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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
14			"acpi=force" are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
327
328	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
329			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
330			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
331			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
332			IOMMU initialization.
333
334	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
335			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
336			remapping modes:
337			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
338			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
339			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
340			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
341			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
342
343	amd_pstate=	[X86]
344			disable
345			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
346			  scaling driver for the supported processors
347			passive
348			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
349			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
350			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
351			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
352			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
353			active
354			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
355			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
356			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
357			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
358			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
359			  frequency.
360			guided
361			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
362			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
363			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
364			  to the current workload.
365
366	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
367			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
368			Format: <a>,<b>
369			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
370
371	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
372			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
373			connected to one of 16 gameports
374			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
375
376	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
377			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
378			Format: noidle
379			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
380			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
381			APC and your system crashes randomly.
382
383	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
384			Change the output verbosity while booting
385			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
386			Change the amount of debugging information output
387			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
388			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
389			driver name.
390			Format: apic=driver_name
391			Examples: apic=bigsmp
392
393	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
394			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
395			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
396			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
397			      backup of CPU 0
398			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
399			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
400			      shot down by NMI
401
402	autoconf=	[IPV6]
403			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
404
405	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
406			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
407
408	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
411			0 -- disable.
412			1 -- enable.
413			Default value is set via kernel config option.
414
415	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
416			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
417
418	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
419			Identification support
420
421	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
422			Set instructions support
423
424	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
425			support
426
427	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
428			support
429
430	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
431			Extension support
432
433	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
434			Extension support
435
436	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
437
438	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
439
440	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
441			EzKey and similar keyboards
442
443	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
444
445	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
446			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
447
448	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
449			keyboards
450
451	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
452			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
453
454	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
455			Use software keyboard repeat
456
457	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
458			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
459			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
460			    enabled until the next reboot
461			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
462			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
463			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
464			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
465			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
466			    userspace auditd.
467			Default: unset
468
469	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
470			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
471			Default: 64
472
473	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
474			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
475			Format: { "0" | "1" }
476			0 - Disable the BAU.
477			1 - Enable the BAU.
478			unset - Disable the BAU.
479
480	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
481			Format: <io>,<mode>
482
483	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
484			Format: <io>,<mode>
485			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
486
487	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
488			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
489			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
490			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
491
492	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
493			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
494			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
495			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
496
497	bert_disable	[ACPI]
498			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
499
500	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
501			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
502
503	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
504			embedded devices based on command line input.
505			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
506
507	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
508			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
509			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
510			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
511			erroneous and ignored.
512			Format: integer
513
514	bootconfig	[KNL]
515			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
516			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
517
518			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
519
520	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
521	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
522			kernel args too.
523	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
524	bttv.tuner=
525
526	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
527			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
528			at a time.
529
530	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
531
532	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
533			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
534			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
535			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
536			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
537			This option provides an override for these situations.
538
539	carrier_timeout=
540			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
541			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
542			it waits 120 seconds.
543
544	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
545			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
546			trust validation.
547			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
548
549	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
550			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
551			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
552			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
553			others).
554
555	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
556			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557
558	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
559			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
560			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
561			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
562			  a single hierarchy
563			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
564			  subsystem
565			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
566			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
567			  created
568			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
569			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
570			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
571			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
572			stall information accounting feature
573
574	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
575			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
576			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
577			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
578			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
579			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
580			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
581			all v1 hierarchies.
582
583	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
584			Format: { "true" | "false" }
585			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
586
587	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
588			Format: <string>
589			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
590			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
591			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
592
593	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
594			Format: { "0" | "1" }
595			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
596			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
597				any implied execute protection).
598			1 -- check protection requested by application.
599			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
600			Value can be changed at runtime via
601				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
602			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
603
604	cio_ignore=	[S390]
605			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
606
607	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
608			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
609			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
610			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
611			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
612			ones should be.
613			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
614			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
615			instability issue. However, not all features have names
616			in /proc/cpuinfo.
617			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
618			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
619			or using the feature without checking anything
620			will still see it. This just prevents it from
621			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
622			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
623			some critical bits.
624
625	clk_ignore_unused
626			[CLK]
627			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
628			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
629			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
630			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
631			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
632			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
633			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
634			platform with proper driver support.  For more
635			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
636
637	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
638			[Deprecated]
639			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
640			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
641			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
642			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
643
644	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
645			Format: <string>
646			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
647			with the name specified.
648			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
649			the platform:
650			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
651			[ACPI] acpi_pm
652			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
653				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
654			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
655				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
656			[MIPS] MIPS
657			[PARISC] cr16
658			[S390] tod
659			[SH] SuperH
660			[SPARC64] tick
661			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
662
663	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
664			[ARM,ARM64]
665			Format: <bool>
666			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
667			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
668			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
669			systems.
670
671	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
672			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
673			external delays before the clock will be marked
674			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
675			three attempts to read the clock under test.
676
677	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
678			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
679			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
680			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
681			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
682			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
683			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
684			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
685			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
686
687	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
688			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
689			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
690			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
691			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
692
693	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
694			[KNL,CMA]
695			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
696			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
697			placement constraint by the physical address range of
698			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
699			altogether. For more information, see
700			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
701
702	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
703			[KNL,CMA]
704			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
705			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
706			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
707			specified, the default value is 0.
708			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
709			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
710			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
711			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
712
713	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
714			[KNL,CMA]
715			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
716			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
717			area for the specified node.
718
719			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
720			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
721			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
722			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
723
724	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
725			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
726			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
727			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
728			a hypervisor.
729			Default: yes
730
731	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
732			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
733			allocations, by default set to 256K.
734
735	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
736			Format:
737			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
738
739	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
740			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
741
742	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
743			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
744			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
745
746	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
747	conmode=
748
749	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
750			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
751			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
752			the console buffer is full. In this case the
753			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
754			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
755			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
756			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
757			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
758			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
759
760	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
761
762		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
763
764		ttyS<n>[,options]
765		ttyUSB0[,options]
766			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
767			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
768			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
769			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
770			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
771
772			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
773			information.  See
774			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
775			alternative.
776
777		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
778		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
779		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
780		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
781		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
782			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
783			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
784			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
785			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
786			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
787			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
788			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
789			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
790			the h/w is not re-initialized.
791
792		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
793			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
794
795		{ null | "" }
796			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
797			console messages discarded.
798			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
799			kernel command line.
800
801		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
802		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
803			console=brl,ttyS0
804		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
805
806	console_msg_format=
807			[KNL] Change console messages format
808		default
809			By default we print messages on consoles in
810			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
811			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
812			`printk_time' param).
813		syslog
814			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
815			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
816			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
817			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
818			from /proc/kmsg.
819
820	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
821			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
822			Defaults to 0.
823
824	coredump_filter=
825			[KNL] Change the default value for
826			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
827			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
828
829	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
830			[ARM,ARM64]
831			Format: <bool>
832			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
833			0: default value, disable debugging
834			1: enable debugging at boot time
835
836	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
837			Format:
838			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
839
840	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
841			disable the cpuidle sub-system
842
843	cpuidle.governor=
844			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
845
846	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
847			disable the cpufreq sub-system
848
849	cpufreq.default_governor=
850			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
851			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
852			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
853
854	cpu_init_udelay=N
855			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
856			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
857			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
858			Default: 10000
859
860	cpuhp.parallel=
861			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
862			Format: <bool>
863			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
864			the parameter has no effect.
865
866	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
867			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
868			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
869			succeeds in any situation.
870			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
871			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
872			kernel more unstable.
873
874	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
875			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
876			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
877			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
878			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
879			is selected automatically.
880			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and
881			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
882			hasn't been specified.
883			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
884
885	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
886			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
887			in the running system. The syntax of range is
888			start-[end] where start and end are both
889			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
890			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
891
892	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
893			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G.
894			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
895			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
896			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
897			below 4G, if available.
898			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
899	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
900			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
901			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
902			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
903			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
904			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
905			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
906			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
907			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
908			size is	platform dependent.
909			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
910			  --> arm64: 128MiB
911			  --> riscv: 128MiB
912			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
913			for second kernel instead.
914			0: to disable low allocation.
915			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
916			or memory reserved is below 4G.
917
918	cryptomgr.notests
919			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
920
921	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
922			Format: <dma>
923
924	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
925			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
926
927	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
928			function call handling. When switched on,
929			additional debug data is printed to the console
930			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
931			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
932			the hang situation.  The default value of this
933			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
934			Kconfig option.
935
936	dasd=		[HW,NET]
937			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
938
939	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
940			(one device per port)
941			Format: <port#>,<type>
942			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
943
944	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
945
946	debug_boot_weak_hash
947			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
948			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
949			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
950			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
951			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
952			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
953
954	debug_locks_verbose=
955			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
956			Format: <int>
957			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
958			self-tests.
959			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
960			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
961			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
962			useful to lockdep developers.
963
964	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
965
966	debug_guardpage_minorder=
967			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
968			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
969			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
970			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
971			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
972			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
973			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
974			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
975			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
976			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
977			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
978			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
979			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
980			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
981			bypassed) which are not detectable by
982			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
983			tracking down these problems.
984
985	debug_pagealloc=
986			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
987			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
988			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
989			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
990			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
991			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
992			on: enable the feature
993
994	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
995			and debugfs internal clients.
996			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
997			on: 	All functions are enabled.
998			no-mount:
999				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1000			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1001				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1002			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1003			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1004				or directories within debugfs.
1005				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1006				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1007			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1008
1009	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1010
1011	default_hugepagesz=
1012			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1013			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1014			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1015			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1016			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1017			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1018			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1019			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1020			Format: size[KMG]
1021
1022	deferred_probe_timeout=
1023			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1024			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1025			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1026			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1027			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1028			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1029			successful driver registration. This option will also
1030			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1031			retrying.
1032
1033	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1034
1035	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1036			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1037			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1038			hardware.
1039
1040	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1041			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1042			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1043			blacklisted features.
1044
1045	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1046			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1047			(disabled by default).
1048
1049	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1050			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1051			capability is set.
1052
1053	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1054			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1055
1056	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1057			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1058
1059	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1060			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1061			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1062			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1063			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1064			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1065			          only (compression on level 1)
1066			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1067			          only (decompression)
1068			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1069			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1070
1071	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1072			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1073
1074	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1075			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1076			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1077			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1078			miss to occur.
1079
1080	disable=	[IPV6]
1081			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1082
1083	disable_radix	[PPC]
1084			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1085
1086	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1087			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1088			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1089
1090	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1091			Format: <int>
1092			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1093			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1094			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1095			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1096			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1097			INIT from AP to BSP.
1098
1099	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1100			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1101			to workaround buggy firmware.
1102
1103	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1104			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1105
1106	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1107			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1108			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1109			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1110
1111	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1112			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1113			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1114			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1115			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1116
1117	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1118			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1119			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1120
1121	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1122
1123	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1124			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1125
1126	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1127			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1128			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1129			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1130			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1131			architectural default is too low.
1132
1133	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1134			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1135			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1136			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1137			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1138			driver later using sysfs.
1139
1140	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1141			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1142			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1143			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1144			match the *.
1145			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1146
1147	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1148			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1149			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1150			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1151			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1152			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1153			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1154			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1155			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1156			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1157			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1158			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1159			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1160			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1161			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1162			data set with no connector name will be used for
1163			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1164
1165	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1166
1167	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1168			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1169			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1170			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1171			exists).
1172			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1173			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1174			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1175
1176	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1177			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1178			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1179			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1180
1181	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1182	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1183			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1184			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1185			for details.
1186
1187	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1188			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1189			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1190			which are not unmapped.
1191
1192	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1193
1194			When used with no options, the early console is
1195			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1196			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1197			the platform.
1198
1199		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1200			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1201			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1202			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1203			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1204			configured.
1205
1206		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1207		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1208		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1209		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1210		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1211			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1212			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1213			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1214			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1215			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1216			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1217			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1218			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1219			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1220			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1221
1222		pl011,<addr>
1223		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1225			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1226			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1227			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1228			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1229			the device registers.
1230
1231		liteuart,<addr>
1232			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1233			specified address. The serial port must already be
1234			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1235
1236		meson,<addr>
1237			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1238			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1239			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1240			supported.
1241
1242		msm_serial,<addr>
1243			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1244			port at the specified address. The serial port
1245			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1246			yet supported.
1247
1248		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1249			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1250			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1251			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1252			yet supported.
1253
1254		owl,<addr>
1255			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1256			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1257			specified address. The serial port must already be
1258			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1259
1260		rda,<addr>
1261			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1262			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1263			specified address. The serial port must already be
1264			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1265
1266		sbi
1267			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1268			console.
1269
1270		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1271
1272		s3c2410,<addr>
1273		s3c2412,<addr>
1274		s3c2440,<addr>
1275		s3c6400,<addr>
1276		s5pv210,<addr>
1277		exynos4210,<addr>
1278			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1279			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1280			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1281			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1282			Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		lantiq,<addr>
1285			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1286			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1287			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1288			yet supported.
1289
1290		lpuart,<addr>
1291		lpuart32,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1293			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1294			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1295			port must already be setup and configured.
1296
1297		ec_imx21,<addr>
1298		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1299			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1300			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1301			must already be setup and configured.
1302
1303		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1304			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1305			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1306			address. The serial port must already be setup
1307			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1308
1309		qcom_geni,<addr>
1310			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1311			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1312			specified address. The serial port must already be
1313			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1314
1315		efifb,[options]
1316			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1317			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1318			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1319			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1320			mapped with the correct attributes.
1321
1322		linflex,<addr>
1323			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1324			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1325			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1326			already be setup and configured.
1327
1328	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1329			earlyprintk=vga
1330			earlyprintk=sclp
1331			earlyprintk=xen
1332			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1333			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1334			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1335			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1336			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1337			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1338
1339			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1340			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1341			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1342
1343			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1344			takes over.
1345
1346			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1347			be used at a time.
1348
1349			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1350			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1351			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1352			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1353				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1354			You can find the port for a given device in
1355			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1356				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1357
1358			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1359			very good.
1360
1361			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1362			the real console.
1363
1364			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1365
1366			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1367
1368			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1369			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1370			UART class.
1371
1372	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1373			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1374			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1375			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1376			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1377			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1378			default: on.
1379
1380	edd=		[EDD]
1381			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1382
1383	efi=		[EFI]
1384			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1385				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1386				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1387			debug: enable misc debug output.
1388			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1389			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1390			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1391			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1392			firmware implementations.
1393			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1394			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1395			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1396			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1397			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1398			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1399			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1400			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1401			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1402			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1403
1404	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1405			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1406			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1407			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1408			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1409
1410	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1411			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1412			updating original EFI memory map.
1413			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1414			from ss to ss+nn.
1415
1416			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1417			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1418			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1419			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1420
1421			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1422			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1423			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1424
1425			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1426			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1427			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1428			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1429			"soft reserved".
1430
1431	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1432			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1433			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1434			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1435			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1436
1437
1438	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1439			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1440
1441	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1442			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1443
1444			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1445			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1446
1447			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1448			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1449			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1450			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1451
1452	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1453			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1454			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1455
1456	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1457			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1458			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1459			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1460			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1461
1462	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1463			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1464			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1465			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1466
1467	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1468			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1469			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1470			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1471			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1472
1473	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1474			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1475			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1476			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1477			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1478			Default value is 0.
1479			Value can be changed at runtime via
1480			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1481
1482	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1483			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1484			support.
1485
1486	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1487			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1488			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1489
1490	evm=		[EVM]
1491			Format: { "fix" }
1492			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1493			current integrity status.
1494
1495	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1496			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1497			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1498			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1499			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1500			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1501			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1502
1503	failslab=
1504	fail_usercopy=
1505	fail_page_alloc=
1506	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1507			General fault injection mechanism.
1508			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1509			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1510
1511	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1512			Format: { initns | none }
1513			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1514			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1515
1516	floppy=		[HW]
1517			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1518
1519	forcepae	[X86-32]
1520			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1521			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1522			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1523			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1524			and may cause unknown problems.
1525
1526	ftrace=[tracer]
1527			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1528			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1529			boot debugging.
1530
1531	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1532			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1533			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1534			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1535			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1536			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1537			start up functionality.
1538
1539			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1540			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1541			line parameter.
1542
1543			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1544
1545			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1546			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1547
1548	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1549			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1550			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1551			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1552			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1553			oops.
1554
1555	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1556			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1557			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1558			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1559			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1560			tracing directory.
1561
1562	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1563			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1564			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1565			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1566			tracing directory.
1567
1568	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1569			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1570			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1571			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1572			that can be changed at run time by the
1573			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1574
1575	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1576			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1577			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1578			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1579			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1580
1581	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1582			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1583			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1584			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1585			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1586
1587	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1588			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1589			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1590			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1591			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1592			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1593			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1594			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1595			suppliers).
1596			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1597			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1598			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1599				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1600				up (sync_state() calls).
1601			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1602				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1603			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1604
1605	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1606			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1607			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1608			Format: <bool>
1609
1610	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1611			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1612			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1613			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1614			calls.
1615			Format: { strict | timeout }
1616			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1617				probe successfully.
1618			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1619				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1620				received their sync_state() calls after
1621				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1622				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1623
1624	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1625			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1626			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1627			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1628			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1629
1630	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1631
1632	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1633			Format: off | on
1634			default: on
1635
1636	gather_data_sampling=
1637			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1638			mitigation.
1639
1640			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1641			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1642			previously stored in vector registers.
1643
1644			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1645			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1646			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1647			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1648
1649			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1650				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1651				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1652				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1653
1654			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1655
1656	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1657			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1658			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1659			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1660			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1661
1662	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1663			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1664			android emulator
1665
1666	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1667			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1668			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1669	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1670			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1671
1672	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1673			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1674			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1675			GPT to be used instead.
1676
1677	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1678			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1679			Format: 0 | 1
1680			Default: 0
1681	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1682			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1683			Format: 0 | 1
1684			Default: 0
1685	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1686			Format: 0 | 1
1687			Default: 0
1688	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1689			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1690			Default: 1024
1691	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1692			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1693			Default: 1024
1694
1695	hardened_usercopy=
1696			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1697			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1698			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1699			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1700			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1701			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1702			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1703		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1704		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1705
1706	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1707			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1708			backtraces on all cpus.
1709			Format: 0 | 1
1710
1711	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1712			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1713			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1714			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1715
1716	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1717
1718	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1719			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1720
1721	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1722			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1723			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1724			logic will be disabled.
1725
1726	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1727		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1728				present during boot.
1729		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1730		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1731		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1732				(that will set all pages holding image data
1733				during restoration read-only).
1734
1735	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1736			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1737			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1738			size on bigger boxes.
1739
1740	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1741			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1742			Default: "on"
1743
1744	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1745
1746	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1747			Format: <string>
1748			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1749			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1750			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1751			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1752			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1753			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1754			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1755			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1756			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1757			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1758
1759	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1760			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1761				verbose }
1762			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1763			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1764				VIA, nVidia)
1765			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1766
1767	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1768			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1769
1770	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1771			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1772			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1773			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1774			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1775			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1776			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1777			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1778			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1779				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1780
1781	hugepagesz=
1782			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1783			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1784			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1785			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1786			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1787			architecture dependent.  See also
1788			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1789			Format: size[KMG]
1790
1791	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1792			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1793			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1794			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1795				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1796
1797			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1798			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1799			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1800
1801	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1802			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1803			enabled.
1804			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1805			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1806			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1807			Format: { on | off (default) }
1808
1809			on: enable HVO
1810			off: disable HVO
1811
1812			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1813			the default is on.
1814
1815			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1816			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1817			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1818			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1819			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1820
1821	hung_task_panic=
1822			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1823			Format: 0 | 1
1824
1825			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1826			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1827			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1828			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1829			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1830
1831	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1832				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1833	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1834				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1835				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1836
1837	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1838				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1839				      guest on lock contention.
1840
1841	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1842				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1843				registered from board initialization code.
1844				Format:
1845				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1846
1847	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1848	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1849			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1850			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1851			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1852	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1853	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1854			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1855			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1856	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1857	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1858	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1859			     for the AUX port
1860	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1861			     controller
1862	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1863			     controllers
1864	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1865	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1866			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1867			     transitions, or never reset
1868			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1869			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1870			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1871			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1872			architectures force reset to be always executed
1873	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1874	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1875	i8042.probe_defer
1876			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1877
1878	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1879
1880	i915.invert_brightness=
1881			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1882			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1883			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1884			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1885			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1886			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1887			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1888			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1889			value switches the backlight off.
1890			-1 -- never invert brightness
1891			 0 -- machine default
1892			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1893
1894	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1895			Format: <bool>
1896			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1897			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1898			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1899
1900	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1901			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1902
1903
1904	idle=		[X86]
1905			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1906			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1907			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1908			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1909			Not recommended.
1910			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1911			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1912			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1913
1914	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1915			Format: <bool>
1916			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1917			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1918			true (1).
1919
1920	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1921			Format: <bool>
1922			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1923			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1924
1925	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1926			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1927			Default: strict
1928
1929			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1930			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1931			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1932			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1933			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1934			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1935			encoding mode.
1936
1937			Available settings are as follows:
1938			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1939				supported by the FPU
1940			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1941				by the FPU
1942			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1943				by the FPU
1944			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1945				supported by the FPU
1946
1947			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1948			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1949			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1950			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1951			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1952			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1953			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1954			MIPS64 CPUs.
1955
1956			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1957			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1958			except where unsupported by hardware.
1959
1960	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1961			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1962			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1963			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1964			could change it dynamically, usually by
1965			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1966
1967	ignore_rlimit_data
1968			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1969			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1970			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1971
1972	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1973			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1974
1975	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1976			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1977			default: "enforce"
1978
1979	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1980			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1981			owned by uid=0.
1982
1983	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1984			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1985			measurements, instead of host native format.
1986
1987	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1988			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1989				   | sha512 | ... }
1990			default: "sha1"
1991
1992			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1993			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1994
1995	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1996			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1997			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1998				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1999
2000			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2001			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2002			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2003			uid=0.
2004
2005			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2006			all files owned by root.
2007
2008			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2009			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2010			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2011
2012			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2013			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2014			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2015			flag.
2016
2017			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2018			critical data.
2019
2020	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2021			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2022			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2023			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2024			opened for read by uid=0.
2025
2026	ima_template=	[IMA]
2027			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2028			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2029				   "ima-sigv2" }
2030			Default: "ima-ng"
2031
2032	ima_template_fmt=
2033			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2034			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2035
2036	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2037			Format: <min_file_size>
2038			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2039			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2040
2041			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2042			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2043			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2044
2045	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2046			Format: <bufsize>
2047			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2048
2049			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2050			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2051			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2052
2053	init=		[KNL]
2054			Format: <full_path>
2055			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2056			process.
2057
2058	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2059			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2060			startup.
2061
2062	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2063			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2064			modules and initcalls.
2065
2066	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2067			Format: <bool>
2068			Default: 1
2069			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2070			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2071			with devices being probed and
2072			initialized. This should normally just work,
2073			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2074			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2075			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2076			late_ initcalls.
2077
2078	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2079
2080	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2081			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2082			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2083			setting.
2084			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2085			Default is 0, 0
2086
2087	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2088			zeroes.
2089			Format: 0 | 1
2090			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2091
2092	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2093			Format: 0 | 1
2094			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2095
2096	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2097			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2098			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2099			override in debugfs after boot.
2100
2101	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2102			Format: <irq>
2103
2104	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2105
2106	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2107			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2108			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2109			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2110
2111	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2112		on
2113			Enable intel iommu driver.
2114		off
2115			Disable intel iommu driver.
2116		igfx_off [Default Off]
2117			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2118			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2119			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2120			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2121			DMA.
2122		strict [Default Off]
2123			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2124		sp_off [Default Off]
2125			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2126			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2127			not be supported.
2128		sm_on
2129			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2130			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2131			translation.
2132		sm_off
2133			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2134		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2135			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2136			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2137			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2138			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2139			mapping is enabled.
2140			Note that using this option lowers the security
2141			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2142			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2143
2144	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2145			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2146			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2147
2148	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2149			disable
2150			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2151			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2152                        active
2153                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2154                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2155                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2156                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2157                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2158                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2159                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2160                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2161                          and possibly on the processor model.
2162			passive
2163			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2164			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2165			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2166			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2167			  feature.
2168			force
2169			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2170			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2171			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2172			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2173			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2174			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2175			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2176			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2177			no_hwp
2178			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2179			  if available.
2180			hwp_only
2181			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2182			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2183			support_acpi_ppc
2184			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2185			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2186			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2187			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2188			per_cpu_perf_limits
2189			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2190			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2191
2192	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2193			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2194			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2195			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2196			no_x2apic_optout
2197				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2198			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2199
2200	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2201		strict	regions from userspace.
2202		relaxed
2203
2204	iommu=		[X86]
2205		off
2206		force
2207		noforce
2208		biomerge
2209		panic
2210		nopanic
2211		merge
2212		nomerge
2213		soft
2214		pt		[X86]
2215		nopt		[X86]
2216		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2217			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2218
2219	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2220			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2221			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2222			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2223			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2224			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2225			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2226
2227	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2228			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2229			0 - Lazy mode.
2230			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2231			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2232			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2233			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2234			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2235			1 - Strict mode.
2236			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2237			  synchronously.
2238			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2239			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2240			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2241
2242	iommu.passthrough=
2243			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2244			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2245			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2246			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2247			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2248
2249	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2250			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2251			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2252
2253	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2254		0x80
2255			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2256		0xed
2257			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2258		udelay
2259			Simple two microseconds delay
2260		none
2261			No delay
2262
2263	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2264			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2265
2266	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2267			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2268
2269	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2270			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2271
2272	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2273			[ARM, ARM64]
2274			Format: <bool>
2275			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2276			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2277			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2278
2279	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2280			[ARM, ARM64]
2281			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2282			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2283			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2284			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2285			LPIs.
2286
2287	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2288			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2289			requires the kernel to be built with
2290			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2291
2292	irqfixup	[HW]
2293			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2294			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2295			firmware running.
2296
2297	irqpoll		[HW]
2298			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2299			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2300			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2301			firmware running.
2302
2303	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2304			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2305
2306	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2307			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2308			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2309
2310			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2311			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2312
2313			nohz
2314			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2315
2316			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2317			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2318			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2319			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2320			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2321
2322			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2323			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2324			  be configured manually after bootup.
2325
2326			domain
2327			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2328			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2329			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2330			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2331			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2332			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2333			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2334			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2335
2336			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2337			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2338			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2339			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2340
2341			managed_irq
2342
2343			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2344			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2345			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2346			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2347			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2348
2349			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2350			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2351			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2352			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2353			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2354			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2355			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2356
2357			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2358			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2359			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2360			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2361			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2362			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2363			  queues.
2364
2365			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2366
2367	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2368
2369	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2370			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2371			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2372			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2373
2374			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2375			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2376			write the parameter as:
2377				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2378
2379			Deprecated formats:
2380			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2381			  write the parameter as:
2382				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2383			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2384			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2385				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2386
2387	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2388			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2389			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2390			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2391
2392			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2393			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2394			write the parameter as:
2395				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2396
2397			Deprecated formats:
2398			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2399			  write the parameter as:
2400				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2401			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2402			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2403				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2404
2405	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2406			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2407			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2408			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2409
2410			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2411			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2412			write the parameter as:
2413				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2414
2415			Deprecated formats:
2416			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2417			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2418				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2419			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2420			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2421				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2422
2423	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2424			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2425
2426	kasan_multi_shot
2427			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2428			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2429			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2430			invalid access.
2431
2432	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2433			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2434			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2435			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2436			the real console.
2437
2438	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2439
2440	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2441			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2442			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2443			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2444			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2445			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2446			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2447			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2448			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2449			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2450
2451			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2452			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2453			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2454			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2455			zone if it does not.
2456
2457			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2458			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2459			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2460			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2461			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2462			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2463			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2464
2465	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2466			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2467			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2468			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2469			optional and is the number seconds in between
2470			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2471			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2472			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2473			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2474			the kernel debugger.
2475
2476	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2477			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2478			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2479			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2480			 keyboard only format: kbd
2481			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2482			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2483			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2484			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2485
2486	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2487			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2488			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2489			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2490			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2491			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2492			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2493
2494			The name of the early console should be specified
2495			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2496			the early console might be different than the tty
2497			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2498			blank and the first boot console that implements
2499			read() will be picked.
2500
2501	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2502			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2503
2504	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2505			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2506			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2507
2508	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2509			Valid arguments: on, off
2510			Default: on
2511			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2512			the default is off.
2513
2514	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2515			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2516			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2517			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2518			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2519			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2520			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2521
2522			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2523
2524			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2525			Boot Parameter" section.
2526
2527	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2528			and kernel address spaces.
2529			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2530			0: force disabled
2531			1: force enabled
2532
2533	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2534			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2535			default value can be overridden via
2536			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2537			Default is 1 (enabled)
2538
2539	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2540			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2541
2542	kvm.eager_page_split=
2543			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2544			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2545			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2546			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2547			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2548			required to split huge pages lazily.
2549
2550			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2551			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2552			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2553			still be used for reads.
2554
2555			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2556			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2557			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2558			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2559			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2560			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2561			cleared.
2562
2563			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2564
2565			Default is Y (on).
2566
2567	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2568				   Default is false (don't support).
2569
2570	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2571			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2572			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2573			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2574			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2575			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2576				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2577
2578			Default is 'auto'.
2579
2580			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2581			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2582
2583	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2584			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2585			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2586			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2587			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2588
2589	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2590			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2591			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2592			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2593			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2594			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2595
2596	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2597			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2598
2599	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2600			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2601			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2602			for NPT.
2603
2604	kvm-arm.mode=
2605			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2606
2607			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2608
2609			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2610			      protected guests.
2611
2612			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2613				   state is kept private from the host.
2614
2615			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2616				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2617				hardware.
2618
2619			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2620			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2621			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2622			used with extreme caution.
2623
2624	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2625			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2626			system registers
2627
2628	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2629			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2630			system registers
2631
2632	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2633			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2634			system registers
2635
2636	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2637			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2638			LPIs.
2639
2640	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2641			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2642			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2643			allocation.
2644			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2645			Format: <integer>
2646			Default: 5
2647
2648	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2649			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2650			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2651			for EPT.
2652
2653	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2654			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2655			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2656			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2657			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2658			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2659			Default is 1 (enabled).
2660
2661	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2662			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2663			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2664			hardware lacks support for it.
2665
2666	kvm-intel.nested=
2667			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2668			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2669
2670	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2671			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2672			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2673			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2674			hardware lacks support for it.
2675
2676	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2677			CVE-2018-3620.
2678
2679			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2680
2681			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2682			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2683				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2684			never:	Disables the mitigation
2685
2686			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2687
2688	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2689			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2690			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2691			for it.
2692
2693	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2694			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2695
2696			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2697			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2698			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2699
2700			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2701			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2702			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2703			not have direct access.
2704
2705			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2706			options are:
2707
2708			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2709
2710	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2711			      affected CPUs
2712
2713			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2714			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2715
2716			full
2717				Provides all available mitigations for the
2718				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2719				enables all mitigations in the
2720				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2721
2722				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2723				sysfs interface is still possible after
2724				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2725				when the first VM is started in a
2726				potentially insecure configuration,
2727				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2728
2729			full,force
2730				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2731				flush runtime control. Implies the
2732				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2733				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2734
2735			flush
2736				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2737				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2738				L1D flush.
2739
2740				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2741				sysfs interface is still possible after
2742				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2743				when the first VM is started in a
2744				potentially insecure configuration,
2745				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2746
2747			flush,nosmt
2748
2749				Disables SMT and enables the default
2750				hypervisor mitigation.
2751
2752				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2753				sysfs interface is still possible after
2754				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2755				when the first VM is started in a
2756				potentially insecure configuration,
2757				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2758
2759			flush,nowarn
2760				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2761				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2762				insecure configuration.
2763
2764			off
2765				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2766				emit any warnings.
2767				It also drops the swap size and available
2768				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2769				bare metal.
2770
2771			Default is 'flush'.
2772
2773			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2774
2775	l2cr=		[PPC]
2776
2777	l3cr=		[PPC]
2778
2779	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2780			disabled it.
2781
2782	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2783			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2784			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2785			Format: notscdeadline
2786
2787	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2788			in C2 power state.
2789
2790	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2791			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2792			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2793			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2794			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2795			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2796			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2797
2798	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2799			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2800			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2801
2802	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2803			when set.
2804			Format: <int>
2805
2806	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2807			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2808			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2809			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2810			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2811			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2812			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2813			to all ports, links and devices.
2814
2815			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2816			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2817			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2818			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2819			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2820			host link and device attached to it.
2821
2822			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2823			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2824			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2825			The following configurations can be forced.
2826
2827			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2828			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2829
2830			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2831
2832			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2833			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2834			  allowed.
2835
2836			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2837			  resets.
2838
2839			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2840			  link recovery.
2841
2842			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2843			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2844			  detection.
2845
2846			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2847
2848			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2849
2850			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2851
2852			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2853
2854			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2855
2856			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2857
2858			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2859
2860			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2861
2862			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2863			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2864
2865			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2866			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2867
2868			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2869			  identify device data log.
2870
2871			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2872			  purpose log directory.
2873
2874			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2875
2876			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2877			  1024 sectors.
2878
2879			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2880			  65535 sectors.
2881
2882			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2883
2884			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2885			  should be skipped.
2886
2887			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2888			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2889
2890			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2891
2892			* disable: Disable this device.
2893
2894			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2895			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2896
2897	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2898
2899	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2900			Format: <integer>
2901
2902	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2903			Format: <integer>
2904
2905	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2906			Format: <integer>
2907
2908	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2909			Format: <integer>
2910
2911	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2912			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2913			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2914			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2915			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2916			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2917			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2918			are also disabled.
2919
2920	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
2921			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
2922			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
2923			will result in a splat once they do complete.
2924
2925	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
2926			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
2927			to be bound.
2928
2929	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
2930			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
2931			to be bound.
2932
2933	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
2934			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
2935			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
2936			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
2937			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
2938			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
2939
2940	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
2941			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
2942			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
2943			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
2944
2945	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
2946			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
2947			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
2948			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
2949			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
2950			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
2951
2952	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2953			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2954			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2955			number of online CPUs.
2956
2957	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2958			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2959
2960	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2961			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2962
2963	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2964			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2965			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2966
2967	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
2968			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
2969			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
2970			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
2971			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
2972			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
2973			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
2974			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
2975			disable boosting.
2976
2977	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
2978			Number that determines how often and for how
2979			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
2980			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
2981			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
2982			constant as the number of writers increases.
2983			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
2984			increases with the number of writers.
2985
2986	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2987			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2988			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2989			mode during the locktorture test.
2990
2991	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2992			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2993			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2994
2995	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2996			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2997
2998	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2999			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3000			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3001			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3002			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3003			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3004
3005	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3006			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3007
3008	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3009			Enable additional printk() statements.
3010
3011	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3012			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3013			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3014
3015	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3016			Format: <irq>
3017
3018	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3019			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3020			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3021			loglevels are defined as follows:
3022
3023			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3024			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3025			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3026			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3027			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3028			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3029			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3030			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3031
3032	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
3033			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
3034			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
3035			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
3036			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
3037			that allows to increase the default size depending on
3038			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
3039
3040	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3041			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3042			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3043			kernel boot problems.
3044
3045	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3046	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3047	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3048	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3049				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3050				attached printers to be reset. Using
3051				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3052				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3053				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3054				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3055				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3056				port specification list means that device IDs
3057				from each port should be examined, to see if
3058				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3059				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3060				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3061
3062	lpj=n		[KNL]
3063			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3064			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3065			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3066			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3067			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3068			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3069			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3070			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3071			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3072			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3073			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3074			hardware.
3075
3076	ltpc=		[NET]
3077			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3078
3079	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3080
3081	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3082			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3083			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3084
3085	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3086			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3087			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3088
3089	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3090			different yeeloong laptops.
3091			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3092
3093	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3094			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3095
3096	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3097			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3098			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3099			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3100			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3101			only takes effect during system bootup.
3102			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3103			which also disables the IO APIC.
3104
3105	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3106	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3107			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3108			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3109			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3110			/dev/loop-control interface.
3111
3112	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3113
3114	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3115
3116	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3117			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3118
3119	mdacon=		[MDA]
3120			Format: <first>,<last>
3121			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3122
3123	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3124			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3125			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3126
3127			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3128			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3129			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3130
3131			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3132			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3133			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3134			not have direct access.
3135
3136			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3137			options are:
3138
3139			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3140			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3141				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3142			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3143
3144			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3145			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3146			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3147			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3148			too.
3149
3150			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3151			mds=full.
3152
3153			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3154
3155	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3156			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3157
3158	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3159			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3160
3161			1 for test;
3162			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3163			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3164			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3165			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3166
3167			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3168			high memory is not affected.
3169
3170			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3171			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3172
3173			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3174			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3175			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3176			belonging to unused RAM.
3177
3178			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3179			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3180			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3181
3182	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3183			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3184			firmware.
3185			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3186			ss[KMG].
3187			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3188			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3189
3190	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3191			memory.
3192
3193	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3194
3195	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3196			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3197			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3198
3199	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3200			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3201			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3202			set according to the
3203			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3204			option.
3205			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3206
3207	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3208			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3209			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3210			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3211			option description.
3212
3213	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3214			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3215			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3216			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3217			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3218			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3219			comma delimited.
3220			Example:
3221				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3222
3223	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3224			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3225			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3226
3227	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3228			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3229			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3230			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3231			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3232			         or
3233			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3234			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3235			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3236			will be eaten.
3237
3238	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3239			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3240			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3241			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3242			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3243
3244	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3245			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3246			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3247			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3248			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3249			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3250			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3251			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3252
3253	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3254			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3255			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3256			Setting this option will scan the memory
3257			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3258			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3259			from using the memory being corrupted.
3260			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3261			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3262			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3263			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3264
3265	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3266			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3267			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3268			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3269			corruption in more or less memory.
3270
3271	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3272			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3273			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3274			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3275
3276	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3277			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3278			Format: {on | off (default)}
3279			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3280			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3281			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3282			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3283			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3284			lot of memory without requiring additional
3285			memory to do so.
3286			This feature is disabled by default because it
3287			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3288			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3289			memory blocks).
3290			The state of the flag can be read in
3291			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3292			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3293			the feature is not effective.
3294
3295	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3296			Format: <integer>
3297			default : 0 <disable>
3298			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3299			performed. Each pass selects another test
3300			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3301			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3302			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3303			regions that are detected.
3304
3305	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3306			Valid arguments: on, off
3307			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3308			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3309			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3310			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3311			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3312
3313			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3314			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3315
3316	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3317			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3318			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3319			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3320			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3321
3322	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3323			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3324			platforms.
3325
3326	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3327			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3328			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3329			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3330
3331	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3332
3333	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3334			physical address is ignored.
3335
3336	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3337			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3338			Default: "0tb"
3339			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3340			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3341			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3342			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3343			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3344			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3345			unconfigured.
3346			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3347			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3348			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3349			VGA shield.
3350			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3351			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3352			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3353			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3354			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3355			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3356
3357	mitigations=
3358			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3359			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3360			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3361			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3362
3363			off
3364				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3365				improves system performance, but it may also
3366				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3367				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3368					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3369					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3370					       l1tf=off [X86]
3371					       mds=off [X86]
3372					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3373					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3374					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3375					       nobp=0 [S390]
3376					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3377					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3378					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3379					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3380					       retbleed=off [X86]
3381					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3382					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3383					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3384					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3385					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3386
3387				Exceptions:
3388					       This does not have any effect on
3389					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3390					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3391
3392			auto (default)
3393				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3394				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3395				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3396				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3397				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3398				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3399
3400			auto,nosmt
3401				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3402				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3403				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3404				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3405					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3406					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3407					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3408					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3409
3410	mminit_loglevel=
3411			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3412			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3413			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3414			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3415			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3416			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3417
3418	mmio_stale_data=
3419			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3420			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3421
3422			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3423			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3424			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3425			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3426			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3427			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3428
3429			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3430			options are:
3431
3432			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3433
3434			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3435				     vulnerable CPUs.
3436
3437			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3438
3439			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3440			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3441			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3442			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3443			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3444			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3445
3446			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3447			mmio_stale_data=full.
3448
3449			For details see:
3450			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3451
3452	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3453			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3454			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3455			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3456			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3457			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3458
3459	module.async_probe=<bool>
3460			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3461			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3462			specific module, use the module specific control that
3463			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3464			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3465			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3466			the specific module.
3467
3468	module.enable_dups_trace
3469			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3470			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3471			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3472			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3473			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3474	module.sig_enforce
3475			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3476			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3477			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3478			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3479
3480	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3481			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3482
3483	mousedev.tap_time=
3484			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3485			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3486			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3487			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3488			Format: <msecs>
3489	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3490			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3491	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3492			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3493
3494	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3495			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3496			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3497			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3498			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3499			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3500			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3501			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3502			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3503			is not too small.
3504
3505	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3506			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3507			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3508			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3509			allocations. Use with caution!
3510
3511	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3512			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3513
3514	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3515			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3516
3517	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3518			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3519
3520	mtdset=		[ARM]
3521			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3522
3523			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3524
3525	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3526			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3527			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3528
3529	mtrr=debug	[X86]
3530			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3531			registers at boot time.
3532
3533	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3534			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3535			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3536
3537	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3538			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3539			Default is 1.
3540			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3541			using up MTRRs.
3542
3543	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3544			Format: <integer>
3545			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3546			Default : 1
3547			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3548			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3549
3550	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3551			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3552			at a time.
3553
3554	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3555
3556	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3557			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3558			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3559			something different and driver-specific.
3560			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3561			file if at all.
3562
3563	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3564			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3565			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3566			waits 4 seconds.
3567
3568	nf_conntrack.acct=
3569			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3570			0 to disable accounting
3571			1 to enable accounting
3572			Default value is 0.
3573
3574	nfs.cache_getent=
3575			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3576			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3577
3578	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3579			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3580			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3581
3582	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3583			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3584			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3585			requests.
3586
3587	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3588			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3589			channel should listen.
3590
3591	nfs.enable_ino64=
3592			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3593			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3594			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3595			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3596			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3597
3598	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3599			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3600			entries.
3601
3602	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3603			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3604			slots the client will assign to the callback
3605			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3606			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3607			a particular server.
3608
3609	nfs.max_session_slots=
3610			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3611			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3612			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3613			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3614			Note that there is little point in setting this
3615			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3616
3617	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3618			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3619			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3620			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3621			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3622			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3623			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3624			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3625			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3626			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3627			back to using the idmapper.
3628			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3629
3630	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3631			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3632			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3633			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3634			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3635
3636	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3637			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3638			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3639			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3640			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3641			after the locks are lost.
3642			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3643			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3644			parameter to '1'.
3645			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3646			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3647
3648	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3649			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3650			information in exchange_id requests.
3651			If zero, no implementation identification information
3652			will be sent.
3653			The default is to send the implementation identification
3654			information.
3655
3656	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3657			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3658			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3659
3660			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3661			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3662			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3663			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3664
3665	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3666			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3667			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3668			the destination of the copy.
3669
3670	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3671			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3672			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3673			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3674			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3675			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3676
3677	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3678			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3679			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3680			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3681			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3682			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3683			this parameter.
3684
3685	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3686			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3687
3688	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3689			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3690
3691	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3692			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3693
3694	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3695			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3696			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3697
3698	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3699			when a NMI is triggered.
3700			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3701
3702	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3703			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3704			Valid num: 0 or 1
3705			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3706			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3707			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3708			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3709			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3710			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3711			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3712			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3713			need the box quickly up again.
3714
3715			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3716			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3717
3718	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3719			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3720			is present.
3721
3722	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3723			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3724
3725	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3726			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3727
3728	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3729			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3730			but will impact performance.
3731
3732	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3733
3734	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3735			(CPU alternatives feature).
3736
3737	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3738			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3739
3740	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3741
3742	nocache		[ARM]
3743
3744	no_console_suspend
3745			[HW] Never suspend the console
3746			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3747			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3748			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3749			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3750			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3751			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3752			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3753			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3754			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3755			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3756			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3757			turn on/off it dynamically.
3758
3759	no_debug_objects
3760			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3761
3762	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3763
3764	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3765
3766	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3767
3768	noexec		[IA-64]
3769
3770	noexec32	[X86-64]
3771			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3772			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3773				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3774			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3775				read implies executable mappings
3776
3777	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3778			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3779			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3780
3781	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3782
3783	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3784
3785	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3786			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3787			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3788
3789	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3790			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3791			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3792			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3793			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3794			real-time systems.
3795
3796	no_hash_pointers
3797			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3798			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3799			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3800			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3801			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3802			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3803			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3804			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3805			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3806			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3807			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3808			kernels.
3809
3810	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3811
3812	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3813			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3814			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3815			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3816			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3817			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3818			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3819			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3820
3821	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3822
3823	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3824
3825	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3826			Valid arguments: on, off
3827			Default: on
3828
3829	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3830			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3831			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3832			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3833			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3834			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3835			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3836			just as if they had also been called out in the
3837			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3838
3839			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3840			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3841
3842	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3843			initial RAM disk.
3844
3845	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3846			remapping.
3847			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3848
3849	nointroute	[IA-64]
3850
3851	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3852
3853	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3854
3855	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3856			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3857
3858	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3859
3860	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3861
3862	nokaslr		[KNL]
3863			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3864			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3865			Layout Randomization).
3866
3867	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3868			fault handling.
3869
3870	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3871
3872	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3873
3874	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3875
3876	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3877
3878	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3879
3880	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3881			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3882
3883	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3884			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3885			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3886			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3887			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3888			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3889			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3890
3891			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3892
3893	nomodule	Disable module load
3894
3895	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3896			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3897			irq.
3898
3899	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3900			pagetables) support.
3901
3902	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3903
3904	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3905			in some Intel CPUs.
3906
3907	nopti		[X86-64]
3908			Equivalent to pti=off
3909
3910	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3911			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3912			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3913			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3914
3915	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3916			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3917			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3918			contention.
3919
3920	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3921			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3922
3923	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3924			with UP alternatives
3925
3926	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3927			space.
3928
3929	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3930
3931	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3932			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3933			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3934
3935	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3936
3937	nosmap		[PPC]
3938			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3939			even if it is supported by processor.
3940
3941	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3942			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3943			even if it is supported by processor.
3944
3945	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3946			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3947
3948	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3949			Equivalent to smt=1.
3950
3951			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3952			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3953				     via the sysfs control file.
3954
3955	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3956
3957	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3958			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3959
3960	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3961			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3962			with this option.
3963
3964	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3965			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3966			possible in the system.
3967
3968	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3969			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3970			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3971			option.
3972
3973	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3974			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3975			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3976
3977	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3978
3979	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3980			broken timer IRQ sources.
3981
3982	no_uaccess_flush
3983	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3984
3985	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3986			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3987			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3988			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3989			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3990			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3991			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3992			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3993			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3994			is set.
3995
3996	no-vmw-sched-clock
3997			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3998			clock and use the default one.
3999
4000	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4001			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4002
4003	nowb		[ARM]
4004
4005	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4006
4007			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4008			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4009			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4010
4011	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4012			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4013			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4014
4015	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4016			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4017			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4018			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4019			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4020			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4021
4022	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4023			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4024			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4025			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4026			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4027			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4028			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4029
4030	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4031			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4032			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4033			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4034			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4035			parameter's value.
4036			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4037			Default: 255
4038
4039	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4040			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4041			SAL PALO.
4042
4043	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
4044			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4045			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4046			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4047			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4048			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4049			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4050			hot plugging.
4051
4052	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4053
4054	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
4055			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
4056
4057	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4058			NUMA balancing.
4059			Allowed values are enable and disable
4060
4061	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4062			'node', 'default' can be specified
4063			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4064			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4065
4066	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4067			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4068			info.
4069
4070	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4071			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4072			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4073			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4074			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4075			interrupts *may* be lost!
4076
4077	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4078			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4079			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4080			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4081
4082	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4083
4084			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4085
4086			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4087				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4088			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4089				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4090				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4091
4092	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4093			process, but there is a small probability of
4094			deadlocking the machine.
4095			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4096			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4097
4098	page_alloc.shuffle=
4099			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4100			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4101			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4102			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4103			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4104			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4105			can be read from sysfs at:
4106			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4107
4108	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4109			Storage of the information about who allocated
4110			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4111			we can turn it on.
4112			on: enable the feature
4113
4114	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4115			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4116			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4117			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4118			on: turn on poisoning
4119
4120	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4121			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4122			Format: <integer>
4123			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4124			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
4125
4126	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4127			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4128			timeout = 0: wait forever
4129			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4130			Format: <timeout>
4131
4132	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4133			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4134			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4135			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4136			called with any of the flags in this set.
4137			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4138			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4139			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4140			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4141			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4142			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4143			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4144
4145	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4146			on a WARN().
4147
4148	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4149			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4150			bit 0: print all tasks info
4151			bit 1: print system memory info
4152			bit 2: print timer info
4153			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4154			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4155			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4156			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4157			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4158			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4159			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4160			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4161
4162	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4163			connected to, default is 0.
4164			Format: <parport#>
4165	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4166			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4167			Format: <mode>
4168
4169	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4170			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4171			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4172			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4173			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4174			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4175			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4176			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4177			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4178			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4179			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4180			are specified on the command line, starting
4181			with parport0.
4182
4183	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4184			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4185			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4186			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4187			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4188			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4189			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4190
4191	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4192			Format: <int>
4193			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4194			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4195			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4196
4197	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4198			Format: <int>
4199			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4200			changes.  Disabled by default.
4201
4202	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4203			Format: <int>
4204			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4205			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4206			Disabled by default.
4207
4208	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4209			Format: <int>
4210			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4211			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4212			Disabled by default.
4213
4214	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4215			Format: <int>
4216			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4217			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4218			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4219			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4220			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4221			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4222			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4223			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4224			all channels.
4225
4226	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4227			Format: <int>
4228			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4229			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4230			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4231
4232	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4233			Format: <int>
4234			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4235			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4236			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4237
4238	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4239			Format: <int>
4240			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4241			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4242			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4243			All modes allowed by default.
4244
4245	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4246			Format: <int>
4247			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4248			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4249
4250	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4251			Format: <int>
4252			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4253			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4254			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4255			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4256			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4257			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4258			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4259			By default all supported ports are probed.
4260
4261	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4262			Format: <int>
4263			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4264			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4265
4266	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4267			Format: <int>
4268			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4269			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4270			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4271			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4272			0 otherwise.
4273
4274	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4275			Format: <int>
4276			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4277			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4278			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4279			allowed by default.
4280
4281	pause_on_oops=<int>
4282			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4283			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4284			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4285
4286	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4287
4288	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4289
4290				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4291				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4292				specified in one of the following formats:
4293
4294				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4295				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4296
4297				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4298				bus/device/function address which may change
4299				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4300				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4301				by other kernel parameters. If the
4302				domain is left unspecified, it is
4303				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4304				to a device through multiple device/function
4305				addresses can be specified after the base
4306				address (this is more robust against
4307				renumbering issues).  The second format
4308				selects devices using IDs from the
4309				configuration space which may match multiple
4310				devices in the system.
4311
4312		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4313				changes anything
4314		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4315		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4316				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4317				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4318		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4319				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4320				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4321				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4322		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4323				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4324				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4325		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4326				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4327				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4328				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4329				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4330				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4331				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4332		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4333				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4334				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4335		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4336				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4337		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4338				Configuration
4339		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4340				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4341				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4342		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4343				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4344				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4345		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4346				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4347				should never be necessary.
4348		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4349				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4350				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4351				when the system masks IRQs.
4352		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4353				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4354				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4355				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4356		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4357				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4358				on several machines and they hang the machine
4359				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4360				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4361				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4362				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4363				motherboard.
4364		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4365				Use with caution as certain devices share
4366				address decoders between ROMs and other
4367				resources.
4368		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4369				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4370				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4371		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4372				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4373		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4374				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4375				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4376				this way.
4377		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4378				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4379				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4380				F0000h-100000h range.
4381		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4382				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4383				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4384				explicitly which ones they are.
4385		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4386				numbers ourselves, overriding
4387				whatever the firmware may have done.
4388		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4389				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4390				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4391				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4392				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4393				IRQ routing is enabled.
4394		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4395				or for PCI scanning.
4396		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4397				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4398				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4399				please report a bug.
4400		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4401				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4402		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4403				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4404				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4405				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4406				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4407		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4408				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4409				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4410				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4411		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4412				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4413				so this option is a temporary workaround
4414				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4415		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4416				handle more pci cards
4417		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4418				This might help on some broken boards which
4419				machine check when some devices' config space
4420				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4421				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4422		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4423				This sorting is done to get a device
4424				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4425		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4426		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4427				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4428		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4429				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4430		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4431				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4432				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4433				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4434				or bus can support) for best performance.
4435		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4436				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4437				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4438				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4439				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4440				that hot-added devices will work.
4441		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4442				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4443				The default value is 256 bytes.
4444		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4445				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4446				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4447		resource_alignment=
4448				Format:
4449				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4450				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4451				aligned memory resources. How to
4452				specify the device is described above.
4453				If <order of align> is not specified,
4454				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4455				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4456				windows need to be expanded.
4457				To specify the alignment for several
4458				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4459				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4460				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4461				for 4096-byte alignment.
4462		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4463				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4464				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4465				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4466				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4467				the default.
4468				off: Turn ECRC off
4469				on: Turn ECRC on.
4470		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4471				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4472				Default size is 256 bytes.
4473		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4474				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4475				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4476		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4477				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4478				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4479		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4480				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4481				MMIO_PREF window.
4482				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4483		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4484				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4485				Default is 1.
4486		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4487				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4488				accommodate resources required by all child
4489				devices.
4490				off: Turn realloc off
4491				on: Turn realloc on
4492		realloc		same as realloc=on
4493		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4494		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4495				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4496		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4497				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4498				port.
4499		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4500				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4501				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4502				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4503				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4504				taints the kernel.
4505		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4506				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4507				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4508				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4509				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4510				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4511				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4512				this removes isolation between devices and
4513				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4514		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4515		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4516		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4517				one PCI domain per PCI function
4518
4519	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4520			Management.
4521		off	Disable ASPM.
4522		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4523			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4524
4525	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4526		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4527			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4528			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4529			also tries to use these services.
4530		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4531				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4532		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4533			hotplug).
4534
4535	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4536		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4537		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4538
4539	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4540		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4541			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4542
4543	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4544
4545	pd_ignore_unused
4546			[PM]
4547			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4548			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4549			for debug and development, but should not be
4550			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4551
4552	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4553			boot time.
4554			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4555			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4556
4557	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4558			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4559			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4560			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4561			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4562			and performance comparison.
4563
4564	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4565			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4566
4567	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4568			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4569			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4570
4571	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4572			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4573			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4574
4575	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4576			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4577			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4578			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4579			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4580			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4581			remains 0.
4582
4583	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4584			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4585
4586	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4587			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4588			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4589			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4590			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4591			possible settings and some assignment information.
4592
4593	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4594			{ off }
4595
4596	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4597			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4598
4599	pnp_reserve_irq=
4600			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4601
4602	pnp_reserve_dma=
4603			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4604
4605	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4606			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4607
4608	pnp_reserve_mem=
4609			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4610			autoconfiguration.
4611			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4612
4613	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4614			Default is 21.
4615			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4616			may be specified.
4617			Format: <port>,<port>....
4618
4619	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4620			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4621			platform machine description specific power_save
4622			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4623			execution priority.
4624
4625	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4626			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4627			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4628			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4629			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4630
4631	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4632			Format: {"off"}
4633			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4634
4635	preempt=	[KNL]
4636			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4637			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4638			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4639			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4640			       can be preempted anytime.
4641
4642	print-fatal-signals=
4643			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4644
4645			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4646			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4647			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4648			coredump - etc.
4649
4650			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4651			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4652
4653			default: off.
4654
4655	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4656			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4657			panics
4658			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4659			default: disabled
4660
4661	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4662			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4663			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4664			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4665			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4666			in order to provide more debug information.
4667			Format: <bool>
4668			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4669
4670	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4671			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4672			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4673			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4674			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4675			Default: ratelimit
4676
4677	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4678			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4679
4680	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4681			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4682			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4683
4684	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4685			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4686			instead using the legacy FADT method
4687
4688	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4689			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4690			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4691				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4692			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4693			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4694				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4695			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4696			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4697				statistical time based profiling.
4698
4699	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4700
4701	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4702			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4703			that).
4704			Format: <bool>
4705
4706	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4707			tracking.
4708			Format: <bool>
4709
4710	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4711			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4712	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4713			per second.
4714	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4715			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4716			(0 = never).
4717	psmouse.resolution=
4718			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4719	psmouse.smartscroll=
4720			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4721			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4722
4723	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4724
4725	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4726			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4727			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4728			system calls and interrupts.
4729
4730			on   - unconditionally enable
4731			off  - unconditionally disable
4732			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4733			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4734
4735			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4736
4737	pty.legacy_count=
4738			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4739			default number.
4740
4741	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4742
4743	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4744
4745	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4746			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4747			invalidate.
4748
4749	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4750			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4751
4752	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4753			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4754
4755	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4756
4757	random.trust_cpu=off
4758			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4759			random number generator (if available) to
4760			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4761
4762	random.trust_bootloader=off
4763			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4764			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4765			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4766
4767	randomize_kstack_offset=
4768			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4769			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4770			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4771			that depend on stack address determinism or
4772			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4773			available on architectures that have defined
4774			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4775			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4776			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4777
4778	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4779
4780		cec_disable	[X86]
4781				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4782				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4783
4784	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4785			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4786			as described above.
4787
4788			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4789			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4790			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4791			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4792			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4793			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4794			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4795			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4796			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4797			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4798			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4799			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4800
4801			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4802			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4803
4804			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4805			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4806			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4807			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4808
4809			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4810			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4811
4812	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4813			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4814			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4815			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4816			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4817			This improves the real-time response for the
4818			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4819			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4820			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4821			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4822
4823	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4824			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4825			process in one batch.
4826
4827	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4828			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4829			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4830			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4831			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4832			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4833
4834	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4835			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4836			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4837			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4838
4839	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4840			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4841			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4842
4843	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4844			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4845			RCU grace-period initialization.
4846
4847	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4848			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4849			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4850			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4851			the rcu_node combining tree.
4852
4853	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4854			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4855			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4856			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4857			and maximum value is HZ.
4858
4859	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4860			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4861			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4862			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4863
4864	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4865			Set required age in jiffies for a
4866			given grace period before RCU starts
4867			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4868			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4869			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4870			a value based on the most recent settings
4871			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4872			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4873			This calculated value may be viewed in
4874			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4875			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4876			overwritten.
4877
4878	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4879			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4880			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4881			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4882			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4883			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4884			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4885			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4886			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4887			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4888			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4889			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4890
4891	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4892			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4893			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4894			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4895			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4896			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4897			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4898			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4899			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4900			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4901			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4902			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4903
4904	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4905			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4906			batch limiting is disabled.
4907
4908	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4909			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4910			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4911
4912	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4913			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4914			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4915			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4916			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4917			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4918			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4919			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4920
4921	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4922			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4923			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4924			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4925
4926	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4927			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4928			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4929			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4930			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4931			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4932			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4933			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4934
4935			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4936			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4937			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4938			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4939			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4940
4941	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4942			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4943			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4944			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4945			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4946
4947	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4948			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4949			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4950			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4951			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4952			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4953			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4954
4955	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4956			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4957			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4958			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4959			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4960			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4961			condition.
4962
4963	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4964			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4965			each group, which defaults to the square root
4966			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4967			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4968			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4969			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4970
4971	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4972			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4973			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4974			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4975			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4976			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4977
4978	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
4979			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
4980			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
4981			By default, this limit is checked only once
4982			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
4983			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
4984
4985	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4986			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4987			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4988			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4989			Larger delays increase the probability of
4990			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4991			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4992			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4993
4994	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4995			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4996			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4997			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4998
4999	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5000			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5001			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5002			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5003			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5004
5005			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5006			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5007			to zero.
5008
5009	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5010			Measure performance of asynchronous
5011			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5012
5013	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5014			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5015			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5016			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5017			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5018			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5019
5020	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5021			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5022			grace-period primitives.
5023
5024	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5025			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5026			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5027			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5028			interference.
5029
5030	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5031			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5032			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5033
5034	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5035			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5036			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5037			Defaults to 1.
5038
5039	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5040			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5041
5042	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5043			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5044			If this parameter has the same value as
5045			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5046			and double-argument variants are tested.
5047
5048	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5049			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5050			If this parameter has the same value as
5051			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5052			and double-argument variants are tested.
5053
5054	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5055			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5056
5057	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5058			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5059
5060	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5061			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5062			of allocations and frees.
5063
5064	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5065			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5066			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5067			but instead allows better measurement of things
5068			like CPU consumption.
5069
5070	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5071			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5072			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5073			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5074			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5075			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5076			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5077			a single reader.
5078
5079	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5080			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5081			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5082			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5083
5084	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5085			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5086
5087	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5088			Shut the system down after performance tests
5089			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5090			testing.
5091
5092	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5093			Enable additional printk() statements.
5094
5095	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5096			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5097			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5098			no holdoff.
5099
5100	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5101			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5102			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5103			says no holdoff.
5104
5105	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5106			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5107			in microseconds.
5108
5109	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5110			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5111			in microseconds.
5112
5113	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5114			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5115			in seconds.
5116
5117	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5118			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5119			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5120			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5121			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5122			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5123			of CPUs to be used.
5124
5125	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5126			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5127			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5128
5129	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5130			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5131			forward-progress tests.
5132
5133	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5134			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5135			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5136			testing.
5137
5138	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5139			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5140			primitives, if available.
5141
5142	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5143			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5144
5145	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5146			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5147			update-side primitives, if available.
5148
5149	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5150			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5151			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5152			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5153			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5154			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5155			they are all non-zero.
5156
5157	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5158			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5159			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5160			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5161
5162	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5163			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5164			This can of course result in splats, and is
5165			intended to test the ability of things like
5166			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5167			such leaks.
5168
5169	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5170			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5171
5172	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5173			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5174			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5175			test, hence the "fake".
5176
5177	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5178			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5179			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5180
5181	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5182			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5183			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5184
5185	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5186			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5187			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5188			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5189			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5190			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5191
5192	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5193			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5194
5195	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5196			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5197
5198	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5199			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5200			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5201
5202	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5203			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5204			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5205			task-exit processing.
5206
5207	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5208			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5209			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5210			is spawned.
5211
5212	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5213			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5214			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5215
5216	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5217			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5218			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5219			during the rcutorture test.
5220
5221	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5222			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5223			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5224
5225	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5226			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5227			warnings, zero to disable.
5228
5229	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5230			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5231			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5232			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5233			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5234			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5235			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5236			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5237			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5238			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5239
5240			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5241
5242
5243	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5244			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5245
5246	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5247			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5248
5249	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5250			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5251			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5252			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5253			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5254			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5255
5256	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5257			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5258
5259	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5260			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5261			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5262			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5263			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5264
5265	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5266			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5267			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5268			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5269
5270	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5271			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5272
5273	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5274			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5275
5276	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5277			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5278			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5279
5280	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5281			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5282
5283	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5284			Enable additional printk() statements.
5285
5286	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5287			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5288			stall warning.
5289
5290	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5291			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5292
5293	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5294			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5295			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5296			during early boot, that is, during the time
5297			before the init task is spawned.
5298
5299	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5300			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5301			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5302			value is 300 seconds.
5303
5304	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5305			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5306			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5307			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5308			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5309			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5310			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5311			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5312			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5313
5314	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5315			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5316			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5317			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5318			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5319
5320	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5321			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5322			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5323			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5324
5325	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5326			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5327			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5328			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5329			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5330			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5331			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5332
5333	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5334			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5335			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5336			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5337			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5338			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5339			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5340			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5341			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5342
5343	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5344			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5345			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5346			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5347			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5348
5349			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5350			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5351			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5352			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5353			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5354			grace-period processing.
5355
5356	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5357			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5358			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5359			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5360			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5361			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5362			set to the default value of -1.
5363
5364	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5365			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5366			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5367			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5368			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5369			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5370			the default value of -1.
5371
5372	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5373			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5374			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5375			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5376			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5377			for use in testing.
5378
5379	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5380			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5381			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5382			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5383			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5384			but lengthens grace periods.
5385
5386	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5387			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5388			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5389			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5390			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5391			callback flooding.
5392
5393	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5394			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5395			informational messages, which give some indication
5396			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5397			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5398			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5399			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5400			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5401			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5402			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5403
5404	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5405			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5406			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5407			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5408			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5409			the value three, so that the first informational
5410			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5411			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5412			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5413			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5414
5415	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5416			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5417			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5418			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5419			A change in value does not take effect until
5420			the beginning of the next grace period.
5421
5422	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5423			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5424			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5425			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5426			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5427			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5428
5429	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5430			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5431			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5432			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5433			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5434			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5435			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5436
5437	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5438			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5439			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5440			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5441			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5442			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5443			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5444
5445	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5446			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5447
5448	rdinit=		[KNL]
5449			Format: <full_path>
5450			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5451			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5452
5453	rdrand=		[X86]
5454			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5455				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5456				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5457				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5458				path).
5459
5460	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5461			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5462			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5463			mba, smba, bmec.
5464			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5465				rdt=cmt,!mba
5466
5467	reboot=		[KNL]
5468			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5469				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5470				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5471				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5472				[[,]f[orce]
5473			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5474					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5475					reboot only),
5476			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5477			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5478			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5479					to be used for rebooting.
5480
5481	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5482			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5483			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5484			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5485			interference.
5486
5487	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5488			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5489			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5490			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5491			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5492
5493	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5494			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5495			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5496			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5497			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5498			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5499			x86 laptops.
5500
5501	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5502			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5503			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5504			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5505
5506	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5507			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5508			the console log.
5509
5510	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5511			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5512			measured in microseconds.
5513
5514	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5515			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5516
5517	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5518			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5519			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5520			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5521			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5522
5523	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5524			Enable additional printk() statements.
5525
5526	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5527			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5528			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5529			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5530			specified.
5531
5532	relax_domain_level=
5533			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5534			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5535
5536	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5537			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5538			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5539			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5540			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5541
5542	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5543			Format: nn[KMG]
5544			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5545			address space.
5546
5547	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5548			during initialization.
5549
5550	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5551			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5552			Format:
5553			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5554
5555	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5556			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5557			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5558			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5559			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5560
5561	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5562			read the resume files
5563
5564	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5565			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5566			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5567
5568	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5569
5570	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5571			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5572			vulnerability.
5573
5574			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5575			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5576			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5577			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5578			that don't.
5579
5580			off          - no mitigation
5581			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5582			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5583				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5584				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5585				       and older without STIBP).
5586			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5587				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5588				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5589				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5590				       on Intel.
5591			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5592				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5593				       the alternative for systems which do not
5594				       have STIBP.
5595			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5596				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5597				       systems.
5598			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5599				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5600				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5601
5602			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5603			time according to the CPU.
5604
5605			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5606
5607	rfkill.default_state=
5608		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5609			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5610		1	Unblocked.
5611
5612	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5613		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5614		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5615			blocked and the previous configuration.
5616		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5617			blocked and everything unblocked.
5618
5619	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5620			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5621
5622	ring3mwait=disable
5623			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5624			CPUs.
5625
5626	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV]
5627			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5628			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5629			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5630			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5631			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5632
5633	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5634
5635	rodata=		[KNL]
5636		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5637		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5638		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5639		        [arm64]
5640
5641	rockchip.usb_uart
5642			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5643			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5644			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5645			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5646
5647	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5648			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5649			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5650			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5651			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5652			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5653			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5654
5655	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5656			mount the root filesystem
5657
5658	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5659
5660	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5661
5662	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5663			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5664			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5665
5666	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5667			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5668			filesystem.
5669
5670	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5671			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5672			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5673			managed by CMA.
5674
5675	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5676
5677	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5678
5679	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5680			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5681		strict
5682			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5683			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5684			which is faster.
5685
5686	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5687			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5688			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5689			factor of the size of main memory.
5690			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5691			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5692			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5693			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5694			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5695			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5696			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5697
5698	sa1100ir	[NET]
5699			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5700
5701	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5702
5703	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5704			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5705			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5706			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5707
5708	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5709			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5710			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5711			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5712			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5713			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5714			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5715			value.
5716			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5717			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5718				1			64 ms
5719				2			128 ms
5720			and so on.
5721			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5722			Default is 0.
5723
5724	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5725			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5726			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5727			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5728			tests.
5729
5730	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5731			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5732			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5733			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5734			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5735			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5736			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5737
5738	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5739			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5740			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5741			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5742			equal to the number of CPUs.
5743
5744	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5745			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5746			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5747
5748	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5749			Number seconds to wait between successive
5750			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5751			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5752
5753	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5754			The number of seconds following the start of the
5755			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5756			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5757			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5758
5759	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5760			The number of seconds between outputting the
5761			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5762			of zero disables statistics output.
5763
5764	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5765			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5766			to the set of CPUs under test.
5767
5768	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5769			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5770			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5771			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5772			functions.
5773
5774	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5775			Enable additional printk() statements.
5776
5777	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5778			The probability weighting to use for the
5779			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5780			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5781			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5782			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5783			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5784
5785	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5786			The probability weighting to use for the
5787			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5788			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5789
5790	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5791			The probability weighting to use for the
5792			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5793			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5794			Note well that setting a high probability for
5795			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5796			on the system.
5797
5798	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5799			The probability weighting to use for the
5800			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5801			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5802			and weight_many.
5803
5804	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5805			The probability weighting to use for the
5806			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5807			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5808			weight_many.
5809
5810	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5811			The probability weighting to use for the
5812			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5813			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5814			and weight_many.
5815
5816	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5817			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5818			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5819			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5820			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5821			1 -- enable.
5822			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5823			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5824
5825	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5826			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5827			"lsm=" parameter.
5828
5829	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5830			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5831			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5832			0 -- disable.
5833			1 -- enable.
5834			Default value is 1.
5835
5836	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5837
5838	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5839
5840	shapers=	[NET]
5841			Maximal number of shapers.
5842
5843	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5844			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5845			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5846			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5847			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5848			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5849			apic=verbose is specified.
5850			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5851
5852	simeth=		[IA-64]
5853	simscsi=
5854
5855	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5856
5857	slab_merge	[MM]
5858			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5859			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5860
5861	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5862			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5863			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5864			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5865			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5866			layout control by attackers can usually be
5867			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5868			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5869			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5870			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5871			own.
5872			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5873
5874	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5875			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5876			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5877			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5878			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5879
5880	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5881			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5882			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5883			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5884			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5885			last alloc / free. For more information see
5886			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5887
5888	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5889			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5890			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5891			fragmentation. For more information see
5892			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5893
5894	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5895			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5896			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5897			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5898			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5899			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5900			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5901			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5902
5903	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5904			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5905			lower than slub_max_order.
5906			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5907
5908	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5909			Same with slab_merge.
5910
5911	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5912			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5913			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5914
5915	smart2=		[HW]
5916			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5917
5918	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5919			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5920			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5921			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5922			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5923			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5924			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5925			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5926			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5927			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5928
5929	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
5930			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
5931			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
5932			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
5933			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
5934			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
5935
5936	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5937	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5938	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5939	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5940	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5941	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5942	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5943				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5944				1: Fast pin select (default)
5945				2: ATC IRMode
5946
5947	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5948			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5949			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5950			actual hardware limit.
5951			Format: <integer>
5952			Default: -1 (no limit)
5953
5954	softlockup_panic=
5955			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5956			Format: 0 | 1
5957
5958			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5959			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5960			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5961			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5962			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5963
5964	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5965			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5966			backtraces on all cpus.
5967			Format: 0 | 1
5968
5969	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5970			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5971
5972	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5973			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5974			The default operation protects the kernel from
5975			user space attacks.
5976
5977			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5978			       spectre_v2_user=on
5979			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5980			       spectre_v2_user=off
5981			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5982			       vulnerable
5983
5984			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5985			mitigation method at run time according to the
5986			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5987			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5988			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5989
5990			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5991			against user space to user space task attacks.
5992
5993			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5994			the user space protections.
5995
5996			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5997
5998			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5999			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6000			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6001			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6002			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6003			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6004			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6005			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6006
6007			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6008			spectre_v2=auto.
6009
6010	spectre_v2_user=
6011			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6012		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6013		        user space tasks
6014
6015			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6016				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6017
6018			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6019				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6020
6021			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6022				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6023				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6024				  is inherited on fork.
6025
6026			prctl,ibpb
6027				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6028				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6029				  always when switching between different user
6030				  space processes.
6031
6032			seccomp
6033				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6034				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6035				  they explicitly opt out.
6036
6037			seccomp,ibpb
6038				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6039				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6040				  always when switching between different
6041				  user space processes.
6042
6043			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6044				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6045
6046			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6047
6048			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6049			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6050
6051	spec_rstack_overflow=
6052			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6053
6054			off		- Disable mitigation
6055			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6056			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6057			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6058					  kernel entry
6059			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6060					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6061
6062	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6063			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6064			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6065
6066			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6067			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6068			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6069			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6070			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6071			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6072			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6073			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6074
6075			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6076			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6077			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6078			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6079
6080			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6081			Bypass optimization is used.
6082
6083			On x86 the options are:
6084
6085			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6086			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6087			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6088				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6089				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6090				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6091				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6092				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6093			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6094				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6095				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6096				  is inherited on fork.
6097			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6098				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6099
6100			Default mitigations:
6101			X86:	"prctl"
6102
6103			On powerpc the options are:
6104
6105			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6106				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6107				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6108				  exit.
6109			off	- No action.
6110
6111			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6112			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6113
6114	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6115	spia_fio_base=
6116	spia_pedr=
6117	spia_peddr=
6118
6119	split_lock_detect=
6120			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6121
6122			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6123			instructions that access data across cache line
6124			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6125			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6126			bus lock detection.
6127
6128			off	- not enabled
6129
6130			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6131				  about applications triggering the #AC
6132				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6133				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6134				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6135				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6136				  enabled in hardware.
6137
6138			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6139				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6140				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6141				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6142
6143			ratelimit:N -
6144				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6145				  per second for bus lock detection.
6146				  0 < N <= 1000.
6147
6148				  N/A for split lock detection.
6149
6150
6151			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6152			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6153			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6154			mode.
6155
6156			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6157			CPL > 0.
6158
6159	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
6160			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6161			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6162
6163			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6164			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6165			number generator.
6166
6167			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6168			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6169			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6170			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6171			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6172
6173			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6174			the following option:
6175
6176			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6177				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6178
6179	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6180			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6181			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6182			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6183			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6184			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6185			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6186			(decide at boot).
6187
6188	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6189			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6190			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6191			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6192
6193				   0:  Never.
6194				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6195				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6196				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6197				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6198
6199			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6200			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6201			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6202
6203	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6204			Specifies how frequently to check for
6205			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6206			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6207			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6208			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6209			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6210			are ignored.
6211
6212	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6213			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6214			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6215			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6216			grace period will be considered for automatic
6217			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6218			expediting.
6219
6220	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6221			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6222			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6223			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6224			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6225			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6226
6227	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6228			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6229			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6230			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6231			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6232			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6233
6234	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6235			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6236			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6237
6238	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6239			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6240			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6241			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6242			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6243			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6244			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6245
6246	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6247			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6248
6249			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6250			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6251			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6252			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6253
6254			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6255				   for both kernel and userspace
6256			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6257				   for both kernel and userspace
6258			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6259				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6260				   to allow userspace to register its
6261				   interest in being mitigated too.
6262
6263	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6264			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6265			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6266			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6267			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6268			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6269
6270	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6271			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6272			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6273			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6274			to false.
6275
6276	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6277			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6278
6279	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6280			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6281			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6282			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6283			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6284			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6285			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6286
6287	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6288			Format: <num>
6289			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6290			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6291			as the initial boot-console.
6292			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6293
6294	sti_font=	[HW]
6295			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6296
6297	stifb=		[HW]
6298			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6299
6300        strict_sas_size=
6301			[X86]
6302			Format: <bool>
6303			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6304			against the required signal frame size which
6305			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6306			be used to filter out binaries which have
6307			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6308
6309	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6310			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6311			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6312			faults on kernel addresses.
6313
6314	stress_slb	[PPC]
6315			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6316			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6317			on kernel addresses.
6318
6319	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6320	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6321			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6322			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6323			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6324			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6325			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6326			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6327			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6328			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6329			maximum port values.
6330
6331	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6332			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6333			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6334			process in parallel from a single connection.
6335			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6336
6337	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6338			[NFS]
6339			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6340			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6341			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6342			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6343			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6344			NFS server is running.
6345
6346			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6347				    automatically using heuristics
6348			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6349			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6350			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6351				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6352
6353	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6354	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6355			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6356			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6357			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6358			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6359			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6360			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6361
6362	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6363			[SUSPEND]
6364			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6365			mode before resuming the system (see
6366			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6367			is set. Default value is 5.
6368
6369	svm=		[PPC]
6370			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6371			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6372			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6373
6374	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6375			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6376			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6377			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6378				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6379				 to a power of 2.
6380			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6381			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6382			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6383
6384	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6385
6386	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6387			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6388			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6389			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6390			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6391			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6392			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6393			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6394
6395	sysrq_always_enabled
6396			[KNL]
6397			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6398			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6399			Useful for debugging.
6400
6401	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6402			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6403			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6404			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6405			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6406			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6407
6408	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6409
6410	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6411			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6412			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6413			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6414			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6415			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6416			The system is woken from this state using a
6417			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6418
6419	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6420			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6421
6422	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6423			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6424			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6425
6426	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6427			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6428			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6429
6430	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6431			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6432
6433	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6434			-1: disable all passive trip points
6435			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6436			value
6437
6438	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6439			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6440			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6441			0: no polling (default)
6442
6443	threadirqs	[KNL]
6444			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6445			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6446
6447	topology=	[S390]
6448			Format: {off | on}
6449			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6450			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6451			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6452			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6453			Default is on.
6454
6455	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6456			Format: {off}
6457			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6458			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6459			LPAR.
6460
6461	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6462			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6463			until after init has spawned.
6464
6465	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6466			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6467			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6468			very costly operation when many torture tests
6469			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6470			with rotating-rust storage.
6471
6472	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6473			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6474			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6475			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6476
6477	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6478			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6479
6480	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6481
6482	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6483			Format: integer pcr id
6484			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6485			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6486			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6487			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6488			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6489			are saved.
6490
6491	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6492			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6493			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6494			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6495			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6496			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6497
6498	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6499			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6500			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6501			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6502			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6503			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6504
6505			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6506			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6507			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6508			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6509
6510			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6511			to stop the printing of events to console at
6512			late_initcall_sync.
6513
6514			** CAUTION **
6515
6516			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6517			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6518			the system to live lock.
6519
6520	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6521			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6522			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6523			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6524			make the system inoperable.
6525
6526			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6527			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6528
6529	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6530			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6531
6532	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6533			at boot up.
6534			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6535				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6536				depending on the architecture, may not be
6537				in sync between CPUs.
6538			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6539				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6540				but better for some race conditions.
6541			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6542				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6543				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6544				once per event.
6545			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6546			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6547			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6548			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6549				stamps.
6550			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6551			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6552			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6553
6554	trace_event=[event-list]
6555			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6556			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6557			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6558			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6559
6560	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6561			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6562			This will be listed in:
6563
6564				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6565
6566			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6567			via:
6568
6569				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6570
6571			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6572			unique.
6573
6574				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6575
6576			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6577			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6578			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6579
6580	trace_options=[option-list]
6581			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6582			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6583			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6584			to echo the option name into
6585
6586			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6587
6588			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6589			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6590
6591			      trace_options=stacktrace
6592
6593			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6594			section.
6595
6596	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6597			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6598			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6599			filter.
6600
6601			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6602			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6603
6604			For example:
6605
6606			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6607
6608			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6609			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6610			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6611
6612			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6613
6614
6615	traceoff_on_warning
6616			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6617			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6618			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6619			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6620
6621			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6622			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6623			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6624
6625			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6626			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6627
6628	transparent_hugepage=
6629			[KNL]
6630			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6631			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6632			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6633			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6634			for more details.
6635
6636	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6637			Format: <string>
6638			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6639			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6640			sources:
6641			- "tpm"
6642			- "tee"
6643			- "caam"
6644			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6645			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6646			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6647			successfully during iteration.
6648
6649	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6650			Format: <string>
6651			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6652			Can be one of:
6653			- "kernel"
6654			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6655			- "default"
6656			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6657			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6658
6659	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6660			Format: <string>
6661			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6662			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6663			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6664			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6665			virtualized environment.
6666			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6667			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6668			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6669			can add overhead.
6670			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6671			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6672			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6673			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6674			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6675			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6676			acceptable).
6677			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6678			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6679			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6680			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6681			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6682			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6683			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6684			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6685			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6686			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6687
6688	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6689			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6690			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6691			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6692			Format: <unsigned int>
6693
6694	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6695			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6696			support TSX control.
6697
6698			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6699
6700			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6701				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6702				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6703				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6704				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6705				with leaving it enabled.
6706
6707			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6708				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6709				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6710				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6711				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6712				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6713				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6714
6715			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6716				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6717
6718			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6719
6720			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6721			for more details.
6722
6723	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6724			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6725
6726			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6727			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6728			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6729			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6730			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6731			conditions.
6732
6733			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6734			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6735			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6736			access.
6737
6738			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6739			options are:
6740
6741			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6742				     if TSX is enabled.
6743
6744			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6745				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6746				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6747				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6748			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6749
6750			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6751			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6752			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6753			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6754
6755			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6756			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6757			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6758			required and doesn't provide any additional
6759			mitigation.
6760
6761			For details see:
6762			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6763
6764	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6765			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6766			Format:
6767			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6768			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6769
6770	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6771			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6772			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6773			help "seeing" what's going on.
6774
6775	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6776			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6777
6778	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6779			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6780			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6781			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6782			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6783			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6784			reported either.
6785
6786	unknown_nmi_panic
6787			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6788
6789	unwind_debug	[X86-64]
6790			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6791			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6792			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6793			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6794
6795	usbcore.authorized_default=
6796			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6797			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6798			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6799			if device connected to internal port)
6800
6801	usbcore.autosuspend=
6802			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6803			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6804			is the time required before an idle device will be
6805			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6806			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6807
6808	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6809			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6810
6811	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6812			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6813			(default = 65536).
6814
6815	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6816			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6817
6818	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6819			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6820			scheme (default 0 = off).
6821
6822	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6823			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6824			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6825
6826	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6827			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6828			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6829
6830	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6831			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6832			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6833			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6834
6835	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6836
6837	usbcore.quirks=
6838			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6839			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6840			commas. Each entry has the form
6841			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6842			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6843			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6844			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6845			the following meanings:
6846				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6847					descriptors must not be fetched using
6848					a 255-byte read);
6849				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6850					correctly so reset it instead);
6851				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6852					Set-Interface requests);
6853				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6854					handle its Configuration or Interface
6855					strings);
6856				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6857					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6858				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6859					more interface descriptions than the
6860					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6861					talking to these interfaces);
6862				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6863					during initialization, after we read
6864					the device descriptor);
6865				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6866					high speed and super speed interrupt
6867					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6868					require the interval in microframes (1
6869					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6870					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6871					(bInterval-1).
6872					Devices with this quirk report their
6873					bInterval as the result of this
6874					calculation instead of the exponent
6875					variable used in the calculation);
6876				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6877					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6878					requests);
6879				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6880					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6881					remote wakeup capability);
6882				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6883					Power Management);
6884				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6885					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6886					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6887					calculation);
6888				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6889					to be disconnected before suspend to
6890					prevent spurious wakeup);
6891				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6892					pause after every control message);
6893				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6894					delay after resetting its port);
6895			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6896
6897	usbhid.mousepoll=
6898			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6899
6900	usbhid.jspoll=
6901			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6902
6903	usbhid.kbpoll=
6904			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6905
6906	usb-storage.delay_use=
6907			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6908			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6909
6910	usb-storage.quirks=
6911			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6912			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6913			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6914			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6915			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6916			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6917			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6918				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6919					of sense data, not on uas);
6920				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6921					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6922				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6923					device capacity by one sector);
6924				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6925					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6926				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6927					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6928				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6929					command, uas only);
6930				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6931					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6932				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6933					reported device capacity by one
6934					sector if the number is odd);
6935				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6936					device);
6937				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6938					command, uas only);
6939				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6940				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6941					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6942				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6943					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6944					not on uas);
6945				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6946					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6947				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6948					reported by the device, not on uas);
6949				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6950					by default, not on uas);
6951				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6952					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6953				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6954					Logical Unit);
6955				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6956					commands, uas only);
6957				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6958				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6959					medium is write-protected).
6960				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6961					even if the device claims no cache,
6962					not on uas)
6963			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6964
6965	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6966			Format: <int>
6967			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6968				 1 - undefined instruction events
6969				 2 - system calls
6970				 4 - invalid data aborts
6971				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6972				16 - SIGBUS faults
6973			Example: user_debug=31
6974
6975	userpte=
6976			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6977
6978				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6979					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6980					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6981
6982	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6983			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6984
6985			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6986			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6987
6988	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6989			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6990			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6991
6992			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6993			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6994			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6995
6996			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6997			alias for vdso32=0.
6998
6999			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7000			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7001
7002	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7003			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7004
7005	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
7006			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7007
7008	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7009			Format: [0|1]
7010			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7011			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7012			level and then send out the event to user space through
7013			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7014			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7015			brightness level.
7016			default: 1
7017
7018	virtio_mmio.device=
7019			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7020
7021				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7022			where:
7023				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7024						like K, M and G)
7025				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7026				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7027						request_irq())
7028				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7029			example:
7030				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7031
7032			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7033
7034	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7035			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7036			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7037			Use vga=ask for menu.
7038			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7039			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7040
7041	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7042			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7043			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7044			All options are enabled by default, and this
7045			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7046			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7047			debugging features.
7048
7049			Available options are:
7050			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7051			  -	Disable all of the above options
7052
7053	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
7054			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
7055			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
7056			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
7057			mapped kernel RAM.
7058
7059	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
7060			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7061			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7062
7063	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7064			Format: <command>
7065
7066	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7067			Format: <command>
7068
7069	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7070			Format: <command>
7071
7072	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
7073			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7074			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7075			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7076			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7077			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7078			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7079
7080			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7081			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7082				    readable.
7083
7084			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7085			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7086				    page is not readable.
7087
7088			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7089			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7090			            might break your system.
7091
7092	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7093			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7094			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7095
7096	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7097			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7098			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7099			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7100
7101	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7102			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7103			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7104			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7105			ranging from 0-255.
7106
7107	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7108			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7109			Change the default green palette of the console.
7110			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7111			ranging from 0-255.
7112
7113	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7114			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7115			Change the default red palette of the console.
7116			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7117			ranging from 0-255.
7118
7119	vt.default_utf8=
7120			[VT]
7121			Format=<0|1>
7122			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7123			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7124			newly opened terminals.
7125
7126	vt.global_cursor_default=
7127			[VT]
7128			Format=<-1|0|1>
7129			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7130			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7131			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7132			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7133			cursors, 1 will display them.
7134
7135	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7136			Default: 2 = green.
7137
7138	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7139			Default: 3 = cyan.
7140
7141	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7142			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7143			or other driver-specific files in the
7144			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7145
7146	watchdog_thresh=
7147			[KNL]
7148			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7149			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7150			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7151			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7152			seconds.
7153
7154	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7155			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7156			to use in unbound workqueues.
7157			Format: <cpu-list>
7158			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7159			unbound workqueues.
7160
7161	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7162			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7163			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7164			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7165			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7166			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7167			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7168			corresponding sysfs file.
7169
7170	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7171			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7172			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7173			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7174			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7175			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7176
7177			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7178			will report the work functions which violate this
7179			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7180			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7181
7182	workqueue.power_efficient
7183			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7184			they show better performance thanks to cache
7185			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7186			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7187
7188			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7189			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7190			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7191			power usage at the cost of small performance
7192			overhead.
7193
7194			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7195			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7196
7197        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7198			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7199			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7200			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7201			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7202			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7203
7204			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7205			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7206			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7207			updated accordignly.
7208
7209	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7210			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7211			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7212			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7213			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7214			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7215			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7216			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7217			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7218			impacted.
7219
7220	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
7221			ioremap_wc().
7222
7223			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7224			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7225
7226	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7227			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7228			supporting x2apic.
7229
7230	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7231			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7232			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7233			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7234			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7235			domains.
7236
7237	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
7238			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7239			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7240			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7241			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7242			nics -- unplug network devices
7243			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7244			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7245				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7246				the unplug protocol
7247			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7248
7249	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
7250			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7251			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7252
7253	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7254			Format: <bool>
7255			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7256			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7257			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7258
7259	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7260			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7261			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7262			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7263
7264	xen_nopv	[X86]
7265			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7266			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7267			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7268			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7269
7270	xen_no_vector_callback
7271			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7272			event channel interrupts.
7273
7274	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7275			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7276			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7277			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7278			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7279
7280	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7281			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7282			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7283			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7284			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7285			more timer interrupts.
7286
7287	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7288			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7289			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7290			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7291			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7292			max. Default is 180.
7293
7294	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7295			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7296			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7297
7298	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7299			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7300			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7301
7302	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7303			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7304			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7305			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7306			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7307			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7308
7309	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7310			Format:
7311			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7312
7313	xive=		[PPC]
7314			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7315			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7316			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7317
7318			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7319				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7320				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7321
7322	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7323			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7324			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7325			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7326			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7327
7328	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7329			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7330			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7331			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7332
7333	xmon		[PPC]
7334			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7335			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7336			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7337			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7338				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7339			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7340				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7341				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7342				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7343			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7344				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7345				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7346				can be written using xmon commands.
7347			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7348				memory, and other data can't be written using
7349				xmon commands.
7350			off	xmon is disabled.
7351
7352