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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			For ARM64 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
25			"acpi=force" are available
26
27			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
28
29	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
30			Format: <int>
31			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
32			1,0: use 1st APIC table
33			default: 0
34
35	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
36			{ vendor | video | native | none }
37			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
38			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
39			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
40			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
41			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
42			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
43
44	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
45			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
46			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
47			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
48			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
49
50	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
51			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
52			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
53			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
54			This option is useful for developers to identify the
55			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
56			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
57
58	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
59	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
60			Format: <int>
61			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
62			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
63			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
64			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
65			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
66			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
67			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
68			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
69			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
70			debug layers and levels.
71
72			Enable processor driver info messages:
73			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
74			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
75			object while interpreting AML:
76			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
77			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
78			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
79
80			Some values produce so much output that the system is
81			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
82			if you need to capture more output.
83
84	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
85			{ strict | lax | no }
86			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
87			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
88			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
89			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
90			can interfere with legacy drivers.
91			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
92			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
93			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
94			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
95			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
96			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
97			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
98			no further checks are performed.
99
100	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
101			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
102			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
103			size limitation.
104
105	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
106			ACPI will balance active IRQs
107			default in APIC mode
108
109	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
111			default in PIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
114			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
115
116	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
117			use by PCI
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
121			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
122			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
123			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
124			the GPE dispatcher.
125			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
126			GPE floodings.
127			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
128
129	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
131			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
132			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
133			auto-serialization feature.
134			This feature is enabled by default.
135			This option allows to turn off the feature.
136
137	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
138			   kernels.
139
140	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
141			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
142			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
143			installed automatically and they will appear under
144			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
145			This option turns off this feature.
146			Note that specifying this option does not affect
147			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
148			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
149
150	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
151			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
152			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
153
154	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
155			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
156			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
157			second kernel for kdump.
158
159	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
160			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
161
162	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
163			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
164			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
165			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
166			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
167
168	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
169			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
170			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
171			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
172			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
173						  strings
174			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
175						  strings
176			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
177
178			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
179			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
180			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
181			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
182			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
183			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
184			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
185			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
186			care about the state of the feature group strings which
187			should be controlled by the OSPM.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
190			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
191			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
192
193			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
194			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
195			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
196			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
197			multiple times through kernel command line is also
198			meaningless.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
201			     FALSE.
202
203			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
204			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
205			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
206			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
207			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
208			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
209			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
210			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
211			is useful when one want to control the state of the
212			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
213			the OSPM features.
214			Examples:
215			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
216			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
217			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
218			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
219			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
220			     equivalent to
221			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
222			     and
223			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
224			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
225
226	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
227			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
228			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
229			and always returns good values.
230
231	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
232			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
233
234	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
235			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
236			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
237
238	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
239			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
240				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
241				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
242			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
243			s3_bios and s3_mode.
244			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
245			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
246			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
247			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
248			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
249			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
250			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
251			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
252			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
253			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
254			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
255			used (or even warned about) during resume.
256			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
257			control method, with respect to putting devices into
258			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
259			of _PTS is used by default).
260			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
261			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
262			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
263			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
264			but some broken systems don't work without it).
265			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
266			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
267			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
268
269	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
270			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
271			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
272
273	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
274			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
275
276	agp=		[AGP]
277			{ off | try_unsupported }
278			off: disable AGP support
279			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
280				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
281
282	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
283			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
284
285	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
286			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
287			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
288			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
289
290	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
291			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
292			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
293			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
294			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
295			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
296			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
297
298			32: only for 32-bit processes
299			64: only for 64-bit processes
300			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
301			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
302
303	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
304			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
305			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
306			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
307			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
308			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
309
310	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
311			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
312			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
313			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
314			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
315			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
316			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
317
318			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
319			information.
320
321	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
322			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
323			Possible values are:
324			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
325			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
326				    the system
327			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
328					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
329					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
330					  requirements as needed. This option
331					  does not override iommu=pt
332			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
333				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
334				       option with care.
335			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
336			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
337			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
338
339	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
340			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
341			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
342			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
343			IOMMU initialization.
344
345	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
346			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
347			remapping modes:
348			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
349			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
350			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
351			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
352			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
353
354	amd_pstate=	[X86]
355			disable
356			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
357			  scaling driver for the supported processors
358			passive
359			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
360			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
361			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
362			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
363			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
364			active
365			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
366			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
367			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
368			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
369			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
370			  frequency.
371			guided
372			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
373			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
374			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
375			  to the current workload.
376
377	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
378			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
379			Format: <a>,<b>
380			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
381
382	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
383			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
384			connected to one of 16 gameports
385			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
386
387	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
388			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
389			Format: noidle
390			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
391			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
392			APC and your system crashes randomly.
393
394	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
395			Change the output verbosity while booting
396			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
397			Change the amount of debugging information output
398			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
399			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
400			driver name.
401			Format: apic=driver_name
402			Examples: apic=bigsmp
403
404	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
405			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
406			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
407			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
408			      backup of CPU 0
409			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
410			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
411			      shot down by NMI
412
413	autoconf=	[IPV6]
414			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
415
416	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
417			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
418
419	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
420			Format: { "0" | "1" }
421			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
422			0 -- disable.
423			1 -- enable.
424			Default value is set via kernel config option.
425
426	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
427			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
428
429	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
430			Identification support
431
432	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
433			Set instructions support
434
435	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
436			support
437
438	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
439			support
440
441	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
442			Extension support
443
444	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
445			Extension support
446
447	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
448
449	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
450
451	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
452			EzKey and similar keyboards
453
454	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
455
456	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
457			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
458
459	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
460			keyboards
461
462	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
463			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
464
465	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
466			Use software keyboard repeat
467
468	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
469			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
470			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
471			    enabled until the next reboot
472			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
473			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
474			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
475			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
476			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
477			    userspace auditd.
478			Default: unset
479
480	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
481			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
482			Default: 64
483
484	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
485			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
486			Format: { "0" | "1" }
487			0 - Disable the BAU.
488			1 - Enable the BAU.
489			unset - Disable the BAU.
490
491	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
492			Format: <io>,<mode>
493
494	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
495			Format: <io>,<mode>
496			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
497
498	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
499			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
500			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
501			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
502
503	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
504			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
505			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
506			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
507
508	bert_disable	[ACPI]
509			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
510
511	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
512			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
513
514	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
515			embedded devices based on command line input.
516			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
517
518	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
519			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
520			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
521			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
522			erroneous and ignored.
523			Format: integer
524
525	bootconfig	[KNL]
526			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
527			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
528
529			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
530
531	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
532	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
533			kernel args too.
534	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
535	bttv.tuner=
536
537	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
538			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
539			at a time.
540
541	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
542
543	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
544			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
545			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
546			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
547			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
548			This option provides an override for these situations.
549
550	carrier_timeout=
551			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
552			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
553			it waits 120 seconds.
554
555	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
556			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
557			trust validation.
558			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
559
560	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
561			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
562			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
563			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
564			others).
565
566	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
567			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
568
569	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
570			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
571			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
572			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
573			  a single hierarchy
574			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
575			  subsystem
576			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
577			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
578			  created
579			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
580			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
581			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
582			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
583			stall information accounting feature
584
585	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
586			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
587			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
588			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
589			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
590			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
591			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
592			all v1 hierarchies.
593
594	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
595			Format: { "true" | "false" }
596			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
597
598	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
599			Format: <string>
600			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
601			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
602			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
603
604	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
605			Format: { "0" | "1" }
606			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
607			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
608				any implied execute protection).
609			1 -- check protection requested by application.
610			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
611			Value can be changed at runtime via
612				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
613			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
614
615	cio_ignore=	[S390]
616			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
617
618	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
619			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
620			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
621			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
622			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
623			ones should be.
624			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
625			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
626			instability issue. However, not all features have names
627			in /proc/cpuinfo.
628			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
629			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
630			or using the feature without checking anything
631			will still see it. This just prevents it from
632			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
633			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
634			some critical bits.
635
636	clk_ignore_unused
637			[CLK]
638			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
639			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
640			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
641			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
642			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
643			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
644			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
645			platform with proper driver support.  For more
646			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
647
648	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
649			[Deprecated]
650			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
651			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
652			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
653			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
654
655	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
656			Format: <string>
657			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
658			with the name specified.
659			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
660			the platform:
661			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
662			[ACPI] acpi_pm
663			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
664				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
665			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
666				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
667			[MIPS] MIPS
668			[PARISC] cr16
669			[S390] tod
670			[SH] SuperH
671			[SPARC64] tick
672			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
673
674	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
675			[ARM,ARM64]
676			Format: <bool>
677			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
678			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
679			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
680			systems.
681
682	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
683			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
684			external delays before the clock will be marked
685			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
686			three attempts to read the clock under test.
687
688	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
689			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
690			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
691			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
692			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
693			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
694			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
695			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
696			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
697
698	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
699			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
700			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
701			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
702			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
703
704	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
705			[KNL,CMA]
706			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
707			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
708			placement constraint by the physical address range of
709			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
710			altogether. For more information, see
711			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
712
713	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
714			[KNL,CMA]
715			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
716			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
717			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
718			specified, the default value is 0.
719			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
720			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
721			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
722			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
723
724	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
725			[KNL,CMA]
726			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
727			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
728			area for the specified node.
729
730			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
731			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
732			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
733			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
734
735	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
736			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
737			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
738			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
739			a hypervisor.
740			Default: yes
741
742	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
743			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
744			allocations, by default set to 256K.
745
746	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
747			Format:
748			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
749
750	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
751			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
752
753	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
754			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
755			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
756
757	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
758	conmode=
759
760	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
761			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
762			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
763			the console buffer is full. In this case the
764			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
765			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
766			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
767			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
768			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
769			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
770
771	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
772
773		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
774
775		ttyS<n>[,options]
776		ttyUSB0[,options]
777			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
778			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
779			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
780			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
781			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
782
783			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
784			information.  See
785			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
786			alternative.
787
788		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
789		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
790		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
791		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
792		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
793			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
794			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
795			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
796			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
797			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
798			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
799			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
800			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
801			the h/w is not re-initialized.
802
803		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
804			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
805
806		{ null | "" }
807			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
808			console messages discarded.
809			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
810			kernel command line.
811
812		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
813		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
814			console=brl,ttyS0
815		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
816
817	console_msg_format=
818			[KNL] Change console messages format
819		default
820			By default we print messages on consoles in
821			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
822			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
823			`printk_time' param).
824		syslog
825			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
826			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
827			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
828			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
829			from /proc/kmsg.
830
831	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
832			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
833			Defaults to 0.
834
835	coredump_filter=
836			[KNL] Change the default value for
837			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
838			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
839
840	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
841			[ARM,ARM64]
842			Format: <bool>
843			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
844			0: default value, disable debugging
845			1: enable debugging at boot time
846
847	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
848			Format:
849			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
850
851	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
852			disable the cpuidle sub-system
853
854	cpuidle.governor=
855			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
856
857	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
858			disable the cpufreq sub-system
859
860	cpufreq.default_governor=
861			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
862			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
863			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
864
865	cpu_init_udelay=N
866			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
867			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
868			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
869			Default: 10000
870
871	cpuhp.parallel=
872			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
873			Format: <bool>
874			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
875			the parameter has no effect.
876
877	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
878			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
879			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
880			succeeds in any situation.
881			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
882			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
883			kernel more unstable.
884
885	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
886			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
887			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
888			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
889			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
890			is selected automatically.
891			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and
892			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
893			hasn't been specified.
894			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
895
896	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
897			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
898			in the running system. The syntax of range is
899			start-[end] where start and end are both
900			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
901			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
902
903	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
904			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G.
905			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
906			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
907			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
908			below 4G, if available.
909			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
910	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
911			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
912			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
913			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
914			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
915			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
916			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
917			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
918			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
919			size is	platform dependent.
920			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
921			  --> arm64: 128MiB
922			  --> riscv: 128MiB
923			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
924			for second kernel instead.
925			0: to disable low allocation.
926			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
927			or memory reserved is below 4G.
928
929	cryptomgr.notests
930			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
931
932	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
933			Format: <dma>
934
935	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
936			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
937
938	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
939			function call handling. When switched on,
940			additional debug data is printed to the console
941			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
942			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
943			the hang situation.  The default value of this
944			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
945			Kconfig option.
946
947	dasd=		[HW,NET]
948			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
949
950	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
951			(one device per port)
952			Format: <port#>,<type>
953			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
954
955	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
956
957	debug_boot_weak_hash
958			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
959			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
960			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
961			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
962			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
963			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
964
965	debug_locks_verbose=
966			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
967			Format: <int>
968			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
969			self-tests.
970			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
971			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
972			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
973			useful to lockdep developers.
974
975	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
976
977	debug_guardpage_minorder=
978			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
979			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
980			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
981			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
982			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
983			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
984			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
985			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
986			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
987			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
988			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
989			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
990			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
991			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
992			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
993			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
994			help tracking down these problems.
995
996	debug_pagealloc=
997			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
998			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
999			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1000			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1001			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1002			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1003			on: enable the feature
1004
1005	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
1006			and debugfs internal clients.
1007			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1008			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1009			no-mount:
1010				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1011			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1012				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1013			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1014			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1015				or directories within debugfs.
1016				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1017				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1018			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1019
1020	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1021
1022	default_hugepagesz=
1023			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1024			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1025			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1026			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1027			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1028			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1029			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1030			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1031			Format: size[KMG]
1032
1033	deferred_probe_timeout=
1034			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1035			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1036			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1037			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1038			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1039			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1040			successful driver registration. This option will also
1041			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1042			retrying.
1043
1044	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1045
1046	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1047			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1048			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1049			hardware.
1050
1051	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1052			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1053			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1054			blacklisted features.
1055
1056	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1057			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1058			(disabled by default).
1059
1060	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1061			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1062			capability is set.
1063
1064	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1065			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1066
1067	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1068			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1069
1070	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1071			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1072			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1073			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1074			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1075			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1076			          only (compression on level 1)
1077			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1078			          only (decompression)
1079			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1080			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1081
1082	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1083			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1084
1085	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1086			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1087			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1088			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1089			miss to occur.
1090
1091	disable=	[IPV6]
1092			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1093
1094	disable_radix	[PPC]
1095			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1096
1097	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1098			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1099			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1100
1101	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1102			Format: <int>
1103			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1104			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1105			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1106			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1107			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1108			INIT from AP to BSP.
1109
1110	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1111			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1112			to workaround buggy firmware.
1113
1114	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1115			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1116
1117	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1118			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1119			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1120			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1121
1122	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1123			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1124			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1125			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1126			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1127
1128	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1129			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1130			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1131
1132	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1133
1134	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1135			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1136
1137	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1138			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1139			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1140			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1141			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1142			architectural default is too low.
1143
1144	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1145			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1146			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1147			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1148			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1149			driver later using sysfs.
1150
1151	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1152			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1153			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1154			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1155			match the *.
1156			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1157
1158	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1159			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1160			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1161			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1162			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1163			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1164			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1165			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1166			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1167			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1168			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1169			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1170			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1171			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1172			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1173			data set with no connector name will be used for
1174			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1175
1176	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1177
1178	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1179			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1180			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1181			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1182			exists).
1183			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1184			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1185			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1186
1187	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1188			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1189			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1190			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1191
1192	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1193	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1194			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1195			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1196			for details.
1197
1198	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1199			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1200			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1201			which are not unmapped.
1202
1203	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1204
1205			When used with no options, the early console is
1206			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1207			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1208			the platform.
1209
1210		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1211			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1212			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1213			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1214			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1215			configured.
1216
1217		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1218		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1219		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1220		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1221		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1222			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1223			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1224			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1225			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1226			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1227			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1228			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1229			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1230			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1231			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1232
1233		pl011,<addr>
1234		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1235			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1236			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1237			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1238			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1239			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1240			the device registers.
1241
1242		liteuart,<addr>
1243			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1244			specified address. The serial port must already be
1245			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1246
1247		meson,<addr>
1248			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1249			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1250			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1251			supported.
1252
1253		msm_serial,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1255			port at the specified address. The serial port
1256			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1257			yet supported.
1258
1259		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1260			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1261			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1262			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1263			yet supported.
1264
1265		owl,<addr>
1266			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1267			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1268			specified address. The serial port must already be
1269			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1270
1271		rda,<addr>
1272			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1273			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1274			specified address. The serial port must already be
1275			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1276
1277		sbi
1278			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1279			console.
1280
1281		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1282
1283		s3c2410,<addr>
1284		s3c2412,<addr>
1285		s3c2440,<addr>
1286		s3c6400,<addr>
1287		s5pv210,<addr>
1288		exynos4210,<addr>
1289			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1290			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1291			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1292			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1293			Options are not yet supported.
1294
1295		lantiq,<addr>
1296			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1297			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1298			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1299			yet supported.
1300
1301		lpuart,<addr>
1302		lpuart32,<addr>
1303			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1304			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1305			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1306			port must already be setup and configured.
1307
1308		ec_imx21,<addr>
1309		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1310			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1311			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1312			must already be setup and configured.
1313
1314		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1315			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1316			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1317			address. The serial port must already be setup
1318			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1319
1320		qcom_geni,<addr>
1321			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1322			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1323			specified address. The serial port must already be
1324			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1325
1326		efifb,[options]
1327			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1328			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1329			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1330			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1331			mapped with the correct attributes.
1332
1333		linflex,<addr>
1334			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1335			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1336			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1337			already be setup and configured.
1338
1339	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1340			earlyprintk=vga
1341			earlyprintk=sclp
1342			earlyprintk=xen
1343			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1344			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1345			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1346			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1347			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1348			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1349			earlyprintk=bios
1350
1351			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1352			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1353			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1354
1355			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1356			takes over.
1357
1358			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1359			be used at a time.
1360
1361			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1362			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1363			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1364			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1365				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1366			You can find the port for a given device in
1367			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1368				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1369
1370			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1371			very good.
1372
1373			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1374			the real console.
1375
1376			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1377
1378			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1379
1380			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1381
1382			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1383			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1384			UART class.
1385
1386	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1387			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1388			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1389			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1390			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1391			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1392			default: on.
1393
1394	edd=		[EDD]
1395			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1396
1397	efi=		[EFI]
1398			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1399				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1400				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1401			debug: enable misc debug output.
1402			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1403			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1404			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1405			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1406			firmware implementations.
1407			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1408			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1409			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1410			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1411			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1412			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1413			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1414			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1415			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1416			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1417
1418	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1419			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1420			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1421			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1422			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1423
1424	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1425			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1426			updating original EFI memory map.
1427			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1428			from ss to ss+nn.
1429
1430			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1431			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1432			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1433			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1434
1435			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1436			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1437			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1438
1439			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1440			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1441			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1442			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1443			"soft reserved".
1444
1445	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1446			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1447			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1448			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1449			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1450
1451
1452	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1453			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1454
1455	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1456			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1457
1458			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1459			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1460
1461			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1462			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1463			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1464			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1465
1466	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1467			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1468			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1469
1470	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1471			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1472			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1473			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1474			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1475
1476	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1477			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1478			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1479			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1480
1481	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1482			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1483			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1484			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1485			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1486
1487	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1488			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1489			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1490			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1491			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1492			Default value is 0.
1493			Value can be changed at runtime via
1494			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1495
1496	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1497			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1498			support.
1499
1500	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1501			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1502			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1503
1504	evm=		[EVM]
1505			Format: { "fix" }
1506			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1507			current integrity status.
1508
1509	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1510			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1511			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1512			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1513			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1514			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1515			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1516
1517	failslab=
1518	fail_usercopy=
1519	fail_page_alloc=
1520	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1521			General fault injection mechanism.
1522			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1523			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1524
1525	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1526			Format: { initns | none }
1527			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1528			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1529
1530	floppy=		[HW]
1531			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1532
1533	forcepae	[X86-32]
1534			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1535			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1536			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1537			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1538			and may cause unknown problems.
1539
1540	ftrace=[tracer]
1541			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1542			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1543			boot debugging.
1544
1545	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1546			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1547			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1548			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1549			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1550			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1551			start up functionality.
1552
1553			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1554			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1555			line parameter.
1556
1557			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1558
1559			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1560			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1561
1562	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1563			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1564			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1565			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1566			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1567			oops.
1568
1569	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1570			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1571			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1572			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1573			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1574			tracing directory.
1575
1576	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1577			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1578			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1579			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1580			tracing directory.
1581
1582	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1583			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1584			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1585			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1586			that can be changed at run time by the
1587			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1588
1589	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1590			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1591			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1592			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1593			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1594
1595	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1596			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1597			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1598			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1599			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1600
1601	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1602			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1603			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1604			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1605			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1606			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1607			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1608			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1609			suppliers).
1610			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1611			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1612			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1613				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1614				up (sync_state() calls).
1615			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1616				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1617			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1618
1619	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1620			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1621			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1622			Format: <bool>
1623
1624	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1625			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1626			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1627			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1628			calls.
1629			Format: { strict | timeout }
1630			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1631				probe successfully.
1632			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1633				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1634				received their sync_state() calls after
1635				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1636				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1637
1638	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1639			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1640			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1641			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1642			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1643
1644	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1645
1646	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1647			Format: off | on
1648			default: on
1649
1650	gather_data_sampling=
1651			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1652			mitigation.
1653
1654			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1655			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1656			previously stored in vector registers.
1657
1658			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1659			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1660			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1661			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1662
1663			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1664				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1665				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1666				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1667
1668			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1669
1670	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1671			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1672			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1673			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1674			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1675
1676	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1677			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1678			android emulator
1679
1680	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1681			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1682			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1683	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1684			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1685
1686	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1687			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1688			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1689			GPT to be used instead.
1690
1691	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1692			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1693			Format: 0 | 1
1694			Default: 0
1695	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1696			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1697			Format: 0 | 1
1698			Default: 0
1699	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1700			Format: 0 | 1
1701			Default: 0
1702	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1703			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1704			Default: 1024
1705	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1706			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1707			Default: 1024
1708
1709	hardened_usercopy=
1710			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1711			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1712			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1713			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1714			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1715			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1716			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1717		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1718		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1719
1720	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1721			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1722			backtraces on all cpus.
1723			Format: 0 | 1
1724
1725	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1726			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1727			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1728			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1729
1730	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1731
1732	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1733			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1734
1735	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1736			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1737			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1738			logic will be disabled.
1739
1740	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1741		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1742				present during boot.
1743		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1744		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1745		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1746				(that will set all pages holding image data
1747				during restoration read-only).
1748
1749	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1750			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1751			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1752			size on bigger boxes.
1753
1754	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1755			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1756			Default: "on"
1757
1758	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1759
1760	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1761			Format: <string>
1762			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1763			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1764			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1765			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1766			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1767			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1768			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1769			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1770			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1771			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1772
1773	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1774			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1775				verbose }
1776			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1777			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1778				VIA, nVidia)
1779			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1780
1781	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1782			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1783
1784	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1785			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1786			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1787			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1788			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1789			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1790			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1791			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1792			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1793				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1794
1795	hugepagesz=
1796			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1797			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1798			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1799			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1800			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1801			architecture dependent.  See also
1802			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1803			Format: size[KMG]
1804
1805	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1806			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1807			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1808			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1809				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1810
1811			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1812			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1813			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1814
1815	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1816			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1817			enabled.
1818			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1819			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1820			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1821			Format: { on | off (default) }
1822
1823			on: enable HVO
1824			off: disable HVO
1825
1826			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1827			the default is on.
1828
1829			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1830			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1831			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1832			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1833			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1834
1835	hung_task_panic=
1836			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1837			Format: 0 | 1
1838
1839			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1840			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1841			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1842			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1843			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1844
1845	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1846				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1847	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1848				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1849				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1850
1851	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1852				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1853				      guest on lock contention.
1854
1855	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1856				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1857				registered from board initialization code.
1858				Format:
1859				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1860
1861	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1862	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1863			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1864			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1865			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1866	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1867	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1868			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1869			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1870	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1871	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1872	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1873			     for the AUX port
1874	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1875			     controller
1876	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1877			     controllers
1878	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1879	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1880			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1881			     transitions, or never reset
1882			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1883			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1884			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1885			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1886			architectures force reset to be always executed
1887	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1888	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1889	i8042.probe_defer
1890			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1891
1892	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1893
1894	i915.invert_brightness=
1895			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1896			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1897			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1898			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1899			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1900			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1901			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1902			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1903			value switches the backlight off.
1904			-1 -- never invert brightness
1905			 0 -- machine default
1906			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1907
1908	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1909			Format: <bool>
1910			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1911			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1912			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1913
1914	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1915			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1916
1917
1918	idle=		[X86]
1919			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1920			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1921			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1922			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1923			Not recommended.
1924			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1925			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1926			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1927
1928	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1929			Format: <bool>
1930			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1931			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1932			true (1).
1933
1934	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1935			Format: <bool>
1936			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1937			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1938
1939	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1940			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1941			Default: strict
1942
1943			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1944			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1945			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1946			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1947			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1948			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1949			encoding mode.
1950
1951			Available settings are as follows:
1952			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1953				supported by the FPU
1954			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1955				by the FPU
1956			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1957				by the FPU
1958			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1959				supported by the FPU
1960
1961			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1962			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1963			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1964			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1965			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1966			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1967			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1968			MIPS64 CPUs.
1969
1970			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1971			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1972			except where unsupported by hardware.
1973
1974	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1975			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1976			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1977			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1978			could change it dynamically, usually by
1979			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1980
1981	ignore_rlimit_data
1982			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1983			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1984			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1985
1986	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1987			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1988
1989	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1990			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1991			default: "enforce"
1992
1993	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1994			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1995			owned by uid=0.
1996
1997	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1998			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1999			measurements, instead of host native format.
2000
2001	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2002			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2003				   | sha512 | ... }
2004			default: "sha1"
2005
2006			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2007			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2008
2009	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2010			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2011			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2012				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2013
2014			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2015			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2016			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2017			uid=0.
2018
2019			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2020			all files owned by root.
2021
2022			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2023			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2024			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2025
2026			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2027			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2028			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2029			flag.
2030
2031			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2032			critical data.
2033
2034	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2035			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2036			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2037			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2038			opened for read by uid=0.
2039
2040	ima_template=	[IMA]
2041			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2042			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2043				   "ima-sigv2" }
2044			Default: "ima-ng"
2045
2046	ima_template_fmt=
2047			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2048			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2049
2050	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2051			Format: <min_file_size>
2052			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2053			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2054
2055			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2056			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2057			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2058
2059	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2060			Format: <bufsize>
2061			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2062
2063			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2064			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2065			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2066
2067	init=		[KNL]
2068			Format: <full_path>
2069			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2070			process.
2071
2072	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2073			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2074			startup.
2075
2076	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2077			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2078			modules and initcalls.
2079
2080	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2081			Format: <bool>
2082			Default: 1
2083			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2084			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2085			with devices being probed and
2086			initialized. This should normally just work,
2087			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2088			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2089			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2090			late_ initcalls.
2091
2092	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2093
2094	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2095			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2096			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2097			setting.
2098			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2099			Default is 0, 0
2100
2101	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2102			zeroes.
2103			Format: 0 | 1
2104			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2105
2106	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2107			Format: 0 | 1
2108			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2109
2110	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2111			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2112			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2113			override in debugfs after boot.
2114
2115	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2116			Format: <irq>
2117
2118	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2119
2120	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2121			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2122			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2123			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2124
2125	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2126		on
2127			Enable intel iommu driver.
2128		off
2129			Disable intel iommu driver.
2130		igfx_off [Default Off]
2131			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2132			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2133			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2134			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2135			DMA.
2136		strict [Default Off]
2137			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2138		sp_off [Default Off]
2139			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2140			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2141			not be supported.
2142		sm_on
2143			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2144			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2145			translation.
2146		sm_off
2147			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2148		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2149			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2150			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2151			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2152			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2153			mapping is enabled.
2154			Note that using this option lowers the security
2155			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2156			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2157
2158	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2159			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2160			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2161
2162	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2163			disable
2164			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2165			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2166                        active
2167                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2168                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2169                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2170                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2171                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2172                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2173                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2174                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2175                          and possibly on the processor model.
2176			passive
2177			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2178			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2179			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2180			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2181			  feature.
2182			force
2183			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2184			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2185			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2186			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2187			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2188			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2189			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2190			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2191			no_hwp
2192			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2193			  if available.
2194			hwp_only
2195			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2196			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2197			support_acpi_ppc
2198			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2199			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2200			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2201			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2202			per_cpu_perf_limits
2203			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2204			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2205
2206	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2207			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2208			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2209			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2210			no_x2apic_optout
2211				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2212			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2213
2214	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2215		strict	regions from userspace.
2216		relaxed
2217
2218	iommu=		[X86]
2219		off
2220		force
2221		noforce
2222		biomerge
2223		panic
2224		nopanic
2225		merge
2226		nomerge
2227		soft
2228		pt		[X86]
2229		nopt		[X86]
2230		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2231			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2232
2233	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2234			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2235			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2236			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2237			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2238			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2239			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2240
2241	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2242			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2243			0 - Lazy mode.
2244			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2245			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2246			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2247			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2248			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2249			1 - Strict mode.
2250			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2251			  synchronously.
2252			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2253			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2254			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2255
2256	iommu.passthrough=
2257			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2258			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2259			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2260			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2261			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2262
2263	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2264			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2265			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2266
2267	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2268		0x80
2269			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2270		0xed
2271			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2272		udelay
2273			Simple two microseconds delay
2274		none
2275			No delay
2276
2277	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2278			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2279
2280	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2281			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2282
2283	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2284			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2285
2286	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2287			[ARM, ARM64]
2288			Format: <bool>
2289			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2290			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2291			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2292
2293	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2294			[ARM, ARM64]
2295			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2296			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2297			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2298			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2299			LPIs.
2300
2301	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2302			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2303			requires the kernel to be built with
2304			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2305
2306	irqfixup	[HW]
2307			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2308			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2309			firmware running.
2310
2311	irqpoll		[HW]
2312			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2313			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2314			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2315			firmware running.
2316
2317	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2318			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2319
2320	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2321			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2322			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2323
2324			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2325			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2326
2327			nohz
2328			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2329
2330			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2331			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2332			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2333			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2334			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2335
2336			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2337			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2338			  be configured manually after bootup.
2339
2340			domain
2341			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2342			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2343			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2344			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2345			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2346			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2347			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2348			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2349
2350			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2351			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2352			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2353			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2354
2355			managed_irq
2356
2357			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2358			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2359			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2360			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2361			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2362
2363			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2364			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2365			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2366			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2367			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2368			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2369			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2370
2371			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2372			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2373			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2374			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2375			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2376			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2377			  queues.
2378
2379			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2380
2381	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2382
2383	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2384			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2385			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2386			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2387
2388			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2389			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2390			write the parameter as:
2391				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2392
2393			Deprecated formats:
2394			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2395			  write the parameter as:
2396				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2397			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2398			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2399				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2400
2401	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2402			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2403			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2404			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2405
2406			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2407			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2408			write the parameter as:
2409				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2410
2411			Deprecated formats:
2412			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2413			  write the parameter as:
2414				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2415			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2416			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2417				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2418
2419	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2420			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2421			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2422			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2423
2424			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2425			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2426			write the parameter as:
2427				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2428
2429			Deprecated formats:
2430			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2431			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2432				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2433			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2434			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2435				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2436
2437	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2438			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2439
2440	kasan_multi_shot
2441			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2442			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2443			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2444			invalid access.
2445
2446	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2447			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2448			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2449			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2450			the real console.
2451
2452	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2453
2454	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2455			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2456			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2457			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2458			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2459			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2460			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2461			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2462			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2463			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2464
2465			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2466			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2467			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2468			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2469			zone if it does not.
2470
2471			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2472			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2473			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2474			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2475			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2476			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2477			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2478
2479	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2480			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2481			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2482			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2483			optional and is the number seconds in between
2484			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2485			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2486			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2487			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2488			the kernel debugger.
2489
2490	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2491			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2492			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2493			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2494			 keyboard only format: kbd
2495			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2496			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2497			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2498			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2499
2500	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2501			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2502			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2503			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2504			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2505			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2506			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2507
2508			The name of the early console should be specified
2509			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2510			the early console might be different than the tty
2511			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2512			blank and the first boot console that implements
2513			read() will be picked.
2514
2515	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2516			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2517
2518	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2519			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2520			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2521
2522	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2523			Valid arguments: on, off
2524			Default: on
2525			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2526			the default is off.
2527
2528	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2529			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2530			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2531			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2532			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2533			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2534			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2535
2536			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2537
2538			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2539			Boot Parameter" section.
2540
2541	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2542			and kernel address spaces.
2543			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2544			0: force disabled
2545			1: force enabled
2546
2547	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2548			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2549			default value can be overridden via
2550			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2551			Default is 1 (enabled)
2552
2553	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2554			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2555
2556	kvm.eager_page_split=
2557			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2558			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2559			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2560			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2561			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2562			required to split huge pages lazily.
2563
2564			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2565			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2566			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2567			still be used for reads.
2568
2569			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2570			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2571			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2572			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2573			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2574			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2575			cleared.
2576
2577			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2578
2579			Default is Y (on).
2580
2581	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2582				   Default is false (don't support).
2583
2584	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2585			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2586			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2587			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2588			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2589			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2590				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2591
2592			Default is 'auto'.
2593
2594			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2595			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2596
2597	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2598			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2599			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2600			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2601			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2602
2603	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2604			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2605			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2606			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2607			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2608			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2609
2610	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2611			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2612
2613	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2614			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2615			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2616			for NPT.
2617
2618	kvm-arm.mode=
2619			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2620
2621			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2622
2623			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2624			      protected guests.
2625
2626			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2627				   state is kept private from the host.
2628
2629			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2630				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2631				hardware.
2632
2633			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2634			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2635			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2636			used with extreme caution.
2637
2638	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2639			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2640			system registers
2641
2642	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2643			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2644			system registers
2645
2646	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2647			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2648			system registers
2649
2650	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2651			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2652			LPIs.
2653
2654	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2655			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2656			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2657			allocation.
2658			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2659			Format: <integer>
2660			Default: 5
2661
2662	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2663			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2664			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2665			for EPT.
2666
2667	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2668			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2669			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2670			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2671			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2672			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2673			Default is 1 (enabled).
2674
2675	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2676			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2677			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2678			hardware lacks support for it.
2679
2680	kvm-intel.nested=
2681			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2682			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2683
2684	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2685			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2686			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2687			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2688			hardware lacks support for it.
2689
2690	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2691			CVE-2018-3620.
2692
2693			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2694
2695			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2696			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2697				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2698			never:	Disables the mitigation
2699
2700			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2701
2702	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2703			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2704			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2705			for it.
2706
2707	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2708			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2709
2710			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2711			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2712			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2713
2714			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2715			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2716			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2717			not have direct access.
2718
2719			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2720			options are:
2721
2722			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2723
2724	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2725			      affected CPUs
2726
2727			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2728			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2729
2730			full
2731				Provides all available mitigations for the
2732				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2733				enables all mitigations in the
2734				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2735
2736				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2737				sysfs interface is still possible after
2738				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2739				when the first VM is started in a
2740				potentially insecure configuration,
2741				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2742
2743			full,force
2744				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2745				flush runtime control. Implies the
2746				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2747				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2748
2749			flush
2750				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2751				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2752				L1D flush.
2753
2754				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2755				sysfs interface is still possible after
2756				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2757				when the first VM is started in a
2758				potentially insecure configuration,
2759				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2760
2761			flush,nosmt
2762
2763				Disables SMT and enables the default
2764				hypervisor mitigation.
2765
2766				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2767				sysfs interface is still possible after
2768				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2769				when the first VM is started in a
2770				potentially insecure configuration,
2771				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2772
2773			flush,nowarn
2774				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2775				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2776				insecure configuration.
2777
2778			off
2779				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2780				emit any warnings.
2781				It also drops the swap size and available
2782				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2783				bare metal.
2784
2785			Default is 'flush'.
2786
2787			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2788
2789	l2cr=		[PPC]
2790
2791	l3cr=		[PPC]
2792
2793	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2794			disabled it.
2795
2796	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2797			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2798			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2799			Format: notscdeadline
2800
2801	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2802			in C2 power state.
2803
2804	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2805			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2806			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2807			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2808			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2809			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2810			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2811
2812	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2813			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2814			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2815
2816	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2817			when set.
2818			Format: <int>
2819
2820	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2821			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2822			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2823			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2824			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2825			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2826			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2827			to all ports, links and devices.
2828
2829			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2830			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2831			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2832			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2833			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2834			host link and device attached to it.
2835
2836			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2837			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2838			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2839			The following configurations can be forced.
2840
2841			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2842			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2843
2844			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2845
2846			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2847			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2848			  allowed.
2849
2850			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2851			  resets.
2852
2853			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2854			  link recovery.
2855
2856			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2857			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2858			  detection.
2859
2860			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2861
2862			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2863
2864			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2865
2866			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2867
2868			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2869
2870			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2871
2872			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2873
2874			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2875
2876			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2877			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2878
2879			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2880			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2881
2882			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2883			  identify device data log.
2884
2885			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2886			  purpose log directory.
2887
2888			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2889
2890			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2891			  1024 sectors.
2892
2893			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2894			  65535 sectors.
2895
2896			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2897
2898			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2899			  should be skipped.
2900
2901			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2902			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2903
2904			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2905
2906			* disable: Disable this device.
2907
2908			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2909			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2910
2911	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2912
2913	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2914			Format: <integer>
2915
2916	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2917			Format: <integer>
2918
2919	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2920			Format: <integer>
2921
2922	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2923			Format: <integer>
2924
2925	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2926			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2927			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2928			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2929			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2930			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2931			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2932			are also disabled.
2933
2934	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
2935			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
2936			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
2937			will result in a splat once they do complete.
2938
2939	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
2940			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
2941			to be bound.
2942
2943	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
2944			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
2945			to be bound.
2946
2947	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
2948			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
2949			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
2950			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
2951			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
2952			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
2953
2954	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
2955			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
2956			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
2957			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
2958
2959	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
2960			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
2961			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
2962			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
2963			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
2964			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
2965
2966	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2967			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2968			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2969			number of online CPUs.
2970
2971	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2972			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2973
2974	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2975			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2976
2977	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2978			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2979			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2980
2981	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
2982			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
2983			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
2984			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
2985			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
2986			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
2987			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
2988			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
2989			disable boosting.
2990
2991	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
2992			Number that determines how often and for how
2993			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
2994			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
2995			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
2996			constant as the number of writers increases.
2997			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
2998			increases with the number of writers.
2999
3000	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3001			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3002			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3003			mode during the locktorture test.
3004
3005	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3006			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3007			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3008
3009	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3010			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3011
3012	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3013			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3014			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3015			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3016			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3017			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3018
3019	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3020			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3021
3022	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3023			Enable additional printk() statements.
3024
3025	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3026			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3027			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3028
3029	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3030			Format: <irq>
3031
3032	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3033			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3034			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3035			loglevels are defined as follows:
3036
3037			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3038			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3039			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3040			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3041			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3042			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3043			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3044			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3045
3046	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
3047			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
3048			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
3049			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
3050			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
3051			that allows to increase the default size depending on
3052			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
3053
3054	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3055			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3056			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3057			kernel boot problems.
3058
3059	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3060	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3061	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3062	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3063				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3064				attached printers to be reset. Using
3065				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3066				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3067				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3068				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3069				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3070				port specification list means that device IDs
3071				from each port should be examined, to see if
3072				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3073				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3074				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3075
3076	lpj=n		[KNL]
3077			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3078			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3079			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3080			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3081			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3082			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3083			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3084			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3085			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3086			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3087			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3088			hardware.
3089
3090	ltpc=		[NET]
3091			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3092
3093	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3094
3095	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3096			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3097			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3098
3099	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3100			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3101			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3102
3103	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3104			different yeeloong laptops.
3105			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3106
3107	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3108			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3109
3110	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3111			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3112			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3113			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3114			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3115			only takes effect during system bootup.
3116			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3117			which also disables the IO APIC.
3118
3119	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3120	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3121			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3122			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3123			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3124			/dev/loop-control interface.
3125
3126	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3127
3128	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3129
3130	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3131			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3132
3133	mdacon=		[MDA]
3134			Format: <first>,<last>
3135			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3136
3137	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3138			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3139			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3140
3141			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3142			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3143			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3144
3145			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3146			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3147			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3148			not have direct access.
3149
3150			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3151			options are:
3152
3153			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3154			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3155				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3156			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3157
3158			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3159			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3160			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3161			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3162			too.
3163
3164			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3165			mds=full.
3166
3167			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3168
3169	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3170			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3171
3172	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3173			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3174
3175			1 for test;
3176			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3177			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3178			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3179			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3180
3181			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3182			high memory is not affected.
3183
3184			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3185			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3186
3187			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3188			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3189			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3190			belonging to unused RAM.
3191
3192			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3193			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3194			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3195
3196	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3197			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3198			firmware.
3199			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3200			ss[KMG].
3201			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3202			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3203
3204	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3205			memory.
3206
3207	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3208
3209	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3210			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3211			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3212
3213	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3214			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3215			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3216			set according to the
3217			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3218			option.
3219			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3220
3221	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3222			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3223			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3224			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3225			option description.
3226
3227	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3228			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3229			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3230			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3231			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3232			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3233			comma delimited.
3234			Example:
3235				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3236
3237	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3238			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3239			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3240
3241	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3242			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3243			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3244			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3245			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3246			         or
3247			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3248			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3249			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3250			will be eaten.
3251
3252	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3253			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3254			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3255			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3256			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3257
3258	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3259			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3260			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3261			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3262			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3263			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3264			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3265			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3266
3267	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3268			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3269			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3270			Setting this option will scan the memory
3271			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3272			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3273			from using the memory being corrupted.
3274			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3275			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3276			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3277			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3278
3279	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3280			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3281			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3282			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3283			corruption in more or less memory.
3284
3285	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3286			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3287			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3288			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3289
3290	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3291			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3292			Format: {on | off (default)}
3293			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3294			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3295			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3296			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3297			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3298			lot of memory without requiring additional
3299			memory to do so.
3300			This feature is disabled by default because it
3301			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3302			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3303			memory blocks).
3304			The state of the flag can be read in
3305			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3306			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3307			the feature is not effective.
3308
3309	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3310			Format: <integer>
3311			default : 0 <disable>
3312			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3313			performed. Each pass selects another test
3314			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3315			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3316			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3317			regions that are detected.
3318
3319	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3320			Valid arguments: on, off
3321			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3322			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3323			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3324			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3325			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3326
3327			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3328			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3329
3330	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3331			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3332			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3333			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3334			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3335
3336	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3337			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3338			platforms.
3339
3340	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3341			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3342			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3343			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3344
3345	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3346
3347	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3348			Format: <bool>
3349			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3350			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3351
3352	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3353			physical address is ignored.
3354
3355	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3356			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3357			Default: "0tb"
3358			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3359			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3360			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3361			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3362			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3363			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3364			unconfigured.
3365			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3366			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3367			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3368			VGA shield.
3369			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3370			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3371			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3372			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3373			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3374			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3375
3376	mitigations=
3377			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3378			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3379			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3380			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3381
3382			off
3383				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3384				improves system performance, but it may also
3385				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3386				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3387					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3388					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3389					       l1tf=off [X86]
3390					       mds=off [X86]
3391					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3392					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3393					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3394					       nobp=0 [S390]
3395					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3396					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3397					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3398					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3399					       retbleed=off [X86]
3400					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3401					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3402					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3403					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3404					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3405
3406				Exceptions:
3407					       This does not have any effect on
3408					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3409					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3410
3411			auto (default)
3412				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3413				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3414				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3415				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3416				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3417				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3418
3419			auto,nosmt
3420				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3421				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3422				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3423				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3424					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3425					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3426					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3427					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3428
3429	mminit_loglevel=
3430			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3431			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3432			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3433			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3434			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3435			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3436
3437	mmio_stale_data=
3438			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3439			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3440
3441			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3442			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3443			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3444			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3445			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3446			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3447
3448			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3449			options are:
3450
3451			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3452
3453			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3454				     vulnerable CPUs.
3455
3456			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3457
3458			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3459			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3460			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3461			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3462			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3463			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3464
3465			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3466			mmio_stale_data=full.
3467
3468			For details see:
3469			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3470
3471	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3472			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3473			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3474			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3475			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3476			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3477
3478	module.async_probe=<bool>
3479			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3480			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3481			specific module, use the module specific control that
3482			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3483			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3484			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3485			the specific module.
3486
3487	module.enable_dups_trace
3488			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3489			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3490			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3491			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3492			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3493	module.sig_enforce
3494			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3495			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3496			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3497			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3498
3499	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3500			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3501
3502	mousedev.tap_time=
3503			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3504			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3505			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3506			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3507			Format: <msecs>
3508	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3509			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3510	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3511			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3512
3513	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3514			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3515			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3516			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3517			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3518			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3519			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3520			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3521			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3522			is not too small.
3523
3524	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3525			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3526			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3527			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3528			allocations. Use with caution!
3529
3530	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3531			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3532
3533	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3534			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3535
3536	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3537			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3538
3539	mtdset=		[ARM]
3540			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3541
3542			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3543
3544	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3545			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3546			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3547
3548	mtrr=debug	[X86]
3549			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3550			registers at boot time.
3551
3552	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3553			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3554			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3555
3556	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3557			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3558			Default is 1.
3559			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3560			using up MTRRs.
3561
3562	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3563			Format: <integer>
3564			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3565			Default : 1
3566			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3567			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3568
3569	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3570			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3571			at a time.
3572
3573	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3574
3575	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3576			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3577			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3578			something different and driver-specific.
3579			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3580			file if at all.
3581
3582	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3583			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3584			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3585			waits 4 seconds.
3586
3587	nf_conntrack.acct=
3588			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3589			0 to disable accounting
3590			1 to enable accounting
3591			Default value is 0.
3592
3593	nfs.cache_getent=
3594			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3595			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3596
3597	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3598			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3599			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3600
3601	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3602			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3603			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3604			requests.
3605
3606	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3607			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3608			channel should listen.
3609
3610	nfs.delay_retrans=
3611			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3612			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3613			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3614			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3615			and the specified value is >= 0.
3616
3617	nfs.enable_ino64=
3618			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3619			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3620			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3621			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3622			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3623
3624	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3625			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3626			entries.
3627
3628	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3629			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3630			slots the client will assign to the callback
3631			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3632			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3633			a particular server.
3634
3635	nfs.max_session_slots=
3636			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3637			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3638			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3639			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3640			Note that there is little point in setting this
3641			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3642
3643	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3644			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3645			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3646			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3647			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3648			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3649			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3650			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3651			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3652			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3653			back to using the idmapper.
3654			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3655
3656	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3657			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3658			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3659			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3660			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3661
3662	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3663			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3664			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3665			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3666			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3667			after the locks are lost.
3668			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3669			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3670			parameter to '1'.
3671			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3672			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3673
3674	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3675			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3676			information in exchange_id requests.
3677			If zero, no implementation identification information
3678			will be sent.
3679			The default is to send the implementation identification
3680			information.
3681
3682	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3683			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3684			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3685
3686			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3687			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3688			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3689			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3690
3691	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3692			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3693			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3694			the destination of the copy.
3695
3696	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3697			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3698			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3699			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3700			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3701			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3702
3703	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3704			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3705			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3706			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3707			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3708			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3709			this parameter.
3710
3711	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3712			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3713
3714	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3715			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3716
3717	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3718			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3719
3720	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3721			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3722			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3723
3724	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3725			when a NMI is triggered.
3726			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3727
3728	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3729			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3730			Valid num: 0 or 1
3731			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3732			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3733			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3734			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3735			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3736			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3737			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3738			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3739			need the box quickly up again.
3740
3741			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3742			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3743
3744	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3745			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3746			is present.
3747
3748	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3749			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3750
3751	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3752			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3753
3754	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3755			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3756			but will impact performance.
3757
3758	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3759
3760	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3761			(CPU alternatives feature).
3762
3763	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3764			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3765
3766	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3767
3768	nocache		[ARM]
3769
3770	no_console_suspend
3771			[HW] Never suspend the console
3772			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3773			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3774			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3775			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3776			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3777			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3778			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3779			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3780			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3781			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3782			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3783			turn on/off it dynamically.
3784
3785	no_debug_objects
3786			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3787
3788	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3789
3790	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3791
3792	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3793
3794	noexec		[IA-64]
3795
3796	noexec32	[X86-64]
3797			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3798			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3799				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3800			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3801				read implies executable mappings
3802
3803	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3804			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3805			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3806
3807	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3808
3809	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3810
3811	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3812			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3813			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3814
3815	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3816			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3817			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3818			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3819			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3820			real-time systems.
3821
3822	no_hash_pointers
3823			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3824			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3825			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3826			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3827			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3828			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3829			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3830			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3831			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3832			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3833			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3834			kernels.
3835
3836	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3837
3838	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3839			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3840			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3841			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3842			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3843			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3844			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3845			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3846
3847	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3848
3849	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3850
3851	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3852			Valid arguments: on, off
3853			Default: on
3854
3855	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3856			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3857			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3858			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3859			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3860			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3861			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3862			just as if they had also been called out in the
3863			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3864
3865			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3866			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3867
3868	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3869			initial RAM disk.
3870
3871	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3872			remapping.
3873			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3874
3875	nointroute	[IA-64]
3876
3877	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3878
3879	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3880
3881	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3882			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3883
3884	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3885
3886	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3887
3888	nokaslr		[KNL]
3889			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3890			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3891			Layout Randomization).
3892
3893	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3894			fault handling.
3895
3896	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3897
3898	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3899
3900	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3901
3902	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3903
3904	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3905
3906	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3907			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3908
3909	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3910			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3911			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3912			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3913			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3914			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3915			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3916
3917			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3918
3919	nomodule	Disable module load
3920
3921	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3922			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3923			irq.
3924
3925	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3926			pagetables) support.
3927
3928	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3929
3930	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3931			in some Intel CPUs.
3932
3933	nopti		[X86-64]
3934			Equivalent to pti=off
3935
3936	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3937			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3938			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3939			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3940
3941	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3942			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3943			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3944			contention.
3945
3946	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3947			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3948
3949	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3950			with UP alternatives
3951
3952	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3953			space.
3954
3955	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3956
3957	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3958			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3959			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3960
3961	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3962
3963	nosmap		[PPC]
3964			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3965			even if it is supported by processor.
3966
3967	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3968			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3969			even if it is supported by processor.
3970
3971	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3972			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3973
3974	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3975			Equivalent to smt=1.
3976
3977			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3978			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3979				     via the sysfs control file.
3980
3981	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3982
3983	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3984			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3985
3986	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3987			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3988			with this option.
3989
3990	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3991			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3992			possible in the system.
3993
3994	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3995			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3996			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3997			option.
3998
3999	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
4000			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
4001			won't influence scheduler behaviour
4002
4003	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4004
4005	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4006			broken timer IRQ sources.
4007
4008	no_uaccess_flush
4009	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4010
4011	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4012			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4013			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4014			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4015			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4016			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4017			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4018			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4019			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4020			is set.
4021
4022	no-vmw-sched-clock
4023			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
4024			clock and use the default one.
4025
4026	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4027			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4028
4029	nowb		[ARM]
4030
4031	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4032
4033			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4034			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4035			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4036
4037	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4038			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4039			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4040
4041	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4042			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4043			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4044			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4045			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4046			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4047
4048	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4049			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4050			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4051			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4052			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4053			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4054			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4055
4056	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4057			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4058			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4059			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4060			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4061			parameter's value.
4062			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4063			Default: 255
4064
4065	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4066			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4067			SAL PALO.
4068
4069	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
4070			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4071			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4072			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4073			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4074			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4075			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4076			hot plugging.
4077
4078	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4079
4080	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
4081			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
4082
4083	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4084			NUMA balancing.
4085			Allowed values are enable and disable
4086
4087	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4088			'node', 'default' can be specified
4089			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4090			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4091
4092	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4093			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4094			info.
4095
4096	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4097			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4098			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4099			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4100			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4101			interrupts *may* be lost!
4102
4103	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4104			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4105			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4106			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4107
4108	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4109
4110			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4111
4112			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4113				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4114			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4115				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4116				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4117
4118	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4119			process, but there is a small probability of
4120			deadlocking the machine.
4121			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4122			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4123
4124	page_alloc.shuffle=
4125			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4126			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4127			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4128			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4129			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4130			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4131			can be read from sysfs at:
4132			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4133
4134	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4135			Storage of the information about who allocated
4136			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4137			we can turn it on.
4138			on: enable the feature
4139
4140	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4141			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4142			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4143			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4144			on: turn on poisoning
4145
4146	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4147			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4148			Format: <integer>
4149			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4150			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4151
4152	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4153			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4154			timeout = 0: wait forever
4155			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4156			Format: <timeout>
4157
4158	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4159			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4160			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4161			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4162			called with any of the flags in this set.
4163			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4164			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4165			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4166			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4167			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4168			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4169			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4170
4171	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4172			on a WARN().
4173
4174	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4175			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4176			bit 0: print all tasks info
4177			bit 1: print system memory info
4178			bit 2: print timer info
4179			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4180			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4181			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4182			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4183			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4184			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4185			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4186			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4187
4188	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4189			connected to, default is 0.
4190			Format: <parport#>
4191	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4192			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4193			Format: <mode>
4194
4195	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4196			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4197			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4198			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4199			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4200			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4201			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4202			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4203			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4204			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4205			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4206			are specified on the command line, starting
4207			with parport0.
4208
4209	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4210			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4211			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4212			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4213			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4214			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4215			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4216
4217	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4218			Format: <int>
4219			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4220			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4221			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4222
4223	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4224			Format: <int>
4225			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4226			changes.  Disabled by default.
4227
4228	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4229			Format: <int>
4230			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4231			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4232			Disabled by default.
4233
4234	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4235			Format: <int>
4236			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4237			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4238			Disabled by default.
4239
4240	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4241			Format: <int>
4242			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4243			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4244			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4245			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4246			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4247			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4248			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4249			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4250			all channels.
4251
4252	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4253			Format: <int>
4254			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4255			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4256			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4257
4258	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4259			Format: <int>
4260			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4261			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4262			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4263
4264	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4265			Format: <int>
4266			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4267			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4268			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4269			All modes allowed by default.
4270
4271	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4272			Format: <int>
4273			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4274			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4275
4276	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4277			Format: <int>
4278			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4279			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4280			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4281			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4282			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4283			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4284			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4285			By default all supported ports are probed.
4286
4287	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4288			Format: <int>
4289			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4290			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4291
4292	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4293			Format: <int>
4294			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4295			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4296			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4297			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4298			0 otherwise.
4299
4300	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4301			Format: <int>
4302			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4303			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4304			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4305			allowed by default.
4306
4307	pause_on_oops=<int>
4308			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4309			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4310			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4311
4312	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4313
4314	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4315
4316				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4317				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4318				specified in one of the following formats:
4319
4320				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4321				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4322
4323				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4324				bus/device/function address which may change
4325				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4326				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4327				by other kernel parameters. If the
4328				domain is left unspecified, it is
4329				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4330				to a device through multiple device/function
4331				addresses can be specified after the base
4332				address (this is more robust against
4333				renumbering issues).  The second format
4334				selects devices using IDs from the
4335				configuration space which may match multiple
4336				devices in the system.
4337
4338		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4339				changes anything
4340		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4341		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4342				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4343				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4344		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4345				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4346				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4347				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4348		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4349				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4350				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4351		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4352				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4353				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4354				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4355				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4356				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4357				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4358		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4359				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4360				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4361		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4362				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4363		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4364				Configuration
4365		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4366				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4367				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4368		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4369				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4370				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4371		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4372				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4373				should never be necessary.
4374		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4375				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4376				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4377				when the system masks IRQs.
4378		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4379				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4380				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4381				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4382		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4383				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4384				on several machines and they hang the machine
4385				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4386				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4387				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4388				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4389				motherboard.
4390		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4391				Use with caution as certain devices share
4392				address decoders between ROMs and other
4393				resources.
4394		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4395				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4396				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4397		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4398				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4399		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4400				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4401				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4402				this way.
4403		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4404				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4405				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4406				F0000h-100000h range.
4407		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4408				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4409				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4410				explicitly which ones they are.
4411		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4412				numbers ourselves, overriding
4413				whatever the firmware may have done.
4414		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4415				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4416				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4417				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4418				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4419				IRQ routing is enabled.
4420		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4421				or for PCI scanning.
4422		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4423				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4424				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4425				please report a bug.
4426		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4427				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4428		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4429				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4430				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4431				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4432				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4433		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4434				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4435				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4436				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4437		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4438				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4439				so this option is a temporary workaround
4440				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4441		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4442				handle more pci cards
4443		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4444				This might help on some broken boards which
4445				machine check when some devices' config space
4446				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4447				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4448		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4449				This sorting is done to get a device
4450				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4451		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4452		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4453				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4454		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4455				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4456		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4457				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4458				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4459				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4460				or bus can support) for best performance.
4461		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4462				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4463				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4464				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4465				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4466				that hot-added devices will work.
4467		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4468				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4469				The default value is 256 bytes.
4470		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4471				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4472				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4473		resource_alignment=
4474				Format:
4475				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4476				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4477				aligned memory resources. How to
4478				specify the device is described above.
4479				If <order of align> is not specified,
4480				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4481				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4482				windows need to be expanded.
4483				To specify the alignment for several
4484				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4485				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4486				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4487				for 4096-byte alignment.
4488		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4489				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4490				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4491				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4492				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4493				the default.
4494				off: Turn ECRC off
4495				on: Turn ECRC on.
4496		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4497				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4498				Default size is 256 bytes.
4499		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4500				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4501				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4502		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4503				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4504				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4505		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4506				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4507				MMIO_PREF window.
4508				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4509		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4510				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4511				Default is 1.
4512		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4513				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4514				accommodate resources required by all child
4515				devices.
4516				off: Turn realloc off
4517				on: Turn realloc on
4518		realloc		same as realloc=on
4519		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4520		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4521				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4522		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4523				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4524				port.
4525		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4526				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4527				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4528				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4529				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4530				taints the kernel.
4531		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4532				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4533				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4534				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4535				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4536				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4537				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4538				this removes isolation between devices and
4539				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4540		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4541		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4542		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4543				one PCI domain per PCI function
4544
4545	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4546			Management.
4547		off	Disable ASPM.
4548		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4549			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4550
4551	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4552		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4553			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4554			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4555			also tries to use these services.
4556		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4557				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4558		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4559			hotplug).
4560
4561	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4562		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4563		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4564
4565	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4566		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4567			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4568
4569	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4570
4571	pd_ignore_unused
4572			[PM]
4573			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4574			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4575			for debug and development, but should not be
4576			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4577
4578	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4579			boot time.
4580			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4581			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4582
4583	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4584			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4585			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4586			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4587			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4588			and performance comparison.
4589
4590	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4591			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4592
4593	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4594			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4595			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4596
4597	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4598			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4599			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4600
4601	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4602			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4603			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4604			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4605			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4606			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4607			remains 0.
4608
4609	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4610			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4611
4612	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4613			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4614			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4615			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4616			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4617			possible settings and some assignment information.
4618
4619	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4620			{ off }
4621
4622	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4623			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4624
4625	pnp_reserve_irq=
4626			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4627
4628	pnp_reserve_dma=
4629			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4630
4631	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4632			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4633
4634	pnp_reserve_mem=
4635			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4636			autoconfiguration.
4637			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4638
4639	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4640			Default is 21.
4641			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4642			may be specified.
4643			Format: <port>,<port>....
4644
4645	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4646			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4647			platform machine description specific power_save
4648			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4649			execution priority.
4650
4651	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4652			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4653			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4654			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4655			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4656
4657	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4658			Format: {"off"}
4659			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4660
4661	preempt=	[KNL]
4662			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4663			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4664			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4665			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4666			       can be preempted anytime.
4667
4668	print-fatal-signals=
4669			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4670
4671			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4672			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4673			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4674			coredump - etc.
4675
4676			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4677			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4678
4679			default: off.
4680
4681	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4682			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4683			panics
4684			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4685			default: disabled
4686
4687	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4688			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4689			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4690			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4691			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4692			in order to provide more debug information.
4693			Format: <bool>
4694			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4695
4696	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4697			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4698			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4699			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4700			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4701			Default: ratelimit
4702
4703	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4704			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4705
4706	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4707			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4708			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4709
4710	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4711			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4712			instead using the legacy FADT method
4713
4714	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4715			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4716			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4717				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4718			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4719			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4720				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4721			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4722			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4723				statistical time based profiling.
4724
4725	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4726
4727	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4728			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4729			that).
4730			Format: <bool>
4731
4732	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4733			tracking.
4734			Format: <bool>
4735
4736	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4737			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4738	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4739			per second.
4740	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4741			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4742			(0 = never).
4743	psmouse.resolution=
4744			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4745	psmouse.smartscroll=
4746			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4747			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4748
4749	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4750
4751	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4752			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4753			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4754			system calls and interrupts.
4755
4756			on   - unconditionally enable
4757			off  - unconditionally disable
4758			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4759			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4760
4761			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4762
4763	pty.legacy_count=
4764			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4765			default number.
4766
4767	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4768
4769	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4770
4771	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4772			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4773			invalidate.
4774
4775	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4776			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4777
4778	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4779			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4780
4781	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4782
4783	random.trust_cpu=off
4784			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4785			random number generator (if available) to
4786			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4787
4788	random.trust_bootloader=off
4789			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4790			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4791			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4792
4793	randomize_kstack_offset=
4794			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4795			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4796			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4797			that depend on stack address determinism or
4798			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4799			available on architectures that have defined
4800			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4801			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4802			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4803
4804	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4805
4806		cec_disable	[X86]
4807				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4808				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4809
4810	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4811			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4812			as described above.
4813
4814			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4815			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4816			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4817			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4818			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4819			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4820			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4821			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4822			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4823			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4824			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4825			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4826
4827			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4828			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4829
4830			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4831			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4832			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4833			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4834
4835			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4836			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4837
4838	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4839			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4840			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4841			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4842			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4843			This improves the real-time response for the
4844			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4845			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4846			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4847			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4848
4849	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4850			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4851			process in one batch.
4852
4853	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4854			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4855			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4856			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4857			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4858			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4859
4860	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4861			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4862			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4863			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4864
4865	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4866			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4867			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4868
4869	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4870			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4871			RCU grace-period initialization.
4872
4873	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4874			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4875			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4876			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4877			the rcu_node combining tree.
4878
4879	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4880			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4881			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4882			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4883			and maximum value is HZ.
4884
4885	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4886			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4887			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4888			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4889
4890	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4891			Set required age in jiffies for a
4892			given grace period before RCU starts
4893			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4894			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4895			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4896			a value based on the most recent settings
4897			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4898			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4899			This calculated value may be viewed in
4900			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4901			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4902			overwritten.
4903
4904	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4905			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4906			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4907			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4908			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4909			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4910			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4911			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4912			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4913			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4914			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4915			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4916
4917	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4918			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4919			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4920			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4921			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4922			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4923			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4924			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4925			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4926			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4927			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4928			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4929
4930	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4931			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4932			batch limiting is disabled.
4933
4934	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4935			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4936			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4937
4938	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4939			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4940			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4941			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4942			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4943			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4944			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4945			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4946
4947	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4948			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4949			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4950			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4951
4952	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4953			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4954			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4955			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4956			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4957			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4958			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4959			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4960
4961			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4962			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4963			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4964			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4965			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4966
4967	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4968			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4969			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4970			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4971			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4972
4973	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4974			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4975			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4976			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4977			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4978			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4979			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4980
4981	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4982			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4983			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4984			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4985			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4986			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4987			condition.
4988
4989	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4990			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4991			each group, which defaults to the square root
4992			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4993			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4994			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4995			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4996
4997	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4998			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4999			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5000			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5001			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5002			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5003
5004	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5005			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5006			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5007			By default, this limit is checked only once
5008			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5009			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5010
5011	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5012			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5013			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5014			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5015			Larger delays increase the probability of
5016			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5017			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5018			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5019
5020	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5021			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5022			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5023			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5024
5025	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5026			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5027			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5028			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5029			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5030
5031			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5032			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5033			to zero.
5034
5035	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5036			Measure performance of asynchronous
5037			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5038
5039	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5040			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5041			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5042			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5043			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5044			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5045
5046	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5047			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5048			grace-period primitives.
5049
5050	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5051			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5052			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5053			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5054			interference.
5055
5056	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5057			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5058			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5059
5060	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5061			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5062			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5063			Defaults to 1.
5064
5065	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5066			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5067
5068	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5069			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5070			If this parameter has the same value as
5071			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5072			and double-argument variants are tested.
5073
5074	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5075			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5076			If this parameter has the same value as
5077			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5078			and double-argument variants are tested.
5079
5080	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5081			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5082
5083	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5084			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5085
5086	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5087			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5088			of allocations and frees.
5089
5090	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5091			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5092			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5093			but instead allows better measurement of things
5094			like CPU consumption.
5095
5096	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5097			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5098			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5099			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5100			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5101			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5102			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5103			a single reader.
5104
5105	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5106			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5107			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5108			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5109
5110	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5111			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5112
5113	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5114			Shut the system down after performance tests
5115			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5116			testing.
5117
5118	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5119			Enable additional printk() statements.
5120
5121	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5122			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5123			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5124			no holdoff.
5125
5126	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5127			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5128			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5129			says no holdoff.
5130
5131	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5132			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5133			in microseconds.
5134
5135	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5136			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5137			in microseconds.
5138
5139	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5140			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5141			in seconds.
5142
5143	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5144			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5145			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5146			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5147			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5148			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5149			of CPUs to be used.
5150
5151	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5152			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5153			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5154
5155	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5156			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5157			forward-progress tests.
5158
5159	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5160			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5161			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5162			testing.
5163
5164	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5165			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5166			primitives, if available.
5167
5168	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5169			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5170
5171	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5172			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5173			update-side primitives, if available.
5174
5175	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5176			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5177			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5178			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5179			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5180			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5181			they are all non-zero.
5182
5183	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5184			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5185			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5186			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5187
5188	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5189			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5190			This can of course result in splats, and is
5191			intended to test the ability of things like
5192			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5193			such leaks.
5194
5195	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5196			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5197
5198	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5199			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5200			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5201			test, hence the "fake".
5202
5203	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5204			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5205			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5206
5207	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5208			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5209			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5210
5211	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5212			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5213			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5214			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5215			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5216			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5217
5218	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5219			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5220
5221	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5222			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5223
5224	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5225			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5226			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5227
5228	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5229			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5230			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5231			task-exit processing.
5232
5233	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5234			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5235			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5236			is spawned.
5237
5238	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5239			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5240			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5241
5242	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5243			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5244			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5245			during the rcutorture test.
5246
5247	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5248			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5249			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5250
5251	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5252			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5253			warnings, zero to disable.
5254
5255	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5256			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5257			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5258			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5259			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5260			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5261			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5262			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5263			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5264			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5265
5266			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5267
5268
5269	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5270			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5271
5272	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5273			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5274
5275	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5276			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5277			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5278			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5279			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5280			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5281
5282	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5283			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5284
5285	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5286			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5287			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5288			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5289			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5290
5291	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5292			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5293			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5294			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5295
5296	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5297			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5298
5299	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5300			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5301
5302	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5303			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5304			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5305
5306	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5307			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5308
5309	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5310			Enable additional printk() statements.
5311
5312	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5313			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5314			stall warning.
5315
5316	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5317			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5318			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5319			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5320			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5321
5322	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5323			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5324
5325	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5326			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5327			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5328			during early boot, that is, during the time
5329			before the init task is spawned.
5330
5331	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5332			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5333			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5334			value is 300 seconds.
5335
5336	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5337			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5338			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5339			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5340			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5341			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5342			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5343			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5344			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5345
5346	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5347			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5348			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5349			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5350			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5351
5352	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5353			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5354			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5355			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5356
5357	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5358			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5359			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5360			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5361			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5362			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5363			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5364
5365	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5366			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5367			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5368			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5369			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5370			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5371			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5372			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5373			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5374
5375	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5376			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5377			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5378			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5379			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5380
5381			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5382			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5383			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5384			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5385			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5386			grace-period processing.
5387
5388	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5389			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5390			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5391			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5392			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5393			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5394			set to the default value of -1.
5395
5396	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5397			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5398			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5399			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5400			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5401			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5402			the default value of -1.
5403
5404	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5405			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5406			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5407			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5408			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5409			for use in testing.
5410
5411	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5412			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5413			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5414			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5415			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5416			but lengthens grace periods.
5417
5418	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5419			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5420			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5421			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5422			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5423			callback flooding.
5424
5425	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5426			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5427			informational messages, which give some indication
5428			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5429			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5430			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5431			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5432			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5433			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5434			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5435
5436	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5437			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5438			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5439			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5440			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5441			the value three, so that the first informational
5442			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5443			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5444			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5445			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5446
5447	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5448			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5449			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5450			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5451			A change in value does not take effect until
5452			the beginning of the next grace period.
5453
5454	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5455			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5456			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5457			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5458			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5459			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5460
5461	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5462			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5463			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5464			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5465			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5466			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5467			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5468
5469	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5470			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5471			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5472			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5473			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5474			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5475			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5476
5477	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5478			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5479
5480	rdinit=		[KNL]
5481			Format: <full_path>
5482			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5483			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5484
5485	rdrand=		[X86]
5486			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5487				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5488				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5489				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5490				path).
5491
5492	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5493			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5494			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5495			mba, smba, bmec.
5496			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5497				rdt=cmt,!mba
5498
5499	reboot=		[KNL]
5500			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5501				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5502				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5503				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5504				[[,]f[orce]
5505			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5506					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5507					reboot only),
5508			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5509			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5510			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5511					to be used for rebooting.
5512
5513	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5514			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5515			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5516			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5517			interference.
5518
5519	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5520			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5521			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5522			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5523			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5524
5525	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5526			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5527			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5528			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5529			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5530			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5531			x86 laptops.
5532
5533	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5534			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5535			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5536			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5537
5538	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5539			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5540			the console log.
5541
5542	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5543			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5544			measured in microseconds.
5545
5546	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5547			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5548
5549	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5550			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5551			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5552			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5553			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5554
5555	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5556			Enable additional printk() statements.
5557
5558	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5559			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5560			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5561			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5562			specified.
5563
5564	regulator_ignore_unused
5565			[REGULATOR]
5566			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5567			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5568			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5569			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5570
5571	relax_domain_level=
5572			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5573			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5574
5575	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5576			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5577			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5578			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5579			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5580
5581	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5582			Format: nn[KMG]
5583			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5584			address space.
5585
5586	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5587			during initialization.
5588
5589	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5590			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5591			Format:
5592			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5593
5594	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5595			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5596			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5597			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5598			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5599
5600	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5601			read the resume files
5602
5603	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5604			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5605			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5606
5607	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5608
5609	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5610			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5611			vulnerability.
5612
5613			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5614			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5615			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5616			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5617			that don't.
5618
5619			off          - no mitigation
5620			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5621			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5622				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5623				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5624				       and older without STIBP).
5625			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5626				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5627				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5628				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5629				       on Intel.
5630			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5631				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5632				       the alternative for systems which do not
5633				       have STIBP.
5634			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5635				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5636				       systems.
5637			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5638				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5639				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5640
5641			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5642			time according to the CPU.
5643
5644			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5645
5646	rfkill.default_state=
5647		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5648			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5649		1	Unblocked.
5650
5651	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5652		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5653		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5654			blocked and the previous configuration.
5655		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5656			blocked and everything unblocked.
5657
5658	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5659			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5660
5661	ring3mwait=disable
5662			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5663			CPUs.
5664
5665	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV]
5666			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5667			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5668			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5669			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5670			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5671
5672	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5673
5674	rodata=		[KNL]
5675		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5676		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5677		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5678		        [arm64]
5679
5680	rockchip.usb_uart
5681			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5682			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5683			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5684			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5685
5686	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5687			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5688			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5689			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5690			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5691			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5692			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5693
5694	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5695			mount the root filesystem
5696
5697	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5698
5699	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5700
5701	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5702			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5703			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5704
5705	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5706			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5707			filesystem.
5708
5709	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5710			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5711			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5712			managed by CMA.
5713
5714	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5715
5716	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5717
5718	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5719			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5720		strict
5721			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5722			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5723			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5724			iommu.strict=1.
5725
5726	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5727			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5728			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5729			factor of the size of main memory.
5730			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5731			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5732			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5733			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5734			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5735			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5736			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5737
5738	sa1100ir	[NET]
5739			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5740
5741	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5742
5743	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5744			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5745			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5746			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5747
5748	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5749			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5750			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5751			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5752			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5753			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5754			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5755			value.
5756			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5757			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5758				1			64 ms
5759				2			128 ms
5760			and so on.
5761			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5762			Default is 0.
5763
5764	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5765			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5766			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5767			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5768			tests.
5769
5770	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5771			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5772			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5773			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5774			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5775			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5776			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5777
5778	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5779			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5780			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5781			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5782			equal to the number of CPUs.
5783
5784	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5785			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5786			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5787
5788	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5789			Number seconds to wait between successive
5790			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5791			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5792
5793	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5794			The number of seconds following the start of the
5795			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5796			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5797			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5798
5799	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5800			The number of seconds between outputting the
5801			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5802			of zero disables statistics output.
5803
5804	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5805			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5806			to the set of CPUs under test.
5807
5808	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5809			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5810			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5811			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5812			functions.
5813
5814	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5815			Enable additional printk() statements.
5816
5817	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5818			The probability weighting to use for the
5819			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5820			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5821			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5822			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5823			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5824
5825	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5826			The probability weighting to use for the
5827			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5828			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5829
5830	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5831			The probability weighting to use for the
5832			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5833			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5834			Note well that setting a high probability for
5835			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5836			on the system.
5837
5838	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5839			The probability weighting to use for the
5840			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5841			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5842			and weight_many.
5843
5844	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5845			The probability weighting to use for the
5846			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5847			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5848			weight_many.
5849
5850	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5851			The probability weighting to use for the
5852			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5853			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5854			and weight_many.
5855
5856	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5857			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5858			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5859			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5860			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5861			1 -- enable.
5862			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5863			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5864
5865	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5866			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5867			"lsm=" parameter.
5868
5869	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5870			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5871			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5872			0 -- disable.
5873			1 -- enable.
5874			Default value is 1.
5875
5876	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5877
5878	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5879
5880	shapers=	[NET]
5881			Maximal number of shapers.
5882
5883	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5884			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5885			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5886			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5887			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5888			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5889			apic=verbose is specified.
5890			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5891
5892	simeth=		[IA-64]
5893	simscsi=
5894
5895	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5896
5897	slab_merge	[MM]
5898			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5899			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5900
5901	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5902			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5903			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5904			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5905			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5906			layout control by attackers can usually be
5907			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5908			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5909			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5910			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5911			own.
5912			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5913
5914	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5915			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5916			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5917			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5918			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5919
5920	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5921			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5922			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5923			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5924			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5925			last alloc / free. For more information see
5926			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5927
5928	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5929			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5930			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5931			fragmentation. For more information see
5932			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5933
5934	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5935			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5936			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5937			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5938			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5939			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5940			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5941			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5942
5943	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5944			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5945			lower than slub_max_order.
5946			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5947
5948	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5949			Same with slab_merge.
5950
5951	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5952			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5953			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5954
5955	smart2=		[HW]
5956			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5957
5958	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5959			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5960			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5961			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5962			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5963			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5964			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5965			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5966			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5967			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5968
5969	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
5970			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
5971			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
5972			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
5973			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
5974			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
5975
5976	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5977	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5978	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5979	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5980	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5981	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5982	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5983				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5984				1: Fast pin select (default)
5985				2: ATC IRMode
5986
5987	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5988			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5989			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5990			actual hardware limit.
5991			Format: <integer>
5992			Default: -1 (no limit)
5993
5994	softlockup_panic=
5995			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5996			Format: 0 | 1
5997
5998			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5999			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6000			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6001			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6002			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6003
6004	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6005			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6006			backtraces on all cpus.
6007			Format: 0 | 1
6008
6009	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6010			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6011
6012	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6013			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6014			The default operation protects the kernel from
6015			user space attacks.
6016
6017			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6018			       spectre_v2_user=on
6019			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6020			       spectre_v2_user=off
6021			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6022			       vulnerable
6023
6024			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6025			mitigation method at run time according to the
6026			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6027			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
6028			compiler with which the kernel was built.
6029
6030			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6031			against user space to user space task attacks.
6032
6033			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6034			the user space protections.
6035
6036			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6037
6038			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6039			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6040			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6041			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6042			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6043			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6044			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6045			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6046
6047			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6048			spectre_v2=auto.
6049
6050	spectre_v2_user=
6051			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6052		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6053		        user space tasks
6054
6055			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6056				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6057
6058			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6059				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6060
6061			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6062				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6063				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6064				  is inherited on fork.
6065
6066			prctl,ibpb
6067				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6068				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6069				  always when switching between different user
6070				  space processes.
6071
6072			seccomp
6073				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6074				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6075				  they explicitly opt out.
6076
6077			seccomp,ibpb
6078				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6079				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6080				  always when switching between different
6081				  user space processes.
6082
6083			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6084				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6085
6086			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6087
6088			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6089			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6090
6091	spec_rstack_overflow=
6092			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6093
6094			off		- Disable mitigation
6095			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6096			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6097			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6098					  kernel entry
6099			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6100					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6101
6102	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6103			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6104			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6105
6106			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6107			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6108			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6109			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6110			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6111			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6112			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6113			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6114
6115			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6116			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6117			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6118			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6119
6120			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6121			Bypass optimization is used.
6122
6123			On x86 the options are:
6124
6125			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6126			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6127			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6128				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6129				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6130				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6131				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6132				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6133			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6134				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6135				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6136				  is inherited on fork.
6137			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6138				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6139
6140			Default mitigations:
6141			X86:	"prctl"
6142
6143			On powerpc the options are:
6144
6145			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6146				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6147				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6148				  exit.
6149			off	- No action.
6150
6151			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6152			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6153
6154	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6155	spia_fio_base=
6156	spia_pedr=
6157	spia_peddr=
6158
6159	split_lock_detect=
6160			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6161
6162			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6163			instructions that access data across cache line
6164			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6165			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6166			bus lock detection.
6167
6168			off	- not enabled
6169
6170			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6171				  about applications triggering the #AC
6172				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6173				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6174				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6175				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6176				  enabled in hardware.
6177
6178			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6179				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6180				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6181				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6182
6183			ratelimit:N -
6184				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6185				  per second for bus lock detection.
6186				  0 < N <= 1000.
6187
6188				  N/A for split lock detection.
6189
6190
6191			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6192			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6193			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6194			mode.
6195
6196			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6197			CPL > 0.
6198
6199	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
6200			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6201			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6202
6203			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6204			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6205			number generator.
6206
6207			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6208			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6209			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6210			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6211			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6212
6213			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6214			the following option:
6215
6216			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6217				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6218
6219	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6220			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6221			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6222			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6223			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6224			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6225			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6226			(decide at boot).
6227
6228	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6229			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6230			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6231			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6232
6233				   0:  Never.
6234				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6235				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6236				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6237				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6238
6239			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6240			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6241			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6242
6243	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6244			Specifies how frequently to check for
6245			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6246			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6247			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6248			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6249			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6250			are ignored.
6251
6252	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6253			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6254			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6255			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6256			grace period will be considered for automatic
6257			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6258			expediting.
6259
6260	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6261			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6262			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6263			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6264			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6265			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6266
6267	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6268			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6269			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6270			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6271			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6272			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6273
6274	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6275			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6276			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6277
6278	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6279			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6280			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6281			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6282			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6283			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6284			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6285
6286	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6287			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6288
6289			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6290			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6291			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6292			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6293
6294			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6295				   for both kernel and userspace
6296			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6297				   for both kernel and userspace
6298			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6299				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6300				   to allow userspace to register its
6301				   interest in being mitigated too.
6302
6303	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6304			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6305			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6306			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6307			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6308			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6309
6310	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6311			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6312			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6313			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6314			to false.
6315
6316	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6317			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6318
6319	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6320			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6321			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6322			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6323			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6324			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6325			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6326
6327	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6328			Format: <num>
6329			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6330			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6331			as the initial boot-console.
6332			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6333
6334	sti_font=	[HW]
6335			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6336
6337	stifb=		[HW]
6338			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6339
6340        strict_sas_size=
6341			[X86]
6342			Format: <bool>
6343			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6344			against the required signal frame size which
6345			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6346			be used to filter out binaries which have
6347			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6348
6349	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6350			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6351			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6352			faults on kernel addresses.
6353
6354	stress_slb	[PPC]
6355			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6356			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6357			on kernel addresses.
6358
6359	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6360	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6361			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6362			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6363			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6364			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6365			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6366			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6367			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6368			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6369			maximum port values.
6370
6371	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6372			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6373			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6374			process in parallel from a single connection.
6375			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6376
6377	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6378			[NFS]
6379			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6380			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6381			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6382			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6383			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6384			NFS server is running.
6385
6386			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6387				    automatically using heuristics
6388			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6389			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6390			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6391				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6392
6393	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6394	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6395			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6396			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6397			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6398			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6399			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6400			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6401
6402	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6403			[SUSPEND]
6404			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6405			mode before resuming the system (see
6406			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6407			is set. Default value is 5.
6408
6409	svm=		[PPC]
6410			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6411			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6412			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6413
6414	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6415			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6416			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6417			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6418				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6419				 to a power of 2.
6420			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6421			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6422			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6423
6424	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6425
6426	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6427			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6428			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6429			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6430			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6431			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6432			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6433			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6434
6435	sysrq_always_enabled
6436			[KNL]
6437			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6438			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6439			Useful for debugging.
6440
6441	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6442			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6443			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6444			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6445			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6446			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6447
6448	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6449
6450	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6451			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6452			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6453			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6454			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6455			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6456			The system is woken from this state using a
6457			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6458
6459	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6460			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6461
6462	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6463			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6464			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6465
6466	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6467			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6468			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6469
6470	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6471			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6472
6473	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6474			-1: disable all passive trip points
6475			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6476			value
6477
6478	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6479			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6480			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6481			0: no polling (default)
6482
6483	threadirqs	[KNL]
6484			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6485			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6486
6487	topology=	[S390]
6488			Format: {off | on}
6489			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6490			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6491			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6492			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6493			Default is on.
6494
6495	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6496			Format: {off}
6497			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6498			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6499			LPAR.
6500
6501	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6502			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6503			until after init has spawned.
6504
6505	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6506			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6507			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6508			very costly operation when many torture tests
6509			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6510			with rotating-rust storage.
6511
6512	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6513			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6514			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6515			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6516
6517	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6518			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6519
6520	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6521
6522	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6523			Format: integer pcr id
6524			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6525			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6526			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6527			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6528			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6529			are saved.
6530
6531	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6532			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6533			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6534			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6535			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6536			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6537
6538	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6539			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6540			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6541			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6542			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6543			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6544
6545			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6546			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6547			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6548			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6549
6550			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6551			to stop the printing of events to console at
6552			late_initcall_sync.
6553
6554			** CAUTION **
6555
6556			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6557			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6558			the system to live lock.
6559
6560	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6561			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6562			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6563			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6564			make the system inoperable.
6565
6566			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6567			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6568
6569	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6570			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6571
6572	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6573			at boot up.
6574			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6575				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6576				depending on the architecture, may not be
6577				in sync between CPUs.
6578			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6579				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6580				but better for some race conditions.
6581			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6582				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6583				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6584				once per event.
6585			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6586			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6587			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6588			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6589				stamps.
6590			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6591			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6592			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6593
6594	trace_event=[event-list]
6595			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6596			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6597			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6598			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6599
6600	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6601			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6602			This will be listed in:
6603
6604				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6605
6606			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6607			via:
6608
6609				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6610
6611			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6612			unique.
6613
6614				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6615
6616			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6617			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6618			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6619
6620	trace_options=[option-list]
6621			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6622			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6623			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6624			to echo the option name into
6625
6626			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6627
6628			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6629			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6630
6631			      trace_options=stacktrace
6632
6633			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6634			section.
6635
6636	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6637			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6638			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6639			filter.
6640
6641			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6642			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6643
6644			For example:
6645
6646			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6647
6648			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6649			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6650			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6651
6652			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6653
6654
6655	traceoff_on_warning
6656			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6657			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6658			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6659			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6660
6661			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6662			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6663			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6664
6665			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6666			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6667
6668	transparent_hugepage=
6669			[KNL]
6670			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6671			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6672			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6673			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6674			for more details.
6675
6676	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6677			Format: <string>
6678			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6679			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6680			sources:
6681			- "tpm"
6682			- "tee"
6683			- "caam"
6684			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6685			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6686			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6687			successfully during iteration.
6688
6689	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6690			Format: <string>
6691			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6692			Can be one of:
6693			- "kernel"
6694			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6695			- "default"
6696			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6697			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6698
6699	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6700			Format: <string>
6701			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6702			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6703			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6704			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6705			virtualized environment.
6706			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6707			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6708			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6709			can add overhead.
6710			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6711			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6712			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6713			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6714			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6715			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6716			acceptable).
6717			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6718			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6719			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6720			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6721			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6722			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6723			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6724			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6725			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6726			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6727
6728	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6729			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6730			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6731			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6732			Format: <unsigned int>
6733
6734	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6735			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6736			support TSX control.
6737
6738			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6739
6740			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6741				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6742				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6743				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6744				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6745				with leaving it enabled.
6746
6747			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6748				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6749				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6750				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6751				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6752				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6753				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6754
6755			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6756				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6757
6758			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6759
6760			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6761			for more details.
6762
6763	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6764			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6765
6766			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6767			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6768			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6769			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6770			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6771			conditions.
6772
6773			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6774			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6775			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6776			access.
6777
6778			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6779			options are:
6780
6781			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6782				     if TSX is enabled.
6783
6784			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6785				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6786				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6787				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6788			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6789
6790			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6791			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6792			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6793			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6794
6795			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6796			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6797			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6798			required and doesn't provide any additional
6799			mitigation.
6800
6801			For details see:
6802			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6803
6804	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6805			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6806			Format:
6807			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6808			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6809
6810	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6811			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6812			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6813			help "seeing" what's going on.
6814
6815	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6816			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6817
6818	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6819			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6820			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6821			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6822			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6823			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6824			reported either.
6825
6826	unknown_nmi_panic
6827			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6828
6829	unwind_debug	[X86-64]
6830			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6831			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6832			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6833			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6834
6835	usbcore.authorized_default=
6836			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6837			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6838			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6839			if device connected to internal port)
6840
6841	usbcore.autosuspend=
6842			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6843			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6844			is the time required before an idle device will be
6845			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6846			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6847
6848	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6849			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6850
6851	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6852			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6853			(default = 65536).
6854
6855	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6856			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6857
6858	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6859			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6860			scheme (default 0 = off).
6861
6862	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6863			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6864			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6865
6866	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6867			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6868			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6869
6870	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6871			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6872			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6873			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6874
6875	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6876
6877	usbcore.quirks=
6878			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6879			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6880			commas. Each entry has the form
6881			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6882			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6883			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6884			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6885			the following meanings:
6886				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6887					descriptors must not be fetched using
6888					a 255-byte read);
6889				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6890					correctly so reset it instead);
6891				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6892					Set-Interface requests);
6893				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6894					handle its Configuration or Interface
6895					strings);
6896				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6897					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6898				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6899					more interface descriptions than the
6900					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6901					talking to these interfaces);
6902				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6903					during initialization, after we read
6904					the device descriptor);
6905				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6906					high speed and super speed interrupt
6907					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6908					require the interval in microframes (1
6909					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6910					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6911					(bInterval-1).
6912					Devices with this quirk report their
6913					bInterval as the result of this
6914					calculation instead of the exponent
6915					variable used in the calculation);
6916				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6917					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6918					requests);
6919				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6920					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6921					remote wakeup capability);
6922				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6923					Power Management);
6924				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6925					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6926					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6927					calculation);
6928				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6929					to be disconnected before suspend to
6930					prevent spurious wakeup);
6931				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6932					pause after every control message);
6933				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6934					delay after resetting its port);
6935			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6936
6937	usbhid.mousepoll=
6938			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6939
6940	usbhid.jspoll=
6941			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6942
6943	usbhid.kbpoll=
6944			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6945
6946	usb-storage.delay_use=
6947			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6948			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6949
6950	usb-storage.quirks=
6951			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6952			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6953			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6954			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6955			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6956			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6957			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6958				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6959					of sense data, not on uas);
6960				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6961					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6962				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6963					device capacity by one sector);
6964				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6965					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6966				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6967					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6968				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6969					command, uas only);
6970				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6971					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6972				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6973					reported device capacity by one
6974					sector if the number is odd);
6975				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6976					device);
6977				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6978					command, uas only);
6979				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6980				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6981					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6982				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6983					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6984					not on uas);
6985				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6986					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6987				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6988					reported by the device, not on uas);
6989				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6990					by default, not on uas);
6991				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6992					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6993				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6994					Logical Unit);
6995				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6996					commands, uas only);
6997				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6998				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6999					medium is write-protected).
7000				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7001					even if the device claims no cache,
7002					not on uas)
7003			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7004
7005	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7006			Format: <int>
7007			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7008				 1 - undefined instruction events
7009				 2 - system calls
7010				 4 - invalid data aborts
7011				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7012				16 - SIGBUS faults
7013			Example: user_debug=31
7014
7015	userpte=
7016			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7017
7018				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7019					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7020					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7021
7022	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7023			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7024
7025			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7026			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7027
7028	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7029			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7030			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7031
7032			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7033			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7034			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7035
7036			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7037			alias for vdso32=0.
7038
7039			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7040			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7041
7042	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7043			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7044
7045	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
7046			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7047
7048	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7049			Format: [0|1]
7050			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7051			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7052			level and then send out the event to user space through
7053			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7054			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7055			brightness level.
7056			default: 1
7057
7058	virtio_mmio.device=
7059			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7060
7061				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7062			where:
7063				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7064						like K, M and G)
7065				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7066				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7067						request_irq())
7068				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7069			example:
7070				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7071
7072			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7073
7074	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7075			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7076			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7077			Use vga=ask for menu.
7078			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7079			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7080
7081	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7082			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7083			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7084			All options are enabled by default, and this
7085			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7086			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7087			debugging features.
7088
7089			Available options are:
7090			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7091			  -	Disable all of the above options
7092
7093	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
7094			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
7095			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
7096			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
7097			mapped kernel RAM.
7098
7099	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
7100			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7101			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7102
7103	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7104			Format: <command>
7105
7106	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7107			Format: <command>
7108
7109	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7110			Format: <command>
7111
7112	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
7113			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7114			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7115			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7116			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7117			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7118			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7119
7120			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7121			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7122				    readable.
7123
7124			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7125			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7126				    page is not readable.
7127
7128			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7129			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7130			            might break your system.
7131
7132	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7133			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7134			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7135
7136	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7137			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7138			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7139			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7140
7141	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7142			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7143			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7144			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7145			ranging from 0-255.
7146
7147	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7148			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7149			Change the default green palette of the console.
7150			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7151			ranging from 0-255.
7152
7153	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7154			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7155			Change the default red palette of the console.
7156			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7157			ranging from 0-255.
7158
7159	vt.default_utf8=
7160			[VT]
7161			Format=<0|1>
7162			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7163			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7164			newly opened terminals.
7165
7166	vt.global_cursor_default=
7167			[VT]
7168			Format=<-1|0|1>
7169			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7170			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7171			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7172			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7173			cursors, 1 will display them.
7174
7175	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7176			Default: 2 = green.
7177
7178	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7179			Default: 3 = cyan.
7180
7181	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7182			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7183			or other driver-specific files in the
7184			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7185
7186	watchdog_thresh=
7187			[KNL]
7188			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7189			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7190			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7191			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7192			seconds.
7193
7194	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7195			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7196			to use in unbound workqueues.
7197			Format: <cpu-list>
7198			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7199			unbound workqueues.
7200
7201	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7202			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7203			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7204			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7205			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7206			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7207			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7208			corresponding sysfs file.
7209
7210	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7211			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7212			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7213			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7214			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7215			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7216
7217			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7218			will report the work functions which violate this
7219			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7220			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7221
7222	workqueue.power_efficient
7223			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7224			they show better performance thanks to cache
7225			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7226			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7227
7228			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7229			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7230			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7231			power usage at the cost of small performance
7232			overhead.
7233
7234			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7235			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7236
7237        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7238			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7239			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7240			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7241			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7242			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7243
7244			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7245			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7246			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7247			updated accordignly.
7248
7249	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7250			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7251			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7252			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7253			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7254			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7255			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7256			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7257			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7258			impacted.
7259
7260	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
7261			ioremap_wc().
7262
7263			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7264			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7265
7266	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7267			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7268			supporting x2apic.
7269
7270	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7271			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7272			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7273			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7274			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7275			domains.
7276
7277	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
7278			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7279			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7280			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7281			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7282			nics -- unplug network devices
7283			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7284			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7285				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7286				the unplug protocol
7287			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7288
7289	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
7290			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7291			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7292
7293	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7294			Format: <bool>
7295			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7296			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7297			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7298
7299	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7300			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7301			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7302			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7303
7304	xen_nopv	[X86]
7305			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7306			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7307			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7308			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7309
7310	xen_no_vector_callback
7311			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7312			event channel interrupts.
7313
7314	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7315			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7316			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7317			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7318			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7319
7320	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7321			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7322			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7323			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7324			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7325			more timer interrupts.
7326
7327	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7328			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7329			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7330			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7331			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7332			max. Default is 180.
7333
7334	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7335			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7336			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7337
7338	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7339			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7340			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7341
7342	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7343			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7344			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7345			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7346			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7347			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7348
7349	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7350			Format:
7351			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7352
7353	xive=		[PPC]
7354			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7355			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7356			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7357
7358			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7359				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7360				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7361
7362	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7363			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7364			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7365			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7366			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7367
7368	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7369			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7370			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7371			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7372
7373	xmon		[PPC]
7374			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7375			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7376			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7377			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7378				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7379			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7380				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7381				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7382				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7383			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7384				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7385				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7386				can be written using xmon commands.
7387			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7388				memory, and other data can't be written using
7389				xmon commands.
7390			off	xmon is disabled.
7391
7392