ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
APIC APIC support is enabled.
APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
+ ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
+ EVM Extended Verification Module
FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
+ FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
MCA MCA bus support is enabled.
MDA MDA console support is enabled.
+ MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
- FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
More X86-64 boot options can be found in
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
- X86 Either 32bit or 64bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
+ X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
XEN Xen support is enabled
In addition, the following text indicates that the option:
rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
- See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+ See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
+
+ acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
+ Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
+ on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
+ second kernel for kdump.
acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
Format: <int>
For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
- Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
+ Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s3_leds, s4_nohwsig,
old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
s3_bios and s3_mode.
s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
+ s3_leds is for debugging; it flashes the keyboard LEDs
+ 3 times as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is
+ called.
s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
used during resume from hibernation.
old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
- amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84]
+ align_va_addr= [X86-64]
+ Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
+ allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
+ gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
+ machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
+ CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
+ a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
+
+ 32: only for 32-bit processes
+ 64: only for 64-bit processes
+ on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+ off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+
+ amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
Possible values are:
fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
Format: <a>,<b>
- See also Documentation/kernel/input/joystick.txt
+ See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
Use software keyboard repeat
- autotest [IA64]
+ autotest [IA-64]
baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
Format: <io>,<mode>
bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
kernel args too.
bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
- bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
+ bttv.tuner=
bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
+ cpufreq_driver= [X86] Allow only the named cpu frequency scaling driver
+ to register. Example: cpufreq_driver=powernow-k8
+ Format: { none | STRING }
+
+ cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
+ disable the cpuidle sub-system
+
cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
Format:
<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
The filter can be disabled or changed to another
driver later using sysfs.
+ drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>
+ Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may
+ send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter
+ allows to specify an EDID data set in the
+ /lib/firmware directory that is used instead.
+ Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
+ edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
+ edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
+ and no file with the same name exists. Details and
+ instructions how to build your own EDID data are
+ available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
+ data set will only be used for a particular connector,
+ if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
+ name.
+
dscc4.setup= [NET]
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
- MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8bit (mmio)
- or 32bit (mmio32).
+ MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
+ (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
elevator= [IOSCHED]
Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
- See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
+ See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
- elfcorehdr= [IA64,PPC,SH,X86]
+ elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
- image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
- pass this option to capture kernel.
+ image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
+ kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
+ evm= [EVM]
+ Format: { "fix" }
+ Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
+ current integrity status.
+
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
fail_make_request=[KNL]
General fault injection mechanism.
Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
- See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
+ See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
floppy= [HW]
See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
list of functions. This list can be changed at run
time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
- tracing directory.
+ tracing directory.
ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
- for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise.
+ for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
ignore_loglevel [KNL]
Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
+ We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
+ could change it dynamically, usually by
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
ihash_entries= [KNL]
Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
DMA.
forcedac [x86_64]
With this option iommu will not optimize to look
- for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
+ for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
- than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
- for translation below 32 bit and if not available
+ than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
+ for translation below 32-bit and if not available
then look in the higher range.
strict [Default Off]
With this option on every unmap_single operation will
has the capability. With this option, super page will
not be supported.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
- Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
off disable Interrupt Remapping
nosid disable Source ID checking
+ no_x2apic_optout
+ BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
- inttest= [IA64]
+ inttest= [IA-64]
iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
strict regions from userspace.
nomerge
forcesac
soft
- pt [x86, IA64]
+ pt [x86, IA-64]
io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
for all guests.
- Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64bit or 32bit-PAE mode
+ Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
Default is 1 (enabled)
+ kvm-intel.nested=
+ [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
+ Default is 0 (disabled)
+
kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
- libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
+ libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
-
+
libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
ltpc= [NET]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
- machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
+ machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables
the IO APIC.
- max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can
- be mounted
- Format: <1-256>
+ max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
+ (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
+ number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
+ of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
+ devices can be requested on-demand with the
+ /dev/loop-control interface.
mcatest= [IA-64]
debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+ To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+ console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+ it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+ turn on/off it dynamically.
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
nointroute [IA-64]
- nojitter [IA64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
+ nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines.
+ nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND
+ instruction even if it is supported by the
+ processor. RDRAND is still available to user
+ space applications.
+
noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
space.
nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
- nptcg= [IA64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
+ nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
SAL PALO.
See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
- seconds before rebooting
+ timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
+ timeout = 0: wait forever
+ timeout < 0: reboot immediately
Format: <timeout>
parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
See also Documentation/parport.txt.
- pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
+ pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
e.g. pmtmr=0x508
- pnp.debug [PNP]
- Enable PNP debug messages. This depends on the
- CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option.
+ pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
+ Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
+ CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
+ via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
+ current resource usage; turning this on also shows
+ possible settings and some assignment information.
pnpacpi= [ACPI]
{ off }
default: off.
+ printk.always_kmsg_dump=
+ Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
+ panics
+ Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
+ default: disabled
+
printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
+ pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
+
pt. [PARIDE]
See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
+ resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
+ read the resume files
+
+ resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
+ Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
+ (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+
hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
present during boot.
ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
root= [KNL] Root filesystem
+ See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
mount the root filesystem
Format: <integer>
sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
- See Documentation/sonypi.txt
+ See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter
See Documentation/serial/specialix.txt.
medium is write-protected).
Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
+ user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
+ Format: <int>
+ See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
+ 1 - undefined instruction events
+ 2 - system calls
+ 4 - invalid data aborts
+ 8 - SIGSEGV faults
+ 16 - SIGBUS faults
+ Example: user_debug=31
+
userpte=
[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
Format: <command>
+ vsyscall= [X86-64]
+ Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
+ fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
+ code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
+ versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
+ functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
+ targets for exploits that can control RIP.
+
+ emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
+ reasonably safely.
+
+ native [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall
+ instructions.
+ This is a little bit faster than trapping
+ and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
+ better than they would in emulation mode.
+ It also makes exploits much easier to write.
+
+ none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
+ them quite hard to use for exploits but
+ might break your system.
+
vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
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