosity whilst booting 463 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 464 Change the amount of debugging information output 465 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 466 467 autoconf= [IPV6] 468 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 469 470 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 471 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 472 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 473 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 474 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 475 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 476 apic=verbose is specified. 477 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 478 479 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 480 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 481 482 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 483 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 484 485 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 486 487 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 488 489 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 490 EzKey and similar keyboards 491 492 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 493 494 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 495 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 496 497 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 498 keyboards 499 500 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 501 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 502 503 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 504 Use software keyboard repeat 505 506 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 507 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled) 508 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled 509 until the next reboot 510 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 511 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 512 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled, 513 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in 514 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace 515 auditd. 516 Default: unset 517 518 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 519 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 520 Default: 64 521 522 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 523 Format: <io>,<mode> 524 525 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 526 Format: <io>,<mode> 527 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 528 529 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 530 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 531 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 532 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 533 534 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 535 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 536 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 537 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 538 539 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 540 embedded devices based on command line input. 541 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt 542 543 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 544 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to 545 no delay (0). 546 Format: integer 547 548 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages. 549 550 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 551 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 552 kernel args too. 553 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options 554 bttv.tuner= 555 556 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 557 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 558 at a time. 559 560 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 561 562 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 563 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 564 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 565 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 566 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 567 This option provides an override for these situations. 568 569 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 570 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 571 trust validation. 572 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 573 574 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 575 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 576 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 577 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 578 others). 579 580 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 581 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 582 583 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller 584 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable} 585 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 586 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 587 a single hierarchy 588 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 589 subsystem 590 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 591 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 592 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 593 594 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 595 Format: { "0" | "1" } 596 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 597 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 598 any implied execute protection). 599 1 -- check protection requested by application. 600 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 601 Value can be changed at runtime via 602 /selinux/checkreqprot. 603 604 cio_ignore= [S390] 605 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. 606 clk_ignore_unused 607 [CLK] 608 Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on, 609 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 610 for debug and development, but should not be 611 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 612 For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt. 613 614 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 615 [Deprecated] 616 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 617 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 618 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 619 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 620 621 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 622 Format: <string> 623 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 624 with the name specified. 625 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 626 the platform: 627 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 628 [ACPI] acpi_pm 629 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 630 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 631 [AVR32] avr32 632 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 633 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 634 [MIPS] MIPS 635 [PARISC] cr16 636 [S390] tod 637 [SH] SuperH 638 [SPARC64] tick 639 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 640 641 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] 642 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 643 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit 644 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily 645 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific 646 ones should be. 647 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 648 or using the feature without checking anything 649 will still see it. This just prevents it from 650 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 651 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 652 some critical bits. 653 654 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 655 [ARM,X86,KNL] 656 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 657 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 658 placement constraint by the physical address range of 659 memory allocations. For more information, see 660 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h 661 662 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 663 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 664 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 665 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 666 a hypervisor. 667 Default: yes 668 669 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL] 670 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 671 allocations, by default set to 256K. 672 673 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print 674 in an oops report. 675 Range: 0 - 8192 676 Default: 64 677 678 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 679 Format: 680 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 681 682 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 683 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 684 685 com90xx= [HW,NET] 686 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 687 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 688 689 condev= [HW,S390] console device 690 conmode= 691 692 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 693 694 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 695 696 ttyS<n>[,options] 697 ttyUSB0[,options] 698 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 699 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 700 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 701 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 702 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 703 704 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more 705 information. See 706 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an 707 alternative. 708 709 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 710 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 711 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 712 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 713 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The 714 options are the same as for ttyS, above. 715 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 716 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 717 718 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 719 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 720 console=brl,ttyS0 721 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 722 723 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 724 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0 725 disables the blank timer. 726 727 coredump_filter= 728 [KNL] Change the default value for 729 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 730 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. 731 732 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 733 disable the cpuidle sub-system 734 735 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 736 Format: 737 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 738 739 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 740 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 741 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 742 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 743 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 744 is selected automatically. Check 745 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details. 746 747 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 748 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 749 in the running system. The syntax of range is 750 start-[end] where start and end are both 751 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 752 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example. 753 754 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 755 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel 756 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could 757 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed. 758 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if 759 available. 760 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 761 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 762 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high 763 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region 764 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system 765 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb 766 requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would 767 try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically. 768 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G 769 for second kernel instead. 770 0: to disable low allocation. 771 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 772 or memory reserved is below 4G. 773 774 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 775 Format: <dma> 776 777 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 778 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 779 780 dasd= [HW,NET] 781 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 782 783 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 784 (one device per port) 785 Format: <port#>,<type> 786 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 787 788 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot 789 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for 790 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg. 791 792 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 793 794 debug_locks_verbose= 795 [KNL] verbose self-tests 796 Format=<0|1> 797 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 798 self-tests. 799 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to 800 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally 801 only useful to kernel developers. 802 803 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging 804 805 no_debug_objects 806 [KNL] Disable object debugging 807 808 debug_guardpage_minorder= 809 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 810 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 811 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 812 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 813 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 814 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 815 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter 816 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random 817 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or 818 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a 819 random memory location. Note that there exists a class 820 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or 821 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when 822 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is 823 bypassed) which are not detectable by 824 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help 825 tracking down these problems. 826 827 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 828 829 decnet.addr= [HW,NET] 830 Format: <area>[,<node>] 831 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt. 832 833 default_hugepagesz= 834 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default 835 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by 836 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and 837 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. 838 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size 839 if not specified. 840 841 dhash_entries= [KNL] 842 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 843 844 disable= [IPV6] 845 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 846 847 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] 848 Format: <int> 849 The number of initial APIC ID for the 850 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot, 851 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to 852 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without 853 causing system reset or hang due to sending 854 INIT from AP to BSP. 855 856 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES] 857 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if 858 to workaround buggy firmware. 859 860 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 861 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. 862 863 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 864 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 865 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 866 entry later. This parameter disables that. 867 868 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] 869 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 870 memory out of your available memory pool based on 871 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 872 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 873 874 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 875 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 876 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 877 878 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 879 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 880 881 dma_debug_entries=<number> 882 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 883 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 884 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 885 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 886 architectural default is too low. 887 888 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 889 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 890 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 891 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 892 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 893 driver later using sysfs. 894 895 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file> 896 Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may 897 send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter 898 allows to specify an EDID data set in the 899 /lib/firmware directory that is used instead. 900 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of 901 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin, 902 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given 903 and no file with the same name exists. Details and 904 instructions how to build your own EDID data are 905 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID 906 data set will only be used for a particular connector, 907 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID 908 name. 909 910 dscc4.setup= [NET] 911 912 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 913 module.dyndbg[="val"] 914 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 915 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details. 916 917 early_ioremap_debug [KNL] 918 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 919 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 920 which are not unmapped. 921 922 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. 923 924 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 925 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 926 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 927 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 928 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 929 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 930 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32). 931 The options are the same as for ttyS, above. 932 933 pl011,<addr> 934 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 935 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 936 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 937 yet supported. 938 939 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 940 941 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k] 942 earlyprintk=vga 943 earlyprintk=efi 944 earlyprintk=xen 945 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 946 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 947 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 948 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 949 950 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 951 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 952 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 953 954 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 955 takes over. 956 957 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can 958 be used at a time. 959 960 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 961 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 962 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 963 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 964 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 965 You can find the port for a given device in 966 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 967 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 968 969 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 970 very good. 971 972 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by 973 the real console. 974 975 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. 976 977 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 978 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 979 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 980 by other higher priority error reporting module. 981 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 982 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 983 default: on. 984 985 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging 986 ekgdboc=kbd 987 988 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 989 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 990 991 edd= [EDD] 992 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 993 994 efi= [EFI] 995 Format: { "old_map" } 996 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI 997 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by 998 default. 999 1000 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] 1001 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1002 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1003 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1004 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1005 1006 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1007 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1008 1009 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1010 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1011 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1012 1013 elevator= [IOSCHED] 1014 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"} 1015 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and 1016 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 1017 1018 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390] 1019 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1020 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1021 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1022 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. 1023 1024 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] 1025 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1026 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1027 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1028 1029 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1030 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1031 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1032 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1033 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1034 1035 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1036 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1037 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1038 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1039 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1040 Default value is 0. 1041 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. 1042 1043 erst_disable [ACPI] 1044 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1045 support. 1046 1047 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1048 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1049 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1050 1051 evm= [EVM] 1052 Format: { "fix" } 1053 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1054 current integrity status. 1055 1056 failslab= 1057 fail_page_alloc= 1058 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1059 General fault injection mechanism. 1060 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1061 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1062 1063 floppy= [HW] 1064 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. 1065 1066 force_pal_cache_flush 1067 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on 1068 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this 1069 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call 1070 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. 1071 1072 forcepae [X86-32] 1073 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1074 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1075 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1076 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1077 and may cause unknown problems. 1078 1079 ftrace=[tracer] 1080 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1081 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1082 boot debugging. 1083 1084 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu] 1085 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1086 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump 1087 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will 1088 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the 1089 oops. 1090 1091 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1092 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1093 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 1094 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1095 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1096 tracing directory. 1097 1098 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1099 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1100 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1101 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1102 tracing directory. 1103 1104 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1105 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1106 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1107 function-list is a comma separated list of functions 1108 that can be changed at run time by the 1109 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1110 1111 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1112 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1113 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of 1114 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1115 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1116 1117 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1118 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1119 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1120 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1121 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 1122 1123 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1124 1125 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1126 Format: off | on 1127 default: on 1128 1129 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1130 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1131 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1132 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1133 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1134 1135 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1136 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1137 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1138 GPT to be used instead. 1139 1140 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1141 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1142 Format: 0 | 1 1143 Default: 0 1144 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1145 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1146 Format: 0 | 1 1147 Default: 0 1148 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1149 Format: 0 | 1 1150 Default: 0 1151 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1152 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1153 Default: 1024 1154 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1155 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1156 Default: 1024 1157 1158 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1159 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1160 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1161 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1162 1163 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer 1164 1165 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1166 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1167 1168 hest_disable [ACPI] 1169 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1170 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1171 logic will be disabled. 1172 1173 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1174 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1175 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1176 size on bigger boxes. 1177 1178 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1179 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1180 Default: "on" 1181 1182 hisax= [HW,ISDN] 1183 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. 1184 1185 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1186 1187 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1188 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1189 verbose } 1190 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1191 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1192 VIA, nVidia) 1193 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1194 1195 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1196 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1197 1198 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1199 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. 1200 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified 1201 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve 1202 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on 1203 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G 1204 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) 1205 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time 1206 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. 1207 1208 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1209 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1210 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1211 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1212 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1213 1214 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to 1215 hardware thread id mappings. 1216 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread> 1217 1218 keep_bootcon [KNL] 1219 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 1220 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 1221 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 1222 the real console. 1223 1224 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1225 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1226 registered from board initialization code. 1227 Format: 1228 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1229 1230 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1231 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1232 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1233 keyboard and cannot control its state 1234 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1235 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1236 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1237 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1238 for the AUX port 1239 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1240 controller 1241 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1242 controllers 1243 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1244 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup 1245 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1246 1247 i810= [HW,DRM] 1248 1249 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1250 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1251 hardware. 1252 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature 1253 does not match list of supported models. 1254 i8k.power_status 1255 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1256 (disabled by default) 1257 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1258 capability is set. 1259 1260 i915.invert_brightness= 1261 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1262 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1263 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1264 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1265 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1266 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1267 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1268 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1269 value switches the backlight off. 1270 -1 -- never invert brightness 1271 0 -- machine default 1272 1 -- force brightness inversion 1273 1274 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1275 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1276 1277 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1278 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc 1279 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr 1280 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options 1281 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. 1282 1283 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem 1284 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. 1285 1286 idle= [X86] 1287 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 1288 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 1289 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 1290 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 1291 Not recommended. 1292 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 1293 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 1294 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 1295 1296 ignore_loglevel [KNL] 1297 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 1298 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 1299 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 1300 could change it dynamically, usually by 1301 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 1302 1303 ihash_entries= [KNL] 1304 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 1305 1306 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 1307 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" } 1308 default: "enforce" 1309 1310 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] 1311 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 1312 owned by uid=0. 1313 1314 ima_hash= [IMA] 1315 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 1316 | sha512 | ... } 1317 default: "sha1" 1318 1319 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 1320 in crypto/hash_info.h. 1321 1322 ima_tcb [IMA] 1323 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 1324 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 1325 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 1326 opened for read by uid=0. 1327 1328 ima_template= [IMA] 1329 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 1330 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" } 1331 Default: "ima-ng" 1332 1333 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 1334 Format: <min_file_size> 1335 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 1336 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 1337 1338 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 1339 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1340 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 1341 1342 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 1343 Format: <bufsize> 1344 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 1345 1346 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 1347 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 1348 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 1349 1350 init= [KNL] 1351 Format: <full_path> 1352 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 1353 process. 1354 1355 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 1356 for working out where the kernel is dying during 1357 startup. 1358 1359 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 1360 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 1361 modules and initcalls. 1362 1363 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 1364 1365 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 1366 Format: <irq> 1367 1368 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 1369 1370 integrity_audit=[IMA] 1371 Format: { "0" | "1" } 1372 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 1373 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 1374 1375 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 1376 on 1377 Enable intel iommu driver. 1378 off 1379 Disable intel iommu driver. 1380 igfx_off [Default Off] 1381 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 1382 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 1383 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 1384 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 1385 DMA. 1386 forcedac [x86_64] 1387 With this option iommu will not optimize to look 1388 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual 1389 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater 1390 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look 1391 for translation below 32-bit and if not available 1392 then look in the higher range. 1393 strict [Default Off] 1394 With this option on every unmap_single operation will 1395 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed 1396 to batching them for performance. 1397 sp_off [Default Off] 1398 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 1399 has the capability. With this option, super page will 1400 not be supported. 1401 1402 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 1403 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 1404 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state. 1405 1406 intel_pstate= [X86] 1407 disable 1408 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 1409 scaling driver for the supported processors 1410 1411 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] 1412 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 1413 off disable Interrupt Remapping 1414 nosid disable Source ID checking 1415 no_x2apic_optout 1416 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 1417 1418 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 1419 strict regions from userspace. 1420 relaxed 1421 1422 iommu= [x86] 1423 off 1424 force 1425 noforce 1426 biomerge 1427 panic 1428 nopanic 1429 merge 1430 nomerge 1431 forcesac 1432 soft 1433 pt [x86, IA-64] 1434 1435 1436 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 1437 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 1438 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 1439 1440 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method 1441 0x80 1442 Standard port 0x80 based delay 1443 0xed 1444 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 1445 udelay 1446 Simple two microseconds delay 1447 none 1448 No delay 1449 1450 ip= [IP_PNP] 1451 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 1452 1453 irqfixup [HW] 1454 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1455 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1456 firmware running. 1457 1458 irqpoll [HW] 1459 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 1460 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 1461 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 1462 firmware running. 1463 1464 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 1465 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 1466 1467 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler. 1468 Format: 1469 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> 1470 or 1471 <cpu number>-<cpu number> 1472 (must be a positive range in ascending order) 1473 or a mixture 1474 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> 1475 1476 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs 1477 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 1478 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an 1479 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 1480 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 1481 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 1482 1483 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The 1484 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all 1485 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and 1486 suboptimal load balancer performance. 1487 1488 iucv= [HW,NET] 1489 1490 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64] 1491 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1492 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1493 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 1494 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1495 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 1496 1497 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64] 1498 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 1499 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For 1500 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to 1501 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 1502 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 1503 1504 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 1505 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. 1506 1507 kaslr/nokaslr [X86] 1508 Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR 1509 (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into 1510 the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected, 1511 kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled, 1512 hibernation will be disabled. 1513 1514 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] 1515 1516 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 1517 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel 1518 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is 1519 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The 1520 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable 1521 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both 1522 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will 1523 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number 1524 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the 1525 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved 1526 by the page migration subsystem. This means that 1527 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. 1528 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still 1529 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 1530 zone if it does not. 1531 1532 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 1533 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 1534 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 1535 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 1536 optional and is the number seconds in between 1537 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 1538 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 1539 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 1540 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 1541 the kernel debugger. 1542 1543 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 1544 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 1545 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 1546 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 1547 keyboard only format: kbd 1548 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 1549 Optional Kernel mode setting: 1550 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 1551 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 1552 1553 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the 1554 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 1555 1556 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address. 1557 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 1558 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 1559 1560 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 1561 Valid arguments: on, off 1562 Default: on 1563 1564 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode 1565 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2 1566 kmemcheck=0 (disabled) 1567 kmemcheck=1 (enabled) 1568 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode) 1569 Default: 2 (one-shot mode) 1570 1571 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack 1572 in oops dumps. 1573 1574 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 1575 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 1576 1577 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit 1578 KVM MMU at runtime. 1579 Default is 0 (off) 1580 1581 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. 1582 Default is 1 (enabled) 1583 1584 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) 1585 for all guests. 1586 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode. 1587 1588 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables 1589 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. 1590 Default is 1 (enabled) 1591 1592 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 1593 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states 1594 Default is 0 (disabled) 1595 1596 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 1597 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). 1598 Default is 1 (enabled) 1599 1600 kvm-intel.nested= 1601 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX). 1602 Default is 0 (disabled) 1603 1604 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 1605 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature 1606 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable 1607 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) 1608 1609 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification 1610 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. 1611 Default is 1 (enabled) 1612 1613 l2cr= [PPC] 1614 1615 l3cr= [PPC] 1616 1617 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 1618 disabled it. 1619 1620 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline 1621 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 1622 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 1623 1624 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer 1625 in C2 power state. 1626 1627 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 1628 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 1629 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 1630 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 1631 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 1632 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 1633 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 1634 1635 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 1636 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 1637 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 1638 1639 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 1640 when set. 1641 Format: <int> 1642 1643 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma 1644 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is 1645 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers 1646 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches 1647 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If 1648 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE 1649 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the 1650 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices. 1651 1652 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 1653 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 1654 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 1655 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 1656 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 1657 host link and device attached to it. 1658 1659 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 1660 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed. 1661 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 1662 The following configurations can be forced. 1663 1664 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 1665 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 1666 1667 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 1668 1669 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 1670 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 1671 allowed. 1672 1673 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 1674 1675 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft 1676 and both resets. 1677 1678 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during 1679 hot-unplug link recovery 1680 1681 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data. 1682 1683 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support 1684 1685 * disable: Disable this device. 1686 1687 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 1688 the same attribute, the last one is used. 1689 1690 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages. 1691 1692 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy 1693 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 1694 1695 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 1696 Format: <integer> 1697 1698 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 1699 Format: <integer> 1700 1701 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 1702 Format: <integer> 1703 1704 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 1705 Format: <integer> 1706 1707 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 1708 Format: <irq> 1709 1710 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 1711 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 1712 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 1713 loglevels are defined as follows: 1714 1715 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 1716 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 1717 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 1718 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 1719 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 1720 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 1721 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 1722 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 1723 1724 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, 1725 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater 1726 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined 1727 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is 1728 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter 1729 that allows to increase the default size depending on 1730 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details. 1731 1732 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 1733 This may be used to provide more screen space for 1734 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 1735 kernel boot problems. 1736 1737 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 1738 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 1739 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 1740 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 1741 specified in addition to the ports) causes 1742 attached printers to be reset. Using 1743 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 1744 to associate lp devices with, starting with 1745 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 1746 that lp device, or a parport name such as 1747 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 1748 port specification list means that device IDs 1749 from each port should be examined, to see if 1750 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 1751 so, the driver will manage that printer. 1752 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 1753 1754 lpj=n [KNL] 1755 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 1756 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 1757 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 1758 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 1759 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 1760 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 1761 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 1762 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 1763 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 1764 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 1765 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 1766 hardware. 1767 1768 ltpc= [NET] 1769 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> 1770 1771 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector 1772 (machvec) in a generic kernel. 1773 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb 1774 1775 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different 1776 yeeloong laptop. 1777 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 1778 1779 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater 1780 than or equal to this physical address is ignored. 1781 1782 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 1783 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the 1784 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case, 1785 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables 1786 the IO APIC. 1787 1788 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 1789 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 1790 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 1791 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 1792 devices can be requested on-demand with the 1793 /dev/loop-control interface. 1794 1795 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 1796 1797 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt 1798 1799 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 1800 See Documentation/md.txt. 1801 1802 mdacon= [MDA] 1803 Format: <first>,<last> 1804 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 1805 1806 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory 1807 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able 1808 to see the whole system memory or for test. 1809 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 1810 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 1811 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 1812 belonging to unused RAM. 1813 1814 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 1815 memory. 1816 1817 memchunk=nn[KMG] 1818 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 1819 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 1820 1821 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact 1822 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 1823 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 1824 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 1825 option description. 1826 1827 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 1828 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 1829 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 1830 1831 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 1832 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 1833 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 1834 1835 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 1836 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 1837 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 1838 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 1839 memmap=64K$0x18690000 1840 or 1841 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 1842 1843 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86] 1844 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 1845 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 1846 Setting this option will scan the memory 1847 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 1848 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 1849 from using the memory being corrupted. 1850 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 1851 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 1852 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 1853 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 1854 1855 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86] 1856 By default it checks for corruption in the low 1857 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 1858 use. Use this parameter to scan for 1859 corruption in more or less memory. 1860 1861 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86] 1862 By default it checks for corruption every 60 1863 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 1864 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 1865 1866 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest 1867 Format: <integer> 1868 default : 0 <disable> 1869 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 1870 performed. Each pass selects another test 1871 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 1872 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 1873 memory contents and reserves bad memory 1874 regions that are detected. 1875 1876 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 1877 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 1878 1879 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the 1880 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode 1881 platforms. 1882 1883 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 1884 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 1885 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 1886 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 1887 1888 mga= [HW,DRM] 1889 1890 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this 1891 physical address is ignored. 1892 1893 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 1894 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 1895 Default: "0tb" 1896 MINI2440 configuration specification: 1897 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 1898 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 1899 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 1900 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 1901 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 1902 unconfigured. 1903 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 1904 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 1905 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 1906 VGA shield. 1907 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 1908 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 1909 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 1910 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 1911 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 1912 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 1913 1914 mminit_loglevel= 1915 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 1916 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 1917 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 1918 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 1919 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 1920 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 1921 1922 module.sig_enforce 1923 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 1924 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 1925 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 1926 is always true, so this option does nothing. 1927 1928 mousedev.tap_time= 1929 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 1930 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 1931 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 1932 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 1933 Format: <msecs> 1934 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 1935 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 1936 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 1937 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 1938 1939 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter 1940 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the 1941 amount of memory used for migratable allocations. 1942 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified, 1943 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified 1944 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own 1945 is specified, the administrator must be careful 1946 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 1947 is not too small. 1948 1949 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects 1950 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. 1951 1952 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 1953 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 1954 1955 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 1956 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 1957 1958 mtdparts= [MTD] 1959 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c. 1960 1961 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 1962 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 1963 at a time. 1964 1965 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 1966 1967 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 1968 1969 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 1970 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 1971 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 1972 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 1973 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 1974 1975 mtdset= [ARM] 1976 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control 1977 1978 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c 1979 1980 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 1981 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 1982 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 1983 1984 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 1985 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 1986 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 1987 1988 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] 1989 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 1990 Default is 1. 1991 Large value could prevent small alignment from 1992 using up MTRRs. 1993 1994 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] 1995 Format: <integer> 1996 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 1997 Default : 1 1998 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 1999 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 2000 2001 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 2002 2003 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 2004 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 2005 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 2006 something different and driver-specific. 2007 This usage is only documented in each driver source 2008 file if at all. 2009 2010 nf_conntrack.acct= 2011 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 2012 0 to disable accounting 2013 1 to enable accounting 2014 Default value is 0. 2015 2016 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 2017 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2018 2019 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 2020 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2021 2022 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 2023 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. 2024 2025 nfs.callback_tcpport= 2026 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 2027 channel should listen. 2028 2029 nfs.cache_getent= 2030 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 2031 to update the NFS client cache entries. 2032 2033 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 2034 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 2035 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 2036 2037 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 2038 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 2039 entries. 2040 2041 nfs.enable_ino64= 2042 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 2043 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 2044 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 2045 of returning the full 64-bit number. 2046 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 2047 2048 nfs.max_session_slots= 2049 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 2050 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 2051 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 2052 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 2053 Note that there is little point in setting this 2054 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 2055 2056 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2057 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 2058 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 2059 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 2060 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 2061 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 2062 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 2063 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 2064 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 2065 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 2066 back to using the idmapper. 2067 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 2068 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 2069 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 2070 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 2071 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 2072 UUID that is generated at system install time. 2073 2074 nfs.send_implementation_id = 2075 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 2076 information in exchange_id requests. 2077 If zero, no implementation identification information 2078 will be sent. 2079 The default is to send the implementation identification 2080 information. 2081 2082 nfs.recover_lost_locks = 2083 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 2084 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 2085 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 2086 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 2087 after the locks are lost. 2088 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 2089 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 2090 parameter to '1'. 2091 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 2092 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 2093 2094 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 2095 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 2096 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 2097 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 2098 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 2099 migration from NFSv2/v3. 2100 2101 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog= 2102 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which 2103 is used to automatically discover and login into new 2104 osd-targets. Please see: 2105 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations 2106 2107 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 2108 when a NMI is triggered. 2109 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 2110 2111 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 2112 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] 2113 Valid num: 0 2114 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off 2115 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 2116 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite 2117 default). 2118 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 2119 need the box quickly up again. 2120 2121 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 2122 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 2123 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 2124 waits 4 seconds. 2125 2126 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 2127 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 2128 is present. 2129 2130 no_console_suspend 2131 [HW] Never suspend the console 2132 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 2133 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 2134 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 2135 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 2136 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 2137 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 2138 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 2139 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 2140 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 2141 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 2142 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 2143 turn on/off it dynamically. 2144 2145 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien 2146 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, 2147 but will impact performance. 2148 2149 noalign [KNL,ARM] 2150 2151 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 2152 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 2153 2154 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 2155 2156 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem 2157 on "Classic" PPC cores. 2158 2159 nocache [ARM] 2160 2161 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction 2162 2163 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting 2164 2165 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. 2166 2167 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 2168 2169 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support. 2170 2171 noexec [IA-64] 2172 2173 noexec [X86] 2174 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels. 2175 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2176 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings 2177 2178 nosmap [X86] 2179 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 2180 even if it is supported by processor. 2181 2182 nosmep [X86] 2183 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 2184 even if it is supported by processor. 2185 2186 noexec32 [X86-64] 2187 This affects only 32-bit executables. 2188 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 2189 read doesn't imply executable mappings 2190 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 2191 read implies executable mappings 2192 2193 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 2194 2195 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 2196 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 2197 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 2198 2199 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 2200 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 2201 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 2202 2203 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 2204 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 2205 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 2206 performance of saving the states is degraded because 2207 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 2208 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 2209 2210 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 2211 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 2212 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 2213 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 2214 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 2215 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 2216 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 2217 2218 eagerfpu= [X86] 2219 on enable eager fpu restore 2220 off disable eager fpu restore 2221 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically 2222 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt. 2223 2224 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or 2225 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to 2226 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger. 2227 2228 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 2229 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 2230 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 2231 2232 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving 2233 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases 2234 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces 2235 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance 2236 in certain environments such as networked servers or 2237 real-time systems. 2238 2239 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 2240 2241 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 2242 Valid arguments: on, off 2243 Default: on 2244 2245 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT] 2246 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 2247 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 2248 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 2249 the range to maintain the timekeeping. 2250 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the 2251 rcu_nocbs= set. 2252 2253 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 2254 2255 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 2256 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 2257 2258 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 2259 broken timer IRQ sources. 2260 2261 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 2262 2263 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 2264 initial RAM disk. 2265 2266 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt 2267 remapping. 2268 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 2269 2270 nointroute [IA-64] 2271 2272 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. 2273 2274 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 2275 2276 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 2277 fault handling. 2278 2279 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. 2280 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler 2281 behaviour 2282 2283 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 2284 2285 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. 2286 2287 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel 2288 lowmem mapping on PPC40x. 2289 2290 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling 2291 2292 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 2293 2294 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 2295 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 2296 2297 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 2298 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 2299 irq. 2300 2301 nomodule Disable module load 2302 2303 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 2304 pagetables) support. 2305 2306 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 2307 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 2308 2309 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops 2310 2311 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2312 with UP alternatives 2313 2314 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and 2315 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported 2316 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still 2317 available to user space applications. 2318 2319 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2320 space. 2321 2322 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 2323 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 2324 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 2325 2326 nosbagart [IA-64] 2327 2328 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. 2329 2330 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 2331 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 2332 2333 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 2334 2335 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 2336 2337 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter 2338 2339 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 2340 2341 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog). 2342 2343 nowb [ARM] 2344 2345 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 2346 2347 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when 2348 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off. 2349 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are: 2350 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0. 2351 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you 2352 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate. 2353 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be 2354 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected. 2355 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some 2356 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far 2357 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines. 2358 If the dependencies are under your control, you can 2359 turn on cpu0_hotplug. 2360 2361 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB 2362 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or 2363 SAL PALO. 2364 2365 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 2366 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 2367 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not 2368 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online. 2369 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n 2370 2371 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 2372 2373 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing. 2374 Allowed values are enable and disable 2375 2376 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 2377 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified 2378 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 2379 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. 2380 2381 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 2382 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more 2383 info. 2384 2385 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 2386 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 2387 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 2388 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 2389 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 2390 interrupts *may* be lost! 2391 2392 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 2393 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 2394 For example, to override I2C bus2: 2395 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 2396 2397 oprofile.timer= [HW] 2398 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters 2399 2400 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type 2401 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile 2402 userland or if you want common events. 2403 Format: { arch_perfmon } 2404 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural 2405 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the 2406 CPU specific event set. 2407 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI 2408 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer 2409 for generic hr timer mode) 2410 [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling 2411 (report cpu_type "timer") 2412 2413 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 2414 process, but there is a small probability of 2415 deadlocking the machine. 2416 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 2417 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 2418 2419 OSS [HW,OSS] 2420 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt 2421 2422 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 2423 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 2424 timeout = 0: wait forever 2425 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 2426 Format: <timeout> 2427 2428 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 2429 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 2430 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 2431 succeeds in any situation. 2432 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 2433 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 2434 kernel more unstable. 2435 2436 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 2437 connected to, default is 0. 2438 Format: <parport#> 2439 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 2440 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 2441 Format: <mode> 2442 2443 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 2444 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 2445 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 2446 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 2447 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 2448 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 2449 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 2450 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 2451 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 2452 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 2453 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 2454 are specified on the command line, starting 2455 with parport0. 2456 2457 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 2458 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 2459 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 2460 computer where firmware has no options for setting 2461 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 2462 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 2463 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 2464 2465 pause_on_oops= 2466 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 2467 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 2468 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 2469 2470 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 2471 2472 pcd. [PARIDE] 2473 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c. 2474 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2475 2476 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: 2477 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel 2478 changes anything 2479 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 2480 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 2481 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 2482 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 2483 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 2484 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 2485 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 2486 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 2487 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration 2488 Mechanism 1. 2489 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration 2490 Mechanism 2. 2491 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 2492 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2493 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 2494 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 2495 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 2496 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 2497 Configuration 2498 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 2499 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 2500 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 2501 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 2502 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 2503 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 2504 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 2505 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 2506 should never be necessary. 2507 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 2508 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 2509 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 2510 when the system masks IRQs. 2511 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 2512 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 2513 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 2514 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 2515 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 2516 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 2517 on several machines and they hang the machine 2518 when used, but on other computers it's the only 2519 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 2520 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 2521 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 2522 motherboard. 2523 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 2524 Use with caution as certain devices share 2525 address decoders between ROMs and other 2526 resources. 2527 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 2528 expansion ROMs that do not already have 2529 BIOS assigned address ranges. 2530 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 2531 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 2532 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 2533 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 2534 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 2535 this way. 2536 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 2537 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 2538 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 2539 F0000h-100000h range. 2540 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 2541 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 2542 secondary buses and you want to tell it 2543 explicitly which ones they are. 2544 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 2545 numbers ourselves, overriding 2546 whatever the firmware may have done. 2547 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 2548 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 2549 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 2550 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 2551 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 2552 IRQ routing is enabled. 2553 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 2554 or for PCI scanning. 2555 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 2556 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 2557 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 2558 please report a bug. 2559 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 2560 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 2561 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 2562 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 2563 so this option is a temporary workaround 2564 for broken drivers that don't call it. 2565 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 2566 handle more pci cards 2567 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead 2568 just use the configuration from the 2569 bootloader. This is currently used on 2570 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be 2571 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs. 2572 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 2573 This might help on some broken boards which 2574 machine check when some devices' config space 2575 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 2576 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 2577 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2578 This sorting is done to get a device 2579 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 2580 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 2581 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 2582 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 2583 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 2584 supported by all devices below the root complex. 2585 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 2586 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 2587 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 2588 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 2589 or bus can support) for best performance. 2590 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 2591 every device is guaranteed to support. This 2592 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 2593 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 2594 reduced performance. This also guarantees 2595 that hot-added devices will work. 2596 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2597 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 2598 The default value is 256 bytes. 2599 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2600 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 2601 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 2602 resource_alignment= 2603 Format: 2604 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...] 2605 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 2606 aligned memory resources. 2607 If <order of align> is not specified, 2608 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 2609 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource 2610 windows need to be expanded. 2611 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 2612 end-to-end CRC checking). 2613 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 2614 the default. 2615 off: Turn ECRC off 2616 on: Turn ECRC on. 2617 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2618 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 2619 Default size is 256 bytes. 2620 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 2621 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window. 2622 Default size is 2 megabytes. 2623 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 2624 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 2625 accommodate resources required by all child 2626 devices. 2627 off: Turn realloc off 2628 on: Turn realloc on 2629 realloc same as realloc=on 2630 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 2631 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 2632 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 2633 port. 2634 2635 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power 2636 Management. 2637 off Disable ASPM. 2638 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 2639 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 2640 2641 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options: 2642 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this 2643 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services). 2644 2645 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling: 2646 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services 2647 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use 2648 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS. 2649 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports 2650 unconditionally. 2651 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe 2652 ports driver. 2653 2654 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 2655 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 2656 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 2657 2658 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 2659 2660 pd_ignore_unused 2661 [PM] 2662 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 2663 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 2664 for debug and development, but should not be 2665 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 2666 2667 pd. [PARIDE] 2668 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2669 2670 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 2671 boot time. 2672 Format: { 0 | 1 } 2673 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 2674 2675 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 2676 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 2677 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 2678 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 2679 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 2680 and performance comparison. 2681 2682 pf. [PARIDE] 2683 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2684 2685 pg. [PARIDE] 2686 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2687 2688 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 2689 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt. 2690 2691 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 2692 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 2693 See also Documentation/parport.txt. 2694 2695 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 2696 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 2697 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 2698 2699 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 2700 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 2701 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 2702 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 2703 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 2704 possible settings and some assignment information. 2705 2706 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 2707 { off } 2708 2709 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 2710 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 2711 2712 pnp_reserve_irq= 2713 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 2714 2715 pnp_reserve_dma= 2716 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 2717 2718 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 2719 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 2720 2721 pnp_reserve_mem= 2722 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 2723 autoconfiguration. 2724 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 2725 2726 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 2727 Default is 21. 2728 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 2729 may be specified. 2730 Format: <port>,<port>.... 2731 2732 print-fatal-signals= 2733 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 2734 2735 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 2736 related application anomalies: too many signals, 2737 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 2738 coredump - etc. 2739 2740 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 2741 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 2742 2743 default: off. 2744 2745 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 2746 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 2747 panics 2748 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 2749 default: disabled 2750 2751 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 2752 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 2753 2754 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 2755 Limit processor to maximum C-state 2756 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 2757 2758 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 2759 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 2760 instead using the legacy FADT method 2761 2762 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 2763 Format: [schedule,]<number> 2764 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 2765 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 2766 statistical time based profiling. 2767 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). 2768 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS 2769 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 2770 2771 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk 2772 before loading. 2773 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2774 2775 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 2776 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 2777 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 2778 per second. 2779 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 2780 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 2781 (0 = never). 2782 psmouse.resolution= 2783 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 2784 psmouse.smartscroll= 2785 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 2786 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 2787 2788 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 2789 2790 pt. [PARIDE] 2791 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. 2792 2793 pty.legacy_count= 2794 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 2795 default number. 2796 2797 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages 2798 2799 r128= [HW,DRM] 2800 2801 raid= [HW,RAID] 2802 See Documentation/md.txt. 2803 2804 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] 2805 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2806 2807 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 2808 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. 2809 2810 rcu_nocbs= [KNL] 2811 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set 2812 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. 2813 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will 2814 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for 2815 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" 2816 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" 2817 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the 2818 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and 2819 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy 2820 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 2821 2822 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 2823 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 2824 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 2825 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 2826 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 2827 This improves the real-time response for the 2828 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 2829 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 2830 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 2831 periodically wake up to do the polling. 2832 2833 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 2834 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 2835 process in one batch. 2836 2837 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 2838 Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each 2839 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large 2840 systems. 2841 2842 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 2843 Set required age in jiffies for a 2844 given grace period before RCU starts 2845 soliciting quiescent-state help from 2846 rcu_note_context_switch(). 2847 2848 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 2849 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 2850 first attempt to force quiescent states. 2851 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 2852 and maximum value is HZ. 2853 2854 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 2855 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 2856 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 2857 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 2858 2859 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL] 2860 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which 2861 defaults to the square root of the number of 2862 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead 2863 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases 2864 that same overhead on each group's leader. 2865 2866 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 2867 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 2868 batch limiting is disabled. 2869 2870 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 2871 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 2872 batch limiting is re-enabled. 2873 2874 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL] 2875 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 2876 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 2877 2878 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL] 2879 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have 2880 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y). 2881 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can 2882 prove do nothing more than free memory. 2883 2884 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 2885 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts. 2886 2887 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 2888 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts. 2889 2890 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 2891 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts. 2892 2893 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 2894 Use expedited update-side primitives. 2895 2896 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 2897 Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives. 2898 If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both. 2899 If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still 2900 do both. 2901 2902 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 2903 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 2904 2905 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 2906 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 2907 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 2908 test, hence the "fake". 2909 2910 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 2911 Set number of RCU readers. 2912 2913 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 2914 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 2915 2916 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 2917 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 2918 2919 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 2920 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 2921 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 2922 2923 rcutorture.rcutorture_runnable= [BOOT] 2924 Start rcutorture running at boot time. 2925 2926 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 2927 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 2928 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 2929 during the rcutorture test. 2930 2931 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 2932 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 2933 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 2934 2935 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 2936 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 2937 warnings, zero to disable. 2938 2939 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 2940 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 2941 2942 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 2943 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 2944 2945 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 2946 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 2947 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 2948 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 2949 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 2950 2951 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 2952 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 2953 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 2954 under test support RCU priority boosting. 2955 2956 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 2957 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 2958 2959 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 2960 Interval (s) between each boost test. 2961 2962 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 2963 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 2964 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 2965 2966 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 2967 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 2968 2969 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 2970 Enable additional printk() statements. 2971 2972 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 2973 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 2974 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 2975 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 2976 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 2977 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 2978 2979 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 2980 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 2981 2982 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 2983 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 2984 2985 rdinit= [KNL] 2986 Format: <full_path> 2987 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 2988 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 2989 2990 reboot= [KNL] 2991 Format (x86 or x86_64): 2992 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \ 2993 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 2994 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 2995 [[,]f[orce] 2996 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio, 2997 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 2998 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 2999 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 3000 to be used for rebooting. 3001 3002 relax_domain_level= 3003 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 3004 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. 3005 3006 relative_sleep_states= 3007 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest 3008 state available other than hibernation is always "mem". 3009 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3010 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels. 3011 1 -- Relative sleep state labels. 3012 3013 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area 3014 3015 reservetop= [X86-32] 3016 Format: nn[KMG] 3017 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 3018 address space. 3019 3020 reservelow= [X86] 3021 Format: nn[K] 3022 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at 3023 the bottom of the address space. 3024 3025 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 3026 during initialization. 3027 3028 resume= [SWSUSP] 3029 Specify the partition device for software suspend 3030 Format: 3031 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 3032 3033 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 3034 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 3035 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 3036 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 3037 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt 3038 3039 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3040 read the resume files 3041 3042 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 3043 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3044 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3045 3046 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 3047 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 3048 present during boot. 3049 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 3050 no Disable hibernation and resume. 3051 3052 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction 3053 3054 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3055 Set number of hash buckets for route cache 3056 3057 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 3058 3059 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 3060 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c. 3061 3062 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 3063 mount the root filesystem 3064 3065 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 3066 3067 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 3068 3069 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 3070 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 3071 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 3072 3073 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 3074 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 3075 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 3076 managed by CMA. 3077 3078 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 3079 3080 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 3081 3082 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 3083 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 3084 strict 3085 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in 3086 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse, 3087 which is faster. 3088 3089 sa1100ir [NET] 3090 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 3091 3092 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter 3093 3094 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 3095 3096 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 3097 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 3098 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 3099 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3100 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 3101 1 -- enable. 3102 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 3103 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 3104 3105 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. 3106 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first 3107 security module asking for security registration will be 3108 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated 3109 as if no module has been chosen. 3110 3111 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 3112 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3113 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 3114 0 -- disable. 3115 1 -- enable. 3116 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3117 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used 3118 later to disable prior to initial policy load. 3119 3120 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 3121 Format: { "0" | "1" } 3122 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 3123 0 -- disable. 3124 1 -- enable. 3125 Default value is set via kernel config option. 3126 3127 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 3128 3129 shapers= [NET] 3130 Maximal number of shapers. 3131 3132 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings 3133 Format: { <integer> } 3134 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings. 3135 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, 3136 for example 1 means boot CPU only. 3137 3138 simeth= [IA-64] 3139 simscsi= 3140 3141 slram= [HW,MTD] 3142 3143 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB] 3144 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3145 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3146 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with 3147 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise. 3148 3149 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB] 3150 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the 3151 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 3152 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and 3153 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 3154 last alloc / free. For more information see 3155 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3156 3157 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] 3158 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 3159 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 3160 fragmentation. For more information see 3161 Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3162 3163 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB] 3164 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 3165 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to 3166 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 3167 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 3168 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 3169 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 3170 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3171 3172 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB] 3173 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 3174 lower than slub_max_order. 3175 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3176 3177 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB] 3178 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 3179 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 3180 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable 3181 merging on their own. 3182 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. 3183 3184 smart2= [HW] 3185 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 3186 3187 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 3188 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 3189 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 3190 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 3191 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 3192 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 3193 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 3194 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 3195 1: Fast pin select (default) 3196 2: ATC IRMode 3197 3198 softlockup_panic= 3199 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 3200 Format: <integer> 3201 3202 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 3203 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 3204 backtraces on all cpus. 3205 Format: <integer> 3206 3207 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 3208 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt 3209 3210 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] 3211 spia_fio_base= 3212 spia_pedr= 3213 spia_peddr= 3214 3215 stacktrace [FTRACE] 3216 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 3217 3218 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 3219 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 3220 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated 3221 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 3222 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 3223 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 3224 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 3225 3226 sti= [PARISC,HW] 3227 Format: <num> 3228 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 3229 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 3230 as the initial boot-console. 3231 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3232 3233 sti_font= [HW] 3234 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 3235 3236 stifb= [HW] 3237 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 3238 3239 sunrpc.min_resvport= 3240 sunrpc.max_resvport= 3241 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3242 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 3243 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 3244 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 3245 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 3246 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 3247 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 3248 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 3249 maximum port values. 3250 3251 sunrpc.pool_mode= 3252 [NFS] 3253 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 3254 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 3255 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 3256 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 3257 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 3258 NFS server is running. 3259 3260 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 3261 automatically using heuristics 3262 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 3263 percpu one pool for each CPU 3264 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 3265 to global on non-NUMA machines) 3266 3267 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 3268 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 3269 [NFS,SUNRPC] 3270 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 3271 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 3272 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 3273 improve throughput, but will also increase the 3274 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 3275 3276 swapaccount=[0|1] 3277 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource 3278 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable 3279 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 3280 3281 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] 3282 Format: { <int> | force } 3283 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 3284 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 3285 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 3286 3287 switches= [HW,M68k] 3288 3289 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] 3290 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev 3291 on older distributions. When this option is enabled 3292 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option 3293 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled) 3294 in older udev will not work anymore. 3295 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in 3296 the kernel configuration. 3297 3298 sysrq_always_enabled 3299 [KNL] 3300 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 3301 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 3302 Useful for debugging. 3303 3304 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 3305 3306 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 3307 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 3308 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly 3309 enter during system startup. The system is woken from 3310 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 3311 3312 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3313 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 3314 3315 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 3316 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 3317 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 3318 3319 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 3320 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 3321 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 3322 3323 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI] 3324 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone 3325 critical and hot trip points. 3326 3327 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 3328 1: disable ACPI thermal control 3329 3330 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 3331 -1: disable all passive trip points 3332 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 3333 value 3334 3335 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 3336 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 3337 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 3338 0: no polling (default) 3339 3340 threadirqs [KNL] 3341 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 3342 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 3343 3344 tmem [KNL,XEN] 3345 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in. 3346 3347 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3348 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache 3349 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor. 3350 3351 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3352 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap 3353 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled 3354 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled. 3355 3356 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3357 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages 3358 to the hypervisor. 3359 3360 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN] 3361 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately 3362 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the 3363 kernel based on different criteria. 3364 3365 topology= [S390] 3366 Format: {off | on} 3367 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 3368 topology information if the hardware supports this. 3369 The scheduler will make use of this information and 3370 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 3371 Default is on. 3372 3373 tp720= [HW,PS2] 3374 3375 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 3376 Format: integer pcr id 3377 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 3378 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 3379 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 3380 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 3381 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 3382 are saved. 3383 3384 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 3385 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. 3386 3387 trace_event=[event-list] 3388 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 3389 to facilitate early boot debugging. 3390 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt 3391 3392 trace_options=[option-list] 3393 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 3394 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 3395 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 3396 to echo the option name into 3397 3398 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options 3399 3400 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 3401 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 3402 3403 trace_options=stacktrace 3404 3405 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options" 3406 section. 3407 3408 traceoff_on_warning 3409 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 3410 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 3411 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 3412 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ 3413 3414 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 3415 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 3416 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 3417 3418 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 3419 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 3420 3421 transparent_hugepage= 3422 [KNL] 3423 Format: [always|madvise|never] 3424 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 3425 with respect to transparent hugepages. 3426 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. 3427 3428 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 3429 Format: <string> 3430 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 3431 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 3432 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 3433 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 3434 virtualized environment. 3435 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 3436 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 3437 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 3438 can add overhead. 3439 3440 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 3441 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 3442 Format: 3443 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 3444 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt 3445 3446 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 3447 happen after console_init() and before a proper 3448 console driver takes over, this boot options might 3449 help "seeing" what's going on. 3450 3451 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 3452 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 3453 3454 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 3455 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 3456 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 3457 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 3458 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 3459 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 3460 reported either. 3461 3462 unknown_nmi_panic 3463 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 3464 3465 usbcore.authorized_default= 3466 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 3467 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB, 3468 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized) 3469 3470 usbcore.autosuspend= 3471 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 3472 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 3473 is the time required before an idle device will be 3474 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 3475 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 3476 3477 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 3478 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 3479 3480 usbcore.blinkenlights= 3481 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 3482 3483 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 3484 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 3485 scheme (default 0 = off). 3486 3487 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 3488 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 3489 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 3490 3491 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 3492 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 3493 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 3494 3495 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 3496 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 3497 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 3498 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 3499 3500 usbhid.mousepoll= 3501 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 3502 3503 usb-storage.delay_use= 3504 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 3505 scanned for Logical Units (default 5). 3506 3507 usb-storage.quirks= 3508 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 3509 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 3510 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 3511 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 3512 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 3513 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 3514 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 3515 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 3516 of sense data); 3517 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 3518 bytes of sense data); 3519 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 3520 device capacity by one sector); 3521 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 3522 READ_DISC_INFO command); 3523 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 3524 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 3525 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 3526 reported device capacity by one 3527 sector if the number is odd); 3528 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 3529 device); 3530 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 3531 unlock ejectable media); 3532 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 3533 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); 3534 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 3535 initial READ(10) command); 3536 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 3537 reported by the device); 3538 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 3539 by default); 3540 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 3541 bogus residue values); 3542 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 3543 Logical Unit); 3544 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 3545 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 3546 medium is write-protected). 3547 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 3548 3549 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 3550 Format: <int> 3551 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 3552 1 - undefined instruction events 3553 2 - system calls 3554 4 - invalid data aborts 3555 8 - SIGSEGV faults 3556 16 - SIGBUS faults 3557 Example: user_debug=31 3558 3559 userpte= 3560 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 3561 3562 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 3563 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 3564 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 3565 3566 vdso= [X86,SH] 3567 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 3568 3569 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 3570 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 3571 3572 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 3573 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 3574 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 3575 3576 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 3577 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 3578 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 3579 3580 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 3581 alias for vdso32=0. 3582 3583 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 3584 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 3585 3586 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 3587 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 3588 3589 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration 3590 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. 3591 3592 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1] 3593 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 3594 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 3595 level and then send out the event to user space through 3596 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver 3597 will only send out the event without touching backlight 3598 brightness level. 3599 default: 1 3600 3601 virtio_mmio.device= 3602 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 3603 3604 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 3605 where: 3606 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 3607 like K, M and G) 3608 <baseaddr> := physical base address 3609 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 3610 request_irq()) 3611 <id> := (optional) platform device id 3612 example: 3613 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 3614 3615 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 3616 3617 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 3618 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and 3619 Documentation/svga.txt. 3620 Use vga=ask for menu. 3621 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 3622 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 3623 3624 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact 3625 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the 3626 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to 3627 decrease the size and leave more room for directly 3628 mapped kernel RAM. 3629 3630 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 3631 Format: <command> 3632 3633 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 3634 Format: <command> 3635 3636 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 3637 Format: <command> 3638 3639 vsyscall= [X86-64] 3640 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 3641 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 3642 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 3643 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 3644 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 3645 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 3646 3647 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 3648 emulated reasonably safely. 3649 3650 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions. 3651 This is a little bit faster than trapping 3652 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work 3653 better than they would in emulation mode. 3654 It also makes exploits much easier to write. 3655 3656 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 3657 them quite hard to use for exploits but 3658 might break your system. 3659 3660 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 3661 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 3662 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 3663 3664 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 3665 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 3666 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 3667 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 3668 3669 vt.default_blu= [VT] 3670 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 3671 Change the default blue palette of the console. 3672 This is a 16-member array composed of values 3673 ranging from 0-255. 3674 3675 vt.default_grn= [VT] 3676 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 3677 Change the default green palette of the console. 3678 This is a 16-member array composed of values 3679 ranging from 0-255. 3680 3681 vt.default_red= [VT] 3682 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 3683 Change the default red palette of the console. 3684 This is a 16-member array composed of values 3685 ranging from 0-255. 3686 3687 vt.default_utf8= 3688 [VT] 3689 Format=<0|1> 3690 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 3691 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 3692 newly opened terminals. 3693 3694 vt.global_cursor_default= 3695 [VT] 3696 Format=<-1|0|1> 3697 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 3698 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 3699 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 3700 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 3701 cursors, 1 will display them. 3702 3703 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 3704 Default: 2 = green. 3705 3706 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 3707 Default: 3 = cyan. 3708 3709 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 3710 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt 3711 or other driver-specific files in the 3712 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 3713 3714 workqueue.disable_numa 3715 By default, all work items queued to unbound 3716 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're 3717 issued on, which results in better behavior in 3718 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for 3719 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note 3720 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for 3721 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. 3722 3723 workqueue.power_efficient 3724 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 3725 they show better performance thanks to cache 3726 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 3727 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 3728 3729 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 3730 were observed to contribute significantly to power 3731 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 3732 power usage at the cost of small performance 3733 overhead. 3734 3735 The default value of this parameter is determined by 3736 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 3737 3738 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 3739 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 3740 supporting x2apic. 3741 3742 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT] 3743 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform. 3744 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer 3745 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. 3746 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt 3747 3748 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] 3749 Unplug Xen emulated devices 3750 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 3751 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 3752 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 3753 nics -- unplug network devices 3754 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 3755 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 3756 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 3757 the unplug protocol 3758 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 3759 3760 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN] 3761 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV 3762 optimizations. 3763 3764 xen_nopv [X86] 3765 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 3766 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 3767 3768 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 3769 Format: 3770 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 3771 3772______________________________________________________________________ 3773 3774TODO: 3775 3776 Add more DRM drivers.