X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=d8362cf9909ec3c42d6e1dfd5188e4bb5ab0d475;hb=7df0eb424d7f5bfb948c921500e0470f4a27c4cb;hp=a2d8805c03d5588f317a9677add758c94051e6a6;hpb=14eeee88bfb439a3dc9449f94c23a21930cbe35b;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a2d8805c03d5..d8362cf9909e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ parameter is applicable: SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled. FTRACE Function tracing enabled. TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled. + UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled. USB USB support is enabled. USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. @@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not strictly ACPI specification compliant. + rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi @@ -150,16 +152,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file default: 0 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options - Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering } - See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode. + Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, + old_ordering, s4_nonvs } + See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on + s3_bios and s3_mode. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being used during resume from hibernation. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS - control method, wrt putting devices into low power - states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is - used by default). + control method, with respect to putting devices into + low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering + of _PTS is used by default). + s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the + ACPI NVS memory during hibernation. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode Format: { level | edge | high | low } @@ -194,7 +200,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. - acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI} + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards that require a timer override, but don't have HPET @@ -469,8 +475,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See - include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h for the valid bit numbers. - Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit + numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific ones should be. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly @@ -551,6 +557,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file not work reliably with all consoles, but is known to work with serial and VGA consoles. + coredump_filter= + [KNL] Change the default value for + /proc//coredump_filter. + See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. + cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver Format: ,,,[,] @@ -566,9 +577,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example. - cs4232= [HW,OSS] - Format: ,,,,, - cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] Format: @@ -721,10 +729,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Default value is 0. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce. - es1371= [HW,OSS] - Format: ,[,[]] - See also header of sound/oss/es1371.c. - ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. @@ -823,8 +827,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] - hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV Hypervisor console (HVC) - back-ends. Valid parameters: 0..8 + hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) + terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode @@ -872,17 +876,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. idle= [X86] - Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait - Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance - of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system - run hot. Not recommended. - idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose - to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle - loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same - as idle=poll. - idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. + Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait + Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly + improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but + will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. + Not recommended. + idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but + the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save + as much power as a normal idle loop, use the + MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be + the same as idle=poll. + idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. - idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states + idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers. @@ -913,6 +919,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file inttest= [IA64] + iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory + strict regions from userspace. + relaxed + iommu= [x86] off force @@ -1064,8 +1074,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. - lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in - C2 power state. + lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer + in C2 power state. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA @@ -1117,6 +1127,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file If there are multiple matching configurations changing the same attribute, the last one is used. + lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages. + load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. @@ -1550,6 +1562,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. + noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource + controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) + nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter @@ -1569,6 +1584,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. + ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. + See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more + info. + olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC command is not properly ACKed, override the length @@ -1793,10 +1812,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). - dynamic_printk - Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if - CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also - be switched on/off via /dynamic_printk/modules + dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if + CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. + These can also be switched on/off via + /dynamic_printk/modules print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals @@ -1884,7 +1903,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode Format: [,[,...]] - See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c + See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. @@ -2284,7 +2303,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] -1: disable all passive trip points - : override all passive trip points to this value + : override all passive trip points to this + value thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate @@ -2372,6 +2392,41 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file usbhid.mousepoll= [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. + usb-storage.delay_use= + [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is + scanned for Logical Units (default 5). + + usb-storage.quirks= + [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or + override the built-in unusual_devs list. List + entries are separated by commas. Each entry has + the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor + and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and + Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding + to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: + a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes + of sense data); + c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported + device capacity by one sector); + h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the + reported device capacity by one + sector if the number is odd); + i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this + device); + l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and + unlock ejectable media); + m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more + than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time); + o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity + reported by the device); + r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports + bogus residue values); + s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one + Logical Unit); + w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the + medium is write-protected). + Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc + add_efi_memmap [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in kernel's map of available physical RAM. @@ -2432,8 +2487,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: ,,,,,[,[,[,]]] - norandmaps Don't use address space randomization - Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space + norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to + echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space ______________________________________________________________________