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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d9239d5f3ad3..2c85c0692b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ parameter is applicable: MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NUMA NUMA support is enabled. - GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. OSS OSS sound support is enabled. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. @@ -89,8 +88,8 @@ parameter is applicable: RAM RAM disk support is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. - A lot of drivers has their options described inside of - Documentation/scsi/. + A lot of drivers have their options described inside + the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory. SECURITY Different security models are enabled. SELINUX SELinux support is enabled. APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled. @@ -116,6 +115,7 @@ parameter is applicable: 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) + XEN Xen support is enabled In addition, the following text indicates that the option: @@ -281,36 +281,17 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, no further checks are performed. - ad1848= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<type> - add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in kernel's map of available physical RAM. - advansys= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. - - aedsp16= [HW,OSS] Audio Excel DSP 16 - Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mss_io>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> - See also header of sound/oss/aedsp16.c. - agp= [AGP] { off | try_unsupported } off: disable AGP support try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets (may crash computer or cause data corruption) - aha152x= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt. - - aha1542= [HW,SCSI] - Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]] - - aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt. - - aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] - See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. + ALSA [HW,ALSA] + See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt alignment= [KNL,ARM] Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler @@ -372,8 +353,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse - atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI - atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, EzKey and similar keyboards @@ -423,10 +402,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file bttv.pll= See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST - BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] - See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function - BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions(). - c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. @@ -469,7 +444,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } - clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource + clocksource= Override the default clocksource Format: <string> Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource with the name specified. @@ -656,8 +631,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. - dmasound= [HW,OSS] Sound subsystem buffers - dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, this option disables the debugging code at boot. @@ -677,8 +650,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file dscc4.setup= [NET] - dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] - dynamic_printk Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also be switched on/off via @@ -687,8 +658,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,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). The options are the same as for ttyS, above. earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN] @@ -716,8 +690,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file This is desgined to be used in conjunction with the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga - eata= [HW,SCSI] - edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} @@ -773,12 +745,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> See also /Documentation/fault-injection/. - fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. - - fdomain= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c. - floppy= [HW] See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt. @@ -838,14 +804,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated debugfs files are removed at module unload time. - gdth= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c. - gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. - gvp11= [HW,SCSI] - hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise. @@ -918,9 +879,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file controller i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX controllers - i8042.panicblink= - [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink - when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec) i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock @@ -937,9 +895,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN capability is set. - ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter - See Documentation/mca.txt. - icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] @@ -989,9 +944,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files opened for read by uid=0. - in2000= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. - init= [KNL] Format: <full_path> Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init @@ -1029,6 +981,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed to batching them for performance. + intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] + Format: { on (default) | off | nosid } + on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) + off disable Interrupt Remapping + nosid disable Source ID checking + inttest= [IA64] iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory @@ -1069,9 +1027,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c. - ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller - See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. - irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -1144,9 +1099,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). - Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] - keyboard only format: kbd - keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] + Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] + keyboard only format: kbd + keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] + Optional Kernel mode setting: + kms, kbd format: kms,kbd + kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. @@ -1344,9 +1302,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ltpc= [NET] Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma> - mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format: - <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> - machvec= [IA64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector (machvec) in a generic kernel. Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb @@ -1368,13 +1323,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file be mounted Format: <1-256> - max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. - Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. - - max_report_luns= - [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. - Should be between 1 and 16384. - mcatest= [IA-64] mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception @@ -1524,9 +1472,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. - mpu401= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq> - MTD_Partition= [MTD] Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> @@ -1574,19 +1519,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card - NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c. - - ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] - - ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] - netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean @@ -1755,6 +1687,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt remapping. + [Deprecated - use intremap=off] nointroute [IA-64] @@ -1812,6 +1745,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem + nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector. + nowb [ARM] nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode. @@ -1849,9 +1784,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file For example, to override I2C bus2: omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 - opl3= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io> - oprofile.timer= [HW] Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters @@ -1863,9 +1795,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the CPU specific event set. - osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver - Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold> - See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt. + OSS [HW,OSS] + See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic Format: <timeout> @@ -1899,12 +1830,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] - pas2= [HW,OSS] Format: - <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma16>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<sb_dma16> - - pas16= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. - pause_on_oops= Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if @@ -1970,6 +1895,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file norom [X86] Do not assign address space to expansion ROMs that do not already have BIOS assigned address ranges. + nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the + BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards @@ -2171,10 +2098,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). - pss= [HW,OSS] Personal Sound System (ECHO ESC614) - Format: - <io>,<mss_io>,<mss_irq>,<mss_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> - pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. @@ -2273,30 +2196,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. - scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] - See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. - - scsi_default_dev_flags= - [SCSI] SCSI default device flags - Format: <integer> - - scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model - Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags> - (flags are integer value) - - scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels - See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also - settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level - (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level). - There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the - S390-tools package, available for download at - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html - - scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are - discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, - allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting - user space to do the scan. - security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot. If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first security module asking for security registration will be @@ -2330,9 +2229,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, for example 1 means boot CPU only. - sim710= [SCSI,HW] - See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. - simeth= [IA-64] simscsi= @@ -2390,128 +2286,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file 1: Fast pin select (default) 2: ATC IRMode - snd-ad1816a= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ad1848= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ali5451= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-als100= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-als4000= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-azt2320= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cmi8330= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cmipci= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cs4231= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cs4232= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cs4236= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cs4281= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-cs46xx= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-dt019x= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-dummy= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-emu10k1= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ens1370= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ens1371= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-es968= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-es1688= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-es18xx= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-es1938= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-es1968= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-fm801= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-gusclassic= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-gusextreme= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-gusmax= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-hdsp= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ice1712= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-intel8x0= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-interwave= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-interwave-stb= - [HW,ALSA] - - snd-korg1212= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-maestro3= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-mpu401= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-mtpav= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-nm256= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-opl3sa2= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-opti92x-ad1848= - [HW,ALSA] - - snd-opti92x-cs4231= - [HW,ALSA] - - snd-opti93x= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-pmac= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-rme32= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-rme96= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-rme9652= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sb8= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sb16= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sbawe= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-serial= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sgalaxy= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sonicvibes= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sun-amd7930= - [HW,ALSA] - - snd-sun-cs4231= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-trident= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-usb-audio= [HW,ALSA,USB] - - snd-via82xx= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-virmidi= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-wavefront= [HW,ALSA] - - snd-ymfpci= [HW,ALSA] - softlockup_panic= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. @@ -2526,12 +2300,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file spia_pedr= spia_peddr= - sscape= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> - - st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.) - See Documentation/scsi/st.txt. - stacktrace [FTRACE] Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. @@ -2589,18 +2357,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file switches= [HW,M68k] - sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c. - sysrq_always_enabled [KNL] Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. Useful for debugging. - t128= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c. - tdfx= [HW,DRM] test_suspend= [SUSPEND] @@ -2637,10 +2399,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 0: no polling (default) - tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] - See comment before function dc390_setup() in - drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. - topology= [S390] Format: {off | on} Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu @@ -2668,10 +2426,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to facilitate early boot debugging. See also Documentation/trace/events.txt - trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro - Format: - <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> - tsc= Disable clocksource-must-verify flag for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this @@ -2685,15 +2439,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt - u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter - See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c. - - uart401= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq> - - uart6850= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq> - uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections @@ -2859,15 +2604,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide cursors, 1 will display them. - waveartist= [HW,OSS] - Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2> - - wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. - - wd7000= [HW,SCSI] - See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. - watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt or other driver-specific files in the @@ -2886,6 +2622,16 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks. xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c. + xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN] + Unplug Xen emulated devices + Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] + ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices + aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices + nics -- unplug network devices + all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) + ignore -- continue loading the Xen platform PCI driver even + if the version check failed + xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] Format: <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] @@ -2894,5 +2640,4 @@ ______________________________________________________________________ TODO: - Add documentation for ALSA options. Add more DRM drivers. |