4 The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
5 implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
6 and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
7 punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
8 manner), and with descriptions where known.
10 The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
11 if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
12 parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
13 environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
14 Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
16 Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
17 line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
19 (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
22 Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
23 specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
24 kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
25 when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
28 Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
29 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
30 can also be entered as
31 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
33 Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
34 param="spaces in here"
36 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
37 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
38 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
39 reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
40 parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
41 "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
43 The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
44 enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
45 the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
46 parameter is applicable:
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 X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
135 XEN Xen support is enabled
137 In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
139 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
140 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
141 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
143 Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
144 loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
145 Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
146 need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
148 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
149 See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
151 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
152 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
153 be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
154 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
155 running once the system is up.
157 The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
158 complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
159 a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
160 and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
161 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
163 Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
164 parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
165 multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
166 bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
169 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
170 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
171 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
173 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
174 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
175 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
176 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
177 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
178 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
179 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
180 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
181 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
184 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
186 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
188 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
189 1,0: use 1st APIC table
192 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
193 acpi_backlight=vendor
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.
199 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
200 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
201 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
202 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
203 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
205 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
206 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
207 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
208 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
209 This option is useful for developers to identify the
210 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
211 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
213 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
214 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
216 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
217 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
218 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
219 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
220 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
221 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
222 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
223 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
224 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
225 debug layers and levels.
227 Enable processor driver info messages:
228 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
229 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
230 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
231 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
232 object while interpreting AML:
233 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
234 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
235 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
237 Some values produce so much output that the system is
238 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
239 if you need to capture more output.
241 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
242 { strict | lax | no }
243 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
244 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
245 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
246 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
247 can interfere with legacy drivers.
248 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
249 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
250 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
251 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
252 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
253 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
254 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
255 no further checks are performed.
257 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
258 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
259 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
262 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
263 ACPI will balance active IRQs
266 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
267 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
270 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
271 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
273 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
275 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
277 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
278 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
279 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
280 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
281 auto-serialization feature.
282 This feature is enabled by default.
283 This option allows to turn off the feature.
285 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
288 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
289 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
290 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
291 installed automatically and they will appear under
292 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
293 This option turns off this feature.
294 Note that specifying this option does not affect
295 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
296 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
298 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
299 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
300 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
301 second kernel for kdump.
303 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
304 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
306 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
307 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
308 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
309 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
310 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
312 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
313 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
314 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
315 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
316 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
318 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
320 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
322 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
323 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
324 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
325 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
326 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
327 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
328 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
329 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
330 care about the state of the feature group strings which
331 should be controlled by the OSPM.
333 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
334 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
335 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
337 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
338 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
339 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
340 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
341 multiple times through kernel command line is also
344 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
347 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
348 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
349 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
350 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
351 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
352 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
353 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
354 there are quirks related to this string. This command
355 is useful when one want to control the state of the
356 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
359 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
360 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
361 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
362 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
363 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
365 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
367 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
368 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
371 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
372 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
373 and always returns good values.
375 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
376 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
378 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
379 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
380 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
382 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
383 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
384 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
385 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
387 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
388 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
389 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
390 used during resume from hibernation.
391 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
392 control method, with respect to putting devices into
393 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
394 of _PTS is used by default).
395 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
396 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
397 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
398 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
399 but some broken systems don't work without it).
401 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
402 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
403 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
405 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
406 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
409 { off | try_unsupported }
410 off: disable AGP support
411 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
412 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
415 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
418 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
419 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
420 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
422 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
423 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
424 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
425 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
426 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
427 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
428 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
430 32: only for 32-bit processes
431 64: only for 64-bit processes
432 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
433 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
435 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
436 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
437 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
438 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
439 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
440 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
442 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
443 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
445 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
446 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
447 flushed before they will be reused, which
449 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
451 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
452 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
453 allowed anymore to lift isolation
454 requirements as needed. This option
455 does not override iommu=pt
457 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
458 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
459 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
460 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
461 IOMMU initialization.
463 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
464 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
466 See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
468 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
469 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
470 connected to one of 16 gameports
471 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
474 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
476 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
477 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
478 APC and your system crashes randomly.
480 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
481 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
482 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
483 Change the amount of debugging information output
484 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
486 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
487 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
488 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
489 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
491 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
492 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
496 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
498 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
499 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
500 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
501 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
502 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
503 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
504 apic=verbose is specified.
505 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
507 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
508 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
510 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
511 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
515 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
517 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
518 EzKey and similar keyboards
520 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
522 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
523 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
525 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
528 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
529 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
531 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
532 Use software keyboard repeat
534 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
535 Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
536 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
537 until the next reboot
538 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
539 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
540 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
541 storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
542 RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
546 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
547 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
550 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
551 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
552 Format: { "0" | "1" }
555 unset - Disable the BAU.
557 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
560 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
562 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
564 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
565 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
566 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
567 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
569 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
570 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
571 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
572 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
574 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
575 embedded devices based on command line input.
576 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
578 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
579 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
583 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
586 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
588 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
589 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
591 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
594 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
595 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
598 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
600 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
601 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
602 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
603 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
604 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
605 This option provides an override for these situations.
607 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
608 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
610 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
612 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
613 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
614 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
615 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
618 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
619 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
621 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
622 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
623 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
624 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
626 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
628 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
629 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
630 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
632 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
633 Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
634 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
635 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
637 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
639 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
640 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
642 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
643 Format: { "0" | "1" }
644 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
645 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
646 any implied execute protection).
647 1 -- check protection requested by application.
648 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
649 Value can be changed at runtime via
650 /selinux/checkreqprot.
653 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
656 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
657 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
658 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
659 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
660 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
661 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
662 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
663 platform with proper driver support. For more
664 information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
666 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
668 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
669 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
670 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
671 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
673 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
675 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
676 with the name specified.
677 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
679 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
681 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
682 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
684 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
685 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
693 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
696 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
697 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
698 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
701 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
702 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
703 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
704 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
705 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
707 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
708 or using the feature without checking anything
709 will still see it. This just prevents it from
710 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
711 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
714 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
716 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
717 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
718 placement constraint by the physical address range of
719 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
720 altogether. For more information, see
721 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
723 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
724 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
725 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
726 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
730 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
731 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
732 allocations, by default set to 256K.
734 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
739 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
741 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
743 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
747 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
748 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
750 condev= [HW,S390] console device
753 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
755 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
759 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
760 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
761 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
762 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
763 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
765 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
767 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
770 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
771 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
772 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
773 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
774 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
775 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
776 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
777 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
778 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
779 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
780 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
781 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
782 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
783 the h/w is not re-initialized.
785 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
786 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
788 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
789 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
791 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
793 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
794 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
795 disables the blank timer.
798 [KNL] Change the default value for
799 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
800 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
802 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
803 disable the cpuidle sub-system
806 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
807 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
808 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
811 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
813 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
815 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
816 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
817 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
818 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
819 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
820 is selected automatically. Check
821 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
823 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
824 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
825 in the running system. The syntax of range is
826 start-[end] where start and end are both
827 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
828 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
830 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
831 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
832 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
833 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
834 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
836 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
837 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
838 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
839 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
840 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
841 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
842 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
843 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
844 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
845 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
846 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
847 for second kernel instead.
848 0: to disable low allocation.
849 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
850 or memory reserved is below 4G.
853 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
858 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
859 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
862 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
864 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
865 (one device per port)
866 Format: <port#>,<type>
867 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
869 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
870 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
871 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
873 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
876 [KNL] verbose self-tests
878 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
880 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
881 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
882 only useful to kernel developers.
884 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
887 [KNL] Disable object debugging
889 debug_guardpage_minorder=
890 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
891 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
892 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
893 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
894 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
895 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
896 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
897 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
898 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
899 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
900 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
901 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
902 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
903 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
904 bypassed) which are not detectable by
905 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
906 tracking down these problems.
909 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
910 parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
911 default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
912 chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
913 it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
914 with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
915 on: enable the feature
917 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
919 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
920 Format: <area>[,<node>]
921 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
924 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
925 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
926 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
927 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
928 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
932 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
934 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
935 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
936 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
937 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
941 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
944 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
946 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
948 The number of initial APIC ID for the
949 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
950 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
951 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
952 causing system reset or hang due to sending
955 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
956 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
957 to workaround buggy firmware.
960 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
962 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
963 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
964 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
965 entry later. This parameter disables that.
967 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
968 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
969 memory out of your available memory pool based on
970 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
971 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
973 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
974 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
975 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
977 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
979 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
980 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
982 dma_debug_entries=<number>
983 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
984 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
985 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
986 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
987 architectural default is too low.
989 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
990 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
991 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
992 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
993 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
994 driver later using sysfs.
996 drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
997 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
998 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
999 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1000 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1001 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1002 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1003 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1004 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1005 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1006 available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
1007 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1008 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1009 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1010 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1011 data set with no connector name will be used for
1012 any connectors not explicitly specified.
1016 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1017 module.dyndbg[="val"]
1018 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
1019 Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
1021 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
1022 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
1023 information about the feature.
1025 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1029 on enable eager fpu restore
1030 off disable eager fpu restore
1031 auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
1032 enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
1034 module.async_probe [KNL]
1035 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1037 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1038 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1039 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1040 which are not unmapped.
1042 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
1044 When used with no options, the early console is
1045 determined by the stdout-path property in device
1049 Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
1050 port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
1051 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1054 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1055 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1056 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1057 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1058 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1059 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1060 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1061 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1062 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1063 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1064 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1065 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1066 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1070 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1071 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1072 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1073 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1074 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1075 the device registers.
1078 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1079 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1080 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1084 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1085 port at the specified address. The serial port
1086 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1089 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1090 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1091 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1092 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1095 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1103 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1104 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1105 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1106 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1107 Options are not yet supported.
1111 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1112 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1113 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1114 port must already be setup and configured.
1116 armada3700_uart,<addr>
1117 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1118 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1119 address. The serial port must already be setup
1120 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1122 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
1126 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1127 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1128 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1129 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1130 earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1132 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1133 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1134 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1136 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1139 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1142 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1143 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1144 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1145 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1146 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1147 You can find the port for a given device in
1148 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1149 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1151 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1154 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1157 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1159 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1160 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1161 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1162 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1163 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1164 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1167 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1170 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1171 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1174 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1177 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1178 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1179 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1181 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1182 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1183 firmware implementations.
1184 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1185 debug: enable misc debug output
1187 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1188 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1189 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1190 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1191 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1193 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1194 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1195 updating original EFI memory map.
1196 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1198 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1199 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1200 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1201 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1203 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1204 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1205 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1208 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1209 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1210 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1211 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1212 Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1215 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1216 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1219 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1220 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1223 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1224 See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1225 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1227 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1228 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1229 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1230 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1231 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1233 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1234 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1235 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1236 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1238 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1239 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1240 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1241 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1242 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1244 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1246 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1247 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1248 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1250 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1253 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1256 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1257 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1258 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1262 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1263 current integrity status.
1267 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1268 General fault injection mechanism.
1269 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1270 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1273 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1275 force_pal_cache_flush
1276 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1277 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1278 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1279 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1282 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1283 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1284 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1285 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1286 and may cause unknown problems.
1289 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1290 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1293 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1294 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1295 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1296 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1297 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1300 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1301 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1302 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1303 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1304 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1307 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1308 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1309 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1310 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1313 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1314 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1315 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1316 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1317 that can be changed at run time by the
1318 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1320 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1321 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1322 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1323 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1324 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1327 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1328 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1329 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1330 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1334 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1338 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1339 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1340 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1341 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1342 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1344 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1345 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1346 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1347 GPT to be used instead.
1349 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1350 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1353 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1354 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1357 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1360 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1361 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1363 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1364 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1367 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1368 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1369 backtraces on all cpus.
1372 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1373 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
1374 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1375 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1377 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1379 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1380 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1383 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1384 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1385 logic will be disabled.
1387 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1388 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1389 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1390 size on bigger boxes.
1392 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1393 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1397 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1401 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1402 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1404 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1405 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1407 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1409 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1410 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1412 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1413 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1414 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1415 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1416 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1417 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1418 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1420 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1421 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1422 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1423 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1424 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1426 hwthread_map= [METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1427 hardware thread id mappings.
1428 Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1431 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1432 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1433 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1436 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1437 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1438 registered from board initialization code.
1442 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1443 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1444 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1445 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1446 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1447 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1448 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1449 keyboard and cannot control its state
1450 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1451 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1452 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1453 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1455 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1457 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1459 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1460 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
1461 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1462 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1466 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1467 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1469 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1470 does not match list of supported models.
1472 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1473 (disabled by default)
1474 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1477 i915.invert_brightness=
1478 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1479 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1480 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1481 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1482 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1483 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1484 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1485 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1486 value switches the backlight off.
1487 -1 -- never invert brightness
1488 0 -- machine default
1489 1 -- force brightness inversion
1492 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1494 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1495 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1496 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1497 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1498 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1500 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1502 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1503 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1504 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1505 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1506 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1507 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1508 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1509 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1512 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1513 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1516 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1517 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1518 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1519 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1521 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1522 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1523 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1525 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1526 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1529 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1530 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1531 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1532 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1533 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1534 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1537 Available settings are as follows:
1538 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1539 supported by the FPU
1540 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1542 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1544 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1545 supported by the FPU
1547 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1548 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1549 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1550 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1551 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1552 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1553 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1556 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1557 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1558 except where unsupported by hardware.
1560 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1561 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1562 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1563 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1564 could change it dynamically, usually by
1565 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1568 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1569 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1570 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1572 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1573 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1575 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1576 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1579 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1580 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1584 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1588 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1589 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1592 The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1593 setup. Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1594 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1595 opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1596 effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1599 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
1600 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1601 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1602 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1603 opened for read by uid=0.
1606 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1607 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1611 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1612 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1614 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1615 Format: <min_file_size>
1616 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1617 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1619 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1620 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1621 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1623 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1625 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1627 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1628 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1629 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1633 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1636 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1637 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1640 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1641 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1642 modules and initcalls.
1644 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1646 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1649 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1651 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1652 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1653 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1654 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1656 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1658 Enable intel iommu driver.
1660 Disable intel iommu driver.
1661 igfx_off [Default Off]
1662 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1663 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1664 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1665 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1668 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1669 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1670 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1671 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1672 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1673 then look in the higher range.
1674 strict [Default Off]
1675 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1676 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1677 to batching them for performance.
1678 sp_off [Default Off]
1679 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1680 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1682 ecs_off [Default Off]
1683 By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1684 the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1685 extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1686 this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1687 on hardware which claims to support them.
1689 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1690 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1691 1 to 6 specify maximum depth of C-state.
1695 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1696 scaling driver for the supported processors
1698 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1699 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1700 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1701 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1702 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1703 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1704 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1705 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1707 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1710 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1711 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1713 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1714 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1715 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1716 then this feature is turned on by default.
1718 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1719 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1720 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1721 nosid disable Source ID checking
1723 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1724 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
1726 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1727 strict regions from userspace.
1742 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1743 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1746 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1747 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1748 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1750 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1752 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1754 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1756 Simple two microseconds delay
1761 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1763 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1765 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1767 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1768 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1770 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1773 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1774 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1778 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1779 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1780 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1784 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1786 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1788 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1790 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1791 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1793 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1795 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1796 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1797 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1798 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1799 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1800 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1802 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1803 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1804 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1805 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1809 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1810 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1811 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1812 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1813 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1814 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1816 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1817 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1818 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1819 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1820 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1821 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1823 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1824 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1825 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1826 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1827 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1828 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1830 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1831 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1834 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1835 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1836 Layout Randomization).
1840 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1841 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1843 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1844 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1845 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1846 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1847 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1848 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1849 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1850 of Movable pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1851 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1852 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1853 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1854 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1855 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1856 zone if it does not.
1858 Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1859 you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1860 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1861 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1862 for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1863 so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1866 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1867 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1868 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1869 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1870 optional and is the number seconds in between
1871 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1872 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1873 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1874 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1875 the kernel debugger.
1877 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1878 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1879 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1880 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1881 keyboard only format: kbd
1882 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1883 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1884 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1885 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1887 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1888 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1890 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1891 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1892 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1894 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1895 Valid arguments: on, off
1897 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1900 kmemcheck= [X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1901 Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1902 kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1903 kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1904 kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1905 Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1907 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1910 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1911 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1913 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1917 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1918 Default is 1 (enabled)
1920 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1922 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1924 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1925 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1926 Default is 1 (enabled)
1928 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1929 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1930 Default is 0 (disabled)
1932 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1933 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1934 Default is 1 (enabled)
1937 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1938 Default is 0 (disabled)
1940 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1941 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1942 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1943 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1945 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1946 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1947 Default is 1 (enabled)
1953 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1956 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1957 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1958 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1960 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1963 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1964 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1965 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1966 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1967 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1968 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1969 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1971 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1972 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1973 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
1975 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1979 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1980 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1981 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1982 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1983 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1984 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1985 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1986 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1988 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1989 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1990 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1991 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1992 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1993 host link and device attached to it.
1995 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1996 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1997 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1998 The following configurations can be forced.
2000 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2001 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2003 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2005 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2006 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2009 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2011 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2013 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2016 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2017 hot-unplug link recovery
2019 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2021 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2023 * disable: Disable this device.
2025 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2026 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2028 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2030 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2031 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2033 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2036 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2039 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2042 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2045 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2046 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2047 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2048 number of online CPUs.
2050 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2051 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2053 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2054 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2056 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2057 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2058 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2060 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2061 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2062 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2063 mode during the locktorture test.
2065 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2066 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2067 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2069 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2070 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2072 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2073 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2074 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2075 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2076 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2077 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2079 locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2080 Start locktorture running at boot time.
2082 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2083 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2085 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2086 Enable additional printk() statements.
2088 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2091 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2092 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2093 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2094 loglevels are defined as follows:
2096 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2097 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2098 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2099 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2100 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2101 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2102 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2103 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2105 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2106 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2107 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2108 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2109 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2110 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2111 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2113 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2114 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2115 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2116 kernel boot problems.
2118 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2119 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2120 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2121 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2122 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2123 attached printers to be reset. Using
2124 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2125 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2126 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2127 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2128 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2129 port specification list means that device IDs
2130 from each port should be examined, to see if
2131 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2132 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2133 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2136 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2137 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2138 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2139 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2140 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2141 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2142 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2143 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2144 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2145 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2146 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2150 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2152 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2153 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2154 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2156 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2158 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2160 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2161 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2163 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2164 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
2165 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
2166 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
2169 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2170 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2171 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2172 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2173 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2174 /dev/loop-control interface.
2176 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2178 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2180 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2181 See Documentation/md.txt.
2184 Format: <first>,<last>
2185 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2187 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2188 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2189 to see the whole system memory or for test.
2190 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2191 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2192 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2193 belonging to unused RAM.
2195 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2199 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2200 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2202 memhp_default_state=online/offline
2203 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2204 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2205 set according to the
2206 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2208 See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2210 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2211 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2212 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2213 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2216 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2217 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2218 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2220 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2221 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2222 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2224 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2225 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2226 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2227 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2228 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2230 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2232 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2233 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2234 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2235 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2236 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2238 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2239 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2240 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2241 Setting this option will scan the memory
2242 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2243 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2244 from using the memory being corrupted.
2245 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2246 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2247 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2248 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2250 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2251 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2252 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2253 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2254 corruption in more or less memory.
2256 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2257 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2258 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2259 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2261 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2263 default : 0 <disable>
2264 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2265 performed. Each pass selects another test
2266 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2267 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2268 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2269 regions that are detected.
2271 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2272 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2274 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2275 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2278 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2279 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2280 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2281 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2285 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2286 physical address is ignored.
2288 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2289 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2291 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2292 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2293 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2294 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2295 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2296 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2298 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2299 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2300 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2302 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2303 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2304 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2305 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2306 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2307 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2310 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2311 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2312 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2313 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2314 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2315 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2318 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2319 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2320 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2321 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2324 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2325 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2326 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2327 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2329 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2330 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2331 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2332 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2334 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2335 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2336 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2337 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2338 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2339 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2340 is specified, the administrator must be careful
2341 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2344 movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2345 of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2347 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2348 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2350 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2351 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2354 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2356 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2357 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2360 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2362 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2364 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2365 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2366 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2367 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2368 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2371 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2373 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2375 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2376 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2377 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2379 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2380 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2381 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2383 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2384 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2386 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2389 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2391 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2393 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2394 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2396 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2398 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2399 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2400 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2401 something different and driver-specific.
2402 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2406 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2407 0 to disable accounting
2408 1 to enable accounting
2411 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
2412 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2414 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2415 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2417 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2418 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2420 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2421 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2422 channel should listen.
2425 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2426 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2428 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2429 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2430 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2432 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2433 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2437 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2438 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2439 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2440 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2441 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2443 nfs.max_session_slots=
2444 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2445 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2446 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2447 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2448 Note that there is little point in setting this
2449 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2451 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2452 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2453 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2454 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2455 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2456 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2457 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2458 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2459 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2460 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2461 back to using the idmapper.
2462 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2464 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2465 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2466 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2467 UUID that is generated at system install time.
2469 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2470 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2471 information in exchange_id requests.
2472 If zero, no implementation identification information
2474 The default is to send the implementation identification
2477 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2478 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2479 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2480 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2481 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2482 after the locks are lost.
2483 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2484 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2486 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2487 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2489 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2490 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2491 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2493 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2494 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2495 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2496 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2498 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2499 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2500 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2501 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2502 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2503 migration from NFSv2/v3.
2505 objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2506 [NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2507 is used to automatically discover and login into new
2508 osd-targets. Please see:
2509 Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2511 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2512 when a NMI is triggered.
2513 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2515 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2516 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2518 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2519 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2520 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2521 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2522 default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2523 please see 'nowatchdog'.
2524 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2525 need the box quickly up again.
2527 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2528 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2529 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2532 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2533 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2537 [HW] Never suspend the console
2538 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2539 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2540 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2541 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2542 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2543 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2544 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2545 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2546 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2547 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2548 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2549 turn on/off it dynamically.
2551 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2552 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2553 but will impact performance.
2557 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2558 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2560 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2562 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2563 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2567 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2569 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2571 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
2573 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2575 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
2580 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2581 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2582 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2585 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2586 even if it is supported by processor.
2589 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2590 even if it is supported by processor.
2593 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2594 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2595 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2596 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2597 read implies executable mappings
2599 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2601 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2602 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2603 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2605 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2607 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2608 Equivalent to smt=1.
2610 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2611 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2612 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2614 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2615 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2616 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2617 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2618 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2619 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2621 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2622 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2623 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2624 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2625 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2626 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2627 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2629 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2630 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2631 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2633 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
2634 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2635 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2637 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2638 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2639 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2640 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2641 in certain environments such as networked servers or
2644 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2646 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2647 Valid arguments: on, off
2650 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT]
2651 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2652 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2653 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2654 the range to maintain the timekeeping.
2655 The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2658 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2660 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2661 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2663 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2664 broken timer IRQ sources.
2666 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2668 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2671 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2673 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2677 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2679 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2681 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2683 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2686 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2687 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2690 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2692 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2694 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2695 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2697 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2699 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2701 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2702 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2704 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2705 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2708 nomodule Disable module load
2710 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2711 pagetables) support.
2713 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
2714 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2716 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2718 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2719 with UP alternatives
2721 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2722 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2723 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2724 available to user space applications.
2726 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2729 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
2730 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2731 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2735 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2737 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2738 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2740 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2742 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2744 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2746 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2747 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2751 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2753 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2754 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2755 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2756 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2757 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2758 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2759 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2760 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2761 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2762 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2763 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2764 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2765 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2767 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2768 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2771 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
2772 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2773 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
2774 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
2775 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
2777 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2779 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2780 Allowed values are enable and disable
2782 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2783 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2784 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2785 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2787 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2788 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2791 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2792 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2793 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2794 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
2795 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2796 interrupts *may* be lost!
2798 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2799 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2800 For example, to override I2C bus2:
2801 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2803 oprofile.timer= [HW]
2804 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2806 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
2807 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2808 userland or if you want common events.
2809 Format: { arch_perfmon }
2810 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2811 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2812 CPU specific event set.
2813 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2814 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2815 for generic hr timer mode)
2817 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2818 process, but there is a small probability of
2819 deadlocking the machine.
2820 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2821 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2824 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2826 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2827 Storage of the information about who allocated
2828 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2830 on: enable the feature
2832 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2833 poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2834 off: turn off poisoning
2835 on: turn on poisoning
2837 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2838 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2839 timeout = 0: wait forever
2840 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2843 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
2846 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2847 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2848 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2849 succeeds in any situation.
2850 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2851 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2852 kernel more unstable.
2854 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2855 connected to, default is 0.
2857 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2858 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2861 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2862 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2863 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2864 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2865 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2866 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2867 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2868 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2869 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2870 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2871 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2872 are specified on the command line, starting
2875 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
2876 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2877 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2878 computer where firmware has no options for setting
2879 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2880 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2881 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2884 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2885 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
2886 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2891 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2892 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2894 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2895 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2897 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2898 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2899 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2900 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2901 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2902 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2903 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2904 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2905 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2906 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2907 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2908 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2909 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2910 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2911 bus number. The config space is then accessed
2912 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2913 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2914 on the configuration access mechanisms.
2915 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2916 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2917 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2918 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2919 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2920 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2922 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2923 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2924 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2925 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2926 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2927 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2928 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2929 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2930 should never be necessary.
2931 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2932 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2933 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2934 when the system masks IRQs.
2935 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2936 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2937 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2938 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2939 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2940 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2941 on several machines and they hang the machine
2942 when used, but on other computers it's the only
2943 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2944 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2945 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2947 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2948 Use with caution as certain devices share
2949 address decoders between ROMs and other
2951 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
2952 expansion ROMs that do not already have
2953 BIOS assigned address ranges.
2954 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
2955 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2956 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2957 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2958 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2960 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
2961 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2962 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2963 F0000h-100000h range.
2964 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2965 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2966 secondary buses and you want to tell it
2967 explicitly which ones they are.
2968 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2969 numbers ourselves, overriding
2970 whatever the firmware may have done.
2971 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2972 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2973 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2974 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2975 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2976 IRQ routing is enabled.
2977 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2978 or for PCI scanning.
2979 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2980 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2981 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
2982 please report a bug.
2983 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2984 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2985 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2986 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2987 so this option is a temporary workaround
2988 for broken drivers that don't call it.
2989 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2990 handle more pci cards
2991 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2992 This might help on some broken boards which
2993 machine check when some devices' config space
2994 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2995 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2996 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2997 This sorting is done to get a device
2998 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2999 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3000 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3001 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3002 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3003 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3004 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3005 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3006 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3007 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3008 or bus can support) for best performance.
3009 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3010 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3011 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3012 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3013 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3014 that hot-added devices will work.
3015 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3016 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3017 The default value is 256 bytes.
3018 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3019 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3020 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3023 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3024 [<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3025 [:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3026 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3027 aligned memory resources.
3028 If <order of align> is not specified,
3029 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3030 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3031 windows need to be expanded.
3032 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3033 end-to-end CRC checking).
3034 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3038 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3039 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3040 Default size is 256 bytes.
3041 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3042 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3043 Default size is 2 megabytes.
3044 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3045 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3047 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3048 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3049 accommodate resources required by all child
3051 off: Turn realloc off
3053 realloc same as realloc=on
3054 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
3055 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3056 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3059 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3062 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3063 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3065 pcie_hp= [PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3066 nomsi Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3067 makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3069 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3070 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3071 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
3072 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3073 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3075 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3078 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3079 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3080 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3082 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3083 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3084 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3086 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3090 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3091 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3092 for debug and development, but should not be
3093 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3096 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3098 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3101 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3103 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3104 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3105 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3106 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3107 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3108 and performance comparison.
3111 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3114 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3116 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3117 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3119 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3120 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3121 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3123 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3124 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3128 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3129 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3130 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3131 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3132 possible settings and some assignment information.
3138 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3141 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3144 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3146 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3147 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3150 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3152 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3154 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3156 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3158 Format: <port>,<port>....
3160 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3161 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3162 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3163 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3164 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3166 print-fatal-signals=
3167 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3169 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3170 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3171 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3174 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3175 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3179 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3180 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3182 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3185 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3186 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3187 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3188 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3189 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3192 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3193 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3195 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3196 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3197 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3199 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3200 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3201 instead using the legacy FADT method
3203 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3204 Format: [schedule,]<number>
3205 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3206 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3207 statistical time based profiling.
3208 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3209 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3210 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3212 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3214 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3216 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3217 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3218 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3220 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3221 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3224 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3225 psmouse.smartscroll=
3226 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3227 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3229 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3232 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3235 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3238 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
3243 See Documentation/md.txt.
3245 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3246 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3249 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3250 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3251 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3252 be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3253 that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3254 for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3255 is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
3256 offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3257 real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
3258 efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3261 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3262 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3263 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3264 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3265 This improves the real-time response for the
3266 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3267 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3268 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3269 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3271 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
3272 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3273 process in one batch.
3275 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3276 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3277 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3278 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3280 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3281 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3282 RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
3283 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3285 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3286 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3287 RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
3288 effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3291 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3292 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3293 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3294 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3295 the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
3296 when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
3298 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3299 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3300 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3301 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3302 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3304 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3305 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3306 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3307 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3308 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3309 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3310 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3312 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3313 Set required age in jiffies for a
3314 given grace period before RCU starts
3315 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3316 rcu_note_context_switch().
3318 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3319 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3320 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3321 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3322 and maximum value is HZ.
3324 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3325 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3326 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3327 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3329 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
3330 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3331 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3332 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3333 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3334 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3335 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3336 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3337 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3338 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3340 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3341 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3342 defaults to the square root of the number of
3343 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3344 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3345 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3347 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3348 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3349 batch limiting is disabled.
3351 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3352 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3353 batch limiting is re-enabled.
3355 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3356 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3357 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3359 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3360 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3361 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3362 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3363 prove do nothing more than free memory.
3365 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3366 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3367 grace-period primitives.
3369 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3370 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3371 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3372 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3375 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3376 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3377 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3378 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3379 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3380 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3381 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3384 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3385 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3386 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3387 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3389 rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3390 Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3392 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3393 Shut the system down after performance tests
3394 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3397 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3398 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3400 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3401 Enable additional printk() statements.
3403 rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3404 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3405 callback-flood tests.
3407 rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3408 Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3409 bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3412 rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3413 Set the number of bursts making up a given
3414 callback-flood test. Set this to zero to
3415 disable callback-flood testing.
3417 rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3418 Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3419 in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3421 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3422 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3425 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3426 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3429 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3430 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3433 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3434 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3435 primitives, if available.
3437 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3438 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3440 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3441 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3442 update-side primitives, if available.
3444 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3445 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3446 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3447 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3448 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3449 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3450 they are all non-zero.
3452 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3453 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3455 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3456 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3457 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3458 test, hence the "fake".
3460 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3461 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3462 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3463 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3464 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3465 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3467 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3468 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3470 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3471 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3473 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3474 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3475 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3477 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3478 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
3479 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3480 during the rcutorture test.
3482 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3483 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
3484 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3486 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3487 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3488 warnings, zero to disable.
3490 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3491 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3493 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3494 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3496 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3497 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3498 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3499 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
3500 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3502 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3503 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3504 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3505 under test support RCU priority boosting.
3507 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3508 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3510 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3511 Interval (s) between each boost test.
3513 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3514 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
3515 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3517 rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3518 Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3520 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3521 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3523 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3524 Enable additional printk() statements.
3526 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3527 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3529 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3530 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3532 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3533 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3534 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3535 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
3536 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3537 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3538 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3540 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3541 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3542 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3543 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
3544 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3545 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3546 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
3547 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
3548 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3550 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3551 Once boot has completed (that is, after
3552 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3553 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
3554 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3556 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3557 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3558 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
3561 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3562 Run the RCU early boot self tests
3564 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3565 Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3567 rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3568 Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3572 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3573 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3576 Format (x86 or x86_64):
3577 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3579 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3581 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3582 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3583 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3584 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3585 to be used for rebooting.
3588 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3589 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
3591 relative_sleep_states=
3592 [SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3593 state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3594 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3595 0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3596 1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3598 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3600 reservetop= [X86-32]
3602 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3607 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3608 the bottom of the address space.
3610 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3611 during initialization.
3614 Specify the partition device for software suspend
3616 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3618 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
3619 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3620 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3621 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3622 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3624 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3625 read the resume files
3627 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3628 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3629 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3631 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
3632 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3633 present during boot.
3634 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3635 no Disable hibernation and resume.
3636 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
3637 (that will set all pages holding image data
3638 during restoration read-only).
3640 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3642 rfkill.default_state=
3643 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3644 etc. communication is blocked by default.
3647 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3648 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3649 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3650 blocked and the previous configuration.
3651 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3652 blocked and everything unblocked.
3654 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3655 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3657 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3660 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3661 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3664 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3665 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3666 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3667 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3669 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
3670 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3672 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3673 mount the root filesystem
3675 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3677 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
3679 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3680 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3681 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3683 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3684 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3685 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3688 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3690 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
3692 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
3693 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3695 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3696 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3700 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3702 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3704 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3706 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3707 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3708 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3709 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3711 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3712 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3713 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3714 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3715 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3717 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3718 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3720 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3721 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3722 security module asking for security registration will be
3723 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3724 as if no module has been chosen.
3726 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3727 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3728 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3731 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3732 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3733 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3735 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3736 Format: { "0" | "1" }
3737 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3740 Default value is set via kernel config option.
3742 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
3745 Maximal number of shapers.
3747 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3748 Format: { <integer> }
3749 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3750 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3751 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3759 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3760 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3761 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3762 merging on their own.
3763 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3765 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
3766 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3767 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3768 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
3769 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3771 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
3772 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3773 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3774 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3775 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3776 last alloc / free. For more information see
3777 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3779 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3780 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3781 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3782 fragmentation. For more information see
3783 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3785 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
3786 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3787 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3788 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3789 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3790 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3791 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3792 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3794 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
3795 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3796 lower than slub_max_order.
3797 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3799 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
3800 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3801 See slab_nomerge for more information.
3804 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3806 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3807 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
3808 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
3809 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
3810 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
3811 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
3812 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3813 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3814 1: Fast pin select (default)
3817 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3818 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3819 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3820 actual hardware limit.
3822 Default: -1 (no limit)
3825 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3828 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3829 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3830 backtraces on all cpus.
3833 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3834 See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3836 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
3842 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3844 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3845 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3846 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3847 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3848 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3849 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3850 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3854 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3855 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3856 as the initial boot-console.
3857 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3860 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3863 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3865 sunrpc.min_resvport=
3866 sunrpc.max_resvport=
3868 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3869 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3870 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3871 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3872 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3873 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3874 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3875 maximum port values.
3879 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3880 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
3881 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3882 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3883 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3884 NFS server is running.
3886 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
3887 automatically using heuristics
3888 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
3889 percpu one pool for each CPU
3890 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3891 to global on non-NUMA machines)
3893 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3894 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3896 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3897 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3898 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3899 improve throughput, but will also increase the
3900 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3902 suspend.pm_test_delay=
3904 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3905 mode before resuming the system (see
3906 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3907 is set. Default value is 5.
3910 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3911 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3912 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
3914 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3915 Format: { <int> | force }
3916 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3917 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3918 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
3922 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3923 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3924 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3925 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3926 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3927 in older udev will not work anymore.
3928 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3929 the kernel configuration.
3931 sysrq_always_enabled
3933 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3934 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3935 Useful for debugging.
3937 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3938 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3939 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3940 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3941 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3942 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3946 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
3947 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
3948 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3949 as the system sleep state during system startup with
3950 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3951 The system is woken from this state using a
3952 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
3954 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3955 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3957 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
3958 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3959 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3961 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
3962 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
3963 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
3965 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
3966 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3967 critical and hot trip points.
3969 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
3970 1: disable ACPI thermal control
3972 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
3973 -1: disable all passive trip points
3974 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3977 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
3978 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3979 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3980 0: no polling (default)
3983 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
3984 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
3987 Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3989 tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3990 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3991 API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3993 tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3994 Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
3995 API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3996 the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
3998 tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3999 Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4002 tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4003 Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4004 transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4005 kernel based on different criteria.
4009 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4010 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4011 The scheduler will make use of this information and
4012 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4015 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4017 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4018 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4023 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4024 Format: integer pcr id
4025 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4026 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4027 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4028 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4029 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4032 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4033 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4035 trace_event=[event-list]
4036 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4037 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4038 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4039 also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4041 trace_options=[option-list]
4042 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4043 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4044 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4045 to echo the option name into
4047 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4049 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4050 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4052 trace_options=stacktrace
4054 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4058 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4059 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4060 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4061 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4062 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4064 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4065 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4066 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4067 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4071 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4072 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4073 the system to live lock.
4076 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4077 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4078 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4079 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4081 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4082 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4083 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4085 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4086 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4088 transparent_hugepage=
4090 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4091 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4092 with respect to transparent hugepages.
4093 See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4095 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4097 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4098 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4099 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4100 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4101 virtualized environment.
4102 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4103 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4104 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4107 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4108 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4110 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4111 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4113 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4114 happen after console_init() and before a proper
4115 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4116 help "seeing" what's going on.
4118 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4119 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4122 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4123 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4124 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4125 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4126 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4130 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4132 usbcore.authorized_default=
4133 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4134 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4135 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4137 usbcore.autosuspend=
4138 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4139 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4140 is the time required before an idle device will be
4141 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
4142 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4144 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4145 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4147 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4148 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4151 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4152 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4154 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4155 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
4156 scheme (default 0 = off).
4158 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4159 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4160 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4162 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4163 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4164 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4166 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4167 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4168 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4169 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4171 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4174 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4176 usb-storage.delay_use=
4177 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4178 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4181 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4182 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4183 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4184 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4185 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4186 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4187 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4188 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4190 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4191 bytes of sense data);
4192 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4193 device capacity by one sector);
4194 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4195 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4196 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4197 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4198 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4200 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4201 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4202 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4203 reported device capacity by one
4204 sector if the number is odd);
4205 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4207 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4209 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4210 unlock ejectable media);
4211 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4212 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4213 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4214 initial READ(10) command);
4215 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4216 reported by the device);
4217 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4219 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4220 bogus residue values);
4221 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4223 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4224 commands, uas only);
4225 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4226 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4227 medium is write-protected).
4228 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4230 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
4232 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4233 1 - undefined instruction events
4235 4 - invalid data aborts
4238 Example: user_debug=31
4241 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4243 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4244 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4248 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
4250 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4251 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4253 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4254 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4255 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4257 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4258 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4259 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4261 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4264 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4265 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4268 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4270 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
4271 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4273 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4274 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4275 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4276 level and then send out the event to user space through
4277 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4278 will only send out the event without touching backlight
4283 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4285 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4287 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
4289 <baseaddr> := physical base address
4290 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
4292 <id> := (optional) platform device id
4294 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4296 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4298 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4299 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4300 Documentation/svga.txt.
4301 Use vga=ask for menu.
4302 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4303 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4305 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4306 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4307 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4308 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4311 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4314 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4317 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4321 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4322 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4323 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
4324 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
4325 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4326 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4328 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4329 emulated reasonably safely.
4331 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4332 This is a little bit faster than trapping
4333 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4334 better than they would in emulation mode.
4335 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4337 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
4338 them quite hard to use for exploits but
4339 might break your system.
4341 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
4342 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4343 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4345 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
4346 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4347 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4348 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4350 vt.default_blu= [VT]
4351 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4352 Change the default blue palette of the console.
4353 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4356 vt.default_grn= [VT]
4357 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4358 Change the default green palette of the console.
4359 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4362 vt.default_red= [VT]
4363 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4364 Change the default red palette of the console.
4365 This is a 16-member array composed of values
4371 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4372 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4373 newly opened terminals.
4375 vt.global_cursor_default=
4378 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4379 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4380 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4381 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4382 cursors, 1 will display them.
4384 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4387 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4390 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4391 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4392 or other driver-specific files in the
4393 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4395 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4396 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4397 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4398 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
4399 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4400 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
4401 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4402 corresponding sysfs file.
4404 workqueue.disable_numa
4405 By default, all work items queued to unbound
4406 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4407 issued on, which results in better behavior in
4408 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4409 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
4410 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4411 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4413 workqueue.power_efficient
4414 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4415 they show better performance thanks to cache
4416 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4417 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4419 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4420 were observed to contribute significantly to power
4421 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4422 power usage at the cost of small performance
4425 The default value of this parameter is determined by
4426 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4428 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4429 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4430 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4431 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
4432 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4433 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
4434 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4435 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4436 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4439 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4440 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4443 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4444 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4445 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4446 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4447 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4449 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4450 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4451 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4452 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4453 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4456 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
4457 Unplug Xen emulated devices
4458 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4459 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4460 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4461 nics -- unplug network devices
4462 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4463 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4464 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4466 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4468 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
4469 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4473 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4474 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4476 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
4478 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4480 ______________________________________________________________________
4484 Add more DRM drivers.
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