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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
64			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
65			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
66			object while interpreting AML:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
68			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
69			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
70
71			Some values produce so much output that the system is
72			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
73			if you need to capture more output.
74
75	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
76			{ strict | lax | no }
77			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
78			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
79			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
80			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
81			can interfere with legacy drivers.
82			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
83			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
84			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
85			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
86			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
87			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
88			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
89			no further checks are performed.
90
91	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
92			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
93			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
94			size limitation.
95
96	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
97			ACPI will balance active IRQs
98			default in APIC mode
99
100	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
101			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
102			default in PIC mode
103
104	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
105			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
106
107	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
108			use by PCI
109			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
110
111	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
112			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
113			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
114			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
115			the GPE dispatcher.
116			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
117			GPE floodings.
118			Format: <byte>
119
120	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
121			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
122			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
123			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
124			auto-serialization feature.
125			This feature is enabled by default.
126			This option allows to turn off the feature.
127
128	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
129			   kernels.
130
131	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
132			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
133			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
134			installed automatically and they will appear under
135			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
136			This option turns off this feature.
137			Note that specifying this option does not affect
138			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
139			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
140
141	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
142			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
143			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
144
145	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
146			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
147			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
148			second kernel for kdump.
149
150	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
151			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
152
153	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
154			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
155			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
156			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
157			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
158
159	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
160			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
161			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
162			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
163			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
166						  strings
167			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
168
169			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
170			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
171			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
172			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
173			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
174			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
175			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
176			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
177			care about the state of the feature group strings which
178			should be controlled by the OSPM.
179			Examples:
180			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
181			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
182			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
183
184			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
185			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
186			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
187			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
188			multiple times through kernel command line is also
189			meaningless.
190			Examples:
191			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
192			     FALSE.
193
194			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
195			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
196			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
197			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
198			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
199			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
200			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
201			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
202			is useful when one want to control the state of the
203			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
204			the OSPM features.
205			Examples:
206			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
208			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
209			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
210			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
211			     equivalent to
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
213			     and
214			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
215			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
216
217	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
218			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
219			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
220			and always returns good values.
221
222	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
223			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
224
225	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
226			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
227			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
228
229	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
230			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
231				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
232			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
233			s3_bios and s3_mode.
234			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
235			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
236			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
237			used during resume from hibernation.
238			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
239			control method, with respect to putting devices into
240			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
241			of _PTS is used by default).
242			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
243			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
244			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
245			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
246			but some broken systems don't work without it).
247			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
248			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
249			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
250
251	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
252			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
253			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
254
255	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
256			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
257
258	agp=		[AGP]
259			{ off | try_unsupported }
260			off: disable AGP support
261			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
262				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
263
264	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
265			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
266
267	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
268			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
269			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
270			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
271
272	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
273			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
274			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
275			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
276			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
277			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
278			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
279
280			32: only for 32-bit processes
281			64: only for 64-bit processes
282			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
283			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
284
285	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
286			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
287			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
288			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
289			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
290			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
291
292	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
293			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
294			Possible values are:
295			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
296				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
297				    flushed before they will be reused, which
298				    is a lot of faster
299			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
300				    the system
301			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
302					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
303					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
304					  requirements as needed. This option
305					  does not override iommu=pt
306
307	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
309			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
310			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
311			IOMMU initialization.
312
313	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
314			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
315			remapping modes:
316			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
317			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
318			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
319			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
320			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
321
322	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
323			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
324			Format: <a>,<b>
325			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
326
327	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
328			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
329			connected to one of 16 gameports
330			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
331
332	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
333			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
334			Format: noidle
335			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
336			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
337			APC and your system crashes randomly.
338
339	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340			Change the output verbosity while booting
341			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
342			Change the amount of debugging information output
343			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
344			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
345			driver name.
346			Format: apic=driver_name
347			Examples: apic=bigsmp
348
349	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
350			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
351			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
352			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
353			      backup of CPU 0
354			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
355			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
356			      shot down by NMI
357
358	autoconf=	[IPV6]
359			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
360
361	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
362			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
363			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
364			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
365			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
366			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
367			apic=verbose is specified.
368			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
369
370	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
371			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
372
373	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
374			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
375
376	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
377			Identification support
378
379	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
380			support
381
382	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
383
384	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
385
386	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
387			EzKey and similar keyboards
388
389	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
390
391	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
392			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
393
394	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
395			keyboards
396
397	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
398			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
399
400	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
401			Use software keyboard repeat
402
403	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
404			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
405			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
406			    enabled until the next reboot
407			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
408			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
409			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
410			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
411			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
412			    userspace auditd.
413			Default: unset
414
415	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
416			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
417			Default: 64
418
419	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
420			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
421			Format: { "0" | "1" }
422			0 - Disable the BAU.
423			1 - Enable the BAU.
424			unset - Disable the BAU.
425
426	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
427			Format: <io>,<mode>
428
429	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
430			Format: <io>,<mode>
431			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
432
433	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
434			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
435			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
436			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
437
438	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
439			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
440			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
441			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
442
443	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
444			embedded devices based on command line input.
445			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
446
447	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
448			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
449			no delay (0).
450			Format: integer
451
452	bootconfig	[KNL]
453			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
454			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
455
456			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
457
458	bert_disable	[ACPI]
459			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
460
461	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
462			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
463
464	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
465	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
466			kernel args too.
467	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
468	bttv.tuner=
469
470	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
471			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
472			at a time.
473
474	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
475
476	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
477			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
478			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
479			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
480			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
481			This option provides an override for these situations.
482
483	carrier_timeout=
484			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
485			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
486			it waits 120 seconds.
487
488	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
489			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
490			trust validation.
491			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
492
493	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
494			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
495			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
496			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
497			others).
498
499	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
500			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
501
502	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
503			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
504			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
505			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
506			  a single hierarchy
507			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
508			  subsystem
509			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
510			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
511			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
512
513	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
514			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
515			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
516			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
517			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
518			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
519			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
520			all v1 hierarchies.
521
522	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
523			Format: <string>
524			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
525			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
526
527	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
528			Format: { "0" | "1" }
529			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
530			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
531				any implied execute protection).
532			1 -- check protection requested by application.
533			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
534			Value can be changed at runtime via
535				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
536			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
537
538	cio_ignore=	[S390]
539			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
540	clk_ignore_unused
541			[CLK]
542			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
543			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
544			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
545			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
546			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
547			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
548			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
549			platform with proper driver support.  For more
550			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
551
552	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
553			[Deprecated]
554			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
555			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
556			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
557			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
558
559	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
560			Format: <string>
561			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
562			with the name specified.
563			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
564			the platform:
565			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
566			[ACPI] acpi_pm
567			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
568				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
569			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
570				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
571			[MIPS] MIPS
572			[PARISC] cr16
573			[S390] tod
574			[SH] SuperH
575			[SPARC64] tick
576			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
577
578	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
579			[ARM,ARM64]
580			Format: <bool>
581			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
582			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
583			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
584			systems.
585
586	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
587			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
588			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
589			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
590			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
591			ones should be.
592			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
593			or using the feature without checking anything
594			will still see it. This just prevents it from
595			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
596			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
597			some critical bits.
598
599	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
600			[KNL,CMA]
601			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
602			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
603			placement constraint by the physical address range of
604			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
605			altogether. For more information, see
606			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
607
608	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
609			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
610			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
611			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
612			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
613			specificed, the default value is 0.
614			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
615			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
616			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
617			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
618
619	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
620			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
621			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
622			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
623			a hypervisor.
624			Default: yes
625
626	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
627			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
628			allocations, by default set to 256K.
629
630	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
631			Format:
632			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
633
634	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
635			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
636
637	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
638			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
639			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
640
641	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
642	conmode=
643
644	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
645
646		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
647
648		ttyS<n>[,options]
649		ttyUSB0[,options]
650			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
651			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
652			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
653			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
654			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
655
656			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
657			information.  See
658			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
659			alternative.
660
661		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
662		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
663		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
664		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
665		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
666			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
667			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
668			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
669			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
670			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
671			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
672			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
673			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
674			the h/w is not re-initialized.
675
676		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
677			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
678
679		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
680		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
681			console=brl,ttyS0
682		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
683
684	console_msg_format=
685			[KNL] Change console messages format
686		default
687			By default we print messages on consoles in
688			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
689			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
690			`printk_time' param).
691		syslog
692			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
693			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
694			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
695			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
696			from /proc/kmsg.
697
698	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
699			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
700			Defaults to 0.
701
702	coredump_filter=
703			[KNL] Change the default value for
704			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
705			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
706
707	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
708			[ARM,ARM64]
709			Format: <bool>
710			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
711			0: default value, disable debugging
712			1: enable debugging at boot time
713
714	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
715			disable the cpuidle sub-system
716
717	cpuidle.governor=
718			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
719
720	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
721			disable the cpufreq sub-system
722
723	cpufreq.default_governor=
724			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
725			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
726			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
727
728	cpu_init_udelay=N
729			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
730			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
731			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
732			Default: 10000
733
734	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
735			Format:
736			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
737
738	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
739			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
740			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
741			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
742			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
743			is selected automatically.
744			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
745			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
746			hasn't been specified.
747			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
748
749	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
750			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
751			in the running system. The syntax of range is
752			start-[end] where start and end are both
753			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
754			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
755
756	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
757			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
758			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
759			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
760			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
761			available.
762			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
763	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
764			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
765			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
766			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
767			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
768			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
769			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
770			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
771			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
772			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
773			for second kernel instead.
774			0: to disable low allocation.
775			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
776			or memory reserved is below 4G.
777
778	cryptomgr.notests
779			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
780
781	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
782			Format: <dma>
783
784	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
785			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
786
787	dasd=		[HW,NET]
788			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
789
790	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
791			(one device per port)
792			Format: <port#>,<type>
793			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
794
795	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
796			time. See
797			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
798			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
799
800	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
801
802	debug_boot_weak_hash
803			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
804			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
805			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
806			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
807			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
808			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
809
810	debug_locks_verbose=
811			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
812			Format: <int>
813			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
814			self-tests.
815			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
816			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
817			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
818			useful to lockdep developers.
819
820	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
821
822	no_debug_objects
823			[KNL] Disable object debugging
824
825	debug_guardpage_minorder=
826			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
827			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
828			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
829			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
830			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
831			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
832			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
833			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
834			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
835			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
836			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
837			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
838			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
839			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
840			bypassed) which are not detectable by
841			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
842			tracking down these problems.
843
844	debug_pagealloc=
845			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
846			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
847			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
848			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
849			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
850			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
851			on: enable the feature
852
853	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
854			and debugfs internal clients.
855			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
856			on: 	All functions are enabled.
857			no-mount:
858				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
859			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
860				its content. There is nothing to mount.
861			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
862			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
863				or directories within debugfs.
864				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
865				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
866			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
867
868	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
869
870	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
871			Format: <area>[,<node>]
872			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
873
874	default_hugepagesz=
875			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
876			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
877			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
878			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
879			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
880			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
881			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
882			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
883			Format: size[KMG]
884
885	deferred_probe_timeout=
886			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
887			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
888			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
889			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
890			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
891			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
892			retrying.
893
894	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
895			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
896			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
897			          level 1 and decompression (default)
898			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
899			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
900			          only (compression on level 1)
901			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
902			          only (decompression)
903			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
904			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
905
906	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
907			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
908
909	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
910			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
911			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
912			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
913			miss to occur.
914
915	stress_slb	[PPC]
916			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
917			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
918			on kernel addresses.
919
920	disable=	[IPV6]
921			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
922
923	hardened_usercopy=
924                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
925                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
926                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
927                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
928                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
929                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
930                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
931                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
932                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
933
934	disable_radix	[PPC]
935			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
936
937	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
938			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
939			invalidate.
940
941	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
942			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
943			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
944
945	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
946			Format: <int>
947			The number of initial APIC ID for the
948			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
949			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
950			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
951			causing system reset or hang due to sending
952			INIT from AP to BSP.
953
954	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
955			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
956			to workaround buggy firmware.
957
958	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
959			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
960
961	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
962			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
963			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
964			entry later. This parameter disables that.
965
966	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
967			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
968			memory out of your available memory pool based on
969			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
970			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
971
972	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
973			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
974			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
975
976	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
977
978	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
979			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
980
981	dma_debug_entries=<number>
982			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
983			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
984			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
985			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
986			architectural default is too low.
987
988	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
989			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
990			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
991			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
992			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
993			driver later using sysfs.
994
995	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
996			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
997			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
998
999	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1000			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1001			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1002			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1003			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1004			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1005			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1006			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1007			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1008			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1009			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1010			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1011			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1012			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1013			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1014			data set with no connector name will be used for
1015			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1016
1017	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1018
1019	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1020			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1021			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1022			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1023			exists).
1024			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1025			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1026			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1027
1028	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1029			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1030			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1031			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1032
1033	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1034	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1035			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1036			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1037			for details.
1038
1039	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1040			in some Intel CPUs.
1041
1042	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1043			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1044
1045	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1046			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1047			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1048			which are not unmapped.
1049
1050	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1051
1052			When used with no options, the early console is
1053			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1054			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1055			the platform.
1056
1057		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1058			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1059			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1060			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1061			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1062			configured.
1063
1064		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1065		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1066		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1067		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1068		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1069			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1070			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1071			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1072			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1073			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1074			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1075			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1076			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1077
1078		pl011,<addr>
1079		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1080			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1081			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1082			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1083			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1084			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1085			the device registers.
1086
1087		meson,<addr>
1088			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1089			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1090			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1091			supported.
1092
1093		msm_serial,<addr>
1094			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1095			port at the specified address. The serial port
1096			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1097			yet supported.
1098
1099		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1100			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1101			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1102			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1103			yet supported.
1104
1105		owl,<addr>
1106			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1107			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1108			specified address. The serial port must already be
1109			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1110
1111		rda,<addr>
1112			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1113			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1114			specified address. The serial port must already be
1115			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1116
1117		sbi
1118			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1119			console.
1120
1121		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1122
1123		s3c2410,<addr>
1124		s3c2412,<addr>
1125		s3c2440,<addr>
1126		s3c6400,<addr>
1127		s5pv210,<addr>
1128		exynos4210,<addr>
1129			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1130			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1131			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1132			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1133			Options are not yet supported.
1134
1135		lantiq,<addr>
1136			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1137			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1138			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1139			yet supported.
1140
1141		lpuart,<addr>
1142		lpuart32,<addr>
1143			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1144			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1145			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1146			port must already be setup and configured.
1147
1148		ec_imx21,<addr>
1149		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1150			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1151			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1152			must already be setup and configured.
1153
1154		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1155			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1156			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1157			address. The serial port must already be setup
1158			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1159
1160		qcom_geni,<addr>
1161			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1162			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1163			specified address. The serial port must already be
1164			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1165
1166		efifb,[options]
1167			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1168			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1169			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1170			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1171			mapped with the correct attributes.
1172
1173		linflex,<addr>
1174			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1175			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1176			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1177			already be setup and configured.
1178
1179	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1180			earlyprintk=vga
1181			earlyprintk=sclp
1182			earlyprintk=xen
1183			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1184			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1185			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1186			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1187			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1188			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1189
1190			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1191			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1192			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1193
1194			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1195			takes over.
1196
1197			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1198			be used at a time.
1199
1200			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1201			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1202			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1203			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1204				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1205			You can find the port for a given device in
1206			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1207				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1208
1209			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1210			very good.
1211
1212			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1213			the real console.
1214
1215			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1216
1217			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1218
1219			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1220			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1221			UART class.
1222
1223	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1224			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1225			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1226			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1227			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1228			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1229			default: on.
1230
1231	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1232			ekgdboc=kbd
1233
1234			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1235			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1236
1237			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1238			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1239			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1240			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1241
1242	edd=		[EDD]
1243			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1244
1245	efi=		[EFI]
1246			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1247				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1248				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1249			debug: enable misc debug output.
1250			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1251			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1252			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1253			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1254			firmware implementations.
1255			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1256			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1257			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1258			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1259			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1260			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1261			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1262			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1263			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1264			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1265
1266	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1267			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1268			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1269			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1270			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1271
1272	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1273			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1274			updating original EFI memory map.
1275			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1276			from ss to ss+nn.
1277
1278			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1279			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1280			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1281			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1282
1283			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1284			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1285			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1286
1287			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1288			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1289			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1290			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1291			"soft reserved".
1292
1293	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1294			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1295			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1296			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1297			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1298
1299
1300	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1301			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1302
1303	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1304			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1305			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1306
1307	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1308			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1309			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1310			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1311			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1312
1313	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1314			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1315			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1316			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1317
1318	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1319			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1320			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1321			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1322			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1323
1324	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1325			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1326			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1327			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1328			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1329			Default value is 0.
1330			Value can be changed at runtime via
1331			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1332
1333	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1334			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1335			support.
1336
1337	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1338			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1339			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1340
1341	evm=		[EVM]
1342			Format: { "fix" }
1343			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1344			current integrity status.
1345
1346	failslab=
1347	fail_usercopy=
1348	fail_page_alloc=
1349	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1350			General fault injection mechanism.
1351			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1352			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1353
1354	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1355			Format: { initns | none }
1356			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1357			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1358
1359	floppy=		[HW]
1360			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1361
1362	force_pal_cache_flush
1363			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1364			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1365			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1366			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1367
1368	forcepae	[X86-32]
1369			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1370			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1371			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1372			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1373			and may cause unknown problems.
1374
1375	ftrace=[tracer]
1376			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1377			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1378			boot debugging.
1379
1380	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1381			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1382			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1383			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1384			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1385			oops.
1386
1387	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1388			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1389			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1390			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1391			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1392			tracing directory.
1393
1394	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1395			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1396			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1397			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1398			tracing directory.
1399
1400	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1401			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1402			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1403			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1404			that can be changed at run time by the
1405			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1406
1407	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1408			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1409			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1410			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1411			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1412
1413	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1414			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1415			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1416			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1417			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1418
1419	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1420			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1421			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1422			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1423			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1424			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1425			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1426			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1427			suppliers).
1428			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1429			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1430			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1431				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1432				up (sync_state() calls).
1433			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1434				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1435			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1436
1437	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1438			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1439			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1440			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1441			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1442
1443	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1444
1445	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1446			Format: off | on
1447			default: on
1448
1449	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1450			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1451			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1452			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1453			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1454
1455	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1456			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1457			android emulator
1458
1459	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1460			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1461			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1462			GPT to be used instead.
1463
1464	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1465			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1466			Format: 0 | 1
1467			Default: 0
1468	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1469			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1470			Format: 0 | 1
1471			Default: 0
1472	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1473			Format: 0 | 1
1474			Default: 0
1475	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1476			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1477			Default: 1024
1478	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1479			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1480			Default: 1024
1481
1482	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1483			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1484			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1485
1486	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1487			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1488			backtraces on all cpus.
1489			Format: 0 | 1
1490
1491	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1492			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1493			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1494			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1495
1496	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1497
1498	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1499			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1500
1501	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1502			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1503			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1504			logic will be disabled.
1505
1506	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1507			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1508			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1509			size on bigger boxes.
1510
1511	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1512			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1513			Default: "on"
1514
1515	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1516
1517	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1518			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1519				verbose }
1520			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1521			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1522				VIA, nVidia)
1523			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1524
1525	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1526			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1527
1528	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1529			of gigantic hugepages.
1530			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1531
1532			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1533			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1534			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1535
1536	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1537			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1538			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1539			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1540			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1541			the default huge page size.  See also
1542			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1543			Format: <integer>
1544
1545	hugepagesz=
1546			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1547			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1548			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1549			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1550			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1551			architecture dependent.  See also
1552			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1553			Format: size[KMG]
1554
1555	hung_task_panic=
1556			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1557			Format: 0 | 1
1558
1559			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1560			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1561			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1562			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1563			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1564
1565	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1566				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1567	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1568				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1569				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1570
1571	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1572				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1573				      guest on lock contention.
1574
1575	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1576			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1577			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1578			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1579			the real console.
1580
1581	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1582				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1583				registered from board initialization code.
1584				Format:
1585				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1586
1587	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1588	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1589			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1590			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1591			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1592	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1593	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1594			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1595			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1596	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1597	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1598	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1599			     for the AUX port
1600	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1601			     controller
1602	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1603			     controllers
1604	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1605	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1606			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1607			     transitions, or never reset
1608			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1609			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1610			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1611			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1612			architectures force reset to be always executed
1613	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1614	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1615
1616	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1617
1618	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1619			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1620			hardware.
1621	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1622			does not match list of supported models.
1623	i8k.power_status
1624			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1625			(disabled by default)
1626	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1627			capability is set.
1628
1629	i915.invert_brightness=
1630			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1631			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1632			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1633			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1634			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1635			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1636			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1637			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1638			value switches the backlight off.
1639			-1 -- never invert brightness
1640			 0 -- machine default
1641			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1642
1643	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1644			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1645
1646	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1647			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1648			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1649			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1650			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1651
1652	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1653			Format: <int>
1654			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1655			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1656			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1657			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1658			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1659			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1660			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1661			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1662			was 0x3.
1663
1664	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1665			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1666
1667	idle=		[X86]
1668			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1669			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1670			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1671			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1672			Not recommended.
1673			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1674			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1675			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1676
1677	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1678			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1679			Default: strict
1680
1681			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1682			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1683			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1684			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1685			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1686			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1687			encoding mode.
1688
1689			Available settings are as follows:
1690			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1691				supported by the FPU
1692			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1693				by the FPU
1694			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1695				by the FPU
1696			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1697				supported by the FPU
1698
1699			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1700			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1701			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1702			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1703			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1704			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1705			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1706			MIPS64 CPUs.
1707
1708			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1709			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1710			except where unsupported by hardware.
1711
1712	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1713			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1714			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1715			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1716			could change it dynamically, usually by
1717			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1718
1719	ignore_rlimit_data
1720			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1721			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1722			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1723
1724	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1725			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1726
1727	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1728			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1729			default: "enforce"
1730
1731	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1732			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1733			owned by uid=0.
1734
1735	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1736			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1737			measurements, instead of host native format.
1738
1739	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1740			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1741				   | sha512 | ... }
1742			default: "sha1"
1743
1744			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1745			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1746
1747	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1748			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1749			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1750				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1751
1752			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1753			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1754			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1755			uid=0.
1756
1757			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1758			all files owned by root.
1759
1760			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1761			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1762			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1763
1764			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1765			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1766			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1767			flag.
1768
1769			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1770			critical data.
1771
1772	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1773			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1774			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1775			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1776			opened for read by uid=0.
1777
1778	ima_template=	[IMA]
1779			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1780			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1781			Default: "ima-ng"
1782
1783	ima_template_fmt=
1784			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1785			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1786
1787	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1788			Format: <min_file_size>
1789			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1790			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1791
1792			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1793			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1794			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1795
1796	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1797			Format: <bufsize>
1798			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1799
1800			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1801			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1802			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1803
1804	init=		[KNL]
1805			Format: <full_path>
1806			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1807			process.
1808
1809	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1810			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1811			startup.
1812
1813	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1814			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1815			modules and initcalls.
1816
1817	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1818
1819	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1820			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1821			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1822			setting.
1823			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1824			Default is 0, 0
1825
1826	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1827			zeroes.
1828			Format: 0 | 1
1829			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1830
1831	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1832			Format: 0 | 1
1833			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1834
1835	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1836			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1837			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1838			override in debugfs after boot.
1839
1840	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1841			Format: <irq>
1842
1843	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1844
1845	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1846			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1847			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1848			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1849
1850	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1851		on
1852			Enable intel iommu driver.
1853		off
1854			Disable intel iommu driver.
1855		igfx_off [Default Off]
1856			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1857			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1858			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1859			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1860			DMA.
1861		forcedac [X86-64]
1862			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1863			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1864			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1865			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1866			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1867			then look in the higher range.
1868		strict [Default Off]
1869			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1870			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1871			to batching them for performance.
1872		sp_off [Default Off]
1873			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1874			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1875			not be supported.
1876		sm_on [Default Off]
1877			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1878			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1879			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1880			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1881		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1882			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1883			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1884			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1885			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1886			mapping is enabled.
1887			Note that using this option lowers the security
1888			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1889			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1890
1891	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1892			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1893			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1894
1895	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1896			disable
1897			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1898			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1899			passive
1900			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1901			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1902			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1903			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1904			  feature.
1905			force
1906			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1907			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1908			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1909			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1910			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1911			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1912			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1913			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1914			no_hwp
1915			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1916			  if available.
1917			hwp_only
1918			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1919			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1920			support_acpi_ppc
1921			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1922			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1923			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1924			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1925			per_cpu_perf_limits
1926			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1927			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1928
1929	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1930			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1931			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1932			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1933			no_x2apic_optout
1934				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1935			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1936
1937	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1938		strict	regions from userspace.
1939		relaxed
1940
1941	iommu=		[X86]
1942		off
1943		force
1944		noforce
1945		biomerge
1946		panic
1947		nopanic
1948		merge
1949		nomerge
1950		soft
1951		pt		[X86]
1952		nopt		[X86]
1953		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1954			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1955
1956	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1957			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1958			0 - Lazy mode.
1959			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1960			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1961			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1962			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1963			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1964			1 - Strict mode (default).
1965			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1966			  synchronously.
1967
1968	iommu.passthrough=
1969			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1970			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1971			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1972			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1973			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1974
1975	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
1976			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1977			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1978
1979	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1980		0x80
1981			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1982		0xed
1983			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1984		udelay
1985			Simple two microseconds delay
1986		none
1987			No delay
1988
1989	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1990			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1991
1992	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1993			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1994
1995	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1996			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1997
1998	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1999			[ARM, ARM64]
2000			Format: <bool>
2001			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2002			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2003			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2004
2005	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2006			[ARM, ARM64]
2007			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2008			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2009			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2010			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2011			LPIs.
2012
2013	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2014			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2015			requires the kernel to be built with
2016			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2017
2018	irqfixup	[HW]
2019			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2020			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2021			firmware running.
2022
2023	irqpoll		[HW]
2024			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2025			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2026			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2027			firmware running.
2028
2029	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2030			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2031
2032	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2033			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2034			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2035
2036			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2037			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2038
2039			nohz
2040			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2041
2042			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2043			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2044			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2045			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2046			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2047
2048			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2049			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2050			  be configured manually after bootup.
2051
2052			domain
2053			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2054			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2055			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2056			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2057			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2058			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2059			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2060			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2061
2062			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2063			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2064			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2065			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2066
2067			managed_irq
2068
2069			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2070			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2071			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2072			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2073			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2074
2075			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2076			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2077			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2078			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2079			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2080			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2081			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2082
2083			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2084			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2085			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2086			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2087			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2088			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2089			  queues.
2090
2091			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2092
2093	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2094
2095	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2096			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2097			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2098			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2099			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2100				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2101
2102	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2103			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2104			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2105			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2106			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2107				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2108
2109	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2110			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2111			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2112			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2113			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2114				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2115
2116	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2117			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2118
2119	nokaslr		[KNL]
2120			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2121			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2122			Layout Randomization).
2123
2124	kasan_multi_shot
2125			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2126			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2127			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2128			invalid access.
2129
2130	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2131
2132	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2133			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2134			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2135			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2136			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2137			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2138			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2139			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2140			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2141			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2142
2143			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2144			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2145			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2146			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2147			zone if it does not.
2148
2149			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2150			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2151			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2152			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2153			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2154			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2155			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2156
2157	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2158			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2159			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2160			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2161			optional and is the number seconds in between
2162			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2163			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2164			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2165			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2166			the kernel debugger.
2167
2168	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2169			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2170			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2171			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2172			 keyboard only format: kbd
2173			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2174			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2175			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2176			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2177
2178	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2179			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2180			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2181			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2182			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2183			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2184			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2185
2186			The name of the early console should be specified
2187			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2188			the early console might be different than the tty
2189			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2190			blank and the first boot console that implements
2191			read() will be picked.
2192
2193	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2194			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2195
2196	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2197			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2198			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2199
2200	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2201			Valid arguments: on, off
2202			Default: on
2203			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2204			the default is off.
2205
2206	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2207			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2208			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2209			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2210			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2211			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2212			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2213
2214			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2215
2216			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2217			Boot Parameter" section.
2218
2219	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2220			and kernel address spaces.
2221			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2222			0: force disabled
2223			1: force enabled
2224
2225	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2226			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2227
2228	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2229				   Default is false (don't support).
2230
2231	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2232			KVM MMU at runtime.
2233			Default is 0 (off)
2234
2235	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2236			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2237			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2238			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2239			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2240			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2241				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2242
2243			Default is 'auto'.
2244
2245			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2246			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2247
2248	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2249			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2250			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2251			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2252			minute.  The default is 60.
2253
2254	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2255			Default is 1 (enabled)
2256
2257	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2258			for all guests.
2259			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2260
2261	kvm-arm.mode=
2262			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2263
2264			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2265			      protected guests.
2266
2267			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2268				   state is kept private from the host.
2269				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2270
2271			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and
2272			the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE.
2273
2274	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2275			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2276			system registers
2277
2278	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2279			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2280			system registers
2281
2282	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2283			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2284			system registers
2285
2286	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2287			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2288			LPIs.
2289
2290	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2291			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2292			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2293			allocation.
2294			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2295			Format: <integer>
2296			Default: 5
2297
2298	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2299			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2300			Default is 1 (enabled)
2301
2302	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2303			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2304			Default is 0 (disabled)
2305
2306	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2307			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2308			Default is 1 (enabled)
2309
2310	kvm-intel.nested=
2311			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2312			Default is 0 (disabled)
2313
2314	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2315			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2316			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2317			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2318
2319	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2320			CVE-2018-3620.
2321
2322			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2323
2324			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2325			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2326				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2327			never:	Disables the mitigation
2328
2329			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2330
2331	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2332			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2333			Default is 1 (enabled)
2334
2335	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2336			      affected CPUs
2337
2338			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2339			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2340
2341			full
2342				Provides all available mitigations for the
2343				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2344				enables all mitigations in the
2345				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2346
2347				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2348				sysfs interface is still possible after
2349				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2350				when the first VM is started in a
2351				potentially insecure configuration,
2352				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2353
2354			full,force
2355				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2356				flush runtime control. Implies the
2357				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2358				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2359
2360			flush
2361				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2362				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2363				L1D flush.
2364
2365				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2366				sysfs interface is still possible after
2367				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2368				when the first VM is started in a
2369				potentially insecure configuration,
2370				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2371
2372			flush,nosmt
2373
2374				Disables SMT and enables the default
2375				hypervisor mitigation.
2376
2377				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2378				sysfs interface is still possible after
2379				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2380				when the first VM is started in a
2381				potentially insecure configuration,
2382				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2383
2384			flush,nowarn
2385				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2386				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2387				insecure configuration.
2388
2389			off
2390				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2391				emit any warnings.
2392				It also drops the swap size and available
2393				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2394				bare metal.
2395
2396			Default is 'flush'.
2397
2398			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2399
2400	l2cr=		[PPC]
2401
2402	l3cr=		[PPC]
2403
2404	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2405			disabled it.
2406
2407	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2408			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2409			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2410			Format: notscdeadline
2411
2412	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2413			in C2 power state.
2414
2415	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2416			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2417			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2418			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2419			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2420			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2421			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2422
2423	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2424			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2425			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2426
2427	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2428			when set.
2429			Format: <int>
2430
2431	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2432			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2433			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2434			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2435			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2436			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2437			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2438			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2439
2440			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2441			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2442			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2443			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2444			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2445			host link and device attached to it.
2446
2447			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2448			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2449			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2450			The following configurations can be forced.
2451
2452			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2453			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2454
2455			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2456
2457			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2458			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2459			  allowed.
2460
2461			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2462
2463			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2464
2465			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2466			  and both resets.
2467
2468			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2469			  hot-unplug link recovery
2470
2471			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2472
2473			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2474
2475			* disable: Disable this device.
2476
2477			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2478			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2479
2480	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2481
2482	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2483
2484	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2485			Format: <integer>
2486
2487	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2488			Format: <integer>
2489
2490	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2491			Format: <integer>
2492
2493	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2494			Format: <integer>
2495
2496	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2497			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2498			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2499			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2500			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2501			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2502			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2503			are also disabled.
2504
2505	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2506			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2507			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2508			number of online CPUs.
2509
2510	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2511			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2512
2513	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2514			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2515
2516	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2517			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2518			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2519
2520	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2521			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2522			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2523			mode during the locktorture test.
2524
2525	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2526			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2527			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2528
2529	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2530			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2531
2532	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2533			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2534			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2535			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2536			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2537			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2538
2539	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2540			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2541
2542	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2543			Enable additional printk() statements.
2544
2545	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2546			Format: <irq>
2547
2548	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2549			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2550			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2551			loglevels are defined as follows:
2552
2553			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2554			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2555			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2556			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2557			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2558			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2559			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2560			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2561
2562	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2563			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2564			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2565			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2566			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2567			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2568			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2569
2570	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2571			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2572			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2573			kernel boot problems.
2574
2575	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2576	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2577	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2578	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2579				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2580				attached printers to be reset. Using
2581				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2582				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2583				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2584				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2585				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2586				port specification list means that device IDs
2587				from each port should be examined, to see if
2588				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2589				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2590				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2591
2592	lpj=n		[KNL]
2593			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2594			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2595			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2596			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2597			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2598			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2599			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2600			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2601			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2602			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2603			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2604			hardware.
2605
2606	ltpc=		[NET]
2607			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2608
2609	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2610
2611	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2612			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2613			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2614
2615	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2616			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2617			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2618
2619	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2620			different yeeloong laptops.
2621			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2622
2623	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2624			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2625
2626	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2627			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2628			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2629			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2630			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2631			only takes effect during system bootup.
2632			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2633			which also disables the IO APIC.
2634
2635	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2636	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2637			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2638			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2639			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2640			/dev/loop-control interface.
2641
2642	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2643
2644	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2645
2646	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2647			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2648
2649	mdacon=		[MDA]
2650			Format: <first>,<last>
2651			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2652
2653	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2654			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2655			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2656
2657			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2658			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2659			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2660
2661			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2662			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2663			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2664			not have direct access.
2665
2666			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2667			options are:
2668
2669			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2670			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2671				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2672			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2673
2674			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2675			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2676			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2677			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2678			too.
2679
2680			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2681			mds=full.
2682
2683			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2684
2685	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2686			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2687
2688			1 for test;
2689			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2690			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2691			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2692
2693			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2694			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2695			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2696			belonging to unused RAM.
2697
2698			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2699			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2700			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2701
2702	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2703			memory.
2704
2705	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2706			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2707			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2708
2709	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2710			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2711			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2712			set according to the
2713			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2714			option.
2715			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2716
2717	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2718			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2719			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2720			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2721			option description.
2722
2723	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2724			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2725			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2726			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2727			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2728			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2729			comma delimited.
2730			Example:
2731				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2732
2733	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2734			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2735			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2736
2737	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2738			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2739			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2740			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2741			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2742			         or
2743			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2744			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2745			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2746			will be eaten.
2747
2748	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2749			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2750			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2751			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2752			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2753
2754	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2755			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2756			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2757			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2758			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2759			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2760			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2761			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2762
2763	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2764			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2765			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2766			Setting this option will scan the memory
2767			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2768			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2769			from using the memory being corrupted.
2770			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2771			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2772			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2773			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2774
2775	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2776			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2777			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2778			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2779			corruption in more or less memory.
2780
2781	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2782			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2783			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2784			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2785
2786	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2787			Format: <integer>
2788			default : 0 <disable>
2789			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2790			performed. Each pass selects another test
2791			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2792			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2793			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2794			regions that are detected.
2795
2796	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2797			Valid arguments: on, off
2798			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2799			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2800			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2801			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2802			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2803
2804			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2805			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2806
2807	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2808			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2809			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2810			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2811			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2812
2813	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2814			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2815
2816	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2817			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2818			platforms.
2819
2820	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2821			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2822			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2823			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2824
2825	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2826
2827	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2828			physical address is ignored.
2829
2830	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2831			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2832			Default: "0tb"
2833			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2834			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2835			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2836			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2837			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2838			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2839			unconfigured.
2840			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2841			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2842			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2843			VGA shield.
2844			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2845			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2846			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2847			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2848			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2849			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2850
2851	mitigations=
2852			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2853			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2854			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2855			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2856
2857			off
2858				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2859				improves system performance, but it may also
2860				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2861				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2862					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2863					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2864					       nobp=0 [S390]
2865					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2866					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2867					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2868					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2869					       l1tf=off [X86]
2870					       mds=off [X86]
2871					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2872					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2873					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
2874					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2875
2876				Exceptions:
2877					       This does not have any effect on
2878					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2879					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2880
2881			auto (default)
2882				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2883				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2884				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2885				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2886				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2887				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2888
2889			auto,nosmt
2890				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2891				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2892				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2893				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2894					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2895					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2896
2897	mminit_loglevel=
2898			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2899			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2900			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2901			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2902			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2903			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2904
2905	module.sig_enforce
2906			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2907			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2908			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2909			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2910
2911	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2912			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2913
2914	mousedev.tap_time=
2915			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2916			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2917			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2918			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2919			Format: <msecs>
2920	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2921			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2922	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2923			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2924
2925	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2926			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2927			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2928			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2929			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2930			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2931			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2932			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2933			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2934			is not too small.
2935
2936	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2937			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2938			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2939			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2940			allocations. Use with caution!
2941
2942	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2943			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2944
2945	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2946			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2947
2948	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2949			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2950
2951	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2952			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2953			at a time.
2954
2955	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2956
2957			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2958
2959			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2960				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2961			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2962				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2963				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2964
2965	mtdset=		[ARM]
2966			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2967
2968			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
2969
2970	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2971			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2972			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2973
2974	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2975			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2976			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2977
2978	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2979			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2980			Default is 1.
2981			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2982			using up MTRRs.
2983
2984	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2985			Format: <integer>
2986			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2987			Default : 1
2988			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2989			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2990
2991	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2992
2993	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2994			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2995			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2996			something different and driver-specific.
2997			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2998			file if at all.
2999
3000	nf_conntrack.acct=
3001			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3002			0 to disable accounting
3003			1 to enable accounting
3004			Default value is 0.
3005
3006	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3007			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3008
3009	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3010			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3011
3012	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3013			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3014
3015	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3016			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3017			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3018			requests.
3019
3020	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3021			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3022			channel should listen.
3023
3024	nfs.cache_getent=
3025			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3026			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3027
3028	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3029			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3030			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3031
3032	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3033			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3034			entries.
3035
3036	nfs.enable_ino64=
3037			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3038			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3039			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3040			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3041			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3042
3043	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3044			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3045			slots the client will assign to the callback
3046			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3047			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3048			a particular server.
3049
3050	nfs.max_session_slots=
3051			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3052			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3053			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3054			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3055			Note that there is little point in setting this
3056			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3057
3058	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3059			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3060			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3061			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3062			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3063			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3064			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3065			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3066			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3067			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3068			back to using the idmapper.
3069			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3070	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3071			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3072			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3073			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3074			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3075
3076	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3077			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3078			information in exchange_id requests.
3079			If zero, no implementation identification information
3080			will be sent.
3081			The default is to send the implementation identification
3082			information.
3083
3084	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3085			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3086			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3087			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3088			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3089			after the locks are lost.
3090			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3091			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3092			parameter to '1'.
3093			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3094			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3095
3096	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3097			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3098			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3099
3100			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3101			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3102			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3103			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3104
3105	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3106			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3107			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3108			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3109			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3110			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3111
3112	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3113			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3114			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3115
3116	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3117			when a NMI is triggered.
3118			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3119
3120	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3121			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3122			Valid num: 0 or 1
3123			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3124			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3125			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3126			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3127			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3128			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3129			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3130			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3131			need the box quickly up again.
3132
3133			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3134			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3135
3136	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3137			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3138			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3139			waits 4 seconds.
3140
3141	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3142			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3143			is present.
3144
3145	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3146			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3147
3148	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3149
3150	no_console_suspend
3151			[HW] Never suspend the console
3152			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3153			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3154			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3155			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3156			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3157			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3158			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3159			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3160			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3161			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3162			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3163			turn on/off it dynamically.
3164
3165	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3166			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3167			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3168			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3169			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3170			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3171			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3172			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3173			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3174			is set.
3175
3176	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3177			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3178			but will impact performance.
3179
3180	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3181
3182	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3183			(CPU alternatives feature).
3184
3185	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3186			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3187
3188	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3189
3190	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3191			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3192
3193	nocache		[ARM]
3194
3195	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3196
3197	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3198
3199	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3200
3201	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3202
3203	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3204
3205	noexec		[IA-64]
3206
3207	noexec		[X86]
3208			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3209			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3210			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3211
3212	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3213			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3214			even if it is supported by processor.
3215
3216	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3217			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3218			even if it is supported by processor.
3219
3220	noexec32	[X86-64]
3221			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3222			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3223				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3224			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3225				read implies executable mappings
3226
3227	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3228
3229	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3230			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3231			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3232
3233	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3234
3235	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3236			Equivalent to smt=1.
3237
3238			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3239			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3240				     via the sysfs control file.
3241
3242	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3243			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3244			possible in the system.
3245
3246	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3247			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3248			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3249			option.
3250
3251	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3252			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3253
3254	no_uaccess_flush
3255	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3256
3257	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3258			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3259			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3260
3261	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3262			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3263			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3264			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3265			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3266			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3267
3268	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3269			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3270			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3271			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3272			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3273			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3274			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3275
3276	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3277			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3278			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3279			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3280			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3281			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3282			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3283			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3284
3285	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3286			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3287			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3288
3289	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3290			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3291			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3292			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3293			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3294			real-time systems.
3295
3296	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3297
3298	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3299			Valid arguments: on, off
3300			Default: on
3301
3302	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3303			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3304			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3305			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3306			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3307			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3308			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3309			just as if they had also been called out in the
3310			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3311
3312	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3313
3314	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3315			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3316
3317	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3318			broken timer IRQ sources.
3319
3320	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3321
3322	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3323			initial RAM disk.
3324
3325	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3326			remapping.
3327			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3328
3329	nointroute	[IA-64]
3330
3331	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3332
3333	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3334
3335	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3336
3337	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3338			fault handling.
3339
3340	no-vmw-sched-clock
3341			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3342			clock and use the default one.
3343
3344	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3345			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3346			influence scheduler behaviour
3347
3348	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3349
3350	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3351
3352	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3353			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3354
3355	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3356
3357	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3358
3359	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3360			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3361
3362	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3363			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3364			irq.
3365
3366	nomodule	Disable module load
3367
3368	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3369			pagetables) support.
3370
3371	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3372
3373	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3374			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3375
3376	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3377			with UP alternatives
3378
3379	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3380			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3381			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3382			available to user space applications.
3383
3384	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3385			space.
3386
3387	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3388			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3389			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3390
3391	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3392
3393	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3394
3395	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3396
3397	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3398			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3399
3400	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3401
3402	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3403
3404	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3405			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3406
3407	nowb		[ARM]
3408
3409	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3410
3411	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3412			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3413			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3414			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3415			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3416			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3417			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3418			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3419			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3420			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3421			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3422			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3423			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3424
3425	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3426			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3427			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3428			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3429			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3430			parameter's value.
3431			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3432			Default: 255
3433
3434	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3435			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3436			SAL PALO.
3437
3438	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3439			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3440			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3441			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3442			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3443			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3444			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3445			hot plugging.
3446
3447	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3448
3449	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3450			Allowed values are enable and disable
3451
3452	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3453			'node', 'default' can be specified
3454			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3455			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3456
3457	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3458			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3459			info.
3460
3461	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3462			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3463			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3464			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3465			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3466			interrupts *may* be lost!
3467
3468	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3469			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3470			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3471			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3472
3473	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3474			process, but there is a small probability of
3475			deadlocking the machine.
3476			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3477			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3478
3479	page_alloc.shuffle=
3480			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3481			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3482			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3483			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3484			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3485			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3486			can be read from sysfs at:
3487			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3488
3489	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3490			Storage of the information about who allocated
3491			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3492			we can turn it on.
3493			on: enable the feature
3494
3495	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3496			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3497			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3498			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3499			on: turn on poisoning
3500
3501	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3502			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3503			timeout = 0: wait forever
3504			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3505			Format: <timeout>
3506
3507	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3508			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3509			bit 0: print all tasks info
3510			bit 1: print system memory info
3511			bit 2: print timer info
3512			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3513			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3514			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3515
3516	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3517			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3518			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3519			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3520			called with any of the flags in this set.
3521			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3522			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3523			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3524			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3525			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3526			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3527			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3528
3529	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3530			on a WARN().
3531
3532	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3533			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3534			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3535			succeeds in any situation.
3536			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3537			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3538			kernel more unstable.
3539
3540	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3541			connected to, default is 0.
3542			Format: <parport#>
3543	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3544			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3545			Format: <mode>
3546
3547	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3548			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3549			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3550			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3551			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3552			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3553			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3554			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3555			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3556			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3557			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3558			are specified on the command line, starting
3559			with parport0.
3560
3561	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3562			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3563			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3564			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3565			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3566			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3567			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3568
3569	pause_on_oops=
3570			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3571			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3572			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3573
3574	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3575
3576	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3577			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3578			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3579
3580	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3581
3582				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3583				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3584				specified in one of the following formats:
3585
3586				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3587				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3588
3589				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3590				bus/device/function address which may change
3591				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3592				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3593				by other kernel parameters. If the
3594				domain is left unspecified, it is
3595				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3596				to a device through multiple device/function
3597				addresses can be specified after the base
3598				address (this is more robust against
3599				renumbering issues).  The second format
3600				selects devices using IDs from the
3601				configuration space which may match multiple
3602				devices in the system.
3603
3604		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3605				changes anything
3606		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3607		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3608				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3609				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3610		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3611				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3612				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3613				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3614		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3615				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3616				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3617		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3618				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3619				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3620				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3621				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3622				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3623				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3624		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3625				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3626				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3627		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3628				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3629		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3630				Configuration
3631		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3632				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3633				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3634		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3635				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3636				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3637		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3638				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3639				should never be necessary.
3640		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3641				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3642				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3643				when the system masks IRQs.
3644		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3645				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3646				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3647				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3648		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3649				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3650				on several machines and they hang the machine
3651				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3652				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3653				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3654				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3655				motherboard.
3656		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3657				Use with caution as certain devices share
3658				address decoders between ROMs and other
3659				resources.
3660		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3661				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3662				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3663		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3664				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3665		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3666				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3667				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3668				this way.
3669		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3670				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3671				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3672				F0000h-100000h range.
3673		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3674				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3675				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3676				explicitly which ones they are.
3677		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3678				numbers ourselves, overriding
3679				whatever the firmware may have done.
3680		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3681				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3682				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3683				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3684				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3685				IRQ routing is enabled.
3686		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3687				or for PCI scanning.
3688		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3689				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3690				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3691				please report a bug.
3692		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3693				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3694		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3695				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3696				so this option is a temporary workaround
3697				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3698		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3699				handle more pci cards
3700		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3701				This might help on some broken boards which
3702				machine check when some devices' config space
3703				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3704				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3705		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3706				This sorting is done to get a device
3707				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3708		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3709		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3710				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3711		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3712				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3713		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3714				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3715				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3716				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3717				or bus can support) for best performance.
3718		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3719				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3720				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3721				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3722				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3723				that hot-added devices will work.
3724		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3725				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3726				The default value is 256 bytes.
3727		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3728				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3729				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3730		resource_alignment=
3731				Format:
3732				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3733				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3734				aligned memory resources. How to
3735				specify the device is described above.
3736				If <order of align> is not specified,
3737				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3738				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3739				windows need to be expanded.
3740				To specify the alignment for several
3741				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3742				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3743				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3744				for 4096-byte alignment.
3745		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3746				end-to-end CRC checking).
3747				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3748				the default.
3749				off: Turn ECRC off
3750				on: Turn ECRC on.
3751		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3752				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3753				Default size is 256 bytes.
3754		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3755				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3756				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3757		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3758				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3759				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3760		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3761				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3762				MMIO_PREF window.
3763				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3764		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3765				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3766				Default is 1.
3767		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3768				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3769				accommodate resources required by all child
3770				devices.
3771				off: Turn realloc off
3772				on: Turn realloc on
3773		realloc		same as realloc=on
3774		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3775		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3776				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3777		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3778				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3779				port.
3780		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3781				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3782				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3783				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3784				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3785				taints the kernel.
3786		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3787				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3788				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3789				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3790				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3791				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3792				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3793				this removes isolation between devices and
3794				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3795		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3796		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3797		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3798				one PCI domain per PCI function
3799
3800	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3801			Management.
3802		off	Disable ASPM.
3803		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3804			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3805
3806	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3807		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3808			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3809			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3810			also tries to use these services.
3811		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3812				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3813		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3814			hotplug).
3815
3816	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3817		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3818		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3819
3820	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3821		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3822			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3823
3824	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3825
3826	pd_ignore_unused
3827			[PM]
3828			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3829			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3830			for debug and development, but should not be
3831			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3832
3833	pd.		[PARIDE]
3834			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3835
3836	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3837			boot time.
3838			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3839			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3840
3841	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3842			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3843			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3844			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3845			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3846			and performance comparison.
3847
3848	pf.		[PARIDE]
3849			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3850
3851	pg.		[PARIDE]
3852			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3853
3854	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3855			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3856
3857	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3858			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3859			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3860
3861	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3862			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3863			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3864
3865	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
3866			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
3867
3868	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3869			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3870			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3871			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3872			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3873			possible settings and some assignment information.
3874
3875	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3876			{ off }
3877
3878	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3879			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3880
3881	pnp_reserve_irq=
3882			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3883
3884	pnp_reserve_dma=
3885			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3886
3887	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3888			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3889
3890	pnp_reserve_mem=
3891			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3892			autoconfiguration.
3893			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3894
3895	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3896			Default is 21.
3897			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3898			may be specified.
3899			Format: <port>,<port>....
3900
3901	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3902			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3903			platform machine description specific power_save
3904			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3905			execution priority.
3906
3907	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3908			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3909			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3910			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3911			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3912
3913	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3914			Format: {"off"}
3915			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3916
3917	preempt=	[KNL]
3918			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
3919			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
3920			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
3921			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
3922			       can be preempted anytime.
3923
3924	print-fatal-signals=
3925			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3926
3927			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3928			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3929			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3930			coredump - etc.
3931
3932			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3933			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3934
3935			default: off.
3936
3937	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3938			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3939			panics
3940			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3941			default: disabled
3942
3943	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3944			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3945			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3946			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3947			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3948			Default: ratelimit
3949
3950	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3951			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3952
3953	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3954			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3955			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3956
3957	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3958			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3959			instead using the legacy FADT method
3960
3961	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3962			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3963			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3964				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3965			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3966			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3967				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3968			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3969			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3970				statistical time based profiling.
3971
3972	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3973
3974	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
3975			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
3976			that).
3977			Format: <bool>
3978
3979	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3980			tracking.
3981			Format: <bool>
3982
3983	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3984			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3985	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3986			per second.
3987	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3988			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3989			(0 = never).
3990	psmouse.resolution=
3991			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3992	psmouse.smartscroll=
3993			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3994			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3995
3996	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3997
3998	pt.		[PARIDE]
3999			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4000
4001	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4002			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4003			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4004			system calls and interrupts.
4005
4006			on   - unconditionally enable
4007			off  - unconditionally disable
4008			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4009			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4010
4011			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4012
4013	nopti		[X86-64]
4014			Equivalent to pti=off
4015
4016	pty.legacy_count=
4017			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4018			default number.
4019
4020	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4021
4022	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4023
4024	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4025			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4026
4027	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4028			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4029
4030	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4031
4032	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4033			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4034			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4035			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4036			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4037
4038	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4039
4040		cec_disable	[X86]
4041				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4042				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4043
4044	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4045			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
4046			except that the string "all" can be used to
4047			specify every CPU on the system.
4048
4049			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4050			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4051			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4052			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4053			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4054			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4055			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4056			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4057			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4058			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4059
4060	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4061			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4062			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4063			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4064			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4065			This improves the real-time response for the
4066			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4067			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4068			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4069			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4070
4071	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4072			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4073			process in one batch.
4074
4075	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4076			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4077			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4078			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4079
4080	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4081			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4082			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4083
4084	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4085			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4086			RCU grace-period initialization.
4087
4088	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4089			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4090			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4091			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4092			the rcu_node combining tree.
4093
4094	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4095			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4096			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4097			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4098			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4099
4100			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4101			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4102			to zero.
4103
4104	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4105			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4106			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4107			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4108			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4109
4110	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4111			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4112			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4113			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4114			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4115			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4116			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4117
4118	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4119			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4120			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4121			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4122			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4123			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4124			condition.
4125
4126	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4127			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4128			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4129			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4130			and maximum value is HZ.
4131
4132	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4133			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4134			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4135			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4136
4137	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4138			Set required age in jiffies for a
4139			given grace period before RCU starts
4140			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4141			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4142			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4143			a value based on the most recent settings
4144			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4145			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4146			This calculated value may be viewed in
4147			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4148			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4149			overwritten.
4150
4151	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4152			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4153			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4154			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4155			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4156			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4157			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4158			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4159			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4160			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4161
4162	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4163			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4164			each group, which defaults to the square root
4165			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4166			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4167			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4168			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4169
4170	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4171			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4172			batch limiting is disabled.
4173
4174	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4175			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4176			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4177
4178	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4179			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4180			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4181			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4182			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4183			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4184			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4185			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4186
4187	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4188			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4189			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4190
4191	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4192			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4193			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4194			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4195			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4196			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4197
4198	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4199			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4200			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4201			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4202			Larger delays increase the probability of
4203			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4204			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4205			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4206
4207	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4208			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4209			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4210			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4211
4212	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4213			Measure performance of asynchronous
4214			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4215
4216	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4217			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4218			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4219			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4220			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4221			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4222
4223	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4224			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4225			grace-period primitives.
4226
4227	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4228			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4229			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4230			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4231			interference.
4232
4233	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4234			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4235
4236	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4237			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4238
4239	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4240			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4241
4242	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4243			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4244			of allocations and frees.
4245
4246	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4247			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4248			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4249			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4250			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4251			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4252			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4253			a single reader.
4254
4255	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4256			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4257			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4258			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4259
4260	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4261			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4262
4263	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4264			Shut the system down after performance tests
4265			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4266			testing.
4267
4268	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4269			Enable additional printk() statements.
4270
4271	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4272			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4273			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4274			no holdoff.
4275
4276	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4277			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4278			in microseconds.
4279
4280	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4281			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4282			in microseconds.
4283
4284	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4285			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4286			in seconds.
4287
4288	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4289			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4290			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4291
4292	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4293			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4294			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4295
4296	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4297			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4298			forward-progress tests.
4299
4300	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4301			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4302			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4303			testing.
4304
4305	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4306			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4307			primitives, if available.
4308
4309	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4310			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4311
4312	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4313			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4314			update-side primitives, if available.
4315
4316	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4317			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4318			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4319			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4320			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4321			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4322			they are all non-zero.
4323
4324	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4325			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4326			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4327			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4328
4329	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4330			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4331			This can of course result in splats, and is
4332			intended to test the ability of things like
4333			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4334			such leaks.
4335
4336	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4337			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4338
4339	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4340			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4341			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4342			test, hence the "fake".
4343
4344	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4345			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4346			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4347
4348	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4349			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4350			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4351
4352	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4353			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4354			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4355			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4356			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4357			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4358
4359	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4360			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4361
4362	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4363			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4364
4365	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4366			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4367			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4368
4369	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4370			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4371			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4372			task-exit processing.
4373
4374	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4375			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4376			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4377			is spawned.
4378
4379	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4380			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4381			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4382
4383	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4384			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4385			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4386			during the rcutorture test.
4387
4388	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4389			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4390			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4391
4392	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4393			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4394			warnings, zero to disable.
4395
4396	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4397			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4398			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4399			to any other stall-related activity.
4400
4401	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4402			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4403
4404	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4405			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4406
4407	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4408			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4409			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4410			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4411			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4412			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4413
4414	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4415			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4416
4417	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4418			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4419			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4420			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4421			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4422
4423	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4424			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4425			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4426			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4427
4428	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4429			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4430
4431	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4432			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4433
4434	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4435			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4436			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4437
4438	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4439			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4440
4441	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4442			Enable additional printk() statements.
4443
4444	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4445			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4446			stall warning.
4447
4448	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4449			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4450
4451	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4452			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4453			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4454			during early boot, that is, during the time
4455			before the init task is spawned.
4456
4457	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4458			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4459
4460	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4461			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4462			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4463			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4464			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4465			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4466			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4467
4468	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4469			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4470			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4471			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4472			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4473			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4474			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4475			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4476			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4477
4478	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4479			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4480			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4481			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4482			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4483
4484			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4485			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4486			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4487			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4488			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4489			grace-period processing.
4490
4491	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4492			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4493			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4494			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4495			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4496			but lengthens grace periods.
4497
4498	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4499			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4500			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4501			to zero.
4502
4503	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4504			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4505
4506	rdinit=		[KNL]
4507			Format: <full_path>
4508			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4509			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4510
4511	rdrand=		[X86]
4512			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4513				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4514				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4515				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4516				path).
4517
4518	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4519			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4520			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4521			mba.
4522			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4523				rdt=cmt,!mba
4524
4525	reboot=		[KNL]
4526			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4527				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4528				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4529				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4530				[[,]f[orce]
4531			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4532					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4533					reboot only),
4534			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4535			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4536			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4537					to be used for rebooting.
4538
4539	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4540			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4541			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4542			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4543			interference.
4544
4545	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4546			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4547			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4548			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4549			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4550			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4551			x86 laptops.
4552
4553	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4554			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4555			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4556			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4557
4558	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4559			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4560			the console log.
4561
4562	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4563			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4564			measured in microseconds.
4565
4566	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4567			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4568
4569	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4570			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4571			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4572			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4573			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4574
4575	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4576			Enable additional printk() statements.
4577
4578	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4579			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4580			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4581			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4582			specified.
4583
4584	relax_domain_level=
4585			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4586			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4587
4588	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4589			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4590			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4591			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4592			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4593
4594	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4595			Format: nn[KMG]
4596			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4597			address space.
4598
4599	reservelow=	[X86]
4600			Format: nn[K]
4601			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4602			the bottom of the address space.
4603
4604	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4605			during initialization.
4606
4607	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4608			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4609			Format:
4610			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4611
4612	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4613			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4614			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4615			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4616			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4617
4618	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4619			read the resume files
4620
4621	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4622			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4623			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4624
4625	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4626		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4627				present during boot.
4628		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4629		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4630		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4631				(that will set all pages holding image data
4632				during restoration read-only).
4633
4634	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4635
4636	rfkill.default_state=
4637		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4638			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4639		1	Unblocked.
4640
4641	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4642		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4643		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4644			blocked and the previous configuration.
4645		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4646			blocked and everything unblocked.
4647
4648	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4649			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4650
4651	ring3mwait=disable
4652			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4653			CPUs.
4654
4655	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4656
4657	rodata=		[KNL]
4658		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4659		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4660
4661	rockchip.usb_uart
4662			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4663			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4664			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4665			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4666
4667	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4668			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4669
4670	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4671			mount the root filesystem
4672
4673	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4674
4675	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4676
4677	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4678			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4679			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4680
4681	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4682			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4683			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4684			managed by CMA.
4685
4686	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4687
4688	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4689
4690	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4691			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4692		strict
4693			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4694			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4695			which is faster.
4696
4697	sa1100ir	[NET]
4698			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4699
4700	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4701
4702	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4703
4704	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4705			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4706			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4707			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4708
4709	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4710			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4711			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4712			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4713			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4714			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4715			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4716			value.
4717			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4718			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
4719				1			64 ms
4720				2			128 ms
4721			and so on.
4722			Format: integer between 0 and 10
4723			Default is 0.
4724
4725	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4726			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4727			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4728			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4729			tests.
4730
4731	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4732			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4733			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4734			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4735			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4736			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4737			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4738
4739	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4740			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4741			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4742			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4743			equal to the number of CPUs.
4744
4745	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4746			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4747			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4748
4749	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4750			Number seconds to wait between successive
4751			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4752			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4753
4754	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4755			The number of seconds following the start of the
4756			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4757			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4758			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4759
4760	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4761			The number of seconds between outputting the
4762			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4763			of zero disables statistics output.
4764
4765	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4766			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4767			to the set of CPUs under test.
4768
4769	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4770			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4771			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4772			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4773			functions.
4774
4775	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4776			Enable additional printk() statements.
4777
4778	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4779			The probability weighting to use for the
4780			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4781			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4782			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4783			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4784			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4785
4786	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4787			The probability weighting to use for the
4788			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4789			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4790
4791	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4792			The probability weighting to use for the
4793			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4794			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4795			Note well that setting a high probability for
4796			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4797			on the system.
4798
4799	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4800			The probability weighting to use for the
4801			smp_call_function_many() function with a
4802			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4803			and weight_many.
4804
4805	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
4806			The probability weighting to use for the
4807			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
4808			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
4809			weight_many.
4810
4811	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
4812			The probability weighting to use for the
4813			smp_call_function_all() function with a
4814			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
4815			and weight_many.
4816
4817	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4818			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4819			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4820			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4821			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4822			1 -- enable.
4823			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4824			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4825
4826	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4827			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4828			"lsm=" parameter.
4829
4830	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4831			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4832			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4833			0 -- disable.
4834			1 -- enable.
4835			Default value is 1.
4836
4837	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4838			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4839			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4840			0 -- disable.
4841			1 -- enable.
4842			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4843
4844	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4845
4846	shapers=	[NET]
4847			Maximal number of shapers.
4848
4849	simeth=		[IA-64]
4850	simscsi=
4851
4852	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4853
4854	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4855			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4856			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4857			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4858			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4859			layout control by attackers can usually be
4860			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4861			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4862			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4863			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4864			own.
4865			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4866
4867	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4868			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4869			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4870			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4871			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4872
4873	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
4874			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4875			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4876			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4877			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4878			last alloc / free. For more information see
4879			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4880
4881	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4882			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4883			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4884			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4885			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4886			directories and files being created under
4887			/sys/kernel/slub.
4888
4889	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4890			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4891			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4892			fragmentation. For more information see
4893			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4894
4895	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4896			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4897			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4898			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4899			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4900			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4901			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4902			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4903
4904	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4905			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4906			lower than slub_max_order.
4907			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4908
4909	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4910			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4911			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4912
4913	smart2=		[HW]
4914			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4915
4916	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4917	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4918	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4919	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4920	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4921	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4922	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4923				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4924				1: Fast pin select (default)
4925				2: ATC IRMode
4926
4927	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4928			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4929			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4930			actual hardware limit.
4931			Format: <integer>
4932			Default: -1 (no limit)
4933
4934	softlockup_panic=
4935			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4936			Format: 0 | 1
4937
4938			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
4939			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4940			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4941			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4942			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4943
4944	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4945			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4946			backtraces on all cpus.
4947			Format: 0 | 1
4948
4949	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4950			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4951
4952	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4953			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4954			The default operation protects the kernel from
4955			user space attacks.
4956
4957			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4958			       spectre_v2_user=on
4959			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4960			       spectre_v2_user=off
4961			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4962			       vulnerable
4963
4964			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4965			mitigation method at run time according to the
4966			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4967			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4968			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4969
4970			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4971			against user space to user space task attacks.
4972
4973			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4974			the user space protections.
4975
4976			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4977
4978			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4979			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4980			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4981
4982			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4983			spectre_v2=auto.
4984
4985	spectre_v2_user=
4986			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4987		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4988		        user space tasks
4989
4990			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4991				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4992
4993			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4994				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4995
4996			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4997				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4998				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4999				  is inherited on fork.
5000
5001			prctl,ibpb
5002				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5003				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5004				  always when switching between different user
5005				  space processes.
5006
5007			seccomp
5008				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5009				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5010				  they explicitly opt out.
5011
5012			seccomp,ibpb
5013				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5014				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5015				  always when switching between different
5016				  user space processes.
5017
5018			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5019				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5020
5021			Default mitigation:
5022			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5023
5024			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5025			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5026
5027	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5028			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5029			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5030
5031			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5032			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5033			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5034			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5035			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5036			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5037			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5038			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5039
5040			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5041			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5042			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5043			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5044
5045			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5046			Bypass optimization is used.
5047
5048			On x86 the options are:
5049
5050			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5051			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5052			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5053				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5054				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5055				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5056				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5057				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5058			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5059				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5060				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5061				  is inherited on fork.
5062			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5063				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5064
5065			Default mitigations:
5066			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5067
5068			On powerpc the options are:
5069
5070			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5071				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5072				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5073				  exit.
5074			off	- No action.
5075
5076			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5077			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5078
5079	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5080	spia_fio_base=
5081	spia_pedr=
5082	spia_peddr=
5083
5084	split_lock_detect=
5085			[X86] Enable split lock detection
5086
5087			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5088			instructions that access data across cache line
5089			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
5090
5091			off	- not enabled
5092
5093			warn	- the kernel will emit rate limited warnings
5094				  about applications triggering the #AC
5095				  exception. This mode is the default on CPUs
5096				  that supports split lock detection.
5097
5098			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5099				  that trigger the #AC exception.
5100
5101			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5102			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5103			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5104			mode.
5105
5106	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5107			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5108			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5109
5110			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5111			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5112			number generator.
5113
5114			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5115			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5116			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5117			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5118			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5119
5120			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5121			the following option:
5122
5123			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5124				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5125
5126	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5127			Specifies how frequently to check for
5128			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5129			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5130			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5131			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5132			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5133			are ignored.
5134
5135	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5136			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5137			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5138			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5139			grace period will be considered for automatic
5140			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5141			expediting.
5142
5143	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5144			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5145
5146			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5147			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5148			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5149			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5150
5151			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5152				   for both kernel and userspace
5153			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5154				   for both kernel and userspace
5155			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5156				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5157				   to allow userspace to register its
5158				   interest in being mitigated too.
5159
5160	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5161			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5162			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5163			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5164			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5165			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5166
5167	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5168			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5169
5170	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5171			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5172			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5173			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5174			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5175			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5176			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5177
5178	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5179			Format: <num>
5180			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5181			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5182			as the initial boot-console.
5183			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5184
5185	sti_font=	[HW]
5186			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5187
5188	stifb=		[HW]
5189			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5190
5191	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5192	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5193			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5194			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5195			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5196			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5197			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5198			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5199			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5200			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5201			maximum port values.
5202
5203	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5204			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5205			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5206			process in parallel from a single connection.
5207			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5208
5209	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5210			[NFS]
5211			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5212			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5213			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5214			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5215			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5216			NFS server is running.
5217
5218			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5219				    automatically using heuristics
5220			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5221			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5222			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5223				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5224
5225	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5226	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5227			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5228			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5229			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5230			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5231			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5232			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5233
5234	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5235			[SUSPEND]
5236			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5237			mode before resuming the system (see
5238			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5239			is set. Default value is 5.
5240
5241	svm=		[PPC]
5242			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5243			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5244			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5245
5246	swapaccount=[0|1]
5247			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5248			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5249			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5250
5251	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5252			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5253			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5254			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5255			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5256			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5257
5258	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5259
5260	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5261			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5262			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5263			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5264			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5265			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5266			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5267			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5268
5269	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5270			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5271			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5272			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5273			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5274			in older udev will not work anymore.
5275			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5276			the kernel configuration.
5277
5278	sysrq_always_enabled
5279			[KNL]
5280			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5281			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5282			Useful for debugging.
5283
5284	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5285			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5286			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5287			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5288			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5289			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5290
5291	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5292
5293	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5294			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5295			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5296			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5297			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5298			The system is woken from this state using a
5299			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5300
5301	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5302			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5303
5304	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5305			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5306			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5307
5308	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5309			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5310			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5311
5312	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5313			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5314			critical and hot trip points.
5315
5316	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5317			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5318
5319	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5320			-1: disable all passive trip points
5321			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5322			value
5323
5324	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5325			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5326			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5327			0: no polling (default)
5328
5329	threadirqs	[KNL]
5330			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5331			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5332
5333	topology=	[S390]
5334			Format: {off | on}
5335			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5336			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5337			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5338			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5339			Default is on.
5340
5341	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5342			Format: {off}
5343			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5344			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5345			LPAR.
5346
5347	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5348			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5349			until after init has spawned.
5350
5351	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5352			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5353			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5354			very costly operation when many torture tests
5355			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5356			with rotating-rust storage.
5357
5358	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5359			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5360			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5361			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5362
5363	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5364			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5365
5366	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5367
5368	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5369			Format: integer pcr id
5370			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5371			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5372			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5373			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5374			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5375			are saved.
5376
5377	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5378			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5379
5380	trace_event=[event-list]
5381			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5382			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5383			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5384			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5385
5386	trace_options=[option-list]
5387			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5388			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5389			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5390			to echo the option name into
5391
5392			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5393
5394			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5395			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5396
5397			      trace_options=stacktrace
5398
5399			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5400			section.
5401
5402	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5403			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5404			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5405			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5406			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5407			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5408
5409			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5410			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5411			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5412			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5413
5414			** CAUTION **
5415
5416			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5417			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5418			the system to live lock.
5419
5420	traceoff_on_warning
5421			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5422			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5423			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5424			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5425
5426			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5427			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5428			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5429
5430			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5431			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5432
5433	transparent_hugepage=
5434			[KNL]
5435			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5436			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5437			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5438			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5439			for more details.
5440
5441	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5442			Format: <string>
5443			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5444			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5445			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5446			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5447			virtualized environment.
5448			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5449			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5450			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5451			can add overhead.
5452			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5453			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5454			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5455			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5456			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5457			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5458			acceptable).
5459
5460	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5461			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5462			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5463			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5464			Format: <unsigned int>
5465
5466	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5467			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5468			support TSX control.
5469
5470			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5471
5472			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5473				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5474				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5475				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5476				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5477				with leaving it enabled.
5478
5479			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5480				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5481				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5482				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5483				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5484				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5485				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5486
5487			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5488				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5489
5490			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5491
5492			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5493			for more details.
5494
5495	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5496			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5497
5498			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5499			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5500			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5501			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5502			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5503			conditions.
5504
5505			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5506			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5507			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5508			access.
5509
5510			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5511			options are:
5512
5513			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5514				     if TSX is enabled.
5515
5516			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5517				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5518				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5519				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5520			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5521
5522			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5523			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5524			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5525			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5526
5527			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5528			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5529			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5530			required and doesn't provide any additional
5531			mitigation.
5532
5533			For details see:
5534			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5535
5536	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5537			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5538			Format:
5539			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5540			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5541
5542	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5543			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5544			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5545			help "seeing" what's going on.
5546
5547	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5548			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5549
5550	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5551			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5552			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5553			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5554			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5555			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5556			reported either.
5557
5558	unknown_nmi_panic
5559			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5560
5561	usbcore.authorized_default=
5562			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5563			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5564			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5565			if device connected to internal port)
5566
5567	usbcore.autosuspend=
5568			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5569			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5570			is the time required before an idle device will be
5571			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5572			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5573
5574	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5575			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5576
5577	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5578			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5579			(default = 65536).
5580
5581	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5582			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5583
5584	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5585			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5586			scheme (default 0 = off).
5587
5588	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5589			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5590			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5591
5592	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5593			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5594			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5595
5596	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5597			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5598			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5599			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5600
5601	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5602
5603	usbcore.quirks=
5604			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5605			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5606			commas. Each entry has the form
5607			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5608			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5609			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5610			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5611			the following meanings:
5612				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5613					descriptors must not be fetched using
5614					a 255-byte read);
5615				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5616					correctly so reset it instead);
5617				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5618					Set-Interface requests);
5619				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5620					handle its Configuration or Interface
5621					strings);
5622				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5623					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5624				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5625					more interface descriptions than the
5626					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5627					talking to these interfaces);
5628				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5629					during initialization, after we read
5630					the device descriptor);
5631				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5632					high speed and super speed interrupt
5633					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5634					require the interval in microframes (1
5635					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5636					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5637					(bInterval-1).
5638					Devices with this quirk report their
5639					bInterval as the result of this
5640					calculation instead of the exponent
5641					variable used in the calculation);
5642				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5643					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5644					requests);
5645				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5646					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5647					remote wakeup capability);
5648				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5649					Power Management);
5650				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5651					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5652					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5653					calculation);
5654				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5655					to be disconnected before suspend to
5656					prevent spurious wakeup);
5657				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5658					pause after every control message);
5659				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5660					delay after resetting its port);
5661			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5662
5663	usbhid.mousepoll=
5664			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5665
5666	usbhid.jspoll=
5667			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5668
5669	usbhid.kbpoll=
5670			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5671
5672	usb-storage.delay_use=
5673			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5674			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5675
5676	usb-storage.quirks=
5677			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5678			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5679			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5680			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5681			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5682			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5683			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5684				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5685					of sense data, not on uas);
5686				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5687					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5688				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5689					device capacity by one sector);
5690				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5691					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5692				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5693					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5694				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5695					command, uas only);
5696				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5697					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5698				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5699					reported device capacity by one
5700					sector if the number is odd);
5701				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5702					device);
5703				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5704					command, uas only);
5705				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5706				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5707					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5708				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5709					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5710					not on uas);
5711				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5712					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5713				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5714					reported by the device, not on uas);
5715				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5716					by default, not on uas);
5717				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5718					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5719				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5720					Logical Unit);
5721				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5722					commands, uas only);
5723				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5724				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5725					medium is write-protected).
5726				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5727					even if the device claims no cache,
5728					not on uas)
5729			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5730
5731	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5732			Format: <int>
5733			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5734				 1 - undefined instruction events
5735				 2 - system calls
5736				 4 - invalid data aborts
5737				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5738				16 - SIGBUS faults
5739			Example: user_debug=31
5740
5741	userpte=
5742			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5743
5744				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5745					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5746					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5747
5748	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5749			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5750
5751			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5752			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5753
5754	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5755			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5756			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5757
5758			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5759			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5760			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5761
5762			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5763			alias for vdso32=0.
5764
5765			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5766			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5767
5768	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5769			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5770
5771	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5772			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5773
5774	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5775			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5776			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5777			level and then send out the event to user space through
5778			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5779			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5780			brightness level.
5781			default: 1
5782
5783	virtio_mmio.device=
5784			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5785
5786				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5787			where:
5788				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5789						like K, M and G)
5790				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5791				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5792						request_irq())
5793				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5794			example:
5795				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5796
5797			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5798
5799	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5800			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5801			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5802			Use vga=ask for menu.
5803			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5804			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5805
5806	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5807			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5808			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5809			All options are enabled by default, and this
5810			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5811			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5812			debugging features.
5813
5814			Available options are:
5815			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5816			  -	Disable all of the above options
5817
5818	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5819			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5820			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5821			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5822			mapped kernel RAM.
5823
5824	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5825			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5826			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5827
5828	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5829			Format: <command>
5830
5831	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5832			Format: <command>
5833
5834	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5835			Format: <command>
5836
5837	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5838			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5839			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5840			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5841			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5842			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5843			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5844
5845			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5846			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5847				    page is readable.
5848
5849			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5850			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5851				    page is not readable.
5852
5853			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5854			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5855			            might break your system.
5856
5857	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5858			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5859			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5860
5861	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5862			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5863			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5864			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5865
5866	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5867			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5868			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5869			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5870			ranging from 0-255.
5871
5872	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5873			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5874			Change the default green palette of the console.
5875			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5876			ranging from 0-255.
5877
5878	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5879			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5880			Change the default red palette of the console.
5881			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5882			ranging from 0-255.
5883
5884	vt.default_utf8=
5885			[VT]
5886			Format=<0|1>
5887			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5888			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5889			newly opened terminals.
5890
5891	vt.global_cursor_default=
5892			[VT]
5893			Format=<-1|0|1>
5894			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5895			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5896			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5897			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5898			cursors, 1 will display them.
5899
5900	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5901			Default: 2 = green.
5902
5903	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5904			Default: 3 = cyan.
5905
5906	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5907			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5908			or other driver-specific files in the
5909			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5910
5911	watchdog_thresh=
5912			[KNL]
5913			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5914			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5915			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5916			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5917			seconds.
5918
5919	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5920			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5921			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5922			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5923			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5924			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5925			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5926			corresponding sysfs file.
5927
5928	workqueue.disable_numa
5929			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5930			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5931			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5932			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5933			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5934			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5935			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5936
5937	workqueue.power_efficient
5938			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5939			they show better performance thanks to cache
5940			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5941			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5942
5943			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5944			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5945			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5946			power usage at the cost of small performance
5947			overhead.
5948
5949			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5950			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5951
5952	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5953			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5954			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5955			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5956			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5957			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5958			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5959			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5960			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5961			impacted.
5962
5963	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5964			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5965			supporting x2apic.
5966
5967	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5968			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5969			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5970			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5971			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5972
5973	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5974			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5975			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5976			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5977			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5978			domains.
5979
5980	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5981			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5982			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5983			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5984			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5985			nics -- unplug network devices
5986			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5987			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5988				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5989				the unplug protocol
5990			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5991
5992	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5993			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5994			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5995
5996	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5997			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
5998			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
5999			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6000
6001	xen_nopv	[X86]
6002			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6003			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6004			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6005			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6006
6007	xen_no_vector_callback
6008			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6009			event channel interrupts.
6010
6011	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6012			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6013			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6014			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6015			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6016
6017	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6018			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6019			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6020			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6021			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6022			more timer interrupts.
6023
6024	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6025			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6026			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6027
6028	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6029			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6030			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6031
6032	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6033			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6034			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6035			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6036			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6037			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6038
6039	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6040			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6041			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6042			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6043
6044	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6045			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6046			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6047			contention.
6048
6049	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6050			Format:
6051			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6052
6053	xive=		[PPC]
6054			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6055			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6056			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6057
6058			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6059				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6060				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6061
6062	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6063			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6064			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6065			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6066
6067	xmon		[PPC]
6068			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6069			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6070			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6071			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6072				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6073			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6074				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6075				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6076				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6077			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6078				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6079				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6080				can be written using xmon commands.
6081			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6082				memory, and other data can't be written using
6083				xmon commands.
6084			off	xmon is disabled.
6085