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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
404
405	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
407	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408			EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
412	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
413			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
414
415	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416			keyboards
417
418	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
420
421	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422			Use software keyboard repeat
423
424	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
425			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427			    enabled until the next reboot
428			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
430			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433			    userspace auditd.
434			Default: unset
435
436	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438			Default: 64
439
440	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
441			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442			Format: { "0" | "1" }
443			0 - Disable the BAU.
444			1 - Enable the BAU.
445			unset - Disable the BAU.
446
447	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
448			Format: <io>,<mode>
449
450	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451			Format: <io>,<mode>
452			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
454	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
455			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
456			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
459	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
460			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
461			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
464	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
465			embedded devices based on command line input.
466			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
467
468	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
469			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
470			no delay (0).
471			Format: integer
472
473	bootconfig	[KNL]
474			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
475			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
476
477			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
478
479	bert_disable	[ACPI]
480			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
481
482	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
483			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
484
485	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
486	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
487			kernel args too.
488	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
489	bttv.tuner=
490
491	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493			at a time.
494
495	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
497	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
498			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502			This option provides an override for these situations.
503
504	carrier_timeout=
505			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507			it waits 120 seconds.
508
509	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511			trust validation.
512			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
513
514	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518			others).
519
520	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
521			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
522
523	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
525			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527			  a single hierarchy
528			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529			  subsystem
530			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532			  created
533			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
536			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537			stall information accounting feature
538
539	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
542			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
544			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546			all v1 hierarchies.
547
548	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549			Format: <string>
550			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
551			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
552
553	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
556			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557				any implied execute protection).
558			1 -- check protection requested by application.
559			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
560			Value can be changed at runtime via
561				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
562			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
563
564	cio_ignore=	[S390]
565			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
566	clk_ignore_unused
567			[CLK]
568			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
569			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
570			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
571			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
572			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
573			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
574			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
575			platform with proper driver support.  For more
576			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
577
578	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
579			[Deprecated]
580			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
581			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
582			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
583			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
584
585	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
586			Format: <string>
587			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
588			with the name specified.
589			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
590			the platform:
591			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
592			[ACPI] acpi_pm
593			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
594				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
595			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
596				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
597			[MIPS] MIPS
598			[PARISC] cr16
599			[S390] tod
600			[SH] SuperH
601			[SPARC64] tick
602			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
603
604	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
605			[ARM,ARM64]
606			Format: <bool>
607			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
608			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
609			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
610			systems.
611
612	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
613			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
614			external delays before the clock will be marked
615			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
616			three attempts to read the clock under test.
617
618	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
619			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
620			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
621			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
622			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
623			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
624			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
625			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
626			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
627
628	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
629			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
630			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
631			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
632			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
633
634	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
635			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
636			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
637			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
638			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
639			ones should be.
640			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
641			or using the feature without checking anything
642			will still see it. This just prevents it from
643			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
644			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
645			some critical bits.
646
647	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
648			[KNL,CMA]
649			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
650			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
651			placement constraint by the physical address range of
652			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
653			altogether. For more information, see
654			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
655
656	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
657			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
658			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
659			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
660			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
661			specificed, the default value is 0.
662			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
663			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
664			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
665			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
666
667	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
668			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
669			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
670			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
671			a hypervisor.
672			Default: yes
673
674	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
675			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
676			allocations, by default set to 256K.
677
678	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
679			Format:
680			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
681
682	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
683			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
684
685	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
686			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
687			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
688
689	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
690	conmode=
691
692	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
693
694		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
695
696		ttyS<n>[,options]
697		ttyUSB0[,options]
698			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
699			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
700			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
701			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
702			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
703
704			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
705			information.  See
706			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
707			alternative.
708
709		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
710		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
711		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
712		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
713		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
714			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
715			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
716			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
717			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
718			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
719			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
720			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
721			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
722			the h/w is not re-initialized.
723
724		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
725			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
726
727		{ null | "" }
728			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
729			console messages discarded.
730			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
731			kernel command line.
732
733		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
734		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
735			console=brl,ttyS0
736		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
737
738	console_msg_format=
739			[KNL] Change console messages format
740		default
741			By default we print messages on consoles in
742			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
743			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
744			`printk_time' param).
745		syslog
746			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
747			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
748			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
749			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
750			from /proc/kmsg.
751
752	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
753			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
754			Defaults to 0.
755
756	coredump_filter=
757			[KNL] Change the default value for
758			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
759			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
760
761	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
762			[ARM,ARM64]
763			Format: <bool>
764			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
765			0: default value, disable debugging
766			1: enable debugging at boot time
767
768	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
769			disable the cpuidle sub-system
770
771	cpuidle.governor=
772			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
773
774	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
775			disable the cpufreq sub-system
776
777	cpufreq.default_governor=
778			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
779			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
780			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
781
782	cpu_init_udelay=N
783			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
784			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
785			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
786			Default: 10000
787
788	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
789			Format:
790			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
791
792	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
793			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
794			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
795			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
796			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
797			is selected automatically.
798			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
799			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
800			hasn't been specified.
801			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
802
803	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
804			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
805			in the running system. The syntax of range is
806			start-[end] where start and end are both
807			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
808			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
809
810	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
811			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
812			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
813			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
814			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
815			available.
816			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
817	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
818			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
819			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
820			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
821			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
822			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
823			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
824			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
825			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
826			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
827			for second kernel instead.
828			0: to disable low allocation.
829			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
830			or memory reserved is below 4G.
831
832	cryptomgr.notests
833			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
834
835	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
836			Format: <dma>
837
838	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
839			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
840
841	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
842			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
843			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
844			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
845			to resolve the hang situation.
846			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
847			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
848			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
849			     but more data)
850
851	dasd=		[HW,NET]
852			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
853
854	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
855			(one device per port)
856			Format: <port#>,<type>
857			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
858
859	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
860
861	debug_boot_weak_hash
862			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
863			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
864			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
865			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
866			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
867			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
868
869	debug_locks_verbose=
870			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
871			Format: <int>
872			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
873			self-tests.
874			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
875			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
876			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
877			useful to lockdep developers.
878
879	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
880
881	no_debug_objects
882			[KNL] Disable object debugging
883
884	debug_guardpage_minorder=
885			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
886			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
887			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
888			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
889			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
890			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
891			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
892			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
893			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
894			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
895			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
896			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
897			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
898			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
899			bypassed) which are not detectable by
900			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
901			tracking down these problems.
902
903	debug_pagealloc=
904			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
905			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
906			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
907			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
908			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
909			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
910			on: enable the feature
911
912	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
913			and debugfs internal clients.
914			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
915			on: 	All functions are enabled.
916			no-mount:
917				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
918			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
919				its content. There is nothing to mount.
920			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
921			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
922				or directories within debugfs.
923				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
924				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
925			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
926
927	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
928
929	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
930			Format: <area>[,<node>]
931			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
932
933	default_hugepagesz=
934			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
935			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
936			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
937			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
938			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
939			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
940			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
941			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
942			Format: size[KMG]
943
944	deferred_probe_timeout=
945			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
946			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
947			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
948			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
949			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
950			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
951			retrying.
952
953	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
954			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
955			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
956			hardware.
957
958	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
959			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
960			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
961			blacklisted features.
962
963	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
964			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
965			(disabled by default).
966
967	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
968			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
969			capability is set.
970
971	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
972			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
973
974	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
975			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
976
977	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
978			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
979			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
980			          level 1 and decompression (default)
981			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
982			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
983			          only (compression on level 1)
984			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
985			          only (decompression)
986			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
987			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
988
989	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
990			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
991
992	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
993			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
994			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
995			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
996			miss to occur.
997
998	stress_slb	[PPC]
999			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1000			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1001			on kernel addresses.
1002
1003	disable=	[IPV6]
1004			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1005
1006	hardened_usercopy=
1007                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1008                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1009                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1010                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
1011                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1012                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1013                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1014                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1015                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1016
1017	disable_radix	[PPC]
1018			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1019
1020	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1021			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1022			invalidate.
1023
1024	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1025			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1026			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1027
1028	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1029			Format: <int>
1030			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1031			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1032			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1033			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1034			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1035			INIT from AP to BSP.
1036
1037	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1038			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1039			to workaround buggy firmware.
1040
1041	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1042			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1043
1044	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1045			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1046			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1047			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1048
1049	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1050			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1051			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1052			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1053			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1054
1055	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1056			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1057			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1058
1059	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1060
1061	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1062			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1063
1064	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1065			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1066			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1067			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1068			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1069			architectural default is too low.
1070
1071	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1072			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1073			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1074			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1075			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1076			driver later using sysfs.
1077
1078	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1079			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1080			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1081
1082	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1083			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1084			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1085			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1086			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1087			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1088			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1089			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1090			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1091			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1092			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1093			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1094			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1095			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1096			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1097			data set with no connector name will be used for
1098			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1099
1100	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1101
1102	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1103			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1104			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1105			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1106			exists).
1107			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1108			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1109			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1110
1111	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1112			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1113			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1114			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1115
1116	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1117	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1118			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1119			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1120			for details.
1121
1122	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1123			in some Intel CPUs.
1124
1125	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1126			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1127
1128	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1129			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1130			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1131			which are not unmapped.
1132
1133	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1134
1135			When used with no options, the early console is
1136			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1137			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1138			the platform.
1139
1140		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1141			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1142			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1143			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1144			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1145			configured.
1146
1147		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1148		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1149		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1150		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1151		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1152			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1153			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1154			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1155			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1156			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1157			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1158			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1159			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1160
1161		pl011,<addr>
1162		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1163			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1164			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1165			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1166			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1167			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1168			the device registers.
1169
1170		liteuart,<addr>
1171			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1172			specified address. The serial port must already be
1173			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1174
1175		meson,<addr>
1176			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1177			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1178			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1179			supported.
1180
1181		msm_serial,<addr>
1182			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1183			port at the specified address. The serial port
1184			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1185			yet supported.
1186
1187		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1188			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1189			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1190			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1191			yet supported.
1192
1193		owl,<addr>
1194			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1195			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1196			specified address. The serial port must already be
1197			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1198
1199		rda,<addr>
1200			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1201			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1202			specified address. The serial port must already be
1203			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
1205		sbi
1206			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1207			console.
1208
1209		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1210
1211		s3c2410,<addr>
1212		s3c2412,<addr>
1213		s3c2440,<addr>
1214		s3c6400,<addr>
1215		s5pv210,<addr>
1216		exynos4210,<addr>
1217			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1218			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1219			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1220			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1221			Options are not yet supported.
1222
1223		lantiq,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1225			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1226			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1227			yet supported.
1228
1229		lpuart,<addr>
1230		lpuart32,<addr>
1231			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1232			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1233			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1234			port must already be setup and configured.
1235
1236		ec_imx21,<addr>
1237		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1238			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1239			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1240			must already be setup and configured.
1241
1242		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1243			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1244			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1245			address. The serial port must already be setup
1246			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1247
1248		qcom_geni,<addr>
1249			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1250			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1251			specified address. The serial port must already be
1252			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1253
1254		efifb,[options]
1255			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1256			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1257			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1258			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1259			mapped with the correct attributes.
1260
1261		linflex,<addr>
1262			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1263			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1264			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1265			already be setup and configured.
1266
1267	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1268			earlyprintk=vga
1269			earlyprintk=sclp
1270			earlyprintk=xen
1271			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1272			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1273			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1274			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1275			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1276			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1277
1278			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1279			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1280			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1281
1282			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1283			takes over.
1284
1285			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1286			be used at a time.
1287
1288			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1289			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1290			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1291			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1292				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1293			You can find the port for a given device in
1294			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1295				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1296
1297			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1298			very good.
1299
1300			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1301			the real console.
1302
1303			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1304
1305			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1306
1307			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1308			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1309			UART class.
1310
1311	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1312			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1313			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1314			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1315			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1316			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1317			default: on.
1318
1319	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1320			ekgdboc=kbd
1321
1322			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1323			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1324
1325			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1326			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1327			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1328			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1329
1330	edd=		[EDD]
1331			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1332
1333	efi=		[EFI]
1334			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1335				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1336				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1337			debug: enable misc debug output.
1338			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1339			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1340			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1341			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1342			firmware implementations.
1343			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1344			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1345			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1346			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1347			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1348			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1349			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1350			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1351			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1352			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1353
1354	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1355			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1356			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1357			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1358			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1359
1360	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1361			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1362			updating original EFI memory map.
1363			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1364			from ss to ss+nn.
1365
1366			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1367			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1368			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1369			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1370
1371			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1372			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1373			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1374
1375			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1376			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1377			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1378			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1379			"soft reserved".
1380
1381	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1382			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1383			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1384			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1385			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1386
1387
1388	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1389			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1390
1391	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1392			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1393			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1394
1395	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1396			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1397			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1398			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1399			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1400
1401	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1402			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1403			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1404			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1405
1406	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1407			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1408			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1409			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1410			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1411
1412	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1413			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1414			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1415			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1416			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1417			Default value is 0.
1418			Value can be changed at runtime via
1419			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1420
1421	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1422			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1423			support.
1424
1425	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1426			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1427			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1428
1429	evm=		[EVM]
1430			Format: { "fix" }
1431			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1432			current integrity status.
1433
1434	failslab=
1435	fail_usercopy=
1436	fail_page_alloc=
1437	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1438			General fault injection mechanism.
1439			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1440			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1441
1442	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1443			Format: { initns | none }
1444			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1445			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1446
1447	floppy=		[HW]
1448			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1449
1450	force_pal_cache_flush
1451			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1452			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1453			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1454			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1455
1456	forcepae	[X86-32]
1457			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1458			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1459			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1460			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1461			and may cause unknown problems.
1462
1463	ftrace=[tracer]
1464			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1465			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1466			boot debugging.
1467
1468	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1469			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1470			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1471			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1472			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1473			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1474			start up functionality.
1475
1476	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1477			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1478			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1479			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1480			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1481			oops.
1482
1483	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1484			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1485			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1486			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1487			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1488			tracing directory.
1489
1490	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1491			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1492			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1493			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1494			tracing directory.
1495
1496	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1497			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1498			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1499			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1500			that can be changed at run time by the
1501			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1502
1503	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1504			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1505			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1506			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1507			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1508
1509	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1510			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1511			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1512			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1513			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1514
1515	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1516			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1517			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1518			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1519			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1520			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1521			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1522			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1523			suppliers).
1524			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1525			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1526			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1527				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1528				up (sync_state() calls).
1529			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1530				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1531			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1532
1533	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1534			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1535			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1536			Format: <bool>
1537
1538	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1539			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1540			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1541			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1542			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1543
1544	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1545
1546	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1547			Format: off | on
1548			default: on
1549
1550	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1551			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1552			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1553			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1554			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1555
1556	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1557			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1558			android emulator
1559
1560	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1561			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1562			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1563	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1564			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1565
1566	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1567			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1568			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1569			GPT to be used instead.
1570
1571	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1572			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1573			Format: 0 | 1
1574			Default: 0
1575	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1576			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1577			Format: 0 | 1
1578			Default: 0
1579	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1580			Format: 0 | 1
1581			Default: 0
1582	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1583			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1584			Default: 1024
1585	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1586			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1587			Default: 1024
1588
1589	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1590			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1591			backtraces on all cpus.
1592			Format: 0 | 1
1593
1594	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1595			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1596			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1597			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1598
1599	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1600
1601	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1602			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1603
1604	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1605			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1606			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1607			logic will be disabled.
1608
1609	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1610			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1611			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1612			size on bigger boxes.
1613
1614	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1615			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1616			Default: "on"
1617
1618	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1619
1620	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1621			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1622				verbose }
1623			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1624			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1625				VIA, nVidia)
1626			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1627
1628	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1629			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1630
1631	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1632			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1633			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1634			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1635				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1636
1637			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1638			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1639			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1640
1641	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1642			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1643			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1644			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1645			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1646			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1647			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1648			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1649			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1650				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1651
1652	hugepagesz=
1653			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1654			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1655			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1656			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1657			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1658			architecture dependent.  See also
1659			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1660			Format: size[KMG]
1661
1662	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1663			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1664			enabled.
1665			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1666			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1667			Format: { on | off (default) }
1668
1669			on:  enable the feature
1670			off: disable the feature
1671
1672			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1673			the default is on.
1674
1675			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1676			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1677			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1678
1679	hung_task_panic=
1680			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1681			Format: 0 | 1
1682
1683			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1684			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1685			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1686			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1687			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1688
1689	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1690				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1691	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1692				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1693				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1694
1695	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1696				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1697				      guest on lock contention.
1698
1699	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1700			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1701			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1702			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1703			the real console.
1704
1705	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1706				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1707				registered from board initialization code.
1708				Format:
1709				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1710
1711	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1712	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1713			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1714			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1715			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1716	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1717	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1718			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1719			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1720	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1721	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1722	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1723			     for the AUX port
1724	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1725			     controller
1726	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1727			     controllers
1728	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1729	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1730			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1731			     transitions, or never reset
1732			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1733			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1734			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1735			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1736			architectures force reset to be always executed
1737	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1738	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1739	i8042.probe_defer
1740			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1741
1742	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1743
1744	i915.invert_brightness=
1745			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1746			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1747			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1748			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1749			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1750			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1751			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1752			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1753			value switches the backlight off.
1754			-1 -- never invert brightness
1755			 0 -- machine default
1756			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1757
1758	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1759			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1760
1761	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1762			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1763			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1764			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1765			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1766
1767	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1768			Format: <int>
1769			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1770			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1771			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1772			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1773			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1774			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1775			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1776			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1777			was 0x3.
1778
1779	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1780			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1781
1782	idle=		[X86]
1783			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1784			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1785			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1786			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1787			Not recommended.
1788			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1789			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1790			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1791
1792	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1793			Format: <bool>
1794			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1795			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1796			true (1).
1797
1798	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1799			Format: <bool>
1800			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1801			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1802
1803	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1804			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1805			Default: strict
1806
1807			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1808			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1809			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1810			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1811			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1812			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1813			encoding mode.
1814
1815			Available settings are as follows:
1816			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1817				supported by the FPU
1818			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1819				by the FPU
1820			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1821				by the FPU
1822			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1823				supported by the FPU
1824
1825			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1826			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1827			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1828			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1829			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1830			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1831			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1832			MIPS64 CPUs.
1833
1834			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1835			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1836			except where unsupported by hardware.
1837
1838	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1839			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1840			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1841			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1842			could change it dynamically, usually by
1843			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1844
1845	ignore_rlimit_data
1846			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1847			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1848			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1849
1850	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1851			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1852
1853	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1854			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1855			default: "enforce"
1856
1857	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1858			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1859			owned by uid=0.
1860
1861	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1862			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1863			measurements, instead of host native format.
1864
1865	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1866			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1867				   | sha512 | ... }
1868			default: "sha1"
1869
1870			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1871			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1872
1873	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1874			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1875			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1876				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1877
1878			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1879			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1880			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1881			uid=0.
1882
1883			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1884			all files owned by root.
1885
1886			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1887			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1888			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1889
1890			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1891			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1892			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1893			flag.
1894
1895			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1896			critical data.
1897
1898	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1899			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1900			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1901			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1902			opened for read by uid=0.
1903
1904	ima_template=	[IMA]
1905			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1906			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1907				   "ima-sigv2" }
1908			Default: "ima-ng"
1909
1910	ima_template_fmt=
1911			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1912			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1913
1914	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1915			Format: <min_file_size>
1916			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1917			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1918
1919			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1920			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1921			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1922
1923	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1924			Format: <bufsize>
1925			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1926
1927			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1928			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1929			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1930
1931	init=		[KNL]
1932			Format: <full_path>
1933			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1934			process.
1935
1936	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1937			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1938			startup.
1939
1940	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1941			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1942			modules and initcalls.
1943
1944	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1945			Format: <bool>
1946			Default: 1
1947			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1948			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1949			with devices being probed and
1950			initialized. This should normally just work,
1951			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1952			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1953			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1954			late_ initcalls.
1955
1956	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1957
1958	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1959			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1960			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1961			setting.
1962			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1963			Default is 0, 0
1964
1965	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1966			zeroes.
1967			Format: 0 | 1
1968			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1969
1970	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1971			Format: 0 | 1
1972			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1973
1974	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1975			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1976			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1977			override in debugfs after boot.
1978
1979	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1980			Format: <irq>
1981
1982	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1983
1984	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1985			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1986			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1987			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1988
1989	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1990		on
1991			Enable intel iommu driver.
1992		off
1993			Disable intel iommu driver.
1994		igfx_off [Default Off]
1995			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1996			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1997			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1998			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1999			DMA.
2000		strict [Default Off]
2001			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2002		sp_off [Default Off]
2003			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2004			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2005			not be supported.
2006		sm_on
2007			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2008			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2009			translation.
2010		sm_off
2011			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2012		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2013			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2014			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2015			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2016			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2017			mapping is enabled.
2018			Note that using this option lowers the security
2019			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2020			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2021
2022	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2023			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2024			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2025
2026	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2027			disable
2028			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2029			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2030			passive
2031			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2032			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2033			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2034			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2035			  feature.
2036			force
2037			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2038			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2039			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2040			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2041			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2042			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2043			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2044			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2045			no_hwp
2046			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2047			  if available.
2048			hwp_only
2049			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2050			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2051			support_acpi_ppc
2052			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2053			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2054			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2055			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2056			per_cpu_perf_limits
2057			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2058			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2059
2060	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2061			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2062			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2063			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2064			no_x2apic_optout
2065				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2066			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2067
2068	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2069		strict	regions from userspace.
2070		relaxed
2071
2072	iommu=		[X86]
2073		off
2074		force
2075		noforce
2076		biomerge
2077		panic
2078		nopanic
2079		merge
2080		nomerge
2081		soft
2082		pt		[X86]
2083		nopt		[X86]
2084		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2085			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2086
2087	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2088			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2089			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2090			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2091			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2092			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2093			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2094
2095	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2096			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2097			0 - Lazy mode.
2098			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2099			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2100			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2101			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2102			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2103			1 - Strict mode.
2104			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2105			  synchronously.
2106			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2107			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2108			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2109
2110	iommu.passthrough=
2111			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2112			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2113			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2114			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2115			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2116
2117	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2118			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2119			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2120
2121	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2122		0x80
2123			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2124		0xed
2125			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2126		udelay
2127			Simple two microseconds delay
2128		none
2129			No delay
2130
2131	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2132			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2133
2134	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2135			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2136
2137	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2138			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2139
2140	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2141			[ARM, ARM64]
2142			Format: <bool>
2143			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2144			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2145			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2146
2147	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2148			[ARM, ARM64]
2149			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2150			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2151			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2152			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2153			LPIs.
2154
2155	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2156			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2157			requires the kernel to be built with
2158			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2159
2160	irqfixup	[HW]
2161			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2162			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2163			firmware running.
2164
2165	irqpoll		[HW]
2166			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2167			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2168			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2169			firmware running.
2170
2171	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2172			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2173
2174	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2175			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2176			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2177
2178			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2179			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2180
2181			nohz
2182			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2183
2184			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2185			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2186			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2187			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2188			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2189
2190			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2191			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2192			  be configured manually after bootup.
2193
2194			domain
2195			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2196			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2197			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2198			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2199			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2200			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2201			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2202			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2203
2204			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2205			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2206			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2207			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2208
2209			managed_irq
2210
2211			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2212			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2213			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2214			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2215			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2216
2217			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2218			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2219			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2220			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2221			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2222			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2223			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2224
2225			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2226			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2227			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2228			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2229			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2230			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2231			  queues.
2232
2233			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2234
2235	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2236
2237	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2238			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2239			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2240			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2241			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2242				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2243
2244	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2245			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2246			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2247			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2248			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2249				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2250
2251	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2252			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2253			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2254			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2255			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2256				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2257
2258	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2259			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2260
2261	nokaslr		[KNL]
2262			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2263			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2264			Layout Randomization).
2265
2266	kasan_multi_shot
2267			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2268			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2269			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2270			invalid access.
2271
2272	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2273
2274	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2275			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2276			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2277			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2278			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2279			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2280			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2281			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2282			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2283			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2284
2285			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2286			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2287			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2288			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2289			zone if it does not.
2290
2291			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2292			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2293			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2294			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2295			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2296			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2297			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2298
2299	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2300			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2301			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2302			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2303			optional and is the number seconds in between
2304			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2305			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2306			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2307			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2308			the kernel debugger.
2309
2310	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2311			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2312			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2313			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2314			 keyboard only format: kbd
2315			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2316			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2317			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2318			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2319
2320	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2321			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2322			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2323			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2324			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2325			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2326			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2327
2328			The name of the early console should be specified
2329			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2330			the early console might be different than the tty
2331			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2332			blank and the first boot console that implements
2333			read() will be picked.
2334
2335	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2336			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2337
2338	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2339			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2340			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2341
2342	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2343			Valid arguments: on, off
2344			Default: on
2345			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2346			the default is off.
2347
2348	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2349			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2350			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2351			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2352			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2353			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2354			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2355
2356			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2357
2358			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2359			Boot Parameter" section.
2360
2361	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2362			and kernel address spaces.
2363			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2364			0: force disabled
2365			1: force enabled
2366
2367	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2368			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2369
2370	kvm.eager_page_split=
2371			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2372			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2373			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2374			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2375			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2376			required to split huge pages lazily.
2377
2378			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2379			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2380			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2381			still be used for reads.
2382
2383			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2384			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2385			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2386			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2387			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2388			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2389			cleared.
2390
2391			Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting
2392			huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU.
2393
2394			Default is Y (on).
2395
2396	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2397				   Default is false (don't support).
2398
2399	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2400			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2401			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2402			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2403			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2404			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2405				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2406
2407			Default is 'auto'.
2408
2409			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2410			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2411
2412	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2413			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2414			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2415			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2416			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2417
2418	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2419			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2420			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2421			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2422			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2423			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2424
2425	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2426			Default is 1 (enabled)
2427
2428	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2429			for all guests.
2430			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2431
2432	kvm-arm.mode=
2433			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2434
2435			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2436
2437			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2438			      protected guests.
2439
2440			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2441				   state is kept private from the host.
2442				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2443
2444			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2445			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2446			for the host.
2447
2448	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2449			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2450			system registers
2451
2452	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2453			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2454			system registers
2455
2456	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2457			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2458			system registers
2459
2460	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2461			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2462			LPIs.
2463
2464	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2465			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2466			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2467			allocation.
2468			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2469			Format: <integer>
2470			Default: 5
2471
2472	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2473			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2474			Default is 1 (enabled)
2475
2476	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2477			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2478			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2479			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2480			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2481			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2482			Default is 1 (enabled)
2483
2484	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2485			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2486			Default is 1 (enabled)
2487
2488	kvm-intel.nested=
2489			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2490			Default is 0 (disabled)
2491
2492	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2493			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2494			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2495			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2496
2497	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2498			CVE-2018-3620.
2499
2500			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2501
2502			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2503			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2504				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2505			never:	Disables the mitigation
2506
2507			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2508
2509	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2510			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2511			Default is 1 (enabled)
2512
2513	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2514			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2515
2516			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2517			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2518			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2519
2520			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2521			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2522			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2523			not have direct access.
2524
2525			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2526			options are:
2527
2528			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2529
2530	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2531			      affected CPUs
2532
2533			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2534			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2535
2536			full
2537				Provides all available mitigations for the
2538				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2539				enables all mitigations in the
2540				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2541
2542				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2543				sysfs interface is still possible after
2544				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2545				when the first VM is started in a
2546				potentially insecure configuration,
2547				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2548
2549			full,force
2550				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2551				flush runtime control. Implies the
2552				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2553				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2554
2555			flush
2556				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2557				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2558				L1D flush.
2559
2560				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2561				sysfs interface is still possible after
2562				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2563				when the first VM is started in a
2564				potentially insecure configuration,
2565				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2566
2567			flush,nosmt
2568
2569				Disables SMT and enables the default
2570				hypervisor mitigation.
2571
2572				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2573				sysfs interface is still possible after
2574				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2575				when the first VM is started in a
2576				potentially insecure configuration,
2577				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2578
2579			flush,nowarn
2580				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2581				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2582				insecure configuration.
2583
2584			off
2585				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2586				emit any warnings.
2587				It also drops the swap size and available
2588				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2589				bare metal.
2590
2591			Default is 'flush'.
2592
2593			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2594
2595	l2cr=		[PPC]
2596
2597	l3cr=		[PPC]
2598
2599	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2600			disabled it.
2601
2602	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2603			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2604			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2605			Format: notscdeadline
2606
2607	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2608			in C2 power state.
2609
2610	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2611			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2612			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2613			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2614			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2615			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2616			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2617
2618	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2619			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2620			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2621
2622	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2623			when set.
2624			Format: <int>
2625
2626	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2627			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2628			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2629			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2630			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2631			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2632			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2633			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2634
2635			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2636			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2637			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2638			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2639			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2640			host link and device attached to it.
2641
2642			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2643			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2644			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2645			The following configurations can be forced.
2646
2647			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2648			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2649
2650			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2651
2652			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2653			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2654			  allowed.
2655
2656			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2657
2658			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2659
2660			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2661			  and both resets.
2662
2663			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2664			  hot-unplug link recovery
2665
2666			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2667
2668			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2669
2670			* disable: Disable this device.
2671
2672			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2673			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2674
2675	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2676
2677	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2678
2679	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2680			Format: <integer>
2681
2682	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2683			Format: <integer>
2684
2685	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2686			Format: <integer>
2687
2688	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2689			Format: <integer>
2690
2691	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2692			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2693			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2694			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2695			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2696			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2697			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2698			are also disabled.
2699
2700	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2701			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2702			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2703			number of online CPUs.
2704
2705	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2706			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2707
2708	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2709			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2710
2711	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2712			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2713			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2714
2715	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2716			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2717			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2718			mode during the locktorture test.
2719
2720	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2721			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2722			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2723
2724	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2725			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2726
2727	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2728			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2729			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2730			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2731			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2732			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2733
2734	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2735			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2736
2737	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2738			Enable additional printk() statements.
2739
2740	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2741			Format: <irq>
2742
2743	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2744			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2745			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2746			loglevels are defined as follows:
2747
2748			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2749			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2750			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2751			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2752			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2753			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2754			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2755			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2756
2757	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2758			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2759			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2760			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2761			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2762			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2763			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2764
2765	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2766			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2767			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2768			kernel boot problems.
2769
2770	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2771	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2772	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2773	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2774				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2775				attached printers to be reset. Using
2776				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2777				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2778				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2779				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2780				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2781				port specification list means that device IDs
2782				from each port should be examined, to see if
2783				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2784				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2785				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2786
2787	lpj=n		[KNL]
2788			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2789			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2790			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2791			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2792			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2793			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2794			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2795			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2796			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2797			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2798			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2799			hardware.
2800
2801	ltpc=		[NET]
2802			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2803
2804	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2805
2806	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2807			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2808			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2809
2810	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2811			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2812			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2813
2814	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2815			different yeeloong laptops.
2816			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2817
2818	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2819			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2820
2821	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2822			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2823			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2824			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2825			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2826			only takes effect during system bootup.
2827			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2828			which also disables the IO APIC.
2829
2830	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2831	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2832			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2833			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2834			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2835			/dev/loop-control interface.
2836
2837	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2838
2839	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2840
2841	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2842			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2843
2844	mdacon=		[MDA]
2845			Format: <first>,<last>
2846			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2847
2848	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2849			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2850			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2851
2852			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2853			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2854			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2855
2856			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2857			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2858			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2859			not have direct access.
2860
2861			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2862			options are:
2863
2864			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2865			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2866				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2867			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2868
2869			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2870			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2871			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2872			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2873			too.
2874
2875			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2876			mds=full.
2877
2878			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2879
2880	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2881			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2882
2883	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2884			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2885
2886			1 for test;
2887			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2888			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2889			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2890			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2891
2892			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2893			high memory is not affected.
2894
2895			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2896			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2897
2898			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2899			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2900			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2901			belonging to unused RAM.
2902
2903			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2904			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2905			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2906
2907	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2908			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2909			firmware.
2910			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2911			ss[KMG].
2912			Multiple different regions can be specified with
2913			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2914
2915	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2916			memory.
2917
2918	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2919			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2920			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2921
2922	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2923			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2924			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2925			set according to the
2926			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2927			option.
2928			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2929
2930	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2931			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2932			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2933			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2934			option description.
2935
2936	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2937			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2938			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2939			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2940			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2941			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2942			comma delimited.
2943			Example:
2944				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2945
2946	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2947			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2948			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2949
2950	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2951			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2952			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2953			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2954			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2955			         or
2956			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2957			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2958			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2959			will be eaten.
2960
2961	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2962			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2963			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2964			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2965			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2966
2967	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2968			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2969			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2970			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2971			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2972			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2973			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2974			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2975
2976	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2977			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2978			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2979			Setting this option will scan the memory
2980			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2981			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2982			from using the memory being corrupted.
2983			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2984			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2985			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2986			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2987
2988	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2989			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2990			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2991			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2992			corruption in more or less memory.
2993
2994	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2995			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2996			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2997			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2998
2999	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3000			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3001			Format: {on | off (default)}
3002			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3003			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
3004			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
3005			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
3006			additional memory to do so.
3007			This feature is disabled by default because it
3008			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3009			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3010			memory blocks).
3011			The state of the flag can be read in
3012			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3013			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3014			the feature is not effective.
3015
3016			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
3017			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
3018			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
3019
3020	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3021			Format: <integer>
3022			default : 0 <disable>
3023			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3024			performed. Each pass selects another test
3025			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3026			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3027			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3028			regions that are detected.
3029
3030	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3031			Valid arguments: on, off
3032			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3033			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3034			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3035			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3036			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3037
3038			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3039			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3040
3041	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3042			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3043			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3044			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3045			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3046
3047	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3048			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3049
3050	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3051			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3052			platforms.
3053
3054	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3055			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3056			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3057			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3058
3059	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3060
3061	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
3062			physical address is ignored.
3063
3064	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3065			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3066			Default: "0tb"
3067			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3068			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3069			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3070			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3071			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3072			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3073			unconfigured.
3074			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3075			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3076			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3077			VGA shield.
3078			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3079			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3080			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3081			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3082			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3083			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3084
3085	mitigations=
3086			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3087			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3088			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3089			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3090
3091			off
3092				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3093				improves system performance, but it may also
3094				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3095				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3096					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3097					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3098					       nobp=0 [S390]
3099					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3100					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3101					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3102					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3103					       l1tf=off [X86]
3104					       mds=off [X86]
3105					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3106					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3107					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3108					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3109
3110				Exceptions:
3111					       This does not have any effect on
3112					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3113					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3114
3115			auto (default)
3116				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3117				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3118				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3119				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3120				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3121				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3122
3123			auto,nosmt
3124				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3125				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3126				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3127				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3128					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3129					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3130
3131	mminit_loglevel=
3132			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3133			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3134			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3135			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3136			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3137			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3138
3139	module.sig_enforce
3140			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3141			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3142			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3143			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3144
3145	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3146			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3147
3148	mousedev.tap_time=
3149			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3150			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3151			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3152			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3153			Format: <msecs>
3154	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3155			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3156	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3157			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3158
3159	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3160			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3161			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3162			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3163			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3164			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3165			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3166			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3167			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3168			is not too small.
3169
3170	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3171			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3172			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3173			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3174			allocations. Use with caution!
3175
3176	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3177			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3178
3179	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3180			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3181
3182	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3183			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3184
3185	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3186			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3187			at a time.
3188
3189	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3190
3191			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3192
3193			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3194				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3195			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3196				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3197				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3198
3199	mtdset=		[ARM]
3200			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3201
3202			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3203
3204	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3205			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3206			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3207
3208	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3209			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3210			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3211
3212	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3213			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3214			Default is 1.
3215			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3216			using up MTRRs.
3217
3218	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3219			Format: <integer>
3220			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3221			Default : 1
3222			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3223			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3224
3225	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3226
3227	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3228			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3229			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3230			something different and driver-specific.
3231			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3232			file if at all.
3233
3234	nf_conntrack.acct=
3235			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3236			0 to disable accounting
3237			1 to enable accounting
3238			Default value is 0.
3239
3240	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3241			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3242
3243	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3244			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3245
3246	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3247			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3248
3249	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3250			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3251			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3252			requests.
3253
3254	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3255			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3256			channel should listen.
3257
3258	nfs.cache_getent=
3259			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3260			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3261
3262	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3263			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3264			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3265
3266	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3267			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3268			entries.
3269
3270	nfs.enable_ino64=
3271			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3272			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3273			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3274			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3275			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3276
3277	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3278			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3279			slots the client will assign to the callback
3280			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3281			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3282			a particular server.
3283
3284	nfs.max_session_slots=
3285			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3286			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3287			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3288			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3289			Note that there is little point in setting this
3290			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3291
3292	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3293			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3294			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3295			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3296			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3297			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3298			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3299			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3300			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3301			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3302			back to using the idmapper.
3303			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3304	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3305			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3306			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3307			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3308			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3309
3310	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3311			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3312			information in exchange_id requests.
3313			If zero, no implementation identification information
3314			will be sent.
3315			The default is to send the implementation identification
3316			information.
3317
3318	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3319			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3320			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3321			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3322			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3323			after the locks are lost.
3324			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3325			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3326			parameter to '1'.
3327			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3328			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3329
3330	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3331			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3332			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3333
3334			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3335			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3336			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3337			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3338
3339	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3340			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3341			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3342			the destination of the copy.
3343
3344	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3345			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3346			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3347			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3348			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3349			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3350			this parameter.
3351
3352	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3353			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3354			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3355			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3356			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3357			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3358
3359
3360	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3361			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3362			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3363
3364	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3365			when a NMI is triggered.
3366			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3367
3368	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3369			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3370			Valid num: 0 or 1
3371			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3372			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3373			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3374			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3375			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3376			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3377			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3378			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3379			need the box quickly up again.
3380
3381			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3382			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3383
3384	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3385			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3386			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3387			waits 4 seconds.
3388
3389	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3390			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3391			is present.
3392
3393	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3394			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3395
3396	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3397
3398	no_console_suspend
3399			[HW] Never suspend the console
3400			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3401			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3402			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3403			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3404			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3405			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3406			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3407			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3408			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3409			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3410			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3411			turn on/off it dynamically.
3412
3413	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3414			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3415			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3416			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3417			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3418			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3419			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3420			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3421			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3422			is set.
3423
3424	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3425			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3426			but will impact performance.
3427
3428	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3429
3430	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3431			(CPU alternatives feature).
3432
3433	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3434			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3435
3436	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3437
3438	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3439			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3440
3441	nocache		[ARM]
3442
3443	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3444
3445	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3446
3447	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3448
3449	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3450
3451	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3452
3453	noexec		[IA-64]
3454
3455	noexec		[X86]
3456			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3457			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3458			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3459
3460	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3461			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3462			even if it is supported by processor.
3463
3464	nosmep		[X86,PPC64s]
3465			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3466			even if it is supported by processor.
3467
3468	noexec32	[X86-64]
3469			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3470			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3471				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3472			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3473				read implies executable mappings
3474
3475	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3476
3477	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3478			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3479			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3480
3481	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3482
3483	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3484
3485	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3486			Equivalent to smt=1.
3487
3488			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3489			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3490				     via the sysfs control file.
3491
3492	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3493			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3494			possible in the system.
3495
3496	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3497			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3498			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3499			option.
3500
3501	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3502			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3503
3504	no_uaccess_flush
3505	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3506
3507	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3508			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3509			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3510
3511	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3512			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3513			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3514			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3515			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3516			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3517
3518	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3519			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3520			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3521			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3522			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3523			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3524			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3525
3526	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3527			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3528			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3529			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3530			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3531			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3532			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3533			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3534
3535	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3536			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3537			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3538
3539	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3540			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3541			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3542			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3543			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3544			real-time systems.
3545
3546	no_hash_pointers
3547			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3548			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3549			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3550			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3551			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3552			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3553			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3554			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3555			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3556			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3557			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3558			kernels.
3559
3560	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3561
3562	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3563			Valid arguments: on, off
3564			Default: on
3565
3566	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3567			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3568			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3569			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3570			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3571			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3572			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3573			just as if they had also been called out in the
3574			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3575
3576	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3577
3578	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3579			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3580
3581	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3582			broken timer IRQ sources.
3583
3584	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3585
3586	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3587			initial RAM disk.
3588
3589	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3590			remapping.
3591			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3592
3593	nointroute	[IA-64]
3594
3595	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3596
3597	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3598
3599	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3600
3601	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3602			fault handling.
3603
3604	no-vmw-sched-clock
3605			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3606			clock and use the default one.
3607
3608	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3609			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3610			influence scheduler behaviour
3611
3612	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3613
3614	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3615
3616	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3617			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3618
3619	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3620
3621	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3622
3623	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3624			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3625
3626	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3627			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3628			irq.
3629
3630	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3631			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3632			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3633			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3634
3635			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3636
3637	nomodule	Disable module load
3638
3639	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3640			pagetables) support.
3641
3642	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3643
3644	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3645			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3646
3647	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3648			with UP alternatives
3649
3650	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3651			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3652			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3653			available to user space applications.
3654
3655	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3656			space.
3657
3658	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3659			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3660			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3661
3662	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3663
3664	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3665
3666	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3667
3668	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3669			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3670
3671	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3672
3673	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3674
3675	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3676			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3677
3678	nowb		[ARM]
3679
3680	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3681
3682	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3683			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3684			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3685			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3686			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3687			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3688			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3689			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3690			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3691			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3692			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3693			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3694			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3695
3696	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3697			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3698			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3699			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3700			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3701			parameter's value.
3702			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3703			Default: 255
3704
3705	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3706			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3707			SAL PALO.
3708
3709	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3710			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3711			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3712			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3713			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3714			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3715			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3716			hot plugging.
3717
3718	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3719
3720	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3721			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3722
3723	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3724			NUMA balancing.
3725			Allowed values are enable and disable
3726
3727	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3728			'node', 'default' can be specified
3729			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3730			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3731
3732	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3733			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3734			info.
3735
3736	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3737			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3738			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3739			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3740			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3741			interrupts *may* be lost!
3742
3743	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3744			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3745			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3746			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3747
3748	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3749			process, but there is a small probability of
3750			deadlocking the machine.
3751			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3752			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3753
3754	page_alloc.shuffle=
3755			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3756			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3757			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3758			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3759			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3760			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3761			can be read from sysfs at:
3762			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3763
3764	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3765			Storage of the information about who allocated
3766			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3767			we can turn it on.
3768			on: enable the feature
3769
3770	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3771			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3772			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3773			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3774			on: turn on poisoning
3775
3776	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3777			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3778			Format: <integer>
3779			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3780			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3781
3782	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3783			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3784			timeout = 0: wait forever
3785			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3786			Format: <timeout>
3787
3788	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3789			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3790			bit 0: print all tasks info
3791			bit 1: print system memory info
3792			bit 2: print timer info
3793			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3794			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3795			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3796			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3797			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3798			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3799			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3800			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3801
3802	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3803			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3804			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3805			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3806			called with any of the flags in this set.
3807			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3808			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3809			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3810			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3811			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3812			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3813			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3814
3815	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3816			on a WARN().
3817
3818	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3819			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3820			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3821			succeeds in any situation.
3822			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3823			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3824			kernel more unstable.
3825
3826	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3827			connected to, default is 0.
3828			Format: <parport#>
3829	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3830			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3831			Format: <mode>
3832
3833	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3834			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3835			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3836			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3837			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3838			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3839			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3840			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3841			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3842			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3843			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3844			are specified on the command line, starting
3845			with parport0.
3846
3847	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3848			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3849			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3850			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3851			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3852			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3853			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3854
3855	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3856			Format: <int>
3857			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3858			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3859			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3860
3861	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3862			Format: <int>
3863			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3864			changes.  Disabled by default.
3865
3866	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3867			Format: <int>
3868			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3869			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3870			Disabled by default.
3871
3872	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3873			Format: <int>
3874			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3875			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3876			Disabled by default.
3877
3878	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3879			Format: <int>
3880			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3881			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3882			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3883			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3884			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3885			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3886			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3887			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3888			all channels.
3889
3890	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3891			Format: <int>
3892			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3893			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3894			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3895
3896	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3897			Format: <int>
3898			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3899			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3900			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3901
3902	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3903			Format: <int>
3904			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3905			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3906			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3907			All modes allowed by default.
3908
3909	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3910			Format: <int>
3911			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3912			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3913
3914	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3915			Format: <int>
3916			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3917			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3918			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3919			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3920			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3921			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3922			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3923			By default all supported ports are probed.
3924
3925	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3926			Format: <int>
3927			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3928			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3929
3930	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3931			Format: <int>
3932			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3933			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3934			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3935			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3936			0 otherwise.
3937
3938	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3939			Format: <int>
3940			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3941			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3942			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3943			allowed by default.
3944
3945	pause_on_oops=
3946			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3947			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3948			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3949
3950	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3951
3952	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3953			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3954			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3955
3956	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3957
3958				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3959				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3960				specified in one of the following formats:
3961
3962				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3963				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3964
3965				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3966				bus/device/function address which may change
3967				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3968				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3969				by other kernel parameters. If the
3970				domain is left unspecified, it is
3971				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3972				to a device through multiple device/function
3973				addresses can be specified after the base
3974				address (this is more robust against
3975				renumbering issues).  The second format
3976				selects devices using IDs from the
3977				configuration space which may match multiple
3978				devices in the system.
3979
3980		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3981				changes anything
3982		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3983		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3984				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3985				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3986		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3987				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3988				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3989				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3990		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3991				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3992				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3993		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3994				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3995				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3996				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3997				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3998				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3999				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4000		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4001				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4002				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4003		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4004				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4005		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4006				Configuration
4007		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4008				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4009				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4010		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4011				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4012				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4013		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4014				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4015				should never be necessary.
4016		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4017				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4018				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4019				when the system masks IRQs.
4020		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4021				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4022				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4023				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4024		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4025				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4026				on several machines and they hang the machine
4027				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4028				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4029				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4030				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4031				motherboard.
4032		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4033				Use with caution as certain devices share
4034				address decoders between ROMs and other
4035				resources.
4036		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4037				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4038				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4039		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4040				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4041		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4042				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4043				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4044				this way.
4045		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4046				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4047				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4048				F0000h-100000h range.
4049		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4050				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4051				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4052				explicitly which ones they are.
4053		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4054				numbers ourselves, overriding
4055				whatever the firmware may have done.
4056		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4057				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4058				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4059				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4060				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4061				IRQ routing is enabled.
4062		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4063				or for PCI scanning.
4064		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4065				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4066				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4067				please report a bug.
4068		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4069				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4070		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4071				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4072				so this option is a temporary workaround
4073				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4074		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4075				handle more pci cards
4076		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4077				This might help on some broken boards which
4078				machine check when some devices' config space
4079				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4080				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4081		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4082				This sorting is done to get a device
4083				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4084		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4085		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4086				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4087		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4088				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4089		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4090				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4091				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4092				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4093				or bus can support) for best performance.
4094		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4095				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4096				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4097				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4098				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4099				that hot-added devices will work.
4100		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4101				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4102				The default value is 256 bytes.
4103		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4104				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4105				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4106		resource_alignment=
4107				Format:
4108				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4109				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4110				aligned memory resources. How to
4111				specify the device is described above.
4112				If <order of align> is not specified,
4113				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4114				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4115				windows need to be expanded.
4116				To specify the alignment for several
4117				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4118				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4119				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4120				for 4096-byte alignment.
4121		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4122				end-to-end CRC checking).
4123				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4124				the default.
4125				off: Turn ECRC off
4126				on: Turn ECRC on.
4127		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4128				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4129				Default size is 256 bytes.
4130		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4131				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4132				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4133		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4134				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4135				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4136		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4137				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4138				MMIO_PREF window.
4139				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4140		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4141				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4142				Default is 1.
4143		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4144				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4145				accommodate resources required by all child
4146				devices.
4147				off: Turn realloc off
4148				on: Turn realloc on
4149		realloc		same as realloc=on
4150		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4151		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4152				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4153		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4154				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4155				port.
4156		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4157				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4158				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4159				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4160				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4161				taints the kernel.
4162		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4163				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4164				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4165				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4166				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4167				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4168				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4169				this removes isolation between devices and
4170				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4171		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4172		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4173		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4174				one PCI domain per PCI function
4175
4176	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4177			Management.
4178		off	Disable ASPM.
4179		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4180			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4181
4182	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4183		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4184			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4185			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4186			also tries to use these services.
4187		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4188				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4189		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4190			hotplug).
4191
4192	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4193		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4194		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4195
4196	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4197		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4198			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4199
4200	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4201
4202	pd_ignore_unused
4203			[PM]
4204			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4205			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4206			for debug and development, but should not be
4207			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4208
4209	pd.		[PARIDE]
4210			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4211
4212	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4213			boot time.
4214			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4215			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4216
4217	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4218			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4219			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4220			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4221			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4222			and performance comparison.
4223
4224	pf.		[PARIDE]
4225			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4226
4227	pg.		[PARIDE]
4228			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4229
4230	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4231			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4232
4233	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4234			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4235			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4236
4237	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4238			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4239			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4240
4241	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4242			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4243			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4244			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4245			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4246			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4247			remains 0.
4248
4249	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4250			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4251
4252	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4253			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4254			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4255			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4256			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4257			possible settings and some assignment information.
4258
4259	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4260			{ off }
4261
4262	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4263			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4264
4265	pnp_reserve_irq=
4266			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4267
4268	pnp_reserve_dma=
4269			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4270
4271	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4272			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4273
4274	pnp_reserve_mem=
4275			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4276			autoconfiguration.
4277			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4278
4279	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4280			Default is 21.
4281			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4282			may be specified.
4283			Format: <port>,<port>....
4284
4285	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4286			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4287			platform machine description specific power_save
4288			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4289			execution priority.
4290
4291	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4292			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4293			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4294			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4295			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4296
4297	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4298			Format: {"off"}
4299			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4300
4301	preempt=	[KNL]
4302			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4303			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4304			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4305			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4306			       can be preempted anytime.
4307
4308	print-fatal-signals=
4309			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4310
4311			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4312			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4313			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4314			coredump - etc.
4315
4316			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4317			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4318
4319			default: off.
4320
4321	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4322			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4323			panics
4324			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4325			default: disabled
4326
4327	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4328			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4329			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4330			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4331			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4332			in order to provide more debug information.
4333			Format: <bool>
4334			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4335
4336	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4337			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4338			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4339			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4340			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4341			Default: ratelimit
4342
4343	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4344			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4345
4346	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4347			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4348			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4349
4350	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4351			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4352			instead using the legacy FADT method
4353
4354	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4355			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4356			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4357				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4358			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4359			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4360				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4361			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4362			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4363				statistical time based profiling.
4364
4365	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4366
4367	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4368			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4369			that).
4370			Format: <bool>
4371
4372	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4373			tracking.
4374			Format: <bool>
4375
4376	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4377			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4378	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4379			per second.
4380	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4381			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4382			(0 = never).
4383	psmouse.resolution=
4384			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4385	psmouse.smartscroll=
4386			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4387			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4388
4389	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4390
4391	pt.		[PARIDE]
4392			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4393
4394	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4395			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4396			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4397			system calls and interrupts.
4398
4399			on   - unconditionally enable
4400			off  - unconditionally disable
4401			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4402			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4403
4404			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4405
4406	nopti		[X86-64]
4407			Equivalent to pti=off
4408
4409	pty.legacy_count=
4410			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4411			default number.
4412
4413	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4414
4415	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4416
4417	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4418			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4419
4420	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4421			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4422
4423	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4424
4425	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4426			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4427			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4428			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4429			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4430
4431	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4432			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4433			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4434			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4435			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4436
4437	randomize_kstack_offset=
4438			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4439			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4440			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4441			that depend on stack address determinism or
4442			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4443			available on architectures that have defined
4444			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4445			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4446			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4447
4448	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4449
4450		cec_disable	[X86]
4451				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4452				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4453
4454	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4455			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4456			as described above.
4457
4458			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4459			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4460			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4461			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4462			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4463			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4464			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4465			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4466			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4467			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4468			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4469			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4470
4471			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4472			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4473
4474			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4475			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4476			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4477			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4478
4479	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4480			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4481			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4482			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4483			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4484			This improves the real-time response for the
4485			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4486			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4487			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4488			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4489
4490	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4491			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4492			process in one batch.
4493
4494	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4495			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4496			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4497			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4498
4499	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4500			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4501			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4502
4503	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4504			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4505			RCU grace-period initialization.
4506
4507	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4508			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4509			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4510			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4511			the rcu_node combining tree.
4512
4513	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4514			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4515			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4516			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4517			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4518
4519			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4520			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4521			to zero.
4522
4523	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4524			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4525			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4526			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4527			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4528
4529	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4530			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4531			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4532			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4533			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4534			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4535			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4536
4537	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4538			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4539			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4540			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4541			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4542			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4543			condition.
4544
4545	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4546			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4547			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4548			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4549
4550	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4551			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4552			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4553			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4554			and maximum value is HZ.
4555
4556	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4557			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4558			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4559			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4560
4561	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4562			Set required age in jiffies for a
4563			given grace period before RCU starts
4564			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4565			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4566			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4567			a value based on the most recent settings
4568			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4569			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4570			This calculated value may be viewed in
4571			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4572			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4573			overwritten.
4574
4575	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4576			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4577			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4578			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4579			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4580			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4581			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4582			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4583			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4584			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4585			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4586			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4587
4588	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4589			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4590			each group, which defaults to the square root
4591			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4592			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4593			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4594			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4595
4596	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4597			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4598			batch limiting is disabled.
4599
4600	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4601			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4602			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4603
4604	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4605			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4606			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4607			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4608			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4609			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4610			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4611			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4612
4613	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4614			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4615			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4616			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4617			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4618			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4619
4620	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4621			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4622			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4623			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4624			Larger delays increase the probability of
4625			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4626			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4627			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4628
4629	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4630			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4631			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4632			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4633
4634	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4635			Measure performance of asynchronous
4636			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4637
4638	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4639			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4640			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4641			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4642			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4643			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4644
4645	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4646			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4647			grace-period primitives.
4648
4649	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4650			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4651			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4652			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4653			interference.
4654
4655	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4656			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4657
4658	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4659			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4660			If this parameter has the same value as
4661			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4662			and double-argument variants are tested.
4663
4664	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4665			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4666			If this parameter has the same value as
4667			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4668			and double-argument variants are tested.
4669
4670	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4671			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4672
4673	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4674			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4675
4676	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4677			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4678			of allocations and frees.
4679
4680	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4681			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4682			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4683			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4684			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4685			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4686			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4687			a single reader.
4688
4689	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4690			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4691			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4692			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4693
4694	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4695			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4696
4697	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4698			Shut the system down after performance tests
4699			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4700			testing.
4701
4702	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4703			Enable additional printk() statements.
4704
4705	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4706			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4707			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4708			no holdoff.
4709
4710	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4711			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4712			in microseconds.
4713
4714	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4715			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4716			in microseconds.
4717
4718	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4719			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4720			in seconds.
4721
4722	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4723			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4724			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4725			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4726			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4727			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4728			of CPUs to be used.
4729
4730	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4731			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4732			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4733
4734	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4735			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4736			forward-progress tests.
4737
4738	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4739			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4740			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4741			testing.
4742
4743	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4744			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4745			primitives, if available.
4746
4747	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4748			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4749
4750	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4751			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4752			update-side primitives, if available.
4753
4754	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4755			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4756			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4757			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4758			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4759			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4760			they are all non-zero.
4761
4762	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4763			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4764			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4765			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4766
4767	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4768			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4769			This can of course result in splats, and is
4770			intended to test the ability of things like
4771			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4772			such leaks.
4773
4774	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4775			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4776
4777	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4778			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4779			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4780			test, hence the "fake".
4781
4782	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4783			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4784			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4785
4786	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4787			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4788			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4789
4790	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4791			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4792			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4793			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4794			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4795			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4796
4797	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4798			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4799
4800	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4801			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4802
4803	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4804			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4805			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4806
4807	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4808			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4809			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4810			task-exit processing.
4811
4812	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4813			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4814			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4815			is spawned.
4816
4817	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4818			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4819			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4820
4821	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4822			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4823			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4824			during the rcutorture test.
4825
4826	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4827			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4828			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4829
4830	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4831			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4832			warnings, zero to disable.
4833
4834	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4835			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4836			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4837			to any other stall-related activity.
4838
4839	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4840			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4841
4842	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4843			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4844
4845	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4846			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4847			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4848			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4849			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4850			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4851
4852	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4853			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4854
4855	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4856			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4857			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4858			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4859			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4860
4861	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4862			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4863			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4864			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4865
4866	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4867			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4868
4869	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4870			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4871
4872	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4873			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4874			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4875
4876	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4877			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4878
4879	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4880			Enable additional printk() statements.
4881
4882	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4883			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4884			stall warning.
4885
4886	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4887			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4888
4889	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4890			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4891			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4892			during early boot, that is, during the time
4893			before the init task is spawned.
4894
4895	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4896			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4897
4898	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4899			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4900			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4901			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4902			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4903			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4904			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4905
4906	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4907			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4908			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4909			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4910			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4911			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4912			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4913			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4914			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4915
4916	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4917			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4918			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4919			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4920			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4921
4922			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4923			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4924			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4925			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4926			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4927			grace-period processing.
4928
4929	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4930			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4931			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4932			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4933			a single callback queue.  This switching only
4934			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4935			set to the default value of -1.
4936
4937	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4938			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4939			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4940			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4941			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
4942			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4943			the default value of -1.
4944
4945	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
4946			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
4947			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
4948			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
4949			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
4950			for use in testing.
4951
4952	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4953			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4954			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4955			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4956			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4957			but lengthens grace periods.
4958
4959	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4960			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4961			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4962			to zero.
4963
4964	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4965			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4966
4967	rdinit=		[KNL]
4968			Format: <full_path>
4969			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4970			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4971
4972	rdrand=		[X86]
4973			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4974				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4975				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4976				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4977				path).
4978
4979	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4980			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4981			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4982			mba.
4983			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4984				rdt=cmt,!mba
4985
4986	reboot=		[KNL]
4987			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4988				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
4989				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4990				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4991				[[,]f[orce]
4992			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4993					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4994					reboot only),
4995			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4996			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4997			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4998					to be used for rebooting.
4999
5000	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5001			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5002			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5003			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5004			interference.
5005
5006	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5007			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5008			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5009			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5010			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5011			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5012			x86 laptops.
5013
5014	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5015			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5016			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5017			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5018
5019	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5020			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5021			the console log.
5022
5023	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5024			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5025			measured in microseconds.
5026
5027	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5028			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5029
5030	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5031			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5032			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5033			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5034			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5035
5036	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5037			Enable additional printk() statements.
5038
5039	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5040			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5041			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5042			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5043			specified.
5044
5045	relax_domain_level=
5046			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5047			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5048
5049	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5050			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5051			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5052			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5053			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5054
5055	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5056			Format: nn[KMG]
5057			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5058			address space.
5059
5060	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5061			during initialization.
5062
5063	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5064			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5065			Format:
5066			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5067
5068	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5069			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5070			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5071			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5072			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5073
5074	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5075			read the resume files
5076
5077	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5078			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5079			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5080
5081	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
5082		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
5083				present during boot.
5084		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
5085		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
5086		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
5087				(that will set all pages holding image data
5088				during restoration read-only).
5089
5090	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5091
5092	rfkill.default_state=
5093		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5094			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5095		1	Unblocked.
5096
5097	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5098		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5099		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5100			blocked and the previous configuration.
5101		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5102			blocked and everything unblocked.
5103
5104	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5105			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5106
5107	ring3mwait=disable
5108			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5109			CPUs.
5110
5111	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5112
5113	rodata=		[KNL]
5114		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5115		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5116
5117	rockchip.usb_uart
5118			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5119			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5120			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5121			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5122
5123	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5124			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5125
5126	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5127			mount the root filesystem
5128
5129	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5130
5131	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5132
5133	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5134			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5135			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5136
5137	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5138			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5139			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5140			managed by CMA.
5141
5142	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5143
5144	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5145
5146	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5147			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5148		strict
5149			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5150			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5151			which is faster.
5152
5153	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5154			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5155			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5156			factor of the size of main memory.
5157			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5158			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5159			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5160			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5161			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5162			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5163			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5164
5165	sa1100ir	[NET]
5166			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5167
5168	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5169
5170	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5171			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5172			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5173			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5174
5175	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5176			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5177			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5178			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5179			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5180			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5181			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5182			value.
5183			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5184			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5185				1			64 ms
5186				2			128 ms
5187			and so on.
5188			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5189			Default is 0.
5190
5191	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5192			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5193			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5194			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5195			tests.
5196
5197	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5198			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5199			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5200			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5201			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5202			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5203			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5204
5205	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5206			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5207			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5208			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5209			equal to the number of CPUs.
5210
5211	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5212			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5213			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5214
5215	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5216			Number seconds to wait between successive
5217			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5218			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5219
5220	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5221			The number of seconds following the start of the
5222			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5223			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5224			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5225
5226	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5227			The number of seconds between outputting the
5228			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5229			of zero disables statistics output.
5230
5231	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5232			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5233			to the set of CPUs under test.
5234
5235	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5236			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5237			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5238			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5239			functions.
5240
5241	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5242			Enable additional printk() statements.
5243
5244	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5245			The probability weighting to use for the
5246			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5247			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5248			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5249			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5250			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5251
5252	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5253			The probability weighting to use for the
5254			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5255			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5256
5257	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5258			The probability weighting to use for the
5259			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5260			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5261			Note well that setting a high probability for
5262			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5263			on the system.
5264
5265	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5266			The probability weighting to use for the
5267			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5268			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5269			and weight_many.
5270
5271	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5272			The probability weighting to use for the
5273			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5274			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5275			weight_many.
5276
5277	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5278			The probability weighting to use for the
5279			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5280			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5281			and weight_many.
5282
5283	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5284			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5285			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5286			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5287			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5288			1 -- enable.
5289			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5290			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5291
5292	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5293			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5294			"lsm=" parameter.
5295
5296	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5297			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5298			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5299			0 -- disable.
5300			1 -- enable.
5301			Default value is 1.
5302
5303	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5304			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5305			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5306			0 -- disable.
5307			1 -- enable.
5308			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5309
5310	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5311
5312	shapers=	[NET]
5313			Maximal number of shapers.
5314
5315	simeth=		[IA-64]
5316	simscsi=
5317
5318	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5319
5320	slab_merge	[MM]
5321			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5322			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5323
5324	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5325			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5326			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5327			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5328			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5329			layout control by attackers can usually be
5330			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5331			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5332			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5333			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5334			own.
5335			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5336
5337	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5338			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5339			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5340			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5341			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5342
5343	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5344			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5345			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5346			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5347			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5348			last alloc / free. For more information see
5349			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5350
5351	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5352			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5353			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5354			fragmentation. For more information see
5355			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5356
5357	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5358			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5359			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5360			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5361			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5362			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5363			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5364			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5365
5366	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5367			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5368			lower than slub_max_order.
5369			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5370
5371	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5372			Same with slab_merge.
5373
5374	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5375			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5376			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5377
5378	smart2=		[HW]
5379			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5380
5381	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5382	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5383	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5384	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5385	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5386	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5387	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5388				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5389				1: Fast pin select (default)
5390				2: ATC IRMode
5391
5392	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5393			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5394			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5395			actual hardware limit.
5396			Format: <integer>
5397			Default: -1 (no limit)
5398
5399	softlockup_panic=
5400			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5401			Format: 0 | 1
5402
5403			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5404			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5405			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5406			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5407			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5408
5409	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5410			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5411			backtraces on all cpus.
5412			Format: 0 | 1
5413
5414	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5415			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5416
5417	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5418			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5419			The default operation protects the kernel from
5420			user space attacks.
5421
5422			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5423			       spectre_v2_user=on
5424			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5425			       spectre_v2_user=off
5426			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5427			       vulnerable
5428
5429			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5430			mitigation method at run time according to the
5431			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5432			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5433			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5434
5435			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5436			against user space to user space task attacks.
5437
5438			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5439			the user space protections.
5440
5441			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5442
5443			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5444			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5445			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5446			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5447			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5448			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5449			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5450
5451			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5452			spectre_v2=auto.
5453
5454	spectre_v2_user=
5455			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5456		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5457		        user space tasks
5458
5459			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5460				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5461
5462			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5463				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5464
5465			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5466				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5467				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5468				  is inherited on fork.
5469
5470			prctl,ibpb
5471				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5472				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5473				  always when switching between different user
5474				  space processes.
5475
5476			seccomp
5477				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5478				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5479				  they explicitly opt out.
5480
5481			seccomp,ibpb
5482				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5483				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5484				  always when switching between different
5485				  user space processes.
5486
5487			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5488				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5489
5490			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5491
5492			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5493			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5494
5495	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5496			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5497			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5498
5499			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5500			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5501			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5502			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5503			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5504			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5505			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5506			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5507
5508			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5509			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5510			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5511			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5512
5513			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5514			Bypass optimization is used.
5515
5516			On x86 the options are:
5517
5518			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5519			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5520			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5521				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5522				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5523				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5524				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5525				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5526			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5527				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5528				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5529				  is inherited on fork.
5530			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5531				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5532
5533			Default mitigations:
5534			X86:	"prctl"
5535
5536			On powerpc the options are:
5537
5538			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5539				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5540				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5541				  exit.
5542			off	- No action.
5543
5544			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5545			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5546
5547	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5548	spia_fio_base=
5549	spia_pedr=
5550	spia_peddr=
5551
5552	split_lock_detect=
5553			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5554
5555			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5556			instructions that access data across cache line
5557			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5558			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5559			bus lock detection.
5560
5561			off	- not enabled
5562
5563			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5564				  about applications triggering the #AC
5565				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5566				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5567				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5568				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5569				  enabled in hardware.
5570
5571			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5572				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5573				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5574				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5575
5576			ratelimit:N -
5577				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5578				  per second for bus lock detection.
5579				  0 < N <= 1000.
5580
5581				  N/A for split lock detection.
5582
5583
5584			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5585			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5586			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5587			mode.
5588
5589			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5590			CPL > 0.
5591
5592	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5593			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5594			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5595
5596			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5597			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5598			number generator.
5599
5600			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5601			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5602			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5603			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5604			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5605
5606			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5607			the following option:
5608
5609			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5610				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5611
5612	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5613			Specifies how frequently to check for
5614			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5615			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5616			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5617			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5618			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5619			are ignored.
5620
5621	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5622			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5623			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5624			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5625			grace period will be considered for automatic
5626			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5627			expediting.
5628
5629	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5630			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5631
5632			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5633			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5634			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5635			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5636
5637			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5638				   for both kernel and userspace
5639			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5640				   for both kernel and userspace
5641			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5642				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5643				   to allow userspace to register its
5644				   interest in being mitigated too.
5645
5646	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5647			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5648			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5649			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5650			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5651			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5652
5653	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5654			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5655			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5656			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5657			to false.
5658
5659	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5660			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5661
5662	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5663			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5664			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5665			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5666			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5667			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5668			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5669
5670	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5671			Format: <num>
5672			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5673			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5674			as the initial boot-console.
5675			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5676
5677	sti_font=	[HW]
5678			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5679
5680	stifb=		[HW]
5681			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5682
5683        strict_sas_size=
5684			[X86]
5685			Format: <bool>
5686			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5687			against the required signal frame size which
5688			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5689			be used to filter out binaries which have
5690			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5691
5692	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5693	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5694			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5695			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5696			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5697			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5698			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5699			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5700			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5701			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5702			maximum port values.
5703
5704	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5705			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5706			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5707			process in parallel from a single connection.
5708			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5709
5710	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5711			[NFS]
5712			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5713			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5714			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5715			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5716			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5717			NFS server is running.
5718
5719			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5720				    automatically using heuristics
5721			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5722			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5723			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5724				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5725
5726	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5727	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5728			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5729			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5730			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5731			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5732			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5733			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5734
5735	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5736			[SUSPEND]
5737			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5738			mode before resuming the system (see
5739			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5740			is set. Default value is 5.
5741
5742	svm=		[PPC]
5743			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5744			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5745			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5746
5747	swapaccount=[0|1]
5748			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5749			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5750			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5751
5752	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5753			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5754			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5755			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5756			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5757			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5758
5759	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5760
5761	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5762			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5763			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5764			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5765			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5766			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5767			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5768			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5769
5770	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5771			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5772			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5773			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5774			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5775			in older udev will not work anymore.
5776			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5777			the kernel configuration.
5778
5779	sysrq_always_enabled
5780			[KNL]
5781			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5782			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5783			Useful for debugging.
5784
5785	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5786			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5787			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5788			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5789			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5790			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5791
5792	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5793
5794	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5795			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5796			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5797			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5798			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5799			The system is woken from this state using a
5800			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5801
5802	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5803			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5804
5805	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5806			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5807			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5808
5809	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5810			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5811			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5812
5813	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5814			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5815			critical and hot trip points.
5816
5817	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5818			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5819
5820	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5821			-1: disable all passive trip points
5822			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5823			value
5824
5825	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5826			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5827			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5828			0: no polling (default)
5829
5830	threadirqs	[KNL]
5831			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5832			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5833
5834	topology=	[S390]
5835			Format: {off | on}
5836			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5837			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5838			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5839			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5840			Default is on.
5841
5842	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5843			Format: {off}
5844			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5845			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5846			LPAR.
5847
5848	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5849			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5850			until after init has spawned.
5851
5852	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5853			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5854			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5855			very costly operation when many torture tests
5856			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5857			with rotating-rust storage.
5858
5859	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5860			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5861			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5862			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5863
5864	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5865			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5866
5867	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5868
5869	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5870			Format: integer pcr id
5871			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5872			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5873			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5874			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5875			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5876			are saved.
5877
5878	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5879			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5880
5881	trace_event=[event-list]
5882			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5883			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5884			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5885			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5886
5887	trace_options=[option-list]
5888			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5889			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5890			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5891			to echo the option name into
5892
5893			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5894
5895			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5896			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5897
5898			      trace_options=stacktrace
5899
5900			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5901			section.
5902
5903	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5904			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5905			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5906			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5907			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5908			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5909
5910			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5911			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5912			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5913			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5914
5915			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5916			to stop the printing of events to console at
5917			late_initcall_sync.
5918
5919			** CAUTION **
5920
5921			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5922			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5923			the system to live lock.
5924
5925	tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5926			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5927			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5928			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5929			make the system inoperable.
5930
5931			This command line option will stop the printing of events
5932			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5933
5934	traceoff_on_warning
5935			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5936			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5937			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5938			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5939
5940			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5941			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5942			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5943
5944			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5945			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5946
5947	transparent_hugepage=
5948			[KNL]
5949			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5950			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5951			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5952			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5953			for more details.
5954
5955	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
5956			Format: <string>
5957			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5958			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5959			sources:
5960			- "tpm"
5961			- "tee"
5962			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5963			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5964			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5965			successfully during iteration.
5966
5967	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5968			Format: <string>
5969			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5970			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5971			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5972			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5973			virtualized environment.
5974			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5975			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5976			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5977			can add overhead.
5978			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5979			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5980			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5981			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5982			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5983			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5984			acceptable).
5985
5986	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5987			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5988			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5989			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5990			Format: <unsigned int>
5991
5992	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5993			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5994			support TSX control.
5995
5996			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5997
5998			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5999				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6000				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6001				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6002				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6003				with leaving it enabled.
6004
6005			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6006				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6007				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6008				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6009				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6010				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6011				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6012
6013			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6014				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6015
6016			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6017
6018			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6019			for more details.
6020
6021	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6022			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6023
6024			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6025			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6026			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6027			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6028			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6029			conditions.
6030
6031			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6032			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6033			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6034			access.
6035
6036			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6037			options are:
6038
6039			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6040				     if TSX is enabled.
6041
6042			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6043				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6044				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6045				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6046			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6047
6048			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6049			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6050			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6051			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6052
6053			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6054			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6055			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6056			required and doesn't provide any additional
6057			mitigation.
6058
6059			For details see:
6060			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6061
6062	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6063			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6064			Format:
6065			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6066			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6067
6068	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6069			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6070			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6071			help "seeing" what's going on.
6072
6073	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6074			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6075
6076	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6077			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6078			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6079			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6080			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6081			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6082			reported either.
6083
6084	unknown_nmi_panic
6085			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6086
6087	usbcore.authorized_default=
6088			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6089			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6090			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6091			if device connected to internal port)
6092
6093	usbcore.autosuspend=
6094			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6095			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6096			is the time required before an idle device will be
6097			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6098			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6099
6100	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6101			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6102
6103	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6104			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6105			(default = 65536).
6106
6107	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6108			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6109
6110	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6111			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6112			scheme (default 0 = off).
6113
6114	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6115			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6116			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6117
6118	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6119			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6120			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6121
6122	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6123			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6124			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6125			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6126
6127	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6128
6129	usbcore.quirks=
6130			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6131			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6132			commas. Each entry has the form
6133			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6134			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6135			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6136			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6137			the following meanings:
6138				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6139					descriptors must not be fetched using
6140					a 255-byte read);
6141				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6142					correctly so reset it instead);
6143				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6144					Set-Interface requests);
6145				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6146					handle its Configuration or Interface
6147					strings);
6148				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6149					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6150				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6151					more interface descriptions than the
6152					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6153					talking to these interfaces);
6154				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6155					during initialization, after we read
6156					the device descriptor);
6157				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6158					high speed and super speed interrupt
6159					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6160					require the interval in microframes (1
6161					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6162					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6163					(bInterval-1).
6164					Devices with this quirk report their
6165					bInterval as the result of this
6166					calculation instead of the exponent
6167					variable used in the calculation);
6168				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6169					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6170					requests);
6171				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6172					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6173					remote wakeup capability);
6174				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6175					Power Management);
6176				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6177					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6178					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6179					calculation);
6180				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6181					to be disconnected before suspend to
6182					prevent spurious wakeup);
6183				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6184					pause after every control message);
6185				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6186					delay after resetting its port);
6187			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6188
6189	usbhid.mousepoll=
6190			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6191
6192	usbhid.jspoll=
6193			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6194
6195	usbhid.kbpoll=
6196			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6197
6198	usb-storage.delay_use=
6199			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6200			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6201
6202	usb-storage.quirks=
6203			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6204			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6205			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6206			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6207			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6208			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6209			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6210				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6211					of sense data, not on uas);
6212				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6213					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6214				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6215					device capacity by one sector);
6216				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6217					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6218				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6219					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6220				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6221					command, uas only);
6222				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6223					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6224				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6225					reported device capacity by one
6226					sector if the number is odd);
6227				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6228					device);
6229				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6230					command, uas only);
6231				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6232				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6233					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6234				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6235					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6236					not on uas);
6237				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6238					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6239				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6240					reported by the device, not on uas);
6241				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6242					by default, not on uas);
6243				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6244					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6245				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6246					Logical Unit);
6247				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6248					commands, uas only);
6249				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6250				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6251					medium is write-protected).
6252				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6253					even if the device claims no cache,
6254					not on uas)
6255			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6256
6257	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6258			Format: <int>
6259			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6260				 1 - undefined instruction events
6261				 2 - system calls
6262				 4 - invalid data aborts
6263				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6264				16 - SIGBUS faults
6265			Example: user_debug=31
6266
6267	userpte=
6268			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6269
6270				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6271					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6272					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6273
6274	vdso=		[X86,SH]
6275			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6276
6277			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6278			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6279
6280	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6281			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6282			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6283
6284			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6285			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6286			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6287
6288			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6289			alias for vdso32=0.
6290
6291			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6292			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6293
6294	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6295			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6296
6297	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6298			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6299
6300	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6301			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6302			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6303			level and then send out the event to user space through
6304			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6305			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6306			brightness level.
6307			default: 1
6308
6309	virtio_mmio.device=
6310			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6311
6312				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6313			where:
6314				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6315						like K, M and G)
6316				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6317				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6318						request_irq())
6319				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6320			example:
6321				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6322
6323			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6324
6325	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6326			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6327			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6328			Use vga=ask for menu.
6329			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6330			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6331
6332	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6333			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6334			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6335			All options are enabled by default, and this
6336			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6337			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6338			debugging features.
6339
6340			Available options are:
6341			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6342			  -	Disable all of the above options
6343
6344	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6345			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6346			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6347			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6348			mapped kernel RAM.
6349
6350	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6351			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6352			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6353
6354	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6355			Format: <command>
6356
6357	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6358			Format: <command>
6359
6360	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6361			Format: <command>
6362
6363	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6364			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6365			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6366			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6367			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6368			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6369			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6370
6371			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6372			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6373				    page is readable.
6374
6375			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6376			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6377				    page is not readable.
6378
6379			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6380			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6381			            might break your system.
6382
6383	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6384			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6385			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6386
6387	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6388			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6389			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6390			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6391
6392	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6393			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6394			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6395			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6396			ranging from 0-255.
6397
6398	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6399			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6400			Change the default green palette of the console.
6401			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6402			ranging from 0-255.
6403
6404	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6405			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6406			Change the default red palette of the console.
6407			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6408			ranging from 0-255.
6409
6410	vt.default_utf8=
6411			[VT]
6412			Format=<0|1>
6413			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6414			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6415			newly opened terminals.
6416
6417	vt.global_cursor_default=
6418			[VT]
6419			Format=<-1|0|1>
6420			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6421			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6422			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6423			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6424			cursors, 1 will display them.
6425
6426	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6427			Default: 2 = green.
6428
6429	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6430			Default: 3 = cyan.
6431
6432	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6433			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6434			or other driver-specific files in the
6435			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6436
6437	watchdog_thresh=
6438			[KNL]
6439			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6440			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6441			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6442			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6443			seconds.
6444
6445	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6446			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6447			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6448			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6449			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6450			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6451			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6452			corresponding sysfs file.
6453
6454	workqueue.disable_numa
6455			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6456			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6457			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6458			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6459			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6460			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6461			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6462
6463	workqueue.power_efficient
6464			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6465			they show better performance thanks to cache
6466			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6467			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6468
6469			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6470			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6471			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6472			power usage at the cost of small performance
6473			overhead.
6474
6475			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6476			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6477
6478	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6479			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6480			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6481			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6482			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6483			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6484			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6485			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6486			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6487			impacted.
6488
6489	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6490			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6491			supporting x2apic.
6492
6493	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6494			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6495			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6496			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6497			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6498			domains.
6499
6500	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6501			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6502			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6503			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6504			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6505			nics -- unplug network devices
6506			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6507			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6508				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6509				the unplug protocol
6510			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6511
6512	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6513			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6514			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6515
6516	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6517			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6518			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6519			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6520
6521	xen_nopv	[X86]
6522			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6523			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6524			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6525			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6526
6527	xen_no_vector_callback
6528			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6529			event channel interrupts.
6530
6531	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6532			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6533			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6534			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6535			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6536
6537	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6538			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6539			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6540			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6541			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6542			more timer interrupts.
6543
6544	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6545			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6546			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6547			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6548			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6549			max. Default is 180.
6550
6551	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6552			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6553			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6554
6555	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6556			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6557			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6558
6559	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6560			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6561			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6562			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6563			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6564			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6565
6566	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6567			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6568			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6569			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6570
6571	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6572			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6573			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6574			contention.
6575
6576	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6577			Format:
6578			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6579
6580	xive=		[PPC]
6581			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6582			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6583			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6584
6585			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6586				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6587				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6588
6589	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6590			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6591			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6592			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6593			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6594
6595	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6596			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6597			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6598			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6599
6600	xmon		[PPC]
6601			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6602			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6603			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6604			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6605				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6606			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6607				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6608				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6609				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6610			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6611				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6612				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6613				can be written using xmon commands.
6614			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6615				memory, and other data can't be written using
6616				xmon commands.
6617			off	xmon is disabled.
6618