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1 Kernel Parameters
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4 The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
5 (mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
6 (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
7 case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
9 Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
10 parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
12 modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
14 Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
15 are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
16 '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
18 usbcore.blinkenlights=1
20 Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
21 log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
22 can also be entered as
23 log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
26 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
27 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
28 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
29 reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
30 parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
31 "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
33 The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
34 enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
35 the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
36 parameter is applicable:
38 ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
39 AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
40 ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
41 APIC APIC support is enabled.
42 APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
43 ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
44 AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
45 AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
46 BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
47 DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
48 DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
49 EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
50 EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
51 EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
52 FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
53 FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
54 GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
55 HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
56 IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
57 IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
58 IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
59 IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
60 IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
61 ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
62 ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
63 JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
64 KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
65 KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
66 LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
67 LP Printer support is enabled.
68 LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
69 M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
70 These options have more detailed description inside of
71 Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
72 MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
73 MDA MDA console support is enabled.
74 MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
75 MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
76 MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
77 MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
78 NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
79 NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
80 NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
81 OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
82 PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
83 PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
84 PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
85 PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
86 PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
87 PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
88 PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
89 PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
90 PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
91 PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
92 RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
93 S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
94 SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
95 A lot of drivers have their options described inside
96 the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
97 SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
98 SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
99 APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
100 SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
101 SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
102 SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
103 SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
104 SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
105 SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
106 TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
107 TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
108 UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
109 USB USB support is enabled.
110 USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
111 V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
112 VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
113 VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
114 WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
115 XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
116 X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
117 X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
118 More X86-64 boot options can be found in
119 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
120 X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
121 XEN Xen support is enabled
123 In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
125 BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
126 KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
127 BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
129 Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
130 loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
131 Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
132 need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
134 There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
135 See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
137 Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
138 a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
139 be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
140 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
141 running once the system is up.
143 The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
144 complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
145 a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
146 and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
147 ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
149 Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
150 parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
151 multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
152 bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
155 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
156 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
157 Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
158 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
159 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
160 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
161 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
162 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
163 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
164 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
166 See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
168 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
169 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
170 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
171 second kernel for kdump.
173 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
174 Format: <int>
175 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
176 1,0: use 1st APIC table
177 default: 0
179 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
180 acpi_backlight=vendor
181 acpi_backlight=video
182 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
183 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
184 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
186 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
187 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
188 Format: <int>
189 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
190 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
191 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
192 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
193 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
194 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
195 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
196 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
197 Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
198 debug layers and levels.
200 Enable processor driver info messages:
201 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
202 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
203 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
204 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
205 object while interpreting AML:
206 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
207 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
208 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
210 Some values produce so much output that the system is
211 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
212 if you need to capture more output.
214 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
215 ACPI will balance active IRQs
216 default in APIC mode
218 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
219 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
220 default in PIC mode
222 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
223 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
225 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
226 use by PCI
227 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
229 acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
231 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
232 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
234 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
235 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
236 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
237 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
239 acpi_pm_good [X86]
240 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
241 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
242 and always returns good values.
244 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
245 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
247 acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
249 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
251 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
253 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
254 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
255 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
256 See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
257 s3_bios and s3_mode.
258 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
259 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
260 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
261 used during resume from hibernation.
262 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
263 control method, with respect to putting devices into
264 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
265 of _PTS is used by default).
266 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
267 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
268 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
269 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
270 but some broken systems don't work without it).
272 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
273 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
274 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
276 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
277 { strict | lax | no }
278 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
279 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
280 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
281 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
282 can interfere with legacy drivers.
283 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
284 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
285 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
286 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
287 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
288 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
289 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
290 no further checks are performed.
292 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
293 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
295 agp= [AGP]
296 { off | try_unsupported }
297 off: disable AGP support
298 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
299 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
301 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
302 See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
304 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
305 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
306 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
307 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
309 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
310 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
311 Possible values are:
312 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
313 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
314 flushed before they will be reused, which
315 is a lot of faster
316 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
317 the system
319 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
320 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
321 Format: <a>,<b>
322 See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
324 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
325 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
326 connected to one of 16 gameports
327 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329 apc= [HW,SPARC]
330 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
331 Format: noidle
332 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
333 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
334 APC and your system crashes randomly.
336 apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
337 Change the output verbosity whilst booting
338 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
339 Change the amount of debugging information output
340 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342 autoconf= [IPV6]
343 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
345 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
346 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
347 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
348 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
349 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
350 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
351 apic=verbose is specified.
352 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
354 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
355 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
357 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
358 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
360 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
362 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
364 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
365 EzKey and similar keyboards
367 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
369 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
370 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
372 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
373 keyboards
375 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
376 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
378 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
379 Use software keyboard repeat
381 autotest [IA-64]
383 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
384 Format: <io>,<mode>
386 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
387 Format: <io>,<mode>
388 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
390 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
391 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
392 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
393 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
395 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
396 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
397 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
398 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
400 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
401 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
402 no delay (0).
403 Format: integer
405 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
407 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
408 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
409 kernel args too.
410 bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
411 bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
413 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
414 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
415 at a time.
417 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
419 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
420 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
421 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
422 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
423 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
424 This option provides an override for these situations.
426 capability.disable=
427 [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
428 be used only if an alternative security model is to be
429 configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
430 used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
432 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
433 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
435 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
436 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
437 {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
439 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
440 Format: { "0" | "1" }
441 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
442 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
443 any implied execute protection).
444 1 -- check protection requested by application.
445 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
446 Value can be changed at runtime via
447 /selinux/checkreqprot.
449 cio_ignore= [S390]
450 See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
452 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
453 [Deprecated]
454 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
455 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
456 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
457 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
459 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
460 Format: <string>
461 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
462 with the name specified.
463 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
464 the platform:
465 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
466 [ACPI] acpi_pm
467 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
468 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
469 [AVR32] avr32
470 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
471 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
472 [MIPS] MIPS
473 [PARISC] cr16
474 [S390] tod
475 [SH] SuperH
476 [SPARC64] tick
477 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
479 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
480 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
481 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
482 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
483 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
484 ones should be.
485 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
486 or using the feature without checking anything
487 will still see it. This just prevents it from
488 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
489 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
490 some critical bits.
492 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
493 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
494 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
495 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
496 a hypervisor.
497 Default: yes
499 code_bytes [X86] How many bytes of object code to print
500 in an oops report.
501 Range: 0 - 8192
502 Default: 64
504 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
505 Format:
506 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
508 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
509 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
511 com90xx= [HW,NET]
512 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
513 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
515 condev= [HW,S390] console device
516 conmode=
518 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
520 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
522 ttyS<n>[,options]
523 ttyUSB0[,options]
524 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
525 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
526 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
527 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
528 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
530 See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
531 information. See
532 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
533 alternative.
535 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
536 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
537 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
538 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
539 switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
540 options are the same as for ttyS, above.
542 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
543 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
544 console=brl,ttyS0
545 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
547 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
548 seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
549 disables the blank timer.
551 coredump_filter=
552 [KNL] Change the default value for
553 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
554 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
556 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
557 disable the cpuidle sub-system
559 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
560 Format:
561 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
563 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
564 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
565 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
566 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
567 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
568 is selected automatically. Check
569 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
571 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
572 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
573 in the running system. The syntax of range is
574 start-[end] where start and end are both
575 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
576 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
578 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
579 Format: <dma>
581 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
582 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
584 dasd= [HW,NET]
585 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
587 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
588 (one device per port)
589 Format: <port#>,<type>
590 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
592 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
593 time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
594 details.
596 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
598 debug_locks_verbose=
599 [KNL] verbose self-tests
600 Format=<0|1>
601 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
602 self-tests.
603 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
604 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
605 only useful to kernel developers.
607 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
609 no_debug_objects
610 [KNL] Disable object debugging
612 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
614 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
615 Format: <area>[,<node>]
616 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
618 default_hugepagesz=
619 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
620 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
621 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
622 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
623 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
624 if not specified.
626 dhash_entries= [KNL]
627 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
629 digi= [HW,SERIAL]
630 IO parameters + enable/disable command.
632 digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
633 See drivers/char/README.epca and
634 Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
636 disable= [IPV6]
637 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
639 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
640 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
641 to workaround buggy firmware.
643 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
644 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
646 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
647 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
648 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
649 entry later. This parameter disables that.
651 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
652 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
653 memory out of your available memory pool based on
654 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
655 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
657 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
658 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
659 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
661 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
662 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
664 dma_debug_entries=<number>
665 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
666 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
667 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
668 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
669 architectural default is too low.
671 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
672 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
673 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
674 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
675 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
676 driver later using sysfs.
678 dscc4.setup= [NET]
680 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
681 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
682 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
683 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
684 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
685 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
686 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
687 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
688 The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
690 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
691 earlyprintk=vga
692 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
693 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
694 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
696 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
697 takes over.
699 Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
701 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
703 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
704 very good.
706 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
707 console.
709 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
710 ekgdboc=kbd
712 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
713 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
715 edd= [EDD]
716 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
718 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
719 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
721 elanfreq= [X86-32]
722 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
723 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
725 elevator= [IOSCHED]
726 Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
727 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
728 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
730 elfcorehdr= [IA-64,PPC,SH,X86]
731 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
732 image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
733 pass this option to capture kernel.
734 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
736 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
737 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
738 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
739 entry later. This parameter enables that.
741 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
742 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
743 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
744 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
745 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
747 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
748 Format: {"0" | "1"}
749 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
750 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
751 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
752 Default value is 0.
753 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
755 erst_disable [ACPI]
756 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
757 support.
759 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
760 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
761 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
763 failslab=
764 fail_page_alloc=
765 fail_make_request=[KNL]
766 General fault injection mechanism.
767 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
768 See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
770 floppy= [HW]
771 See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
773 force_pal_cache_flush
774 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
775 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
776 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
777 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
779 ftrace=[tracer]
780 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
781 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
782 boot debugging.
784 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
785 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
786 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
787 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
788 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
789 oops.
791 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
792 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
793 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
794 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
795 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
796 tracing directory.
798 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
799 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
800 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
801 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
802 tracing directory.
804 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
805 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
806 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
807 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
808 that can be changed at run time by the
809 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
811 gamecon.map[2|3]=
812 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
813 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
814 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
815 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
817 gamma= [HW,DRM]
819 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
820 Format: off | on
821 default: on
823 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
824 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
825 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
826 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
827 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
829 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
830 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
832 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
833 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
834 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
835 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
837 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
839 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
840 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
842 hest_disable [ACPI]
843 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
844 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
845 logic will be disabled.
847 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
848 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
849 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
850 size on bigger boxes.
852 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
853 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
854 Default: "on"
856 hisax= [HW,ISDN]
857 See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
859 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
861 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
862 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
863 verbose }
864 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
865 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
866 VIA, nVidia)
867 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
869 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
870 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
871 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
872 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
873 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
874 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
875 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
876 Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
877 using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
879 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
880 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
881 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
882 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
883 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
885 keep_bootcon [KNL]
886 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
887 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
888 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
889 the real console.
891 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
892 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
893 registered from board initialization code.
894 Format:
895 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
897 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
898 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
899 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
900 keyboard and cannot control its state
901 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
902 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
903 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
904 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
905 for the AUX port
906 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
907 controller
908 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
909 controllers
910 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
911 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
912 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
914 i810= [HW,DRM]
916 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
917 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
918 hardware.
919 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
920 does not match list of supported models.
921 i8k.power_status
922 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
923 (disabled by default)
924 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
925 capability is set.
927 icn= [HW,ISDN]
928 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
930 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
931 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
932 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
933 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
934 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
936 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
937 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
939 idle= [X86]
940 Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
941 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
942 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
943 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
944 Not recommended.
945 idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
946 the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
947 as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
948 MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
949 the same as idle=poll.
950 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
951 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
952 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
954 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
955 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
956 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
958 ihash_entries= [KNL]
959 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
961 ima_audit= [IMA]
962 Format: { "0" | "1" }
963 0 -- integrity auditing messages. (Default)
964 1 -- enable informational integrity auditing messages.
966 ima_hash= [IMA]
967 Format: { "sha1" | "md5" }
968 default: "sha1"
970 ima_tcb [IMA]
971 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
972 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
973 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
974 opened for read by uid=0.
976 init= [KNL]
977 Format: <full_path>
978 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
979 process.
981 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
982 for working out where the kernel is dying during
983 startup.
985 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
987 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
988 Format: <irq>
990 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
991 on
992 Enable intel iommu driver.
993 off
994 Disable intel iommu driver.
995 igfx_off [Default Off]
996 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
997 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
998 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
999 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1000 DMA.
1001 forcedac [x86_64]
1002 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1003 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1004 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1005 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1006 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1007 then look in the higher range.
1008 strict [Default Off]
1009 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1010 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1011 to batching them for performance.
1012 sp_off [Default Off]
1013 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1014 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1015 not be supported.
1016 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1017 Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
1018 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1019 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1020 nosid disable Source ID checking
1022 inttest= [IA-64]
1024 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1025 strict regions from userspace.
1026 relaxed
1028 iommu= [x86]
1029 off
1030 force
1031 noforce
1032 biomerge
1033 panic
1034 nopanic
1035 merge
1036 nomerge
1037 forcesac
1038 soft
1039 pt [x86, IA-64]
1041 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1042 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1043 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1045 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
1046 0x80
1047 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1048 0xed
1049 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1050 udelay
1051 Simple two microseconds delay
1052 none
1053 No delay
1055 ip= [IP_PNP]
1056 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1058 ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
1059 See comment before ip2_setup() in
1060 drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
1062 irqfixup [HW]
1063 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1064 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1065 firmware running.
1067 irqpoll [HW]
1068 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1069 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1070 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1071 firmware running.
1073 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
1074 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1076 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1077 Format:
1078 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
1079 or
1080 <cpu number>-<cpu number>
1081 (must be a positive range in ascending order)
1082 or a mixture
1083 <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
1085 This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1086 to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1087 algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1088 "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1089 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1090 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1092 This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1093 alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1094 tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1095 suboptimal load balancer performance.
1097 iucv= [HW,NET]
1099 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1100 See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1102 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1104 kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1105 specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1106 for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
1107 spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1108 remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1109 pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1110 kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1111 take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1112 of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
1113 allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1114 by the page migration subsystem. This means that
1115 HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1116 Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1117 use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1118 zone if it does not.
1120 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1121 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1122 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1123 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1124 optional and is the number seconds in between
1125 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1126 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1127 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1128 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1129 the kernel debugger.
1131 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1132 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1133 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1134 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1135 keyboard only format: kbd
1136 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1137 Optional Kernel mode setting:
1138 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1139 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1141 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1142 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1144 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1145 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1146 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1148 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1149 Valid arguments: on, off
1150 Default: on
1152 kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1153 in oops dumps.
1155 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1156 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1158 kvm.oos_shadow= [KVM] Disable out-of-sync shadow paging.
1159 Default is 1 (enabled)
1161 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1162 KVM MMU at runtime.
1163 Default is 0 (off)
1165 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1166 Default is 1 (enabled)
1168 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1169 for all guests.
1170 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1172 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1173 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1174 Default is 1 (enabled)
1176 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1177 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1178 Default is 0 (disabled)
1180 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1181 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1182 Default is 1 (enabled)
1184 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1185 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1186 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1187 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1189 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1190 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1191 Default is 1 (enabled)
1193 l2cr= [PPC]
1195 l3cr= [PPC]
1197 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1198 disabled it.
1200 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1201 in C2 power state.
1203 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
1204 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1205 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1206 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1207 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
1208 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1209 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1211 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1212 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
1213 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
1215 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1216 when set.
1217 Format: <int>
1219 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
1220 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1221 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1222 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
1223 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
1224 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1225 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1226 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1228 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1229 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
1230 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1231 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
1232 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1233 host link and device attached to it.
1235 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
1236 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1237 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1238 The following configurations can be forced.
1240 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1241 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1243 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1245 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1246 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1247 allowed.
1249 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1251 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1252 and both resets.
1254 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1256 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1257 the same attribute, the last one is used.
1259 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1261 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1262 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1264 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
1265 Format: <integer>
1267 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
1268 Format: <integer>
1270 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
1271 Format: <integer>
1273 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
1274 Format: <integer>
1276 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1277 Format: <irq>
1279 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1280 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1281 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1282 loglevels are defined as follows:
1284 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
1285 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
1286 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
1287 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
1288 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
1289 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
1290 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
1291 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
1293 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1294 in bytes. n must be a power of two. The default
1295 size is set in the kernel config file.
1297 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1298 This may be used to provide more screen space for
1299 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1300 kernel boot problems.
1302 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1303 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1304 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1305 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1306 specified in addition to the ports) causes
1307 attached printers to be reset. Using
1308 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1309 to associate lp devices with, starting with
1310 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1311 that lp device, or a parport name such as
1312 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1313 port specification list means that device IDs
1314 from each port should be examined, to see if
1315 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1316 so, the driver will manage that printer.
1317 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1319 lpj=n [KNL]
1320 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1321 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1322 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1323 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1324 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1325 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1326 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1327 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1328 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
1329 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
1330 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
1331 hardware.
1333 ltpc= [NET]
1334 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
1336 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
1337 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
1338 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1340 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
1341 yeeloong laptop.
1342 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
1344 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
1345 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
1347 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1348 should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
1349 kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
1350 it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
1351 the IO APIC.
1353 max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
1354 be mounted
1355 Format: <1-256>
1357 mcatest= [IA-64]
1359 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1361 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
1363 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
1364 See Documentation/md.txt.
1366 mdacon= [MDA]
1367 Format: <first>,<last>
1368 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
1370 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
1371 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
1372 to see the whole system memory or for test.
1373 [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
1374 address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
1375 could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
1377 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1378 memory.
1380 memchunk=nn[KMG]
1381 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
1382 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
1384 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
1385 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
1386 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
1387 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
1388 option description.
1390 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1391 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
1392 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1394 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1395 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1396 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1398 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1399 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1400 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1401 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1402 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1403 or
1404 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1406 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
1407 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
1408 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
1409 Setting this option will scan the memory
1410 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
1411 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
1412 from using the memory being corrupted.
1413 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
1414 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
1415 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
1416 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
1418 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
1419 By default it checks for corruption in the low
1420 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
1421 use. Use this parameter to scan for
1422 corruption in more or less memory.
1424 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
1425 By default it checks for corruption every 60
1426 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
1427 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
1429 memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
1430 Format: <integer>
1431 default : 0 <disable>
1432 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
1433 performed. Each pass selects another test
1434 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
1435 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
1436 memory contents and reserves bad memory
1437 regions that are detected.
1439 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1440 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
1442 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
1443 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
1444 platforms.
1446 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
1447 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
1448 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
1449 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
1451 mga= [HW,DRM]
1453 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
1454 physical address is ignored.
1456 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
1457 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
1458 Default: "0tb"
1459 MINI2440 configuration specification:
1460 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
1461 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
1462 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
1463 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
1464 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
1465 unconfigured.
1466 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
1467 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
1468 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
1469 VGA shield.
1470 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
1471 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
1472 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
1473 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
1474 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
1475 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
1477 mminit_loglevel=
1478 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
1479 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
1480 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
1481 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
1482 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
1483 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
1485 mousedev.tap_time=
1486 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
1487 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
1488 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
1489 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
1490 Format: <msecs>
1491 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
1492 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1493 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
1494 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
1496 movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
1497 is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
1498 amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
1499 If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
1500 then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
1501 value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
1502 is specified, the administrator must be careful
1503 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
1504 is not too small.
1506 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
1507 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
1509 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
1510 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1512 mtdparts= [MTD]
1513 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1515 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
1516 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
1517 at a time.
1519 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
1521 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
1523 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
1524 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
1525 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
1526 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
1527 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
1529 mtdset= [ARM]
1530 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
1532 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
1534 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
1535 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
1536 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1538 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1539 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
1540 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
1542 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
1543 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
1544 Default is 1.
1545 Large value could prevent small alignment from
1546 using up MTRRs.
1548 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
1549 Format: <integer>
1550 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
1551 Default : 1
1552 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
1553 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
1555 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
1557 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
1558 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
1559 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
1560 something different and driver-specific.
1561 This usage is only documented in each driver source
1562 file if at all.
1564 nf_conntrack.acct=
1565 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
1566 0 to disable accounting
1567 1 to enable accounting
1568 Default value is 0.
1570 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
1571 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1573 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
1574 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1576 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
1577 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1579 nfs.callback_tcpport=
1580 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
1581 channel should listen.
1583 nfs.cache_getent=
1584 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
1585 to update the NFS client cache entries.
1587 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
1588 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
1589 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
1591 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
1592 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1593 entries.
1595 nfs.enable_ino64=
1596 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1597 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1598 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1599 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1600 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1602 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
1603 [NFSv4] When set, this option disables the NFSv4
1604 idmapper on the client, but only if the mount
1605 is using the 'sec=sys' security flavour. This may
1606 make migration from legacy NFSv2/v3 systems easier
1607 provided that the server has the appropriate support.
1608 The default is to always enable NFSv4 idmapping.
1610 nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
1611 when a NMI is triggered.
1612 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
1614 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1615 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
1616 Valid num: 0
1617 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
1618 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
1619 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
1620 default).
1621 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
1622 need the box quickly up again.
1624 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
1625 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
1626 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
1627 waits 4 seconds.
1629 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1630 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
1631 is present.
1633 no_console_suspend
1634 [HW] Never suspend the console
1635 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
1636 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
1637 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
1638 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
1639 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
1640 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
1641 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
1643 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
1644 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
1645 but will impact performance.
1647 noalign [KNL,ARM]
1649 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
1650 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
1652 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
1654 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
1655 on "Classic" PPC cores.
1657 nocache [ARM]
1659 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
1661 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
1663 nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
1665 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
1667 noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
1669 noexec [IA-64]
1671 noexec [X86]
1672 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1673 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1674 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
1676 nosmep [X86]
1677 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection)
1678 even if it is supported by processor.
1680 noexec32 [X86-64]
1681 This affects only 32-bit executables.
1682 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
1683 read doesn't imply executable mappings
1684 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
1685 read implies executable mappings
1687 nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
1689 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
1690 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
1691 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1693 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
1694 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
1695 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
1697 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
1698 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1699 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
1701 no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
1702 instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
1703 use it.
1705 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
1706 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
1707 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
1709 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
1710 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
1711 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
1712 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
1713 in certain environments such as networked servers or
1714 real-time systems.
1716 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
1717 Valid arguments: on, off
1718 Default: on
1720 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
1722 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1723 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
1725 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
1726 broken timer IRQ sources.
1728 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
1730 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
1731 initial RAM disk.
1733 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
1734 remapping.
1735 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
1737 nointroute [IA-64]
1739 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
1741 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
1743 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
1744 fault handling.
1746 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
1747 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
1748 behaviour
1750 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1752 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
1754 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
1755 lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
1757 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
1759 nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1761 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
1762 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
1764 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
1765 pagetables) support.
1767 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
1768 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
1770 noreplace-paravirt [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
1772 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
1773 with UP alternatives
1775 noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
1777 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
1778 space.
1780 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
1781 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
1782 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
1784 nosbagart [IA-64]
1786 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
1788 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
1789 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1791 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
1793 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
1795 notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
1797 nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
1799 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
1801 nowb [ARM]
1803 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
1805 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
1806 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
1807 SAL PALO.
1809 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
1810 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
1811 supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not
1812 use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online.
1813 just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n
1815 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
1817 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
1818 one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
1819 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
1820 See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
1822 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
1823 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
1824 info.
1826 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
1827 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
1828 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
1829 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
1830 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
1831 interrupts *may* be lost!
1833 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
1834 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
1835 For example, to override I2C bus2:
1836 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
1838 oprofile.timer= [HW]
1839 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
1841 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
1842 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
1843 userland or if you want common events.
1844 Format: { arch_perfmon }
1845 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
1846 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
1847 CPU specific event set.
1849 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
1850 process, but there is a small probability of
1851 deadlocking the machine.
1852 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
1853 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
1855 OSS [HW,OSS]
1856 See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
1858 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
1859 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
1860 timeout = 0: wait forever
1861 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1862 Format: <timeout>
1864 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
1865 connected to, default is 0.
1866 Format: <parport#>
1867 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
1868 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
1869 Format: <mode>
1871 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
1872 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
1873 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
1874 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
1875 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
1876 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
1877 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
1878 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
1879 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
1880 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
1881 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
1882 are specified on the command line, starting
1883 with parport0.
1885 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
1886 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
1887 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
1888 computer where firmware has no options for setting
1889 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
1890 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1891 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
1893 pause_on_oops=
1894 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
1895 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
1896 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
1898 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
1900 pcd. [PARIDE]
1901 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
1902 See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
1904 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
1905 earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
1906 changes anything
1907 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
1908 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
1909 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
1910 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
1911 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
1912 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
1913 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
1914 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
1915 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1916 Mechanism 1.
1917 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
1918 Mechanism 2.
1919 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
1920 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1921 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
1922 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
1923 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
1924 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
1925 Configuration
1926 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
1927 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
1928 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
1929 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
1930 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
1931 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
1932 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
1933 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
1934 should never be necessary.
1935 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
1936 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
1937 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
1938 when the system masks IRQs.
1939 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
1940 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
1941 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
1942 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
1943 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
1944 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
1945 on several machines and they hang the machine
1946 when used, but on other computers it's the only
1947 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
1948 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
1949 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
1950 motherboard.
1951 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
1952 Use with caution as certain devices share
1953 address decoders between ROMs and other
1954 resources.
1955 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
1956 expansion ROMs that do not already have
1957 BIOS assigned address ranges.
1958 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
1959 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
1960 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
1961 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
1962 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
1963 this way.
1964 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
1965 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
1966 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
1967 F0000h-100000h range.
1968 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
1969 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
1970 secondary buses and you want to tell it
1971 explicitly which ones they are.
1972 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
1973 numbers ourselves, overriding
1974 whatever the firmware may have done.
1975 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
1976 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
1977 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
1978 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
1979 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
1980 IRQ routing is enabled.
1981 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
1982 or for PCI scanning.
1983 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
1984 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
1985 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
1986 please report a bug.
1987 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
1988 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
1989 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
1990 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
1991 so this option is a temporary workaround
1992 for broken drivers that don't call it.
1993 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
1994 handle more pci cards
1995 firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
1996 just use the configuration from the
1997 bootloader. This is currently used on
1998 IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
1999 configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
2000 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2001 This might help on some broken boards which
2002 machine check when some devices' config space
2003 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2004 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2005 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2006 This sorting is done to get a device
2007 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2008 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2009 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2010 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2011 The default value is 256 bytes.
2012 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
2013 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2014 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
2015 resource_alignment=
2016 Format:
2017 [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2018 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2019 aligned memory resources.
2020 If <order of align> is not specified,
2021 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2022 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2023 windows need to be expanded.
2024 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2025 end-to-end CRC checking).
2026 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2027 the default.
2028 off: Turn ECRC off
2029 on: Turn ECRC on.
2030 realloc reallocate PCI resources if allocations done by BIOS
2031 are erroneous.
2033 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2034 Management.
2035 off Disable ASPM.
2036 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2037 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2039 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
2040 auto Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2041 associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER). Use
2042 them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2043 native Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2044 unconditionally.
2045 compat Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2046 ports driver.
2048 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
2049 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
2050 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
2052 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2054 pd. [PARIDE]
2055 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2057 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2058 boot time.
2059 Format: { 0 | 1 }
2060 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2062 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
2063 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2064 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
2065 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2066 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
2067 and performance comparison.
2069 pf. [PARIDE]
2070 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2072 pg. [PARIDE]
2073 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2075 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
2076 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
2078 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2079 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
2080 See also Documentation/parport.txt.
2082 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
2083 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
2084 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
2086 pnp.debug [PNP]
2087 Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
2088 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
2090 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
2091 { off }
2093 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
2094 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
2096 pnp_reserve_irq=
2097 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
2099 pnp_reserve_dma=
2100 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
2102 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
2103 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
2105 pnp_reserve_mem=
2106 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
2107 autoconfiguration.
2108 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
2110 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
2111 Default is 21.
2112 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
2113 may be specified.
2114 Format: <port>,<port>....
2116 print-fatal-signals=
2117 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
2119 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
2120 related application anomalies: too many signals,
2121 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
2122 coredump - etc.
2124 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
2125 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
2127 default: off.
2129 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
2130 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
2132 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
2133 Limit processor to maximum C-state
2134 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
2136 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
2137 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
2138 instead using the legacy FADT method
2140 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
2141 Format: [schedule,]<number>
2142 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
2143 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
2144 statistical time based profiling.
2145 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
2146 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
2147 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
2149 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
2150 before loading.
2151 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2153 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
2154 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
2155 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
2156 per second.
2157 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
2158 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
2159 (0 = never).
2160 psmouse.resolution=
2161 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
2162 psmouse.smartscroll=
2163 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
2164 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
2166 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
2168 pt. [PARIDE]
2169 See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2171 pty.legacy_count=
2172 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
2173 default number.
2175 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
2177 r128= [HW,DRM]
2179 raid= [HW,RAID]
2180 See Documentation/md.txt.
2182 ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
2183 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2185 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
2186 See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2188 rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
2189 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
2190 in one batch.
2192 rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
2193 Set threshold of queued
2194 RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
2196 rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
2197 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
2198 batch limiting is re-enabled.
2200 rdinit= [KNL]
2201 Format: <full_path>
2202 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
2203 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
2205 reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
2206 Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
2207 See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
2209 relax_domain_level=
2210 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
2211 See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
2213 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
2215 reservetop= [X86-32]
2216 Format: nn[KMG]
2217 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
2218 address space.
2220 reservelow= [X86]
2221 Format: nn[K]
2222 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
2223 the bottom of the address space.
2225 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
2226 during initialization.
2228 resume= [SWSUSP]
2229 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2231 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
2232 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
2233 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
2234 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
2235 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
2237 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
2238 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
2239 present during boot.
2240 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
2242 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
2244 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2245 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
2247 riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
2248 Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
2250 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
2252 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
2253 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
2255 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
2256 mount the root filesystem
2258 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
2260 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
2262 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
2263 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
2264 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
2266 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
2268 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
2270 sa1100ir [NET]
2271 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
2273 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
2275 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
2277 security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
2278 If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
2279 security module asking for security registration will be
2280 loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
2281 as if no module has been chosen.
2283 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
2284 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2285 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
2286 0 -- disable.
2287 1 -- enable.
2288 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2289 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
2290 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
2292 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
2293 Format: { "0" | "1" }
2294 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
2295 0 -- disable.
2296 1 -- enable.
2297 Default value is set via kernel config option.
2299 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
2301 shapers= [NET]
2302 Maximal number of shapers.
2304 show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
2305 Format: { <integer> }
2306 Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
2307 The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
2308 for example 1 means boot CPU only.
2310 simeth= [IA-64]
2311 simscsi=
2313 slram= [HW,MTD]
2315 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
2316 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
2317 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
2318 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
2319 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
2320 last alloc / free. For more information see
2321 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2323 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
2324 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
2325 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
2326 fragmentation. For more information see
2327 Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2329 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
2330 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
2331 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
2332 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
2333 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
2334 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
2335 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
2336 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2338 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
2339 Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
2340 lower than slub_max_order.
2341 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2343 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
2344 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
2345 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
2346 allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
2347 merging on their own.
2348 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
2350 smart2= [HW]
2351 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
2353 smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
2354 attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
2356 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
2357 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
2358 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
2359 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
2360 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
2361 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
2362 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
2363 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
2364 1: Fast pin select (default)
2365 2: ATC IRMode
2367 softlockup_panic=
2368 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
2369 Format: <integer>
2371 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
2372 See Documentation/sonypi.txt
2374 specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
2375 See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
2377 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
2378 spia_fio_base=
2379 spia_pedr=
2380 spia_peddr=
2382 stacktrace [FTRACE]
2383 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
2385 sti= [PARISC,HW]
2386 Format: <num>
2387 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
2388 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
2389 as the initial boot-console.
2390 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2392 sti_font= [HW]
2393 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
2395 stifb= [HW]
2396 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
2398 sunrpc.min_resvport=
2399 sunrpc.max_resvport=
2400 [NFS,SUNRPC]
2401 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
2402 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
2403 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
2404 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
2405 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
2406 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
2407 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
2408 maximum port values.
2410 sunrpc.pool_mode=
2411 [NFS]
2412 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
2413 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
2414 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
2415 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
2416 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
2417 NFS server is running.
2419 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
2420 automatically using heuristics
2421 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
2422 percpu one pool for each CPU
2423 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
2424 to global on non-NUMA machines)
2426 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
2427 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
2428 [NFS,SUNRPC]
2429 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
2430 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
2431 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
2432 improve throughput, but will also increase the
2433 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
2435 swapaccount[=0|1]
2436 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
2437 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
2438 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt)
2440 swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
2442 switches= [HW,M68k]
2444 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
2445 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
2446 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
2447 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
2448 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
2449 in older udev will not work anymore.
2450 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
2451 the kernel configuration.
2453 sysrq_always_enabled
2454 [KNL]
2455 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
2456 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
2457 Useful for debugging.
2459 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
2461 test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
2462 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
2463 standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
2464 enter during system startup. The system is woken from
2465 this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
2467 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2468 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
2470 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
2471 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
2472 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
2474 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
2475 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
2476 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
2478 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
2479 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
2480 critical and hot trip points.
2482 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
2483 1: disable ACPI thermal control
2485 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
2486 -1: disable all passive trip points
2487 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
2488 value
2490 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
2491 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
2492 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
2493 0: no polling (default)
2495 threadirqs [KNL]
2496 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
2497 marked explicitely IRQF_NO_THREAD.
2499 topology= [S390]
2500 Format: {off | on}
2501 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
2502 topology information if the hardware supports this.
2503 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2504 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
2505 Default is on.
2507 tp720= [HW,PS2]
2509 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
2510 Format: integer pcr id
2511 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
2512 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
2513 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
2514 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
2515 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
2516 are saved.
2518 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
2519 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size.
2521 trace_event=[event-list]
2522 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
2523 to facilitate early boot debugging.
2524 See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
2526 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
2527 Format: <string>
2528 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
2529 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
2530 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
2531 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
2532 virtualized environment.
2533 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
2534 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
2535 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
2536 can add overhead.
2538 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
2539 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
2540 Format:
2541 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
2542 See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
2544 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
2545 happen after console_init() and before a proper
2546 console driver takes over, this boot options might
2547 help "seeing" what's going on.
2549 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
2550 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
2552 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
2553 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
2554 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
2555 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
2556 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
2557 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
2558 reported either.
2560 unknown_nmi_panic
2561 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
2563 usbcore.authorized_default=
2564 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
2565 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
2566 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
2568 usbcore.autosuspend=
2569 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
2570 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
2571 is the time required before an idle device will be
2572 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
2573 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
2575 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
2576 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
2578 usbcore.blinkenlights=
2579 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
2581 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
2582 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
2583 scheme (default 0 = off).
2585 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
2586 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
2587 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
2589 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
2590 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
2591 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
2592 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
2594 usbhid.mousepoll=
2595 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
2597 usb-storage.delay_use=
2598 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
2599 scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
2601 usb-storage.quirks=
2602 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
2603 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
2604 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
2605 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
2606 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
2607 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
2608 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
2609 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
2610 of sense data);
2611 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
2612 bytes of sense data);
2613 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
2614 device capacity by one sector);
2615 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
2616 READ_DISC_INFO command);
2617 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
2618 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
2619 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
2620 reported device capacity by one
2621 sector if the number is odd);
2622 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
2623 device);
2624 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
2625 unlock ejectable media);
2626 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
2627 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
2628 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
2629 initial READ(10) command);
2630 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
2631 reported by the device);
2632 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
2633 bogus residue values);
2634 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
2635 Logical Unit);
2636 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
2637 medium is write-protected).
2638 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
2640 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
2641 Format: <int>
2642 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
2643 1 - undefined instruction events
2644 2 - system calls
2645 4 - invalid data aborts
2646 8 - SIGSEGV faults
2647 16 - SIGBUS faults
2648 Example: user_debug=31
2650 userpte=
2651 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
2653 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
2654 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
2655 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
2657 vdso= [X86,SH]
2658 vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2659 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
2660 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
2662 vdso32= [X86]
2663 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
2664 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
2665 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
2667 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
2668 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
2670 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
2671 See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
2673 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
2674 See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
2675 Documentation/svga.txt.
2676 Use vga=ask for menu.
2677 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
2678 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
2680 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
2681 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
2682 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
2683 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
2684 mapped kernel RAM.
2686 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
2687 Format: <command>
2689 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
2690 Format: <command>
2692 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
2693 Format: <command>
2695 vsyscall= [X86-64]
2696 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
2697 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
2698 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
2699 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
2700 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
2701 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
2703 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
2704 emulated reasonably safely.
2706 native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
2707 This is a little bit faster than trapping
2708 and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
2709 better than they would in emulation mode.
2710 It also makes exploits much easier to write.
2712 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
2713 them quite hard to use for exploits but
2714 might break your system.
2716 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
2717 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
2718 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
2719 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
2721 vt.default_blu= [VT]
2722 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
2723 Change the default blue palette of the console.
2724 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2725 ranging from 0-255.
2727 vt.default_grn= [VT]
2728 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
2729 Change the default green palette of the console.
2730 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2731 ranging from 0-255.
2733 vt.default_red= [VT]
2734 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
2735 Change the default red palette of the console.
2736 This is a 16-member array composed of values
2737 ranging from 0-255.
2739 vt.default_utf8=
2740 [VT]
2741 Format=<0|1>
2742 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
2743 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
2744 newly opened terminals.
2746 vt.global_cursor_default=
2747 [VT]
2748 Format=<-1|0|1>
2749 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
2750 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
2751 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
2752 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
2753 cursors, 1 will display them.
2755 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
2756 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
2757 or other driver-specific files in the
2758 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
2760 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
2761 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
2762 supporting x2apic.
2764 x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
2765 Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform.
2766 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
2767 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
2768 x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
2770 xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
2771 xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
2773 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
2774 Unplug Xen emulated devices
2775 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
2776 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
2777 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
2778 nics -- unplug network devices
2779 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
2780 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
2781 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
2782 the unplug protocol
2783 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
2785 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
2786 Format:
2787 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
2789 ______________________________________________________________________
2791 TODO:
2793 Add more DRM drivers.