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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
25			errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
26			source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
27			may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
28			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
29				default _serial_ console on ARM64
30			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
31			"acpi=nospcr" are available
32			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
33			are available
34
35			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
36
37	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
38			Format: <int>
39			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
40			1,0: use 1st APIC table
41			default: 0
42
43	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
44			{ vendor | video | native | none }
45			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
46			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
47			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
48			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
49			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
50			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
51
52	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
53			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
54			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
55			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
56			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
57
58	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
59			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
60			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
61			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
62			This option is useful for developers to identify the
63			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
64			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
65
66	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
67	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
68			Format: <int>
69			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
70			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
71			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
72			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
73			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
74			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
75			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
76			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
77			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
78			debug layers and levels.
79
80			Enable processor driver info messages:
81			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
82			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
83			object while interpreting AML:
84			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
85			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
86			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
87
88			Some values produce so much output that the system is
89			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
90			if you need to capture more output.
91
92	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
93			{ strict | lax | no }
94			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
95			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
96			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
97			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
98			can interfere with legacy drivers.
99			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
100			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
101			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
102			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
103			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
104			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
105			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
106			no further checks are performed.
107
108	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
109			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
110			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
111			size limitation.
112
113	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will balance active IRQs
115			default in APIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
118			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
119			default in PIC mode
120
121	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
125			use by PCI
126			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
127
128	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
129			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
130			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
131			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
132			the GPE dispatcher.
133			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
134			GPE floodings.
135			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
136
137	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
138			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
139			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
140			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
141			auto-serialization feature.
142			This feature is enabled by default.
143			This option allows to turn off the feature.
144
145	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
146			   kernels.
147
148	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
149			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
150			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
151			installed automatically and they will appear under
152			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
153			This option turns off this feature.
154			Note that specifying this option does not affect
155			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
156			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
157
158	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
159			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
160			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
161
162	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
163			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
164			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
165			second kernel for kdump.
166
167	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
168			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
169
170	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
171			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
172			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
173			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
174			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
175
176	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
177			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
178			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
179			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
180			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
181						  strings
182			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
183						  strings
184			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
185
186			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
187			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
188			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
189			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
190			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
191			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
192			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
193			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
194			care about the state of the feature group strings which
195			should be controlled by the OSPM.
196			Examples:
197			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
198			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
199			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
200
201			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
202			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
203			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
204			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
205			multiple times through kernel command line is also
206			meaningless.
207			Examples:
208			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
209			     FALSE.
210
211			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
212			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
213			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
214			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
215			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
216			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
217			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
218			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
219			is useful when one want to control the state of the
220			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
221			the OSPM features.
222			Examples:
223			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
224			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
225			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
226			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
227			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
228			     equivalent to
229			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
230			     and
231			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
232			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
233
234	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
235			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
236			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
237			and always returns good values.
238
239	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
240			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
241
242	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
243			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
244			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
245
246	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
247			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
248				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
249				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
250			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
251			s3_bios and s3_mode.
252			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
253			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
254			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
255			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
256			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
257			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
258			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
259			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
260			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
261			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
262			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
263			used (or even warned about) during resume.
264			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
265			control method, with respect to putting devices into
266			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
267			of _PTS is used by default).
268			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
269			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
270			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
271			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
272			but some broken systems don't work without it).
273			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
274			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
275			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
276
277	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
278			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
279			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
280
281	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
282			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
283
284	agp=		[AGP]
285			{ off | try_unsupported }
286			off: disable AGP support
287			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
288				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
289
290	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
291			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
292
293	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
294			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
295			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
296			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
297
298	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
299			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
300			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
301			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
302			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
303			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
304			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
305
306			32: only for 32-bit processes
307			64: only for 64-bit processes
308			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
309			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
310
311	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
312			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
313			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
314			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
315			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
316			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
317
318	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
319			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
320			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
321			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
322			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
323			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
324			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
325
326			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
327			information.
328
329	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
330			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
331			Possible values are:
332			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
333			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
334				    the system
335			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
336					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
337					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
338					  requirements as needed. This option
339					  does not override iommu=pt
340			force_enable    - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
341				          to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
342				          option with care.
343			pgtbl_v1        - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
344			pgtbl_v2        - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
345			irtcachedis     - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
346			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
347				          to 4 KiB.
348			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
349				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
350
351
352	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
353			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
354			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
355			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
356			IOMMU initialization.
357
358	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
359			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
360			remapping modes:
361			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
362			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
363			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
364			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
365			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
366
367	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
368			disable
369			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
370			  scaling driver for the supported processors
371			passive
372			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
373			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
374			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
375			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
376			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
377			active
378			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
379			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
380			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
381			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
382			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
383			  frequency.
384			guided
385			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
386			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
387			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
388			  to the current workload.
389
390	amd_prefcore=
391			[X86]
392			disable
393			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
394
395	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
396			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
397			Format: <a>,<b>
398			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
399
400	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
401			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
402			connected to one of 16 gameports
403			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
404
405	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
406			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
407			Format: noidle
408			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
409			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
410			APC and your system crashes randomly.
411
412	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
413
414	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
415			Change the output verbosity while booting
416			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
417			Change the amount of debugging information output
418			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
419
420	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
421			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
422			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
423			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
424			      backup of CPU 0
425			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
426			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
427			      shot down by NMI
428
429	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
430			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
431			broken.
432
433	autoconf=	[IPV6]
434			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
435
436	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
437			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
438
439	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
440			Format: { "0" | "1" }
441			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
442			0 -- disable.
443			1 -- enable.
444			Default value is set via kernel config option.
445
446	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
447			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
448
449	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
450			32 bit applications.
451
452	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
453			Identification support
454
455	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
456			support
457
458	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
459			Set instructions support
460
461	arm64.nompam	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
462			Monitoring support
463
464	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
465			support
466
467	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
468			support
469
470	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
471			Extension support
472
473	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
474			Extension support
475
476	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
477
478	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
479
480	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
481			EzKey and similar keyboards
482
483	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
484
485	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
486			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
487
488	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
489			keyboards
490
491	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
492			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
493
494	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
495			Use software keyboard repeat
496
497	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
498			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
499			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
500			    enabled until the next reboot
501			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
502			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
503			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
504			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
505			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
506			    userspace auditd.
507			Default: unset
508
509	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
510			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
511			Default: 64
512
513	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
514			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
515			Format: { "0" | "1" }
516			0 - Disable the BAU.
517			1 - Enable the BAU.
518			unset - Disable the BAU.
519
520	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
521			Format: <io>,<mode>
522
523	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
524			Format: <io>,<mode>
525			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
526
527	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
528			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
529			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
530			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
531
532	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
533			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
534			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
535			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
536
537	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
538			Format: <bool>
539			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
540			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
541			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
542			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
543			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
544			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
545			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
546			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
547			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
548
549	bert_disable	[ACPI]
550			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
551
552	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
553			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
554
555	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
556			embedded devices based on command line input.
557			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
558
559	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
560			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
561			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
562			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
563			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
564			erroneous and ignored.
565			Format: integer
566
567	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
568			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
569			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
570
571			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
572
573	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
574	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
575			kernel args too.
576	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
577	bttv.tuner=
578
579	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
580			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
581			at a time.
582
583	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
584
585	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
586			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
587			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
588			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
589			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
590			This option provides an override for these situations.
591
592	carrier_timeout=
593			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
594			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
595			it waits 120 seconds.
596
597	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
598			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
599			trust validation.
600			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
601
602	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
603			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
604			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
605			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
606			others).
607
608	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
609			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
610
611	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
612			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
613			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
614			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
615			  a single hierarchy
616			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
617			  subsystem
618			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
619			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
620			  created
621			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
622			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
623			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
624			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
625			stall information accounting feature
626
627	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
628			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
629			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
630			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
631			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
632			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
633			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
634			all v1 hierarchies.
635
636	cgroup_v1_proc=	[KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
637			Format: { "true" | "false" }
638			/proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
639			This compatibility option enables listing also v2
640			controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
641			semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
642			about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
643
644	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
645			Format: { "true" | "false" }
646			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
647
648	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
649			Format: <string>
650			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
651			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
652			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
653
654	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
655			Format: { "0" | "1" }
656			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
657			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
658				any implied execute protection).
659			1 -- check protection requested by application.
660			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
661			Value can be changed at runtime via
662				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
663			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
664
665	cio_ignore=	[S390]
666			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
667
668	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
669			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
670			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
671			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
672			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
673			ones should be.
674			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
675			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
676			instability issue. However, not all features have names
677			in /proc/cpuinfo.
678			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
679			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
680			or using the feature without checking anything
681			will still see it. This just prevents it from
682			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
683			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
684			some critical bits.
685
686	clk_ignore_unused
687			[CLK]
688			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
689			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
690			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
691			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
692			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
693			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
694			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
695			platform with proper driver support.  For more
696			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
697
698	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
699			[Deprecated]
700			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
701			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
702			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
703			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
704
705	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
706			Format: <string>
707			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
708			with the name specified.
709			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
710			the platform:
711			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
712			[ACPI] acpi_pm
713			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
714				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
715			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
716				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
717			[MIPS] MIPS
718			[PARISC] cr16
719			[S390] tod
720			[SH] SuperH
721			[SPARC64] tick
722			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
723
724	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
725			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
726			Format: <bool>
727			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
728			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
729			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
730			systems.
731
732	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
733			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
734			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
735			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
736			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
737			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
738			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
739			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
740			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
741
742	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
743			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
744			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
745			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
746			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
747
748	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
749			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
751			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
752			placement constraint by the physical address range of
753			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
754			altogether. For more information, see
755			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
756
757	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
758			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
759			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
760			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
761			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
762			specified, the default value is 0.
763			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
764			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
765			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
766			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
767
768	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
769			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
770			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
771			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
772			area for the specified node.
773
774			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
775			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
776			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
777			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
778
779	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
780			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
781			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
782			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
783			a hypervisor.
784			Default: yes
785
786	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
787			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
788			allocations, by default set to 256K.
789
790	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
791			Format:
792			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
793
794	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
795			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
796
797	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
798			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
799			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
800
801	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
802	conmode=
803
804	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
805			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
806			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
807			the console buffer is full. In this case the
808			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
809			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
810			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
811			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
812			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
813			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
814
815	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
816
817		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
818
819		ttyS<n>[,options]
820		ttyUSB0[,options]
821			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
822			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
823			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
824			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
825			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
826
827			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
828			information.  See
829			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
830			alternative.
831
832		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
833			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
834			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
835			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
836			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
837			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
838
839			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
840			can be viewed with:
841
842			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
843			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
844
845			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
846			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
847			way will only get added when the related device driver
848			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
849			the console may be desired for console output early on.
850
851		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
852		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
853		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
854		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
855		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
856			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
857			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
858			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
859			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
860			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
861			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
862			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
863			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
864			the h/w is not re-initialized.
865
866		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
867			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
868
869		{ null | "" }
870			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
871			console messages discarded.
872			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
873			kernel command line.
874
875		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
876		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
877			console=brl,ttyS0
878		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
879
880	console_msg_format=
881			[KNL] Change console messages format
882		default
883			By default we print messages on consoles in
884			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
885			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
886			`printk_time' param).
887		syslog
888			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
889			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
890			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
891			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
892			from /proc/kmsg.
893
894	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
895			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
896			Defaults to 0.
897
898	coredump_filter=
899			[KNL] Change the default value for
900			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
901			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
902
903	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
904			[ARM,ARM64]
905			Format: <bool>
906			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
907			0: default value, disable debugging
908			1: enable debugging at boot time
909
910	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
911			Format:
912			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
913
914	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
915			disable the cpuidle sub-system
916
917	cpuidle.governor=
918			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
919
920	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
921			disable the cpufreq sub-system
922
923	cpufreq.default_governor=
924			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
925			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
926			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
927
928	cpu_init_udelay=N
929			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
930			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
931			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
932			Default: 10000
933
934	cpuhp.parallel=
935			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
936			Format: <bool>
937			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
938			the parameter has no effect.
939
940	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
941			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
942			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
943			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
944			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
945			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
946			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
947			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
948			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
949			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
950			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
951
952	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
953			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
954			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
955			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
956			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
957			is selected automatically.
958			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
959			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
960			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
961			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
962
963	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
964			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
965			in the running system. The syntax of range is
966			start-[end] where start and end are both
967			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
968			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
969
970	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
971			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
972			above 4G.
973			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
974			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
975			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
976			below 4G, if available.
977			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
978	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
979			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
980			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
981			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
982			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
983			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
984			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
985			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
986			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
987			size is	platform dependent.
988			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
989			  --> arm64: 128MiB
990			  --> riscv: 128MiB
991			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
992			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
993			for second kernel instead.
994			0: to disable low allocation.
995			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
996			or memory reserved is below 4G.
997	crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
998			[KNL, X86] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
999			CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
1000			userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
1001			balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
1002			will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
1003			be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
1004			it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1005			may be missing from the dump.
1006
1007			A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1008			is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1009
1010			This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1011			transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1012			corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1013
1014			This reservation method is intended for systems that
1015			can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1016			crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1017			possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1018			all.
1019
1020	cryptomgr.notests
1021			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1022
1023	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
1024			Format: <dma>
1025
1026	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
1027			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1028
1029	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1030			function call handling. When switched on,
1031			additional debug data is printed to the console
1032			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1033			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1034			the hang situation.  The default value of this
1035			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1036			Kconfig option.
1037
1038	dasd=		[HW,NET]
1039			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1040
1041	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1042			(one device per port)
1043			Format: <port#>,<type>
1044			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1045
1046	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1047
1048	debug_boot_weak_hash
1049			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1050			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1051			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1052			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1053			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1054			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1055
1056	debug_locks_verbose=
1057			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1058			Format: <int>
1059			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1060			self-tests.
1061			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1062			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1063			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1064			useful to lockdep developers.
1065
1066	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1067
1068	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1069			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1070			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1071			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1072			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1073			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1074			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1075			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1076			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1077			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1078			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1079			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1080			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1081			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1082			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1083			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1084			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1085			help tracking down these problems.
1086
1087	debug_pagealloc=
1088			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1089			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1090			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1091			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1092			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1093			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1094			on: enable the feature
1095
1096	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1097			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1098			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1099			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1100			no-mount:
1101				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1102			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1103				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1104			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1105			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1106				or directories within debugfs.
1107				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1108				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1109			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1110
1111	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1112
1113	default_hugepagesz=
1114			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1115			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1116			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1117			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1118			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1119			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1120			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1121			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1122			Format: size[KMG]
1123
1124	deferred_probe_timeout=
1125			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1126			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1127			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1128			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1129			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1130			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1131			successful driver registration. This option will also
1132			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1133			retrying.
1134
1135	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1136
1137	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1138			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1139			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1140			hardware.
1141
1142	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1143			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1144			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1145			blacklisted features.
1146
1147	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1148			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1149			(disabled by default).
1150
1151	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1152			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1153			capability is set.
1154
1155	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1156			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1157
1158	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1159			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1160
1161	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1162			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1163			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1164			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1165			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1166			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1167			          only (compression on level 1)
1168			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1169			          only (decompression)
1170			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1171			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1172
1173	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1174			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1175
1176	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1177			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1178			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1179			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1180			miss to occur.
1181
1182	disable=	[IPV6]
1183			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1184
1185	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1186			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1187
1188	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1189			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1190			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1191
1192	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1193			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1194			to workaround buggy firmware.
1195
1196	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1197			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1198
1199	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1200			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1201			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1202			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1203
1204	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1205			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1206			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1207			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1208			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1209
1210	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1211			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1212			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1213
1214	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1215
1216	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1217			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1218
1219	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1220			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1221			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1222			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1223			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1224			architectural default is too low.
1225
1226	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1227			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1228			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1229			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1230			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1231			driver later using sysfs.
1232
1233	reg_file_data_sampling=
1234			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1235			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1236			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1237			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1238			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1239			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1240
1241			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1242			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1243
1244			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1245			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1246			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1247			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1248			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1249
1250			For details see:
1251			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1252
1253	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1254			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1255			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1256			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1257			match the *.
1258			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1259
1260	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1261			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1262			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1263			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1264			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1265			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1266			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1267			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1268			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1269			data set with no connector name will be used for
1270			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1271
1272	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1273
1274	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1275			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1276			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1277			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1278			exists).
1279			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1280			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1281			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1282
1283	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1284			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1285			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1286			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1287
1288	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1289	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1290			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1291			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1292			for details.
1293
1294	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1295			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1296			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1297			which are not unmapped.
1298
1299	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1300
1301			When used with no options, the early console is
1302			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1303			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1304			the platform.
1305
1306		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1307			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1308			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1309			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1310			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1311			configured.
1312
1313		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1314		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1315		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1316		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1317		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1318			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1319			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1320			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1321			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1322			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1323			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1324			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1325			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1326			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1327			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1328
1329		pl011,<addr>
1330		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1331			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1332			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1333			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1334			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1335			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1336			the device registers.
1337
1338		liteuart,<addr>
1339			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1340			specified address. The serial port must already be
1341			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1342
1343		meson,<addr>
1344			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1345			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1346			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1347			supported.
1348
1349		msm_serial,<addr>
1350			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1351			port at the specified address. The serial port
1352			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1353			yet supported.
1354
1355		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1356			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1357			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1358			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1359			yet supported.
1360
1361		owl,<addr>
1362			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1363			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1364			specified address. The serial port must already be
1365			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1366
1367		rda,<addr>
1368			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1369			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1370			specified address. The serial port must already be
1371			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1372
1373		sbi
1374			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1375			console.
1376
1377		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1378
1379		s3c2410,<addr>
1380		s3c2412,<addr>
1381		s3c2440,<addr>
1382		s3c6400,<addr>
1383		s5pv210,<addr>
1384		exynos4210,<addr>
1385			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1386			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1387			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1388			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1389			Options are not yet supported.
1390
1391		lantiq,<addr>
1392			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1393			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1394			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1395			yet supported.
1396
1397		lpuart,<addr>
1398		lpuart32,<addr>
1399			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1400			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1401			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1402			port must already be setup and configured.
1403
1404		ec_imx21,<addr>
1405		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1406			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1407			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1408			must already be setup and configured.
1409
1410		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1411			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1412			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1413			address. The serial port must already be setup
1414			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1415
1416		qcom_geni,<addr>
1417			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1418			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1419			specified address. The serial port must already be
1420			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1421
1422		efifb,[options]
1423			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1424			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1425			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1426			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1427			mapped with the correct attributes.
1428
1429		linflex,<addr>
1430			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1431			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1432			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1433			already be setup and configured.
1434
1435	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1436			earlyprintk=vga
1437			earlyprintk=sclp
1438			earlyprintk=xen
1439			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1440			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1441			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1442			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1443			earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1444			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1445			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1446			earlyprintk=bios
1447
1448			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1449			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1450			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1451
1452			Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1453			BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1454
1455			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1456			takes over.
1457
1458			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1459			be used at a time.
1460
1461			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1462			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1463			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1464			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1465				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1466			You can find the port for a given device in
1467			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1468				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1469
1470			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1471			very good.
1472
1473			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1474			the real console.
1475
1476			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1477
1478			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1479
1480			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1481
1482			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1483			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1484			UART class.
1485
1486	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1487			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1488			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1489			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1490			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1491			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1492			default: on.
1493
1494	edd=		[EDD]
1495			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1496
1497	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1498			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1499				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1500				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1501			debug: enable misc debug output.
1502			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1503			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1504			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1505			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1506			firmware implementations.
1507			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1508			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1509			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1510			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1511			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1512			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1513			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1514			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1515			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1516			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1517
1518	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1519			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1520			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1521			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1522			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1523
1524	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1525			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1526			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1527			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1528			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1529
1530
1531	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1532			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1533
1534	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1535			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1536
1537			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1538			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1539
1540			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1541			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1542			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1543			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1544
1545	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1546			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1547			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1548
1549	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1550			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1551			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1552			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1553			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1554
1555	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1556			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1557			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1558			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1559
1560	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1561			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1562			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1563			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1564			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1565
1566	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1567			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1568			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1569			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1570			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1571			Default value is 0.
1572			Value can be changed at runtime via
1573			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1574
1575	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1576			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1577			support.
1578
1579	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1580			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1581			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1582
1583	evm=		[EVM]
1584			Format: { "fix" }
1585			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1586			current integrity status.
1587
1588	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1589			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1590			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1591			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1592			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1593			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1594			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1595
1596	failslab=
1597	fail_usercopy=
1598	fail_page_alloc=
1599	fail_skb_realloc=
1600	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1601			General fault injection mechanism.
1602			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1603			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1604
1605	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1606			Format: { initns | none }
1607			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1608			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1609
1610	floppy=		[HW]
1611			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1612
1613	forcepae	[X86-32]
1614			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1615			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1616			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1617			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1618			and may cause unknown problems.
1619
1620	fred=		[X86-64]
1621			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1622			Format: { on | off }
1623			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1624			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1625
1626	ftrace=[tracer]
1627			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1628			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1629			boot debugging.
1630
1631	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1632			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1633			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1634			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1635			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1636			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1637			start up functionality.
1638
1639			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1640			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1641			line parameter.
1642
1643			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1644
1645			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1646			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1647
1648	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1649			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1650			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1651			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1652			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1653			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1654			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1655			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1656			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1657			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1658			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1659
1660			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1661
1662			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1663			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1664
1665			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1666
1667			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1668			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1669			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1670
1671	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1672			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1673			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1674			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1675			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1676			tracing directory.
1677
1678	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1679			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1680			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1681			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1682			tracing directory.
1683
1684	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1685			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1686			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1687			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1688			that can be changed at run time by the
1689			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1690
1691	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1692			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1693			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1694			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1695			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1696
1697	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1698			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1699			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1700			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1701			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1702
1703	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1704			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1705			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1706			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1707			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1708			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1709			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1710			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1711			suppliers).
1712			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1713			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1714			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1715				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1716				up (sync_state() calls).
1717			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1718				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1719			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1720
1721	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1722			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1723			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1724			Format: <bool>
1725
1726	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1727			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1728			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1729			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1730			calls.
1731			Format: { strict | timeout }
1732			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1733				probe successfully.
1734			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1735				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1736				received their sync_state() calls after
1737				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1738				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1739
1740	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1741			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1742			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1743			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1744			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1745
1746	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1747
1748	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1749			Format: off | on
1750			default: on
1751
1752	gather_data_sampling=
1753			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1754			mitigation.
1755
1756			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1757			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1758			previously stored in vector registers.
1759
1760			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1761			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1762			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1763			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1764
1765			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1766				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1767				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1768				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1769
1770			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1771
1772	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1773
1774	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1775			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1776			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1777			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1778			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1779
1780	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1781			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1782			android emulator
1783
1784	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1785			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1786			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1787	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1788			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1789
1790	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1791			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1792			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1793			GPT to be used instead.
1794
1795	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1796			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1797			Format: 0 | 1
1798			Default: 0
1799	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1800			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1801			Format: 0 | 1
1802			Default: 0
1803	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1804			Format: 0 | 1
1805			Default: 0
1806	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1807			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1808			Default: 1024
1809	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1810			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1811			Default: 1024
1812
1813	hardened_usercopy=
1814			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1815			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1816			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1817			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1818			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1819			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1820			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1821			The default is determined by
1822			CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1823		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1824		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1825
1826	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1827			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1828			backtraces on all cpus.
1829			Format: 0 | 1
1830
1831	hash_pointers=
1832			[KNL,EARLY]
1833			By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1834			or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is
1835			"hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value.
1836			This is a security feature that hides actual kernel
1837			addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes
1838			debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal
1839			pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are:
1840			Format: { auto | always | never }
1841			Default: auto
1842
1843			auto   - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1844			always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1845				 enabled).
1846			never  - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1847				 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do
1848				 not use on production kernels. The boot
1849				 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for
1850				 this mode.
1851
1852	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1853			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1854			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1855			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1856
1857	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1858			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1859
1860	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1861			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1862			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1863			logic will be disabled.
1864
1865	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1866		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1867				present during boot.
1868		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1869		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1870		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1871				(that will set all pages holding image data
1872				during restoration read-only).
1873
1874	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1875				used with hibernation.
1876				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1877				Default: lzo
1878
1879				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1880				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1881
1882				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1883				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1884
1885	hibernate.pm_test_delay=
1886			[HIBERNATION]
1887			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
1888			mode before resuming the system (see
1889			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
1890			is set. Default value is 5.
1891
1892	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1893			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1894			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1895			size on bigger boxes.
1896
1897	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1898			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1899			Default: "on"
1900
1901	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1902
1903	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1904			Format: <string>
1905			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1906			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1907			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1908			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1909			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1910			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1911			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1912			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1913			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1914			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1915
1916	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1917			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1918				verbose }
1919			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1920			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1921				VIA, nVidia)
1922			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1923
1924	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1925			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1926
1927	hugepages=	[HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1928			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1929			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1930			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1931			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1932			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1933			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1934			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1935			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1936				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1937
1938	hugepagesz=
1939			[HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is
1940			used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
1941			allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
1942			pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
1943			for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
1944			are architecture dependent. See also
1945			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1946			Format: size[KMG]
1947
1948	hugepage_alloc_threads=
1949			[HW] The number of threads that should be used to
1950			allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
1951			used to improve system bootup time when allocating
1952			a large amount of huge pages.
1953			The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
1954
1955			Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
1956
1957	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1958			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1959			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1960			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1961				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1962
1963			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1964			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1965			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1966
1967	hugetlb_cma_only=
1968			[HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
1969			try to allocate from the CMA areas.
1970
1971			This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
1972			specified.
1973
1974	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1975			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1976			enabled.
1977			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1978			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1979			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1980			Format: { on | off (default) }
1981
1982			on: enable HVO
1983			off: disable HVO
1984
1985			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1986			the default is on.
1987
1988			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1989			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1990			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1991			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1992			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1993
1994	hung_task_panic=
1995			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1996			Format: 0 | 1
1997
1998			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1999			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
2000			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
2001			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
2002			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
2003
2004	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
2005				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
2006	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2007				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
2008				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
2009
2010	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
2011			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
2012			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2013			on lock contention.
2014
2015	hw_protection=	[HW]
2016			Format: reboot | shutdown
2017
2018			Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
2019			overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
2020
2021	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2022				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2023				registered from board initialization code.
2024				Format:
2025				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
2026
2027	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2028			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2029			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2030			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2031			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2032			adding a DMI quirk for this.
2033
2034			Format:
2035			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2036			Where <val> is one of:
2037			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
2038			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
2039			Anything else		Set a string device-property
2040
2041			Examples (split over multiple lines):
2042			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2043			touchscreen-inverted-y
2044
2045			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2046			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2047			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2048
2049	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2050	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2051			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2052			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2053			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2054	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2055	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2056			     keyboard and cannot control its state
2057			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2058	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2059	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2060	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2061			     for the AUX port
2062	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2063			     controller
2064	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2065			     controllers
2066	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2067	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2068			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2069			     transitions, or never reset
2070			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2071			1, Y, y: always reset controller
2072			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2073			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2074			architectures force reset to be always executed
2075	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2076	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2077	i8042.probe_defer
2078			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2079
2080	i810=		[HW,DRM]
2081
2082	i915.invert_brightness=
2083			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2084			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2085			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2086			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2087			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2088			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2089			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2090			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2091			value switches the backlight off.
2092			-1 -- never invert brightness
2093			 0 -- machine default
2094			 1 -- force brightness inversion
2095
2096	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
2097			Format: <bool>
2098			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2099			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2100			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2101
2102	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
2103			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
2104
2105
2106	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2107			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2108
2109			idle=poll:  Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2110			using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2111			make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2112			to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2113			benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2114			performance counters more accurate.  Please note that
2115			on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2116			EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2117			over the normal idle loop.  It may also interact badly
2118			with hyperthreading.
2119
2120			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2121			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2122
2123			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2124
2125	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2126			Format: <bool>
2127			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2128			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2129			true (1).
2130
2131	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2132			Format: <bool>
2133			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2134			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2135
2136	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2137			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2138			Default: strict
2139
2140			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2141			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2142			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2143			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2144			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2145			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2146			encoding mode.
2147
2148			Available settings are as follows:
2149			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2150				supported by the FPU
2151			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2152				by the FPU
2153			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2154				by the FPU
2155			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2156				supported by the FPU
2157			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2158				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2159
2160			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2161			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2162			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2163			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2164			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2165			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2166			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2167			MIPS64 CPUs.
2168
2169			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2170			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2171			except where unsupported by hardware.
2172
2173	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2174			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2175			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2176			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2177			could change it dynamically, usually by
2178			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2179
2180	ignore_rlimit_data
2181			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2182			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2183			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2184
2185	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2186			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2187
2188	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2189			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2190			default: "enforce"
2191
2192	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2193			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2194			owned by uid=0.
2195
2196	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2197			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2198			measurements, instead of host native format.
2199
2200	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2201			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2202				   | sha512 | ... }
2203			default: "sha1"
2204
2205			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2206			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2207
2208	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2209			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2210			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2211				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2212
2213			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2214			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2215			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2216			uid=0.
2217
2218			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2219			all files owned by root.
2220
2221			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2222			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2223			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2224
2225			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2226			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2227			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2228			flag.
2229
2230			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2231			critical data.
2232
2233	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2234			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2235			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2236			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2237			opened for read by uid=0.
2238
2239	ima_template=	[IMA]
2240			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2241			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2242				   "ima-sigv2" }
2243			Default: "ima-ng"
2244
2245	ima_template_fmt=
2246			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2247			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2248
2249	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2250			Format: <min_file_size>
2251			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2252			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2253
2254			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2255			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2256			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2257
2258	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2259			Format: <bufsize>
2260			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2261
2262			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2263			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2264			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2265
2266	ima=		[IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2267			Format: { "off" | "on" }
2268			Default: "on"
2269			Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2270
2271	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2272			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2273			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2274
2275			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2276			off:    Disable mitigation.
2277			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2278				mitigation.
2279			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2280				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2281			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2282				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2283				mitigation.
2284
2285			For details see:
2286			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2287
2288	init=		[KNL]
2289			Format: <full_path>
2290			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2291			process.
2292
2293	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2294			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2295			startup.
2296
2297	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2298			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2299			modules and initcalls.
2300
2301	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2302			Format: <bool>
2303			Default: 1
2304			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2305			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2306			with devices being probed and
2307			initialized. This should normally just work,
2308			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2309			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2310			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2311			late_ initcalls.
2312
2313	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2314
2315	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2316			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2317			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2318			setting.
2319			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2320			Default is 0, 0
2321
2322	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2323			zeroes.
2324			Format: 0 | 1
2325			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2326
2327	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2328			Format: 0 | 1
2329			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2330
2331	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2332			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2333			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2334			override in debugfs after boot.
2335
2336	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2337			Format: <irq>
2338
2339	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2340
2341	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2342			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2343			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2344			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2345
2346	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2347		on
2348			Enable intel iommu driver.
2349		off
2350			Disable intel iommu driver.
2351		igfx_off [Default Off]
2352			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2353			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2354			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2355			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2356			DMA.
2357		strict [Default Off]
2358			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2359		sp_off [Default Off]
2360			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2361			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2362			not be supported.
2363		sm_on
2364			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2365			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2366			translation.
2367		sm_off
2368			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2369		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2370			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2371			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2372			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2373			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2374			mapping is enabled.
2375			Note that using this option lowers the security
2376			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2377			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2378
2379	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2380			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2381			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2382
2383	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2384			disable
2385			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2386			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2387                        active
2388                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2389                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2390                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2391                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2392                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2393                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2394                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2395                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2396                          and possibly on the processor model.
2397			passive
2398			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2399			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2400			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2401			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2402			  feature.
2403			force
2404			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2405			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2406			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2407			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2408			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2409			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2410			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2411			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2412			no_hwp
2413			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2414			  if available.
2415			hwp_only
2416			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2417			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2418			support_acpi_ppc
2419			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2420			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2421			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2422			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2423			per_cpu_perf_limits
2424			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2425			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2426			no_cas
2427			  Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2428			  hybrid systems
2429
2430	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2431			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2432			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2433			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2434			no_x2apic_optout
2435				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2436			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2437			posted_msi
2438				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2439
2440	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2441		strict	regions from userspace.
2442		relaxed
2443
2444	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2445
2446		off
2447			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2448
2449		force
2450			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2451			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2452			memory).
2453
2454		noforce
2455			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2456			needed. (default).
2457
2458		biomerge
2459		panic
2460		nopanic
2461		merge
2462		nomerge
2463
2464		soft
2465			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2466			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2467			of an available hardware IOMMU.
2468
2469			[X86]
2470		pt
2471			[X86]
2472		nopt
2473			[PPC/POWERNV]
2474		nobypass
2475			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2476
2477		[X86]
2478		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2479
2480		<size>
2481			Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2482
2483		allowed
2484			Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2485
2486		fullflush
2487			Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2488
2489		nofullflush
2490			Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2491
2492		memaper[=<order>]
2493			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2494			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2495
2496		merge
2497			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2498			(experimental).
2499
2500		nomerge
2501			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2502
2503		noaperture
2504			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2505
2506		noagp
2507			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2508
2509		panic
2510			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2511
2512	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2513			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2514			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2515			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2516			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2517			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2518			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2519
2520	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2521			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2522			0 - Lazy mode.
2523			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2524			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2525			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2526			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2527			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2528			1 - Strict mode.
2529			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2530			  synchronously.
2531			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2532			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2533			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2534
2535	iommu.passthrough=
2536			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2537			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2538			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2539			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2540			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2541
2542	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2543			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2544			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2545
2546	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2547		0x80
2548			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2549		0xed
2550			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2551		udelay
2552			Simple two microseconds delay
2553		none
2554			No delay
2555
2556	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2557			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2558
2559	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2560			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2561
2562	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2563			Format: <bool>
2564			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2565			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2566
2567	ipe.success_audit=
2568			[IPE]
2569			Format: <bool>
2570			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2571			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2572			is 0.
2573
2574	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2575			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2576
2577	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2578			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2579			Format: <bool>
2580			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2581			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2582			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2583
2584	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2585			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2586			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2587			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2588			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2589			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2590			LPIs.
2591
2592	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2593			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2594			requires the kernel to be built with
2595			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2596
2597	irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2598			[RISC-V,EARLY]
2599			Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2600			as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2601			and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2602			to multiple harts.
2603
2604	irqfixup	[HW]
2605			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2606			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2607			firmware running.
2608
2609	irqpoll		[HW]
2610			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2611			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2612			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2613			firmware running.
2614
2615	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2616			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2617
2618	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2619			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2620			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2621
2622			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2623			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2624
2625			nohz
2626			  Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2627			  disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2628			  offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2629
2630			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2631			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2632			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2633			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2634			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2635
2636			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2637			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2638			  be configured manually after bootup.
2639
2640			domain
2641			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2642			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2643			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2644			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2645			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2646			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2647			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2648			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2649
2650			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2651			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2652			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2653			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2654
2655			managed_irq
2656
2657			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2658			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2659			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2660			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2661			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2662
2663			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2664			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2665			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2666			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2667			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2668			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2669			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2670
2671			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2672			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2673			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2674			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2675			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2676			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2677			  queues.
2678
2679			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2680
2681	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2682
2683	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2684			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2685			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2686			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2687
2688			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2689			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2690			write the parameter as:
2691				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2692
2693			Deprecated formats:
2694			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2695			  write the parameter as:
2696				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2697			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2698			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2699				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2700
2701	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2702			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2703			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2704			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2705
2706			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2707			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2708			write the parameter as:
2709				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2710
2711			Deprecated formats:
2712			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2713			  write the parameter as:
2714				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2715			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2716			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2717				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2718
2719	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2720			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2721			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2722			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2723
2724			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2725			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2726			write the parameter as:
2727				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2728
2729			Deprecated formats:
2730			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2731			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2732				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2733			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2734			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2735				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2736
2737	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2738			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2739
2740	kasan_multi_shot
2741			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2742			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2743			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2744			invalid access.
2745
2746	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2747			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2748			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2749			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2750			the real console.
2751
2752	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2753
2754	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2755			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2756			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2757			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2758			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2759			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2760			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2761			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2762			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2763			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2764
2765			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2766			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2767			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2768			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2769			zone if it does not.
2770
2771			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2772			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2773			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2774			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2775			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2776			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2777			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2778
2779	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2780			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2781			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2782			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2783			optional and is the number seconds in between
2784			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2785			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2786			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2787			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2788			the kernel debugger.
2789
2790	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2791			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2792			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2793			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2794			 keyboard only format: kbd
2795			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2796			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2797			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2798			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2799
2800	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2801			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2802			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2803			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2804			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2805			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2806			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2807
2808			The name of the early console should be specified
2809			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2810			the early console might be different than the tty
2811			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2812			blank and the first boot console that implements
2813			read() will be picked.
2814
2815	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2816			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2817
2818	kho=		[KEXEC,EARLY]
2819			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2820			Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2821			"0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2822			"1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2823
2824	kho_scratch=	[KEXEC,EARLY]
2825			Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
2826			Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
2827			scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
2828			ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
2829			allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
2830			fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
2831			kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
2832			bootstrap itself.
2833
2834			It is possible to specify the exact amount of
2835			memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
2836			where the first parameter defines the size of a low
2837			memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
2838			the size of a global scratch area and the third
2839			parameter defines the size of additional per-node
2840			scratch areas.  The form "nn%" defines scale factor
2841			(in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
2842
2843	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2844			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2845			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2846
2847	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2848			Valid arguments: on, off
2849			Default: on
2850			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2851			the default is off.
2852
2853	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2854			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2855			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2856			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2857			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2858			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2859			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2860
2861			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2862
2863			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2864			Boot Parameter" section.
2865
2866	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2867			user and kernel address spaces.
2868			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2869			0: force disabled
2870			1: force enabled
2871
2872	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2873			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2874			default value can be overridden via
2875			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2876			Default is 1 (enabled)
2877
2878	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2879			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2880
2881	kvm.eager_page_split=
2882			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2883			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2884			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2885			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2886			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2887			required to split huge pages lazily.
2888
2889			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2890			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2891			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2892			still be used for reads.
2893
2894			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2895			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2896			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2897			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2898			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2899			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2900			cleared.
2901
2902			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2903
2904			Default is Y (on).
2905
2906	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
2907			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
2908			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
2909			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
2910
2911			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
2912			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
2913			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
2914			number of VMs.
2915
2916			Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
2917			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
2918			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
2919			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
2920			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
2921			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
2922
2923	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2924				   Default is false (don't support).
2925
2926	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2927			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2928			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2929			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2930			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2931			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2932				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2933
2934			Default is 'auto'.
2935
2936			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2937			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2938
2939	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2940			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2941			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2942			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2943			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2944
2945	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2946			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2947			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2948			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2949			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2950			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2951
2952	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2953			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2954
2955	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2956			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2957			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2958			for NPT.
2959
2960	kvm-arm.mode=
2961			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2962			operation.
2963
2964			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2965
2966			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2967			      protected guests.
2968
2969			protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
2970				   kept private from the host, using VHE or
2971				   nVHE depending on HW support.
2972
2973			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2974				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
2975				hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
2976
2977			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2978			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2979			for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
2980			"arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
2981			command-line.
2982			"nested" is experimental and should be used with
2983			extreme caution.
2984
2985	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2986			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2987			system registers
2988
2989	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2990			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2991			system registers
2992
2993	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2994			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2995			system registers
2996
2997	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2998			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2999			injection of LPIs.
3000
3001	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3002			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3003			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3004			CPU architecture.
3005
3006			trap: set WFE instruction trap
3007
3008			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
3009
3010	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3011			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3012			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3013			CPU architecture.
3014
3015			trap: set WFI instruction trap
3016
3017			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
3018
3019	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
3020			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3021			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3022			allocation.
3023			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3024			Format: <integer>
3025			Default: 5
3026
3027	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3028			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
3029			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3030			for EPT.
3031
3032	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3033			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3034			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3035			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3036			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3037			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3038			Default is 1 (enabled).
3039
3040	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3041			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3042			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3043			hardware lacks support for it.
3044
3045	kvm-intel.nested=
3046			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3047			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3048
3049	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3050			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3051			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3052			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3053			hardware lacks support for it.
3054
3055	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3056			CVE-2018-3620.
3057
3058			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3059
3060			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3061			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3062				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3063			never:	Disables the mitigation
3064
3065			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3066
3067	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3068			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3069			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3070			for it.
3071
3072	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3073			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3074
3075			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3076			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3077			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3078
3079			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3080			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3081			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3082			not have direct access.
3083
3084			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3085			options are:
3086
3087			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
3088
3089	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3090			      affected CPUs
3091
3092			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3093			enabled and cannot be disabled.
3094
3095			full
3096				Provides all available mitigations for the
3097				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3098				enables all mitigations in the
3099				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3100
3101				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3102				sysfs interface is still possible after
3103				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3104				when the first VM is started in a
3105				potentially insecure configuration,
3106				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3107
3108			full,force
3109				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3110				flush runtime control. Implies the
3111				'nosmt=force' command line option.
3112				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3113
3114			flush
3115				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3116				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3117				L1D flush.
3118
3119				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3120				sysfs interface is still possible after
3121				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3122				when the first VM is started in a
3123				potentially insecure configuration,
3124				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3125
3126			flush,nosmt
3127
3128				Disables SMT and enables the default
3129				hypervisor mitigation.
3130
3131				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3132				sysfs interface is still possible after
3133				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3134				when the first VM is started in a
3135				potentially insecure configuration,
3136				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3137
3138			flush,nowarn
3139				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3140				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3141				insecure configuration.
3142
3143			off
3144				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3145				emit any warnings.
3146				It also drops the swap size and available
3147				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3148				bare metal.
3149
3150			Default is 'flush'.
3151
3152			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3153
3154	l2cr=		[PPC]
3155
3156	l3cr=		[PPC]
3157
3158	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3159			disabled it.
3160
3161	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3162			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3163			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3164			Format: notscdeadline
3165
3166	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3167			in C2 power state.
3168
3169	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
3170			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3171			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3172			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3173			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
3174			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3175			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3176
3177	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3178			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
3179			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
3180
3181	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3182			when set.
3183			Format: <int>
3184
3185	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
3186			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3187			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3188			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3189			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
3190			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
3191			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3192			to all ports, links and devices.
3193
3194			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3195			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
3196			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3197			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
3198			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3199			host link and device attached to it.
3200
3201			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
3202			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3203			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3204			The following configurations can be forced.
3205
3206			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3207			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3208
3209			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3210
3211			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3212			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3213			  allowed.
3214
3215			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3216			  resets.
3217
3218			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3219			  link recovery.
3220
3221			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3222			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3223			  detection.
3224
3225			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3226
3227			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3228
3229			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3230
3231			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3232
3233			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3234
3235			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3236
3237			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3238
3239			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3240
3241			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3242			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3243
3244			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3245			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3246
3247			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3248			  identify device data log.
3249
3250			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3251			  purpose log directory.
3252
3253			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3254
3255			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3256			  1024 sectors.
3257
3258			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3259			  65535 sectors.
3260
3261			* external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3262
3263			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3264
3265			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3266			  should be skipped.
3267
3268			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3269			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3270
3271			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3272
3273			* disable: Disable this device.
3274
3275			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3276			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3277
3278	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3279
3280	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3281			Format: <integer>
3282
3283	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3284			Format: <integer>
3285
3286	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3287			Format: <integer>
3288
3289	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3290			Format: <integer>
3291
3292	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3293			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3294			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3295			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3296			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3297			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3298			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3299			are also disabled.
3300
3301	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3302			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3303			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3304			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3305
3306	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3307			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3308			to be bound.
3309
3310	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3311			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3312			to be bound.
3313
3314	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3315			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3316			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3317			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3318			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3319			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3320
3321	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3322			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3323			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3324			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3325
3326	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3327			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3328			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3329			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3330			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3331			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3332
3333	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3334			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3335			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3336			number of online CPUs.
3337
3338	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3339			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3340
3341	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3342			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3343
3344	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3345			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3346			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3347
3348	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3349			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3350			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3351			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3352			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3353			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3354			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3355			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3356			disable boosting.
3357
3358	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3359			Number that determines how often and for how
3360			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3361			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3362			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3363			constant as the number of writers increases.
3364			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3365			increases with the number of writers.
3366
3367	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3368			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3369			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3370			mode during the locktorture test.
3371
3372	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3373			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3374			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3375
3376	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3377			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3378
3379	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3380			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3381			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3382			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3383			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3384			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3385
3386	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3387			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3388
3389	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3390			Enable additional printk() statements.
3391
3392	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3393			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3394			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3395
3396	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3397			Format: <irq>
3398
3399	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3400			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3401			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3402			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3403			loglevels are defined as follows:
3404
3405			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3406			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3407			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3408			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3409			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3410			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3411			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3412			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3413
3414	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3415			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3416			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3417			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3418			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3419			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3420			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3421			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3422			for more details.
3423
3424	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3425			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3426			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3427			kernel boot problems.
3428
3429	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3430	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3431	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3432	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3433				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3434				attached printers to be reset. Using
3435				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3436				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3437				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3438				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3439				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3440				port specification list means that device IDs
3441				from each port should be examined, to see if
3442				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3443				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3444				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3445
3446	lpj=n		[KNL]
3447			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3448			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3449			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3450			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3451			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3452			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3453			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3454			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3455			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3456			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3457			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3458			hardware.
3459
3460	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3461
3462	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3463			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3464			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3465
3466	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3467			different yeeloong laptops.
3468			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3469
3470	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3471			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3472			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3473			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3474			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3475			only takes effect during system bootup.
3476			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3477			which also disables the IO APIC.
3478
3479	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3480	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3481			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3482			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3483			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3484			/dev/loop-control interface.
3485
3486	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
3487
3488			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3489
3490		off
3491			disable machine check
3492
3493		no_cmci
3494			disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3495			Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
3496			not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3497			hardware is misbehaving.
3498
3499			Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3500			with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3501			duplicated error logs.
3502
3503		dont_log_ce
3504			don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events
3505			reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3506			option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3507			of corrected errors.
3508
3509		ignore_ce
3510			disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3511			polling timer and CMCI.  All events reported as
3512			corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3513			error banks.
3514
3515			Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3516			if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3517			errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3518			applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3519			and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3520			will be a help.
3521
3522		no_lmce
3523			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3524			to broadcast MCEs.
3525
3526		bootlog
3527			enable logging of machine checks left over from
3528			booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3529			because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3530
3531			If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3532			enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3533			events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3534			enabled by default.
3535
3536		nobootlog
3537			disable boot machine check logging.
3538
3539		monarchtimeout (number)
3540			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3541			checks. 0 to disable.
3542
3543		bios_cmci_threshold
3544			don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3545			option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3546			threshold set by the bios.  Without this option, Linux
3547			always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3548			make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3549			if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3550			will not see details for all errors.
3551
3552		recovery
3553			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3554
3555			Everything else is in sysfs now.
3556
3557
3558	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3559			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3560
3561	mdacon=		[MDA]
3562			Format: <first>,<last>
3563			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3564
3565	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3566			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3567			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3568
3569			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3570			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3571			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3572
3573			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3574			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3575			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3576			not have direct access.
3577
3578			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3579			options are:
3580
3581			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3582			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3583				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3584			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3585
3586			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3587			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3588			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3589			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3590			too.
3591
3592			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3593			mds=full.
3594
3595			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3596
3597	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3598			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3599
3600	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3601			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3602			as follows:
3603
3604			1 for test;
3605			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3606			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3607			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3608			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3609
3610			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3611			high memory is not affected.
3612
3613			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3614			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3615
3616			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3617			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3618			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3619			belonging to unused RAM.
3620
3621			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3622			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3623			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3624
3625	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3626			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3627			reported by firmware.
3628			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3629			ss[KMG].
3630			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3631			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3632
3633	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3634			memory.
3635
3636	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3637
3638	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3639			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3640			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3641
3642	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3643			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3644			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3645			set according to the
3646			CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3647			options.
3648			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3649
3650	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3651			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3652			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3653			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3654			option description.
3655
3656	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3657			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3658			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3659			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3660			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3661			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3662			comma delimited.
3663			Example:
3664				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3665
3666	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3667			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3668			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3669
3670	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3671			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3672			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3673			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3674			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3675			         or
3676			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3677			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3678			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3679			will be eaten.
3680
3681	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3682			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3683			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3684			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3685			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3686
3687	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3688			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3689			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3690			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3691			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3692			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3693			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3694			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3695
3696	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3697			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3698			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3699			Setting this option will scan the memory
3700			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3701			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3702			from using the memory being corrupted.
3703			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3704			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3705			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3706			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3707
3708	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3709			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3710			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3711			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3712			corruption in more or less memory.
3713
3714	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3715			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3716			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3717			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3718
3719	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3720			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3721			Format: {on | off (default)}
3722			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3723			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3724			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3725			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3726			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3727			lot of memory without requiring additional
3728			memory to do so.
3729			This feature is disabled by default because it
3730			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3731			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3732			memory blocks).
3733			The state of the flag can be read in
3734			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3735			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3736			the feature is not effective.
3737
3738	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3739			Format: <integer>
3740			default : 0 <disable>
3741			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3742			performed. Each pass selects another test
3743			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3744			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3745			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3746			regions that are detected.
3747
3748	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3749			Valid arguments: on, off
3750			Default: off
3751			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3752			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3753
3754			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3755			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3756
3757	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3758			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3759			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3760			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3761			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3762
3763	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3764			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3765			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3766			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3767
3768	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3769
3770	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3771			Format: <bool>
3772			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3773			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3774
3775	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3776			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3777			Default: "0tb"
3778			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3779			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3780			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3781			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3782			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3783			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3784			unconfigured.
3785			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3786			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3787			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3788			VGA shield.
3789			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3790			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3791			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3792			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3793			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3794			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3795
3796	mitigations=
3797			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3798			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3799			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3800			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3801
3802			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3803			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3804
3805			off
3806				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3807				improves system performance, but it may also
3808				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3809				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3810					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3811					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
3812					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3813					       l1tf=off [X86]
3814					       mds=off [X86]
3815					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3816					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3817					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3818					       nobp=0 [S390]
3819					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3820					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3821					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3822					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3823					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3824					       retbleed=off [X86]
3825					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3826					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3827					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3828					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3829					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3830					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3831					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3832					       vmscape=off [X86]
3833
3834				Exceptions:
3835					       This does not have any effect on
3836					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3837					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3838
3839			auto (default)
3840				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3841				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3842				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3843				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3844				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3845				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3846
3847			auto,nosmt
3848				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3849				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3850				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3851				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3852					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3853					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3854					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3855					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3856
3857			[X86] After one of the above options, additionally
3858			supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
3859			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
3860
3861	mminit_loglevel=
3862			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3863			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3864			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3865			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3866			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3867			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3868
3869	mmio_stale_data=
3870			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3871			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3872
3873			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3874			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3875			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3876			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3877			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3878			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3879
3880			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3881			options are:
3882
3883			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3884
3885			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3886				     vulnerable CPUs.
3887
3888			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3889
3890			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3891			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3892			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3893			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3894			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3895			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3896
3897			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3898			mmio_stale_data=full.
3899
3900			For details see:
3901			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3902
3903	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3904			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3905			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3906			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3907			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3908			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3909
3910	module.async_probe=<bool>
3911			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3912			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3913			specific module, use the module specific control that
3914			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3915			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3916			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3917			the specific module.
3918
3919	module.enable_dups_trace
3920			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3921			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3922			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3923			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3924			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3925	module.sig_enforce
3926			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3927			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3928			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3929			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3930
3931	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3932			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3933
3934	mousedev.tap_time=
3935			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3936			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3937			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3938			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3939			Format: <msecs>
3940	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3941			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3942	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3943			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3944
3945	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3946			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3947			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3948			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3949			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3950			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3951			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3952			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3953			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3954			is not too small.
3955
3956	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3957			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3958			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3959			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3960			allocations. Use with caution!
3961
3962	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3963			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3964
3965	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3966			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3967
3968	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3969			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3970
3971	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3972			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3973			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3974
3975	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3976			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3977			registers at boot time.
3978
3979	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3980			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3981			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3982
3983	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3984			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3985			Default is 1.
3986			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3987			using up MTRRs.
3988
3989	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3990			Format: <integer>
3991			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3992			Default : 1
3993			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3994			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3995
3996	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3997			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3998			at a time.
3999
4000	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4001
4002	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
4003			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4004			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4005			something different and driver-specific.
4006			This usage is only documented in each driver source
4007			file if at all.
4008
4009	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4010			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4011			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4012			waits 4 seconds.
4013
4014	nf_conntrack.acct=
4015			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4016			0 to disable accounting
4017			1 to enable accounting
4018			Default value is 0.
4019
4020	nfs.cache_getent=
4021			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4022			to update the NFS client cache entries.
4023
4024	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4025			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4026			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4027
4028	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4029			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4030			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4031			requests.
4032
4033	nfs.callback_tcpport=
4034			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4035			channel should listen.
4036
4037	nfs.delay_retrans=
4038			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4039			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4040			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4041			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4042			and the specified value is >= 0.
4043
4044	nfs.enable_ino64=
4045			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4046			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4047			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4048			of returning the full 64-bit number.
4049			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4050
4051	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4052			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4053			entries.
4054
4055	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4056			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4057			slots the client will assign to the callback
4058			channel. This determines the maximum number of
4059			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4060			a particular server.
4061
4062	nfs.max_session_slots=
4063			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4064			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4065			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4066			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4067			Note that there is little point in setting this
4068			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4069
4070	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4071			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4072			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4073			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4074			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4075			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4076			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4077			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4078			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4079			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4080			back to using the idmapper.
4081			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4082
4083	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4084			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4085			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4086			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
4087			UUID that is generated at system install time.
4088
4089	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4090			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4091			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4092			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4093			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4094			after the locks are lost.
4095			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4096			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4097			parameter to '1'.
4098			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4099			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4100
4101	nfs.send_implementation_id=
4102			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4103			information in exchange_id requests.
4104			If zero, no implementation identification information
4105			will be sent.
4106			The default is to send the implementation identification
4107			information.
4108
4109	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4110			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4111			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4112
4113			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4114			whatever value is the default set by the layout
4115			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4116			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4117
4118	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4119			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4120			server-to-server copies for which this server is
4121			the destination of the copy.
4122
4123	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4124			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4125			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4126			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4127			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
4128			migration from NFSv2/v3.
4129
4130	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4131			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4132			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4133			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
4134			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4135			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4136			this parameter.
4137
4138	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
4139			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4140
4141	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4142			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4143
4144	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4145			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4146
4147	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4148			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4149			NMI stack-backtrace request.
4150
4151	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4152			when a NMI is triggered.
4153			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4154
4155	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4156			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4157			Valid num: 0 or 1
4158			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4159			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4160			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4161
4162			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4163			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4164			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4165			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4166			please see 'nowatchdog'.
4167			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4168			need the box quickly up again.
4169
4170			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4171			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4172
4173	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4174			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4175			is present.
4176
4177	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4178			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4179
4180	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4181			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4182
4183	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
4184
4185	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4186			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4187
4188	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4189
4190	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4191
4192	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
4193
4194	no_console_suspend
4195			[HW] Never suspend the console
4196			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4197			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
4198			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4199			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4200			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
4201			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4202			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4203			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4204			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4205			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4206			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4207			turn on/off it dynamically.
4208
4209	no_debug_objects
4210			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4211
4212	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4213
4214	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4215
4216	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4217
4218	noexec32	[X86-64]
4219			This affects only 32-bit executables.
4220			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4221				read doesn't imply executable mappings
4222			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4223				read implies executable mappings
4224
4225	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
4226			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4227			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4228
4229	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4230
4231	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4232
4233	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4234			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4235			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4236
4237	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4238
4239	no_hash_pointers
4240			[KNL,EARLY]
4241			Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4242
4243	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4244
4245	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4246			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4247			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4248			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4249			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4250			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4251			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4252			useful when using JTAG debugger.
4253
4254	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4255
4256	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4257
4258	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4259
4260	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4261			Valid arguments: on, off
4262			Default: on
4263
4264	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4265			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4266			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4267			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4268			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4269			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
4270			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4271			just as if they had also been called out in the
4272			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4273
4274			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4275			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4276
4277	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4278			initial RAM disk.
4279
4280	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4281			remapping.
4282			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4283
4284	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4285
4286	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4287
4288	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4289			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4290
4291	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4292
4293	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
4294			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4295			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4296			Layout Randomization).
4297
4298	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4299			fault handling.
4300
4301	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4302
4303	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4304
4305	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4306
4307	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4308
4309	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4310			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4311
4312	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4313			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4314			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4315			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4316			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4317			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4318			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4319
4320			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4321
4322	nomodule	Disable module load
4323
4324	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4325			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4326			irq.
4327
4328	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4329			pagetables) support.
4330
4331	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4332
4333	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4334			in some Intel CPUs.
4335
4336	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4337			Equivalent to pti=off
4338
4339	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4340			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4341			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4342			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4343
4344	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4345			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4346			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4347			contention.
4348
4349	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4350			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4351
4352	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4353			with UP alternatives
4354
4355	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4356			space.
4357
4358	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4359			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4360			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4361
4362	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4363
4364	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4365			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4366			even if it is supported by processor.
4367
4368	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4369			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4370			even if it is supported by processor.
4371
4372	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4373			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4374
4375	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4376			Equivalent to smt=1.
4377
4378			[KNL,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4379			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4380				     via the sysfs control file.
4381
4382	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4383
4384	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4385			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4386			Store Bypass vulnerability
4387
4388	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4389			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4390			with this option.
4391
4392	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4393			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4394			possible in the system.
4395
4396	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4397			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4398			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4399			leaks with this option.
4400
4401	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4402			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4403			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4404
4405	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4406
4407	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4408			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4409			work around problems with incorrect timer
4410			initialization on some boards.
4411
4412	no_uaccess_flush
4413	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4414
4415	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4416			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4417			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4418			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4419			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4420			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4421			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4422			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4423			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4424			is set.
4425
4426	no-vmw-sched-clock
4427			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4428			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4429
4430	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4431			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4432
4433	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4434
4435	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4436
4437			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4438			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4439			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4440
4441	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4442			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4443			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4444
4445	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4446			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4447			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4448			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4449			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4450			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4451
4452	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4453			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4454			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4455			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4456			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4457			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4458			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4459
4460	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4461			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4462			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4463			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4464			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4465			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4466			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4467			hot plugging.
4468
4469	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4470
4471	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4472			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4473			spanning all memory.
4474
4475	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4476			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4477			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4478			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4479
4480	numa=fake=<N>
4481			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4482			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4483			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4484
4485	numa=fake=<N>U
4486			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4487			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4488			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4489
4490	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4491
4492	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4493			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4494
4495	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4496			NUMA balancing.
4497			Allowed values are enable and disable
4498
4499	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4500			'node', 'default' can be specified
4501			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4502			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4503
4504	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4505			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4506			info.
4507
4508	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4509			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4510			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4511			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4512			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4513			interrupts *may* be lost!
4514
4515	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4516			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4517			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4518			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4519
4520	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4521
4522			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4523
4524			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4525				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4526			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4527				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4528				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4529
4530	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4531			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4532			process, but there is a small probability of
4533			deadlocking the machine.
4534			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4535			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4536
4537	page_alloc.shuffle=
4538			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4539			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4540			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4541			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4542			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4543			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4544
4545	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4546			Storage of the information about who allocated
4547			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4548			we can turn it on.
4549			on: enable the feature
4550
4551	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4552			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4553			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4554			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4555			on: turn on poisoning
4556
4557	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4558			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4559			Format: <integer>
4560			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4561			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4562
4563	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4564			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4565			timeout = 0: wait forever
4566			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4567			Format: <timeout>
4568
4569	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4570			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4571			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4572			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4573			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4574			called with any of the flags in this set.
4575			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4576			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4577			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4578			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4579			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4580			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4581			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4582
4583	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4584			on a WARN().
4585
4586	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4587			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4588			bit 0: print all tasks info
4589			bit 1: print system memory info
4590			bit 2: print timer info
4591			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4592			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4593			bit 5: replay all messages on consoles at the end of panic
4594			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4595			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4596			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4597			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4598			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4599			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4600
4601	panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4602                        on panic.
4603                        Format: val[,val...]
4604                        Where @val can be any of the following:
4605
4606                        tasks:          print all tasks info
4607                        mem:            print system memory info
4608			timers:         print timers info
4609                        locks:          print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4610                        ftrace:         print ftrace buffer
4611                        all_bt:         print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4612                        blocked_tasks:  print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4613
4614                        This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4615
4616	panic_console_replay
4617			When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4618			consoles at the end of panic.
4619
4620	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4621			connected to, default is 0.
4622			Format: <parport#>
4623	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4624			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4625			Format: <mode>
4626
4627	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4628			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4629			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4630			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4631			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4632			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4633			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4634			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4635			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4636			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4637			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4638			are specified on the command line, starting
4639			with parport0.
4640
4641	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4642			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4643			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4644			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4645			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4646			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4647			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4648
4649	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4650			Format: <int>
4651			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4652			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4653			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4654
4655	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4656			Format: <int>
4657			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4658			changes.  Disabled by default.
4659
4660	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4661			Format: <int>
4662			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4663			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4664			Disabled by default.
4665
4666	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4667			Format: <int>
4668			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4669			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4670			Disabled by default.
4671
4672	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4673			Format: <int>
4674			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4675			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4676			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4677			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4678			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4679			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4680			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4681			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4682			all channels.
4683
4684	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4685			Format: <int>
4686			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4687			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4688			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4689
4690	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4691			Format: <int>
4692			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4693			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4694			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4695
4696	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4697			Format: <int>
4698			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4699			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4700			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4701			All modes allowed by default.
4702
4703	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4704			Format: <int>
4705			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4706			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4707
4708	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4709			Format: <int>
4710			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4711			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4712			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4713			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4714			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4715			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4716			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4717			By default all supported ports are probed.
4718
4719	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4720			Format: <int>
4721			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4722			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4723
4724	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4725			Format: <int>
4726			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4727			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4728			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4729			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4730			0 otherwise.
4731
4732	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4733			Format: <int>
4734			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4735			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4736			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4737			allowed by default.
4738
4739	pause_on_oops=<int>
4740			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4741			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4742			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4743
4744	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4745
4746	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4747
4748				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4749				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4750				specified in one of the following formats:
4751
4752				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4753				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4754
4755				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4756				bus/device/function address which may change
4757				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4758				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4759				by other kernel parameters. If the
4760				domain is left unspecified, it is
4761				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4762				to a device through multiple device/function
4763				addresses can be specified after the base
4764				address (this is more robust against
4765				renumbering issues).  The second format
4766				selects devices using IDs from the
4767				configuration space which may match multiple
4768				devices in the system.
4769
4770		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4771				changes anything
4772		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4773		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4774				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4775				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4776		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4777				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4778				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4779				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4780		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4781				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4782				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4783		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4784				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4785				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4786				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4787				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4788				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4789				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4790		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4791				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4792				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4793		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4794				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4795		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4796				Configuration
4797		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4798				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4799				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4800		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4801				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4802				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4803		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4804				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4805				should never be necessary.
4806		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4807				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4808				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4809				when the system masks IRQs.
4810		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4811				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4812				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4813				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4814		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4815				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4816				on several machines and they hang the machine
4817				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4818				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4819				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4820				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4821				motherboard.
4822		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4823				Use with caution as certain devices share
4824				address decoders between ROMs and other
4825				resources.
4826		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4827				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4828				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4829		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4830				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4831		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4832				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4833				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4834				this way.
4835		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4836				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4837				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4838				F0000h-100000h range.
4839		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4840				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4841				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4842				explicitly which ones they are.
4843		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4844				numbers ourselves, overriding
4845				whatever the firmware may have done.
4846		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4847				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4848				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4849				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4850				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4851				IRQ routing is enabled.
4852		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4853				or for PCI scanning.
4854		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4855				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4856				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4857				please report a bug.
4858		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4859				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4860		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4861				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4862				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4863				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4864				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4865		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4866				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4867				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4868				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4869		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4870				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4871				so this option is a temporary workaround
4872				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4873		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4874				handle more pci cards
4875		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4876				This might help on some broken boards which
4877				machine check when some devices' config space
4878				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4879				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4880		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4881				This sorting is done to get a device
4882				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4883		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4884		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4885				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4886		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4887				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4888		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4889				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4890				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4891				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4892				or bus can support) for best performance.
4893		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4894				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4895				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4896				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4897				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4898				that hot-added devices will work.
4899		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4900				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4901				The default value is 256 bytes.
4902		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4903				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4904				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4905		resource_alignment=
4906				Format:
4907				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4908				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4909				aligned memory resources. How to
4910				specify the device is described above.
4911				If <order of align> is not specified,
4912				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4913				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4914				windows need to be expanded.
4915				To specify the alignment for several
4916				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4917				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4918				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4919				for 4096-byte alignment.
4920		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4921				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4922				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4923				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4924				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4925				the default.
4926				off: Turn ECRC off
4927				on: Turn ECRC on.
4928		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4929				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4930				Default size is 256 bytes.
4931		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4932				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4933				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4934		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4935				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4936				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4937		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4938				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4939				MMIO_PREF window.
4940				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4941		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4942				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4943				Default is 1.
4944		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4945				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4946				accommodate resources required by all child
4947				devices.
4948				off: Turn realloc off
4949				on: Turn realloc on
4950		realloc		same as realloc=on
4951		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4952		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4953				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4954		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4955				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4956				port.
4957		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4958				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4959				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4960				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4961				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4962				taints the kernel.
4963		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4964				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4965				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4966				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4967				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4968				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4969				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4970				this removes isolation between devices and
4971				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4972		config_acs=
4973				Format:
4974				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4975				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4976				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4977				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4978				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4979				unchanged based on what is specified in
4980				flags.
4981
4982				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4983				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4984				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4985				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4986				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4987				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4988				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4989				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4990				Each bit can be marked as:
4991				  '0' – force disabled
4992				  '1' – force enabled
4993				  'x' – unchanged
4994				For example,
4995				  pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
4996				would configure all devices that support
4997				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4998				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4999				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5000				or firmware set it to.
5001
5002				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5003				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5004		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5005		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5006		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5007				one PCI domain per PCI function
5008		notph		[PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5009				is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5010				to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5011				system-wide.
5012
5013	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5014			Management.
5015		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
5016			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5017		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5018			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5019
5020	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5021		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5022			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5023			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
5024			also tries to use these services.
5025		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
5026				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5027		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5028			hotplug).
5029
5030	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5031		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5032		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5033
5034	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5035		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5036			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5037
5038	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5039
5040	pd_ignore_unused
5041			[PM]
5042			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5043			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5044			for debug and development, but should not be
5045			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5046
5047	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5048			boot time.
5049			Format: { 0 | 1 }
5050			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5051
5052	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
5053			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5054			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5055			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
5056			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5057			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
5058			and performance comparison.
5059
5060	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5061			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5062
5063	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5064			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5065			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5066
5067	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5068			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5069			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5070
5071	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
5072			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5073			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5074			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5075			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5076			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5077			remains 0.
5078
5079	pm_async=	[PM]
5080			Format: off
5081			This parameter sets the initial value of the
5082			/sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5083			If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5084			resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5085			This can be useful on platforms where device
5086			dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5087			power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5088			enabled by default.
5089
5090
5091	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
5092			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5093
5094	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
5095			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5096			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
5097			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
5098			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5099			possible settings and some assignment information.
5100
5101	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
5102			{ off }
5103
5104	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
5105			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5106
5107	pnp_reserve_irq=
5108			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5109
5110	pnp_reserve_dma=
5111			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5112
5113	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5114			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5115
5116	pnp_reserve_mem=
5117			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5118			autoconfiguration.
5119			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5120
5121	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5122			Default is 21.
5123			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5124			may be specified.
5125			Format: <port>,<port>....
5126
5127	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
5128			Format: <unsigned int>
5129			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5130			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5131
5132	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5133			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5134			platform machine description specific power_save
5135			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5136			execution priority.
5137
5138	ppc_strict_facility_enable
5139			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5140			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5141			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5142			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5143
5144	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
5145			Format: {"off"}
5146			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5147
5148	preempt=	[KNL]
5149			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5150			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5151			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5152			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5153			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
5154			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5155			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5156			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5157			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5158			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5159			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5160			       task returns to user space.
5161
5162	print-fatal-signals=
5163			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5164
5165			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5166			related application anomalies: too many signals,
5167			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5168			coredump - etc.
5169
5170			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5171			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5172
5173			default: off.
5174
5175	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5176			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5177			panics
5178			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5179			default: disabled
5180
5181	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5182			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5183			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5184			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5185			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5186			in order to provide more debug information.
5187			Format: <bool>
5188			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5189
5190	printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5191			Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5192			the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5193			flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5194			a best-effort basis.
5195			Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5196			Default: disabled
5197
5198	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5199			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5200			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5201			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5202			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5203			Default: ratelimit
5204
5205	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5206			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5207
5208	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5209			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5210			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5211			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5212			restrict that. Can be one of:
5213			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5214			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5215			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
5216			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5217
5218	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
5219			Limit processor to maximum C-state
5220			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5221
5222	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
5223			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5224			instead using the legacy FADT method
5225
5226	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5227			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5228			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5229				[defaults to kernel profiling]
5230			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5231			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5232			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5233				statistical time based profiling.
5234
5235	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
5236
5237	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5238			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5239			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5240			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5241			Layout Randomization is disabled.
5242			Format: <bool>
5243
5244	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5245			tracking.
5246			Format: <bool>
5247
5248	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5249			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5250	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5251			per second.
5252	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
5253			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5254			(0 = never).
5255	psmouse.resolution=
5256			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5257	psmouse.smartscroll=
5258			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5259			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5260
5261	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5262
5263	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5264			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
5265			removes hardening, but improves performance of
5266			system calls and interrupts.
5267
5268			on   - unconditionally enable
5269			off  - unconditionally disable
5270			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5271			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5272
5273			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5274
5275	pty.legacy_count=
5276			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5277			default number.
5278
5279	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5280
5281	r128=		[HW,DRM]
5282
5283	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
5284			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5285			invalidate.
5286
5287	raid=		[HW,RAID]
5288			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5289
5290	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5291			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5292
5293	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
5294
5295	random.trust_cpu=off
5296			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5297			random number generator (if available) to
5298			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5299
5300	random.trust_bootloader=off
5301			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5302			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5303			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5304
5305	randomize_kstack_offset=
5306			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5307			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5308			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5309			that depend on stack address determinism or
5310			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5311			available on architectures that have defined
5312			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5313			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5314			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5315
5316	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
5317
5318		cec_disable	[X86]
5319				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5320				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5321
5322	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5323			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5324			as described above.
5325
5326			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5327			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5328			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5329			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5330			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5331			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5332			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5333			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5334			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5335			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5336			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
5337			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5338
5339			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5340			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5341
5342			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5343			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5344			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5345			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5346
5347			Note that this argument takes precedence over
5348			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5349
5350	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
5351			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5352			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5353			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5354			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5355			This improves the real-time response for the
5356			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5357			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5358			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5359			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5360
5361	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5362			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5363			process in one batch.
5364
5365	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5366			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5367			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5368
5369	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5370			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5371			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5372			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5373			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5374			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5375
5376	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5377			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5378			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5379			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5380
5381	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5382			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5383			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5384
5385	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5386			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5387			RCU grace-period initialization.
5388
5389	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5390			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5391			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5392			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5393			the rcu_node combining tree.
5394
5395	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5396			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5397			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5398			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5399			and maximum value is HZ.
5400
5401	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5402			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5403			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5404			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5405
5406	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5407			Set required age in jiffies for a
5408			given grace period before RCU starts
5409			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5410			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5411			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5412			a value based on the most recent settings
5413			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5414			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5415			This calculated value may be viewed in
5416			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5417			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5418			overwritten.
5419
5420	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5421			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5422			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5423			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5424			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5425			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5426			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5427			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5428			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5429			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5430			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5431			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5432
5433	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5434			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5435			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5436			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5437			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5438			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5439			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5440			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5441			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5442			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5443			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5444			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5445
5446	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5447			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5448			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5449			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5450			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5451			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5452			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5453
5454	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5455			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5456			batch limiting is disabled.
5457
5458	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5459			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5460			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5461
5462	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5463			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5464			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5465			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5466			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5467			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5468			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5469			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5470
5471	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5472			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5473			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5474			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5475
5476	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5477			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5478			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5479			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5480			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5481			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5482			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5483			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5484
5485			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5486			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5487			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5488			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5489			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5490
5491	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5492			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5493			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5494			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5495			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5496
5497	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5498			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5499			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5500			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5501			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5502			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5503			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5504
5505	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5506			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5507			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5508			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5509			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5510			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5511			condition.
5512
5513	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5514			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5515			each group, which defaults to the square root
5516			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5517			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5518			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5519			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5520
5521	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5522			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5523			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5524			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5525			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5526			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5527
5528	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5529			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5530			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5531			By default, this limit is checked only once
5532			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5533			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5534
5535	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5536			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5537			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5538			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5539			Larger delays increase the probability of
5540			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5541			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5542			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5543
5544	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5545			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5546			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5547			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5548
5549	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5550			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5551			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5552			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5553			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5554
5555			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5556			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5557			to zero.
5558
5559	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5560			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5561			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5562			big.
5563
5564	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5565			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5566			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5567			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5568			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5569			normal grace period.
5570
5571			How to enable it:
5572
5573			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5574			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5575
5576			Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5577			disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5578
5579	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5580			Measure performance of asynchronous
5581			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5582
5583	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5584			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5585			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5586			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5587			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5588			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5589
5590	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5591			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5592			grace-period primitives.
5593
5594	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5595			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5596			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5597			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5598			interference.
5599
5600	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5601			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5602			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5603
5604	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5605			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5606			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5607			Defaults to 1.
5608
5609	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5610			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5611
5612	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5613			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5614			If this parameter has the same value as
5615			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5616			and double-argument variants are tested.
5617
5618	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5619			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5620			If this parameter has the same value as
5621			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5622			and double-argument variants are tested.
5623
5624	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5625			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5626
5627	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5628			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5629
5630	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5631			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5632			of allocations and frees.
5633
5634	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5635			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5636			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5637			but instead allows better measurement of things
5638			like CPU consumption.
5639
5640	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5641			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5642			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5643			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5644			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5645			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5646			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5647			a single reader.
5648
5649	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5650			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5651			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5652			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5653
5654	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5655			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5656
5657	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5658			Shut the system down after performance tests
5659			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5660			testing.
5661
5662	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5663			Enable additional printk() statements.
5664
5665	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5666			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5667			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5668			no holdoff.
5669
5670	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5671			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5672			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5673			says no holdoff.
5674
5675	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5676			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5677			in microseconds.
5678
5679	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5680			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5681			in microseconds.
5682
5683	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5684			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5685			in seconds.
5686
5687	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5688			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5689			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5690			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5691			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5692			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5693			of CPUs to be used.
5694
5695	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5696			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5697			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5698
5699	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5700			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5701			forward-progress tests.
5702
5703	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5704			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5705			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5706			testing.
5707
5708	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5709			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5710			normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5711
5712	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
5713			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5714			expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
5715
5716	rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
5717			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5718			normal-grace-period primitives that also take
5719			concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
5720			if available.
5721
5722	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
5723			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5724			expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
5725			concurrent normal grace periods into account,
5726			if available.
5727
5728	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
5729			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5730			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5731			gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
5732			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5733			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5734			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5735			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5736			with HZ=1000.
5737
5738	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
5739			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5740			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5741			gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
5742			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5743			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5744			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5745			128 microseconds.
5746
5747	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5748			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5749
5750	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5751			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5752			update-side primitives, if available.
5753
5754	rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
5755			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5756			primitives, if available.
5757
5758	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
5759			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5760			primitives, if available.
5761
5762	rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
5763			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
5764			primitives that also take concurrent expedited
5765			grace periods into account, if available.
5766
5767	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
5768			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
5769			primitives that also take concurrent normal
5770			grace periods into account, if available.
5771
5772	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
5773			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
5774			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5775			gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
5776			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
5777			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
5778			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
5779			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
5780			with HZ=1000.
5781
5782	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
5783			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
5784			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
5785			gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
5786			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
5787			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
5788			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
5789			128 microseconds.
5790
5791	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5792			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5793			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5794			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5795			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5796			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5797			they are all non-zero.
5798
5799	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
5800			Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
5801			to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
5802			running. Default is true.
5803
5804	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
5805			Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
5806			active lag testing periods. This controls how many
5807			grace periods differences we tolerate between
5808			rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
5809			The default is always set to 8.
5810
5811	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
5812			Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
5813			testing in minutes. This is the total time for
5814			one complete cycle of active and inactive
5815			testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
5816
5817	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
5818			Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
5819			within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
5820			the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
5821			value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
5822			5 minutes.
5823
5824	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5825			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5826			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5827			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5828
5829	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5830			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5831			This can of course result in splats, and is
5832			intended to test the ability of things like
5833			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5834			such leaks.
5835
5836	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5837			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5838
5839	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5840			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5841			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5842			test, hence the "fake".
5843
5844	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5845			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5846			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5847
5848	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5849			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5850			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5851
5852	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5853			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5854			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5855			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5856			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5857			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5858
5859	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5860			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5861
5862	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5863			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5864
5865	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5866			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5867			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5868
5869	rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
5870			Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
5871			by a high-priority FIFO real-time task.  Set to
5872			zero (the default) to disable.	The CPUs to
5873			preempt are selected randomly from the set that
5874			are online at a given point in time.  Races with
5875			CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
5876			at preemption skipped.
5877
5878	rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
5879			Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
5880			second) between preemptions by a high-priority
5881			FIFO real-time task.  This delay is mediated
5882			by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
5883			inadvertent synchronizations.
5884
5885	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5886			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5887			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5888			is spawned.
5889
5890	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5891			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5892			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5893
5894	rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
5895			A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
5896			If there is more than one bit set, the readers
5897			are entered from low-order bit up, and are
5898			exited in the opposite order.  For SRCU, the
5899			0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
5900			and 0x4 light-weight readers.
5901
5902	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5903			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5904			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5905			during the rcutorture test.
5906
5907	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5908			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5909			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5910
5911	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5912			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5913			warnings, zero to disable.
5914
5915	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5916			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5917			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5918			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5919			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5920			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5921			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5922			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5923			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5924			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5925
5926			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5927
5928
5929	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5930			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5931
5932	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5933			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5934			on the first stall in the set.
5935
5936	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5937			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5938			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5939			in four stall sequences.
5940
5941	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5942			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5943			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5944			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5945			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5946			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5947
5948	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5949			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5950
5951	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5952			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5953			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5954			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5955			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5956
5957	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5958			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5959			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5960			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5961
5962	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5963			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5964
5965	rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
5966			Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
5967			of RCU priority-boost testing.	Defaults to zero,
5968			that is, no holdoff.
5969
5970	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5971			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5972
5973	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5974			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5975			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5976
5977	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5978			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5979
5980	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5981			Enable additional printk() statements.
5982
5983	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5984			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5985			stall warning.
5986
5987	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5988			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5989			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5990			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5991			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5992
5993	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5994			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5995
5996	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5997			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5998			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5999			during early boot, that is, during the time
6000			before the init task is spawned.
6001
6002	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6003			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6004			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6005			value is 300 seconds.
6006
6007	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6008			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6009			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
6010			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6011			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6012			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6013			Setting this to zero causes the value from
6014			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6015			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6016
6017	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6018			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6019			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6020			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6021			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6022
6023	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6024			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6025			current expedited RCU grace period during an
6026			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6027
6028	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6029			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6030			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6031			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
6032			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6033			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6034			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6035
6036	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6037			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6038			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6039			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
6040			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6041			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6042			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
6043			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
6044			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6045
6046	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6047			Once boot has completed (that is, after
6048			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6049			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
6050			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6051
6052			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6053			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6054			it to the value one, that is, converting any
6055			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6056			period to instead use normal non-expedited
6057			grace-period processing.
6058
6059	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6060			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6061			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6062			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6063			a single callback queue.  This switching only
6064			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6065			set to the default value of -1.
6066
6067	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6068			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6069			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6070			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6071			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
6072			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6073			the default value of -1.
6074
6075	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6076			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6077			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
6078			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6079			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
6080			for use in testing.
6081
6082	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
6083			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
6084			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
6085			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
6086			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
6087			but lengthens grace periods.
6088
6089	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6090			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6091			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
6092			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6093			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6094			callback flooding.
6095
6096	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6097			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6098			informational messages, which give some indication
6099			of the problem for those not patient enough to
6100			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
6101			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6102			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6103			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
6104			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
6105			until the beginning of the next grace period.
6106
6107	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6108			Multiplier for time interval between successive
6109			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6110			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
6111			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
6112			the value three, so that the first informational
6113			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6114			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6115			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6116			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6117
6118	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6119			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6120			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
6121			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
6122			A change in value does not take effect until
6123			the beginning of the next grace period.
6124
6125	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6126			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6127			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6128			A negative value will take the default.  A value
6129			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
6130			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6131
6132	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6133			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
6134			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
6135			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
6136			will take the default.	A value of zero will
6137			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
6138			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
6139
6140	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6141			Run the RCU early boot self tests
6142
6143	rdinit=		[KNL]
6144			Format: <full_path>
6145			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6146			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6147
6148	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
6149			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6150				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6151				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6152				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6153				path).
6154
6155	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
6156			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6157			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6158			mba, smba, bmec.
6159			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6160				rdt=cmt,!mba
6161
6162	reboot=		[KNL]
6163			Format (x86 or x86_64):
6164				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6165				[[,]s[mp]#### \
6166				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6167				[[,]f[orce]
6168			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6169					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6170					reboot only),
6171			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6172			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6173			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6174					to be used for rebooting.
6175
6176		acpi
6177			Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6178			configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6179			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6180
6181		bios
6182			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6183
6184		cold
6185			Set the cold reboot flag
6186
6187		default
6188			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6189			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6190			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6191			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6192			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6193			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6194			reboot actions.
6195
6196		efi
6197			Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6198			configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6199			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6200
6201		force
6202			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6203			more reliable in some cases.
6204
6205		kbd
6206			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6207
6208		pci
6209			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6210			trigger reboot.
6211
6212		triple
6213			Force a triple fault (init)
6214
6215		warm
6216			Don't set the cold reboot flag
6217
6218			Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6219			memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6220			the memory check.  Disadvantage is that not all
6221			hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6222			there may be boot problems on some systems.
6223
6224
6225	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6226			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
6227			this parameter is to delay the start of the
6228			test until boot completes in order to avoid
6229			interference.
6230
6231	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6232			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6233			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
6234			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6235			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6236
6237	refscale.loops= [KNL]
6238			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6239			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
6240			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6241			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6242			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6243			x86 laptops.
6244
6245	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6246			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
6247			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6248			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6249
6250	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6251			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6252			the console log.
6253
6254	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6255			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6256			measured in microseconds.
6257
6258	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6259			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6260
6261	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6262			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6263			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6264			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6265			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6266
6267	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6268			Enable additional printk() statements.
6269
6270	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6271			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
6272			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
6273			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6274			specified.
6275
6276	regulator_ignore_unused
6277			[REGULATOR]
6278			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6279			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6280			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6281			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6282
6283	relax_domain_level=
6284			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6285			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6286
6287	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6288			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6289			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6290			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6291			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6292
6293	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
6294			Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6295			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6296			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6297			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6298			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6299			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6300			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6301			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6302			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6303			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6304			different location.
6305			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6306			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6307			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6308			located at the same location.
6309
6310			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6311			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6312
6313			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6314
6315	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
6316			Format: nn[KMG]
6317			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6318			address space.
6319
6320	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6321			during initialization.
6322
6323	resume=		[SWSUSP]
6324			Specify the partition device for software suspend
6325			Format:
6326			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6327
6328	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
6329			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6330			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6331			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6332			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6333
6334	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6335			read the resume files
6336
6337	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6338			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6339			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6340
6341	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6342			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6343
6344	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6345			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6346			vulnerability.
6347
6348			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6349			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6350			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6351			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6352			that don't.
6353
6354			off          - no mitigation
6355			auto         - automatically select a migitation
6356			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
6357				       disabling SMT if necessary for
6358				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6359				       and older without STIBP).
6360			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6361				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
6362				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6363				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6364				       on Intel.
6365			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6366				       when STIBP is not available. This is
6367				       the alternative for systems which do not
6368				       have STIBP.
6369			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6370				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6371				       systems.
6372			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6373				       is not available. This is the alternative for
6374				       systems which do not have STIBP.
6375
6376			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6377			time according to the CPU.
6378
6379			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6380
6381	rfkill.default_state=
6382		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6383			etc. communication is blocked by default.
6384		1	Unblocked.
6385
6386	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6387		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6388		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6389			blocked and the previous configuration.
6390		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6391			blocked and everything unblocked.
6392
6393	ring3mwait=disable
6394			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6395			CPUs.
6396
6397	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6398			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6399			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6400			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6401			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6402			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6403
6404	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6405
6406	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
6407		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6408		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6409		noalias	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6410			writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6411			of the kernel image. [arm64]
6412
6413	rockchip.usb_uart
6414			[EARLY]
6415			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6416			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6417			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6418			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6419
6420	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
6421			Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6422			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6423			block/early-lookup.c for details.
6424			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6425			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6426			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6427
6428	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6429			mount the root filesystem
6430
6431	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6432
6433	initramfs_options= [KNL]
6434                        Specify mount options for for the initramfs mount.
6435
6436	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
6437
6438	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6439			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6440			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6441
6442	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6443			to show up before attempting to mount the root
6444			filesystem.
6445
6446	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6447			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6448			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6449			managed by CMA.
6450
6451	rt_group_sched=	[KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6452			when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6453			!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6454			Format: <bool>
6455
6456	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6457
6458	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
6459
6460	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
6461			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6462		strict
6463			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6464			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6465			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6466			iommu.strict=1.
6467
6468	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
6469			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6470			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6471			factor of the size of main memory.
6472			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6473			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6474			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6475			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6476			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6477			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6478			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6479
6480	sa1100ir	[NET]
6481			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6482
6483	sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6484			Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6485			solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6486			Format: <bool>
6487
6488	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6489
6490	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6491			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6492			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6493			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6494
6495	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6496			[Deprecated]
6497			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6498			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6499			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6500			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6501			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6502			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6503			value.
6504			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6505			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
6506				1			64 ms
6507				2			128 ms
6508			and so on.
6509			Format: integer between 0 and 10
6510			Default is 0.
6511
6512	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6513			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6514			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6515			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6516			tests.
6517
6518	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6519			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6520			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
6521			default) disables this feature.  Please note
6522			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6523			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6524			softlockup complaints, and so on.
6525
6526	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6527			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6528			smp_call_function() family of functions.
6529			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6530			equal to the number of CPUs.
6531
6532	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6533			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6534			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6535
6536	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6537			Number seconds to wait between successive
6538			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6539			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6540
6541	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6542			The number of seconds following the start of the
6543			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6544			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6545			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6546
6547	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6548			The number of seconds between outputting the
6549			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6550			of zero disables statistics output.
6551
6552	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6553			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6554			to the set of CPUs under test.
6555
6556	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6557			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6558			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6559			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6560			functions.
6561
6562	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6563			Enable additional printk() statements.
6564
6565	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6566			The probability weighting to use for the
6567			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6568			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6569			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6570			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6571			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6572
6573	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6574			The probability weighting to use for the
6575			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6576			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6577
6578	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6579			The probability weighting to use for the
6580			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6581			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6582			Note well that setting a high probability for
6583			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6584			on the system.
6585
6586	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6587			The probability weighting to use for the
6588			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6589			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6590			and weight_many.
6591
6592	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6593			The probability weighting to use for the
6594			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6595			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6596			weight_many.
6597
6598	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6599			The probability weighting to use for the
6600			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6601			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6602			and weight_many.
6603
6604	sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6605			Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6606			case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6607
6608	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6609			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6610			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6611			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6612			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6613			1 -- enable.
6614			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6615			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6616
6617	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6618			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6619			"lsm=" parameter.
6620
6621	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6622			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6623			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6624			0 -- disable.
6625			1 -- enable.
6626			Default value is 1.
6627
6628	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6629
6630	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6631
6632		debug
6633			Enable debug messages.
6634
6635		nosnp
6636			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6637			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6638			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6639			SEV-SNP guests.
6640
6641	shapers=	[NET]
6642			Maximal number of shapers.
6643
6644	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6645			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6646			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6647			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6648			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6649			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6650			apic=verbose is specified.
6651			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6652
6653	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6654			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6655			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6656			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6657			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6658			last alloc / free. For more information see
6659			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6660			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6661
6662			Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6663			option which can be undone by adding the
6664			"hash_pointers=always" option.
6665
6666	slab_max_order= [MM]
6667			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6668			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6669			fragmentation. For more information see
6670			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6671			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6672
6673	slab_merge	[MM]
6674			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6675			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6676			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6677
6678	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6679			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6680			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6681			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6682			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6683			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6684			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6685			For more information see
6686			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6687			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6688
6689	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6690			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6691			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6692			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6693			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6694
6695	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6696			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6697			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6698			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6699			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6700			layout control by attackers can usually be
6701			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6702			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6703			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6704			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6705			own.
6706			For more information see
6707			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6708			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6709
6710	slab_strict_numa	[MM]
6711			Support memory policies on a per object level
6712			in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
6713			policies to be applied at the folio level when
6714			a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
6715			retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
6716			in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
6717			NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
6718			interconnects in NUMA systems.
6719
6720	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6721
6722	smart2=		[HW]
6723			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6724
6725	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6726			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6727			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6728			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6729			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6730			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6731			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6732			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6733			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6734			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6735
6736	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6737			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6738			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6739			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6740			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6741			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6742
6743	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6744	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6745	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6746	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6747	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6748	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6749	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6750				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6751				1: Fast pin select (default)
6752				2: ATC IRMode
6753
6754	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6755			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6756			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6757			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6758			Format: <integer>
6759			Default: -1 (no limit)
6760
6761	softlockup_panic=
6762			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6763			Format: 0 | 1
6764
6765			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6766			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6767			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6768			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6769			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6770
6771	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6772			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6773			backtraces on all cpus.
6774			Format: 0 | 1
6775
6776	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6777			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6778
6779	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6780			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6781			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6782			clearing sequence.
6783
6784			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6785				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6786				 both syscalls and VMs.
6787			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6788				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6789				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6790				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6791				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6792			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6793
6794	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6795			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6796			The default operation protects the kernel from
6797			user space attacks.
6798
6799			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6800			       spectre_v2_user=on
6801			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6802			       spectre_v2_user=off
6803			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6804			       vulnerable
6805
6806			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6807			mitigation method at run time according to the
6808			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6809			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6810			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6811
6812			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6813			against user space to user space task attacks.
6814			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
6815			user mitigations.
6816
6817			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6818			the user space protections.
6819
6820			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6821
6822			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6823			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6824			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6825			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6826			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6827			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6828			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6829			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6830
6831			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6832			spectre_v2=auto.
6833
6834	spectre_v2_user=
6835			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6836		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6837		        user space tasks
6838
6839			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6840				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6841
6842			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6843				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6844
6845			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6846				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6847				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6848				  is inherited on fork.
6849
6850			prctl,ibpb
6851				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6852				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6853				  always when switching between different user
6854				  space processes.
6855
6856			seccomp
6857				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6858				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6859				  they explicitly opt out.
6860
6861			seccomp,ibpb
6862				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6863				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6864				  always when switching between different
6865				  user space processes.
6866
6867			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6868				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6869
6870			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6871
6872			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6873			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6874
6875	spec_rstack_overflow=
6876			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6877
6878			off		- Disable mitigation
6879			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6880			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6881			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6882					  kernel entry
6883			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6884					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6885
6886	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6887			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6888			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6889
6890			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6891			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6892			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6893			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6894			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6895			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6896			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6897			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6898
6899			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6900			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6901			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6902			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6903
6904			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6905			Bypass optimization is used.
6906
6907			On x86 the options are:
6908
6909			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6910			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6911			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6912				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6913				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6914				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6915				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6916				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6917			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6918				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6919				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6920				  is inherited on fork.
6921			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6922				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6923
6924			Default mitigations:
6925			X86:	"prctl"
6926
6927			On powerpc the options are:
6928
6929			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6930				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6931				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6932				  exit.
6933			off	- No action.
6934
6935			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6936			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6937
6938	split_lock_detect=
6939			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6940
6941			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6942			instructions that access data across cache line
6943			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6944			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6945			bus lock detection.
6946
6947			off	- not enabled
6948
6949			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6950				  about applications triggering the #AC
6951				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6952				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6953				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6954				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6955				  enabled in hardware.
6956
6957			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6958				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6959				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6960				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6961
6962			ratelimit:N -
6963				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6964				  per second for bus lock detection.
6965				  0 < N <= 1000.
6966
6967				  N/A for split lock detection.
6968
6969
6970			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6971			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6972			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6973			mode.
6974
6975			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6976			CPL > 0.
6977
6978	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6979			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6980			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6981
6982			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6983			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6984			number generator.
6985
6986			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6987			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6988			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6989			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6990			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6991
6992			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6993			the following option:
6994
6995			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6996				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6997
6998	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6999			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7000			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7001			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7002			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7003			but takes effect only when the low-order four
7004			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7005			(decide at boot).
7006
7007	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7008			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7009			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7010			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7011
7012				   0:  Never.
7013				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
7014				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
7015				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
7016				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
7017
7018			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7019			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7020			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7021
7022	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7023			Specifies how frequently to check for
7024			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7025			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7026			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7027			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7028			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
7029			are ignored.
7030
7031	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7032			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7033			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7034			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7035			grace period will be considered for automatic
7036			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
7037			expediting.
7038
7039	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7040			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7041			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7042			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7043			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7044			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7045
7046	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7047			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7048			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7049			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7050			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7051			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7052
7053	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7054			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7055			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7056
7057	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7058			Specifies the number of update-side contention
7059			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7060			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7061			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
7062			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7063			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7064
7065	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7066			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7067
7068			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7069			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7070			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7071			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7072
7073			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7074				   for both kernel and userspace
7075			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7076				   for both kernel and userspace
7077			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
7078				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7079				   to allow userspace to register its
7080				   interest in being mitigated too.
7081
7082	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
7083			override the default stack gap protection. The value
7084			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7085			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7086			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7087			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7088
7089	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7090			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7091			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7092			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7093			to false.
7094
7095	stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7096			Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7097			stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7098			limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7099
7100	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
7101			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
7102
7103	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7104			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7105			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7106			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7107			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7108			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7109			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7110
7111	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
7112			Format: <num>
7113			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7114			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7115			as the initial boot-console.
7116			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7117
7118	sti_font=	[HW]
7119			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7120
7121	stifb=		[HW]
7122			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7123
7124        strict_sas_size=
7125			[X86]
7126			Format: <bool>
7127			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7128			against the required signal frame size which
7129			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7130			be used to filter out binaries which have
7131			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7132
7133	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
7134			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7135			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7136			faults on kernel addresses.
7137
7138	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
7139			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7140			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7141			on kernel addresses.
7142
7143	sunrpc.min_resvport=
7144	sunrpc.max_resvport=
7145			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7146			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7147			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7148			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7149			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7150			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7151			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7152			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7153			maximum port values.
7154
7155	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7156			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7157			Limit the number of requests that the server will
7158			process in parallel from a single connection.
7159			The default value is 0 (no limit).
7160
7161	sunrpc.pool_mode=
7162			[NFS]
7163			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7164			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
7165			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7166			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7167			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7168			NFS server is running.
7169
7170			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
7171				    automatically using heuristics
7172			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
7173			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
7174			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7175				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
7176
7177	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7178	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7179			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7180			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7181			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7182			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7183			improve throughput, but will also increase the
7184			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7185
7186	suspend.pm_test_delay=
7187			[SUSPEND]
7188			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7189			mode before resuming the system (see
7190			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7191			is set. Default value is 5.
7192
7193	svm=		[PPC]
7194			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7195			This parameter controls use of the Protected
7196			Execution Facility on pSeries.
7197
7198	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7199			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7200			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7201			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7202				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7203				 to a power of 2.
7204			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7205			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7206			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7207
7208	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
7209
7210	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
7211			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7212			process, as if the value was written to the respective
7213			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7214			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7215			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7216			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7217			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7218
7219	sysrq_always_enabled
7220			[KNL]
7221			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7222			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7223			Useful for debugging.
7224
7225	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7226			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7227			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7228			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7229			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7230			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7231
7232	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
7233
7234	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
7235			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7236			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7237			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7238			as the system sleep state during system startup with
7239			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7240			The system is woken from this state using a
7241			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7242
7243	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7244			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7245
7246	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
7247			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7248			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7249
7250	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
7251			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7252			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7253
7254	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
7255			1: disable ACPI thermal control
7256
7257	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
7258			-1: disable all passive trip points
7259			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7260			value
7261
7262	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
7263			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7264			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7265			0: no polling (default)
7266
7267	thp_anon=	[KNL]
7268			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7269			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7270			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7271			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7272			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7273			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7274			details.
7275
7276	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
7277			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7278			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7279
7280	thp_shmem=	[KNL]
7281			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7282			Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7283			internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7284			for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7285			and "advise").
7286			It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7287			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7288			details.
7289
7290	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
7291			Format: {off | on}
7292			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7293			topology information if the hardware supports this.
7294			The scheduler will make use of this information and
7295			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7296			Default is on.
7297
7298	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7299			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7300			until after init has spawned.
7301
7302	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7303			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7304			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
7305			very costly operation when many torture tests
7306			are running concurrently, especially on systems
7307			with rotating-rust storage.
7308
7309	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7310			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7311			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
7312			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7313
7314	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7315			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7316
7317	tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7318			Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7319			access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7320			having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7321			TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7322			where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7323			causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7324			machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7325
7326	tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7327			Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7328			to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7329			how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7330			service is busy.
7331			Format: <unsigned int>
7332			Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7333
7334	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7335			Format: integer pcr id
7336			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7337			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7338			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7339			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7340			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7341			are saved.
7342
7343	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7344			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7345			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7346			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7347			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7348			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7349
7350	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
7351			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7352			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7353			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7354			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7355			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7356
7357			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7358			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7359			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7360			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7361
7362			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7363			to stop the printing of events to console at
7364			late_initcall_sync.
7365
7366			** CAUTION **
7367
7368			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7369			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7370			the system to live lock.
7371
7372	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7373			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7374			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7375			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7376			make the system inoperable.
7377
7378			This command line option will stop the printing of events
7379			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7380
7381	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7382			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7383
7384	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7385			at boot up.
7386			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7387				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7388				depending on the architecture, may not be
7389				in sync between CPUs.
7390			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
7391				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7392				but better for some race conditions.
7393			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7394				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7395				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7396				once per event.
7397			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7398			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7399			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7400			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7401				stamps.
7402			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7403			Architectures may add more clocks. See
7404			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7405
7406	trace_event=[event-list]
7407			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7408			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7409			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7410			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7411
7412			To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7413
7414			trace_event=:mod:<module>
7415
7416			The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7417			that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7418			document for more information.
7419
7420	trace_instance=[instance-info]
7421			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7422			This will be listed in:
7423
7424				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7425
7426			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7427			via:
7428
7429				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7430
7431			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7432			unique.
7433
7434				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7435
7436			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7437			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7438			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7439
7440			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7441			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7442
7443			The available flags are:
7444
7445			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7446			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7447					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7448
7449				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7450
7451			The flags must come before the defined events.
7452
7453			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7454			can use that memory:
7455
7456				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7457
7458			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7459			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7460			instance will be split up accordingly.
7461
7462			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7463
7464				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7465
7466			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7467			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7468			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7469			the buffer content.
7470
7471			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7472			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7473			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7474
7475			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7476			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7477			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7478			at boot up).
7479
7480				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7481
7482			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7483			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7484			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7485			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7486			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7487
7488			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7489
7490			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7491
7492
7493	trace_options=[option-list]
7494			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7495			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7496			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7497			to echo the option name into
7498
7499			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7500
7501			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7502			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7503
7504			      trace_options=stacktrace
7505
7506			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7507			section.
7508
7509	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7510			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
7511			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7512			filter.
7513
7514			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7515			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
7516
7517			For example:
7518
7519			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7520
7521			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7522			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7523			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
7524
7525			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7526
7527
7528	traceoff_after_boot
7529			[FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7530			during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7531			limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7532			disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7533			the critical information may be overwritten.  With this
7534			option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7535			the end of the boot process.
7536
7537	traceoff_on_warning
7538			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7539			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7540			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7541			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7542
7543			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7544			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7545			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7546
7547			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7548			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7549
7550	transparent_hugepage=
7551			[KNL]
7552			Format: [always|madvise|never]
7553			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7554			with respect to transparent hugepages.
7555			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7556			for more details.
7557
7558	transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7559			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7560			Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7561			the internal shmem mount.
7562			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7563			for more details.
7564
7565	transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7566			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7567			Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7568			for the tmpfs mount.
7569			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7570			for more details.
7571
7572	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
7573			Format: <string>
7574			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7575			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7576			sources:
7577			- "tpm"
7578			- "tee"
7579			- "caam"
7580			- "dcp"
7581			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7582			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7583			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7584			successfully during iteration.
7585
7586	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
7587			Format: <string>
7588			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7589			Can be one of:
7590			- "kernel"
7591			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7592			- "default"
7593			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7594			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7595
7596	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7597			This is intended to be used in combination with
7598			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7599			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7600
7601	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7602			This is intended to be used in combination with
7603			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7604			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7605			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7606			scenarios.
7607
7608	tsa=		[X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7609			Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7610			favourite search engine for more details:
7611
7612			"Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7613			attacks".
7614
7615			off		- disable the mitigation
7616			on		- enable the mitigation (default)
7617			user		- mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7618			vm		- mitigate only guest/host transitions
7619
7620
7621	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7622			Format: <string>
7623			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7624			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7625			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
7626			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7627			virtualized environment.
7628			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7629			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7630			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7631			can add overhead.
7632			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7633			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7634			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7635			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7636			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7637			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7638			acceptable).
7639			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7640			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7641			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7642			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7643			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
7644			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
7645			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
7646			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
7647			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
7648			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
7649
7650	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7651			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7652			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7653			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7654			Format: <unsigned int>
7655
7656	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7657			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7658			support TSX control.
7659
7660			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7661
7662			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7663				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7664				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7665				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7666				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7667				with leaving it enabled.
7668
7669			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7670				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7671				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7672				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7673				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7674				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7675				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7676
7677			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7678				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7679
7680			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7681
7682			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7683			for more details.
7684
7685	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7686			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7687
7688			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7689			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7690			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7691			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7692			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7693			conditions.
7694
7695			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7696			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7697			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7698			access.
7699
7700			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7701			options are:
7702
7703			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7704				     if TSX is enabled.
7705
7706			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
7707				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
7708				     is not disabled because CPU is not
7709				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
7710			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
7711
7712			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
7713			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
7714			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
7715			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
7716
7717			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7718			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
7719			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
7720			required and doesn't provide any additional
7721			mitigation.
7722
7723			For details see:
7724			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7725
7726	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
7727			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
7728			Format:
7729			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
7730			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
7731
7732	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
7733			happen after console_init() and before a proper
7734			console driver takes over, this boot options might
7735			help "seeing" what's going on.
7736
7737	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7738			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
7739
7740	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
7741			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
7742			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
7743			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
7744			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
7745			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
7746			reported either.
7747
7748	unaligned_scalar_speed=
7749			[RISCV]
7750			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7751			Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
7752			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7753			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7754			CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
7755
7756	unaligned_vector_speed=
7757			[RISCV]
7758			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
7759			Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
7760			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
7761			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
7762			CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
7763
7764	unknown_nmi_panic
7765			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7766
7767	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7768			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7769			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7770			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7771			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7772
7773	usbcore.authorized_default=
7774			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7775			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7776			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7777			if device connected to internal port)
7778
7779	usbcore.autosuspend=
7780			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7781			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7782			is the time required before an idle device will be
7783			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7784			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7785
7786	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7787			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7788
7789	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7790			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7791			(default = 65536).
7792
7793	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7794			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7795
7796	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7797			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7798			scheme (default 0 = off).
7799
7800	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7801			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7802			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7803
7804	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7805			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7806			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7807
7808	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7809			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7810			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7811			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7812
7813	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7814
7815	usbcore.quirks=
7816			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7817			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7818			commas. Each entry has the form
7819			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7820			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7821			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7822			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7823			the following meanings:
7824				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7825					descriptors must not be fetched using
7826					a 255-byte read);
7827				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7828					correctly so reset it instead);
7829				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7830					Set-Interface requests);
7831				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7832					handle its Configuration or Interface
7833					strings);
7834				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7835					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7836				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7837					more interface descriptions than the
7838					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7839					talking to these interfaces);
7840				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7841					during initialization, after we read
7842					the device descriptor);
7843				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7844					high speed and super speed interrupt
7845					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7846					require the interval in microframes (1
7847					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7848					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7849					(bInterval-1).
7850					Devices with this quirk report their
7851					bInterval as the result of this
7852					calculation instead of the exponent
7853					variable used in the calculation);
7854				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7855					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7856					requests);
7857				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7858					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7859					remote wakeup capability);
7860				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7861					Power Management);
7862				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7863					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7864					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7865					calculation);
7866				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7867					to be disconnected before suspend to
7868					prevent spurious wakeup);
7869				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7870					pause after every control message);
7871				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7872					delay after resetting its port);
7873				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7874					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7875					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7876			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7877
7878	usbhid.mousepoll=
7879			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7880
7881	usbhid.jspoll=
7882			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7883
7884	usbhid.kbpoll=
7885			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7886
7887	usb-storage.delay_use=
7888			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7889			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7890			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7891			suffix with "ms".
7892			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7893
7894	usb-storage.quirks=
7895			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7896			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7897			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7898			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7899			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7900			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7901			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7902				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7903					of sense data, not on uas);
7904				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7905					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7906				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7907					device capacity by one sector);
7908				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7909					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7910				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7911					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7912				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7913					command, uas only);
7914				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7915					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7916				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7917					reported device capacity by one
7918					sector if the number is odd);
7919				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7920					device);
7921				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7922					command, uas only);
7923				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7924				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7925					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7926				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7927					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7928					not on uas);
7929				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7930					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7931				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7932					reported by the device, not on uas);
7933				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7934					by default, not on uas);
7935				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7936					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7937				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7938					Logical Unit);
7939				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7940					commands, uas only);
7941				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7942				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7943					medium is write-protected).
7944				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7945					even if the device claims no cache,
7946					not on uas)
7947			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7948
7949	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7950			Format: <int>
7951			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7952				 1 - undefined instruction events
7953				 2 - system calls
7954				 4 - invalid data aborts
7955				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7956				16 - SIGBUS faults
7957			Example: user_debug=31
7958
7959	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7960			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7961
7962			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7963			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7964
7965	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7966			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7967			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7968
7969			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7970			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7971			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7972
7973			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7974			alias for vdso32=0.
7975
7976			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7977			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7978
7979	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7980			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7981
7982	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7983			Format: [0|1]
7984			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7985			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7986			level and then send out the event to user space through
7987			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7988			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7989			brightness level.
7990			default: 1
7991
7992	virtio_mmio.device=
7993			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7994
7995				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7996			where:
7997				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7998						like K, M and G)
7999				<baseaddr> := physical base address
8000				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
8001						request_irq())
8002				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
8003			example:
8004				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8005
8006			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8007
8008	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8009			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8010			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8011			Use vga=ask for menu.
8012			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8013			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8014
8015	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8016			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8017			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8018			All options are enabled by default, and this
8019			interface is meant to allow for selectively
8020			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8021			debugging features.
8022
8023			Available options are:
8024			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
8025			  -	Disable all of the above options
8026
8027	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8028			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8029			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8030			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8031			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8032			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8033			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8034			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8035
8036	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
8037			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8038			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8039
8040	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8041			Format: <command>
8042
8043	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8044			Format: <command>
8045
8046	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8047			Format: <command>
8048
8049	vmscape=	[X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8050			VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8051			hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8052
8053			off		- disable the mitigation
8054			ibpb		- use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8055					  (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8056			force		- force vulnerability detection even on
8057					  unaffected processors
8058
8059	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
8060			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8061			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8062			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
8063			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
8064			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8065			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8066
8067			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8068			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
8069				    readable.
8070
8071			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8072			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
8073				    page is not readable.
8074
8075			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
8076			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
8077			            might break your system.
8078
8079	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
8080			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8081			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8082
8083	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
8084			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8085			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8086			see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8087
8088	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
8089			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8090			Change the default blue palette of the console.
8091			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8092			ranging from 0-255.
8093
8094	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
8095			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8096			Change the default green palette of the console.
8097			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8098			ranging from 0-255.
8099
8100	vt.default_red=	[VT]
8101			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8102			Change the default red palette of the console.
8103			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8104			ranging from 0-255.
8105
8106	vt.default_utf8=
8107			[VT]
8108			Format=<0|1>
8109			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8110			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8111			newly opened terminals.
8112
8113	vt.global_cursor_default=
8114			[VT]
8115			Format=<-1|0|1>
8116			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8117			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8118			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8119			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8120			cursors, 1 will display them.
8121
8122	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8123			Default: 2 = green.
8124
8125	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8126			Default: 3 = cyan.
8127
8128	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8129			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8130			or other driver-specific files in the
8131			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8132
8133	watchdog_thresh=
8134			[KNL]
8135			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8136			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8137			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8138			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8139			seconds.
8140
8141	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8142			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8143			to use in unbound workqueues.
8144			Format: <cpu-list>
8145			By default, all online CPUs are available for
8146			unbound workqueues.
8147
8148	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8149			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8150			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8151			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
8152			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8153			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
8154			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8155			corresponding sysfs file.
8156
8157	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8158			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8159			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8160			stall to trigger panic.
8161
8162			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
8163
8164	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8165			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8166			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8167			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8168			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8169			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8170
8171			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8172			will report the work functions which violate this
8173			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8174			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8175
8176	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8177			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8178			will report the work functions which violate the
8179			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8180			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8181			function has violated this threshold number of times.
8182
8183			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8184
8185	workqueue.power_efficient
8186			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8187			they show better performance thanks to cache
8188			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8189			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8190
8191			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8192			were observed to contribute significantly to power
8193			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8194			power usage at the cost of small performance
8195			overhead.
8196
8197			The default value of this parameter is determined by
8198			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8199
8200        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8201			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8202			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8203			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
8204			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8205			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8206
8207			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8208			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8209			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8210			updated accordingly.
8211
8212	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8213			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8214			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8215			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
8216			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8217			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
8218			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8219			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8220			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8221			impacted.
8222
8223	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8224			Type) of ioremap_wc().
8225
8226			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8227			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8228
8229	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8230			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8231			supporting x2apic.
8232
8233	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8234			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8235			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8236			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8237			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8238			domains.
8239
8240	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8241			Unplug Xen emulated devices
8242			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8243			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8244			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8245			nics -- unplug network devices
8246			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8247			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8248				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8249				the unplug protocol
8250			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8251
8252	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8253			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8254			panic() code such as dumping handler.
8255
8256	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8257			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8258			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8259			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8260			debug data in case of multicall errors.
8261
8262	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8263			Format: <bool>
8264			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8265			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8266			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8267
8268	xen_nopv	[X86]
8269			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8270			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8271			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8272			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8273
8274	xen_no_vector_callback
8275			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8276			event channel interrupts.
8277
8278	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
8279			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8280			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8281			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8282			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8283
8284	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8285			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8286			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8287			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8288			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8289			more timer interrupts.
8290
8291	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8292			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8293			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8294			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8295			started with less memory configured than allowed at
8296			max. Default is 180.
8297
8298	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
8299			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8300			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8301
8302	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
8303			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8304			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8305
8306	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
8307			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8308			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8309			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8310			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8311			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8312
8313	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
8314			Format:
8315			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8316
8317	xive=		[PPC]
8318			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8319			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8320			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8321
8322			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8323				  controller on both pseries and powernv
8324				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8325
8326	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
8327			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8328			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8329			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8330			loads instead, as on POWER9.
8331
8332	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
8333			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8334			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8335			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8336
8337	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
8338			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8339			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8340			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8341			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8342				debugger is called from setup_arch().
8343			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8344				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8345				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8346				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8347			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8348				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8349				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8350				can be written using xmon commands.
8351			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8352				memory, and other data can't be written using
8353				xmon commands.
8354			off	xmon is disabled.
8355