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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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>
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_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
375
376	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379			EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
384			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387			keyboards
388
389	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393			Use software keyboard repeat
394
395	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398			    enabled until the next reboot
399			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404			    userspace auditd.
405			Default: unset
406
407	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409			Default: 64
410
411	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
412			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413			Format: { "0" | "1" }
414			0 - Disable the BAU.
415			1 - Enable the BAU.
416			unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
419			Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422			Format: <io>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
426			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
431			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436			embedded devices based on command line input.
437			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
438
439	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441			no delay (0).
442			Format: integer
443
444	bootconfig	[KNL]
445			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
446			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
447
448			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
449
450	bert_disable	[ACPI]
451			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
452
453	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
454	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
455			kernel args too.
456	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
457	bttv.tuner=
458
459	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
460			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
461			at a time.
462
463	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
464
465	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
466			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
467			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
468			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
469			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
470			This option provides an override for these situations.
471
472	carrier_timeout=
473			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
474			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
475			it waits 120 seconds.
476
477	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
478			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
479			trust validation.
480			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
481
482	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
483			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
484			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
485			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
486			others).
487
488	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
489			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
490
491	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
492			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
493			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
494			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
495			  a single hierarchy
496			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
497			  subsystem
498			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
499			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
500			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
501
502	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
503			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
504			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
505			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
506			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
507			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
508			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
509			all v1 hierarchies.
510
511	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
512			Format: <string>
513			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
514			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
515
516	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
517			Format: { "0" | "1" }
518			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
519			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
520				any implied execute protection).
521			1 -- check protection requested by application.
522			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
523			Value can be changed at runtime via
524				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
525
526	cio_ignore=	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528	clk_ignore_unused
529			[CLK]
530			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
531			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
532			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
533			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
534			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
535			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
536			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
537			platform with proper driver support.  For more
538			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
539
540	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
541			[Deprecated]
542			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
543			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
544			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
545			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
546
547	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
548			Format: <string>
549			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
550			with the name specified.
551			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
552			the platform:
553			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
554			[ACPI] acpi_pm
555			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
556				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
557			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
558				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
559			[MIPS] MIPS
560			[PARISC] cr16
561			[S390] tod
562			[SH] SuperH
563			[SPARC64] tick
564			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
565
566	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
567			[ARM,ARM64]
568			Format: <bool>
569			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
570			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
571			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
572			systems.
573
574	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
575			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
576			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
577			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
578			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
579			ones should be.
580			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
581			or using the feature without checking anything
582			will still see it. This just prevents it from
583			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
584			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
585			some critical bits.
586
587	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
588			[ARM,X86,KNL]
589			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
590			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
591			placement constraint by the physical address range of
592			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
593			altogether. For more information, see
594			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
595
596	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
597			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
598			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
599			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
600			a hypervisor.
601			Default: yes
602
603	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
604			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
605			allocations, by default set to 256K.
606
607	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
608			Format:
609			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
610
611	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
612			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
613
614	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
615			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
616			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
617
618	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
619	conmode=
620
621	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
622
623		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
624
625		ttyS<n>[,options]
626		ttyUSB0[,options]
627			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
628			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
629			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
630			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
631			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
632
633			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
634			information.  See
635			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
636			alternative.
637
638		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
639		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
640		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
641		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
642		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
643			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
644			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
645			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
646			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
647			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
648			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
649			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
650			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
651			the h/w is not re-initialized.
652
653		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
654			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
655
656		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
657		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
658			console=brl,ttyS0
659		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
660
661	console_msg_format=
662			[KNL] Change console messages format
663		default
664			By default we print messages on consoles in
665			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
666			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
667			`printk_time' param).
668		syslog
669			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
670			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
671			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
672			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
673			from /proc/kmsg.
674
675	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
676			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
677			Defaults to 0.
678
679	coredump_filter=
680			[KNL] Change the default value for
681			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
682			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
683
684	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
685			[ARM,ARM64]
686			Format: <bool>
687			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
688			0: default value, disable debugging
689			1: enable debugging at boot time
690
691	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
692			disable the cpuidle sub-system
693
694	cpuidle.governor=
695			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
696
697	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
698			disable the cpufreq sub-system
699
700	cpu_init_udelay=N
701			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
702			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
703			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
704			Default: 10000
705
706	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
707			Format:
708			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
709
710	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
711			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
712			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
713			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
714			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
715			is selected automatically.
716			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
717			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
718			hasn't been specified.
719			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
720
721	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
722			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
723			in the running system. The syntax of range is
724			start-[end] where start and end are both
725			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
726			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
727
728	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
729			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
730			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
731			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
732			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
733			available.
734			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
735	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
736			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
737			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
738			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
739			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
740			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
741			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
742			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
743			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
744			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
745			for second kernel instead.
746			0: to disable low allocation.
747			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
748			or memory reserved is below 4G.
749
750	cryptomgr.notests
751			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
752
753	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
754			Format: <dma>
755
756	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
757			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
758
759	dasd=		[HW,NET]
760			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763			(one device per port)
764			Format: <port#>,<type>
765			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
766
767	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768			time. See
769			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
770			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
771
772	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
773
774	debug_boot_weak_hash
775			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
776			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
777			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
778			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
779			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
780			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
781
782	debug_locks_verbose=
783			[KNL] verbose self-tests
784			Format=<0|1>
785			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
786			self-tests.
787			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
788			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
789			only useful to kernel developers.
790
791	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
792
793	no_debug_objects
794			[KNL] Disable object debugging
795
796	debug_guardpage_minorder=
797			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
798			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
799			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
800			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
801			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
802			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
803			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
804			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
805			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
806			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
807			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
808			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
809			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
810			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
811			bypassed) which are not detectable by
812			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
813			tracking down these problems.
814
815	debug_pagealloc=
816			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
817			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
818			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
819			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
820			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
821			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
822			on: enable the feature
823
824	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
825
826	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
827			Format: <area>[,<node>]
828			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
829
830	default_hugepagesz=
831			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
832			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
833			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
834			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
835			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
836			if not specified.
837
838	deferred_probe_timeout=
839			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
840			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
841			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
842			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
843			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
844			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
845			retrying.
846
847	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
848			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
849			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
850			          level 1 and decompression (default)
851			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
852			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
853			          only (compression on level 1)
854			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
855			          only (decompression)
856			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
857			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
858
859	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
860			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
861
862	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
863			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
864			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
865			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
866			miss to occur.
867
868	disable=	[IPV6]
869			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
870
871	hardened_usercopy=
872                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
873                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
874                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
875                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
876                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
877                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
878                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
879                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
880                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
881
882	disable_radix	[PPC]
883			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
884
885	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
886			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
887			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
888
889	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
890			Format: <int>
891			The number of initial APIC ID for the
892			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
893			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
894			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
895			causing system reset or hang due to sending
896			INIT from AP to BSP.
897
898	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
899			Format: <bool>
900			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
901			The feature only exists starting from
902			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
903
904	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
905			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
906			to workaround buggy firmware.
907
908	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
909			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
910
911	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
912			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
913			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
914			entry later. This parameter disables that.
915
916	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
917			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
918			memory out of your available memory pool based on
919			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
920			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
921
922	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
923			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
924			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
925
926	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
927
928	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
929			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
930
931	dma_debug_entries=<number>
932			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
933			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
934			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
935			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
936			architectural default is too low.
937
938	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
939			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
940			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
941			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
942			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
943			driver later using sysfs.
944
945	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
946			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
947			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
948
949	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
954			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
960			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
962			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
964			data set with no connector name will be used for
965			any connectors not explicitly specified.
966
967	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
968
969	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
970			Format: {"off" | "known"}
971			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
972			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
973			exists).
974			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
975			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
976			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
977
978	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
979			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
980			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
981			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
982
983	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
984	module.dyndbg[="val"]
985			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
986			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
987			for details.
988
989	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
990			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
991			information about the feature.
992
993	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
994			in some Intel CPUs.
995
996	module.async_probe [KNL]
997			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
998
999	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1000			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1001			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1002			which are not unmapped.
1003
1004	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1005
1006			When used with no options, the early console is
1007			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1008			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1009			the platform.
1010
1011		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1012			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1013			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1014			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1015			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1016			configured.
1017
1018		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1019		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1020		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1021		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1022		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1023			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1024			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1025			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1026			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1027			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1028			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1029			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1030			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1031
1032		pl011,<addr>
1033		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1034			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1035			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1036			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1038			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1039			the device registers.
1040
1041		meson,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1043			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1044			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1045			supported.
1046
1047		msm_serial,<addr>
1048			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1049			port at the specified address. The serial port
1050			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1051			yet supported.
1052
1053		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1054			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1055			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1056			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1057			yet supported.
1058
1059		owl,<addr>
1060			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1061			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1062			specified address. The serial port must already be
1063			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1064
1065		rda,<addr>
1066			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1067			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1068			specified address. The serial port must already be
1069			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071		sbi
1072			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1073			console.
1074
1075		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1076
1077		s3c2410,<addr>
1078		s3c2412,<addr>
1079		s3c2440,<addr>
1080		s3c6400,<addr>
1081		s5pv210,<addr>
1082		exynos4210,<addr>
1083			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1084			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1085			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1086			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1087			Options are not yet supported.
1088
1089		lantiq,<addr>
1090			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1091			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1092			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1093			yet supported.
1094
1095		lpuart,<addr>
1096		lpuart32,<addr>
1097			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1098			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1099			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1100			port must already be setup and configured.
1101
1102		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1103			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1104			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1105			address. The serial port must already be setup
1106			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1107
1108		qcom_geni,<addr>
1109			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1110			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1111			specified address. The serial port must already be
1112			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1113
1114		efifb,[options]
1115			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1116			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1117			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1118			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1119			mapped with the correct attributes.
1120
1121		linflex,<addr>
1122			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1123			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1124			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1125			already be setup and configured.
1126
1127	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1128			earlyprintk=vga
1129			earlyprintk=sclp
1130			earlyprintk=xen
1131			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1132			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1133			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1134			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1135			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1136			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1137
1138			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1139			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1140			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1141
1142			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1143			takes over.
1144
1145			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1146			be used at a time.
1147
1148			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1149			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1150			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1151			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1152				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1153			You can find the port for a given device in
1154			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1155				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1156
1157			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1158			very good.
1159
1160			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1161			the real console.
1162
1163			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1164
1165			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1166
1167			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1168			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1169			UART class.
1170
1171	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1172			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1173			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1174			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1175			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1176			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1177			default: on.
1178
1179	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1180			ekgdboc=kbd
1181
1182			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1183			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1184
1185	edd=		[EDD]
1186			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1187
1188	efi=		[EFI]
1189			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1190				  "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1191				  "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1192			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1193			runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1194			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1195			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1196			firmware implementations.
1197			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1198			debug: enable misc debug output
1199			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1200			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1201			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1202			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1203			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1204			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1205			disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1206			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1207			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1208			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1209
1210	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1211			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1212			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1213			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1214			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1215
1216	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1217			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1218			updating original EFI memory map.
1219			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1220			from ss to ss+nn.
1221
1222			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1223			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1224			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1225			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1226
1227			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1228			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1229			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1230
1231			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1232			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1233			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1234			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1235			"soft reserved".
1236
1237	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1238			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1239			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1240			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1241			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1242
1243
1244	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1245			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1246
1247	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1248			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1249			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1250
1251	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1252			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1253			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1254			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1255			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1256
1257	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1258			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1259			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1260			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1261
1262	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1263			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1264			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1265			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1266			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1267
1268	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1269			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1270			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1271			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1272			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1273			Default value is 0.
1274			Value can be changed at runtime via
1275			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1276
1277	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1278			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1279			support.
1280
1281	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1282			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1283			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1284
1285	evm=		[EVM]
1286			Format: { "fix" }
1287			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1288			current integrity status.
1289
1290	failslab=
1291	fail_page_alloc=
1292	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1293			General fault injection mechanism.
1294			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1295			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1296
1297	floppy=		[HW]
1298			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1299
1300	force_pal_cache_flush
1301			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1302			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1303			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1304			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1305
1306	forcepae	[X86-32]
1307			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1308			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1309			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1310			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1311			and may cause unknown problems.
1312
1313	ftrace=[tracer]
1314			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1315			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1316			boot debugging.
1317
1318	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1319			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1320			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1321			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1322			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1323			oops.
1324
1325	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1326			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1327			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1328			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1329			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1330			tracing directory.
1331
1332	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1333			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1334			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1335			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1336			tracing directory.
1337
1338	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1339			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1340			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1341			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1342			that can be changed at run time by the
1343			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1344
1345	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1346			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1347			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1348			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1349			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1350
1351	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1352			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1353			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1354			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1355			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1356
1357	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1358			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1359			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1360			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1361			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1362
1363	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1364
1365	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1366			Format: off | on
1367			default: on
1368
1369	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1370			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1371			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1372			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1373			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1374
1375	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1376			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1377			android emulator
1378
1379	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1380			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1381			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1382			GPT to be used instead.
1383
1384	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1385			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1386			Format: 0 | 1
1387			Default: 0
1388	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1389			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1390			Format: 0 | 1
1391			Default: 0
1392	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1393			Format: 0 | 1
1394			Default: 0
1395	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1396			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1397			Default: 1024
1398	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1399			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1400			Default: 1024
1401
1402	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1403			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1404			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1405
1406	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1407			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1408			backtraces on all cpus.
1409			Format: <integer>
1410
1411	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1412			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1413			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1414			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1415
1416	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1417
1418	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1419			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1420
1421	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1422			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1423			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1424			logic will be disabled.
1425
1426	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1427			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1428			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1429			size on bigger boxes.
1430
1431	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1432			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1433			Default: "on"
1434
1435	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1436
1437	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1438			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1439				verbose }
1440			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1441			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1442				VIA, nVidia)
1443			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1444
1445	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1446			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1447
1448	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1449	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1450			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1451			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1452			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1453			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1454			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1455
1456	hung_task_panic=
1457			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1458			Format: <integer>
1459
1460			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1461			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1462			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1463			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1464			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1465
1466	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1467				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1468	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1469				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1470				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1471
1472	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1473				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1474				      guest on lock contention.
1475
1476	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1477			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1478			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1479			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1480			the real console.
1481
1482	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1483				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1484				registered from board initialization code.
1485				Format:
1486				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1487
1488	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1489	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1490			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1491			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1492			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1493	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1494	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1495			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1496			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1497	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1498	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1499	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1500			     for the AUX port
1501	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1502			     controller
1503	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1504			     controllers
1505	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1506	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1507			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1508			     transitions, or never reset
1509			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1510			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1511			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1512			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1513			architectures force reset to be always executed
1514	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1515	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1516
1517	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1518
1519	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1520			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1521			hardware.
1522	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1523			does not match list of supported models.
1524	i8k.power_status
1525			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1526			(disabled by default)
1527	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1528			capability is set.
1529
1530	i915.invert_brightness=
1531			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1532			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1533			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1534			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1535			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1536			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1537			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1538			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1539			value switches the backlight off.
1540			-1 -- never invert brightness
1541			 0 -- machine default
1542			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1543
1544	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1545			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1546
1547	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1548			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1549			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1550			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1551			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1552
1553	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1554			Format: <int>
1555			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1556			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1557			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1558			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1559			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1560			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1561			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1562			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1563			was 0x3.
1564
1565	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1566			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1567
1568	idle=		[X86]
1569			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1570			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1571			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1572			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1573			Not recommended.
1574			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1575			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1576			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1577
1578	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1579			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1580			Default: strict
1581
1582			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1583			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1584			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1585			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1586			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1587			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1588			encoding mode.
1589
1590			Available settings are as follows:
1591			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1592				supported by the FPU
1593			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1594				by the FPU
1595			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1596				by the FPU
1597			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1598				supported by the FPU
1599
1600			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1601			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1602			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1603			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1604			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1605			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1606			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1607			MIPS64 CPUs.
1608
1609			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1610			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1611			except where unsupported by hardware.
1612
1613	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1614			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1615			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1616			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1617			could change it dynamically, usually by
1618			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1619
1620	ignore_rlimit_data
1621			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1622			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1623			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1624
1625	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1626			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1627
1628	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1629			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1630			default: "enforce"
1631
1632	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1633			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1634			owned by uid=0.
1635
1636	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1637			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1638			measurements, instead of host native format.
1639
1640	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1641			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1642				   | sha512 | ... }
1643			default: "sha1"
1644
1645			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1646			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1647
1648	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1649			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1650			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1651				 fail_securely"
1652
1653			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1654			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1655			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1656			uid=0.
1657
1658			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1659			all files owned by root.
1660
1661			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1662			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1663			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1664
1665			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1666			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1667			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1668			flag.
1669
1670	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1671			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1672			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1673			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1674			opened for read by uid=0.
1675
1676	ima_template=	[IMA]
1677			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1678			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1679			Default: "ima-ng"
1680
1681	ima_template_fmt=
1682			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1683			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1684
1685	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1686			Format: <min_file_size>
1687			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1688			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1689
1690			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1691			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1692			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1693
1694	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1695			Format: <bufsize>
1696			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1697
1698			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1699			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1700			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1701
1702	init=		[KNL]
1703			Format: <full_path>
1704			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1705			process.
1706
1707	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1708			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1709			startup.
1710
1711	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1712			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1713			modules and initcalls.
1714
1715	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1716
1717	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1718			zeroes.
1719			Format: 0 | 1
1720			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1721
1722	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1723			Format: 0 | 1
1724			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1725
1726	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1727			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1728			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1729			override in debugfs after boot.
1730
1731	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1732			Format: <irq>
1733
1734	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1735
1736	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1737			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1738			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1739			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1740
1741	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1742		on
1743			Enable intel iommu driver.
1744		off
1745			Disable intel iommu driver.
1746		igfx_off [Default Off]
1747			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1748			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1749			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1750			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1751			DMA.
1752		forcedac [x86_64]
1753			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1754			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1755			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1756			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1757			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1758			then look in the higher range.
1759		strict [Default Off]
1760			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1761			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1762			to batching them for performance.
1763		sp_off [Default Off]
1764			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1765			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1766			not be supported.
1767		sm_on [Default Off]
1768			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1769			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1770			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1771			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1772		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1773			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1774			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1775			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1776			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1777			mapping is enabled.
1778			Note that using this option lowers the security
1779			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1780			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1781		nobounce [Default off]
1782			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1783			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1784			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1785			risks of DMA attacks.
1786
1787	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1788			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1789			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1790
1791	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1792			disable
1793			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1794			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1795			passive
1796			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1797			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1798			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1799			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1800			  feature.
1801			force
1802			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1803			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1804			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1805			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1806			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1807			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1808			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1809			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1810			no_hwp
1811			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1812			  if available.
1813			hwp_only
1814			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1815			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1816			support_acpi_ppc
1817			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1818			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1819			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1820			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1821			per_cpu_perf_limits
1822			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1823			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1824
1825	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1826			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1827			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1828			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1829			no_x2apic_optout
1830				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1831			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1832
1833	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1834		strict	regions from userspace.
1835		relaxed
1836
1837	iommu=		[x86]
1838		off
1839		force
1840		noforce
1841		biomerge
1842		panic
1843		nopanic
1844		merge
1845		nomerge
1846		soft
1847		pt		[x86]
1848		nopt		[x86]
1849		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1850			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1851
1852	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1853			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1854			0 - Lazy mode.
1855			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1856			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1857			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1858			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1859			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1860			1 - Strict mode (default).
1861			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1862			  synchronously.
1863
1864	iommu.passthrough=
1865			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1866			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1867			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1868			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1869			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1870
1871	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1872			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1873			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1874
1875	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1876		0x80
1877			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1878		0xed
1879			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1880		udelay
1881			Simple two microseconds delay
1882		none
1883			No delay
1884
1885	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1886			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1887
1888	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1889			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1890
1891	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1892			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1893
1894	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1895			[ARM, ARM64]
1896			Format: <bool>
1897			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1898			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1899			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1900
1901	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1902			[ARM, ARM64]
1903			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1904			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1905			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1906			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1907			LPIs.
1908
1909	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1910			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1911			requires the kernel to be built with
1912			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1913
1914	irqfixup	[HW]
1915			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1916			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1917			firmware running.
1918
1919	irqpoll		[HW]
1920			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1921			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1922			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1923			firmware running.
1924
1925	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1926			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1927
1928	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1929			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1930			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1931
1932			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1933			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1934
1935			nohz
1936			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1937
1938			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1939			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1940			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1941			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1942			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1943
1944			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1945			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1946			  be configured manually after bootup.
1947
1948			domain
1949			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1950			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1951			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1952			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1953			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1954			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1955			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1956			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1957
1958			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1959			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1960			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1961			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1962
1963			managed_irq
1964
1965			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1966			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1967			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1968			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1969			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1970
1971			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
1972			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1973			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1974			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1975			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1976			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1977			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1978
1979			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1980			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1981			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
1982			  only delivered when tasks running on those
1983			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
1984			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
1985			  queues.
1986
1987			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1988
1989	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1990
1991	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1992			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1993			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1994			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1995			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1996				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1997
1998	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1999			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2000			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2001			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2002			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2003				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2004
2005	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
2006			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2007			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2008			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2009			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2010				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2011
2012	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2013			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2014
2015	nokaslr		[KNL]
2016			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2017			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2018			Layout Randomization).
2019
2020	kasan_multi_shot
2021			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2022			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2023			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2024			invalid access.
2025
2026	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2027
2028	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2029			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2030			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2031			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2032			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2033			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2034			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2035			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2036			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2037			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2038
2039			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2040			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2041			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2042			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2043			zone if it does not.
2044
2045			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2046			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2047			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2048			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2049			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2050			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2051			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2052
2053	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2054			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2055			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2056			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2057			optional and is the number seconds in between
2058			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2059			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2060			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2061			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2062			the kernel debugger.
2063
2064	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2065			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2066			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2067			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2068			 keyboard only format: kbd
2069			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2070			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2071			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2072			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2073
2074	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2075			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2076
2077	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2078			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2079			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2080
2081	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2082			Valid arguments: on, off
2083			Default: on
2084			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2085			the default is off.
2086
2087	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2088			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2089			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2090			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2091			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2092			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2093			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2094
2095			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2096
2097			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2098			Boot Parameter" section.
2099
2100	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2101			and kernel address spaces.
2102			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2103			0: force disabled
2104			1: force enabled
2105
2106	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2107			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2108
2109	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2110				   Default is false (don't support).
2111
2112	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2113			KVM MMU at runtime.
2114			Default is 0 (off)
2115
2116	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2117			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2118			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2119			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2120			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2121			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2122				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2123
2124			Default is 'auto'.
2125
2126			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2127			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2128
2129	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2130			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2131			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2132			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2133			minute.  The default is 60.
2134
2135	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2136			Default is 1 (enabled)
2137
2138	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2139			for all guests.
2140			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2141
2142	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2143			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2144			system registers
2145
2146	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2147			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2148			system registers
2149
2150	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2151			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2152			system registers
2153
2154	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2155			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2156			LPIs.
2157
2158	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2159			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2160			Default is 1 (enabled)
2161
2162	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2163			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2164			Default is 0 (disabled)
2165
2166	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2167			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2168			Default is 1 (enabled)
2169
2170	kvm-intel.nested=
2171			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2172			Default is 0 (disabled)
2173
2174	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2175			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2176			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2177			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2178
2179	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2180			CVE-2018-3620.
2181
2182			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2183
2184			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2185			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2186				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2187			never:	Disables the mitigation
2188
2189			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2190
2191	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2192			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2193			Default is 1 (enabled)
2194
2195	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2196			      affected CPUs
2197
2198			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2199			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2200
2201			full
2202				Provides all available mitigations for the
2203				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2204				enables all mitigations in the
2205				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2206
2207				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2208				sysfs interface is still possible after
2209				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2210				when the first VM is started in a
2211				potentially insecure configuration,
2212				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2213
2214			full,force
2215				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2216				flush runtime control. Implies the
2217				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2218				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2219
2220			flush
2221				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2222				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2223				L1D flush.
2224
2225				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2226				sysfs interface is still possible after
2227				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2228				when the first VM is started in a
2229				potentially insecure configuration,
2230				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2231
2232			flush,nosmt
2233
2234				Disables SMT and enables the default
2235				hypervisor mitigation.
2236
2237				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2238				sysfs interface is still possible after
2239				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2240				when the first VM is started in a
2241				potentially insecure configuration,
2242				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2243
2244			flush,nowarn
2245				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2246				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2247				insecure configuration.
2248
2249			off
2250				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2251				emit any warnings.
2252				It also drops the swap size and available
2253				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2254				bare metal.
2255
2256			Default is 'flush'.
2257
2258			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2259
2260	l2cr=		[PPC]
2261
2262	l3cr=		[PPC]
2263
2264	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2265			disabled it.
2266
2267	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2268			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2269			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2270
2271	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2272			in C2 power state.
2273
2274	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2275			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2276			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2277			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2278			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2279			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2280			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2281
2282	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2283			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2284			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2285
2286	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2287			when set.
2288			Format: <int>
2289
2290	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2291			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2292			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2293			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2294			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2295			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2296			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2297			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2298
2299			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2300			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2301			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2302			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2303			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2304			host link and device attached to it.
2305
2306			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2307			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2308			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2309			The following configurations can be forced.
2310
2311			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2312			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2313
2314			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2315
2316			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2317			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2318			  allowed.
2319
2320			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2321
2322			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2323
2324			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2325			  and both resets.
2326
2327			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2328			  hot-unplug link recovery
2329
2330			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2331
2332			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2333
2334			* disable: Disable this device.
2335
2336			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2337			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2338
2339	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2340
2341	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2342			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2343
2344	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2345			Format: <integer>
2346
2347	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2348			Format: <integer>
2349
2350	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2351			Format: <integer>
2352
2353	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2354			Format: <integer>
2355
2356	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2357			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2358			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2359			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2360			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2361			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2362			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2363			are also disabled.
2364
2365	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2366			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2367			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2368			number of online CPUs.
2369
2370	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2371			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2372
2373	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2374			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2375
2376	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2377			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2378			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2379
2380	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2381			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2382			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2383			mode during the locktorture test.
2384
2385	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2386			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2387			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2388
2389	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2390			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2391
2392	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2393			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2394			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2395			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2396			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2397			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2398
2399	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2400			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2401
2402	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2403			Enable additional printk() statements.
2404
2405	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2406			Format: <irq>
2407
2408	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2409			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2410			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2411			loglevels are defined as follows:
2412
2413			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2414			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2415			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2416			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2417			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2418			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2419			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2420			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2421
2422	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2423			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2424			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2425			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2426			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2427			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2428			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2429
2430	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2431			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2432			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2433			kernel boot problems.
2434
2435	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2436	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2437	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2438	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2439				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2440				attached printers to be reset. Using
2441				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2442				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2443				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2444				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2445				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2446				port specification list means that device IDs
2447				from each port should be examined, to see if
2448				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2449				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2450				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2451
2452	lpj=n		[KNL]
2453			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2454			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2455			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2456			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2457			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2458			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2459			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2460			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2461			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2462			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2463			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2464			hardware.
2465
2466	ltpc=		[NET]
2467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2468
2469	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2470
2471	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2472			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2473			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2474
2475	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2476			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2477			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2478
2479	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2480			 yeeloong laptop.
2481			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2482
2483	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2484			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2485
2486	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2487			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2488			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2489			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2490			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2491			only takes effect during system bootup.
2492			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2493			which also disables the IO APIC.
2494
2495	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2496	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2497			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2498			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2499			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2500			/dev/loop-control interface.
2501
2502	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2503
2504	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2505
2506	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2507			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2508
2509	mdacon=		[MDA]
2510			Format: <first>,<last>
2511			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2512
2513	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2514			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2515			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2516
2517			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2518			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2519			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2520
2521			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2522			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2523			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2524			not have direct access.
2525
2526			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2527			options are:
2528
2529			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2530			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2531				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2532			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2533
2534			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2535			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2536			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2537			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2538			too.
2539
2540			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2541			mds=full.
2542
2543			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2544
2545	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2546			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2547			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2548			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2549			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2550			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2551			belonging to unused RAM.
2552
2553	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2554			memory.
2555
2556	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2557			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2558			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2559
2560	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2561			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2562			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2563			set according to the
2564			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2565			option.
2566			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2567
2568	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2569			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2570			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2571			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2572			option description.
2573
2574	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2575			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2576			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2577			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2578			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2579			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2580			comma delimited.
2581			Example:
2582				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2583
2584	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2585			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2586			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2587
2588	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2589			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2590			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2591			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2592			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2593			         or
2594			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2595			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2596			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2597			will be eaten.
2598
2599	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2600			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2601			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2602			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2603			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2604
2605	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2606			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2607			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2608			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2609			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2610			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2611			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2612			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2613
2614	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2615			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2616			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2617			Setting this option will scan the memory
2618			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2619			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2620			from using the memory being corrupted.
2621			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2622			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2623			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2624			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2625
2626	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2627			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2628			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2629			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2630			corruption in more or less memory.
2631
2632	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2633			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2634			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2635			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2636
2637	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2638			Format: <integer>
2639			default : 0 <disable>
2640			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2641			performed. Each pass selects another test
2642			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2643			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2644			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2645			regions that are detected.
2646
2647	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2648			Valid arguments: on, off
2649			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2650			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2651			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2652			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2653			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2654
2655			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2656			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2657
2658	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2659			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2660			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2661			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2662			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2663
2664	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2665			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2666
2667	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2668			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2669			platforms.
2670
2671	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2672			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2673			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2674			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2675
2676	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2677
2678	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2679			physical address is ignored.
2680
2681	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2682			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2683			Default: "0tb"
2684			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2685			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2686			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2687			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2688			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2689			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2690			unconfigured.
2691			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2692			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2693			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2694			VGA shield.
2695			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2696			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2697			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2698			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2699			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2700			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2701
2702	mitigations=
2703			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2704			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2705			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2706			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2707
2708			off
2709				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2710				improves system performance, but it may also
2711				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2712				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2713					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2714					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2715					       nobp=0 [S390]
2716					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2717					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2718					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2719					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2720					       l1tf=off [X86]
2721					       mds=off [X86]
2722					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2723					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2724
2725				Exceptions:
2726					       This does not have any effect on
2727					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2728					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2729
2730			auto (default)
2731				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2732				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2733				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2734				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2735				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2736				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2737
2738			auto,nosmt
2739				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2740				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2741				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2742				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2743					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2744					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2745
2746	mminit_loglevel=
2747			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2748			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2749			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2750			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2751			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2752			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2753
2754	module.sig_enforce
2755			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2756			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2757			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2758			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2759
2760	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2761			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2762
2763	mousedev.tap_time=
2764			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2765			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2766			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2767			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2768			Format: <msecs>
2769	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2770			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2771	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2772			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2773
2774	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2775			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2776			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2777			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2778			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2779			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2780			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2781			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2782			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2783			is not too small.
2784
2785	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2786			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2787			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2788			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2789			allocations. Use with caution!
2790
2791	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2792			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2793
2794	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2795			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2796
2797	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2798			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2799
2800	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2801			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2802			at a time.
2803
2804	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2805
2806			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2807
2808			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2809				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2810			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2811				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2812				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2813
2814	mtdset=		[ARM]
2815			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2816
2817			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2818
2819	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2820			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2821			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2822
2823	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2824			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2825			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2826
2827	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2828			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2829			Default is 1.
2830			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2831			using up MTRRs.
2832
2833	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2834			Format: <integer>
2835			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2836			Default : 1
2837			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2838			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2839
2840	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2841
2842	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2843			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2844			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2845			something different and driver-specific.
2846			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2847			file if at all.
2848
2849	nf_conntrack.acct=
2850			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2851			0 to disable accounting
2852			1 to enable accounting
2853			Default value is 0.
2854
2855	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2856			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2857
2858	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2859			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2860
2861	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2862			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2863
2864	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2865			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2866			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2867			requests.
2868
2869	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2870			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2871			channel should listen.
2872
2873	nfs.cache_getent=
2874			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2875			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2876
2877	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2878			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2879			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2880
2881	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2882			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2883			entries.
2884
2885	nfs.enable_ino64=
2886			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2887			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2888			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2889			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2890			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2891
2892	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2893			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2894			slots the client will assign to the callback
2895			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2896			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2897			a particular server.
2898
2899	nfs.max_session_slots=
2900			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2901			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2902			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2903			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2904			Note that there is little point in setting this
2905			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2906
2907	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2908			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2909			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2910			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2911			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2912			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2913			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2914			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2915			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2916			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2917			back to using the idmapper.
2918			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2919	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2920			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2921			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2922			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2923			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2924
2925	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2926			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2927			information in exchange_id requests.
2928			If zero, no implementation identification information
2929			will be sent.
2930			The default is to send the implementation identification
2931			information.
2932
2933	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2934			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2935			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2936			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2937			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2938			after the locks are lost.
2939			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2940			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2941			parameter to '1'.
2942			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2943			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2944
2945	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2946			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2947			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2948
2949			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2950			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2951			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2952			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2953
2954	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2955			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2956			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2957			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2958			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2959			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2960
2961	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2962			when a NMI is triggered.
2963			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2964
2965	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2966			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2967			Valid num: 0 or 1
2968			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2969			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2970			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2971			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2972			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2973			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2974			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2975			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2976			need the box quickly up again.
2977
2978			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2979			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2980
2981	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2982			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2983			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2984			waits 4 seconds.
2985
2986	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2987			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2988			is present.
2989
2990	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2991			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2992
2993	no_console_suspend
2994			[HW] Never suspend the console
2995			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2996			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2997			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2998			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2999			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3000			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3001			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3002			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3003			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3004			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3005			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3006			turn on/off it dynamically.
3007
3008	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3009			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3010			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3011			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3012			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3013			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3014			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3015			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3016			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3017			is set.
3018
3019	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3020			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3021			but will impact performance.
3022
3023	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3024
3025	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3026			(CPU alternatives feature).
3027
3028	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3029			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3030
3031	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3032
3033	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3034			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3035
3036	nocache		[ARM]
3037
3038	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3039
3040	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3041
3042	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3043
3044	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3045
3046	noexec		[IA-64]
3047
3048	noexec		[X86]
3049			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3050			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3051			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3052
3053	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3054			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3055			even if it is supported by processor.
3056
3057	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3058			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3059			even if it is supported by processor.
3060
3061	noexec32	[X86-64]
3062			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3063			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3064				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3065			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3066				read implies executable mappings
3067
3068	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3069
3070	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3071			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3072			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3073
3074	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3075
3076	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3077			Equivalent to smt=1.
3078
3079			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3080			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3081				     via the sysfs control file.
3082
3083	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3084			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3085			possible in the system.
3086
3087	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3088			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3089			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3090			option.
3091
3092	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3093			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3094
3095	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3096			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3097			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3098
3099	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3100			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3101			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3102			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3103			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3104			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3105
3106	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3107			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3108			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3109			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3110			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3111			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3112			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3113
3114	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3115			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3116			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3117
3118	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3119			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3120			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3121
3122	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3123			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3124			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3125			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3126			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3127			real-time systems.
3128
3129	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3130
3131	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3132			Valid arguments: on, off
3133			Default: on
3134
3135	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3136			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3137			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3138			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3139			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3140			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3141			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3142			just as if they had also been called out in the
3143			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3144
3145	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3146
3147	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3148			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3149
3150	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3151			broken timer IRQ sources.
3152
3153	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3154
3155	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3156			initial RAM disk.
3157
3158	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3159			remapping.
3160			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3161
3162	nointroute	[IA-64]
3163
3164	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3165
3166	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3167
3168	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3169
3170	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3171			fault handling.
3172
3173	no-vmw-sched-clock
3174			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3175			clock and use the default one.
3176
3177	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3178			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3179			influence scheduler behaviour
3180
3181	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3182
3183	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3184
3185	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3186			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3187
3188	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3189
3190	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3191
3192	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3193			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3194
3195	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3196			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3197			irq.
3198
3199	nomodule	Disable module load
3200
3201	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3202			pagetables) support.
3203
3204	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3205
3206	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3207			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3208
3209	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3210			with UP alternatives
3211
3212	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3213			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3214			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3215			available to user space applications.
3216
3217	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3218			space.
3219
3220	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3221			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3222			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3223
3224	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3225
3226	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3227
3228	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3229			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3230
3231	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3232
3233	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3234
3235	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3236			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3237
3238	nowb		[ARM]
3239
3240	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3241
3242	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3243			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3244			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3245			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3246			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3247			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3248			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3249			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3250			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3251			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3252			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3253			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3254			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3255
3256	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3257			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3258			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3259			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3260			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3261			parameter's value.
3262			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3263			Default: 255
3264
3265	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3266			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3267			SAL PALO.
3268
3269	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3270			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3271			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3272			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3273			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3274			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3275			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3276			hot plugging.
3277
3278	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3279
3280	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3281			Allowed values are enable and disable
3282
3283	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3284			'node', 'default' can be specified
3285			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3286			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3287
3288	of_devlink	[OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3289			supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3290			consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
3291			will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3292			probed successfully.
3293
3294	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3295			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3296			info.
3297
3298	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3299			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3300			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3301			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3302			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3303			interrupts *may* be lost!
3304
3305	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3306			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3307			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3308			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3309
3310	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3311			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3312
3313	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3314			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3315			userland or if you want common events.
3316			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3317			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3318				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3319				CPU specific event set.
3320			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3321				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3322				for generic hr timer mode)
3323
3324	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3325			process, but there is a small probability of
3326			deadlocking the machine.
3327			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3328			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3329
3330	page_alloc.shuffle=
3331			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3332			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3333			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3334			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3335			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3336			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3337			can be read from sysfs at:
3338			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3339
3340	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3341			Storage of the information about who allocated
3342			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3343			we can turn it on.
3344			on: enable the feature
3345
3346	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3347			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3348			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3349			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3350			on: turn on poisoning
3351
3352	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3353			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3354			timeout = 0: wait forever
3355			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3356			Format: <timeout>
3357
3358	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3359			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3360			bit 0: print all tasks info
3361			bit 1: print system memory info
3362			bit 2: print timer info
3363			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3364			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3365			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3366
3367	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3368			on a WARN().
3369
3370	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3371			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3372			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3373			succeeds in any situation.
3374			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3375			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3376			kernel more unstable.
3377
3378	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3379			connected to, default is 0.
3380			Format: <parport#>
3381	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3382			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3383			Format: <mode>
3384
3385	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3386			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3387			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3388			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3389			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3390			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3391			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3392			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3393			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3394			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3395			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3396			are specified on the command line, starting
3397			with parport0.
3398
3399	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3400			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3401			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3402			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3403			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3404			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3405			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3406
3407	pause_on_oops=
3408			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3409			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3410			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3411
3412	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3413
3414	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3415			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3416			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3417
3418	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3419
3420				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3421				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3422				specified in one of the following formats:
3423
3424				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3425				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3426
3427				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3428				bus/device/function address which may change
3429				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3430				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3431				by other kernel parameters. If the
3432				domain is left unspecified, it is
3433				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3434				to a device through multiple device/function
3435				addresses can be specified after the base
3436				address (this is more robust against
3437				renumbering issues).  The second format
3438				selects devices using IDs from the
3439				configuration space which may match multiple
3440				devices in the system.
3441
3442		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3443				changes anything
3444		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3445		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3446				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3447				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3448		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3449				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3450				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3451				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3452		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3453				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3454				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3455		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3456				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3457				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3458				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3459				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3460				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3461				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3462		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3463				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3464				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3465		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3466				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3467		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3468				Configuration
3469		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3470				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3471				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3472		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3473				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3474				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3475		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3476				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3477				should never be necessary.
3478		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3479				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3480				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3481				when the system masks IRQs.
3482		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3483				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3484				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3485				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3486		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3487				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3488				on several machines and they hang the machine
3489				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3490				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3491				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3492				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3493				motherboard.
3494		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3495				Use with caution as certain devices share
3496				address decoders between ROMs and other
3497				resources.
3498		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3499				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3500				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3501		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3502				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3503		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3504				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3505				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3506				this way.
3507		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3508				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3509				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3510				F0000h-100000h range.
3511		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3512				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3513				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3514				explicitly which ones they are.
3515		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3516				numbers ourselves, overriding
3517				whatever the firmware may have done.
3518		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3519				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3520				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3521				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3522				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3523				IRQ routing is enabled.
3524		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3525				or for PCI scanning.
3526		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3527				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3528				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3529				please report a bug.
3530		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3531				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3532		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3533				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3534				so this option is a temporary workaround
3535				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3536		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3537				handle more pci cards
3538		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3539				This might help on some broken boards which
3540				machine check when some devices' config space
3541				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3542				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3543		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3544				This sorting is done to get a device
3545				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3546		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3547		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3548				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3549		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3550				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3551		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3552				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3553				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3554				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3555				or bus can support) for best performance.
3556		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3557				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3558				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3559				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3560				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3561				that hot-added devices will work.
3562		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3563				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3564				The default value is 256 bytes.
3565		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3566				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3567				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3568		resource_alignment=
3569				Format:
3570				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3571				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3572				aligned memory resources. How to
3573				specify the device is described above.
3574				If <order of align> is not specified,
3575				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3576				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3577				windows need to be expanded.
3578				To specify the alignment for several
3579				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3580				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3581				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3582				for 4096-byte alignment.
3583		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3584				end-to-end CRC checking).
3585				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3586				the default.
3587				off: Turn ECRC off
3588				on: Turn ECRC on.
3589		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3590				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3591				Default size is 256 bytes.
3592		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3593				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3594				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3595		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3596				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3597				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3598		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3599				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3600				MMIO_PREF window.
3601				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3602		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3603				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3604				Default is 1.
3605		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3606				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3607				accommodate resources required by all child
3608				devices.
3609				off: Turn realloc off
3610				on: Turn realloc on
3611		realloc		same as realloc=on
3612		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3613		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3614				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3615		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3616				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3617				port.
3618		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3619				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3620				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3621				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3622				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3623				taints the kernel.
3624		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3625				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3626				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3627				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3628				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3629				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3630				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3631				this removes isolation between devices and
3632				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3633		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3634		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3635
3636	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3637			Management.
3638		off	Disable ASPM.
3639		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3640			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3641
3642	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3643		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3644			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3645			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3646			also tries to use these services.
3647		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3648				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3649		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3650			hotplug).
3651
3652	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3653		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3654		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3655
3656	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3657		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3658			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3659
3660	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3661
3662	pd_ignore_unused
3663			[PM]
3664			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3665			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3666			for debug and development, but should not be
3667			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3668
3669	pd.		[PARIDE]
3670			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3671
3672	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3673			boot time.
3674			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3675			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3676
3677	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3678			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3679			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3680			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3681			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3682			and performance comparison.
3683
3684	pf.		[PARIDE]
3685			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3686
3687	pg.		[PARIDE]
3688			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3689
3690	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3691			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3692
3693	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3694			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3695			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3696
3697	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3698			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3699			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3700
3701	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3702			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3703			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3704			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3705			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3706			possible settings and some assignment information.
3707
3708	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3709			{ off }
3710
3711	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3712			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3713
3714	pnp_reserve_irq=
3715			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3716
3717	pnp_reserve_dma=
3718			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3719
3720	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3721			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3722
3723	pnp_reserve_mem=
3724			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3725			autoconfiguration.
3726			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3727
3728	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3729			Default is 21.
3730			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3731			may be specified.
3732			Format: <port>,<port>....
3733
3734	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3735			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3736			platform machine description specific power_save
3737			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3738			execution priority.
3739
3740	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3741			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3742			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3743			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3744			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3745
3746	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3747			Format: {"off"}
3748			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3749
3750	print-fatal-signals=
3751			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3752
3753			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3754			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3755			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3756			coredump - etc.
3757
3758			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3759			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3760
3761			default: off.
3762
3763	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3764			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3765			panics
3766			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3767			default: disabled
3768
3769	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3770			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3771			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3772			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3773			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3774			Default: ratelimit
3775
3776	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3777			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3778
3779	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3780			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3781			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3782
3783	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3784			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3785			instead using the legacy FADT method
3786
3787	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3788			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3789			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3790				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3791			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3792			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3793				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3794			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3795			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3796				statistical time based profiling.
3797
3798	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3799			before loading.
3800			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3801
3802	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3803			tracking.
3804			Format: <bool>
3805
3806	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3807			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3808	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3809			per second.
3810	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3811			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3812			(0 = never).
3813	psmouse.resolution=
3814			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3815	psmouse.smartscroll=
3816			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3817			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3818
3819	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3820
3821	pt.		[PARIDE]
3822			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3823
3824	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3825			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3826			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3827			system calls and interrupts.
3828
3829			on   - unconditionally enable
3830			off  - unconditionally disable
3831			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3832			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3833
3834			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3835
3836	nopti		[X86_64]
3837			Equivalent to pti=off
3838
3839	pty.legacy_count=
3840			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3841			default number.
3842
3843	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3844
3845	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3846
3847	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3848			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3849
3850	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3851			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3852
3853	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3854			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3855			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3856			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3857			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3858
3859	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3860
3861		cec_disable	[X86]
3862				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3863				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3864
3865	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3866			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3867			except that the string "all" can be used to
3868			specify every CPU on the system.
3869
3870			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3871			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3872			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3873			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3874			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3875			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3876			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3877			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3878			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3879			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3880
3881	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3882			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3883			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3884			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3885			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3886			This improves the real-time response for the
3887			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3888			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3889			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3890			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3891
3892	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3893			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3894			process in one batch.
3895
3896	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3897			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3898			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3899			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3900
3901	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3902			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3903			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3904
3905	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3906			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3907			RCU grace-period initialization.
3908
3909	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3910			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3911			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3912			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3913			the rcu_node combining tree.
3914
3915	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3916			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3917			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3918			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3919			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3920
3921	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3922			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3923			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3924			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3925			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3926
3927	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3928			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3929			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3930			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3931			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3932			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3933			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3934
3935	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3936			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3937			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3938			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3939			and maximum value is HZ.
3940
3941	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3942			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3943			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3944			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3945
3946	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3947			Set required age in jiffies for a
3948			given grace period before RCU starts
3949			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3950			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3951			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3952			a value based on the most recent settings
3953			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3954			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3955			This calculated value may be viewed in
3956			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3957			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3958			overwritten.
3959
3960	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3961			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3962			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3963			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3964			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3965			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3966			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3967			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3968			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3969			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3970
3971	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3972			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3973			each group, which defaults to the square root
3974			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3975			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3976			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3977			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3978
3979	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3980			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3981			batch limiting is disabled.
3982
3983	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3984			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3985			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3986
3987	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3988			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3989			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3990
3991	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3992			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3993			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3994			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3995			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3996
3997	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3998			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3999			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4000			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4001			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4002			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4003
4004	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4005			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4006			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4007			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4008
4009	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4010			Measure performance of asynchronous
4011			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4012
4013	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4014			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4015			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4016			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4017			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4018			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4019
4020	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4021			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4022			grace-period primitives.
4023
4024	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4025			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4026			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4027			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4028			interference.
4029
4030	rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4031			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4032
4033	rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4034			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4035
4036	rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4037			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4038
4039	rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4040			Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4041			of allocations and frees.
4042
4043	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4044			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4045			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4046			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4047			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4048			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4049			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4050			a single reader.
4051
4052	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4053			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4054			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4055			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4056
4057	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4058			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4059
4060	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4061			Shut the system down after performance tests
4062			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4063			testing.
4064
4065	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4066			Enable additional printk() statements.
4067
4068	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4069			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4070			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4071			no holdoff.
4072
4073	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4074			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4075			in microseconds.
4076
4077	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4078			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4079			in microseconds.
4080
4081	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4082			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4083			in seconds.
4084
4085	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4086			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4087			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4088
4089	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4090			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4091			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4092
4093	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4094			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4095			forward-progress tests.
4096
4097	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4098			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4099			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4100			testing.
4101
4102	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4103			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4104			primitives, if available.
4105
4106	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4107			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4108
4109	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4110			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4111			update-side primitives, if available.
4112
4113	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4114			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4115			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4116			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4117			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4118			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4119			they are all non-zero.
4120
4121	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4122			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4123
4124	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4125			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4126			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4127			test, hence the "fake".
4128
4129	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4130			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4131			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4132			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4133			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4134			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4135
4136	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4137			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4138
4139	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4140			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4141
4142	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4143			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4144			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4145
4146	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4147			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4148			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4149			during the rcutorture test.
4150
4151	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4152			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4153			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4154
4155	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4156			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4157			warnings, zero to disable.
4158
4159	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4160			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4161
4162	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4163			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4164
4165	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4166			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4167
4168	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4169			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4170			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4171			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4172			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4173
4174	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4175			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4176			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4177			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4178
4179	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4180			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4181
4182	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4183			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4184
4185	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4186			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4187			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4188
4189	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4190			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4191
4192	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4193			Enable additional printk() statements.
4194
4195	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4196			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4197			stall warning.
4198
4199	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4200			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4201
4202	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4203			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4204
4205	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4206			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4207			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4208			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4209			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4210			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4211			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4212
4213	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4214			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4215			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4216			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4217			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4218			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4219			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4220			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4221			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4222
4223	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4224			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4225			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4226			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4227			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4228
4229	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4230			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4231			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4232			to zero.
4233
4234	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4235			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4236
4237	rdinit=		[KNL]
4238			Format: <full_path>
4239			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4240			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4241
4242	rdrand=		[X86]
4243			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4244				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4245				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4246				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4247				path).
4248
4249	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4250			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4251			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4252			mba.
4253			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4254				rdt=cmt,!mba
4255
4256	reboot=		[KNL]
4257			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4258				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4259				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4260				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4261				[[,]f[orce]
4262			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4263					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4264					reboot only),
4265			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4266			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4267			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4268					to be used for rebooting.
4269
4270	relax_domain_level=
4271			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4272			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4273
4274	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4275			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4276			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4277			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4278			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4279
4280	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4281			Format: nn[KMG]
4282			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4283			address space.
4284
4285	reservelow=	[X86]
4286			Format: nn[K]
4287			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4288			the bottom of the address space.
4289
4290	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4291			during initialization.
4292
4293	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4294			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4295			Format:
4296			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4297
4298	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4299			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4300			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4301			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4302			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4303
4304	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4305			read the resume files
4306
4307	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4308			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4309			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4310
4311	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4312		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4313				present during boot.
4314		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4315		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4316		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4317				(that will set all pages holding image data
4318				during restoration read-only).
4319
4320	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4321
4322	rfkill.default_state=
4323		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4324			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4325		1	Unblocked.
4326
4327	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4328		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4329		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4330			blocked and the previous configuration.
4331		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4332			blocked and everything unblocked.
4333
4334	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4335			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4336
4337	ring3mwait=disable
4338			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4339			CPUs.
4340
4341	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4342
4343	rodata=		[KNL]
4344		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4345		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4346
4347	rockchip.usb_uart
4348			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4349			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4350			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4351			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4352
4353	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4354			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4355
4356	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4357			mount the root filesystem
4358
4359	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4360
4361	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4362
4363	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4364			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4365			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4366
4367	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4368			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4369			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4370			managed by CMA.
4371
4372	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4373
4374	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4375
4376	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4377			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4378		strict
4379			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4380			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4381			which is faster.
4382
4383	sa1100ir	[NET]
4384			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4385
4386	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4387
4388	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4389
4390	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4391			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4392			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4393			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4394
4395	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4396			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4397			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4398			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4399			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4400			1 -- enable.
4401			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4402			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4403
4404	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4405			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4406			"lsm=" parameter.
4407
4408	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4410			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4411			0 -- disable.
4412			1 -- enable.
4413			Default value is 1.
4414
4415	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4416			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4417			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4418			0 -- disable.
4419			1 -- enable.
4420			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4421
4422	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4423
4424	shapers=	[NET]
4425			Maximal number of shapers.
4426
4427	simeth=		[IA-64]
4428	simscsi=
4429
4430	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4431
4432	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4433			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4434			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4435			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4436			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4437			layout control by attackers can usually be
4438			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4439			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4440			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4441			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4442			own.
4443			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4444
4445	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4446			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4447			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4448			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4449			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4450
4451	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4452			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4453			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4454			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4455			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4456			last alloc / free. For more information see
4457			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4458
4459	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4460			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4461			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4462			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4463			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4464			directories and files being created under
4465			/sys/kernel/slub.
4466
4467	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4468			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4469			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4470			fragmentation. For more information see
4471			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4472
4473	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4474			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4475			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4476			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4477			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4478			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4479			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4480			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4481
4482	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4483			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4484			lower than slub_max_order.
4485			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4486
4487	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4488			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4489			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4490
4491	smart2=		[HW]
4492			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4493
4494	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4495	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4496	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4497	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4498	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4499	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4500	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4501				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4502				1: Fast pin select (default)
4503				2: ATC IRMode
4504
4505	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4506			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4507			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4508			actual hardware limit.
4509			Format: <integer>
4510			Default: -1 (no limit)
4511
4512	softlockup_panic=
4513			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4514			Format: <integer>
4515
4516			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4517			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4518			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4519			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4520			functionality.
4521
4522	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4523			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4524			backtraces on all cpus.
4525			Format: <integer>
4526
4527	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4528			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4529
4530	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4531			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4532			The default operation protects the kernel from
4533			user space attacks.
4534
4535			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4536			       spectre_v2_user=on
4537			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4538			       spectre_v2_user=off
4539			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4540			       vulnerable
4541
4542			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4543			mitigation method at run time according to the
4544			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4545			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4546			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4547
4548			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4549			against user space to user space task attacks.
4550
4551			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4552			the user space protections.
4553
4554			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4555
4556			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4557			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4558			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4559
4560			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4561			spectre_v2=auto.
4562
4563	spectre_v2_user=
4564			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4565		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4566		        user space tasks
4567
4568			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4569				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4570
4571			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4572				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4573
4574			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4575				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4576				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4577				  is inherited on fork.
4578
4579			prctl,ibpb
4580				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4581				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4582				  always when switching between different user
4583				  space processes.
4584
4585			seccomp
4586				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4587				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4588				  they explicitly opt out.
4589
4590			seccomp,ibpb
4591				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4592				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4593				  always when switching between different
4594				  user space processes.
4595
4596			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4597				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4598
4599			Default mitigation:
4600			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4601
4602			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4603			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4604
4605	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4606			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4607			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4608
4609			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4610			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4611			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4612			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4613			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4614			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4615			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4616			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4617
4618			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4619			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4620			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4621			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4622
4623			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4624			Bypass optimization is used.
4625
4626			On x86 the options are:
4627
4628			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4629			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4630			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4631				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4632				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4633				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4634				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4635				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4636			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4637				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4638				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4639				  is inherited on fork.
4640			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4641				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4642
4643			Default mitigations:
4644			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4645
4646			On powerpc the options are:
4647
4648			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4649				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4650				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4651				  exit.
4652			off	- No action.
4653
4654			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4655			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4656
4657	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4658	spia_fio_base=
4659	spia_pedr=
4660	spia_peddr=
4661
4662	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4663			Specifies how frequently to check for
4664			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4665			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4666			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4667			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4668			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4669			are ignored.
4670
4671	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4672			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4673			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4674			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4675			grace period will be considered for automatic
4676			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4677			expediting.
4678
4679	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4680			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4681
4682			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4683			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4684			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4685			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4686
4687			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4688				   for both kernel and userspace
4689			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4690				   for both kernel and userspace
4691			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4692				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4693				   to allow userspace to register its
4694				   interest in being mitigated too.
4695
4696	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4697			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4698			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4699			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4700			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4701			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4702
4703	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4704			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4705
4706	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4707			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4708			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4709			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4710			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4711			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4712			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4713
4714	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4715			Format: <num>
4716			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4717			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4718			as the initial boot-console.
4719			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4720
4721	sti_font=	[HW]
4722			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4723
4724	stifb=		[HW]
4725			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4726
4727	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4728	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4729			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4730			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4731			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4732			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4733			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4734			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4735			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4736			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4737			maximum port values.
4738
4739	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4740			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4741			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4742			process in parallel from a single connection.
4743			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4744
4745	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4746			[NFS]
4747			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4748			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4749			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4750			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4751			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4752			NFS server is running.
4753
4754			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4755				    automatically using heuristics
4756			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4757			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4758			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4759				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4760
4761	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4762	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4763			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4764			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4765			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4766			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4767			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4768			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4769
4770	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4771			[SUSPEND]
4772			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4773			mode before resuming the system (see
4774			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4775			is set. Default value is 5.
4776
4777	svm=		[PPC]
4778			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4779			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4780			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4781
4782	swapaccount=[0|1]
4783			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4784			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4785			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4786
4787	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4788			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4789			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4790			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4791			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4792			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4793
4794	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4795
4796	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4797			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4798			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4799			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4800			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4801			in older udev will not work anymore.
4802			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4803			the kernel configuration.
4804
4805	sysrq_always_enabled
4806			[KNL]
4807			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4808			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4809			Useful for debugging.
4810
4811	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4812			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4813			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4814			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4815			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4816			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4817
4818	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4819
4820	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4821			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4822			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4823			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4824			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4825			The system is woken from this state using a
4826			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4827
4828	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4829			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4830
4831	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4832			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4833			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4834
4835	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4836			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4837			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4838
4839	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4840			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4841			critical and hot trip points.
4842
4843	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4844			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4845
4846	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4847			-1: disable all passive trip points
4848			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4849			value
4850
4851	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4852			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4853			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4854			0: no polling (default)
4855
4856	threadirqs	[KNL]
4857			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4858			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4859
4860	topology=	[S390]
4861			Format: {off | on}
4862			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4863			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4864			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4865			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4866			Default is on.
4867
4868	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4869			Format: {off}
4870			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4871			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4872			LPAR.
4873
4874	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4875
4876	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4877			Format: integer pcr id
4878			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4879			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4880			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4881			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4882			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4883			are saved.
4884
4885	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4886			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4887
4888	trace_event=[event-list]
4889			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4890			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4891			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4892			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4893
4894	trace_options=[option-list]
4895			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4896			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4897			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4898			to echo the option name into
4899
4900			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4901
4902			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4903			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4904
4905			      trace_options=stacktrace
4906
4907			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4908			section.
4909
4910	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4911			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4912			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4913			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4914			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4915			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4916
4917			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4918			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4919			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4920			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4921
4922			** CAUTION **
4923
4924			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4925			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4926			the system to live lock.
4927
4928	traceoff_on_warning
4929			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4930			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4931			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4932			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4933
4934			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4935			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4936			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4937
4938			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4939			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4940
4941	transparent_hugepage=
4942			[KNL]
4943			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4944			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4945			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4946			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4947			for more details.
4948
4949	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4950			Format: <string>
4951			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4952			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4953			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4954			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4955			virtualized environment.
4956			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4957			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4958			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4959			can add overhead.
4960			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4961			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4962			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4963			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4964			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4965			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4966			acceptable).
4967
4968	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4969			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4970			support TSX control.
4971
4972			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4973
4974			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4975				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4976				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4977				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4978				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4979				with leaving it enabled.
4980
4981			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4982				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4983				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4984				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4985				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4986				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4987				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4988
4989			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4990				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4991
4992			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4993
4994			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
4995			for more details.
4996
4997	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
4998			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
4999
5000			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5001			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5002			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5003			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5004			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5005			conditions.
5006
5007			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5008			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5009			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5010			access.
5011
5012			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5013			options are:
5014
5015			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5016				     if TSX is enabled.
5017
5018			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5019				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5020				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5021				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5022			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5023
5024			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5025			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5026			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5027			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5028
5029			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5030			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5031			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5032			required and doesn't provide any additional
5033			mitigation.
5034
5035			For details see:
5036			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5037
5038	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5039			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5040			Format:
5041			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5042			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5043
5044	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5045			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5046			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5047			help "seeing" what's going on.
5048
5049	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5050			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5051
5052	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5053			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5054			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5055			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5056			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5057			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5058			reported either.
5059
5060	unknown_nmi_panic
5061			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5062
5063	usbcore.authorized_default=
5064			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5065			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5066			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5067			if device connected to internal port)
5068
5069	usbcore.autosuspend=
5070			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5071			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5072			is the time required before an idle device will be
5073			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5074			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5075
5076	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5077			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5078
5079	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5080			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5081			(default = 65536).
5082
5083	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5084			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5085
5086	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5087			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5088			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
5089			 (default 0 = off).
5090
5091	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5092			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5093			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5094
5095	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5096			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5097			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5098
5099	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5100			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5101			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5102			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5103
5104	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5105
5106	usbcore.quirks=
5107			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5108			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5109			commas. Each entry has the form
5110			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5111			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5112			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5113			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5114			the following meanings:
5115				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5116					descriptors must not be fetched using
5117					a 255-byte read);
5118				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5119					correctly so reset it instead);
5120				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5121					Set-Interface requests);
5122				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5123					handle its Configuration or Interface
5124					strings);
5125				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5126					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5127				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5128					more interface descriptions than the
5129					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5130					talking to these interfaces);
5131				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5132					during initialization, after we read
5133					the device descriptor);
5134				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5135					high speed and super speed interrupt
5136					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5137					require the interval in microframes (1
5138					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5139					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5140					(bInterval-1).
5141					Devices with this quirk report their
5142					bInterval as the result of this
5143					calculation instead of the exponent
5144					variable used in the calculation);
5145				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5146					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5147					requests);
5148				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5149					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5150					remote wakeup capability);
5151				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5152					Power Management);
5153				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5154					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5155					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5156					calculation);
5157				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5158					to be disconnected before suspend to
5159					prevent spurious wakeup);
5160				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5161					pause after every control message);
5162				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5163					delay after resetting its port);
5164			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5165
5166	usbhid.mousepoll=
5167			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5168
5169	usbhid.jspoll=
5170			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5171
5172	usbhid.kbpoll=
5173			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5174
5175	usb-storage.delay_use=
5176			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5177			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5178
5179	usb-storage.quirks=
5180			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5181			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5182			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5183			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5184			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5185			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5186			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5187				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5188					of sense data, not on uas);
5189				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5190					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5191				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5192					device capacity by one sector);
5193				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5194					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5195				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5196					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5197				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5198					command, uas only);
5199				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5200					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5201				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5202					reported device capacity by one
5203					sector if the number is odd);
5204				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5205					device);
5206				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5207					command, uas only);
5208				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5209					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5210				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5211					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5212					not on uas);
5213				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5214					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5215				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5216					reported by the device, not on uas);
5217				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5218					by default, not on uas);
5219				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5220					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5221				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5222					Logical Unit);
5223				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5224					commands, uas only);
5225				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5226				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5227					medium is write-protected).
5228				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5229					even if the device claims no cache,
5230					not on uas)
5231			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5232
5233	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5234			Format: <int>
5235			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5236				 1 - undefined instruction events
5237				 2 - system calls
5238				 4 - invalid data aborts
5239				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5240				16 - SIGBUS faults
5241			Example: user_debug=31
5242
5243	userpte=
5244			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5245
5246				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5247					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5248					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5249
5250	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5251			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5252
5253			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5254			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5255
5256	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5257			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5258			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5259
5260			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5261			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5262			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5263
5264			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5265			alias for vdso32=0.
5266
5267			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5268			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5269
5270	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5271			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5272
5273	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5274			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5275
5276	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5277			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5278			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5279			level and then send out the event to user space through
5280			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5281			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5282			brightness level.
5283			default: 1
5284
5285	virtio_mmio.device=
5286			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5287
5288				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5289			where:
5290				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5291						like K, M and G)
5292				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5293				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5294						request_irq())
5295				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5296			example:
5297				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5298
5299			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5300
5301	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5302			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5303			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5304			Use vga=ask for menu.
5305			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5306			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5307
5308	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5309			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5310			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5311			All options are enabled by default, and this
5312			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5313			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5314			debugging features.
5315
5316			Available options are:
5317			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5318			  -	Disable all of the above options
5319
5320	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5321			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5322			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5323			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5324			mapped kernel RAM.
5325
5326	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5327			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5328			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5329
5330	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5331			Format: <command>
5332
5333	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5334			Format: <command>
5335
5336	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5337			Format: <command>
5338
5339	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5340			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5341			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5342			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5343			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5344			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5345			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5346
5347			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5348			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5349				    page is readable.
5350
5351			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5352			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5353				    page is not readable.
5354
5355			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5356			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5357			            might break your system.
5358
5359	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5360			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5361			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5362
5363	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5364			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5365			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5366			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5367
5368	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5369			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5370			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5371			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5372			ranging from 0-255.
5373
5374	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5375			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5376			Change the default green palette of the console.
5377			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5378			ranging from 0-255.
5379
5380	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5381			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5382			Change the default red palette of the console.
5383			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5384			ranging from 0-255.
5385
5386	vt.default_utf8=
5387			[VT]
5388			Format=<0|1>
5389			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5390			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5391			newly opened terminals.
5392
5393	vt.global_cursor_default=
5394			[VT]
5395			Format=<-1|0|1>
5396			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5397			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5398			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5399			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5400			cursors, 1 will display them.
5401
5402	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5403			Default: 2 = green.
5404
5405	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5406			Default: 3 = cyan.
5407
5408	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5409			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5410			or other driver-specific files in the
5411			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5412
5413	watchdog_thresh=
5414			[KNL]
5415			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5416			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5417			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5418			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5419			seconds.
5420
5421	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5422			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5423			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5424			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5425			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5426			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5427			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5428			corresponding sysfs file.
5429
5430	workqueue.disable_numa
5431			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5432			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5433			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5434			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5435			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5436			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5437			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5438
5439	workqueue.power_efficient
5440			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5441			they show better performance thanks to cache
5442			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5443			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5444
5445			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5446			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5447			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5448			power usage at the cost of small performance
5449			overhead.
5450
5451			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5452			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5453
5454	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5455			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5456			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5457			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5458			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5459			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5460			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5461			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5462			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5463			impacted.
5464
5465	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5466			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5467			supporting x2apic.
5468
5469	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5470			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5471			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5472			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5473			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5474
5475	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5476			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5477			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5478			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5479			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5480			domains.
5481
5482	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5483			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5484			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5485			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5486			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5487			nics -- unplug network devices
5488			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5489			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5490				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5491				the unplug protocol
5492			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5493
5494	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5495			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5496			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5497
5498	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5499			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5500			optimizations.
5501
5502	xen_nopv	[X86]
5503			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5504			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5505			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5506			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5507
5508	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5509			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5510			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5511			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5512			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5513
5514	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5515			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5516			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5517			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5518			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5519			more timer interrupts.
5520
5521	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5522			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5523			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5524			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5525
5526	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5527			Format:
5528			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5529
5530	xive=		[PPC]
5531			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5532			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5533			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5534
5535			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5536				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5537				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5538
5539	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5540			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5541			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5542			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5543
5544	xmon		[PPC]
5545			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5546			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5547			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5548			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5549				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5550			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5551				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5552				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5553				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5554			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5555				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5556				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5557				can be written using xmon commands.
5558			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5559				memory, and other data can't be written using
5560				xmon commands.
5561			off	xmon is disabled.
5562