X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkernel-parameters.txt;h=839b21b0699ac10a1991c47455cddd05ced6491b;hb=f7fc97adb1efd51609d965ba76d559f7daef4262;hp=332fe3b47e0c9a2a98e861c17ef5dcba90c6cc50;hpb=c84d6efd363a3948eb32ec40d46bab6338580454;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 332fe3b..839b21b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ parameter is applicable: IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled. IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled. IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. + IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. @@ -240,7 +241,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, - old_ordering, s4_nonvs } + old_ordering, s4_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 @@ -253,6 +254,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file of _PTS is used by default). s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the ACPI NVS memory during hibernation. + sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly + on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, + but some broken systems don't work without it). acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards @@ -308,14 +312,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. + alignment= [KNL,ARM] + Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler + behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, + bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. + amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84] Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. Possible values are: - isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far - as possible, will get its own protection - domain) [default] - share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the - same protection domain fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when they are unmapped. Otherwise they are flushed before they will be reused, which @@ -344,6 +348,18 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Change the amount of debugging information output when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. + autoconf= [IPV6] + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + + show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal + number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible + to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. + Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. + The parameter valid if only apic=debug or + apic=verbose is specified. + Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all + apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. @@ -617,6 +633,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See drivers/char/README.epca and Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt. + disable= [IPV6] + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + + disable_ipv6= [IPV6] + See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB @@ -778,6 +800,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. + ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] + [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced + by the function graph tracer at boot up. + function-list is a comma separated list of functions + that can be changed at run time by the + set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) @@ -1016,7 +1045,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file No delay ip= [IP_PNP] - See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. ip2= [HW] Set IO/IRQ pairs for up to 4 IntelliPort boards See comment before ip2_setup() in @@ -1165,7 +1194,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is - PORT[:DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers + PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE @@ -1537,10 +1566,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file going to be removed in 2.6.29. nfsaddrs= [NFS] - See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. - See Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt. + See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt. nfs.callback_tcpport= [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback @@ -1710,6 +1739,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). + nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of + pagetables) support. + norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space @@ -1753,6 +1785,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or SAL PALO. + nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel + could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to + supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not + use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online. + just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n + nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. @@ -1771,6 +1809,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high interrupts *may* be lost! + omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. + Format: ... + For example, to override I2C bus2: + omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 + opl3= [HW,OSS] Format: @@ -1915,8 +1958,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file IRQ routing is enabled. noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing or for PCI scanning. - use_crs [X86] Use _CRS for PCI resource - allocation. + use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information + from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this + is enabled by default. If you need to use this, + please report a bug. + nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. + If you need to use this, please report a bug. routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), so this option is a temporary workaround @@ -1965,6 +2012,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. + pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: + off Do not use native PCIe PME signaling. + force Use native PCIe PME signaling even if the BIOS refuses + to allow the kernel to control the relevant PCIe config + registers. + nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes + all PCIe root ports use INTx for everything). + pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 pd. [PARIDE] @@ -2031,8 +2086,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals - print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to - the kernel console. + + If enabled, warn about various signal handling + related application anomalies: too many signals, + too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a + coredump - etc. + + If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, + you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". + default: off. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line @@ -2172,6 +2234,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter + sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + sc1200wdt= [HW,WDT] SC1200 WDT (watchdog) driver Format: [,[,]] @@ -2580,6 +2644,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file uart6850= [HW,OSS] Format: , + uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] + Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections + uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of @@ -2635,6 +2702,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes of sense data); + b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 + bytes of sense data); c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported device capacity by one sector); h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the @@ -2656,6 +2725,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file medium is write-protected). Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc + userpte= + [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. + + nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in + HIGHMEM regardless of setting + of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. + vdso= [X86,SH] vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO) vdso=1: enable VDSO (default) @@ -2694,6 +2770,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. Format: + vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. + Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as + the parameters of the [?A;B;Cc escape sequence; + see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. + vt.default_blu= [VT] Format: ,,,..., Change the default blue palette of the console. @@ -2719,6 +2800,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all newly opened terminals. + vt.global_cursor_default= + [VT] + Format=<-1|0|1> + Set system-wide default for whether a cursor + is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, + i.e. cursors will be created by default unless + overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide + cursors, 1 will display them. + waveartist= [HW,OSS] Format: ,,, @@ -2735,6 +2825,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file default x2apic cluster mode on platforms supporting x2apic. + x86_mrst_timer= [X86-32,APBT] + Choose timer option for x86 Moorestown MID platform. + Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer + plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer. + x86_mrst_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt + xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks. xd_geo= See header of drivers/block/xd.c.