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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
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
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
404
405	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
407	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408			EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
412	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
413			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
414
415	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416			keyboards
417
418	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
420
421	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422			Use software keyboard repeat
423
424	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
425			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427			    enabled until the next reboot
428			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
430			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433			    userspace auditd.
434			Default: unset
435
436	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438			Default: 64
439
440	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
441			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442			Format: { "0" | "1" }
443			0 - Disable the BAU.
444			1 - Enable the BAU.
445			unset - Disable the BAU.
446
447	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
448			Format: <io>,<mode>
449
450	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451			Format: <io>,<mode>
452			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
454	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
455			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
456			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
459	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
460			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
461			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
464	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
465			embedded devices based on command line input.
466			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
467
468	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
469			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
470			no delay (0).
471			Format: integer
472
473	bootconfig	[KNL]
474			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
475			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
476
477			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
478
479	bert_disable	[ACPI]
480			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
481
482	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
483			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
484
485	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
486	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
487			kernel args too.
488	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
489	bttv.tuner=
490
491	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493			at a time.
494
495	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
497	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
498			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502			This option provides an override for these situations.
503
504	carrier_timeout=
505			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507			it waits 120 seconds.
508
509	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511			trust validation.
512			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
513
514	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518			others).
519
520	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
521			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
522
523	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
525			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527			  a single hierarchy
528			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529			  subsystem
530			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532			  created
533			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
536			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537			stall information accounting feature
538
539	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
542			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
544			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546			all v1 hierarchies.
547
548	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549			Format: <string>
550			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
551			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
552
553	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
556			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557				any implied execute protection).
558			1 -- check protection requested by application.
559			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
560			Value can be changed at runtime via
561				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
562			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
563
564	cio_ignore=	[S390]
565			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
566	clk_ignore_unused
567			[CLK]
568			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
569			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
570			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
571			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
572			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
573			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
574			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
575			platform with proper driver support.  For more
576			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
577
578	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
579			[Deprecated]
580			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
581			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
582			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
583			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
584
585	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
586			Format: <string>
587			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
588			with the name specified.
589			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
590			the platform:
591			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
592			[ACPI] acpi_pm
593			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
594				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
595			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
596				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
597			[MIPS] MIPS
598			[PARISC] cr16
599			[S390] tod
600			[SH] SuperH
601			[SPARC64] tick
602			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
603
604	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
605			[ARM,ARM64]
606			Format: <bool>
607			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
608			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
609			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
610			systems.
611
612	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
613			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
614			external delays before the clock will be marked
615			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
616			three attempts to read the clock under test.
617
618	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
619			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
620			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
621			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
622			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
623			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
624			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
625			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
626			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
627
628	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
629			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
630			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
631			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
632			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
633
634	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
635			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
636			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
637			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
638			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
639			ones should be.
640			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
641			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
642			instability issue. However, not all features have names
643			in /proc/cpuinfo.
644			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
645			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
646			or using the feature without checking anything
647			will still see it. This just prevents it from
648			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
649			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
650			some critical bits.
651
652	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
653			[KNL,CMA]
654			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
655			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
656			placement constraint by the physical address range of
657			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
658			altogether. For more information, see
659			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
660
661	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
662			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
663			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
664			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
665			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
666			specificed, the default value is 0.
667			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
668			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
669			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
670			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
671
672	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
673			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
674			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
675			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
676			a hypervisor.
677			Default: yes
678
679	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
680			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
681			allocations, by default set to 256K.
682
683	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
684			Format:
685			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
686
687	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
688			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
689
690	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
691			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
692			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
693
694	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
695	conmode=
696
697	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
698
699		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
700
701		ttyS<n>[,options]
702		ttyUSB0[,options]
703			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
704			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
705			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
706			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
707			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
708
709			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
710			information.  See
711			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
712			alternative.
713
714		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
715		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
716		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
717		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
718		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
719			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
720			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
721			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
722			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
723			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
724			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
725			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
726			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
727			the h/w is not re-initialized.
728
729		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
730			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
731
732		{ null | "" }
733			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
734			console messages discarded.
735			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
736			kernel command line.
737
738		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
739		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
740			console=brl,ttyS0
741		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
742
743	console_msg_format=
744			[KNL] Change console messages format
745		default
746			By default we print messages on consoles in
747			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
748			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
749			`printk_time' param).
750		syslog
751			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
752			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
753			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
754			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
755			from /proc/kmsg.
756
757	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
758			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
759			Defaults to 0.
760
761	coredump_filter=
762			[KNL] Change the default value for
763			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
764			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
765
766	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
767			[ARM,ARM64]
768			Format: <bool>
769			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
770			0: default value, disable debugging
771			1: enable debugging at boot time
772
773	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
774			disable the cpuidle sub-system
775
776	cpuidle.governor=
777			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
778
779	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
780			disable the cpufreq sub-system
781
782	cpufreq.default_governor=
783			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
784			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
785			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
786
787	cpu_init_udelay=N
788			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
789			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
790			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
791			Default: 10000
792
793	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
794			Format:
795			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
796
797	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
798			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
799			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
800			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
801			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
802			is selected automatically.
803			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
804			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
805			hasn't been specified.
806			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
807
808	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
809			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
810			in the running system. The syntax of range is
811			start-[end] where start and end are both
812			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
813			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
814
815	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
816			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
817			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
818			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
819			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
820			available.
821			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
822	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
823			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
824			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
825			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
826			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
827			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
828			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
829			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
830			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
831			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
832			for second kernel instead.
833			0: to disable low allocation.
834			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
835			or memory reserved is below 4G.
836
837			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
838			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
839			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
840			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
841			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
842
843	cryptomgr.notests
844			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
845
846	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
847			Format: <dma>
848
849	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
850			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
851
852	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
853			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
854			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
855			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
856			to resolve the hang situation.
857			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
858			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
859			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
860			     but more data)
861
862	dasd=		[HW,NET]
863			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
864
865	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
866			(one device per port)
867			Format: <port#>,<type>
868			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
869
870	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
871
872	debug_boot_weak_hash
873			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
874			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
875			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
876			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
877			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
878			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
879
880	debug_locks_verbose=
881			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
882			Format: <int>
883			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
884			self-tests.
885			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
886			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
887			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
888			useful to lockdep developers.
889
890	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
891
892	no_debug_objects
893			[KNL] Disable object debugging
894
895	debug_guardpage_minorder=
896			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
897			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
898			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
899			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
900			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
901			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
902			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
903			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
904			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
905			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
906			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
907			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
908			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
909			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
910			bypassed) which are not detectable by
911			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
912			tracking down these problems.
913
914	debug_pagealloc=
915			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
916			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
917			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
918			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
919			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
920			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
921			on: enable the feature
922
923	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
924			and debugfs internal clients.
925			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
926			on: 	All functions are enabled.
927			no-mount:
928				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
929			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
930				its content. There is nothing to mount.
931			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
932			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
933				or directories within debugfs.
934				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
935				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
936			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
937
938	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
939
940	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
941			Format: <area>[,<node>]
942			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
943
944	default_hugepagesz=
945			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
946			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
947			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
948			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
949			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
950			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
951			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
952			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
953			Format: size[KMG]
954
955	deferred_probe_timeout=
956			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
957			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
958			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
959			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
960			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
961			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
962			retrying.
963
964	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
965			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
966			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
967			hardware.
968
969	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
970			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
971			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
972			blacklisted features.
973
974	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
975			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
976			(disabled by default).
977
978	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
979			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
980			capability is set.
981
982	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
983			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
984
985	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
986			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
987
988	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
989			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
990			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
991			          level 1 and decompression (default)
992			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
993			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
994			          only (compression on level 1)
995			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
996			          only (decompression)
997			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
998			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
999
1000	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1001			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1002
1003	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1004			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1005			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1006			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1007			miss to occur.
1008
1009	stress_slb	[PPC]
1010			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1011			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1012			on kernel addresses.
1013
1014	disable=	[IPV6]
1015			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1016
1017	hardened_usercopy=
1018                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1019                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1020                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1021                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
1022                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1023                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1024                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1025                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1026                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1027
1028	disable_radix	[PPC]
1029			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1030
1031	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1032			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1033			invalidate.
1034
1035	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1036			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1037			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1038
1039	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1040			Format: <int>
1041			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1042			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1043			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1044			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1045			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1046			INIT from AP to BSP.
1047
1048	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1049			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1050			to workaround buggy firmware.
1051
1052	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1053			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1054
1055	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1056			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1057			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1058			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1059
1060	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1061			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1062			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1063			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1064			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1065
1066	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1067			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1068			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1069
1070	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1071
1072	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1073			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1074
1075	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1076			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1077			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1078			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1079			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1080			architectural default is too low.
1081
1082	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1083			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1084			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1085			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1086			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1087			driver later using sysfs.
1088
1089	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1090			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1091			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1092
1093	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1094			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1095			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1096			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1097			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1098			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1099			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1100			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1101			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1102			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1103			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1104			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1105			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1106			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1107			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1108			data set with no connector name will be used for
1109			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1110
1111	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1112
1113	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1114			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1115			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1116			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1117			exists).
1118			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1119			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1120			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1121
1122	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1123			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1124			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1125			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1126
1127	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1128	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1129			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1130			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1131			for details.
1132
1133	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1134			in some Intel CPUs.
1135
1136	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1137			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1138
1139	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1140			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1141			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1142			which are not unmapped.
1143
1144	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1145
1146			When used with no options, the early console is
1147			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1148			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1149			the platform.
1150
1151		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1152			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1153			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1154			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1155			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1156			configured.
1157
1158		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1159		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1160		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1161		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1162		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1163			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1164			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1165			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1166			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1167			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1168			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1169			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1170			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1171
1172		pl011,<addr>
1173		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1174			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1175			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1176			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1177			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1178			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1179			the device registers.
1180
1181		liteuart,<addr>
1182			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1183			specified address. The serial port must already be
1184			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1185
1186		meson,<addr>
1187			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1188			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1189			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1190			supported.
1191
1192		msm_serial,<addr>
1193			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1194			port at the specified address. The serial port
1195			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1196			yet supported.
1197
1198		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1199			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1200			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1201			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1202			yet supported.
1203
1204		owl,<addr>
1205			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1206			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1207			specified address. The serial port must already be
1208			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1209
1210		rda,<addr>
1211			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1212			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1213			specified address. The serial port must already be
1214			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1215
1216		sbi
1217			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1218			console.
1219
1220		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1221
1222		s3c2410,<addr>
1223		s3c2412,<addr>
1224		s3c2440,<addr>
1225		s3c6400,<addr>
1226		s5pv210,<addr>
1227		exynos4210,<addr>
1228			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1229			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1230			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1231			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1232			Options are not yet supported.
1233
1234		lantiq,<addr>
1235			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1236			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1237			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1238			yet supported.
1239
1240		lpuart,<addr>
1241		lpuart32,<addr>
1242			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1243			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1244			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1245			port must already be setup and configured.
1246
1247		ec_imx21,<addr>
1248		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1249			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1250			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1251			must already be setup and configured.
1252
1253		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1255			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1256			address. The serial port must already be setup
1257			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1258
1259		qcom_geni,<addr>
1260			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1261			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1262			specified address. The serial port must already be
1263			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1264
1265		efifb,[options]
1266			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1267			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1268			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1269			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1270			mapped with the correct attributes.
1271
1272		linflex,<addr>
1273			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1274			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1275			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1276			already be setup and configured.
1277
1278	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1279			earlyprintk=vga
1280			earlyprintk=sclp
1281			earlyprintk=xen
1282			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1283			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1284			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1285			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1286			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1287			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1288
1289			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1290			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1291			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1292
1293			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1294			takes over.
1295
1296			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1297			be used at a time.
1298
1299			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1300			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1301			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1302			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1303				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1304			You can find the port for a given device in
1305			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1306				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1307
1308			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1309			very good.
1310
1311			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1312			the real console.
1313
1314			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1315
1316			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1317
1318			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1319			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1320			UART class.
1321
1322	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1323			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1324			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1325			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1326			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1327			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1328			default: on.
1329
1330	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1331			ekgdboc=kbd
1332
1333			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1334			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1335
1336			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1337			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1338			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1339			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1340
1341	edd=		[EDD]
1342			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1343
1344	efi=		[EFI]
1345			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1346				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1347				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1348			debug: enable misc debug output.
1349			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1350			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1351			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1352			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1353			firmware implementations.
1354			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1355			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1356			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1357			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1358			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1359			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1360			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1361			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1362			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1363			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1364
1365	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1366			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1367			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1368			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1369			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1370
1371	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1372			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1373			updating original EFI memory map.
1374			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1375			from ss to ss+nn.
1376
1377			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1378			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1379			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1380			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1381
1382			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1383			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1384			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1385
1386			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1387			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1388			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1389			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1390			"soft reserved".
1391
1392	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1393			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1394			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1395			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1396			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1397
1398
1399	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1400			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1401
1402	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1403			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1404			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1405
1406	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1407			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1408			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1409			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1410			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1411
1412	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1413			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1414			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1415			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1416
1417	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1418			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1419			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1420			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1421			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1422
1423	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1424			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1425			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1426			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1427			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1428			Default value is 0.
1429			Value can be changed at runtime via
1430			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1431
1432	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1433			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1434			support.
1435
1436	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1437			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1438			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1439
1440	evm=		[EVM]
1441			Format: { "fix" }
1442			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1443			current integrity status.
1444
1445	failslab=
1446	fail_usercopy=
1447	fail_page_alloc=
1448	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1449			General fault injection mechanism.
1450			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1451			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1452
1453	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1454			Format: { initns | none }
1455			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1456			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1457
1458	floppy=		[HW]
1459			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1460
1461	force_pal_cache_flush
1462			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1463			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1464			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1465			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1466
1467	forcepae	[X86-32]
1468			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1469			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1470			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1471			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1472			and may cause unknown problems.
1473
1474	ftrace=[tracer]
1475			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1476			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1477			boot debugging.
1478
1479	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1480			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1481			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1482			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1483			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1484			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1485			start up functionality.
1486
1487	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1488			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1489			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1490			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1491			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1492			oops.
1493
1494	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1495			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1496			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1497			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1498			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1499			tracing directory.
1500
1501	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1502			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1503			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1504			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1505			tracing directory.
1506
1507	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1508			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1509			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1510			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1511			that can be changed at run time by the
1512			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1513
1514	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1515			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1516			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1517			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1518			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1519
1520	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1521			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1522			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1523			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1524			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1525
1526	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1527			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1528			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1529			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1530			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1531			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1532			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1533			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1534			suppliers).
1535			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1536			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1537			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1538				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1539				up (sync_state() calls).
1540			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1541				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1542			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1543
1544	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1545			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1546			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1547			Format: <bool>
1548
1549	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1550			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1551			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1552			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1553			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1554
1555	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1556
1557	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1558			Format: off | on
1559			default: on
1560
1561	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1562			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1563			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1564			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1565			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1566
1567	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1568			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1569			android emulator
1570
1571	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1572			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1573			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1574	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1575			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1576
1577	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1578			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1579			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1580			GPT to be used instead.
1581
1582	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1583			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1584			Format: 0 | 1
1585			Default: 0
1586	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1587			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1588			Format: 0 | 1
1589			Default: 0
1590	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1591			Format: 0 | 1
1592			Default: 0
1593	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1594			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1595			Default: 1024
1596	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1597			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1598			Default: 1024
1599
1600	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1601			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1602			backtraces on all cpus.
1603			Format: 0 | 1
1604
1605	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1606			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1607			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1608			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1609
1610	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1611
1612	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1613			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1614
1615	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1616			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1617			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1618			logic will be disabled.
1619
1620	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1621			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1622			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1623			size on bigger boxes.
1624
1625	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1626			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1627			Default: "on"
1628
1629	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1630
1631	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1632			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1633				verbose }
1634			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1635			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1636				VIA, nVidia)
1637			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1638
1639	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1640			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1641
1642	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1643			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1644			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1645			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1646				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1647
1648			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1649			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1650			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1651
1652	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1653			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1654			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1655			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1656			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1657			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1658			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1659			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1660			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1661				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1662
1663	hugepagesz=
1664			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1665			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1666			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1667			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1668			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1669			architecture dependent.  See also
1670			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1671			Format: size[KMG]
1672
1673	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1674			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1675			enabled.
1676			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1677			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1678			Format: { on | off (default) }
1679
1680			on:  enable the feature
1681			off: disable the feature
1682
1683			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1684			the default is on.
1685
1686			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1687			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1688			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1689
1690	hung_task_panic=
1691			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1692			Format: 0 | 1
1693
1694			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1695			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1696			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1697			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1698			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1699
1700	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1701				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1702	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1703				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1704				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1705
1706	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1707				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1708				      guest on lock contention.
1709
1710	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1711			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1712			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1713			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1714			the real console.
1715
1716	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1717				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1718				registered from board initialization code.
1719				Format:
1720				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1721
1722	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1723	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1724			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1725			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1726			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1727	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1728	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1729			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1730			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1731	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1732	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1733	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1734			     for the AUX port
1735	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1736			     controller
1737	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1738			     controllers
1739	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1740	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1741			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1742			     transitions, or never reset
1743			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1744			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1745			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1746			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1747			architectures force reset to be always executed
1748	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1749	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1750	i8042.probe_defer
1751			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1752
1753	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1754
1755	i915.invert_brightness=
1756			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1757			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1758			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1759			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1760			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1761			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1762			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1763			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1764			value switches the backlight off.
1765			-1 -- never invert brightness
1766			 0 -- machine default
1767			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1768
1769	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1770			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1771
1772	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1773			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1774			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1775			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1776			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1777
1778	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1779			Format: <int>
1780			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1781			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1782			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1783			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1784			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1785			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1786			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1787			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1788			was 0x3.
1789
1790	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1791			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1792
1793	idle=		[X86]
1794			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1795			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1796			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1797			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1798			Not recommended.
1799			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1800			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1801			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1802
1803	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1804			Format: <bool>
1805			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1806			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1807			true (1).
1808
1809	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1810			Format: <bool>
1811			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1812			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1813
1814	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1815			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1816			Default: strict
1817
1818			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1819			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1820			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1821			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1822			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1823			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1824			encoding mode.
1825
1826			Available settings are as follows:
1827			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1828				supported by the FPU
1829			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1830				by the FPU
1831			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1832				by the FPU
1833			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1834				supported by the FPU
1835
1836			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1837			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1838			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1839			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1840			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1841			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1842			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1843			MIPS64 CPUs.
1844
1845			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1846			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1847			except where unsupported by hardware.
1848
1849	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1850			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1851			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1852			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1853			could change it dynamically, usually by
1854			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1855
1856	ignore_rlimit_data
1857			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1858			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1859			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1860
1861	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1862			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1863
1864	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1865			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1866			default: "enforce"
1867
1868	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1869			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1870			owned by uid=0.
1871
1872	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1873			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1874			measurements, instead of host native format.
1875
1876	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1877			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1878				   | sha512 | ... }
1879			default: "sha1"
1880
1881			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1882			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1883
1884	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1885			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1886			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1887				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1888
1889			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1890			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1891			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1892			uid=0.
1893
1894			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1895			all files owned by root.
1896
1897			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1898			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1899			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1900
1901			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1902			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1903			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1904			flag.
1905
1906			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1907			critical data.
1908
1909	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1910			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1911			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1912			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1913			opened for read by uid=0.
1914
1915	ima_template=	[IMA]
1916			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1917			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1918				   "ima-sigv2" }
1919			Default: "ima-ng"
1920
1921	ima_template_fmt=
1922			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1923			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1924
1925	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1926			Format: <min_file_size>
1927			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1928			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1929
1930			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1931			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1932			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1933
1934	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1935			Format: <bufsize>
1936			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1937
1938			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1939			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1940			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1941
1942	init=		[KNL]
1943			Format: <full_path>
1944			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1945			process.
1946
1947	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1948			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1949			startup.
1950
1951	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1952			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1953			modules and initcalls.
1954
1955	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1956			Format: <bool>
1957			Default: 1
1958			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1959			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1960			with devices being probed and
1961			initialized. This should normally just work,
1962			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1963			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1964			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1965			late_ initcalls.
1966
1967	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1968
1969	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1970			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1971			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1972			setting.
1973			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1974			Default is 0, 0
1975
1976	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1977			zeroes.
1978			Format: 0 | 1
1979			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1980
1981	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1982			Format: 0 | 1
1983			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1984
1985	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1986			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1987			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1988			override in debugfs after boot.
1989
1990	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1991			Format: <irq>
1992
1993	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1994
1995	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1996			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1997			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1998			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1999
2000	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2001		on
2002			Enable intel iommu driver.
2003		off
2004			Disable intel iommu driver.
2005		igfx_off [Default Off]
2006			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2007			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2008			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2009			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2010			DMA.
2011		strict [Default Off]
2012			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2013		sp_off [Default Off]
2014			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2015			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2016			not be supported.
2017		sm_on
2018			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2019			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2020			translation.
2021		sm_off
2022			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2023		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2024			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2025			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2026			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2027			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2028			mapping is enabled.
2029			Note that using this option lowers the security
2030			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2031			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2032
2033	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2034			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2035			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2036
2037	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2038			disable
2039			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2040			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2041			passive
2042			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2043			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2044			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2045			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2046			  feature.
2047			force
2048			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2049			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2050			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2051			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2052			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2053			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2054			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2055			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2056			no_hwp
2057			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2058			  if available.
2059			hwp_only
2060			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2061			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2062			support_acpi_ppc
2063			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2064			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2065			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2066			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2067			per_cpu_perf_limits
2068			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2069			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2070
2071	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2072			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2073			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2074			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2075			no_x2apic_optout
2076				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2077			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2078
2079	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2080		strict	regions from userspace.
2081		relaxed
2082
2083	iommu=		[X86]
2084		off
2085		force
2086		noforce
2087		biomerge
2088		panic
2089		nopanic
2090		merge
2091		nomerge
2092		soft
2093		pt		[X86]
2094		nopt		[X86]
2095		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2096			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2097
2098	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2099			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2100			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2101			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2102			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2103			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2104			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2105
2106	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2107			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2108			0 - Lazy mode.
2109			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2110			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2111			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2112			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2113			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2114			1 - Strict mode.
2115			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2116			  synchronously.
2117			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2118			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2119			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2120
2121	iommu.passthrough=
2122			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2123			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2124			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2125			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2126			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2127
2128	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2129			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2130			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2131
2132	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2133		0x80
2134			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2135		0xed
2136			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2137		udelay
2138			Simple two microseconds delay
2139		none
2140			No delay
2141
2142	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2143			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2144
2145	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2146			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2147
2148	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2149			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2150
2151	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2152			[ARM, ARM64]
2153			Format: <bool>
2154			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2155			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2156			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2157
2158	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2159			[ARM, ARM64]
2160			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2161			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2162			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2163			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2164			LPIs.
2165
2166	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2167			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2168			requires the kernel to be built with
2169			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2170
2171	irqfixup	[HW]
2172			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2173			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2174			firmware running.
2175
2176	irqpoll		[HW]
2177			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2178			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2179			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2180			firmware running.
2181
2182	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2183			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2184
2185	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2186			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2187			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2188
2189			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2190			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2191
2192			nohz
2193			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2194
2195			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2196			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2197			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2198			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2199			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2200
2201			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2202			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2203			  be configured manually after bootup.
2204
2205			domain
2206			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2207			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2208			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2209			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2210			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2211			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2212			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2213			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2214
2215			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2216			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2217			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2218			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2219
2220			managed_irq
2221
2222			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2223			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2224			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2225			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2226			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2227
2228			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2229			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2230			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2231			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2232			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2233			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2234			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2235
2236			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2237			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2238			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2239			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2240			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2241			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2242			  queues.
2243
2244			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2245
2246	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2247
2248	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2249			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2250			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2251			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2252			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2253				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2254
2255	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2256			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2257			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2258			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2259			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2260				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2261
2262	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2263			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2264			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2265			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2266			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2267				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2268
2269	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2270			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2271
2272	nokaslr		[KNL]
2273			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2274			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2275			Layout Randomization).
2276
2277	kasan_multi_shot
2278			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2279			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2280			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2281			invalid access.
2282
2283	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2284
2285	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2286			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2287			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2288			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2289			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2290			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2291			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2292			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2293			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2294			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2295
2296			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2297			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2298			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2299			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2300			zone if it does not.
2301
2302			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2303			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2304			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2305			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2306			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2307			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2308			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2309
2310	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2311			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2312			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2313			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2314			optional and is the number seconds in between
2315			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2316			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2317			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2318			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2319			the kernel debugger.
2320
2321	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2322			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2323			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2324			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2325			 keyboard only format: kbd
2326			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2327			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2328			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2329			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2330
2331	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2332			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2333			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2334			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2335			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2336			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2337			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2338
2339			The name of the early console should be specified
2340			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2341			the early console might be different than the tty
2342			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2343			blank and the first boot console that implements
2344			read() will be picked.
2345
2346	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2347			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2348
2349	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2350			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2351			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2352
2353	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2354			Valid arguments: on, off
2355			Default: on
2356			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2357			the default is off.
2358
2359	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2360			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2361			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2362			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2363			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2364			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2365			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2366
2367			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2368
2369			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2370			Boot Parameter" section.
2371
2372	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2373			and kernel address spaces.
2374			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2375			0: force disabled
2376			1: force enabled
2377
2378	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2379			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2380
2381	kvm.eager_page_split=
2382			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2383			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2384			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2385			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2386			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2387			required to split huge pages lazily.
2388
2389			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2390			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2391			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2392			still be used for reads.
2393
2394			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2395			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2396			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2397			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2398			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2399			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2400			cleared.
2401
2402			Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting
2403			huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU.
2404
2405			Default is Y (on).
2406
2407	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2408				   Default is false (don't support).
2409
2410	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2411			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2412			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2413			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2414			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2415			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2416				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2417
2418			Default is 'auto'.
2419
2420			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2421			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2422
2423	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2424			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2425			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2426			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2427			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2428
2429	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2430			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2431			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2432			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2433			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2434			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2435
2436	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2437			Default is 1 (enabled)
2438
2439	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2440			for all guests.
2441			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2442
2443	kvm-arm.mode=
2444			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2445
2446			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2447
2448			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2449			      protected guests.
2450
2451			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2452				   state is kept private from the host.
2453				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2454
2455			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2456			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2457			for the host.
2458
2459	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2460			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2461			system registers
2462
2463	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2464			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2465			system registers
2466
2467	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2468			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2469			system registers
2470
2471	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2472			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2473			LPIs.
2474
2475	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2476			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2477			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2478			allocation.
2479			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2480			Format: <integer>
2481			Default: 5
2482
2483	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2484			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2485			Default is 1 (enabled)
2486
2487	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2488			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2489			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2490			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2491			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2492			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2493			Default is 1 (enabled)
2494
2495	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2496			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2497			Default is 1 (enabled)
2498
2499	kvm-intel.nested=
2500			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2501			Default is 0 (disabled)
2502
2503	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2504			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2505			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2506			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2507
2508	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2509			CVE-2018-3620.
2510
2511			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2512
2513			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2514			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2515				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2516			never:	Disables the mitigation
2517
2518			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2519
2520	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2521			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2522			Default is 1 (enabled)
2523
2524	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2525			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2526
2527			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2528			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2529			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2530
2531			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2532			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2533			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2534			not have direct access.
2535
2536			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2537			options are:
2538
2539			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2540
2541	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2542			      affected CPUs
2543
2544			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2545			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2546
2547			full
2548				Provides all available mitigations for the
2549				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2550				enables all mitigations in the
2551				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2552
2553				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2554				sysfs interface is still possible after
2555				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2556				when the first VM is started in a
2557				potentially insecure configuration,
2558				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2559
2560			full,force
2561				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2562				flush runtime control. Implies the
2563				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2564				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2565
2566			flush
2567				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2568				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2569				L1D flush.
2570
2571				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2572				sysfs interface is still possible after
2573				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2574				when the first VM is started in a
2575				potentially insecure configuration,
2576				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2577
2578			flush,nosmt
2579
2580				Disables SMT and enables the default
2581				hypervisor mitigation.
2582
2583				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2584				sysfs interface is still possible after
2585				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2586				when the first VM is started in a
2587				potentially insecure configuration,
2588				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2589
2590			flush,nowarn
2591				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2592				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2593				insecure configuration.
2594
2595			off
2596				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2597				emit any warnings.
2598				It also drops the swap size and available
2599				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2600				bare metal.
2601
2602			Default is 'flush'.
2603
2604			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2605
2606	l2cr=		[PPC]
2607
2608	l3cr=		[PPC]
2609
2610	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2611			disabled it.
2612
2613	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2614			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2615			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2616			Format: notscdeadline
2617
2618	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2619			in C2 power state.
2620
2621	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2622			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2623			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2624			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2625			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2626			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2627			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2628
2629	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2630			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2631			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2632
2633	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2634			when set.
2635			Format: <int>
2636
2637	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2638			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2639			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2640			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2641			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2642			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2643			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2644			to all ports, links and devices.
2645
2646			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2647			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2648			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2649			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2650			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2651			host link and device attached to it.
2652
2653			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2654			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2655			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2656			The following configurations can be forced.
2657
2658			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2659			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2660
2661			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2662
2663			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2664			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2665			  allowed.
2666
2667			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2668			  resets.
2669
2670			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2671			  link recovery.
2672
2673			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2674			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2675			  detection.
2676
2677			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2678
2679			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2680
2681			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2682
2683			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2684
2685			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2686
2687			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2688
2689			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2690
2691			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2692
2693			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2694			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2695
2696			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2697			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2698
2699			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2700			  identify device data log.
2701
2702			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2703			  purpose log directory.
2704
2705			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2706
2707			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2708			  1024 sectors.
2709
2710			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2711			  65535 sectors.
2712
2713			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2714
2715			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2716			  should be skipped.
2717
2718			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2719
2720			* disable: Disable this device.
2721
2722			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2723			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2724
2725	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2726
2727	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2728
2729	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2730			Format: <integer>
2731
2732	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2733			Format: <integer>
2734
2735	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2736			Format: <integer>
2737
2738	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2739			Format: <integer>
2740
2741	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2742			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2743			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2744			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2745			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2746			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2747			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2748			are also disabled.
2749
2750	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2751			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2752			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2753			number of online CPUs.
2754
2755	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2756			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2757
2758	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2759			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2760
2761	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2762			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2763			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2764
2765	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2766			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2767			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2768			mode during the locktorture test.
2769
2770	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2771			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2772			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2773
2774	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2775			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2776
2777	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2778			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2779			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2780			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2781			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2782			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2783
2784	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2785			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2786
2787	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2788			Enable additional printk() statements.
2789
2790	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2791			Format: <irq>
2792
2793	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2794			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2795			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2796			loglevels are defined as follows:
2797
2798			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2799			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2800			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2801			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2802			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2803			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2804			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2805			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2806
2807	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2808			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2809			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2810			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2811			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2812			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2813			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2814
2815	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2816			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2817			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2818			kernel boot problems.
2819
2820	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2821	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2822	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2823	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2824				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2825				attached printers to be reset. Using
2826				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2827				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2828				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2829				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2830				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2831				port specification list means that device IDs
2832				from each port should be examined, to see if
2833				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2834				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2835				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2836
2837	lpj=n		[KNL]
2838			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2839			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2840			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2841			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2842			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2843			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2844			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2845			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2846			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2847			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2848			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2849			hardware.
2850
2851	ltpc=		[NET]
2852			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2853
2854	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2855
2856	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2857			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2858			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2859
2860	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2861			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2862			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2863
2864	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2865			different yeeloong laptops.
2866			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2867
2868	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2869			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2870
2871	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2872			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2873			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2874			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2875			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2876			only takes effect during system bootup.
2877			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2878			which also disables the IO APIC.
2879
2880	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2881	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2882			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2883			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2884			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2885			/dev/loop-control interface.
2886
2887	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2888
2889	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2890
2891	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2892			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2893
2894	mdacon=		[MDA]
2895			Format: <first>,<last>
2896			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2897
2898	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2899			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2900			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2901
2902			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2903			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2904			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2905
2906			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2907			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2908			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2909			not have direct access.
2910
2911			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2912			options are:
2913
2914			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2915			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2916				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2917			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2918
2919			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2920			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2921			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2922			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2923			too.
2924
2925			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2926			mds=full.
2927
2928			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2929
2930	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2931			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2932
2933	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2934			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2935
2936			1 for test;
2937			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2938			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2939			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2940			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2941
2942			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2943			high memory is not affected.
2944
2945			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2946			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2947
2948			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2949			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2950			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2951			belonging to unused RAM.
2952
2953			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2954			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2955			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2956
2957	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2958			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2959			firmware.
2960			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2961			ss[KMG].
2962			Multiple different regions can be specified with
2963			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2964
2965	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2966			memory.
2967
2968	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2969			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2970			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2971
2972	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2973			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2974			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2975			set according to the
2976			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2977			option.
2978			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2979
2980	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2981			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2982			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2983			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2984			option description.
2985
2986	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2987			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2988			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2989			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2990			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2991			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2992			comma delimited.
2993			Example:
2994				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2995
2996	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2997			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2998			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2999
3000	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3001			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3002			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3003			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3004			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3005			         or
3006			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3007			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3008			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3009			will be eaten.
3010
3011	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3012			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3013			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3014			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3015			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3016
3017	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3018			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3019			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3020			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3021			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3022			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3023			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3024			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3025
3026	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3027			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3028			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3029			Setting this option will scan the memory
3030			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3031			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3032			from using the memory being corrupted.
3033			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3034			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3035			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3036			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3037
3038	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3039			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3040			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3041			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3042			corruption in more or less memory.
3043
3044	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3045			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3046			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3047			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3048
3049	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3050			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3051			Format: {on | off (default)}
3052			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3053			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
3054			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
3055			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
3056			additional memory to do so.
3057			This feature is disabled by default because it
3058			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3059			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3060			memory blocks).
3061			The state of the flag can be read in
3062			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3063			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3064			the feature is not effective.
3065
3066			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
3067			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
3068			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
3069
3070	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3071			Format: <integer>
3072			default : 0 <disable>
3073			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3074			performed. Each pass selects another test
3075			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3076			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3077			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3078			regions that are detected.
3079
3080	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3081			Valid arguments: on, off
3082			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3083			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3084			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3085			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3086			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3087
3088			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3089			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3090
3091	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3092			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3093			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3094			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3095			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3096
3097	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3098			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3099
3100	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3101			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3102			platforms.
3103
3104	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3105			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3106			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3107			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3108
3109	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3110
3111	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
3112			physical address is ignored.
3113
3114	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3115			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3116			Default: "0tb"
3117			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3118			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3119			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3120			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3121			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3122			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3123			unconfigured.
3124			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3125			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3126			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3127			VGA shield.
3128			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3129			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3130			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3131			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3132			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3133			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3134
3135	mitigations=
3136			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3137			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3138			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3139			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3140
3141			off
3142				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3143				improves system performance, but it may also
3144				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3145				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3146					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3147					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3148					       nobp=0 [S390]
3149					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3150					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3151					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3152					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3153					       l1tf=off [X86]
3154					       mds=off [X86]
3155					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3156					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3157					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3158					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3159					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3160
3161				Exceptions:
3162					       This does not have any effect on
3163					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3164					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3165
3166			auto (default)
3167				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3168				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3169				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3170				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3171				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3172				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3173
3174			auto,nosmt
3175				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3176				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3177				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3178				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3179					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3180					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3181
3182	mminit_loglevel=
3183			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3184			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3185			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3186			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3187			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3188			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3189
3190	module.sig_enforce
3191			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3192			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3193			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3194			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3195
3196	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3197			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3198
3199	mousedev.tap_time=
3200			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3201			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3202			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3203			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3204			Format: <msecs>
3205	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3206			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3207	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3208			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3209
3210	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3211			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3212			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3213			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3214			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3215			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3216			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3217			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3218			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3219			is not too small.
3220
3221	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3222			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3223			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3224			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3225			allocations. Use with caution!
3226
3227	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3228			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3229
3230	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3231			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3232
3233	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3234			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3235
3236	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3237			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3238			at a time.
3239
3240	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3241
3242			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3243
3244			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3245				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3246			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3247				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3248				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3249
3250	mtdset=		[ARM]
3251			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3252
3253			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3254
3255	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3256			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3257			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3258
3259	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3260			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3261			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3262
3263	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3264			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3265			Default is 1.
3266			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3267			using up MTRRs.
3268
3269	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3270			Format: <integer>
3271			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3272			Default : 1
3273			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3274			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3275
3276	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3277
3278	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3279			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3280			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3281			something different and driver-specific.
3282			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3283			file if at all.
3284
3285	nf_conntrack.acct=
3286			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3287			0 to disable accounting
3288			1 to enable accounting
3289			Default value is 0.
3290
3291	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3292			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3293
3294	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3295			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3296
3297	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3298			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3299
3300	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3301			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3302			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3303			requests.
3304
3305	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3306			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3307			channel should listen.
3308
3309	nfs.cache_getent=
3310			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3311			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3312
3313	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3314			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3315			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3316
3317	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3318			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3319			entries.
3320
3321	nfs.enable_ino64=
3322			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3323			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3324			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3325			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3326			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3327
3328	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3329			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3330			slots the client will assign to the callback
3331			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3332			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3333			a particular server.
3334
3335	nfs.max_session_slots=
3336			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3337			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3338			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3339			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3340			Note that there is little point in setting this
3341			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3342
3343	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3344			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3345			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3346			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3347			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3348			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3349			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3350			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3351			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3352			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3353			back to using the idmapper.
3354			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3355	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3356			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3357			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3358			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3359			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3360
3361	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3362			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3363			information in exchange_id requests.
3364			If zero, no implementation identification information
3365			will be sent.
3366			The default is to send the implementation identification
3367			information.
3368
3369	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3370			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3371			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3372			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3373			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3374			after the locks are lost.
3375			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3376			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3377			parameter to '1'.
3378			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3379			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3380
3381	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3382			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3383			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3384
3385			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3386			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3387			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3388			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3389
3390	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3391			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3392			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3393			the destination of the copy.
3394
3395	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3396			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3397			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3398			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3399			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3400			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3401			this parameter.
3402
3403	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3404			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3405			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3406			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3407			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3408			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3409
3410
3411	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3412			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3413			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3414
3415	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3416			when a NMI is triggered.
3417			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3418
3419	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3420			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3421			Valid num: 0 or 1
3422			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3423			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3424			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3425			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3426			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3427			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3428			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3429			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3430			need the box quickly up again.
3431
3432			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3433			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3434
3435	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3436			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3437			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3438			waits 4 seconds.
3439
3440	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3441			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3442			is present.
3443
3444	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3445			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3446
3447	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3448
3449	no_console_suspend
3450			[HW] Never suspend the console
3451			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3452			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3453			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3454			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3455			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3456			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3457			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3458			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3459			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3460			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3461			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3462			turn on/off it dynamically.
3463
3464	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3465			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3466			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3467			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3468			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3469			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3470			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3471			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3472			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3473			is set.
3474
3475	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3476			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3477			but will impact performance.
3478
3479	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3480
3481	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3482			(CPU alternatives feature).
3483
3484	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3485			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3486
3487	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3488
3489	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3490			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3491
3492	nocache		[ARM]
3493
3494	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3495
3496	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3497
3498	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3499
3500	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3501
3502	noexec		[IA-64]
3503
3504	nosmap		[PPC]
3505			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3506			even if it is supported by processor.
3507
3508	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3509			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3510			even if it is supported by processor.
3511
3512	noexec32	[X86-64]
3513			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3514			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3515				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3516			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3517				read implies executable mappings
3518
3519	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3520
3521	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3522			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3523			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3524
3525	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3526
3527	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3528
3529	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3530			Equivalent to smt=1.
3531
3532			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3533			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3534				     via the sysfs control file.
3535
3536	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3537			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3538			possible in the system.
3539
3540	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3541			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3542			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3543			option.
3544
3545	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3546			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3547
3548	no_uaccess_flush
3549	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3550
3551	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3552			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3553			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3554
3555	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3556			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3557			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3558			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3559			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3560			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3561
3562	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3563			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3564			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3565			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3566			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3567			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3568			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3569
3570	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3571			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3572			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3573			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3574			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3575			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3576			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3577			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3578
3579	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3580			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3581			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3582
3583	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3584			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3585			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3586			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3587			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3588			real-time systems.
3589
3590	no_hash_pointers
3591			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3592			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3593			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3594			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3595			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3596			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3597			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3598			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3599			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3600			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3601			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3602			kernels.
3603
3604	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3605
3606	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3607			Valid arguments: on, off
3608			Default: on
3609
3610	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3611			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3612			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3613			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3614			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3615			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3616			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3617			just as if they had also been called out in the
3618			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3619
3620	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3621
3622	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3623			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3624
3625	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3626			broken timer IRQ sources.
3627
3628	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3629
3630	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3631			initial RAM disk.
3632
3633	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3634			remapping.
3635			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3636
3637	nointroute	[IA-64]
3638
3639	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3640
3641	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3642
3643	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3644
3645	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3646			fault handling.
3647
3648	no-vmw-sched-clock
3649			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3650			clock and use the default one.
3651
3652	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3653			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3654			influence scheduler behaviour
3655
3656	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3657
3658	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3659
3660	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3661			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3662
3663	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3664
3665	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3666
3667	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3668			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3669
3670	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3671			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3672			irq.
3673
3674	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3675			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3676			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3677			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3678
3679			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3680
3681	nomodule	Disable module load
3682
3683	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3684			pagetables) support.
3685
3686	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3687
3688	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3689			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3690
3691	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3692			with UP alternatives
3693
3694	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3695			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3696			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3697			available to user space applications.
3698
3699	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3700			space.
3701
3702	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3703			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3704			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3705
3706	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3707
3708	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3709
3710	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3711			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3712
3713	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3714
3715	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3716
3717	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3718			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3719
3720	nowb		[ARM]
3721
3722	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3723
3724	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3725			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3726			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3727			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3728			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3729			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3730			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3731			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3732			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3733			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3734			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3735			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3736			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3737
3738	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3739			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3740			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3741			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3742			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3743			parameter's value.
3744			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3745			Default: 255
3746
3747	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3748			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3749			SAL PALO.
3750
3751	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3752			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3753			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3754			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3755			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3756			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3757			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3758			hot plugging.
3759
3760	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3761
3762	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3763			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3764
3765	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3766			NUMA balancing.
3767			Allowed values are enable and disable
3768
3769	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3770			'node', 'default' can be specified
3771			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3772			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3773
3774	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3775			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3776			info.
3777
3778	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3779			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3780			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3781			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3782			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3783			interrupts *may* be lost!
3784
3785	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3786			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3787			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3788			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3789
3790	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3791			process, but there is a small probability of
3792			deadlocking the machine.
3793			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3794			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3795
3796	page_alloc.shuffle=
3797			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3798			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3799			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3800			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3801			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3802			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3803			can be read from sysfs at:
3804			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3805
3806	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3807			Storage of the information about who allocated
3808			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3809			we can turn it on.
3810			on: enable the feature
3811
3812	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3813			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3814			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3815			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3816			on: turn on poisoning
3817
3818	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3819			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3820			Format: <integer>
3821			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3822			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3823
3824	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3825			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3826			timeout = 0: wait forever
3827			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3828			Format: <timeout>
3829
3830	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3831			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3832			bit 0: print all tasks info
3833			bit 1: print system memory info
3834			bit 2: print timer info
3835			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3836			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3837			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3838			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3839			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3840			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3841			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3842			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3843
3844	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3845			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3846			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3847			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3848			called with any of the flags in this set.
3849			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3850			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3851			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3852			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3853			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3854			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3855			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3856
3857	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3858			on a WARN().
3859
3860	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3861			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3862			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3863			succeeds in any situation.
3864			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3865			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3866			kernel more unstable.
3867
3868	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3869			connected to, default is 0.
3870			Format: <parport#>
3871	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3872			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3873			Format: <mode>
3874
3875	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3876			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3877			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3878			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3879			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3880			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3881			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3882			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3883			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3884			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3885			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3886			are specified on the command line, starting
3887			with parport0.
3888
3889	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3890			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3891			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3892			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3893			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3894			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3895			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3896
3897	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3898			Format: <int>
3899			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3900			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3901			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3902
3903	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3904			Format: <int>
3905			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3906			changes.  Disabled by default.
3907
3908	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3909			Format: <int>
3910			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3911			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3912			Disabled by default.
3913
3914	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3915			Format: <int>
3916			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3917			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3918			Disabled by default.
3919
3920	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3921			Format: <int>
3922			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3923			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3924			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3925			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3926			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3927			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3928			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3929			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3930			all channels.
3931
3932	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3933			Format: <int>
3934			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3935			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3936			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3937
3938	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3939			Format: <int>
3940			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3941			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3942			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3943
3944	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3945			Format: <int>
3946			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3947			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3948			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3949			All modes allowed by default.
3950
3951	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3952			Format: <int>
3953			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3954			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3955
3956	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3957			Format: <int>
3958			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3959			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3960			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3961			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3962			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3963			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3964			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3965			By default all supported ports are probed.
3966
3967	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3968			Format: <int>
3969			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3970			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3971
3972	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3973			Format: <int>
3974			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3975			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3976			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3977			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3978			0 otherwise.
3979
3980	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3981			Format: <int>
3982			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3983			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3984			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3985			allowed by default.
3986
3987	pause_on_oops=
3988			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3989			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3990			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3991
3992	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3993
3994	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3995			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3996			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3997
3998	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3999
4000				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4001				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4002				specified in one of the following formats:
4003
4004				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4005				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4006
4007				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4008				bus/device/function address which may change
4009				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4010				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4011				by other kernel parameters. If the
4012				domain is left unspecified, it is
4013				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4014				to a device through multiple device/function
4015				addresses can be specified after the base
4016				address (this is more robust against
4017				renumbering issues).  The second format
4018				selects devices using IDs from the
4019				configuration space which may match multiple
4020				devices in the system.
4021
4022		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4023				changes anything
4024		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4025		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4026				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4027				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4028		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4029				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4030				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4031				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4032		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4033				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4034				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4035		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4036				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4037				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4038				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4039				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4040				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4041				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4042		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4043				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4044				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4045		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4046				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4047		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4048				Configuration
4049		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4050				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4051				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4052		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4053				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4054				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4055		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4056				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4057				should never be necessary.
4058		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4059				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4060				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4061				when the system masks IRQs.
4062		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4063				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4064				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4065				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4066		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4067				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4068				on several machines and they hang the machine
4069				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4070				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4071				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4072				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4073				motherboard.
4074		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4075				Use with caution as certain devices share
4076				address decoders between ROMs and other
4077				resources.
4078		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4079				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4080				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4081		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4082				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4083		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4084				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4085				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4086				this way.
4087		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4088				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4089				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4090				F0000h-100000h range.
4091		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4092				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4093				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4094				explicitly which ones they are.
4095		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4096				numbers ourselves, overriding
4097				whatever the firmware may have done.
4098		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4099				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4100				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4101				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4102				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4103				IRQ routing is enabled.
4104		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4105				or for PCI scanning.
4106		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4107				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4108				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4109				please report a bug.
4110		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4111				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4112		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4113				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4114				so this option is a temporary workaround
4115				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4116		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4117				handle more pci cards
4118		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4119				This might help on some broken boards which
4120				machine check when some devices' config space
4121				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4122				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4123		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4124				This sorting is done to get a device
4125				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4126		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4127		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4128				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4129		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4130				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4131		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4132				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4133				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4134				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4135				or bus can support) for best performance.
4136		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4137				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4138				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4139				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4140				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4141				that hot-added devices will work.
4142		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4143				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4144				The default value is 256 bytes.
4145		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4146				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4147				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4148		resource_alignment=
4149				Format:
4150				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4151				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4152				aligned memory resources. How to
4153				specify the device is described above.
4154				If <order of align> is not specified,
4155				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4156				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4157				windows need to be expanded.
4158				To specify the alignment for several
4159				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4160				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4161				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4162				for 4096-byte alignment.
4163		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4164				end-to-end CRC checking).
4165				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4166				the default.
4167				off: Turn ECRC off
4168				on: Turn ECRC on.
4169		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4170				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4171				Default size is 256 bytes.
4172		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4173				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4174				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4175		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4176				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4177				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4178		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4179				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4180				MMIO_PREF window.
4181				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4182		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4183				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4184				Default is 1.
4185		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4186				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4187				accommodate resources required by all child
4188				devices.
4189				off: Turn realloc off
4190				on: Turn realloc on
4191		realloc		same as realloc=on
4192		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4193		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4194				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4195		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4196				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4197				port.
4198		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4199				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4200				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4201				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4202				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4203				taints the kernel.
4204		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4205				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4206				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4207				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4208				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4209				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4210				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4211				this removes isolation between devices and
4212				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4213		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4214		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4215		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4216				one PCI domain per PCI function
4217
4218	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4219			Management.
4220		off	Disable ASPM.
4221		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4222			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4223
4224	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4225		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4226			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4227			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4228			also tries to use these services.
4229		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4230				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4231		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4232			hotplug).
4233
4234	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4235		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4236		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4237
4238	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4239		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4240			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4241
4242	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4243
4244	pd_ignore_unused
4245			[PM]
4246			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4247			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4248			for debug and development, but should not be
4249			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4250
4251	pd.		[PARIDE]
4252			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4253
4254	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4255			boot time.
4256			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4257			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4258
4259	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4260			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4261			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4262			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4263			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4264			and performance comparison.
4265
4266	pf.		[PARIDE]
4267			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4268
4269	pg.		[PARIDE]
4270			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4271
4272	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4273			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4274
4275	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4276			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4277			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4278
4279	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4280			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4281			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4282
4283	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4284			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4285			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4286			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4287			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4288			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4289			remains 0.
4290
4291	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4292			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4293
4294	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4295			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4296			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4297			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4298			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4299			possible settings and some assignment information.
4300
4301	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4302			{ off }
4303
4304	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4305			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4306
4307	pnp_reserve_irq=
4308			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4309
4310	pnp_reserve_dma=
4311			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4312
4313	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4314			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4315
4316	pnp_reserve_mem=
4317			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4318			autoconfiguration.
4319			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4320
4321	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4322			Default is 21.
4323			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4324			may be specified.
4325			Format: <port>,<port>....
4326
4327	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4328			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4329			platform machine description specific power_save
4330			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4331			execution priority.
4332
4333	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4334			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4335			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4336			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4337			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4338
4339	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4340			Format: {"off"}
4341			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4342
4343	preempt=	[KNL]
4344			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4345			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4346			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4347			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4348			       can be preempted anytime.
4349
4350	print-fatal-signals=
4351			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4352
4353			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4354			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4355			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4356			coredump - etc.
4357
4358			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4359			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4360
4361			default: off.
4362
4363	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4364			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4365			panics
4366			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4367			default: disabled
4368
4369	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4370			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4371			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4372			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4373			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4374			in order to provide more debug information.
4375			Format: <bool>
4376			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4377
4378	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4379			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4380			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4381			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4382			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4383			Default: ratelimit
4384
4385	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4386			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4387
4388	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4389			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4390			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4391
4392	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4393			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4394			instead using the legacy FADT method
4395
4396	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4397			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4398			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4399				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4400			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4401			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4402				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4403			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4404			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4405				statistical time based profiling.
4406
4407	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4408
4409	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4410			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4411			that).
4412			Format: <bool>
4413
4414	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4415			tracking.
4416			Format: <bool>
4417
4418	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4419			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4420	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4421			per second.
4422	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4423			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4424			(0 = never).
4425	psmouse.resolution=
4426			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4427	psmouse.smartscroll=
4428			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4429			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4430
4431	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4432
4433	pt.		[PARIDE]
4434			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4435
4436	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4437			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4438			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4439			system calls and interrupts.
4440
4441			on   - unconditionally enable
4442			off  - unconditionally disable
4443			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4444			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4445
4446			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4447
4448	nopti		[X86-64]
4449			Equivalent to pti=off
4450
4451	pty.legacy_count=
4452			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4453			default number.
4454
4455	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4456
4457	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4458
4459	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4460			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4461
4462	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4463			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4464
4465	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4466
4467	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4468			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4469			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4470			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4471			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4472
4473	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4474			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4475			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4476			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4477			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4478
4479	randomize_kstack_offset=
4480			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4481			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4482			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4483			that depend on stack address determinism or
4484			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4485			available on architectures that have defined
4486			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4487			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4488			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4489
4490	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4491
4492		cec_disable	[X86]
4493				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4494				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4495
4496	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4497			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4498			as described above.
4499
4500			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4501			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4502			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4503			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4504			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4505			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4506			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4507			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4508			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4509			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4510			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4511			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4512
4513			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4514			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4515
4516			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4517			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4518			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4519			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4520
4521	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4522			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4523			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4524			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4525			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4526			This improves the real-time response for the
4527			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4528			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4529			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4530			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4531
4532	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4533			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4534			process in one batch.
4535
4536	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4537			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4538			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4539			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4540
4541	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4542			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4543			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4544
4545	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4546			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4547			RCU grace-period initialization.
4548
4549	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4550			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4551			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4552			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4553			the rcu_node combining tree.
4554
4555	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4556			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4557			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4558			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4559			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4560
4561			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4562			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4563			to zero.
4564
4565	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4566			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4567			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4568			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4569			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4570
4571	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4572			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4573			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4574			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4575			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4576			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4577			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4578
4579	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4580			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4581			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4582			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4583			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4584			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4585			condition.
4586
4587	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4588			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4589			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4590			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4591
4592	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4593			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4594			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4595			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4596			and maximum value is HZ.
4597
4598	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4599			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4600			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4601			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4602
4603	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4604			Set required age in jiffies for a
4605			given grace period before RCU starts
4606			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4607			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4608			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4609			a value based on the most recent settings
4610			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4611			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4612			This calculated value may be viewed in
4613			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4614			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4615			overwritten.
4616
4617	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4618			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4619			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4620			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4621			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4622			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4623			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4624			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4625			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4626			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4627			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4628			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4629
4630	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4631			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4632			each group, which defaults to the square root
4633			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4634			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4635			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4636			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4637
4638	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4639			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4640			batch limiting is disabled.
4641
4642	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4643			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4644			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4645
4646	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4647			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4648			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4649			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4650			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4651			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4652			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4653			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4654
4655	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4656			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4657			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4658			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4659			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4660			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4661
4662	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4663			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4664			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4665			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4666			Larger delays increase the probability of
4667			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4668			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4669			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4670
4671	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4672			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4673			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4674			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4675
4676	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4677			Measure performance of asynchronous
4678			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4679
4680	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4681			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4682			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4683			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4684			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4685			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4686
4687	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4688			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4689			grace-period primitives.
4690
4691	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4692			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4693			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4694			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4695			interference.
4696
4697	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4698			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4699
4700	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4701			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4702			If this parameter has the same value as
4703			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4704			and double-argument variants are tested.
4705
4706	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4707			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4708			If this parameter has the same value as
4709			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4710			and double-argument variants are tested.
4711
4712	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4713			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4714
4715	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4716			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4717
4718	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4719			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4720			of allocations and frees.
4721
4722	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4723			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4724			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4725			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4726			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4727			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4728			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4729			a single reader.
4730
4731	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4732			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4733			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4734			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4735
4736	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4737			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4738
4739	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4740			Shut the system down after performance tests
4741			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4742			testing.
4743
4744	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4745			Enable additional printk() statements.
4746
4747	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4748			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4749			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4750			no holdoff.
4751
4752	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4753			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4754			in microseconds.
4755
4756	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4757			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4758			in microseconds.
4759
4760	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4761			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4762			in seconds.
4763
4764	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4765			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4766			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4767			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4768			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4769			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4770			of CPUs to be used.
4771
4772	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4773			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4774			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4775
4776	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4777			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4778			forward-progress tests.
4779
4780	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4781			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4782			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4783			testing.
4784
4785	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4786			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4787			primitives, if available.
4788
4789	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4790			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4791
4792	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4793			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4794			update-side primitives, if available.
4795
4796	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4797			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4798			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4799			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4800			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4801			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4802			they are all non-zero.
4803
4804	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4805			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4806			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4807			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4808
4809	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4810			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4811			This can of course result in splats, and is
4812			intended to test the ability of things like
4813			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4814			such leaks.
4815
4816	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4817			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4818
4819	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4820			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4821			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4822			test, hence the "fake".
4823
4824	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4825			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4826			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4827
4828	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4829			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4830			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4831
4832	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4833			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4834			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4835			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4836			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4837			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4838
4839	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4840			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4841
4842	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4843			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4844
4845	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4846			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4847			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4848
4849	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4850			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4851			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4852			task-exit processing.
4853
4854	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4855			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4856			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4857			is spawned.
4858
4859	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4860			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4861			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4862
4863	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4864			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4865			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4866			during the rcutorture test.
4867
4868	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4869			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4870			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4871
4872	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4873			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4874			warnings, zero to disable.
4875
4876	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4877			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4878			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4879			to any other stall-related activity.
4880
4881	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4882			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4883
4884	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4885			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4886
4887	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4888			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4889			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4890			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4891			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4892			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4893
4894	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4895			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4896
4897	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4898			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4899			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4900			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4901			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4902
4903	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4904			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4905			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4906			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4907
4908	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4909			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4910
4911	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4912			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4913
4914	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4915			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4916			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4917
4918	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4919			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4920
4921	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4922			Enable additional printk() statements.
4923
4924	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4925			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4926			stall warning.
4927
4928	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4929			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4930
4931	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4932			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4933			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4934			during early boot, that is, during the time
4935			before the init task is spawned.
4936
4937	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4938			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4939			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
4940			value is 300 seconds.
4941
4942	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4943			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
4944			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
4945			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
4946			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
4947			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
4948			Setting this to zero causes the value from
4949			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
4950			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
4951
4952	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4953			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4954			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4955			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4956			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4957			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4958			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4959
4960	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4961			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4962			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4963			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4964			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4965			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4966			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4967			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4968			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4969
4970	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4971			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4972			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4973			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4974			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4975
4976			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4977			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4978			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4979			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4980			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4981			grace-period processing.
4982
4983	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4984			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4985			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4986			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4987			a single callback queue.  This switching only
4988			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4989			set to the default value of -1.
4990
4991	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4992			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4993			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4994			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4995			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
4996			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4997			the default value of -1.
4998
4999	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5000			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5001			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5002			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5003			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5004			for use in testing.
5005
5006	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5007			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5008			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5009			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5010			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5011			but lengthens grace periods.
5012
5013	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5014			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5015			informational messages, which give some indication
5016			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5017			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5018			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5019			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5020			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5021			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5022			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5023
5024	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5025			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5026			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5027			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5028			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5029			the value three, so that the first informational
5030			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5031			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5032			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5033			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5034
5035	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5036			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5037			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5038			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5039			A change in value does not take effect until
5040			the beginning of the next grace period.
5041
5042	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5043			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5044
5045	rdinit=		[KNL]
5046			Format: <full_path>
5047			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5048			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5049
5050	rdrand=		[X86]
5051			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5052				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5053				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5054				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5055				path).
5056
5057	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5058			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5059			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5060			mba.
5061			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5062				rdt=cmt,!mba
5063
5064	reboot=		[KNL]
5065			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5066				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5067				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5068				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5069				[[,]f[orce]
5070			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5071					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5072					reboot only),
5073			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5074			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5075			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5076					to be used for rebooting.
5077
5078	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5079			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5080			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5081			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5082			interference.
5083
5084	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5085			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5086			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5087			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5088			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5089			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5090			x86 laptops.
5091
5092	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5093			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5094			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5095			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5096
5097	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5098			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5099			the console log.
5100
5101	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5102			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5103			measured in microseconds.
5104
5105	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5106			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5107
5108	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5109			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5110			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5111			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5112			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5113
5114	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5115			Enable additional printk() statements.
5116
5117	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5118			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5119			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5120			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5121			specified.
5122
5123	relax_domain_level=
5124			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5125			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5126
5127	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5128			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5129			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5130			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5131			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5132
5133	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5134			Format: nn[KMG]
5135			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5136			address space.
5137
5138	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5139			during initialization.
5140
5141	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5142			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5143			Format:
5144			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5145
5146	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5147			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5148			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5149			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5150			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5151
5152	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5153			read the resume files
5154
5155	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5156			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5157			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5158
5159	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
5160		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
5161				present during boot.
5162		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
5163		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
5164		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
5165				(that will set all pages holding image data
5166				during restoration read-only).
5167
5168	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5169
5170	rfkill.default_state=
5171		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5172			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5173		1	Unblocked.
5174
5175	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5176		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5177		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5178			blocked and the previous configuration.
5179		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5180			blocked and everything unblocked.
5181
5182	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5183			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5184
5185	ring3mwait=disable
5186			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5187			CPUs.
5188
5189	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5190
5191	rodata=		[KNL]
5192		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5193		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5194
5195	rockchip.usb_uart
5196			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5197			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5198			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5199			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5200
5201	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5202			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5203
5204	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5205			mount the root filesystem
5206
5207	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5208
5209	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5210
5211	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5212			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5213			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5214
5215	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5216			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5217			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5218			managed by CMA.
5219
5220	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5221
5222	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5223
5224	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5225			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5226		strict
5227			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5228			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5229			which is faster.
5230
5231	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5232			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5233			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5234			factor of the size of main memory.
5235			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5236			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5237			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5238			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5239			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5240			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5241			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5242
5243	sa1100ir	[NET]
5244			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5245
5246	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5247
5248	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5249			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5250			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5251			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5252
5253	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5254			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5255			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5256			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5257			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5258			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5259			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5260			value.
5261			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5262			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5263				1			64 ms
5264				2			128 ms
5265			and so on.
5266			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5267			Default is 0.
5268
5269	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5270			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5271			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5272			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5273			tests.
5274
5275	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5276			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5277			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5278			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5279			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5280			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5281			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5282
5283	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5284			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5285			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5286			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5287			equal to the number of CPUs.
5288
5289	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5290			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5291			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5292
5293	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5294			Number seconds to wait between successive
5295			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5296			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5297
5298	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5299			The number of seconds following the start of the
5300			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5301			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5302			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5303
5304	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5305			The number of seconds between outputting the
5306			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5307			of zero disables statistics output.
5308
5309	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5310			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5311			to the set of CPUs under test.
5312
5313	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5314			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5315			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5316			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5317			functions.
5318
5319	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5320			Enable additional printk() statements.
5321
5322	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5323			The probability weighting to use for the
5324			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5325			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5326			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5327			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5328			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5329
5330	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5331			The probability weighting to use for the
5332			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5333			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5334
5335	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5336			The probability weighting to use for the
5337			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5338			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5339			Note well that setting a high probability for
5340			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5341			on the system.
5342
5343	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5344			The probability weighting to use for the
5345			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5346			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5347			and weight_many.
5348
5349	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5350			The probability weighting to use for the
5351			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5352			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5353			weight_many.
5354
5355	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5356			The probability weighting to use for the
5357			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5358			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5359			and weight_many.
5360
5361	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5362			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5363			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5364			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5365			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5366			1 -- enable.
5367			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5368			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5369
5370	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5371			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5372			"lsm=" parameter.
5373
5374	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5375			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5376			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5377			0 -- disable.
5378			1 -- enable.
5379			Default value is 1.
5380
5381	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5382			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5383			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5384			0 -- disable.
5385			1 -- enable.
5386			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5387
5388	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5389
5390	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5391
5392	shapers=	[NET]
5393			Maximal number of shapers.
5394
5395	simeth=		[IA-64]
5396	simscsi=
5397
5398	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5399
5400	slab_merge	[MM]
5401			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5402			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5403
5404	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5405			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5406			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5407			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5408			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5409			layout control by attackers can usually be
5410			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5411			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5412			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5413			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5414			own.
5415			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5416
5417	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5418			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5419			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5420			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5421			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5422
5423	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5424			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5425			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5426			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5427			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5428			last alloc / free. For more information see
5429			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5430
5431	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5432			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5433			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5434			fragmentation. For more information see
5435			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5436
5437	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5438			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5439			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5440			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5441			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5442			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5443			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5444			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5445
5446	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5447			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5448			lower than slub_max_order.
5449			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5450
5451	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5452			Same with slab_merge.
5453
5454	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5455			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5456			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5457
5458	smart2=		[HW]
5459			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5460
5461	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5462			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5463			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5464			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5465			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5466			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5467			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5468			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5469			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5470			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5471
5472	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5473	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5474	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5475	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5476	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5477	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5478	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5479				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5480				1: Fast pin select (default)
5481				2: ATC IRMode
5482
5483	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5484			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5485			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5486			actual hardware limit.
5487			Format: <integer>
5488			Default: -1 (no limit)
5489
5490	softlockup_panic=
5491			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5492			Format: 0 | 1
5493
5494			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5495			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5496			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5497			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5498			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5499
5500	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5501			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5502			backtraces on all cpus.
5503			Format: 0 | 1
5504
5505	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5506			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5507
5508	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5509			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5510			The default operation protects the kernel from
5511			user space attacks.
5512
5513			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5514			       spectre_v2_user=on
5515			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5516			       spectre_v2_user=off
5517			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5518			       vulnerable
5519
5520			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5521			mitigation method at run time according to the
5522			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5523			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5524			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5525
5526			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5527			against user space to user space task attacks.
5528
5529			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5530			the user space protections.
5531
5532			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5533
5534			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5535			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5536			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5537			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5538			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5539			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5540			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5541
5542			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5543			spectre_v2=auto.
5544
5545	spectre_v2_user=
5546			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5547		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5548		        user space tasks
5549
5550			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5551				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5552
5553			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5554				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5555
5556			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5557				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5558				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5559				  is inherited on fork.
5560
5561			prctl,ibpb
5562				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5563				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5564				  always when switching between different user
5565				  space processes.
5566
5567			seccomp
5568				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5569				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5570				  they explicitly opt out.
5571
5572			seccomp,ibpb
5573				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5574				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5575				  always when switching between different
5576				  user space processes.
5577
5578			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5579				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5580
5581			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5582
5583			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5584			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5585
5586	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5587			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5588			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5589
5590			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5591			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5592			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5593			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5594			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5595			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5596			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5597			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5598
5599			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5600			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5601			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5602			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5603
5604			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5605			Bypass optimization is used.
5606
5607			On x86 the options are:
5608
5609			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5610			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5611			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5612				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5613				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5614				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5615				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5616				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5617			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5618				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5619				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5620				  is inherited on fork.
5621			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5622				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5623
5624			Default mitigations:
5625			X86:	"prctl"
5626
5627			On powerpc the options are:
5628
5629			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5630				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5631				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5632				  exit.
5633			off	- No action.
5634
5635			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5636			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5637
5638	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5639	spia_fio_base=
5640	spia_pedr=
5641	spia_peddr=
5642
5643	split_lock_detect=
5644			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5645
5646			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5647			instructions that access data across cache line
5648			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5649			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5650			bus lock detection.
5651
5652			off	- not enabled
5653
5654			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5655				  about applications triggering the #AC
5656				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5657				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5658				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5659				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5660				  enabled in hardware.
5661
5662			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5663				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5664				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5665				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5666
5667			ratelimit:N -
5668				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5669				  per second for bus lock detection.
5670				  0 < N <= 1000.
5671
5672				  N/A for split lock detection.
5673
5674
5675			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5676			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5677			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5678			mode.
5679
5680			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5681			CPL > 0.
5682
5683	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5684			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5685			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5686
5687			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5688			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5689			number generator.
5690
5691			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5692			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5693			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5694			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5695			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5696
5697			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5698			the following option:
5699
5700			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5701				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5702
5703	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5704			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5705			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5706			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5707			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5708			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5709			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5710			(decide at boot).
5711
5712	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5713			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5714			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5715			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5716
5717				   0:  Never.
5718				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5719				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5720				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5721				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5722
5723			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5724			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5725			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5726
5727	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5728			Specifies how frequently to check for
5729			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5730			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5731			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5732			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5733			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5734			are ignored.
5735
5736	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5737			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5738			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5739			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5740			grace period will be considered for automatic
5741			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5742			expediting.
5743
5744	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5745			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5746			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5747			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5748			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5749			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5750			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5751
5752	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5753			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5754
5755			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5756			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5757			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5758			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5759
5760			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5761				   for both kernel and userspace
5762			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5763				   for both kernel and userspace
5764			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5765				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5766				   to allow userspace to register its
5767				   interest in being mitigated too.
5768
5769	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5770			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5771			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5772			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5773			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5774			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5775
5776	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5777			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5778			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5779			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5780			to false.
5781
5782	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5783			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5784
5785	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5786			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5787			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5788			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5789			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5790			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5791			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5792
5793	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5794			Format: <num>
5795			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5796			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5797			as the initial boot-console.
5798			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5799
5800	sti_font=	[HW]
5801			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5802
5803	stifb=		[HW]
5804			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5805
5806        strict_sas_size=
5807			[X86]
5808			Format: <bool>
5809			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5810			against the required signal frame size which
5811			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5812			be used to filter out binaries which have
5813			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5814
5815	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5816	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5817			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5818			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5819			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5820			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5821			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5822			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5823			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5824			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5825			maximum port values.
5826
5827	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5828			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5829			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5830			process in parallel from a single connection.
5831			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5832
5833	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5834			[NFS]
5835			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5836			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5837			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5838			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5839			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5840			NFS server is running.
5841
5842			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5843				    automatically using heuristics
5844			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5845			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5846			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5847				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5848
5849	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5850	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5851			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5852			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5853			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5854			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5855			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5856			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5857
5858	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5859			[SUSPEND]
5860			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5861			mode before resuming the system (see
5862			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5863			is set. Default value is 5.
5864
5865	svm=		[PPC]
5866			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5867			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5868			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5869
5870	swapaccount=[0|1]
5871			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5872			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5873			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5874
5875	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5876			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5877			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5878			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5879			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5880			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5881
5882	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5883
5884	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5885			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5886			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5887			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5888			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5889			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5890			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5891			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5892
5893	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5894			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5895			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5896			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5897			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5898			in older udev will not work anymore.
5899			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5900			the kernel configuration.
5901
5902	sysrq_always_enabled
5903			[KNL]
5904			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5905			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5906			Useful for debugging.
5907
5908	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5909			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5910			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5911			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5912			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5913			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5914
5915	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5916
5917	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5918			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5919			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5920			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5921			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5922			The system is woken from this state using a
5923			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5924
5925	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5926			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5927
5928	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5929			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5930			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5931
5932	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5933			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5934			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5935
5936	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5937			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5938			critical and hot trip points.
5939
5940	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5941			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5942
5943	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5944			-1: disable all passive trip points
5945			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5946			value
5947
5948	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5949			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5950			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5951			0: no polling (default)
5952
5953	threadirqs	[KNL]
5954			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5955			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5956
5957	topology=	[S390]
5958			Format: {off | on}
5959			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5960			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5961			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5962			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5963			Default is on.
5964
5965	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5966			Format: {off}
5967			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5968			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5969			LPAR.
5970
5971	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5972			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5973			until after init has spawned.
5974
5975	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5976			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5977			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5978			very costly operation when many torture tests
5979			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5980			with rotating-rust storage.
5981
5982	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5983			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5984			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5985			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5986
5987	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5988			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5989
5990	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5991
5992	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5993			Format: integer pcr id
5994			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5995			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5996			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5997			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5998			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5999			are saved.
6000
6001	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6002			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6003
6004	trace_event=[event-list]
6005			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6006			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6007			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6008			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6009
6010	trace_options=[option-list]
6011			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6012			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6013			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6014			to echo the option name into
6015
6016			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6017
6018			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6019			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6020
6021			      trace_options=stacktrace
6022
6023			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6024			section.
6025
6026	tp_printk[FTRACE]
6027			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6028			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6029			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6030			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6031			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6032
6033			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6034			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6035			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6036			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6037
6038			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6039			to stop the printing of events to console at
6040			late_initcall_sync.
6041
6042			** CAUTION **
6043
6044			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6045			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6046			the system to live lock.
6047
6048	tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
6049			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6050			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6051			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6052			make the system inoperable.
6053
6054			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6055			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6056
6057	traceoff_on_warning
6058			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6059			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6060			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6061			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6062
6063			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6064			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6065			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6066
6067			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6068			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6069
6070	transparent_hugepage=
6071			[KNL]
6072			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6073			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6074			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6075			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6076			for more details.
6077
6078	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6079			Format: <string>
6080			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6081			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6082			sources:
6083			- "tpm"
6084			- "tee"
6085			- "caam"
6086			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6087			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6088			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6089			successfully during iteration.
6090
6091	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6092			Format: <string>
6093			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6094			Can be one of:
6095			- "kernel"
6096			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6097			- "default"
6098			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6099			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6100
6101	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6102			Format: <string>
6103			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6104			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6105			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6106			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6107			virtualized environment.
6108			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6109			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6110			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6111			can add overhead.
6112			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6113			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6114			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6115			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6116			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6117			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6118			acceptable).
6119
6120	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6121			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6122			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6123			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6124			Format: <unsigned int>
6125
6126	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6127			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6128			support TSX control.
6129
6130			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6131
6132			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6133				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6134				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6135				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6136				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6137				with leaving it enabled.
6138
6139			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6140				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6141				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6142				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6143				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6144				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6145				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6146
6147			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6148				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6149
6150			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6151
6152			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6153			for more details.
6154
6155	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6156			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6157
6158			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6159			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6160			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6161			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6162			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6163			conditions.
6164
6165			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6166			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6167			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6168			access.
6169
6170			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6171			options are:
6172
6173			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6174				     if TSX is enabled.
6175
6176			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6177				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6178				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6179				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6180			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6181
6182			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6183			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6184			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6185			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6186
6187			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6188			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6189			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6190			required and doesn't provide any additional
6191			mitigation.
6192
6193			For details see:
6194			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6195
6196	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6197			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6198			Format:
6199			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6200			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6201
6202	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6203			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6204			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6205			help "seeing" what's going on.
6206
6207	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6208			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6209
6210	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6211			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6212			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6213			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6214			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6215			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6216			reported either.
6217
6218	unknown_nmi_panic
6219			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6220
6221	usbcore.authorized_default=
6222			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6223			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6224			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6225			if device connected to internal port)
6226
6227	usbcore.autosuspend=
6228			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6229			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6230			is the time required before an idle device will be
6231			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6232			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6233
6234	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6235			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6236
6237	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6238			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6239			(default = 65536).
6240
6241	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6242			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6243
6244	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6245			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6246			scheme (default 0 = off).
6247
6248	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6249			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6250			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6251
6252	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6253			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6254			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6255
6256	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6257			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6258			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6259			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6260
6261	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6262
6263	usbcore.quirks=
6264			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6265			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6266			commas. Each entry has the form
6267			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6268			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6269			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6270			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6271			the following meanings:
6272				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6273					descriptors must not be fetched using
6274					a 255-byte read);
6275				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6276					correctly so reset it instead);
6277				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6278					Set-Interface requests);
6279				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6280					handle its Configuration or Interface
6281					strings);
6282				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6283					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6284				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6285					more interface descriptions than the
6286					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6287					talking to these interfaces);
6288				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6289					during initialization, after we read
6290					the device descriptor);
6291				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6292					high speed and super speed interrupt
6293					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6294					require the interval in microframes (1
6295					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6296					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6297					(bInterval-1).
6298					Devices with this quirk report their
6299					bInterval as the result of this
6300					calculation instead of the exponent
6301					variable used in the calculation);
6302				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6303					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6304					requests);
6305				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6306					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6307					remote wakeup capability);
6308				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6309					Power Management);
6310				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6311					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6312					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6313					calculation);
6314				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6315					to be disconnected before suspend to
6316					prevent spurious wakeup);
6317				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6318					pause after every control message);
6319				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6320					delay after resetting its port);
6321			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6322
6323	usbhid.mousepoll=
6324			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6325
6326	usbhid.jspoll=
6327			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6328
6329	usbhid.kbpoll=
6330			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6331
6332	usb-storage.delay_use=
6333			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6334			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6335
6336	usb-storage.quirks=
6337			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6338			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6339			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6340			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6341			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6342			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6343			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6344				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6345					of sense data, not on uas);
6346				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6347					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6348				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6349					device capacity by one sector);
6350				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6351					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6352				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6353					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6354				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6355					command, uas only);
6356				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6357					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6358				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6359					reported device capacity by one
6360					sector if the number is odd);
6361				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6362					device);
6363				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6364					command, uas only);
6365				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6366				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6367					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6368				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6369					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6370					not on uas);
6371				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6372					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6373				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6374					reported by the device, not on uas);
6375				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6376					by default, not on uas);
6377				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6378					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6379				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6380					Logical Unit);
6381				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6382					commands, uas only);
6383				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6384				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6385					medium is write-protected).
6386				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6387					even if the device claims no cache,
6388					not on uas)
6389			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6390
6391	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6392			Format: <int>
6393			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6394				 1 - undefined instruction events
6395				 2 - system calls
6396				 4 - invalid data aborts
6397				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6398				16 - SIGBUS faults
6399			Example: user_debug=31
6400
6401	userpte=
6402			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6403
6404				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6405					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6406					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6407
6408	vdso=		[X86,SH]
6409			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6410
6411			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6412			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6413
6414	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6415			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6416			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6417
6418			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6419			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6420			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6421
6422			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6423			alias for vdso32=0.
6424
6425			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6426			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6427
6428	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6429			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6430
6431	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6432			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6433
6434	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6435			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6436			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6437			level and then send out the event to user space through
6438			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6439			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6440			brightness level.
6441			default: 1
6442
6443	virtio_mmio.device=
6444			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6445
6446				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6447			where:
6448				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6449						like K, M and G)
6450				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6451				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6452						request_irq())
6453				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6454			example:
6455				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6456
6457			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6458
6459	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6460			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6461			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6462			Use vga=ask for menu.
6463			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6464			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6465
6466	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6467			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6468			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6469			All options are enabled by default, and this
6470			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6471			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6472			debugging features.
6473
6474			Available options are:
6475			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6476			  -	Disable all of the above options
6477
6478	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6479			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6480			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6481			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6482			mapped kernel RAM.
6483
6484	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6485			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6486			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6487
6488	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6489			Format: <command>
6490
6491	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6492			Format: <command>
6493
6494	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6495			Format: <command>
6496
6497	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6498			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6499			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6500			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6501			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6502			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6503			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6504
6505			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6506			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6507				    page is readable.
6508
6509			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6510			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6511				    page is not readable.
6512
6513			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6514			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6515			            might break your system.
6516
6517	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6518			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6519			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6520
6521	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6522			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6523			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6524			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6525
6526	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6527			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6528			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6529			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6530			ranging from 0-255.
6531
6532	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6533			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6534			Change the default green palette of the console.
6535			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6536			ranging from 0-255.
6537
6538	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6539			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6540			Change the default red palette of the console.
6541			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6542			ranging from 0-255.
6543
6544	vt.default_utf8=
6545			[VT]
6546			Format=<0|1>
6547			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6548			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6549			newly opened terminals.
6550
6551	vt.global_cursor_default=
6552			[VT]
6553			Format=<-1|0|1>
6554			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6555			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6556			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6557			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6558			cursors, 1 will display them.
6559
6560	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6561			Default: 2 = green.
6562
6563	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6564			Default: 3 = cyan.
6565
6566	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6567			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6568			or other driver-specific files in the
6569			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6570
6571	watchdog_thresh=
6572			[KNL]
6573			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6574			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6575			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6576			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6577			seconds.
6578
6579	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6580			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6581			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6582			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6583			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6584			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6585			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6586			corresponding sysfs file.
6587
6588	workqueue.disable_numa
6589			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6590			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6591			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6592			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6593			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6594			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6595			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6596
6597	workqueue.power_efficient
6598			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6599			they show better performance thanks to cache
6600			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6601			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6602
6603			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6604			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6605			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6606			power usage at the cost of small performance
6607			overhead.
6608
6609			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6610			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6611
6612	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6613			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6614			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6615			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6616			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6617			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6618			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6619			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6620			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6621			impacted.
6622
6623	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6624			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6625			supporting x2apic.
6626
6627	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6628			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6629			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6630			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6631			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6632			domains.
6633
6634	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6635			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6636			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6637			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6638			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6639			nics -- unplug network devices
6640			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6641			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6642				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6643				the unplug protocol
6644			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6645
6646	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6647			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6648			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6649
6650	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6651			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6652			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6653			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6654
6655	xen_nopv	[X86]
6656			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6657			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6658			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6659			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6660
6661	xen_no_vector_callback
6662			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6663			event channel interrupts.
6664
6665	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6666			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6667			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6668			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6669			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6670
6671	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6672			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6673			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6674			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6675			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6676			more timer interrupts.
6677
6678	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6679			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6680			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6681			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6682			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6683			max. Default is 180.
6684
6685	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6686			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6687			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6688
6689	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6690			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6691			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6692
6693	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6694			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6695			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6696			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6697			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6698			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6699
6700	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6701			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6702			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6703			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6704
6705	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6706			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6707			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6708			contention.
6709
6710	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6711			Format:
6712			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6713
6714	xive=		[PPC]
6715			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6716			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6717			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6718
6719			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6720				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6721				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6722
6723	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6724			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6725			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6726			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6727			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6728
6729	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6730			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6731			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6732			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6733
6734	xmon		[PPC]
6735			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6736			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6737			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6738			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6739				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6740			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6741				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6742				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6743				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6744			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6745				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6746				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6747				can be written using xmon commands.
6748			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6749				memory, and other data can't be written using
6750				xmon commands.
6751			off	xmon is disabled.
6752