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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.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=  [HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112                        GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113                        the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <int>
117			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143			second kernel for kdump.
144
145	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
156			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
157			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
158			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
159						  strings
160			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
161						  strings
162			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
163
164			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
167			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
172			care about the state of the feature group strings which
173			should be controlled by the OSPM.
174			Examples:
175			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
182			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183			multiple times through kernel command line is also
184			meaningless.
185			Examples:
186			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187			     FALSE.
188
189			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
192			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
195			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
197			is useful when one want to control the state of the
198			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199			the OSPM features.
200			Examples:
201			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206			     equivalent to
207			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208			     and
209			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
213			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215			and always returns good values.
216
217	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228			s3_bios and s3_mode.
229			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232			used during resume from hibernation.
233			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234			control method, with respect to putting devices into
235			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236			of _PTS is used by default).
237			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241			but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250	agp=		[AGP]
251			{ off | try_unsupported }
252			off: disable AGP support
253			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
257			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
260			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
262			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
265			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272			32: only for 32-bit processes
273			64: only for 64-bit processes
274			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
278			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
285			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286			Possible values are:
287			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289				    flushed before they will be reused, which
290				    is a lot of faster
291			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292				    the system
293			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
296					  requirements as needed. This option
297					  does not override iommu=pt
298
299	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
300			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303			IOMMU initialization.
304
305	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307			remapping modes:
308			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316			Format: <a>,<b>
317			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
318
319	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321			connected to one of 16 gameports
322			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
325			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326			Format: noidle
327			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329			APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334			Change the amount of debugging information output
335			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
337			driver name.
338			Format: apic=driver_name
339			Examples: apic=bigsmp
340
341	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
342			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
343			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
344			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
345			      backup of CPU 0
346			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
347			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
348			      shot down by NMI
349
350	autoconf=	[IPV6]
351			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
352
353	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
354			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
355			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
356			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
357			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
358			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
359			apic=verbose is specified.
360			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
361
362	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
363			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
364
365	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
366			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
367
368	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
369
370	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
371
372	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
373			EzKey and similar keyboards
374
375	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
376
377	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
378			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
379
380	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
381			keyboards
382
383	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
384			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
385
386	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
387			Use software keyboard repeat
388
389	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
390			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
391			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
392			    until the next reboot
393			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
394			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
395			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
396			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
397			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
398			    auditd.
399			Default: unset
400
401	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
402			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
403			Default: 64
404
405	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
406			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
407			Format: { "0" | "1" }
408			0 - Disable the BAU.
409			1 - Enable the BAU.
410			unset - Disable the BAU.
411
412	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
413			Format: <io>,<mode>
414
415	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
416			Format: <io>,<mode>
417			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
418
419	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
420			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
421			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
422			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
423
424	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
425			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
426			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
427			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
428
429	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
430			embedded devices based on command line input.
431			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
432
433	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
434			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
435			no delay (0).
436			Format: integer
437
438	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
439
440	bert_disable	[ACPI]
441			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
443	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
444	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
445			kernel args too.
446	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
447	bttv.tuner=
448
449	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451			at a time.
452
453	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
455	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
456			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460			This option provides an override for these situations.
461
462	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
463			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
464			trust validation.
465			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
466
467	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
468			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
469			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
470			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
471			others).
472
473	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
474			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
475
476	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
477			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
478			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
479			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
480			  a single hierarchy
481			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
482			  subsystem
483			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
484			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
485			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
486
487	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
488			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
489			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
490			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
491
492	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
493			Format: <string>
494			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
495			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
496
497	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
500			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
501				any implied execute protection).
502			1 -- check protection requested by application.
503			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
504			Value can be changed at runtime via
505				/selinux/checkreqprot.
506
507	cio_ignore=	[S390]
508			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
509	clk_ignore_unused
510			[CLK]
511			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
512			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
513			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
514			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
515			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
516			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
517			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
518			platform with proper driver support.  For more
519			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
520
521	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
522			[Deprecated]
523			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
524			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
525			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
526			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
527
528	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
529			Format: <string>
530			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
531			with the name specified.
532			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
533			the platform:
534			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
535			[ACPI] acpi_pm
536			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
537				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
538			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
539				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
540			[MIPS] MIPS
541			[PARISC] cr16
542			[S390] tod
543			[SH] SuperH
544			[SPARC64] tick
545			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
546
547	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
548			[ARM,ARM64]
549			Format: <bool>
550			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
551			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
552			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
553			systems.
554
555	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
556			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
557			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
558			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
559			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
560			ones should be.
561			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
562			or using the feature without checking anything
563			will still see it. This just prevents it from
564			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
565			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
566			some critical bits.
567
568	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
569			[ARM,X86,KNL]
570			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
571			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
572			placement constraint by the physical address range of
573			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
574			altogether. For more information, see
575			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
576
577	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
578			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
579			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
580			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
581			a hypervisor.
582			Default: yes
583
584	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
585			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
586			allocations, by default set to 256K.
587
588	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
589			in an oops report.
590			Range: 0 - 8192
591			Default: 64
592
593	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
594			Format:
595			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
596
597	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
599
600	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
601			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
602			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
603
604	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
605	conmode=
606
607	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
608
609		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
610
611		ttyS<n>[,options]
612		ttyUSB0[,options]
613			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
614			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
615			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
616			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
617			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
618
619			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
620			information.  See
621			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
622			alternative.
623
624		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
625		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
626		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
627		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
628		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
629			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
630			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
631			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
632			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
633			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
634			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
635			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
636			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
637			the h/w is not re-initialized.
638
639		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
640			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
641
642                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
643                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
644			console=brl,ttyS0
645		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
646
647	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
648			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
649                       Defaults to 0.
650
651	coredump_filter=
652			[KNL] Change the default value for
653			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
654			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
655
656	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
657			[ARM,ARM64]
658			Format: <bool>
659			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
660			0: default value, disable debugging
661			1: enable debugging at boot time
662
663	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
664			disable the cpuidle sub-system
665
666	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
667			disable the cpufreq sub-system
668
669	cpu_init_udelay=N
670			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
671			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
672			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
673			Default: 10000
674
675	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
676			Format:
677			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
678
679	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
680			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
681			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
682			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
683			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
684			is selected automatically. Check
685			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
686
687	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
688			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
689			in the running system. The syntax of range is
690			start-[end] where start and end are both
691			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
692			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
693
694	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
695			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
696			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
697			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
698			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
699			available.
700			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
701	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
702			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
703			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
704			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
705			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
706			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
707			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
708			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
709			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
710			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
711			for second kernel instead.
712			0: to disable low allocation.
713			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
714			or memory reserved is below 4G.
715
716	cryptomgr.notests
717                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
718
719	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
720			Format: <dma>
721
722	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
723			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
724
725	dasd=		[HW,NET]
726			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
727
728	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
729			(one device per port)
730			Format: <port#>,<type>
731			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
732
733	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
734			time. See
735			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
736			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
737
738	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
739
740	debug_locks_verbose=
741			[KNL] verbose self-tests
742			Format=<0|1>
743			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
744			self-tests.
745			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
746			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
747			only useful to kernel developers.
748
749	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
750
751	no_debug_objects
752			[KNL] Disable object debugging
753
754	debug_guardpage_minorder=
755			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
756			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
757			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
758			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
759			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
760			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
761			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
762			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
763			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
764			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
765			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
766			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
767			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
768			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
769			bypassed) which are not detectable by
770			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
771			tracking down these problems.
772
773	debug_pagealloc=
774			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
775			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
776			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
777			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
778			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
779			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
780			on: enable the feature
781
782	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
783
784	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
785			Format: <area>[,<node>]
786			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
787
788	default_hugepagesz=
789			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
790			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
791			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
792			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
793			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
794			if not specified.
795
796	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
797			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
798
799	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
800			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
801			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
802			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
803			miss to occur.
804
805	disable=	[IPV6]
806			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
807
808	disable_radix	[PPC]
809			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
810
811	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
812			Format: <int>
813			The number of initial APIC ID for the
814			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
815			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
816			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
817			causing system reset or hang due to sending
818			INIT from AP to BSP.
819
820	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
821			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
822			to workaround buggy firmware.
823
824	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
825			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
826
827	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
828			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
829			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
830			entry later. This parameter disables that.
831
832	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
833			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
834			memory out of your available memory pool based on
835			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
836			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
837
838	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
839			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
840			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
841
842	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
843
844	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
845			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
846
847	dma_debug_entries=<number>
848			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
849			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
850			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
851			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
852			architectural default is too low.
853
854	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
855			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
856			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
857			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
858			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
859			driver later using sysfs.
860
861	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
862			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
863			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
864			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
865			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
866			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
867			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
868			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
869			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
870			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
871			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
872			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
873			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
874			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
875			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
876			data set with no connector name will be used for
877			any connectors not explicitly specified.
878
879	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
880
881	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
882			Format: {"off" | "known"}
883			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
884			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
885			exists).
886			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
887			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
888			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
889
890	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
891			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
892			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
893			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
894
895	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
896	module.dyndbg[="val"]
897			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
898			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
899			for details.
900
901	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
902			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
903			information about the feature.
904
905	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
906			in some Intel CPUs.
907
908	module.async_probe [KNL]
909			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
910
911	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
912			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
913			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
914			which are not unmapped.
915
916	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
917
918			When used with no options, the early console is
919			determined by the stdout-path property in device
920			tree's chosen node.
921
922		cdns,<addr>[,options]
923			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
924			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
925			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
926			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
927			configured.
928
929		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
930		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
931		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
932		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
933		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
934			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
935			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
936			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
937			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
938			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
939			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
940			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
941			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
942
943		pl011,<addr>
944		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
945			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
946			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
947			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
948			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
949			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
950			the device registers.
951
952		meson,<addr>
953			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
954			port at the specified address. The serial port must
955			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
956			supported.
957
958		msm_serial,<addr>
959			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
960			port at the specified address. The serial port
961			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
962			yet supported.
963
964		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
965			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
966			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
967			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
968			yet supported.
969
970		owl,<addr>
971			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
972			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
973			specified address. The serial port must already be
974			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
975
976		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
977
978		s3c2410,<addr>
979		s3c2412,<addr>
980		s3c2440,<addr>
981		s3c6400,<addr>
982		s5pv210,<addr>
983		exynos4210,<addr>
984			Use early console provided by serial driver available
985			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
986			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
987			serial port must already be setup and configured.
988			Options are not yet supported.
989
990		lantiq,<addr>
991			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
992			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
993			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
994			yet supported.
995
996		lpuart,<addr>
997		lpuart32,<addr>
998			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
999			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1000			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1001			port must already be setup and configured.
1002
1003		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1004			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1005			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1006			address. The serial port must already be setup
1007			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1008
1009	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1010			earlyprintk=vga
1011			earlyprintk=efi
1012			earlyprintk=sclp
1013			earlyprintk=xen
1014			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1015			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1016			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1017			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1018			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1019			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1020
1021			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1022			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1023			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1024
1025			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1026			takes over.
1027
1028			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1029			be used at a time.
1030
1031			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1032			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1033			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1034			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1035				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1036			You can find the port for a given device in
1037			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1038				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1039
1040			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1041			very good.
1042
1043			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1044			the real console.
1045
1046			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1047
1048			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1049
1050	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1051			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1052			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1053			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1054			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1055			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1056			default: on.
1057
1058	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1059			ekgdboc=kbd
1060
1061			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1062			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1063
1064	edd=		[EDD]
1065			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1066
1067	efi=		[EFI]
1068			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1069			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1070			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1071			default.
1072			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1073			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1074			firmware implementations.
1075			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1076			debug: enable misc debug output
1077
1078	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1079			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1080			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1081			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1082			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1083
1084	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1085			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1086			updating original EFI memory map.
1087			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1088			from ss to ss+nn.
1089			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1090			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1091			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1092			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1093
1094			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1095			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1096			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1097			doesn't support it.
1098
1099	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1100			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1101			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1102			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1103			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1104
1105
1106	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1107			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1108
1109	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1110			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1111			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1112
1113	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1114			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1115			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1116			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1117
1118	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1119			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1120			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1121			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1122			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1123
1124	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1125			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1126			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1127			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1128
1129	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1130			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1131			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1132			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1133			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1134
1135	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1136			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1137			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1138			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1139			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1140			Default value is 0.
1141			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1142
1143	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1144			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1145			support.
1146
1147	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1148			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1149			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1150
1151	evm=		[EVM]
1152			Format: { "fix" }
1153			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1154			current integrity status.
1155
1156	failslab=
1157	fail_page_alloc=
1158	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1159			General fault injection mechanism.
1160			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1161			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1162
1163	floppy=		[HW]
1164			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1165
1166	force_pal_cache_flush
1167			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1168			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1169			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1170			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1171
1172	forcepae [X86-32]
1173			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1174			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1175			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1176			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1177			and may cause unknown problems.
1178
1179	ftrace=[tracer]
1180			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1181			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1182			boot debugging.
1183
1184	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1185			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1186			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1187			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1188			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1189			oops.
1190
1191	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1192			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1193			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1194			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1195			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1196			tracing directory.
1197
1198	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1199			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1200			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1201			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1202			tracing directory.
1203
1204	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1205			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1206			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1207			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1208			that can be changed at run time by the
1209			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1210
1211	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1212			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1213			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1214			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1215			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1216
1217	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1218			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1219			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1220			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1221			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1222
1223	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1224			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1225			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1226			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1227			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1228
1229	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1230
1231	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1232			Format: off | on
1233			default: on
1234
1235	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1236			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1237			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1238			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1239			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1240
1241	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1242			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1243			android emulator
1244
1245	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1246			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1247			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1248			GPT to be used instead.
1249
1250	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1251			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1252			Format: 0 | 1
1253			Default: 0
1254	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1255			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1256			Format: 0 | 1
1257			Default: 0
1258	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1259			Format: 0 | 1
1260			Default: 0
1261	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1262			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1263			Default: 1024
1264	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1265			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1266			Default: 1024
1267
1268	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1269			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1270			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1271
1272	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1273			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1274			backtraces on all cpus.
1275			Format: <integer>
1276
1277	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1278			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1279			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1280			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1281
1282	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1283
1284	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1285			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1286
1287	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1288			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1289			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1290			logic will be disabled.
1291
1292	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1293			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1294			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1295			size on bigger boxes.
1296
1297	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1298			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1299			Default: "on"
1300
1301	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1302			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1303
1304	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1305
1306	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1307			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1308				verbose }
1309			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1310			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1311				VIA, nVidia)
1312			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1313
1314	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1315			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1316
1317	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1318	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1319			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1320			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1321			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1322			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1323			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1324
1325	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1326			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1327	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1328			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1329			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1330
1331	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1332			        hardware thread id mappings.
1333				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1334
1335	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1336			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1337			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1338			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1339			the real console.
1340
1341	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1342			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1343			     registered from board initialization code.
1344			     Format:
1345			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1346
1347	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1348	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1349			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1350			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1351			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1352	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1353	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1354			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1355			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1356	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1357	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1358	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1359			     for the AUX port
1360	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1361			     controller
1362	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1363			     controllers
1364	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1365	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1366			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1367			     transitions, or never reset
1368			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1369			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1370			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1371			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1372			architectures force reset to be always executed
1373	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1374	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1375
1376	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1377
1378	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1379			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1380			hardware.
1381	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1382			does not match list of supported models.
1383	i8k.power_status
1384			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1385			(disabled by default)
1386	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1387			capability is set.
1388
1389	i915.invert_brightness=
1390			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1391			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1392			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1393			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1394			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1395			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1396			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1397			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1398			value switches the backlight off.
1399			-1 -- never invert brightness
1400			 0 -- machine default
1401			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1402
1403	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1404			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1405
1406	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1407			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1408			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1409			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1410			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1411
1412	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1413			Format: <int>
1414			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1415			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1416			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1417			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1418			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1419			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1420			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1421			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1422			was 0x3.
1423
1424	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1425			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1426
1427	idle=		[X86]
1428			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1429			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1430			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1431			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1432			Not recommended.
1433			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1434			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1435			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1436
1437	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1438			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1439			Default: strict
1440
1441			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1442			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1443			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1444			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1445			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1446			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1447			encoding mode.
1448
1449			Available settings are as follows:
1450			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1451				supported by the FPU
1452			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1453				by the FPU
1454			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1455				by the FPU
1456			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1457				supported by the FPU
1458
1459			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1460			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1461			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1462			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1463			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1464			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1465			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1466			MIPS64 CPUs.
1467
1468			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1469			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1470			except where unsupported by hardware.
1471
1472	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1473			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1474			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1475			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1476			could change it dynamically, usually by
1477			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1478
1479	ignore_rlimit_data
1480			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1481			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1482			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1483
1484	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1485			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1486
1487	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1488			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1489			default: "enforce"
1490
1491	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1492			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1493			owned by uid=0.
1494
1495	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1496			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1497			measurements, instead of host native format.
1498
1499	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1500			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1501				   | sha512 | ... }
1502			default: "sha1"
1503
1504			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1505			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1506
1507	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1508			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1509			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1510
1511			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1512			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1513			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1514			uid=0.
1515
1516			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1517			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1518			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1519
1520			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1521			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1522			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1523
1524	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1525			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1526			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1527			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1528			opened for read by uid=0.
1529
1530	ima_template=   [IMA]
1531			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1532			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1533			Default: "ima-ng"
1534
1535	ima_template_fmt=
1536	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1537			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1538
1539	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1540			Format: <min_file_size>
1541			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1542			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1543
1544			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1545			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1546			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1547
1548	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1549			Format: <bufsize>
1550			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1551
1552			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1553			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1554			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1555
1556	init=		[KNL]
1557			Format: <full_path>
1558			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1559			process.
1560
1561	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1562			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1563			startup.
1564
1565	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1566			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1567			modules and initcalls.
1568
1569	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1570
1571	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1572			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1573			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1574			override in debugfs after boot.
1575
1576	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1577			Format: <irq>
1578
1579	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1580
1581	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1582			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1583			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1584			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1585
1586	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1587		on
1588			Enable intel iommu driver.
1589		off
1590			Disable intel iommu driver.
1591		igfx_off [Default Off]
1592			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1593			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1594			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1595			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1596			DMA.
1597		forcedac [x86_64]
1598			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1599			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1600			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1601			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1602			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1603			then look in the higher range.
1604		strict [Default Off]
1605			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1606			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1607			to batching them for performance.
1608		sp_off [Default Off]
1609			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1610			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1611			not be supported.
1612		ecs_off [Default Off]
1613			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1614			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1615			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1616			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1617			on hardware which claims to support them.
1618		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1619			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1620			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1621			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1622			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1623			mapping is enabled.
1624			Note that using this option lowers the security
1625			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1626			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1627
1628	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1629			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1630			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1631
1632	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1633		       disable
1634		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1635		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1636		       passive
1637			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1638			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1639			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1640			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1641			 feature.
1642		       force
1643			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1644			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1645			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1646			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1647			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1648			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1649			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1650			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1651		       no_hwp
1652		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1653			 if available.
1654		hwp_only
1655			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1656			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1657		support_acpi_ppc
1658			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1659			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1660			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1661			then this feature is turned on by default.
1662		per_cpu_perf_limits
1663			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1664			cpufreq sysfs interface
1665
1666	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1667			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1668			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1669			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1670			no_x2apic_optout
1671				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1672			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1673
1674	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1675		strict	regions from userspace.
1676		relaxed
1677
1678	iommu=		[x86]
1679		off
1680		force
1681		noforce
1682		biomerge
1683		panic
1684		nopanic
1685		merge
1686		nomerge
1687		forcesac
1688		soft
1689		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1690		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1691			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1692
1693	iommu.passthrough=
1694			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1695			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1696			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1697			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1698			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1699
1700	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1701			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1702			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1703
1704	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1705		0x80
1706			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1707		0xed
1708			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1709		udelay
1710			Simple two microseconds delay
1711		none
1712			No delay
1713
1714	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1715			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1716
1717	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1718			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1719
1720	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1721			[ARM, ARM64]
1722			Format: <bool>
1723			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1724			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1725			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1726
1727	irqfixup	[HW]
1728			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1729			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1730			firmware running.
1731
1732	irqpoll		[HW]
1733			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1734			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1735			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1736			firmware running.
1737
1738	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1739			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1740
1741	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1742			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1743			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1744
1745			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1746			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1747
1748			nohz
1749			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1750			domain
1751			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1752			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1753			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1754			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1755			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1756			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1757			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1758			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1759
1760			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1761			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1762			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1763			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1764
1765			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1766
1767
1768
1769	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1770
1771	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1772			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1773			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1774			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1775			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1776				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1777
1778	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1779			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1780			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1781			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1782			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1783				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1784
1785	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1786			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1787			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1788			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1789			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1790				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1791
1792	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1793			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1794
1795	nokaslr		[KNL]
1796			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1797			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1798			Layout Randomization).
1799
1800	kasan_multi_shot
1801			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1802			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1803			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1804			invalid access.
1805
1806	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1807
1808	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1809			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1810			This parameter
1811			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1812			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1813			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1814			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1815			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1816			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1817			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1818			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1819			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1820			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1821			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1822			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1823			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1824			zone if it does not.
1825
1826			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1827			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1828			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1829			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1830			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1831			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1832			time.
1833
1834	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1835			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1836			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1837			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1838			optional and is the number seconds in between
1839			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1840			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1841			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1842			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1843			the kernel debugger.
1844
1845	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1846			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1847			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1848			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1849			 keyboard only format: kbd
1850			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1851			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1852			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1853			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1854
1855	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1856			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1857
1858	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1859			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1860			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1861
1862	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1863			Valid arguments: on, off
1864			Default: on
1865			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1866			the default is off.
1867
1868	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1869			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1870
1871	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1872			KVM MMU at runtime.
1873			Default is 0 (off)
1874
1875	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1876			Default is 1 (enabled)
1877
1878	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1879			for all guests.
1880			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1881
1882	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1883			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1884			system registers
1885
1886	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1887			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1888			system registers
1889
1890	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1891			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1892			system registers
1893
1894	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
1895			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
1896			LPIs.
1897
1898	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1899			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1900			Default is 1 (enabled)
1901
1902	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1903			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1904			Default is 0 (disabled)
1905
1906	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1907			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1908			Default is 1 (enabled)
1909
1910	kvm-intel.nested=
1911			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1912			Default is 0 (disabled)
1913
1914	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1915			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1916			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1917			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1918
1919	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1920			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1921			Default is 1 (enabled)
1922
1923	l2cr=		[PPC]
1924
1925	l3cr=		[PPC]
1926
1927	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1928			disabled it.
1929
1930	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1931			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1932			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1933
1934	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1935			in C2 power state.
1936
1937	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1938			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1939			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1940			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1941			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1942			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1943			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1944
1945	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1946			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1947			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1948
1949	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1950			when set.
1951			Format: <int>
1952
1953	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1954			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1955			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1956			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1957			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1958			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1959			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1960			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1961
1962			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1963			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1964			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1965			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1966			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1967			host link and device attached to it.
1968
1969			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1970			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1971			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1972			The following configurations can be forced.
1973
1974			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1975			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1976
1977			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1978
1979			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1980			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1981			  allowed.
1982
1983			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1984
1985			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1986
1987			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1988                          and both resets.
1989
1990			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1991			  hot-unplug link recovery
1992
1993			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1994
1995			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1996
1997			* disable: Disable this device.
1998
1999			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2000			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2001
2002	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2003
2004	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2005			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
2006
2007	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2008			Format: <integer>
2009
2010	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2011			Format: <integer>
2012
2013	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2014			Format: <integer>
2015
2016	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2017			Format: <integer>
2018
2019	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2020			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2021			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2022			number of online CPUs.
2023
2024	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2025			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2026
2027	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2028			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2029
2030	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2031			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2032			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2033
2034	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2035			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2036			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2037			mode during the locktorture test.
2038
2039	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2040			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2041			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2042
2043	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2044			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2045
2046	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2047			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2048			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2049			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2050			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2051			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2052
2053	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2054			Start locktorture running at boot time.
2055
2056	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2057			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2058
2059	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2060			Enable additional printk() statements.
2061
2062	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2063			Format: <irq>
2064
2065	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2066			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2067			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2068			loglevels are defined as follows:
2069
2070			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2071			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2072			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2073			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2074			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2075			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2076			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2077			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2078
2079	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2080			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2081			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2082			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2083			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2084			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2085			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2086
2087	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2088			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2089			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2090			kernel boot problems.
2091
2092	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2093	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2094	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2095	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2096				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2097				attached printers to be reset. Using
2098				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2099				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2100				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2101				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2102				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2103				port specification list means that device IDs
2104				from each port should be examined, to see if
2105				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2106				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2107				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2108
2109	lpj=n		[KNL]
2110			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2111			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2112			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2113			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2114			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2115			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2116			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2117			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2118			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2119			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2120			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2121			hardware.
2122
2123	ltpc=		[NET]
2124			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2125
2126	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2127			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2128			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2129
2130	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2131			 yeeloong laptop.
2132			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2133
2134	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2135			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2136
2137	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2138			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2139			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2140			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2141			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2142			only takes effect during system bootup.
2143			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2144			which also disables the IO APIC.
2145
2146	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2147	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2148			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2149			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2150			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2151			/dev/loop-control interface.
2152
2153	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2154
2155	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2156
2157	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2158			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2159
2160	mdacon=		[MDA]
2161			Format: <first>,<last>
2162			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2163
2164	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2165			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2166			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2167			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2168			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2169			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2170			belonging to unused RAM.
2171
2172	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2173			memory.
2174
2175	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2176			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2177			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2178
2179        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2180			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2181			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2182			set according to the
2183			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2184			option.
2185			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2186
2187	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2188			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2189			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2190			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2191			option description.
2192
2193	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2194			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2195			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2196			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2197			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2198			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2199			comma delimited.
2200			Example:
2201				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2202
2203	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2204			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2205			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2206
2207	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2208			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2209			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2210			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2211			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2212			         or
2213			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2214			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2215			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2216			will be eaten.
2217
2218	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2219			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2220			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2221			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2222			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2223
2224	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2225			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2226			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2227			Setting this option will scan the memory
2228			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2229			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2230			from using the memory being corrupted.
2231			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2232			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2233			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2234			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2235
2236	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2237			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2238			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2239			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2240			corruption in more or less memory.
2241
2242	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2243			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2244			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2245			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2246
2247	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2248			Format: <integer>
2249			default : 0 <disable>
2250			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2251			performed. Each pass selects another test
2252			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2253			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2254			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2255			regions that are detected.
2256
2257	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2258			Valid arguments: on, off
2259			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2260			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2261			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2262			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2263			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2264
2265			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2266			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2267
2268	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2269			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2270			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2271			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2272			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2273
2274	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2275			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2276
2277	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2278			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2279			platforms.
2280
2281	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2282			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2283			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2284			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2285
2286	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2287
2288	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2289			physical address is ignored.
2290
2291	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2292			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2293			Default: "0tb"
2294			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2295			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2296			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2297			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2298			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2299			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2300			unconfigured.
2301			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2302			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2303			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2304			VGA shield.
2305			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2306			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2307			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2308			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2309			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2310			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2311
2312	mminit_loglevel=
2313			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2314			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2315			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2316			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2317			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2318			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2319
2320	module.sig_enforce
2321			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2322			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2323			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2324			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2325
2326	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2327			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2328
2329	mousedev.tap_time=
2330			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2331			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2332			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2333			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2334			Format: <msecs>
2335	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2336			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2337	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2338			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2339
2340	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2341			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2342			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2343			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2344			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2345			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2346			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2347			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2348			is not too small.
2349
2350	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2351			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2352			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2353			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2354			allocations. Use with caution!
2355
2356	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2357			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2358
2359	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2360			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2361
2362	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2363			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2364
2365	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2366			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2367			at a time.
2368
2369	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2370
2371			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2372
2373			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2374				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2375			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2376				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2377				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2378
2379	mtdset=		[ARM]
2380			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2381
2382			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2383
2384	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2385			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2386			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2387
2388	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2389			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2390			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2391
2392	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2393			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2394			Default is 1.
2395			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2396			using up MTRRs.
2397
2398	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2399			Format: <integer>
2400			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2401			Default : 1
2402			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2403			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2404
2405	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2406
2407	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2408			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2409			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2410			something different and driver-specific.
2411			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2412			file if at all.
2413
2414	nf_conntrack.acct=
2415			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2416			0 to disable accounting
2417			1 to enable accounting
2418			Default value is 0.
2419
2420	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2421			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2422
2423	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2424			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2425
2426	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2427			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2428
2429	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2430			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2431			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2432			requests.
2433
2434	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2435			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2436			channel should listen.
2437
2438	nfs.cache_getent=
2439			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2440			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2441
2442	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2443			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2444			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2445
2446	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2447			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2448			entries.
2449
2450	nfs.enable_ino64=
2451			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2452			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2453			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2454			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2455			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2456
2457	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2458			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2459			slots the client will assign to the callback
2460			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2461			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2462			a particular server.
2463
2464	nfs.max_session_slots=
2465			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2466			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2467			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2468			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2469			Note that there is little point in setting this
2470			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2471
2472	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2473			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2474			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2475			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2476			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2477			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2478			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2479			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2480			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2481			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2482			back to using the idmapper.
2483			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2484	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2485			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2486			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2487			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2488			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2489
2490	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2491			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2492			information in exchange_id requests.
2493			If zero, no implementation identification information
2494			will be sent.
2495			The default is to send the implementation identification
2496			information.
2497
2498	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2499			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2500			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2501			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2502			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2503			after the locks are lost.
2504			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2505			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2506			parameter to '1'.
2507			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2508			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2509
2510	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2511			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2512			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2513
2514			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2515			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2516			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2517			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2518
2519	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2520			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2521			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2522			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2523			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2524			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2525
2526	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2527			when a NMI is triggered.
2528			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2529
2530	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2531			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2532			Valid num: 0 or 1
2533			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2534			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2535			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2536			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2537			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2538			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2539			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2540			need the box quickly up again.
2541
2542	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2543			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2544			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2545			waits 4 seconds.
2546
2547	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2548			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2549			is present.
2550
2551	no_console_suspend
2552			[HW] Never suspend the console
2553			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2554			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2555			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2556			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2557			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2558			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2559			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2560			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2561			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2562			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2563			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2564			turn on/off it dynamically.
2565
2566	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2567			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2568			but will impact performance.
2569
2570	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2571
2572	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2573			(CPU alternatives feature).
2574
2575	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2576			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2577
2578	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2579
2580	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2581			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2582
2583	nocache		[ARM]
2584
2585	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2586
2587	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2588
2589	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2590
2591	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2592
2593	noexec		[IA-64]
2594
2595	noexec		[X86]
2596			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2597			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2598			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2599
2600	nosmap		[X86]
2601			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2602			even if it is supported by processor.
2603
2604	nosmep		[X86]
2605			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2606			even if it is supported by processor.
2607
2608	noexec32	[X86-64]
2609			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2610			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2611				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2612			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2613				read implies executable mappings
2614
2615	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2616
2617	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2618			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2619			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2620
2621	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2622
2623	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2624			Equivalent to smt=1.
2625
2626	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
2627			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
2628			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
2629			to spectre_v2=off.
2630
2631	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2632			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2633			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2634
2635	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2636			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2637			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2638			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2639			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2640			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2641
2642	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2643			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2644			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2645			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2646			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2647			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2648			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2649
2650	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2651			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2652			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2653
2654	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2655			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2656			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2657
2658	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2659			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2660			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2661			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2662			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2663			real-time systems.
2664
2665	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2666
2667	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2668			Valid arguments: on, off
2669			Default: on
2670
2671	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2672			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2673			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2674			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2675			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2676			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2677			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2678			just as if they had also been called out in the
2679			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2680
2681	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2682
2683	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2684			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2685
2686	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2687			broken timer IRQ sources.
2688
2689	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2690
2691	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2692			initial RAM disk.
2693
2694	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2695			remapping.
2696			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2697
2698	nointroute	[IA-64]
2699
2700	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2701
2702	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2703
2704	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2705
2706	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2707			fault handling.
2708
2709	no-vmw-sched-clock
2710			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2711			clock and use the default one.
2712
2713	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2714			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2715			behaviour
2716
2717	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2718
2719	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2720
2721	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2722			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2723
2724	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2725
2726	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2727
2728	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2729			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2730
2731	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2732			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2733			irq.
2734
2735	nomodule	Disable module load
2736
2737	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2738			pagetables) support.
2739
2740	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2741
2742	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2743			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2744
2745	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2746
2747	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2748			with UP alternatives
2749
2750	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2751			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2752			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2753			available to user space applications.
2754
2755	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2756			space.
2757
2758	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2759			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2760			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2761
2762	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2763
2764	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2765
2766	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2767			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2768
2769	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2770
2771	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2772
2773	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2774
2775	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2776                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2777
2778	nowb		[ARM]
2779
2780	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2781
2782	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2783			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2784			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2785			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2786			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2787			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2788			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2789			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2790			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2791			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2792			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2793			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2794			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2795
2796	nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
2797			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
2798			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
2799			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
2800			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
2801			parameter's value.
2802			Format: integer between 1 and 255
2803			Default: 255
2804
2805	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2806			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2807			SAL PALO.
2808
2809	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2810			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2811			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2812			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2813			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2814			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2815			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2816			hot plugging.
2817
2818	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2819
2820	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2821			Allowed values are enable and disable
2822
2823	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2824			'node', 'default' can be specified
2825			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2826			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2827
2828	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2829			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2830			info.
2831
2832	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2833			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2834			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2835			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2836			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2837			interrupts *may* be lost!
2838
2839	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2840			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2841			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2842			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2843
2844	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2845			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2846
2847	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2848			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2849			userland or if you want common events.
2850			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2851			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2852				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2853				CPU specific event set.
2854			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2855				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2856				for generic hr timer mode)
2857
2858	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2859			process, but there is a small probability of
2860			deadlocking the machine.
2861			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2862			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2863
2864	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2865			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2866
2867	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2868			Storage of the information about who allocated
2869			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2870			we can turn it on.
2871			on: enable the feature
2872
2873	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2874			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2875			off: turn off poisoning
2876			on: turn on poisoning
2877
2878	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2879			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2880			timeout = 0: wait forever
2881			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2882			Format: <timeout>
2883
2884	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2885			on a WARN().
2886
2887	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2888			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2889			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2890			succeeds in any situation.
2891			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2892			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2893			kernel more unstable.
2894
2895	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2896			connected to, default is 0.
2897			Format: <parport#>
2898	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2899			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2900			Format: <mode>
2901
2902	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2903			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2904			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2905			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2906			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2907			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2908			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2909			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2910			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2911			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2912			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2913			are specified on the command line, starting
2914			with parport0.
2915
2916	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2917			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2918			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2919			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2920			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2921			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2922			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2923
2924	pause_on_oops=
2925			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2926			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2927			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2928
2929	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2930
2931	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2932			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2933			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2934
2935	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2936		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2937			        changes anything
2938		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2939		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2940				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2941				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2942		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2943				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2944				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2945				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2946		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2947				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2948				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2949		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2950				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2951				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2952				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2953				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2954				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2955				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2956		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2957				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2958				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2959		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2960				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2961		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2962				Configuration
2963		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2964				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2965				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2966		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2967				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2968				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2969		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2970				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2971				should never be necessary.
2972		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2973				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2974				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2975				when the system masks IRQs.
2976		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2977				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2978				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2979				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2980		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2981				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2982				on several machines and they hang the machine
2983				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2984				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2985				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2986				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2987				motherboard.
2988		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2989				Use with caution as certain devices share
2990				address decoders between ROMs and other
2991				resources.
2992		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2993				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2994				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2995		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2996				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2997		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2998				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2999				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3000				this way.
3001		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3002				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3003				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3004				F0000h-100000h range.
3005		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3006				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3007				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3008				explicitly which ones they are.
3009		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3010				numbers ourselves, overriding
3011				whatever the firmware may have done.
3012		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3013				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3014				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3015				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3016				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3017				IRQ routing is enabled.
3018		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3019				or for PCI scanning.
3020		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3021				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3022				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3023				please report a bug.
3024		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3025			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3026		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3027				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3028				so this option is a temporary workaround
3029				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3030		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3031				handle more pci cards
3032		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3033				This might help on some broken boards which
3034				machine check when some devices' config space
3035				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3036				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3037		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3038				This sorting is done to get a device
3039				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3040		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3041		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3042				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3043		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3044				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3045		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3046				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3047				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3048				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3049				or bus can support) for best performance.
3050		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3051				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3052				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3053				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3054				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3055				that hot-added devices will work.
3056		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3057				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3058				The default value is 256 bytes.
3059		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3060				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3061				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3062		resource_alignment=
3063				Format:
3064				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3065				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3066						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3067				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3068				aligned memory resources.
3069				If <order of align> is not specified,
3070				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3071				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3072				windows need to be expanded.
3073				To specify the alignment for several
3074				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3075				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3076				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3077		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3078				end-to-end CRC checking).
3079				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3080				the default.
3081				off: Turn ECRC off
3082				on: Turn ECRC on.
3083		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3084				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3085				Default size is 256 bytes.
3086		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3087				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3088				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3089		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3090				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3091				Default is 1.
3092		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3093				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3094				accommodate resources required by all child
3095				devices.
3096				off: Turn realloc off
3097				on: Turn realloc on
3098		realloc		same as realloc=on
3099		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3100		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3101				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3102				port.
3103		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3104				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3105				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3106				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3107				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3108				taints the kernel.
3109
3110	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3111			Management.
3112		off	Disable ASPM.
3113		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3114			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3115
3116	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3117		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3118			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3119
3120	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3121		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3122			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3123			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3124		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3125			unconditionally.
3126		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3127			ports driver.
3128
3129	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3130		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3131		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3132
3133	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3134		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3135			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3136
3137	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3138
3139	pd_ignore_unused
3140			[PM]
3141			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3142			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3143			for debug and development, but should not be
3144			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3145
3146	pd.		[PARIDE]
3147			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3148
3149	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3150			boot time.
3151			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3152			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3153
3154	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3155			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3156			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3157			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3158			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3159			and performance comparison.
3160
3161	pf.		[PARIDE]
3162			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3163
3164	pg.		[PARIDE]
3165			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3166
3167	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3168			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3169
3170	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3171			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3172			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3173
3174	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3175			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3176			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3177
3178	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3179			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3180			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3181			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3182			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3183			possible settings and some assignment information.
3184
3185	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3186			{ off }
3187
3188	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3189			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3190
3191	pnp_reserve_irq=
3192			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3193
3194	pnp_reserve_dma=
3195			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3196
3197	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3198			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3199
3200	pnp_reserve_mem=
3201			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3202			autoconfiguration.
3203			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3204
3205	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3206			Default is 21.
3207			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3208			may be specified.
3209			Format: <port>,<port>....
3210
3211	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3212			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3213			platform machine description specific power_save
3214			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3215			execution priority.
3216
3217	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3218			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3219			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3220			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3221			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3222
3223	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3224			Format: {"off"}
3225			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3226
3227	print-fatal-signals=
3228			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3229
3230			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3231			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3232			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3233			coredump - etc.
3234
3235			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3236			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3237
3238			default: off.
3239
3240	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3241			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3242			panics
3243			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3244			default: disabled
3245
3246	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3247			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3248			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3249			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3250			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3251			Default: ratelimit
3252
3253	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3254			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3255
3256	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3257			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3258			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3259
3260	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3261			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3262			instead using the legacy FADT method
3263
3264	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3265			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3266			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3267				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3268			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3269			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3270				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3271			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3272			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3273				statistical time based profiling.
3274
3275	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3276			before loading.
3277			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3278
3279	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3280			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3281	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3282			per second.
3283	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3284			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3285			(0 = never).
3286	psmouse.resolution=
3287			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3288	psmouse.smartscroll=
3289			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3290			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3291
3292	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3293
3294	pt.		[PARIDE]
3295			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3296
3297	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3298			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3299			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3300			system calls and interrupts.
3301
3302			on   - unconditionally enable
3303			off  - unconditionally disable
3304			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3305			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3306
3307			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3308
3309	nopti		[X86_64]
3310			Equivalent to pti=off
3311
3312	pty.legacy_count=
3313			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3314			default number.
3315
3316	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3317
3318	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3319
3320	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3321			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3322
3323	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3324			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3325
3326	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3327
3328		cec_disable	[X86]
3329				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3330				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3331
3332	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3333			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3334
3335			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3336			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3337			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3338			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3339			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3340			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3341			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3342			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3343			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3344			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3345
3346	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3347			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3348			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3349			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3350			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3351			This improves the real-time response for the
3352			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3353			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3354			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3355			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3356
3357	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3358			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3359			process in one batch.
3360
3361	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3362			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3363			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3364			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3365
3366	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3367			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3368			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3369
3370	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3371			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3372			RCU grace-period initialization.
3373
3374	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3375			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3376			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3377			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3378			the rcu_node combining tree.
3379
3380	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3381			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3382			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3383			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3384			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3385
3386	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3387			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3388			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3389			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3390			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3391			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3392			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3393
3394	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3395			Set required age in jiffies for a
3396			given grace period before RCU starts
3397			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3398			rcu_note_context_switch().
3399
3400	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3401			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3402			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3403			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3404			and maximum value is HZ.
3405
3406	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3407			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3408			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3409			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3410
3411	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3412			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3413			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3414			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3415			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3416			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3417			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3418			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3419			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3420			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3421
3422	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3423			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3424			defaults to the square root of the number of
3425			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3426			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3427			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3428
3429	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3430			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3431			batch limiting is disabled.
3432
3433	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3434			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3435			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3436
3437	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3438			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3439			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3440
3441	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3442			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3443			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3444			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3445			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3446
3447	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3448			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3449			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3450			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3451			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3452			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3453
3454	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3455			Measure performance of asynchronous
3456			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3457
3458	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3459			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3460			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3461			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3462			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3463			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3464
3465	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3466			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3467			grace-period primitives.
3468
3469	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3470			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3471			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3472			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3473			interference.
3474
3475	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3476			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3477			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3478			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3479			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3480			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3481			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3482			a single reader.
3483
3484	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3485			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3486			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3487			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3488
3489	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3490			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3491
3492	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3493			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3494
3495	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3496			Shut the system down after performance tests
3497			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3498			testing.
3499
3500	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3501			Enable additional printk() statements.
3502
3503	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3504			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3505			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3506			no holdoff.
3507
3508	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3509			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3510			callback-flood tests.
3511
3512	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3513			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3514			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3515			test.
3516
3517	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3518			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3519			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3520			disable callback-flood testing.
3521
3522	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3523			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3524			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3525
3526	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3527			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3528			in microseconds.
3529
3530	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3531			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3532			in microseconds.
3533
3534	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3535			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3536			in seconds.
3537
3538	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3539			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3540			primitives, if available.
3541
3542	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3543			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3544
3545	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3546			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3547			update-side primitives, if available.
3548
3549	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3550			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3551			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3552			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3553			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3554			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3555			they are all non-zero.
3556
3557	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3558			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3559
3560	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3561			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3562			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3563			test, hence the "fake".
3564
3565	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3566			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3567			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3568			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3569			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3570			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3571
3572	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3573			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3574
3575	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3576			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3577
3578	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3579			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3580			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3581
3582	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3583			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3584			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3585			during the rcutorture test.
3586
3587	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3588			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3589			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3590
3591	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3592			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3593			warnings, zero to disable.
3594
3595	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3596			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3597
3598	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
3599			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
3600
3601	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3602			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3603
3604	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3605			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3606			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3607			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3608			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3609
3610	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3611			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3612			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3613			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3614
3615	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3616			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3617
3618	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3619			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3620
3621	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3622			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3623			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3624
3625	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3626			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3627
3628	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3629			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3630
3631	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3632			Enable additional printk() statements.
3633
3634	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3635			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3636
3637	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3638			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3639
3640	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3641			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3642			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3643			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3644			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3645			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3646			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3647
3648	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3649			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3650			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3651			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3652			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3653			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3654			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3655			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3656			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3657
3658	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3659			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3660			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3661			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3662			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3663
3664	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3665			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3666			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3667			to zero.
3668
3669	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3670			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3671
3672	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3673			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3674
3675	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3676			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3677
3678	rdinit=		[KNL]
3679			Format: <full_path>
3680			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3681			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3682
3683	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3684			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3685			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3686			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3687				rdt=cmt,!mba
3688
3689	reboot=		[KNL]
3690			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3691				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3692				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3693				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3694				[[,]f[orce]
3695			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3696			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3697			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3698			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3699					to be used for rebooting.
3700
3701	relax_domain_level=
3702			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3703			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3704
3705	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3706
3707	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3708			Format: nn[KMG]
3709			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3710			address space.
3711
3712	reservelow=	[X86]
3713			Format: nn[K]
3714			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3715			the bottom of the address space.
3716
3717	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3718			during initialization.
3719
3720	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3721			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3722			Format:
3723			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3724
3725	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3726			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3727			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3728			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3729			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3730
3731	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3732			read the resume files
3733
3734	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3735			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3736			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3737
3738	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3739		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3740				present during boot.
3741		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3742		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3743		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3744				(that will set all pages holding image data
3745				during restoration read-only).
3746
3747	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3748
3749	rfkill.default_state=
3750		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3751			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3752		1	Unblocked.
3753
3754	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3755		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3756		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3757			blocked and the previous configuration.
3758		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3759			blocked and everything unblocked.
3760
3761	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3762			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3763
3764	ring3mwait=disable
3765			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3766			CPUs.
3767
3768	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3769
3770	rodata=		[KNL]
3771		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3772		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3773
3774	rockchip.usb_uart
3775			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3776			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3777			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3778			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3779
3780	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3781			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3782
3783	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3784			mount the root filesystem
3785
3786	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3787
3788	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3789
3790	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3791			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3792			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3793
3794	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3795			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3796			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3797			managed by CMA.
3798
3799	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3800
3801	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3802
3803	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3804			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3805		strict
3806			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3807			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3808			which is faster.
3809
3810	sa1100ir	[NET]
3811			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3812
3813	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3814
3815	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3816
3817	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3818			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3819			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3820			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3821
3822	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3823			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3824			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3825			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3826			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3827			1 -- enable.
3828			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3829			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3830
3831	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3832			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3833			security module asking for security registration will be
3834			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3835			as if no module has been chosen.
3836
3837	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3838			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3839			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3840			0 -- disable.
3841			1 -- enable.
3842			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3843			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3844			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3845
3846	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3847			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3848			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3849			0 -- disable.
3850			1 -- enable.
3851			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3852
3853	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3854
3855	shapers=	[NET]
3856			Maximal number of shapers.
3857
3858	simeth=		[IA-64]
3859	simscsi=
3860
3861	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3862
3863	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3864			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3865			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3866			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3867			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3868			layout control by attackers can usually be
3869			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3870			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3871			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3872			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3873			own.
3874			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3875
3876	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3877			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3878			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3879			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3880			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3881
3882	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3883			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3884			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3885			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3886			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3887			last alloc / free. For more information see
3888			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3889
3890	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3891			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3892			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3893			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3894			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3895			directories and files being created under
3896			/sys/kernel/slub.
3897
3898	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3899			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3900			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3901			fragmentation. For more information see
3902			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3903
3904	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3905			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3906			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3907			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3908			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3909			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3910			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3911			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3912
3913	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3914			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3915			lower than slub_max_order.
3916			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3917
3918	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3919			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3920			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3921
3922	smart2=		[HW]
3923			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3924
3925	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3926	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3927	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3928	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3929	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3930	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3931	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3932				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3933				1: Fast pin select (default)
3934				2: ATC IRMode
3935
3936	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3937			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3938			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3939			actual hardware limit.
3940			Format: <integer>
3941			Default: -1 (no limit)
3942
3943	softlockup_panic=
3944			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3945			Format: <integer>
3946
3947			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
3948			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
3949			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
3950			which is the respective build-time switch to that
3951			functionality.
3952
3953	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3954			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3955			backtraces on all cpus.
3956			Format: <integer>
3957
3958	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3959			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3960
3961	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
3962			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
3963
3964			on   - unconditionally enable
3965			off  - unconditionally disable
3966			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3967			       vulnerable
3968
3969			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
3970			mitigation method at run time according to the
3971			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
3972			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
3973			compiler with which the kernel was built.
3974
3975			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
3976
3977			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
3978			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
3979			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
3980
3981			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3982			spectre_v2=auto.
3983
3984	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3985	spia_fio_base=
3986	spia_pedr=
3987	spia_peddr=
3988
3989	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3990			Specifies how frequently to check for
3991			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3992			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3993			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3994			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3995			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
3996			are ignored.
3997
3998	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3999			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4000			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4001			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4002			grace period will be considered for automatic
4003			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4004			expediting.
4005
4006	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4007			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4008			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4009			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4010			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4011			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4012
4013	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4014			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4015
4016	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4017			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4018			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4019			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4020			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4021			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4022			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4023
4024	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4025			Format: <num>
4026			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4027			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4028			as the initial boot-console.
4029			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4030
4031	sti_font=	[HW]
4032			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4033
4034	stifb=		[HW]
4035			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4036
4037	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4038	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4039			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4040			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4041			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4042			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4043			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4044			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4045			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4046			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4047			maximum port values.
4048
4049	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4050			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4051			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4052			process in parallel from a single connection.
4053			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4054
4055	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4056			[NFS]
4057			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4058			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4059			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4060			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4061			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4062			NFS server is running.
4063
4064			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4065				    automatically using heuristics
4066			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4067			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4068			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4069				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4070
4071	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4072	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4073			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4074			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4075			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4076			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4077			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4078			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4079
4080	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4081			[SUSPEND]
4082			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4083			mode before resuming the system (see
4084			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4085			is set. Default value is 5.
4086
4087	swapaccount=[0|1]
4088			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4089			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4090			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
4091
4092	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4093			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4094			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4095			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4096			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4097			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4098
4099	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4100
4101	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4102			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4103			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4104			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4105			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4106			in older udev will not work anymore.
4107			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4108			the kernel configuration.
4109
4110	sysrq_always_enabled
4111			[KNL]
4112			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4113			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4114			Useful for debugging.
4115
4116	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4117			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4118			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4119			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4120			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4121			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4122
4123	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4124
4125	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4126			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4127			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4128			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4129			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4130			The system is woken from this state using a
4131			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4132
4133	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4134			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4135
4136	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4137			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4138			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4139
4140	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4141			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4142			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4143
4144	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4145			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4146			critical and hot trip points.
4147
4148	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4149			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4150
4151	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4152			-1: disable all passive trip points
4153			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4154			value
4155
4156	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4157			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4158			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4159			0: no polling (default)
4160
4161	threadirqs	[KNL]
4162			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4163			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4164
4165	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4166			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4167
4168	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4169			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4170			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4171
4172	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4173			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4174			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4175			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4176
4177	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4178			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4179			to the hypervisor.
4180
4181	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4182			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4183			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4184			kernel based on different criteria.
4185
4186	topology=	[S390]
4187			Format: {off | on}
4188			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4189			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4190			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4191			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4192			Default is on.
4193
4194	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4195			Format: {off}
4196			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4197			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4198			LPAR.
4199
4200	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4201
4202	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4203			Format: integer pcr id
4204			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4205			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4206			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4207			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4208			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4209			are saved.
4210
4211	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4212			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4213
4214	trace_event=[event-list]
4215			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4216			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4217			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4218			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4219
4220	trace_options=[option-list]
4221			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4222			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4223			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4224			to echo the option name into
4225
4226			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4227
4228			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4229			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4230
4231			      trace_options=stacktrace
4232
4233			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4234			section.
4235
4236	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4237			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4238			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4239			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4240			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4241			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4242
4243			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4244			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4245			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4246			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4247
4248			** CAUTION **
4249
4250			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4251			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4252			the system to live lock.
4253
4254	traceoff_on_warning
4255			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4256			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4257			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4258			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4259
4260			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4261			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4262			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4263
4264			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4265			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4266
4267	transparent_hugepage=
4268			[KNL]
4269			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4270			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4271			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4272			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4273
4274	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4275			Format: <string>
4276			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4277			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4278			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4279			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4280			virtualized environment.
4281			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4282			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4283			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4284			can add overhead.
4285			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4286			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4287			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4288
4289	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4290			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4291			Format:
4292			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4293			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4294
4295	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4296			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4297			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4298			help "seeing" what's going on.
4299
4300	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4301			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4302
4303	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4304			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4305			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4306			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4307			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4308			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4309			reported either.
4310
4311	unknown_nmi_panic
4312			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4313
4314	usbcore.authorized_default=
4315			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4316			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4317			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4318
4319	usbcore.autosuspend=
4320			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4321			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4322			is the time required before an idle device will be
4323			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4324			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4325
4326	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4327			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4328
4329	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4330			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4331			(default = 65536).
4332
4333	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4334			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4335
4336	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4337			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4338			scheme (default 0 = off).
4339
4340	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4341			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4342			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4343
4344	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4345			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4346			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4347
4348	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4349			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4350                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4351			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4352
4353	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4354
4355	usbhid.mousepoll=
4356			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4357
4358	usbhid.jspoll=
4359			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4360
4361	usb-storage.delay_use=
4362			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4363			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4364
4365	usb-storage.quirks=
4366			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4367			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4368			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4369			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4370			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4371			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4372			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4373				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4374					of sense data);
4375				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4376					bytes of sense data);
4377				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4378					device capacity by one sector);
4379				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4380					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4381				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4382					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4383				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4384					command, uas only);
4385				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4386					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4387				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4388					reported device capacity by one
4389					sector if the number is odd);
4390				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4391					device);
4392				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4393					command, uas only);
4394				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4395					unlock ejectable media);
4396				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4397					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4398				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4399					initial READ(10) command);
4400				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4401					reported by the device);
4402				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4403					by default);
4404				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4405					bogus residue values);
4406				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4407					Logical Unit);
4408				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4409					commands, uas only);
4410				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4411				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4412					medium is write-protected).
4413				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4414					even if the device claims no cache)
4415			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4416
4417	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4418			Format: <int>
4419			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4420				 1 - undefined instruction events
4421				 2 - system calls
4422				 4 - invalid data aborts
4423				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4424				16 - SIGBUS faults
4425			Example: user_debug=31
4426
4427	userpte=
4428			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4429
4430				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4431					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4432					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4433
4434	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4435			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4436
4437			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4438			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4439
4440	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4441			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4442			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4443
4444			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4445			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4446			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4447
4448			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4449			alias for vdso32=0.
4450
4451			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4452			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4453
4454	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4455			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4456
4457	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4458			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4459
4460	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4461			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4462			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4463			level and then send out the event to user space through
4464			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4465			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4466			brightness level.
4467			default: 1
4468
4469	virtio_mmio.device=
4470			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4471
4472				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4473			where:
4474				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4475						like K, M and G)
4476				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4477				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4478						request_irq())
4479				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4480			example:
4481				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4482
4483			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4484
4485	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4486			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4487			Documentation/svga.txt.
4488			Use vga=ask for menu.
4489			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4490			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4491
4492	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4493			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4494			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4495			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4496			mapped kernel RAM.
4497
4498	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4499			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4500			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4501
4502	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4503			Format: <command>
4504
4505	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4506			Format: <command>
4507
4508	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4509			Format: <command>
4510
4511	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4512			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4513			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4514			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4515			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4516			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4517			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4518
4519			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4520			            emulated reasonably safely.
4521
4522			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4523			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4524			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4525			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4526			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4527
4528			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4529			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4530			            might break your system.
4531
4532	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4533			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4534			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4535
4536	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4537			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4538			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4539			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4540
4541	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4542			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4543			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4544			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4545			ranging from 0-255.
4546
4547	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4548			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4549			Change the default green palette of the console.
4550			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4551			ranging from 0-255.
4552
4553	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4554			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4555			Change the default red palette of the console.
4556			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4557			ranging from 0-255.
4558
4559	vt.default_utf8=
4560			[VT]
4561			Format=<0|1>
4562			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4563			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4564			newly opened terminals.
4565
4566	vt.global_cursor_default=
4567			[VT]
4568			Format=<-1|0|1>
4569			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4570			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4571			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4572			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4573			cursors, 1 will display them.
4574
4575	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4576			Default: 2 = green.
4577
4578	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4579			Default: 3 = cyan.
4580
4581	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4582			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4583			or other driver-specific files in the
4584			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4585
4586	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4587			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4588			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4589			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4590			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4591			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4592			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4593			corresponding sysfs file.
4594
4595	workqueue.disable_numa
4596			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4597			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4598			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4599			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4600			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4601			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4602			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4603
4604	workqueue.power_efficient
4605			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4606			they show better performance thanks to cache
4607			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4608			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4609
4610			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4611			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4612			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4613			power usage at the cost of small performance
4614			overhead.
4615
4616			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4617			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4618
4619	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4620			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4621			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4622			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4623			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4624			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4625			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4626			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4627			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4628			impacted.
4629
4630	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4631			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4632			supporting x2apic.
4633
4634	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4635			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4636			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4637			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4638			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4639
4640	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4641			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4642			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4643			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4644			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4645			domains.
4646
4647	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4648			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4649			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4650			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4651			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4652			nics -- unplug network devices
4653			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4654			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4655				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4656				the unplug protocol
4657			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4658
4659	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4660			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4661			optimizations.
4662
4663	xen_nopv	[X86]
4664			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4665			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4666
4667	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4668			Format:
4669			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4670