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  1. Kernel Parameters
  2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  3. The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented
  4. (mostly) by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order
  5. (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a
  6. case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.
  7. Module parameters for loadable modules are specified only as the
  8. parameter name with optional '=' and value as appropriate, such as:
  9. modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
  10. Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image
  11. are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus
  12. '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as:
  13. usbcore.blinkenlights=1
  14. This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
  15. "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
  16. module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
  17. reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
  18. parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
  19. "echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}".
  20. The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
  21. enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
  22. the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
  23. parameter is applicable:
  24. ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
  25. AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
  26. ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
  27. APIC APIC support is enabled.
  28. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
  29. AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
  30. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
  31. BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
  32. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
  33. EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
  34. EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
  35. EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
  36. FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
  37. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
  38. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
  39. IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
  40. IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
  41. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
  42. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
  43. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
  44. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
  45. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
  46. LP Printer support is enabled.
  47. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
  48. M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
  49. These options have more detailed description inside of
  50. Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
  51. MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
  52. MDA MDA console support is enabled.
  53. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
  54. MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
  55. MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
  56. NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
  57. NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
  58. GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
  59. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
  60. OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
  61. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
  62. PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
  63. PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
  64. PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
  65. PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
  66. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
  67. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
  68. PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
  69. PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
  70. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
  71. RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
  72. ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled.
  73. S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
  74. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
  75. A lot of drivers has their options described inside of
  76. Documentation/scsi/.
  77. SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
  78. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
  79. SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
  80. SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
  81. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
  82. SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
  83. SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
  84. SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
  85. FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
  86. TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
  87. USB USB support is enabled.
  88. USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
  89. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
  90. VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
  91. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
  92. WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
  93. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
  94. X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
  95. X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
  96. More X86-64 boot options can be found in
  97. Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
  98. X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
  99. In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
  100. BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
  101. KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
  102. BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
  103. Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
  104. loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
  105. Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
  106. need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt>.
  107. There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
  108. See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
  109. Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
  110. a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
  111. be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
  112. it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
  113. running once the system is up.
  114. The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
  115. complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
  116. a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
  117. and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
  118. ./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
  119. acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
  120. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
  121. Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
  122. force -- enable ACPI if default was off
  123. off -- disable ACPI if default was on
  124. noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  125. ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
  126. strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
  127. strictly ACPI specification compliant.
  128. See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
  129. acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
  130. Format: <int>
  131. 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
  132. 1,0: use 1st APIC table
  133. default: 0
  134. acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
  135. Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
  136. See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
  137. s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
  138. as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
  139. s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
  140. used during resume from hibernation.
  141. old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
  142. control method, wrt putting devices into low power
  143. states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
  144. used by default).
  145. acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
  146. Format: { level | edge | high | low }
  147. acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
  148. ACPI will balance active IRQs
  149. default in APIC mode
  150. acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
  151. ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
  152. default in PIC mode
  153. acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
  154. use by PCI
  155. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  156. acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
  157. Format: <irq>,<irq>...
  158. acpi_no_auto_ssdt [HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
  159. acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
  160. Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
  161. acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
  162. acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 -- only one string
  163. acpi_osi="!string2" # remove built-in string2
  164. acpi_osi= # disable all strings
  165. acpi_serialize [HW,ACPI] force serialization of AML methods
  166. acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
  167. Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
  168. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
  169. acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
  170. Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
  171. that require a timer override, but don't have
  172. HPET
  173. acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
  174. acpi_backlight=vendor
  175. acpi_backlight=video
  176. If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
  177. (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
  178. of the ACPI video.ko driver.
  179. acpi_display_output= [HW,ACPI]
  180. acpi_display_output=vendor
  181. acpi_display_output=video
  182. See above.
  183. acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  184. acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
  185. Format: <int>
  186. CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
  187. debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
  188. _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
  189. #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
  190. Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
  191. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
  192. ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
  193. The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
  194. Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
  195. debug layers and levels.
  196. Enable processor driver info messages:
  197. acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
  198. Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
  199. acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
  200. Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
  201. object while interpreting AML:
  202. acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
  203. Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
  204. acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
  205. Some values produce so much output that the system is
  206. unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
  207. if you need to capture more output.
  208. acpi.power_nocheck= [HW,ACPI]
  209. Format: 1/0 enable/disable the check of power state.
  210. On some bogus BIOS the _PSC object/_STA object of
  211. power resource can't return the correct device power
  212. state. In such case it is unneccessary to check its
  213. power state again in power transition.
  214. 1 : disable the power state check
  215. acpi_pm_good [X86-32,X86-64]
  216. Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
  217. to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
  218. and always returns good values.
  219. agp= [AGP]
  220. { off | try_unsupported }
  221. off: disable AGP support
  222. try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
  223. (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
  224. enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
  225. Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  226. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
  227. (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
  228. The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
  229. disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64]
  230. Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
  231. Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
  232. ad1848= [HW,OSS]
  233. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type>
  234. advansys= [HW,SCSI]
  235. See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c.
  236. advwdt= [HW,WDT] Advantech WDT
  237. Format: <iostart>,<iostop>
  238. aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16
  239. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  240. See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c.
  241. aha152x= [HW,SCSI]
  242. See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt.
  243. aha1542= [HW,SCSI]
  244. Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]]
  245. aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI]
  246. See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt.
  247. aic79xx= [HW,SCSI]
  248. See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
  249. amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
  250. Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
  251. Possible values are:
  252. isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
  253. as possible, will get its own protection
  254. domain) [default]
  255. share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the
  256. same protection domain
  257. fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
  258. they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
  259. flushed before they will be reused, which
  260. is a lot of faster
  261. amd_iommu_size= [HW,X86-64]
  262. Define the size of the aperture for the AMD IOMMU
  263. driver. Possible values are:
  264. '32M', '64M' (default), '128M', '256M', '512M', '1G'
  265. amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
  266. Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
  267. Format: <a>,<b>
  268. See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
  269. analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
  270. Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
  271. connected to one of 16 gameports
  272. Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
  273. apc= [HW,SPARC]
  274. Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
  275. Format: noidle
  276. Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
  277. not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
  278. APC and your system crashes randomly.
  279. apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
  280. Change the output verbosity whilst booting
  281. Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
  282. Change the amount of debugging information output
  283. when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
  284. apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
  285. See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
  286. arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
  287. Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
  288. ataflop= [HW,M68k]
  289. atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
  290. atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI
  291. atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
  292. EzKey and similar keyboards
  293. atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
  294. atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
  295. Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
  296. atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
  297. keyboards
  298. atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
  299. Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
  300. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
  301. Use software keyboard repeat
  302. autotest [IA64]
  303. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
  304. Format: <io>,<mode>
  305. baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
  306. Format: <io>,<mode>
  307. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
  308. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
  309. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
  310. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
  311. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
  312. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
  313. BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
  314. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
  315. See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
  316. boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
  317. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
  318. no delay (0).
  319. Format: integer
  320. bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
  321. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
  322. bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
  323. kernel args too.
  324. bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
  325. bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
  326. BusLogic= [HW,SCSI]
  327. See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function
  328. BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions().
  329. c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
  330. cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
  331. Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
  332. size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
  333. to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
  334. possible to determine what the correct size should be.
  335. This option provides an override for these situations.
  336. security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
  337. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
  338. security module asking for security registration will be
  339. loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
  340. as if no module has been chosen.
  341. capability.disable=
  342. [SECURITY] Disable capabilities. This would normally
  343. be used only if an alternative security model is to be
  344. configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
  345. used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
  346. ccw_timeout_log [S390]
  347. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  348. cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
  349. Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
  350. {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
  351. checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
  352. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  353. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  354. 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
  355. any implied execute protection).
  356. 1 -- check protection requested by application.
  357. Default value is set via a kernel config option.
  358. Value can be changed at runtime via
  359. /selinux/checkreqprot.
  360. cio_ignore= [S390]
  361. See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
  362. clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
  363. [Deprecated]
  364. Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
  365. when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
  366. clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
  367. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
  368. clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
  369. Format: <string>
  370. Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
  371. with the name specified.
  372. Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
  373. the platform:
  374. [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
  375. [ACPI] acpi_pm
  376. [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
  377. pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
  378. [AVR32] avr32
  379. [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
  380. scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
  381. [MIPS] MIPS
  382. [PARISC] cr16
  383. [S390] tod
  384. [SH] SuperH
  385. [SPARC64] tick
  386. [X86-64] hpet,tsc
  387. clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
  388. Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
  389. include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h for the valid bit numbers.
  390. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
  391. stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
  392. ones should be.
  393. Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
  394. or using the feature without checking anything
  395. will still see it. This just prevents it from
  396. being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
  397. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
  398. some critical bits.
  399. code_bytes [IA32/X86_64] How many bytes of object code to print
  400. in an oops report.
  401. Range: 0 - 8192
  402. Default: 64
  403. hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
  404. Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
  405. disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
  406. force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
  407. VIA, nVidia)
  408. com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
  409. Format:
  410. <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
  411. com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
  412. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  413. com90xx= [HW,NET]
  414. ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
  415. Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
  416. condev= [HW,S390] console device
  417. conmode=
  418. console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
  419. tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
  420. ttyS<n>[,options]
  421. ttyUSB0[,options]
  422. Use the specified serial port. The options are of
  423. the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
  424. "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
  425. bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
  426. omit it). Default is "9600n8".
  427. See Documentation/serial-console.txt for more
  428. information. See
  429. Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
  430. alternative.
  431. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  432. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  433. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  434. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
  435. switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
  436. options are the same as for ttyS, above.
  437. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
  438. device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
  439. console=brl,ttyS0
  440. For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
  441. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
  442. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
  443. uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
  444. Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
  445. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
  446. The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
  447. no_console_suspend
  448. [HW] Never suspend the console
  449. Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
  450. hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
  451. messages can reach various consoles while the rest
  452. of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
  453. debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
  454. not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
  455. to work with serial and VGA consoles.
  456. cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
  457. Format:
  458. <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
  459. crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  460. [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
  461. hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
  462. crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
  463. [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
  464. in the running system. The syntax of range is
  465. start-[end] where start and end are both
  466. a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
  467. Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
  468. cs4232= [HW,OSS]
  469. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
  470. cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
  471. Format: <dma>
  472. cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
  473. Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
  474. dasd= [HW,NET]
  475. See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
  476. db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
  477. (one device per port)
  478. Format: <port#>,<type>
  479. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  480. debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
  481. debug_locks_verbose=
  482. [KNL] verbose self-tests
  483. Format=<0|1>
  484. Print debugging info while doing the locking API
  485. self-tests.
  486. We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
  487. 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
  488. only useful to kernel developers.
  489. debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
  490. debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
  491. decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
  492. Format: <area>[,<node>]
  493. See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
  494. vt.default_blu= [VT]
  495. Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
  496. Change the default blue palette of the console.
  497. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  498. ranging from 0-255.
  499. vt.default_grn= [VT]
  500. Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
  501. Change the default green palette of the console.
  502. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  503. ranging from 0-255.
  504. vt.default_red= [VT]
  505. Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
  506. Change the default red palette of the console.
  507. This is a 16-member array composed of values
  508. ranging from 0-255.
  509. vt.default_utf8=
  510. [VT]
  511. Format=<0|1>
  512. Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
  513. Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
  514. newly opened terminals.
  515. dhash_entries= [KNL]
  516. Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
  517. digi= [HW,SERIAL]
  518. IO parameters + enable/disable command.
  519. digiepca= [HW,SERIAL]
  520. See drivers/char/README.epca and
  521. Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt.
  522. disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  523. enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
  524. The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
  525. to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
  526. entry later. This parameter enables/disables that.
  527. mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  528. used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
  529. that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
  530. mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
  531. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
  532. Default is 1.
  533. Large value could prevent small alignment from
  534. using up MTRRs.
  535. mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
  536. Format: <integer>
  537. Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
  538. Default : 1
  539. Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
  540. Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
  541. disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
  542. By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
  543. memory out of your available memory pool based on
  544. MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
  545. possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
  546. dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers
  547. dscc4.setup= [NET]
  548. dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI]
  549. earlyprintk= [X86-32,X86-64,SH,BLACKFIN]
  550. earlyprintk=vga
  551. earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
  552. earlyprintk=dbgp
  553. Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
  554. takes over.
  555. Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time.
  556. Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
  557. Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
  558. very good.
  559. The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
  560. console.
  561. eata= [HW,SCSI]
  562. edd= [EDD]
  563. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
  564. eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
  565. See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
  566. elanfreq= [X86-32]
  567. See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
  568. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
  569. elevator= [IOSCHED]
  570. Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
  571. See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
  572. Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
  573. elfcorehdr= [IA64,PPC,SH,X86-32,X86_64]
  574. Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
  575. image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
  576. pass this option to capture kernel.
  577. See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
  578. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
  579. Format: {"0" | "1"}
  580. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  581. 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
  582. 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
  583. Default value is 0.
  584. Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
  585. es1371= [HW,OSS]
  586. Format: <spdif>,[<nomix>,[<amplifier>]]
  587. See also header of sound/oss/es1371.c.
  588. ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
  589. This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
  590. has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
  591. eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog.
  592. Format: <io>[,<irq>]
  593. failslab=
  594. fail_page_alloc=
  595. fail_make_request=[KNL]
  596. General fault injection mechanism.
  597. Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
  598. See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
  599. fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
  600. See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.
  601. fdomain= [HW,SCSI]
  602. See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c.
  603. floppy= [HW]
  604. See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
  605. force_pal_cache_flush
  606. [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
  607. buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
  608. parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
  609. ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
  610. ftrace=[tracer]
  611. [ftrace] will set and start the specified tracer
  612. as early as possible in order to facilitate early
  613. boot debugging.
  614. ftrace_dump_on_oops
  615. [ftrace] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
  616. gamecon.map[2|3]=
  617. [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
  618. support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
  619. Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
  620. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  621. gamma= [HW,DRM]
  622. gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
  623. Format: off | on
  624. default: on
  625. gdth= [HW,SCSI]
  626. See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
  627. gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
  628. invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT.
  629. gvp11= [HW,SCSI]
  630. hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
  631. are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
  632. for IA-64, off otherwise.
  633. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
  634. hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
  635. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
  636. Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
  637. highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
  638. size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
  639. highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
  640. size on bigger boxes.
  641. highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
  642. Valid parameters: "on", "off"
  643. Default: "on"
  644. hisax= [HW,ISDN]
  645. See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
  646. hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
  647. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
  648. On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
  649. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
  650. huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
  651. x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
  652. (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
  653. Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
  654. using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
  655. default_hugepagesz=
  656. [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
  657. HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
  658. the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
  659. default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
  660. Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
  661. if not specified.
  662. hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
  663. hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV Hypervisor console (HVC)
  664. back-ends. Valid parameters: 0..8
  665. i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
  666. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
  667. i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
  668. keyboard and cannot control its state
  669. (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
  670. i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
  671. i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
  672. i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
  673. for the AUX port
  674. i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
  675. controller
  676. i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
  677. controllers
  678. i8042.panicblink=
  679. [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
  680. when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
  681. i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
  682. i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
  683. i810= [HW,DRM]
  684. i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
  685. indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
  686. hardware.
  687. i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
  688. does not match list of supported models.
  689. i8k.power_status
  690. [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
  691. (disabled by default)
  692. i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
  693. capability is set.
  694. ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter
  695. See Documentation/mca.txt.
  696. icn= [HW,ISDN]
  697. Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
  698. ide= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  699. Format: ide=nodma or ide=doubler
  700. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  701. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed
  702. See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
  703. idle= [X86]
  704. Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
  705. Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
  706. of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
  707. run hot. Not recommended.
  708. idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
  709. to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
  710. loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
  711. as idle=poll.
  712. idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
  713. In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
  714. idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
  715. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
  716. Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
  717. ignore_loglevel [KNL]
  718. Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
  719. kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
  720. ihash_entries= [KNL]
  721. Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
  722. in2000= [HW,SCSI]
  723. See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c.
  724. init= [KNL]
  725. Format: <full_path>
  726. Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
  727. process.
  728. initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
  729. for working out where the kernel is dying during
  730. startup.
  731. initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
  732. inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
  733. Format: <irq>
  734. inttest= [IA64]
  735. iommu= [x86]
  736. off
  737. force
  738. noforce
  739. biomerge
  740. panic
  741. nopanic
  742. merge
  743. nomerge
  744. forcesac
  745. soft
  746. intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
  747. off
  748. Disable intel iommu driver.
  749. igfx_off [Default Off]
  750. By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
  751. device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
  752. bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
  753. this case, gfx device will use physical address for
  754. DMA.
  755. forcedac [x86_64]
  756. With this option iommu will not optimize to look
  757. for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
  758. address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
  759. than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
  760. for translation below 32 bit and if not available
  761. then look in the higher range.
  762. strict [Default Off]
  763. With this option on every unmap_single operation will
  764. result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
  765. to batching them for performance.
  766. io_delay= [X86-32,X86-64] I/O delay method
  767. 0x80
  768. Standard port 0x80 based delay
  769. 0xed
  770. Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
  771. udelay
  772. Simple two microseconds delay
  773. none
  774. No delay
  775. io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
  776. See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
  777. arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
  778. ip= [IP_PNP]
  779. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  780. ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards
  781. See comment before ip2_setup() in
  782. drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
  783. ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller
  784. See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c.
  785. ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
  786. Default is 21.
  787. Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
  788. may be specified.
  789. Format: <port>,<port>....
  790. irqfixup [HW]
  791. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  792. for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  793. firmware running.
  794. irqpoll [HW]
  795. When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
  796. for it. Also check all handlers each timer
  797. interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
  798. firmware running.
  799. isapnp= [ISAPNP]
  800. Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
  801. isolcpus= [KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
  802. Format:
  803. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
  804. or
  805. <cpu number>-<cpu number>
  806. (must be a positive range in ascending order)
  807. or a mixture
  808. <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
  809. This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
  810. to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
  811. algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
  812. "isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
  813. <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
  814. "number of CPUs in system - 1".
  815. This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
  816. alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
  817. tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
  818. suboptimal load balancer performance.
  819. iucv= [HW,NET]
  820. js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
  821. See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
  822. kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
  823. specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
  824. for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
  825. spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
  826. remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
  827. pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
  828. kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
  829. take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
  830. of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
  831. allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
  832. by the page migration subsystem. This means that
  833. HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
  834. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
  835. use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
  836. zone if it does not.
  837. movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
  838. is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
  839. amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
  840. If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
  841. then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
  842. value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
  843. is specified, the administrator must be careful
  844. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
  845. is not too small.
  846. keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
  847. kstack=N [X86-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack
  848. in oops dumps.
  849. kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
  850. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
  851. (only serial suported for now)
  852. Format: <serial_device>[,baud]
  853. kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
  854. Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
  855. Ethernet adapter MAC address.
  856. l2cr= [PPC]
  857. l3cr= [PPC]
  858. lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
  859. disabled it.
  860. lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
  861. C2 power state.
  862. libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
  863. libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
  864. libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
  865. libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
  866. libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
  867. Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
  868. for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
  869. libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
  870. when set.
  871. Format: <int>
  872. libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
  873. separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
  874. PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
  875. matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
  876. the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
  877. the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
  878. values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
  879. configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
  880. If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
  881. the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
  882. number of 0 either selects the first device or the
  883. first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
  884. select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
  885. host link and device attached to it.
  886. The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
  887. as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
  888. For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
  889. The following configurations can be forced.
  890. * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
  891. Any ID with matching PORT is used.
  892. * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
  893. * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
  894. udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
  895. allowed.
  896. * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
  897. * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
  898. and both resets.
  899. If there are multiple matching configurations changing
  900. the same attribute, the last one is used.
  901. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
  902. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  903. lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
  904. Format: <integer>
  905. lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
  906. Format: <integer>
  907. lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
  908. Format: <integer>
  909. lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
  910. Format: <integer>
  911. logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
  912. Format: <irq>
  913. loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
  914. console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
  915. also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
  916. loglevels are defined as follows:
  917. 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
  918. 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
  919. 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
  920. 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
  921. 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
  922. 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
  923. 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
  924. 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
  925. log_buf_len=n Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
  926. Format: { n | nk | nM }
  927. n must be a power of two. The default size
  928. is set in the kernel config file.
  929. logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
  930. This may be used to provide more screen space for
  931. kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
  932. kernel boot problems.
  933. lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
  934. lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
  935. lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
  936. lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
  937. specified in addition to the ports) causes
  938. attached printers to be reset. Using
  939. lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
  940. to associate lp devices with, starting with
  941. lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
  942. that lp device, or a parport name such as
  943. 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
  944. port specification list means that device IDs
  945. from each port should be examined, to see if
  946. an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
  947. so, the driver will manage that printer.
  948. See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
  949. lpj=n [KNL]
  950. Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
  951. time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
  952. CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
  953. the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
  954. autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
  955. on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
  956. which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
  957. significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
  958. will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
  959. unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
  960. unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
  961. hardware.
  962. ltpc= [NET]
  963. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
  964. mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format:
  965. <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags>
  966. machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
  967. (machvec) in a generic kernel.
  968. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
  969. max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
  970. be mounted
  971. Format: <1-256>
  972. maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
  973. should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the
  974. kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case,
  975. it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
  976. the IO APIC.
  977. max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than
  978. or equal to this physical address is ignored.
  979. max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe.
  980. Should be between 1 and 2^32-1.
  981. max_report_luns=
  982. [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received.
  983. Should be between 1 and 16384.
  984. mcatest= [IA-64]
  985. mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  986. mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
  987. md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
  988. See Documentation/md.txt.
  989. mdacon= [MDA]
  990. Format: <first>,<last>
  991. Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
  992. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
  993. Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
  994. to see the whole system memory or for test.
  995. [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
  996. address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
  997. could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
  998. mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
  999. memory.
  1000. memchunk=nn[KMG]
  1001. [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
  1002. per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
  1003. memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86-32,X86_64] Enable setting of an exact
  1004. E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
  1005. Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
  1006. BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
  1007. option description.
  1008. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
  1009. [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
  1010. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  1011. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
  1012. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
  1013. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  1014. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
  1015. [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
  1016. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
  1017. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
  1018. memmap=64K$0x18690000
  1019. or
  1020. memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
  1021. memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
  1022. Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
  1023. memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
  1024. Setting this option will scan the memory
  1025. looking for corruption. Enabling this will
  1026. both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
  1027. from using the memory being corrupted.
  1028. However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
  1029. repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
  1030. affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
  1031. to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
  1032. memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
  1033. By default it checks for corruption in the low
  1034. 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
  1035. use. Use this parameter to scan for
  1036. corruption in more or less memory.
  1037. memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
  1038. By default it checks for corruption every 60
  1039. seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
  1040. other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
  1041. memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
  1042. Format: <integer>
  1043. range: 0,4 : pattern number
  1044. default : 0 <disable>
  1045. meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
  1046. See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
  1047. mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
  1048. Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
  1049. platforms.
  1050. mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
  1051. the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
  1052. version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
  1053. problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
  1054. mga= [HW,DRM]
  1055. min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
  1056. physical address is ignored.
  1057. mminit_loglevel=
  1058. [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
  1059. parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
  1060. the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
  1061. of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
  1062. log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
  1063. so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
  1064. mousedev.tap_time=
  1065. [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
  1066. leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
  1067. a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
  1068. touchpads working in absolute mode only).
  1069. Format: <msecs>
  1070. mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
  1071. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1072. mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
  1073. reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
  1074. mpu401= [HW,OSS]
  1075. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1076. MTD_Partition= [MTD]
  1077. Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
  1078. MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
  1079. <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
  1080. mtdparts= [MTD]
  1081. See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
  1082. mtdset= [ARM]
  1083. ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
  1084. See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
  1085. mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
  1086. [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
  1087. ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
  1088. n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
  1089. NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI]
  1090. See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c.
  1091. ncr5380= [HW,SCSI]
  1092. ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI]
  1093. ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI]
  1094. ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI]
  1095. ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI]
  1096. netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
  1097. Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
  1098. Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
  1099. something different and driver-specific.
  1100. This usage is only documented in each driver source
  1101. file if at all.
  1102. nf_conntrack.acct=
  1103. [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
  1104. 0 to disable accounting
  1105. 1 to enable accounting
  1106. Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
  1107. going to be removed in 2.6.29.
  1108. nfsaddrs= [NFS]
  1109. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  1110. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
  1111. See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt.
  1112. nfs.callback_tcpport=
  1113. [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
  1114. channel should listen.
  1115. nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
  1116. [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
  1117. entries.
  1118. nfs.enable_ino64=
  1119. [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
  1120. If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
  1121. number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
  1122. of returning the full 64-bit number.
  1123. The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
  1124. nmi_debug= [KNL,AVR32] Specify one or more actions to take
  1125. when a NMI is triggered.
  1126. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
  1127. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32,X86-64] Debugging features for SMP kernels
  1128. Format: [panic,][num]
  1129. Valid num: 0,1,2
  1130. 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
  1131. 1 - use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
  1132. 2 - use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using
  1133. a performance counter. Note: This will use one performance
  1134. counter and the local APIC's performance vector.
  1135. When panic is specified panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs.
  1136. This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box
  1137. quickly up again.
  1138. Instead of 1 and 2 it is possible to use the following
  1139. symbolic names: lapic and ioapic
  1140. Example: nmi_watchdog=2 or nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic
  1141. no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
  1142. emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
  1143. is present.
  1144. noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
  1145. caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
  1146. but will impact performance.
  1147. noalign [KNL,ARM]
  1148. noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
  1149. IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
  1150. nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
  1151. on "Classic" PPC cores.
  1152. nocache [ARM]
  1153. nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
  1154. nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects.
  1155. nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
  1156. noefi [X86-32,X86-64] Disable EFI runtime services support.
  1157. noexec [IA-64]
  1158. noexec [X86-32,X86-64]
  1159. On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
  1160. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  1161. noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
  1162. noexec32 [X86-64]
  1163. This affects only 32-bit executables.
  1164. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
  1165. read doesn't imply executable mappings
  1166. noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
  1167. read implies executable mappings
  1168. nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
  1169. nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
  1170. register save and restore. The kernel will only save
  1171. legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
  1172. noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
  1173. nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
  1174. no-hlt [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt
  1175. instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
  1176. use it.
  1177. no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
  1178. only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
  1179. is to be setuid root or executed by root.
  1180. nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
  1181. function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
  1182. power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
  1183. interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
  1184. in certain environments such as networked servers or
  1185. real-time systems.
  1186. nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
  1187. Valid arguments: on, off
  1188. Default: on
  1189. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
  1190. disable unhandled interrupt sources.
  1191. no_timer_check [X86-32,X86_64,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
  1192. broken timer IRQ sources.
  1193. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
  1194. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
  1195. initial RAM disk.
  1196. nointroute [IA-64]
  1197. nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
  1198. nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
  1199. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
  1200. nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
  1201. x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
  1202. default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
  1203. supporting x2apic.
  1204. noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
  1205. lowmem mapping on PPC40x.
  1206. nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
  1207. nomce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
  1208. nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
  1209. Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
  1210. noreplace-paravirt [X86-32,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
  1211. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
  1212. with UP alternatives
  1213. noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
  1214. noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
  1215. space.
  1216. no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
  1217. This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
  1218. reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
  1219. nosbagart [IA-64]
  1220. nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
  1221. nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
  1222. and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
  1223. nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
  1224. nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
  1225. notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
  1226. nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
  1227. nowb [ARM]
  1228. nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
  1229. purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
  1230. SAL PALO.
  1231. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
  1232. one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
  1233. This can be set from sysctl after boot.
  1234. See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
  1235. nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
  1236. olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
  1237. Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
  1238. command is not properly ACKed, override the length
  1239. of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
  1240. waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
  1241. interrupts *may* be lost!
  1242. opl3= [HW,OSS]
  1243. Format: <io>
  1244. oprofile.timer= [HW]
  1245. Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
  1246. osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver
  1247. Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold>
  1248. See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
  1249. panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic
  1250. Format: <timeout>
  1251. parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
  1252. connected to, default is 0.
  1253. Format: <parport#>
  1254. parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
  1255. 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
  1256. Format: <mode>
  1257. parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
  1258. Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
  1259. Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
  1260. IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
  1261. ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
  1262. possible conflicts). You can specify the base
  1263. address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
  1264. should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
  1265. settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
  1266. (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
  1267. Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
  1268. are specified on the command line, starting
  1269. with parport0.
  1270. parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
  1271. Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
  1272. a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
  1273. computer where firmware has no options for setting
  1274. up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
  1275. Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
  1276. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
  1277. pas2= [HW,OSS] Format:
  1278. <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16>
  1279. pas16= [HW,SCSI]
  1280. See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c.
  1281. pause_on_oops=
  1282. Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
  1283. the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
  1284. your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
  1285. pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
  1286. pcd. [PARIDE]
  1287. See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
  1288. See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  1289. pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
  1290. off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
  1291. bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
  1292. the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
  1293. has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
  1294. nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
  1295. hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
  1296. if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
  1297. suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
  1298. conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
  1299. Mechanism 1.
  1300. conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration
  1301. Mechanism 2.
  1302. noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
  1303. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  1304. disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
  1305. nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
  1306. root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
  1307. nommconf [X86-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
  1308. Configuration
  1309. nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
  1310. enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
  1311. disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
  1312. noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
  1313. Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
  1314. should never be necessary.
  1315. ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
  1316. primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
  1317. boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
  1318. when the system masks IRQs.
  1319. noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
  1320. boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
  1321. a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
  1322. The opposite of ioapicreroute.
  1323. biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
  1324. routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
  1325. on several machines and they hang the machine
  1326. when used, but on other computers it's the only
  1327. way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
  1328. this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
  1329. IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
  1330. motherboard.
  1331. rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
  1332. Use with caution as certain devices share
  1333. address decoders between ROMs and other
  1334. resources.
  1335. norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
  1336. expansion ROMs that do not already have
  1337. BIOS assigned address ranges.
  1338. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
  1339. assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
  1340. make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
  1341. this way.
  1342. pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
  1343. of the PIRQ table (normally generated
  1344. by the BIOS) if it is outside the
  1345. F0000h-100000h range.
  1346. lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
  1347. useful if the kernel is unable to find your
  1348. secondary buses and you want to tell it
  1349. explicitly which ones they are.
  1350. assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
  1351. numbers ourselves, overriding
  1352. whatever the firmware may have done.
  1353. usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
  1354. in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
  1355. some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
  1356. some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
  1357. notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
  1358. IRQ routing is enabled.
  1359. noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
  1360. or for PCI scanning.
  1361. use_crs [X86] Use _CRS for PCI resource
  1362. allocation.
  1363. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
  1364. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
  1365. so this option is a temporary workaround
  1366. for broken drivers that don't call it.
  1367. skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
  1368. handle more pci cards
  1369. firmware [ARM] Do not re-enumerate the bus but instead
  1370. just use the configuration from the
  1371. bootloader. This is currently used on
  1372. IXP2000 systems where the bus has to be
  1373. configured a certain way for adjunct CPUs.
  1374. noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
  1375. This might help on some broken boards which
  1376. machine check when some devices' config space
  1377. is read. But various workarounds are disabled
  1378. and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
  1379. bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  1380. This sorting is done to get a device
  1381. order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
  1382. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
  1383. cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  1384. reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
  1385. The default value is 256 bytes.
  1386. cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
  1387. reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
  1388. window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
  1389. pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
  1390. Management.
  1391. off Disable ASPM.
  1392. force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
  1393. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
  1394. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
  1395. pd. [PARIDE]
  1396. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  1397. pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
  1398. boot time.
  1399. Format: { 0 | 1 }
  1400. See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
  1401. pf. [PARIDE]
  1402. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  1403. pg. [PARIDE]
  1404. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  1405. pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
  1406. See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
  1407. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
  1408. Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
  1409. See also Documentation/parport.txt.
  1410. pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
  1411. Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
  1412. e.g. pmtmr=0x508
  1413. pnp.debug [PNP]
  1414. Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
  1415. CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
  1416. pnpacpi= [ACPI]
  1417. { off }
  1418. pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
  1419. { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
  1420. pnp_reserve_irq=
  1421. [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
  1422. pnp_reserve_dma=
  1423. [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
  1424. pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
  1425. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
  1426. pnp_reserve_mem=
  1427. [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
  1428. autoconfiguration.
  1429. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
  1430. dynamic_printk
  1431. Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
  1432. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also
  1433. be switched on/off via <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
  1434. print-fatal-signals=
  1435. [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
  1436. print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
  1437. the kernel console.
  1438. default: off.
  1439. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
  1440. Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
  1441. profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
  1442. Format: [schedule,]<number>
  1443. Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
  1444. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
  1445. statistical time based profiling.
  1446. Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
  1447. Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
  1448. Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
  1449. processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
  1450. Limit processor to maximum C-state
  1451. max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
  1452. processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
  1453. Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
  1454. instead using the legacy FADT method
  1455. prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
  1456. before loading.
  1457. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1458. psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
  1459. probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
  1460. psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
  1461. per second.
  1462. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
  1463. Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
  1464. (0 = never).
  1465. psmouse.resolution=
  1466. [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
  1467. psmouse.smartscroll=
  1468. [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
  1469. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
  1470. pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614)
  1471. Format:
  1472. <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1473. pt. [PARIDE]
  1474. See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
  1475. pty.legacy_count=
  1476. [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
  1477. default number.
  1478. quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
  1479. r128= [HW,DRM]
  1480. raid= [HW,RAID]
  1481. See Documentation/md.txt.
  1482. ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM]
  1483. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1484. ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
  1485. See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
  1486. rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
  1487. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
  1488. in one batch.
  1489. rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
  1490. Set threshold of queued
  1491. RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
  1492. rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
  1493. Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
  1494. batch limiting is re-enabled.
  1495. rdinit= [KNL]
  1496. Format: <full_path>
  1497. Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
  1498. used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
  1499. reboot= [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
  1500. Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
  1501. See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
  1502. relax_domain_level=
  1503. [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
  1504. See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
  1505. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
  1506. reservetop= [X86-32]
  1507. Format: nn[KMG]
  1508. Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
  1509. address space.
  1510. reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
  1511. during initialization.
  1512. resume= [SWSUSP]
  1513. Specify the partition device for software suspend
  1514. resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
  1515. Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
  1516. given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
  1517. in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
  1518. See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
  1519. retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
  1520. rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  1521. Set number of hash buckets for route cache
  1522. riscom8= [HW,SERIAL]
  1523. Format: <io_board1>[,<io_board2>[,...<io_boardN>]]
  1524. ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
  1525. root= [KNL] Root filesystem
  1526. rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
  1527. mount the root filesystem
  1528. rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
  1529. rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
  1530. rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
  1531. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
  1532. (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
  1533. root_plug.vendor_id=
  1534. [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID
  1535. root_plug.product_id=
  1536. [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID
  1537. root_plug.debug=
  1538. [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output
  1539. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
  1540. S [KNL] Run init in single mode
  1541. sa1100ir [NET]
  1542. See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
  1543. sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
  1544. sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver
  1545. Format: <io>[,<timeout>[,<isapnp>]]
  1546. scsi_debug_*= [SCSI]
  1547. See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c.
  1548. scsi_default_dev_flags=
  1549. [SCSI] SCSI default device flags
  1550. Format: <integer>
  1551. scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model
  1552. Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags>
  1553. (flags are integer value)
  1554. scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels
  1555. See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also
  1556. settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level
  1557. (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level).
  1558. There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the
  1559. S390-tools package, available for download at
  1560. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html
  1561. scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
  1562. discovered. async scans them in kernel threads,
  1563. allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting
  1564. user space to do the scan.
  1565. selinux [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
  1566. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1567. See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
  1568. 0 -- disable.
  1569. 1 -- enable.
  1570. Default value is set via kernel config option.
  1571. If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
  1572. later to disable prior to initial policy load.
  1573. selinux_compat_net =
  1574. [SELINUX] Set initial selinux_compat_net flag value.
  1575. Format: { "0" | "1" }
  1576. 0 -- use new secmark-based packet controls
  1577. 1 -- use legacy packet controls
  1578. Default value is 0 (preferred).
  1579. Value can be changed at runtime via
  1580. /selinux/compat_net.
  1581. serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
  1582. shapers= [NET]
  1583. Maximal number of shapers.
  1584. show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings
  1585. Format: { <integer> }
  1586. Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
  1587. The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
  1588. for example 1 means boot CPU only.
  1589. sim710= [SCSI,HW]
  1590. See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c.
  1591. simeth= [IA-64]
  1592. simscsi=
  1593. slram= [HW,MTD]
  1594. slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
  1595. Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
  1596. culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
  1597. slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
  1598. may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
  1599. last alloc / free. For more information see
  1600. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1601. slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
  1602. Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
  1603. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
  1604. fragmentation. For more information see
  1605. Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1606. slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
  1607. The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
  1608. increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
  1609. generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
  1610. the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
  1611. of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
  1612. and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
  1613. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1614. slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
  1615. Determines the mininum page order for slabs. Must be
  1616. lower than slub_max_order.
  1617. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1618. slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
  1619. Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
  1620. necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
  1621. allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
  1622. merging on their own.
  1623. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
  1624. smart2= [HW]
  1625. Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
  1626. smp-alt-once [X86-32,SMP] On a hotplug CPU system, only
  1627. attempt to substitute SMP alternatives once at boot.
  1628. smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
  1629. smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
  1630. smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
  1631. smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
  1632. smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
  1633. smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
  1634. smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
  1635. 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
  1636. 1: Fast pin select (default)
  1637. 2: ATC IRMode
  1638. snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA]
  1639. snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA]
  1640. snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA]
  1641. snd-als100= [HW,ALSA]
  1642. snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA]
  1643. snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA]
  1644. snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA]
  1645. snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA]
  1646. snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
  1647. snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA]
  1648. snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA]
  1649. snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA]
  1650. snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1651. snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA]
  1652. snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA]
  1653. snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA]
  1654. snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA]
  1655. snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA]
  1656. snd-es968= [HW,ALSA]
  1657. snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA]
  1658. snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1659. snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA]
  1660. snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA]
  1661. snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA]
  1662. snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA]
  1663. snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA]
  1664. snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA]
  1665. snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA]
  1666. snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA]
  1667. snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA]
  1668. snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA]
  1669. snd-interwave-stb=
  1670. [HW,ALSA]
  1671. snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA]
  1672. snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA]
  1673. snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA]
  1674. snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA]
  1675. snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA]
  1676. snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA]
  1677. snd-opti92x-ad1848=
  1678. [HW,ALSA]
  1679. snd-opti92x-cs4231=
  1680. [HW,ALSA]
  1681. snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA]
  1682. snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA]
  1683. snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA]
  1684. snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA]
  1685. snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA]
  1686. snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA]
  1687. snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA]
  1688. snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA]
  1689. snd-serial= [HW,ALSA]
  1690. snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA]
  1691. snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA]
  1692. snd-sun-amd7930=
  1693. [HW,ALSA]
  1694. snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA]
  1695. snd-trident= [HW,ALSA]
  1696. snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB]
  1697. snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA]
  1698. snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA]
  1699. snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA]
  1700. snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA]
  1701. softlockup_panic=
  1702. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
  1703. sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
  1704. See Documentation/sonypi.txt
  1705. specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
  1706. See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
  1707. spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
  1708. spia_fio_base=
  1709. spia_pedr=
  1710. spia_peddr=
  1711. sscape= [HW,OSS]
  1712. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1713. st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
  1714. See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.
  1715. stacktrace [FTRACE]
  1716. Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
  1717. sti= [PARISC,HW]
  1718. Format: <num>
  1719. Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
  1720. machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
  1721. as the initial boot-console.
  1722. See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  1723. sti_font= [HW]
  1724. See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
  1725. stifb= [HW]
  1726. Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
  1727. sunrpc.pool_mode=
  1728. [NFS]
  1729. Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
  1730. service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
  1731. you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
  1732. option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
  1733. Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
  1734. NFS server is running.
  1735. auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
  1736. automatically using heuristics
  1737. global a single global pool contains all CPUs
  1738. percpu one pool for each CPU
  1739. pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
  1740. to global on non-NUMA machines)
  1741. swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
  1742. switches= [HW,M68k]
  1743. sym53c416= [HW,SCSI]
  1744. See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c.
  1745. sysrq_always_enabled
  1746. [KNL]
  1747. Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
  1748. neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
  1749. Useful for debugging.
  1750. t128= [HW,SCSI]
  1751. See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c.
  1752. tdfx= [HW,DRM]
  1753. test_suspend= [SUSPEND]
  1754. Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
  1755. standby suspend) as the system sleep state to briefly
  1756. enter during system startup. The system is woken from
  1757. this state using a wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
  1758. thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
  1759. Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
  1760. thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
  1761. -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
  1762. <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
  1763. thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
  1764. -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
  1765. <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
  1766. thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
  1767. Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
  1768. critical and hot trip points.
  1769. thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
  1770. 1: disable ACPI thermal control
  1771. thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
  1772. -1: disable all passive trip points
  1773. <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
  1774. thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
  1775. Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
  1776. <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
  1777. 0: no polling (default)
  1778. tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
  1779. See comment before function dc390_setup() in
  1780. drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
  1781. topology= [S390]
  1782. Format: {off | on}
  1783. Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
  1784. topology informations if the hardware supports these.
  1785. The scheduler will make use of these informations and
  1786. e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
  1787. Default is off.
  1788. tp720= [HW,PS2]
  1789. trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro
  1790. Format:
  1791. <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq>
  1792. tsc= Disable clocksource-must-verify flag for TSC.
  1793. Format: <string>
  1794. [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
  1795. disables clocksource verification at runtime.
  1796. Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
  1797. hardware, and in virtualized environment.
  1798. turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
  1799. TurboGraFX parallel port interface
  1800. Format:
  1801. <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
  1802. See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
  1803. u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter
  1804. See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c.
  1805. uart401= [HW,OSS]
  1806. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1807. uart6850= [HW,OSS]
  1808. Format: <io>,<irq>
  1809. uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
  1810. [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
  1811. Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
  1812. bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
  1813. anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
  1814. Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
  1815. reported either.
  1816. unknown_nmi_panic
  1817. [X86-32,X86-64]
  1818. Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot.
  1819. usbcore.autosuspend=
  1820. [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
  1821. for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
  1822. is the time required before an idle device will be
  1823. autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
  1824. to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
  1825. usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
  1826. [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
  1827. usbcore.blinkenlights=
  1828. [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
  1829. usbcore.old_scheme_first=
  1830. [USB] Start with the old device initialization
  1831. scheme (default 0 = off).
  1832. usbcore.use_both_schemes=
  1833. [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
  1834. if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
  1835. usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
  1836. [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
  1837. USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
  1838. (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
  1839. usbhid.mousepoll=
  1840. [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
  1841. add_efi_memmap [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
  1842. kernel's map of available physical RAM.
  1843. vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
  1844. vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
  1845. vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
  1846. vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
  1847. vdso32= [X86-32,X86-64]
  1848. vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
  1849. vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
  1850. vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
  1851. vector= [IA-64,SMP]
  1852. vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
  1853. video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
  1854. See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
  1855. vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
  1856. See Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt and
  1857. Documentation/svga.txt.
  1858. Use vga=ask for menu.
  1859. This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
  1860. passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
  1861. vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
  1862. size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
  1863. minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
  1864. decrease the size and leave more room for directly
  1865. mapped kernel RAM.
  1866. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
  1867. Format: <command>
  1868. vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
  1869. Format: <command>
  1870. vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
  1871. Format: <command>
  1872. waveartist= [HW,OSS]
  1873. Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>
  1874. wd33c93= [HW,SCSI]
  1875. See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c.
  1876. wd7000= [HW,SCSI]
  1877. See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c.
  1878. wdt= [WDT] Watchdog
  1879. See Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt.
  1880. xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks.
  1881. xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.
  1882. xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
  1883. Format:
  1884. <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
  1885. norandmaps Don't use address space randomization
  1886. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
  1887. ______________________________________________________________________
  1888. TODO:
  1889. Add documentation for ALSA options.
  1890. Add more DRM drivers.