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docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bit The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something better than an unordered blob of files. This is a first step in that direction. The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them. One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use :numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that. Eventually we probably want to group the documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC, but it's probably early to do that. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27 06:14:52 +08:00
The kernel's command-line parameters
====================================
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx 1) __setup() is messy, prefer module_param and core_param. 2) Document -- 3) Document modprobe scraping /proc/cmdline. 4) Document handing of leftover parameters to init. 5) Document use of quotes to protect whitespace. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-05-14 09:03:45 +08:00
The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as
implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros
and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all
punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive
manner), and with descriptions where known.
The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";
if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the
parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's
environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
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2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.::
Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx 1) __setup() is messy, prefer module_param and core_param. 2) Document -- 3) Document modprobe scraping /proc/cmdline. 4) Document handing of leftover parameters to init. 5) Document use of quotes to protect whitespace. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-05-14 09:03:45 +08:00
(kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
(modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
Parameters for modules which are built into the kernel need to be
specified on the kernel command line. modprobe looks through the
kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) and collects module parameters
when it loads a module, so the kernel command line can be used for
loadable modules too.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup Adjust the file for it to be parsed by Sphinx: - adjust the document title to be parsed; - use :: for quote blocks; - fix the horizontal bar markup; - lower case the TODO title. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so::
doc: small kernel-parameters updates Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-07 07:02:58 +08:00
log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1
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2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
can also be entered as::
doc: small kernel-parameters updates Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-07 07:02:58 +08:00
log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup Adjust the file for it to be parsed by Sphinx: - adjust the document title to be parsed; - use :: for quote blocks; - fix the horizontal bar markup; - lower case the TODO title. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.::
Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx 1) __setup() is messy, prefer module_param and core_param. 2) Document -- 3) Document modprobe scraping /proc/cmdline. 4) Document handing of leftover parameters to init. 5) Document use of quotes to protect whitespace. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-05-14 09:03:45 +08:00
param="spaces in here"
doc: small kernel-parameters updates Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-07 07:02:58 +08:00
lib/bitmap.c: enhance bitmap syntax Today there are platforms with many CPUs (up to 4K). Trying to boot only part of the CPUs may result in too long string. For example lets take NPS platform that is part of arch/arc. This platform have SMP system with 256 cores each with 16 HW threads (SMT machine) where HW thread appears as CPU to the kernel. In this example there is total of 4K CPUs. When one tries to boot only part of the HW threads from each core the string representing the map may be long... For example if for sake of performance we decided to boot only first half of HW threads of each core the map will look like: 0-7,16-23,32-39,...,4080-4087 This patch introduce new syntax to accommodate with such use case. I added an optional postfix to a range of CPUs which will choose according to given modulo the desired range of reminders i.e.: <cpus range>:sed_size/group_size For example, above map can be described in new syntax like this: 0-4095:8/16 Note that this patch is backward compatible with current syntax. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework documentation] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473579629-4283-1-git-send-email-noamca@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Cc: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-12 04:51:35 +08:00
cpu lists:
----------
Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g. isolcpus,
nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs. The format of this list is:
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
or
<cpu number>-<cpu number>
(must be a positive range in ascending order)
or a mixture
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
group:
<cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 07:43:18 +08:00
This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these
parameters may be changed at runtime by the command
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2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
``echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}``.
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 07:43:18 +08:00
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: slightly reword sentence about restrictions The previous patch somewhat diverted the train of thought. Here I am trying to bring the valued reader back on track. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 07:44:30 +08:00
The parameters listed below are only valid if certain kernel build options were
enabled and if respective hardware is present. The text in square brackets at
the beginning of each description states the restrictions within which a
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parameter is applicable::
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
ACPI ACPI support is enabled.
AGP: document boot options Add documentation for AGP boot options. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-07-27 08:46:20 +08:00
AGP AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
ALSA ALSA sound support is enabled.
APIC APIC support is enabled.
APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt: - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64" - remove trailing whitespace - use hyphen in 32-bit etc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-14 03:34:52 +08:00
ARM ARM architecture is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
Blackfin arch: Initial patch to add earlyprintk support This allows debugging of problems which happen eary in the kernel boot process (after bootargs are parsed, but before serial subsystem is fully initialized) Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-09 17:24:49 +08:00
BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
clk: add clk_ignore_unused option to keep boot clocks on This is primarily useful when there's a driver that doesn't claim clocks properly, but the bootloader leaves them on. It's not expected to be used in normal cases, but for bringup and debug it's very useful to have the option to not gate unclaimed clocks that are still on. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org> [mturquette@linaro.org: fixed up trivial merge issue]
2013-04-28 05:10:18 +08:00
CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc support Add remoteproc platform device for controlling the DSP on da8xx. The patch uses CMA-based reservation of physical memory block for DSP use. A new kernel command-line parameter has been added to allow boot-time specification of the physical memory block. Signed-off-by: Robert Tivy <rtivy@ti.com> [nsekhar@ti.com: edit commit message for readability and style improvements] Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
2013-03-29 09:41:46 +08:00
CMA Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
Documentation: Fix kernel parameter ordering A B C D E ... Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-25 22:18:38 +08:00
DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled.
evm: permit only valid security.evm xattrs to be updated In addition to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN permission to modify/delete security.evm, prohibit invalid security.evm xattrs from changing, unless in fixmode. This patch prevents inadvertent 'fixing' of security.evm to reflect offline modifications. Changelog v7: - rename boot paramater 'evm_mode' to 'evm' Reported-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-13 06:33:20 +08:00
EVM Extended Verification Module
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
FB The frame buffer device is enabled.
Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt: - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64" - remove trailing whitespace - use hyphen in 32-bit etc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-14 03:34:52 +08:00
FTRACE Function tracing enabled.
gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 07:28:08 +08:00
GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
HW Appropriate hardware is enabled.
IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled.
integrity: IMA hooks This patch replaces the generic integrity hooks, for which IMA registered itself, with IMA integrity hooks in the appropriate places directly in the fs directory. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-04 22:06:57 +08:00
IMA Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
IOSCHED More than one I/O scheduler is enabled.
[PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix a typo Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 04:58:33 +08:00
IP_PNP IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
doc: document IPv6 parameters Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters. Reported by <greg@enjellic.com>. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-05 05:36:50 +08:00
IPV6 IPv6 support is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API. Merge in the kdb shell information. [Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections] CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-21 10:04:24 +08:00
KGDB Kernel debugger support is enabled.
KVM: add module parameters documentation Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-07-10 20:20:35 +08:00
KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
[PATCH] libata: ACPI and _GTF support _GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive. It returns a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore it to boot up defaults. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> (cherry picked from 9c69cab24b51a89664f4c0dfaf8a436d32117624 commit)
2006-09-29 02:29:01 +08:00
LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
LP Printer support is enabled.
LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
These options have more detailed description inside of
Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt.
MDA MDA console support is enabled.
Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt: - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64" - remove trailing whitespace - use hyphen in 32-bit etc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-14 03:34:52 +08:00
MIPS MIPS architecture is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
[PATCH] PCI: Provide a boot parameter to disable MSI Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI. However, it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers should handle. So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-06 13:33:34 +08:00
MSI Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
various doc/kernel-parameters fixes - tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean - correct some source file names - remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree) - removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:37:40 +08:00
MTD MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
various doc/kernel-parameters fixes - tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean - correct some source file names - remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree) - removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:37:40 +08:00
PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
PARISC The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
PCI PCI bus support is enabled.
pci: implement "pci=noaer" For cases in which CONFIG_PCIEAER=y (such as distro kernels), allow users to disable PCIE Advanced Error Reporting by using "pci=noaer" on the kernel command line. This can be used to work around hardware or (kernel) software problems. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-06 04:17:58 +08:00
PCIE PCI Express support is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
PNP Plug & Play support is enabled.
PPC PowerPC architecture is enabled.
PPT Parallel port support is enabled.
PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
RAM RAM disk support is enabled.
S390 S390 architecture is enabled.
SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file. This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-15 03:36:14 +08:00
A lot of drivers have their options described inside
the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
security: Convert LSM into a static interface Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the overall security architecture. Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API abuse. Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified at boot. The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed. In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM. The modular interface is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure. It is used only by out-of-tree modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and dangerous, e.g. silently re-vectoring SELinux. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc] Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 14:31:32 +08:00
SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-30 05:48:09 +08:00
APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
SERIAL Serial support is enabled.
doc: Add SH to vdso and earlyprintk in kernel-parameters.txt SH supports both of these options, add it to the docs. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-02-28 17:30:01 +08:00
SH SuperH architecture is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel.
SPARC Sparc architecture is enabled.
pm: boot time suspend selftest Boot-time test for system suspend states (STR or standby). The generic RTC framework triggers wakeup alarms, which are used to exit those states. - Measures some aspects of suspend time ... this uses "jiffies" until someone converts it to use a timebase that works properly even while timer IRQs are disabled. - Triggered by a command line parameter. By default nothing even vaguely troublesome will happen, but "test_suspend=mem" will give you a brief STR test during system boot. (Or you may need to use "test_suspend=standby" instead, if your hardware needs that.) This isn't without problems. It fires early enough during boot that for example both PCMCIA and MMC stacks have misbehaved. The workaround in those cases was to boot without such media cards inserted. [matthltc@us.ibm.com: fix compile failure in boot time suspend selftest] Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 12:28:33 +08:00
SWSUSP Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
TPM: workaround to enforce PCR updates across suspends Add a workaround for TPM's which fail to flush last written PCR values in a TPM_SaveState, in preparation for suspend. Signed-off-by: David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-03-25 11:55:32 +08:00
TPM TPM drivers are enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
TS Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
USB: usb-storage: add "quirks=" module parameter This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage. This will allow people to make short-term changes to their unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver. Testing will become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead of having to wait for a new kernel release. The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's "delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was never listed among the kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-11 03:07:45 +08:00
UMS USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
USB USB support is enabled.
USBHID USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
V4L Video For Linux support is enabled.
virtio-mmio: Devices parameter parsing This patch adds an option to instantiate guest virtio-mmio devices basing on a kernel command line (or module) parameter, for example: virtio_mmio.devices=0x100@0x100b0000:48 Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-05-10 01:30:16 +08:00
VMMIO Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
VGA The VGA console has been enabled.
VT Virtual terminal support is enabled.
WDT Watchdog support is enabled.
XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.
doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:37:59 +08:00
X86-32 X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
X86-64 X86-64 architecture is enabled.
More X86-64 boot options can be found in
doc/x86: fix doc subdirs The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to those files accordingly. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-21 00:32:21 +08:00
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt .
Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt: - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64" - remove trailing whitespace - use hyphen in 32-bit etc. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-14 03:34:52 +08:00
X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
x86/platform/uv: Disable UV BAU by default For several years, the common practice has been to boot UVs with the "nobau" parameter on the command line, to disable the BAU. We've decided that it makes more sense to just disable the BAU by default in the kernel, and provide the option to turn it on, if desired. For now, having the on/off switch doesn't buy us any more than just reversing the logic would, but we're working towards having the BAU enabled by default on UV4. When those changes are in place, having the on/off switch will make more sense than an enable flag, since the default behavior will be different depending on the system version. I've also added a bit of documentation for the new parameter to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459451909-121845-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-01 03:18:29 +08:00
X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled.
x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics. Add a xen_emul_unplug command line option to the kernel to unplug xen emulated disks and nics. Set the default value of xen_emul_unplug depending on whether or not the Xen PV frontends and the Xen platform PCI driver have been compiled for this kernel (modules or built-in are both OK). The user can specify xen_emul_unplug=ignore to enable PV drivers on HVM even if the host platform doesn't support unplug. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2010-05-14 19:44:30 +08:00
XEN Xen support is enabled
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup Adjust the file for it to be parsed by Sphinx: - adjust the document title to be parsed; - use :: for quote blocks; - fix the horizontal bar markup; - lower case the TODO title. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
In addition, the following text indicates that the option::
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter.
BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.
Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot
loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.
Do not modify the syntax of boot loader parameters without extreme
x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt Impact: Documentation fix The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was 32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-20 05:48:14 +08:00
need or coordination with <Documentation/x86/boot.txt>.
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
[PATCH] x86-64: improved iommu documentation - add SWIOTLB config help text - mention Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - remove the duplication of the iommu kernel parameter documentation. - Better explanation of some of the iommu kernel parameter options. - "32MB<<order" instead of "32MB^order". - Mention the default "order" value. - list the four existing PCI-DMA mapping implementations of arch x86_64 - group the iommu= option keywords by PCI-DMA mapping implementation. - Distinguish iommu= option keywords from number arguments. - Explain the meaning of DAC and SAC. Signed-off-by: Karsten Weiss <knweiss@science-computing.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13 20:26:21 +08:00
There are also arch-specific kernel-parameters not documented here.
doc/x86: fix doc subdirs The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to those files accordingly. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-21 00:32:21 +08:00
See for example <Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt>.
[PATCH] x86-64: improved iommu documentation - add SWIOTLB config help text - mention Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - remove the duplication of the iommu kernel parameter documentation. - Better explanation of some of the iommu kernel parameter options. - "32MB<<order" instead of "32MB^order". - Mention the default "order" value. - list the four existing PCI-DMA mapping implementations of arch x86_64 - group the iommu= option keywords by PCI-DMA mapping implementation. - Distinguish iommu= option keywords from number arguments. - Explain the meaning of DAC and SAC. Signed-off-by: Karsten Weiss <knweiss@science-computing.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13 20:26:21 +08:00
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that
a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will
be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
running once the system is up.
[PATCH] update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 17:00:27 +08:00
The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
Documentation: explain [KMG] parameter suffix The '[KMG]' suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel parameter values documentation. Explicitly state its semantics. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-21 12:08:35 +08:00
Finally, the [KMG] suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
parameter values. These 'K', 'M', and 'G' letters represent the _binary_
multipliers 'Kilo', 'Mega', and 'Giga', equalling 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30
Documentation/admin-guide: split the kernel parameter list to a separate file Include the literal kernel parameter list from a separate file. This helps the pdf build. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-11-03 18:10:10 +08:00
bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted:
Documentation: explain [KMG] parameter suffix The '[KMG]' suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel parameter values documentation. Explicitly state its semantics. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-21 12:08:35 +08:00
Documentation/admin-guide: split the kernel parameter list to a separate file Include the literal kernel parameter list from a separate file. This helps the pdf build. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-11-03 18:10:10 +08:00
.. include:: kernel-parameters.txt
:literal:
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup Adjust the file for it to be parsed by Sphinx: - adjust the document title to be parsed; - use :: for quote blocks; - fix the horizontal bar markup; - lower case the TODO title. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-21 20:48:55 +08:00
Todo
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2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Add more DRM drivers.
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