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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,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
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			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
25				default _serial_ console on ARM64
26			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
27			"acpi=nospcr" are available
28			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
29			are available
30
31			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
32
33	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
34			Format: <int>
35			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
36			1,0: use 1st APIC table
37			default: 0
38
39	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
40			{ vendor | video | native | none }
41			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
42			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
43			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
44			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
45			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
46			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
47
48	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
49			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
50			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
51			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
52			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
53
54	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
55			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
56			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
57			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
58			This option is useful for developers to identify the
59			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
60			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
61
62	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
63	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
64			Format: <int>
65			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
66			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
67			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
68			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
69			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
70			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
71			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
72			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
73			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
74			debug layers and levels.
75
76			Enable processor driver info messages:
77			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
78			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
79			object while interpreting AML:
80			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
81			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
82			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
83
84			Some values produce so much output that the system is
85			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
86			if you need to capture more output.
87
88	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
89			{ strict | lax | no }
90			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
91			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
92			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
93			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
94			can interfere with legacy drivers.
95			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
96			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
97			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
98			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
99			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
100			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
101			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
102			no further checks are performed.
103
104	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
105			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
106			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
107			size limitation.
108
109	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will balance active IRQs
111			default in APIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
115			default in PIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
121			use by PCI
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
125			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
126			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
127			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
128			the GPE dispatcher.
129			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
130			GPE floodings.
131			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
132
133	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
134			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
135			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
136			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
137			auto-serialization feature.
138			This feature is enabled by default.
139			This option allows to turn off the feature.
140
141	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
142			   kernels.
143
144	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
145			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
146			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
147			installed automatically and they will appear under
148			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
149			This option turns off this feature.
150			Note that specifying this option does not affect
151			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
152			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
153
154	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
155			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
156			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
157
158	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
159			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
160			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
161			second kernel for kdump.
162
163	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
164			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
165
166	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
167			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
168			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
169			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
170			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
171
172	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
173			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
174			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
175			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
176			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
177						  strings
178			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
179						  strings
180			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
181
182			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
183			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
184			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
185			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
186			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
187			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
188			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
189			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
190			care about the state of the feature group strings which
191			should be controlled by the OSPM.
192			Examples:
193			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
194			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
195			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
196
197			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
198			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
199			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
200			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
201			multiple times through kernel command line is also
202			meaningless.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
205			     FALSE.
206
207			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
208			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
209			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
210			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
211			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
212			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
213			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
214			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
215			is useful when one want to control the state of the
216			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
217			the OSPM features.
218			Examples:
219			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
220			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
221			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
222			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
223			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
224			     equivalent to
225			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
226			     and
227			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
228			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
229
230	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
231			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
232			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
233			and always returns good values.
234
235	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
236			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
237
238	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
239			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
240			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
241
242	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
243			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
244				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
245				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
246			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
247			s3_bios and s3_mode.
248			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
249			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
250			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
251			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
252			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
253			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
254			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
255			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
256			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
257			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
258			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
259			used (or even warned about) during resume.
260			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
261			control method, with respect to putting devices into
262			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
263			of _PTS is used by default).
264			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
265			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
266			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
267			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
268			but some broken systems don't work without it).
269			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
270			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
271			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
272
273	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
274			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
275			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
276
277	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
278			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
279
280	agp=		[AGP]
281			{ off | try_unsupported }
282			off: disable AGP support
283			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
284				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
285
286	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
287			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
288
289	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
290			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
291			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
292			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
293
294	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
295			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
296			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
297			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
298			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
299			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
300			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
301
302			32: only for 32-bit processes
303			64: only for 64-bit processes
304			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
305			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
306
307	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
308			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
309			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
310			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
311			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
312			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
313
314	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
315			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
316			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
317			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
318			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
319			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
320			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
321
322			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
323			information.
324
325	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
327			Possible values are:
328			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
329			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
330				    the system
331			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
332					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
333					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
334					  requirements as needed. This option
335					  does not override iommu=pt
336			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
337				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
338				       option with care.
339			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
340			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
341			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
342
343	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
344			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
345			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
346			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
347			IOMMU initialization.
348
349	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
350			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
351			remapping modes:
352			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
353			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
354			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
355			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
356			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
357
358	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
359			disable
360			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
361			  scaling driver for the supported processors
362			passive
363			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
364			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
365			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
366			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
367			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
368			active
369			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
370			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
371			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
372			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
373			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
374			  frequency.
375			guided
376			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
377			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
378			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
379			  to the current workload.
380
381	amd_prefcore=
382			[X86]
383			disable
384			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
385
386	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
387			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
388			Format: <a>,<b>
389			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
390
391	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
392			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
393			connected to one of 16 gameports
394			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
395
396	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
397			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
398			Format: noidle
399			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
400			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
401			APC and your system crashes randomly.
402
403	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
404			Change the output verbosity while booting
405			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
406			Change the amount of debugging information output
407			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
408			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
409			driver name.
410			Format: apic=driver_name
411			Examples: apic=bigsmp
412
413	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
414			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
415			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
416			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
417			      backup of CPU 0
418			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
419			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
420			      shot down by NMI
421
422	autoconf=	[IPV6]
423			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
424
425	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
426			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
427
428	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
429			Format: { "0" | "1" }
430			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
431			0 -- disable.
432			1 -- enable.
433			Default value is set via kernel config option.
434
435	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
436			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
437
438	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
439			32 bit applications.
440
441	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
442			Identification support
443
444	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
445			Set instructions support
446
447	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
448			support
449
450	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
451			support
452
453	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
454			Extension support
455
456	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
457			Extension support
458
459	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
460
461	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
462
463	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
464			EzKey and similar keyboards
465
466	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
467
468	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
469			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
470
471	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
472			keyboards
473
474	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
475			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
476
477	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
478			Use software keyboard repeat
479
480	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
481			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
482			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
483			    enabled until the next reboot
484			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
485			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
486			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
487			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
488			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
489			    userspace auditd.
490			Default: unset
491
492	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
493			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
494			Default: 64
495
496	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
497			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			0 - Disable the BAU.
500			1 - Enable the BAU.
501			unset - Disable the BAU.
502
503	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
504			Format: <io>,<mode>
505
506	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
507			Format: <io>,<mode>
508			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
509
510	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
511			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
512			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
513			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
514
515	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
516			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
517			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
518			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
519
520	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
521			Format: <bool>
522			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
523			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
524			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
525			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
526			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
527			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
528			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
529			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
530			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
531
532	bert_disable	[ACPI]
533			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
534
535	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
536			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
537
538	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
539			embedded devices based on command line input.
540			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
541
542	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
543			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
544			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
545			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
546			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
547			erroneous and ignored.
548			Format: integer
549
550	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
551			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
552			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
553
554			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
555
556	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
557	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
558			kernel args too.
559	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
560	bttv.tuner=
561
562	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
563			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
564			at a time.
565
566	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
567
568	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
569			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
570			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
571			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
572			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
573			This option provides an override for these situations.
574
575	carrier_timeout=
576			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
577			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
578			it waits 120 seconds.
579
580	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
581			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
582			trust validation.
583			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
584
585	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
586			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
587			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
588			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
589			others).
590
591	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
592			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
593
594	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
595			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
596			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
597			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
598			  a single hierarchy
599			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
600			  subsystem
601			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
602			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
603			  created
604			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
605			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
606			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
607			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
608			stall information accounting feature
609
610	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
611			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
612			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
613			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
614			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
615			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
616			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
617			all v1 hierarchies.
618
619	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
620			Format: { "true" | "false" }
621			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
622
623	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
624			Format: <string>
625			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
626			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
627			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
628
629	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
630			Format: { "0" | "1" }
631			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
632			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
633				any implied execute protection).
634			1 -- check protection requested by application.
635			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
636			Value can be changed at runtime via
637				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
638			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
639
640	cio_ignore=	[S390]
641			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
642
643	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
644			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
645			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
646			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
647			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
648			ones should be.
649			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
650			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
651			instability issue. However, not all features have names
652			in /proc/cpuinfo.
653			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
654			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
655			or using the feature without checking anything
656			will still see it. This just prevents it from
657			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
658			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
659			some critical bits.
660
661	clk_ignore_unused
662			[CLK]
663			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
664			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
665			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
666			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
667			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
668			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
669			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
670			platform with proper driver support.  For more
671			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
672
673	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
674			[Deprecated]
675			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
676			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
677			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
678			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
679
680	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
681			Format: <string>
682			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
683			with the name specified.
684			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
685			the platform:
686			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
687			[ACPI] acpi_pm
688			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
689				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
690			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
691				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
692			[MIPS] MIPS
693			[PARISC] cr16
694			[S390] tod
695			[SH] SuperH
696			[SPARC64] tick
697			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
698
699	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
700			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
701			Format: <bool>
702			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
703			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
704			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
705			systems.
706
707	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
708			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
709			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
710			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
711			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
712			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
713			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
714			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
715			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
716
717	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
718			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
719			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
720			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
721			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
722
723	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
724			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
725			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
726			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
727			placement constraint by the physical address range of
728			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
729			altogether. For more information, see
730			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
731
732	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
733			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
734			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
735			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
736			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
737			specified, the default value is 0.
738			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
739			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
740			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
741			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
742
743	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
744			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
745			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
746			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
747			area for the specified node.
748
749			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
750			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
751			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
752			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
753
754	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
755			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
756			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
757			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
758			a hypervisor.
759			Default: yes
760
761	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
762			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
763			allocations, by default set to 256K.
764
765	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
766			Format:
767			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
768
769	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
770			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
771
772	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
773			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
774			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
775
776	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
777	conmode=
778
779	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
780			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
781			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
782			the console buffer is full. In this case the
783			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
784			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
785			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
786			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
787			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
788			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
789
790	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
791
792		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
793
794		ttyS<n>[,options]
795		ttyUSB0[,options]
796			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
797			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
798			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
799			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
800			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
801
802			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
803			information.  See
804			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
805			alternative.
806
807		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
808			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
809			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
810			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
811			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
812			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
813
814			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
815			can be viewed with:
816
817			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
818			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
819
820			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
821			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
822			way will only get added when the related device driver
823			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
824			the console may be desired for console output early on.
825
826		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
827		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
828		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
829		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
830		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
831			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
832			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
833			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
834			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
835			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
836			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
837			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
838			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
839			the h/w is not re-initialized.
840
841		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
842			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
843
844		{ null | "" }
845			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
846			console messages discarded.
847			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
848			kernel command line.
849
850		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
851		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
852			console=brl,ttyS0
853		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
854
855	console_msg_format=
856			[KNL] Change console messages format
857		default
858			By default we print messages on consoles in
859			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
860			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
861			`printk_time' param).
862		syslog
863			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
864			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
865			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
866			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
867			from /proc/kmsg.
868
869	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
870			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
871			Defaults to 0.
872
873	coredump_filter=
874			[KNL] Change the default value for
875			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
876			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
877
878	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
879			[ARM,ARM64]
880			Format: <bool>
881			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
882			0: default value, disable debugging
883			1: enable debugging at boot time
884
885	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
886			Format:
887			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
888
889	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
890			disable the cpuidle sub-system
891
892	cpuidle.governor=
893			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
894
895	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
896			disable the cpufreq sub-system
897
898	cpufreq.default_governor=
899			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
900			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
901			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
902
903	cpu_init_udelay=N
904			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
905			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
906			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
907			Default: 10000
908
909	cpuhp.parallel=
910			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
911			Format: <bool>
912			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
913			the parameter has no effect.
914
915	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
916			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
917			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
918			succeeds in any situation.
919			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
920			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
921			kernel more unstable.
922
923	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
924			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
925			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
926			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
927			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
928			is selected automatically.
929			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
930			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
931			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
932			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
933
934	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
935			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
936			in the running system. The syntax of range is
937			start-[end] where start and end are both
938			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
939			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
940
941	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
942			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
943			above 4G.
944			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
945			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
946			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
947			below 4G, if available.
948			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
949	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
950			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
951			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
952			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
953			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
954			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
955			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
956			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
957			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
958			size is	platform dependent.
959			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
960			  --> arm64: 128MiB
961			  --> riscv: 128MiB
962			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
963			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
964			for second kernel instead.
965			0: to disable low allocation.
966			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
967			or memory reserved is below 4G.
968
969	cryptomgr.notests
970			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
971
972	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
973			Format: <dma>
974
975	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
976			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
977
978	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
979			function call handling. When switched on,
980			additional debug data is printed to the console
981			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
982			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
983			the hang situation.  The default value of this
984			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
985			Kconfig option.
986
987	dasd=		[HW,NET]
988			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
989
990	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
991			(one device per port)
992			Format: <port#>,<type>
993			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
994
995	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
996
997	debug_boot_weak_hash
998			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
999			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1000			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1001			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1002			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1003			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1004
1005	debug_locks_verbose=
1006			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1007			Format: <int>
1008			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1009			self-tests.
1010			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1011			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1012			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1013			useful to lockdep developers.
1014
1015	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1016
1017	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1018			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1019			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1020			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1021			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1022			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1023			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1024			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1025			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1026			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1027			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1028			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1029			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1030			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1031			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1032			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1033			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1034			help tracking down these problems.
1035
1036	debug_pagealloc=
1037			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1038			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1039			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1040			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1041			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1042			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1043			on: enable the feature
1044
1045	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1046			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1047			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1048			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1049			no-mount:
1050				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1051			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1052				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1053			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1054			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1055				or directories within debugfs.
1056				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1057				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1058			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1059
1060	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1061
1062	default_hugepagesz=
1063			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1064			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1065			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1066			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1067			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1068			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1069			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1070			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1071			Format: size[KMG]
1072
1073	deferred_probe_timeout=
1074			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1075			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1076			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1077			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1078			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1079			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1080			successful driver registration. This option will also
1081			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1082			retrying.
1083
1084	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1085
1086	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1087			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1088			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1089			hardware.
1090
1091	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1092			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1093			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1094			blacklisted features.
1095
1096	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1097			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1098			(disabled by default).
1099
1100	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1101			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1102			capability is set.
1103
1104	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1105			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1106
1107	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1108			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1109
1110	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1111			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1112			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1113			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1114			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1115			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1116			          only (compression on level 1)
1117			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1118			          only (decompression)
1119			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1120			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1121
1122	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1123			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1124
1125	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1126			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1127			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1128			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1129			miss to occur.
1130
1131	disable=	[IPV6]
1132			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1133
1134	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1135			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1136
1137	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1138			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1139			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1140
1141	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1142			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1143			to workaround buggy firmware.
1144
1145	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1146			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1147
1148	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1149			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1150			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1151			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1152
1153	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1154			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1155			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1156			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1157			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1158
1159	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1160			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1161			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1162
1163	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1164
1165	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1166			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1167
1168	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1169			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1170			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1171			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1172			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1173			architectural default is too low.
1174
1175	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1176			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1177			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1178			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1179			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1180			driver later using sysfs.
1181
1182	reg_file_data_sampling=
1183			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1184			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1185			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1186			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1187			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1188			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1189
1190			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1191			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1192
1193			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1194			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1195			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1196			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1197			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1198
1199			For details see:
1200			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1201
1202	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1203			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1204			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1205			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1206			match the *.
1207			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1208
1209	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1210			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1211			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1212			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1213			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1214			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1215			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1216			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1217			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1218			data set with no connector name will be used for
1219			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1220
1221	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1222
1223	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1224			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1225			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1226			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1227			exists).
1228			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1229			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1230			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1231
1232	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1233			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1234			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1235			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1236
1237	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1238	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1239			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1240			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1241			for details.
1242
1243	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1244			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1245			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1246			which are not unmapped.
1247
1248	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1249
1250			When used with no options, the early console is
1251			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1252			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1253			the platform.
1254
1255		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1256			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1257			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1258			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1259			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1260			configured.
1261
1262		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1263		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1264		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1265		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1266		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1267			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1268			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1269			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1270			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1271			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1272			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1273			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1274			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1275			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1276			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1277
1278		pl011,<addr>
1279		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1280			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1281			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1282			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1283			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1284			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1285			the device registers.
1286
1287		liteuart,<addr>
1288			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1289			specified address. The serial port must already be
1290			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1291
1292		meson,<addr>
1293			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1294			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1295			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1296			supported.
1297
1298		msm_serial,<addr>
1299			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1300			port at the specified address. The serial port
1301			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1302			yet supported.
1303
1304		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1305			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1306			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1307			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1308			yet supported.
1309
1310		owl,<addr>
1311			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1312			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1313			specified address. The serial port must already be
1314			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1315
1316		rda,<addr>
1317			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1318			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1319			specified address. The serial port must already be
1320			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1321
1322		sbi
1323			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1324			console.
1325
1326		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1327
1328		s3c2410,<addr>
1329		s3c2412,<addr>
1330		s3c2440,<addr>
1331		s3c6400,<addr>
1332		s5pv210,<addr>
1333		exynos4210,<addr>
1334			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1335			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1336			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1337			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1338			Options are not yet supported.
1339
1340		lantiq,<addr>
1341			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1342			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1343			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1344			yet supported.
1345
1346		lpuart,<addr>
1347		lpuart32,<addr>
1348			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1349			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1350			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1351			port must already be setup and configured.
1352
1353		ec_imx21,<addr>
1354		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1355			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1356			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1357			must already be setup and configured.
1358
1359		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1360			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1361			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1362			address. The serial port must already be setup
1363			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1364
1365		qcom_geni,<addr>
1366			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1367			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1368			specified address. The serial port must already be
1369			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1370
1371		efifb,[options]
1372			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1373			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1374			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1375			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1376			mapped with the correct attributes.
1377
1378		linflex,<addr>
1379			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1380			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1381			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1382			already be setup and configured.
1383
1384	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1385			earlyprintk=vga
1386			earlyprintk=sclp
1387			earlyprintk=xen
1388			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1389			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1390			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1391			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1392			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1393			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1394			earlyprintk=bios
1395
1396			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1397			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1398			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1399
1400			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1401			takes over.
1402
1403			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1404			be used at a time.
1405
1406			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1407			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1408			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1409			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1410				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1411			You can find the port for a given device in
1412			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1413				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1414
1415			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1416			very good.
1417
1418			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1419			the real console.
1420
1421			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1422
1423			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1424
1425			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1426
1427			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1428			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1429			UART class.
1430
1431	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1432			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1433			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1434			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1435			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1436			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1437			default: on.
1438
1439	edd=		[EDD]
1440			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1441
1442	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1443			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1444				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1445				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1446			debug: enable misc debug output.
1447			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1448			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1449			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1450			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1451			firmware implementations.
1452			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1453			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1454			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1455			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1456			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1457			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1458			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1459			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1460			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1461			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1462
1463	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1464			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1465			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1466			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1467			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1468
1469	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1470			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1471			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1472			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1473			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1474
1475
1476	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1477			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1478
1479	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1480			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1481
1482			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1483			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1484
1485			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1486			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1487			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1488			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1489
1490	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1491			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1492			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1493
1494	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1495			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1496			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1497			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1498			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1499
1500	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1501			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1502			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1503			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1504
1505	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1506			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1507			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1508			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1509			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1510
1511	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1512			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1513			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1514			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1515			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1516			Default value is 0.
1517			Value can be changed at runtime via
1518			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1519
1520	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1521			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1522			support.
1523
1524	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1525			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1526			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1527
1528	evm=		[EVM]
1529			Format: { "fix" }
1530			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1531			current integrity status.
1532
1533	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1534			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1535			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1536			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1537			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1538			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1539			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1540
1541	failslab=
1542	fail_usercopy=
1543	fail_page_alloc=
1544	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1545			General fault injection mechanism.
1546			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1547			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1548
1549	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1550			Format: { initns | none }
1551			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1552			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1553
1554	floppy=		[HW]
1555			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1556
1557	forcepae	[X86-32]
1558			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1559			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1560			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1561			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1562			and may cause unknown problems.
1563
1564	fred=		[X86-64]
1565			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1566			Format: { on | off }
1567			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1568			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1569
1570	ftrace=[tracer]
1571			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1572			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1573			boot debugging.
1574
1575	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1576			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1577			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1578			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1579			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1580			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1581			start up functionality.
1582
1583			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1584			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1585			line parameter.
1586
1587			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1588
1589			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1590			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1591
1592	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1593			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1594			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1595			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1596			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1597			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1598			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1599			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1600			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1601			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1602			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1603
1604			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1605
1606			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1607			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1608
1609			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1610
1611			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1612			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1613			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1614
1615	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1616			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1617			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1618			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1619			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1620			tracing directory.
1621
1622	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1623			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1624			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1625			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1626			tracing directory.
1627
1628	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1629			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1630			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1631			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1632			that can be changed at run time by the
1633			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1634
1635	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1636			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1637			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1638			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1639			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1640
1641	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1642			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1643			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1644			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1645			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1646
1647	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1648			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1649			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1650			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1651			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1652			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1653			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1654			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1655			suppliers).
1656			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1657			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1658			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1659				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1660				up (sync_state() calls).
1661			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1662				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1663			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1664
1665	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1666			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1667			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1668			Format: <bool>
1669
1670	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1671			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1672			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1673			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1674			calls.
1675			Format: { strict | timeout }
1676			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1677				probe successfully.
1678			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1679				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1680				received their sync_state() calls after
1681				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1682				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1683
1684	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1685			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1686			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1687			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1688			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1689
1690	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1691
1692	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1693			Format: off | on
1694			default: on
1695
1696	gather_data_sampling=
1697			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1698			mitigation.
1699
1700			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1701			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1702			previously stored in vector registers.
1703
1704			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1705			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1706			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1707			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1708
1709			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1710				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1711				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1712				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1713
1714			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1715
1716	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1717			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1718			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1719			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1720			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1721
1722	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1723			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1724			android emulator
1725
1726	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1727			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1728			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1729	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1730			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1731
1732	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1733			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1734			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1735			GPT to be used instead.
1736
1737	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1738			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1739			Format: 0 | 1
1740			Default: 0
1741	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1742			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1743			Format: 0 | 1
1744			Default: 0
1745	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1746			Format: 0 | 1
1747			Default: 0
1748	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1749			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1750			Default: 1024
1751	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1752			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1753			Default: 1024
1754
1755	hardened_usercopy=
1756			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1757			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1758			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1759			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1760			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1761			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1762			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1763		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1764		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1765
1766	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1767			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1768			backtraces on all cpus.
1769			Format: 0 | 1
1770
1771	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1772			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1773			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1774			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1775
1776	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1777			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1778
1779	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1780			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1781			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1782			logic will be disabled.
1783
1784	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1785		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1786				present during boot.
1787		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1788		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1789		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1790				(that will set all pages holding image data
1791				during restoration read-only).
1792
1793	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1794				used with hibernation.
1795				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1796				Default: lzo
1797
1798				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1799				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1800
1801				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1802				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1803
1804	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1805			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1806			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1807			size on bigger boxes.
1808
1809	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1810			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1811			Default: "on"
1812
1813	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1814
1815	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1816			Format: <string>
1817			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1818			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1819			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1820			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1821			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1822			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1823			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1824			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1825			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1826			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1827
1828	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1829			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1830				verbose }
1831			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1832			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1833				VIA, nVidia)
1834			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1835
1836	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1837			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1838
1839	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1840			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1841			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1842			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1843			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1844			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1845			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1846			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1847			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1848				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1849
1850	hugepagesz=
1851			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1852			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1853			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1854			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1855			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1856			architecture dependent.  See also
1857			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1858			Format: size[KMG]
1859
1860	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1861			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1862			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1863			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1864				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1865
1866			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1867			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1868			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1869
1870	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1871			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1872			enabled.
1873			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1874			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1875			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1876			Format: { on | off (default) }
1877
1878			on: enable HVO
1879			off: disable HVO
1880
1881			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1882			the default is on.
1883
1884			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1885			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1886			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1887			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1888			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1889
1890	hung_task_panic=
1891			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1892			Format: 0 | 1
1893
1894			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1895			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1896			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1897			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1898			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1899
1900	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1901				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1902	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1903				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1904				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1905
1906	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1907			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1908			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1909			on lock contention.
1910
1911	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1912				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1913				registered from board initialization code.
1914				Format:
1915				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1916
1917	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1918			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1919			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1920			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1921			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1922			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1923
1924			Format:
1925			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1926			Where <val> is one of:
1927			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1928			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1929			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1930
1931			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1932			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1933			touchscreen-inverted-y
1934
1935			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1936			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1937			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1938
1939	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1940	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1941			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1942			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1943			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1944	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1945	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1946			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1947			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1948	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1949	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1950	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1951			     for the AUX port
1952	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1953			     controller
1954	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1955			     controllers
1956	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1957	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1958			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1959			     transitions, or never reset
1960			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1961			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1962			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1963			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1964			architectures force reset to be always executed
1965	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1966	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1967	i8042.probe_defer
1968			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1969
1970	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1971
1972	i915.invert_brightness=
1973			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1974			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1975			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1976			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1977			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1978			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1979			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1980			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1981			value switches the backlight off.
1982			-1 -- never invert brightness
1983			 0 -- machine default
1984			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1985
1986	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1987			Format: <bool>
1988			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1989			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1990			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1991
1992	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1993			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1994
1995
1996	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
1997			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1998			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1999			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
2000			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
2001			Not recommended.
2002			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2003			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2004			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2005
2006	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2007			Format: <bool>
2008			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2009			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2010			true (1).
2011
2012	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2013			Format: <bool>
2014			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2015			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2016
2017	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2018			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2019			Default: strict
2020
2021			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2022			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2023			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2024			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2025			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2026			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2027			encoding mode.
2028
2029			Available settings are as follows:
2030			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2031				supported by the FPU
2032			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2033				by the FPU
2034			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2035				by the FPU
2036			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2037				supported by the FPU
2038			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2039				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2040
2041			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2042			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2043			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2044			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2045			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2046			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2047			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2048			MIPS64 CPUs.
2049
2050			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2051			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2052			except where unsupported by hardware.
2053
2054	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2055			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2056			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2057			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2058			could change it dynamically, usually by
2059			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2060
2061	ignore_rlimit_data
2062			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2063			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2064			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2065
2066	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2067			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2068
2069	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2070			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2071			default: "enforce"
2072
2073	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2074			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2075			owned by uid=0.
2076
2077	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2078			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2079			measurements, instead of host native format.
2080
2081	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2082			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2083				   | sha512 | ... }
2084			default: "sha1"
2085
2086			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2087			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2088
2089	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2090			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2091			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2092				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2093
2094			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2095			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2096			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2097			uid=0.
2098
2099			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2100			all files owned by root.
2101
2102			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2103			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2104			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2105
2106			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2107			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2108			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2109			flag.
2110
2111			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2112			critical data.
2113
2114	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2115			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2116			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2117			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2118			opened for read by uid=0.
2119
2120	ima_template=	[IMA]
2121			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2122			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2123				   "ima-sigv2" }
2124			Default: "ima-ng"
2125
2126	ima_template_fmt=
2127			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2128			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2129
2130	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2131			Format: <min_file_size>
2132			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2133			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2134
2135			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2136			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2137			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2138
2139	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2140			Format: <bufsize>
2141			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2142
2143			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2144			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2145			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2146
2147	init=		[KNL]
2148			Format: <full_path>
2149			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2150			process.
2151
2152	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2153			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2154			startup.
2155
2156	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2157			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2158			modules and initcalls.
2159
2160	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2161			Format: <bool>
2162			Default: 1
2163			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2164			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2165			with devices being probed and
2166			initialized. This should normally just work,
2167			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2168			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2169			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2170			late_ initcalls.
2171
2172	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2173
2174	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2175			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2176			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2177			setting.
2178			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2179			Default is 0, 0
2180
2181	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2182			zeroes.
2183			Format: 0 | 1
2184			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2185
2186	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2187			Format: 0 | 1
2188			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2189
2190	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2191			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2192			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2193			override in debugfs after boot.
2194
2195	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2196			Format: <irq>
2197
2198	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2199
2200	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2201			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2202			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2203			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2204
2205	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2206		on
2207			Enable intel iommu driver.
2208		off
2209			Disable intel iommu driver.
2210		igfx_off [Default Off]
2211			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2212			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2213			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2214			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2215			DMA.
2216		strict [Default Off]
2217			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2218		sp_off [Default Off]
2219			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2220			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2221			not be supported.
2222		sm_on
2223			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2224			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2225			translation.
2226		sm_off
2227			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2228		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2229			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2230			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2231			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2232			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2233			mapping is enabled.
2234			Note that using this option lowers the security
2235			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2236			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2237
2238	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2239			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2240			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2241
2242	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2243			disable
2244			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2245			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2246                        active
2247                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2248                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2249                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2250                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2251                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2252                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2253                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2254                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2255                          and possibly on the processor model.
2256			passive
2257			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2258			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2259			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2260			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2261			  feature.
2262			force
2263			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2264			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2265			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2266			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2267			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2268			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2269			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2270			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2271			no_hwp
2272			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2273			  if available.
2274			hwp_only
2275			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2276			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2277			support_acpi_ppc
2278			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2279			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2280			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2281			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2282			per_cpu_perf_limits
2283			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2284			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2285
2286	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2287			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2288			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2289			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2290			no_x2apic_optout
2291				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2292			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2293			posted_msi
2294				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2295
2296	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2297		strict	regions from userspace.
2298		relaxed
2299
2300	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2301		off
2302		force
2303		noforce
2304		biomerge
2305		panic
2306		nopanic
2307		merge
2308		nomerge
2309		soft
2310		pt		[X86]
2311		nopt		[X86]
2312		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2313			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2314
2315	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2316			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2317			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2318			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2319			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2320			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2321			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2322
2323	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2324			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2325			0 - Lazy mode.
2326			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2327			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2328			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2329			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2330			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2331			1 - Strict mode.
2332			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2333			  synchronously.
2334			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2335			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2336			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2337
2338	iommu.passthrough=
2339			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2340			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2341			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2342			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2343			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2344
2345	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2346			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2347			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2348
2349	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2350		0x80
2351			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2352		0xed
2353			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2354		udelay
2355			Simple two microseconds delay
2356		none
2357			No delay
2358
2359	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2360			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2361
2362	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2363			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2364
2365	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2366			Format: <bool>
2367			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2368			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2369
2370	ipe.success_audit=
2371			[IPE]
2372			Format: <bool>
2373			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2374			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2375			is 0.
2376
2377	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2378			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2379
2380	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2381			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2382			Format: <bool>
2383			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2384			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2385			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2386
2387	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2388			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2389			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2390			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2391			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2392			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2393			LPIs.
2394
2395	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2396			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2397			requires the kernel to be built with
2398			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2399
2400	irqfixup	[HW]
2401			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2402			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2403			firmware running.
2404
2405	irqpoll		[HW]
2406			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2407			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2408			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2409			firmware running.
2410
2411	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2412			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2413
2414	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2415			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2416			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2417
2418			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2419			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2420
2421			nohz
2422			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2423
2424			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2425			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2426			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2427			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2428			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2429
2430			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2431			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2432			  be configured manually after bootup.
2433
2434			domain
2435			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2436			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2437			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2438			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2439			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2440			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2441			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2442			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2443
2444			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2445			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2446			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2447			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2448
2449			managed_irq
2450
2451			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2452			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2453			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2454			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2455			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2456
2457			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2458			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2459			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2460			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2461			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2462			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2463			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2464
2465			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2466			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2467			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2468			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2469			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2470			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2471			  queues.
2472
2473			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2474
2475	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2476
2477	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2478			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2479			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2480			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2481
2482			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2483			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2484			write the parameter as:
2485				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2486
2487			Deprecated formats:
2488			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2489			  write the parameter as:
2490				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2491			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2492			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2493				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2494
2495	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2496			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2497			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2498			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2499
2500			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2501			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2502			write the parameter as:
2503				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2504
2505			Deprecated formats:
2506			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2507			  write the parameter as:
2508				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2509			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2510			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2511				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2512
2513	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2514			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2515			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2516			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2517
2518			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2519			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2520			write the parameter as:
2521				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2522
2523			Deprecated formats:
2524			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2525			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2526				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2527			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2528			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2529				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2530
2531	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2532			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2533
2534	kasan_multi_shot
2535			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2536			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2537			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2538			invalid access.
2539
2540	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2541			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2542			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2543			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2544			the real console.
2545
2546	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2547
2548	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2549			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2550			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2551			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2552			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2553			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2554			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2555			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2556			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2557			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2558
2559			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2560			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2561			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2562			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2563			zone if it does not.
2564
2565			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2566			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2567			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2568			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2569			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2570			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2571			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2572
2573	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2574			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2575			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2576			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2577			optional and is the number seconds in between
2578			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2579			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2580			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2581			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2582			the kernel debugger.
2583
2584	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2585			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2586			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2587			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2588			 keyboard only format: kbd
2589			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2590			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2591			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2592			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2593
2594	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2595			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2596			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2597			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2598			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2599			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2600			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2601
2602			The name of the early console should be specified
2603			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2604			the early console might be different than the tty
2605			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2606			blank and the first boot console that implements
2607			read() will be picked.
2608
2609	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2610			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2611
2612	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2613			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2614			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2615
2616	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2617			Valid arguments: on, off
2618			Default: on
2619			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2620			the default is off.
2621
2622	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2623			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2624			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2625			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2626			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2627			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2628			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2629
2630			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2631
2632			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2633			Boot Parameter" section.
2634
2635	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2636			user and kernel address spaces.
2637			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2638			0: force disabled
2639			1: force enabled
2640
2641	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2642			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2643			default value can be overridden via
2644			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2645			Default is 1 (enabled)
2646
2647	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2648			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2649
2650	kvm.eager_page_split=
2651			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2652			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2653			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2654			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2655			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2656			required to split huge pages lazily.
2657
2658			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2659			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2660			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2661			still be used for reads.
2662
2663			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2664			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2665			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2666			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2667			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2668			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2669			cleared.
2670
2671			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2672
2673			Default is Y (on).
2674
2675	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2676				   Default is false (don't support).
2677
2678	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2679			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2680			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2681			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2682			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2683			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2684				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2685
2686			Default is 'auto'.
2687
2688			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2689			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2690
2691	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2692			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2693			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2694			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2695			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2696
2697	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2698			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2699			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2700			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2701			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2702			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2703
2704	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2705			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2706
2707	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2708			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2709			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2710			for NPT.
2711
2712	kvm-arm.mode=
2713			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2714			operation.
2715
2716			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2717
2718			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2719			      protected guests.
2720
2721			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2722				   state is kept private from the host.
2723
2724			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2725				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2726				hardware.
2727
2728			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2729			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2730			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2731			used with extreme caution.
2732
2733	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2734			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2735			system registers
2736
2737	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2738			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2739			system registers
2740
2741	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2742			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2743			system registers
2744
2745	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2746			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2747			injection of LPIs.
2748
2749	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2750			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2751			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2752			CPU architecture.
2753
2754			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2755
2756			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2757
2758	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2759			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2760			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2761			CPU architecture.
2762
2763			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2764
2765			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2766
2767	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2768			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2769			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2770			allocation.
2771			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2772			Format: <integer>
2773			Default: 5
2774
2775	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2776			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2777			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2778			for EPT.
2779
2780	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2781			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2782			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2783			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2784			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2785			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2786			Default is 1 (enabled).
2787
2788	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2789			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2790			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2791			hardware lacks support for it.
2792
2793	kvm-intel.nested=
2794			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2795			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2796
2797	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2798			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2799			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2800			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2801			hardware lacks support for it.
2802
2803	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2804			CVE-2018-3620.
2805
2806			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2807
2808			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2809			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2810				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2811			never:	Disables the mitigation
2812
2813			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2814
2815	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2816			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2817			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2818			for it.
2819
2820	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2821			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2822
2823			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2824			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2825			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2826
2827			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2828			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2829			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2830			not have direct access.
2831
2832			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2833			options are:
2834
2835			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2836
2837	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2838			      affected CPUs
2839
2840			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2841			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2842
2843			full
2844				Provides all available mitigations for the
2845				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2846				enables all mitigations in the
2847				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2848
2849				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2850				sysfs interface is still possible after
2851				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2852				when the first VM is started in a
2853				potentially insecure configuration,
2854				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2855
2856			full,force
2857				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2858				flush runtime control. Implies the
2859				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2860				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2861
2862			flush
2863				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2864				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2865				L1D flush.
2866
2867				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2868				sysfs interface is still possible after
2869				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2870				when the first VM is started in a
2871				potentially insecure configuration,
2872				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2873
2874			flush,nosmt
2875
2876				Disables SMT and enables the default
2877				hypervisor mitigation.
2878
2879				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2880				sysfs interface is still possible after
2881				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2882				when the first VM is started in a
2883				potentially insecure configuration,
2884				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2885
2886			flush,nowarn
2887				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2888				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2889				insecure configuration.
2890
2891			off
2892				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2893				emit any warnings.
2894				It also drops the swap size and available
2895				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2896				bare metal.
2897
2898			Default is 'flush'.
2899
2900			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2901
2902	l2cr=		[PPC]
2903
2904	l3cr=		[PPC]
2905
2906	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2907			disabled it.
2908
2909	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2910			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2911			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2912			Format: notscdeadline
2913
2914	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2915			in C2 power state.
2916
2917	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2918			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2919			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2920			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2921			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2922			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2923			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2924
2925	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2926			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2927			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2928
2929	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2930			when set.
2931			Format: <int>
2932
2933	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2934			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2935			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2936			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2937			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2938			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2939			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2940			to all ports, links and devices.
2941
2942			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2943			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2944			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2945			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2946			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2947			host link and device attached to it.
2948
2949			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2950			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2951			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2952			The following configurations can be forced.
2953
2954			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2955			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2956
2957			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2958
2959			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2960			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2961			  allowed.
2962
2963			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2964			  resets.
2965
2966			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2967			  link recovery.
2968
2969			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2970			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2971			  detection.
2972
2973			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2974
2975			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2976
2977			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2978
2979			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2980
2981			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2982
2983			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2984
2985			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2986
2987			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2988
2989			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2990			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2991
2992			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2993			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2994
2995			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2996			  identify device data log.
2997
2998			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2999			  purpose log directory.
3000
3001			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3002
3003			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3004			  1024 sectors.
3005
3006			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3007			  65535 sectors.
3008
3009			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3010
3011			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3012			  should be skipped.
3013
3014			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3015			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3016
3017			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3018
3019			* disable: Disable this device.
3020
3021			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3022			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3023
3024	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3025
3026	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3027			Format: <integer>
3028
3029	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3030			Format: <integer>
3031
3032	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3033			Format: <integer>
3034
3035	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3036			Format: <integer>
3037
3038	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3039			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3040			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3041			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3042			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3043			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3044			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3045			are also disabled.
3046
3047	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3048			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3049			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3050			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3051
3052	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3053			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3054			to be bound.
3055
3056	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3057			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3058			to be bound.
3059
3060	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3061			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3062			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3063			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3064			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3065			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3066
3067	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3068			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3069			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3070			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3071
3072	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3073			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3074			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3075			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3076			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3077			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3078
3079	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3080			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3081			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3082			number of online CPUs.
3083
3084	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3085			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3086
3087	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3088			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3089
3090	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3091			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3092			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3093
3094	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3095			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3096			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3097			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3098			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3099			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3100			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3101			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3102			disable boosting.
3103
3104	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3105			Number that determines how often and for how
3106			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3107			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3108			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3109			constant as the number of writers increases.
3110			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3111			increases with the number of writers.
3112
3113	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3114			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3115			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3116			mode during the locktorture test.
3117
3118	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3119			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3120			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3121
3122	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3123			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3124
3125	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3126			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3127			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3128			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3129			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3130			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3131
3132	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3133			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3134
3135	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3136			Enable additional printk() statements.
3137
3138	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3139			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3140			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3141
3142	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3143			Format: <irq>
3144
3145	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3146			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3147			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3148			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3149			loglevels are defined as follows:
3150
3151			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3152			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3153			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3154			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3155			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3156			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3157			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3158			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3159
3160	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3161			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3162			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3163			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3164			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3165			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3166			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3167			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3168			for more details.
3169
3170	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3171			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3172			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3173			kernel boot problems.
3174
3175	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3176	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3177	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3178	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3179				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3180				attached printers to be reset. Using
3181				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3182				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3183				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3184				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3185				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3186				port specification list means that device IDs
3187				from each port should be examined, to see if
3188				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3189				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3190				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3191
3192	lpj=n		[KNL]
3193			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3194			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3195			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3196			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3197			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3198			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3199			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3200			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3201			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3202			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3203			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3204			hardware.
3205
3206	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3207
3208	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3209			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3210			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3211
3212	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3213			different yeeloong laptops.
3214			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3215
3216	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3217			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3218			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3219			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3220			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3221			only takes effect during system bootup.
3222			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3223			which also disables the IO APIC.
3224
3225	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3226	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3227			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3228			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3229			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3230			/dev/loop-control interface.
3231
3232	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3233
3234	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3235
3236	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3237			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3238
3239	mdacon=		[MDA]
3240			Format: <first>,<last>
3241			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3242
3243	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3244			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3245			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3246
3247			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3248			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3249			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3250
3251			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3252			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3253			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3254			not have direct access.
3255
3256			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3257			options are:
3258
3259			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3260			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3261				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3262			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3263
3264			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3265			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3266			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3267			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3268			too.
3269
3270			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3271			mds=full.
3272
3273			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3274
3275	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3276			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3277
3278	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3279			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3280			as follows:
3281
3282			1 for test;
3283			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3284			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3285			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3286			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3287
3288			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3289			high memory is not affected.
3290
3291			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3292			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3293
3294			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3295			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3296			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3297			belonging to unused RAM.
3298
3299			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3300			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3301			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3302
3303	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3304			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3305			reported by firmware.
3306			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3307			ss[KMG].
3308			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3309			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3310
3311	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3312			memory.
3313
3314	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3315
3316	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3317			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3318			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3319
3320	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3321			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3322			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3323			set according to the
3324			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3325			option.
3326			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3327
3328	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3329			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3330			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3331			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3332			option description.
3333
3334	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3335			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3336			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3337			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3338			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3339			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3340			comma delimited.
3341			Example:
3342				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3343
3344	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3345			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3346			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3347
3348	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3349			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3350			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3351			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3352			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3353			         or
3354			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3355			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3356			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3357			will be eaten.
3358
3359	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3360			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3361			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3362			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3363			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3364
3365	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3366			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3367			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3368			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3369			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3370			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3371			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3372			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3373
3374	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3375			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3376			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3377			Setting this option will scan the memory
3378			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3379			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3380			from using the memory being corrupted.
3381			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3382			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3383			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3384			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3385
3386	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3387			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3388			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3389			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3390			corruption in more or less memory.
3391
3392	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3393			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3394			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3395			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3396
3397	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3398			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3399			Format: {on | off (default)}
3400			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3401			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3402			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3403			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3404			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3405			lot of memory without requiring additional
3406			memory to do so.
3407			This feature is disabled by default because it
3408			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3409			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3410			memory blocks).
3411			The state of the flag can be read in
3412			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3413			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3414			the feature is not effective.
3415
3416	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3417			Format: <integer>
3418			default : 0 <disable>
3419			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3420			performed. Each pass selects another test
3421			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3422			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3423			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3424			regions that are detected.
3425
3426	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3427			Valid arguments: on, off
3428			Default: off
3429			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3430			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3431
3432			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3433			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3434
3435	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3436			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3437			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3438			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3439			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3440
3441	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3442			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3443			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3444			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3445
3446	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3447
3448	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3449			Format: <bool>
3450			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3451			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3452
3453	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3454			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3455			Default: "0tb"
3456			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3457			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3458			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3459			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3460			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3461			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3462			unconfigured.
3463			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3464			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3465			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3466			VGA shield.
3467			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3468			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3469			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3470			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3471			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3472			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3473
3474	mitigations=
3475			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3476			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3477			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3478			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3479
3480			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3481			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3482
3483			off
3484				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3485				improves system performance, but it may also
3486				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3487				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3488					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3489					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3490					       l1tf=off [X86]
3491					       mds=off [X86]
3492					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3493					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3494					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3495					       nobp=0 [S390]
3496					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3497					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3498					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3499					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3500					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3501					       retbleed=off [X86]
3502					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3503					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3504					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3505					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3506					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3507					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3508					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3509
3510				Exceptions:
3511					       This does not have any effect on
3512					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3513					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3514
3515			auto (default)
3516				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3517				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3518				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3519				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3520				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3521				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3522
3523			auto,nosmt
3524				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3525				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3526				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3527				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3528					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3529					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3530					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3531					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3532
3533	mminit_loglevel=
3534			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3535			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3536			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3537			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3538			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3539			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3540
3541	mmio_stale_data=
3542			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3543			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3544
3545			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3546			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3547			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3548			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3549			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3550			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3551
3552			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3553			options are:
3554
3555			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3556
3557			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3558				     vulnerable CPUs.
3559
3560			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3561
3562			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3563			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3564			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3565			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3566			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3567			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3568
3569			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3570			mmio_stale_data=full.
3571
3572			For details see:
3573			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3574
3575	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3576			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3577			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3578			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3579			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3580			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3581
3582	module.async_probe=<bool>
3583			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3584			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3585			specific module, use the module specific control that
3586			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3587			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3588			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3589			the specific module.
3590
3591	module.enable_dups_trace
3592			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3593			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3594			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3595			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3596			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3597	module.sig_enforce
3598			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3599			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3600			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3601			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3602
3603	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3604			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3605
3606	mousedev.tap_time=
3607			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3608			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3609			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3610			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3611			Format: <msecs>
3612	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3613			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3614	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3615			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3616
3617	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3618			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3619			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3620			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3621			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3622			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3623			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3624			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3625			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3626			is not too small.
3627
3628	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3629			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3630			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3631			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3632			allocations. Use with caution!
3633
3634	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3635			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3636
3637	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3638			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3639
3640	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3641			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3642
3643	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3644			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3645			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3646
3647	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3648			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3649			registers at boot time.
3650
3651	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3652			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3653			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3654
3655	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3656			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3657			Default is 1.
3658			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3659			using up MTRRs.
3660
3661	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3662			Format: <integer>
3663			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3664			Default : 1
3665			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3666			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3667
3668	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3669			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3670			at a time.
3671
3672	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3673
3674	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3675			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3676			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3677			something different and driver-specific.
3678			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3679			file if at all.
3680
3681	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3682			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3683			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3684			waits 4 seconds.
3685
3686	nf_conntrack.acct=
3687			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3688			0 to disable accounting
3689			1 to enable accounting
3690			Default value is 0.
3691
3692	nfs.cache_getent=
3693			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3694			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3695
3696	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3697			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3698			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3699
3700	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3701			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3702			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3703			requests.
3704
3705	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3706			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3707			channel should listen.
3708
3709	nfs.delay_retrans=
3710			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3711			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3712			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3713			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3714			and the specified value is >= 0.
3715
3716	nfs.enable_ino64=
3717			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3718			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3719			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3720			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3721			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3722
3723	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3724			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3725			entries.
3726
3727	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3728			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3729			slots the client will assign to the callback
3730			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3731			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3732			a particular server.
3733
3734	nfs.max_session_slots=
3735			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3736			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3737			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3738			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3739			Note that there is little point in setting this
3740			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3741
3742	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3743			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3744			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3745			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3746			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3747			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3748			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3749			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3750			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3751			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3752			back to using the idmapper.
3753			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3754
3755	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3756			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3757			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3758			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3759			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3760
3761	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3762			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3763			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3764			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3765			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3766			after the locks are lost.
3767			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3768			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3769			parameter to '1'.
3770			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3771			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3772
3773	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3774			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3775			information in exchange_id requests.
3776			If zero, no implementation identification information
3777			will be sent.
3778			The default is to send the implementation identification
3779			information.
3780
3781	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3782			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3783			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3784
3785			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3786			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3787			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3788			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3789
3790	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3791			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3792			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3793			the destination of the copy.
3794
3795	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3796			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3797			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3798			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3799			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3800			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3801
3802	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3803			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3804			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3805			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3806			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3807			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3808			this parameter.
3809
3810	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3811			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3812
3813	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3814			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3815
3816	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3817			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3818
3819	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3820			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3821			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3822
3823	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3824			when a NMI is triggered.
3825			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3826
3827	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3828			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
3829			Valid num: 0 or 1
3830			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3831			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3832			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3833
3834			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3835			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3836			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3837			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3838			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3839			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3840			need the box quickly up again.
3841
3842			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3843			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3844
3845	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3846			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3847			is present.
3848
3849	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3850			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3851
3852	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3853			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3854
3855	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3856
3857	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3858			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3859
3860	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3861
3862	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3863
3864	no_console_suspend
3865			[HW] Never suspend the console
3866			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3867			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3868			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3869			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3870			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3871			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3872			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3873			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3874			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3875			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3876			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3877			turn on/off it dynamically.
3878
3879	no_debug_objects
3880			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3881
3882	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3883
3884	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3885
3886	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3887
3888	noexec32	[X86-64]
3889			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3890			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3891				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3892			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3893				read implies executable mappings
3894
3895	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3896			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3897			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3898
3899	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3900
3901	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3902
3903	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3904			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3905			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3906
3907	no_hash_pointers
3908			[KNL,EARLY]
3909			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3910			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3911			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3912			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3913			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3914			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3915			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3916			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3917			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3918			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3919			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3920			kernels.
3921
3922	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3923
3924	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
3925			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3926			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3927			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3928			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3929			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3930			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3931			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3932
3933	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3934
3935	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3936
3937	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3938			Valid arguments: on, off
3939			Default: on
3940
3941	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3942			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3943			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3944			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3945			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3946			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3947			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3948			just as if they had also been called out in the
3949			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3950
3951			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3952			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3953
3954	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3955			initial RAM disk.
3956
3957	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3958			remapping.
3959			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3960
3961	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3962
3963	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3964
3965	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3966			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3967
3968	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3969
3970	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3971			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3972			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3973			Layout Randomization).
3974
3975	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3976			fault handling.
3977
3978	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3979
3980	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3981
3982	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3983
3984	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3985
3986	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3987			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3988
3989	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3990			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3991			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3992			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3993			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3994			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3995			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3996
3997			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3998
3999	nomodule	Disable module load
4000
4001	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4002			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4003			irq.
4004
4005	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4006			pagetables) support.
4007
4008	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4009
4010	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4011			in some Intel CPUs.
4012
4013	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4014			Equivalent to pti=off
4015
4016	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4017			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4018			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4019			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4020
4021	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4022			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4023			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4024			contention.
4025
4026	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4027			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4028
4029	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4030			with UP alternatives
4031
4032	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4033			space.
4034
4035	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4036			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4037			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4038
4039	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4040
4041	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4042			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4043			even if it is supported by processor.
4044
4045	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4046			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4047			even if it is supported by processor.
4048
4049	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4050			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4051
4052	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4053			Equivalent to smt=1.
4054
4055			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4056			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4057				     via the sysfs control file.
4058
4059	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4060
4061	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4062			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4063			Store Bypass vulnerability
4064
4065	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4066			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4067			with this option.
4068
4069	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4070			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4071			possible in the system.
4072
4073	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4074			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4075			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4076			leaks with this option.
4077
4078	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4079			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4080			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4081
4082	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4083
4084	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4085			broken timer IRQ sources.
4086
4087	no_uaccess_flush
4088	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4089
4090	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4091			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4092			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4093			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4094			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4095			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4096			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4097			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4098			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4099			is set.
4100
4101	no-vmw-sched-clock
4102			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4103			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4104
4105	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4106			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4107
4108	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4109
4110	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4111
4112			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4113			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4114			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4115
4116	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4117			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4118			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4119
4120	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4121			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4122			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4123			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4124			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4125			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4126
4127	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4128			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4129			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4130			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4131			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4132			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4133			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4134
4135	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4136			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4137			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4138			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4139			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4140			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4141			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4142			hot plugging.
4143
4144	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4145
4146	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4147			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4148			spanning all memory.
4149
4150	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4151			NUMA balancing.
4152			Allowed values are enable and disable
4153
4154	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4155			'node', 'default' can be specified
4156			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4157			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4158
4159	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4160			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4161			info.
4162
4163	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4164			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4165			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4166			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4167			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4168			interrupts *may* be lost!
4169
4170	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4171			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4172			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4173			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4174
4175	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4176
4177			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4178
4179			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4180				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4181			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4182				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4183				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4184
4185	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4186			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4187			process, but there is a small probability of
4188			deadlocking the machine.
4189			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4190			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4191
4192	page_alloc.shuffle=
4193			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4194			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4195			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4196			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4197			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4198			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4199
4200	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4201			Storage of the information about who allocated
4202			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4203			we can turn it on.
4204			on: enable the feature
4205
4206	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4207			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4208			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4209			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4210			on: turn on poisoning
4211
4212	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4213			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4214			Format: <integer>
4215			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4216			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4217
4218	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4219			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4220			timeout = 0: wait forever
4221			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4222			Format: <timeout>
4223
4224	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4225			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4226			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4227			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4228			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4229			called with any of the flags in this set.
4230			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4231			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4232			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4233			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4234			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4235			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4236			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4237
4238	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4239			on a WARN().
4240
4241	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4242			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4243			bit 0: print all tasks info
4244			bit 1: print system memory info
4245			bit 2: print timer info
4246			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4247			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4248			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4249			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4250			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4251			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4252			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4253			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4254			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4255
4256	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4257			connected to, default is 0.
4258			Format: <parport#>
4259	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4260			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4261			Format: <mode>
4262
4263	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4264			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4265			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4266			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4267			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4268			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4269			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4270			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4271			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4272			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4273			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4274			are specified on the command line, starting
4275			with parport0.
4276
4277	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4278			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4279			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4280			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4281			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4282			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4283			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4284
4285	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4286			Format: <int>
4287			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4288			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4289			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4290
4291	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4292			Format: <int>
4293			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4294			changes.  Disabled by default.
4295
4296	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4297			Format: <int>
4298			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4299			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4300			Disabled by default.
4301
4302	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4303			Format: <int>
4304			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4305			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4306			Disabled by default.
4307
4308	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4309			Format: <int>
4310			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4311			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4312			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4313			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4314			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4315			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4316			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4317			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4318			all channels.
4319
4320	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4321			Format: <int>
4322			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4323			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4324			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4325
4326	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4327			Format: <int>
4328			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4329			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4330			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4331
4332	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4333			Format: <int>
4334			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4335			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4336			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4337			All modes allowed by default.
4338
4339	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4340			Format: <int>
4341			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4342			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4343
4344	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4345			Format: <int>
4346			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4347			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4348			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4349			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4350			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4351			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4352			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4353			By default all supported ports are probed.
4354
4355	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4356			Format: <int>
4357			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4358			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4359
4360	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4361			Format: <int>
4362			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4363			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4364			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4365			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4366			0 otherwise.
4367
4368	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4369			Format: <int>
4370			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4371			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4372			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4373			allowed by default.
4374
4375	pause_on_oops=<int>
4376			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4377			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4378			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4379
4380	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4381
4382	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4383
4384				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4385				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4386				specified in one of the following formats:
4387
4388				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4389				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4390
4391				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4392				bus/device/function address which may change
4393				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4394				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4395				by other kernel parameters. If the
4396				domain is left unspecified, it is
4397				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4398				to a device through multiple device/function
4399				addresses can be specified after the base
4400				address (this is more robust against
4401				renumbering issues).  The second format
4402				selects devices using IDs from the
4403				configuration space which may match multiple
4404				devices in the system.
4405
4406		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4407				changes anything
4408		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4409		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4410				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4411				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4412		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4413				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4414				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4415				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4416		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4417				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4418				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4419		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4420				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4421				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4422				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4423				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4424				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4425				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4426		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4427				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4428				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4429		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4430				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4431		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4432				Configuration
4433		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4434				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4435				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4436		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4437				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4438				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4439		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4440				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4441				should never be necessary.
4442		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4443				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4444				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4445				when the system masks IRQs.
4446		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4447				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4448				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4449				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4450		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4451				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4452				on several machines and they hang the machine
4453				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4454				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4455				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4456				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4457				motherboard.
4458		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4459				Use with caution as certain devices share
4460				address decoders between ROMs and other
4461				resources.
4462		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4463				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4464				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4465		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4466				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4467		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4468				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4469				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4470				this way.
4471		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4472				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4473				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4474				F0000h-100000h range.
4475		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4476				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4477				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4478				explicitly which ones they are.
4479		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4480				numbers ourselves, overriding
4481				whatever the firmware may have done.
4482		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4483				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4484				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4485				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4486				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4487				IRQ routing is enabled.
4488		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4489				or for PCI scanning.
4490		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4491				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4492				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4493				please report a bug.
4494		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4495				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4496		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4497				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4498				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4499				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4500				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4501		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4502				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4503				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4504				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4505		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4506				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4507				so this option is a temporary workaround
4508				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4509		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4510				handle more pci cards
4511		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4512				This might help on some broken boards which
4513				machine check when some devices' config space
4514				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4515				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4516		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4517				This sorting is done to get a device
4518				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4519		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4520		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4521				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4522		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4523				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4524		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4525				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4526				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4527				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4528				or bus can support) for best performance.
4529		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4530				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4531				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4532				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4533				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4534				that hot-added devices will work.
4535		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4536				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4537				The default value is 256 bytes.
4538		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4539				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4540				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4541		resource_alignment=
4542				Format:
4543				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4544				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4545				aligned memory resources. How to
4546				specify the device is described above.
4547				If <order of align> is not specified,
4548				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4549				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4550				windows need to be expanded.
4551				To specify the alignment for several
4552				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4553				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4554				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4555				for 4096-byte alignment.
4556		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4557				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4558				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4559				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4560				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4561				the default.
4562				off: Turn ECRC off
4563				on: Turn ECRC on.
4564		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4565				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4566				Default size is 256 bytes.
4567		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4568				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4569				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4570		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4571				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4572				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4573		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4574				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4575				MMIO_PREF window.
4576				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4577		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4578				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4579				Default is 1.
4580		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4581				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4582				accommodate resources required by all child
4583				devices.
4584				off: Turn realloc off
4585				on: Turn realloc on
4586		realloc		same as realloc=on
4587		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4588		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4589				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4590		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4591				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4592				port.
4593		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4594				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4595				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4596				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4597				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4598				taints the kernel.
4599		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4600				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4601				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4602				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4603				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4604				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4605				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4606				this removes isolation between devices and
4607				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4608		config_acs=
4609				Format:
4610				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4611				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4612				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4613				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4614				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4615				unchanged based on what is specified in
4616				flags.
4617
4618				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4619				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4620				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4621				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4622				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4623				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4624				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4625				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4626				Each bit can be marked as:
4627				  '0' – force disabled
4628				  '1' – force enabled
4629				  'x' – unchanged
4630				For example,
4631				  pci=config_acs=10x
4632				would configure all devices that support
4633				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4634				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4635				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4636				or firmware set it to.
4637
4638				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4639				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4640		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4641		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4642		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4643				one PCI domain per PCI function
4644
4645	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4646			Management.
4647		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4648			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4649		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4650			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4651
4652	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4653		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4654			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4655			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4656			also tries to use these services.
4657		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4658				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4659		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4660			hotplug).
4661
4662	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4663		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4664		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4665
4666	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4667		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4668			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4669
4670	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4671
4672	pd_ignore_unused
4673			[PM]
4674			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4675			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4676			for debug and development, but should not be
4677			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4678
4679	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4680			boot time.
4681			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4682			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4683
4684	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4685			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4686			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4687			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4688			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4689			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4690			and performance comparison.
4691
4692	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4693			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4694
4695	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4696			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4697			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4698
4699	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4700			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4701			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4702
4703	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4704			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4705			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4706			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4707			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4708			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4709			remains 0.
4710
4711	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4712			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4713
4714	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4715			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4716			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4717			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4718			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4719			possible settings and some assignment information.
4720
4721	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4722			{ off }
4723
4724	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4725			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4726
4727	pnp_reserve_irq=
4728			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4729
4730	pnp_reserve_dma=
4731			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4732
4733	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4734			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4735
4736	pnp_reserve_mem=
4737			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4738			autoconfiguration.
4739			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4740
4741	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4742			Default is 21.
4743			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4744			may be specified.
4745			Format: <port>,<port>....
4746
4747	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4748			Format: <unsigned int>
4749			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4750			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4751
4752	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4753			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4754			platform machine description specific power_save
4755			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4756			execution priority.
4757
4758	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4759			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4760			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4761			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4762			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4763
4764	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4765			Format: {"off"}
4766			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4767
4768	preempt=	[KNL]
4769			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4770			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4771			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4772			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4773			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
4774			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
4775			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
4776
4777	print-fatal-signals=
4778			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4779
4780			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4781			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4782			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4783			coredump - etc.
4784
4785			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4786			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4787
4788			default: off.
4789
4790	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4791			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4792			panics
4793			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4794			default: disabled
4795
4796	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4797			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4798			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4799			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4800			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4801			in order to provide more debug information.
4802			Format: <bool>
4803			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4804
4805	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4806			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4807			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4808			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4809			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4810			Default: ratelimit
4811
4812	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4813			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4814
4815	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
4816			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
4817			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
4818			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
4819			restrict that. Can be one of:
4820			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
4821			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
4822			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
4823			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
4824
4825	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4826			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4827			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4828
4829	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4830			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4831			instead using the legacy FADT method
4832
4833	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4834			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4835			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
4836				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4837			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4838			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4839			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4840				statistical time based profiling.
4841
4842	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4843
4844	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4845			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4846			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
4847			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
4848			Layout Randomization is disabled.
4849			Format: <bool>
4850
4851	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4852			tracking.
4853			Format: <bool>
4854
4855	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4856			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4857	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4858			per second.
4859	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4860			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4861			(0 = never).
4862	psmouse.resolution=
4863			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4864	psmouse.smartscroll=
4865			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4866			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4867
4868	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4869
4870	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4871			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4872			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4873			system calls and interrupts.
4874
4875			on   - unconditionally enable
4876			off  - unconditionally disable
4877			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4878			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4879
4880			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4881
4882	pty.legacy_count=
4883			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4884			default number.
4885
4886	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4887
4888	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4889
4890	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4891			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4892			invalidate.
4893
4894	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4895			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4896
4897	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4898			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4899
4900	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4901
4902	random.trust_cpu=off
4903			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4904			random number generator (if available) to
4905			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4906
4907	random.trust_bootloader=off
4908			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4909			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4910			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4911
4912	randomize_kstack_offset=
4913			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4914			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4915			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4916			that depend on stack address determinism or
4917			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4918			available on architectures that have defined
4919			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4920			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4921			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4922
4923	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4924
4925		cec_disable	[X86]
4926				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4927				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4928
4929	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4930			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4931			as described above.
4932
4933			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4934			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4935			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4936			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4937			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4938			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4939			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4940			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4941			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4942			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4943			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4944			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4945
4946			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4947			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4948
4949			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4950			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4951			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4952			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4953
4954			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4955			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4956
4957	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4958			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4959			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4960			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4961			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4962			This improves the real-time response for the
4963			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4964			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4965			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4966			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4967
4968	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4969			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4970			process in one batch.
4971
4972	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
4973			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
4974			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
4975
4976	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4977			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4978			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4979			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4980			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4981			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4982
4983	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4984			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4985			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4986			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4987
4988	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4989			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4990			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4991
4992	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4993			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4994			RCU grace-period initialization.
4995
4996	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4997			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4998			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4999			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5000			the rcu_node combining tree.
5001
5002	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5003			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5004			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5005			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5006			and maximum value is HZ.
5007
5008	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5009			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5010			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5011			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5012
5013	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5014			Set required age in jiffies for a
5015			given grace period before RCU starts
5016			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5017			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5018			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5019			a value based on the most recent settings
5020			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5021			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5022			This calculated value may be viewed in
5023			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5024			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5025			overwritten.
5026
5027	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5028			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5029			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5030			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5031			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5032			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5033			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5034			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5035			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5036			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5037			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5038			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5039
5040	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5041			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5042			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5043			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5044			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5045			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5046			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5047			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5048			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5049			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5050			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5051			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5052
5053	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5054			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5055			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5056			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5057			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5058			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5059			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5060
5061	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5062			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5063			batch limiting is disabled.
5064
5065	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5066			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5067			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5068
5069	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5070			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5071			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5072			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5073			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5074			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5075			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5076			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5077
5078	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5079			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5080			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5081			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5082
5083	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5084			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5085			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5086			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5087			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5088			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5089			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5090			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5091
5092			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5093			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5094			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5095			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5096			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5097
5098	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5099			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5100			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5101			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5102			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5103
5104	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5105			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5106			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5107			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5108			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5109			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5110			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5111
5112	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5113			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5114			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5115			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5116			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5117			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5118			condition.
5119
5120	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5121			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5122			each group, which defaults to the square root
5123			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5124			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5125			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5126			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5127
5128	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5129			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5130			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5131			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5132			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5133			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5134
5135	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5136			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5137			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5138			By default, this limit is checked only once
5139			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5140			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5141
5142	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5143			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5144			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5145			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5146			Larger delays increase the probability of
5147			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5148			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5149			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5150
5151	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5152			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5153			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5154			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5155
5156	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5157			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5158			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5159			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5160			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5161
5162			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5163			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5164			to zero.
5165
5166	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5167			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5168			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5169			big.
5170
5171	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5172			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5173			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5174			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5175			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5176			normal grace period.
5177
5178			How to enable it:
5179
5180			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5181			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5182
5183			Default is 0.
5184
5185	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5186			Measure performance of asynchronous
5187			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5188
5189	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5190			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5191			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5192			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5193			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5194			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5195
5196	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5197			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5198			grace-period primitives.
5199
5200	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5201			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5202			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5203			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5204			interference.
5205
5206	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5207			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5208			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5209
5210	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5211			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5212			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5213			Defaults to 1.
5214
5215	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5216			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5217
5218	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5219			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5220			If this parameter has the same value as
5221			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5222			and double-argument variants are tested.
5223
5224	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5225			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5226			If this parameter has the same value as
5227			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5228			and double-argument variants are tested.
5229
5230	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5231			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5232
5233	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5234			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5235
5236	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5237			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5238			of allocations and frees.
5239
5240	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5241			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5242			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5243			but instead allows better measurement of things
5244			like CPU consumption.
5245
5246	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5247			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5248			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5249			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5250			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5251			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5252			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5253			a single reader.
5254
5255	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5256			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5257			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5258			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5259
5260	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5261			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5262
5263	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5264			Shut the system down after performance tests
5265			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5266			testing.
5267
5268	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5269			Enable additional printk() statements.
5270
5271	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5272			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5273			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5274			no holdoff.
5275
5276	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5277			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5278			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5279			says no holdoff.
5280
5281	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5282			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5283			in microseconds.
5284
5285	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5286			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5287			in microseconds.
5288
5289	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5290			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5291			in seconds.
5292
5293	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5294			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5295			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5296			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5297			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5298			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5299			of CPUs to be used.
5300
5301	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5302			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5303			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5304
5305	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5306			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5307			forward-progress tests.
5308
5309	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5310			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5311			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5312			testing.
5313
5314	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5315			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5316			primitives, if available.
5317
5318	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5319			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5320
5321	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5322			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5323			update-side primitives, if available.
5324
5325	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5326			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5327			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5328			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5329			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5330			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5331			they are all non-zero.
5332
5333	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5334			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5335			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5336			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5337
5338	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5339			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5340			This can of course result in splats, and is
5341			intended to test the ability of things like
5342			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5343			such leaks.
5344
5345	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5346			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5347
5348	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5349			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5350			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5351			test, hence the "fake".
5352
5353	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5354			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5355			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5356
5357	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5358			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5359			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5360
5361	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5362			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5363			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5364			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5365			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5366			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5367
5368	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5369			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5370
5371	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5372			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5373
5374	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5375			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5376			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5377
5378	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5379			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5380			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5381			task-exit processing.
5382
5383	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5384			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5385			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5386			is spawned.
5387
5388	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5389			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5390			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5391
5392	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5393			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5394			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5395			during the rcutorture test.
5396
5397	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5398			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5399			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5400
5401	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5402			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5403			warnings, zero to disable.
5404
5405	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5406			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5407			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5408			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5409			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5410			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5411			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5412			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5413			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5414			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5415
5416			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5417
5418
5419	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5420			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5421
5422	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5423			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
5424			on the first stall in the set.
5425
5426	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
5427			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
5428			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
5429			in four stall sequences.
5430
5431	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5432			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5433			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5434			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5435			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5436			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5437
5438	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5439			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5440
5441	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5442			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5443			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5444			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5445			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5446
5447	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5448			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5449			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5450			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5451
5452	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5453			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5454
5455	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5456			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5457
5458	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5459			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5460			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5461
5462	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5463			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5464
5465	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5466			Enable additional printk() statements.
5467
5468	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5469			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5470			stall warning.
5471
5472	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5473			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5474			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5475			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5476			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5477
5478	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5479			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5480
5481	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5482			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5483			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5484			during early boot, that is, during the time
5485			before the init task is spawned.
5486
5487	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5488			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5489			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5490			value is 300 seconds.
5491
5492	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5493			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5494			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5495			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5496			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5497			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5498			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5499			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5500			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5501
5502	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5503			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5504			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5505			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5506			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5507
5508	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5509			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5510			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5511			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5512
5513	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5514			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5515			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5516			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5517			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5518			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5519			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5520
5521	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5522			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5523			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5524			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5525			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5526			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5527			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5528			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5529			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5530
5531	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5532			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5533			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5534			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5535			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5536
5537			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5538			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5539			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5540			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5541			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5542			grace-period processing.
5543
5544	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5545			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5546			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5547			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5548			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5549			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5550			set to the default value of -1.
5551
5552	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5553			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5554			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5555			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5556			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5557			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5558			the default value of -1.
5559
5560	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5561			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5562			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5563			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5564			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5565			for use in testing.
5566
5567	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5568			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5569			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5570			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5571			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5572			but lengthens grace periods.
5573
5574	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5575			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5576			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5577			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5578			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5579			callback flooding.
5580
5581	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5582			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5583			informational messages, which give some indication
5584			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5585			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5586			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5587			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5588			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5589			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5590			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5591
5592	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5593			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5594			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5595			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5596			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5597			the value three, so that the first informational
5598			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5599			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5600			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5601			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5602
5603	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5604			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5605			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5606			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5607			A change in value does not take effect until
5608			the beginning of the next grace period.
5609
5610	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5611			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5612			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5613			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5614			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5615			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5616
5617	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5618			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5619			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5620			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5621			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5622			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5623			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5624
5625	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5626			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5627
5628	rdinit=		[KNL]
5629			Format: <full_path>
5630			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5631			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5632
5633	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5634			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5635				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5636				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5637				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5638				path).
5639
5640	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5641			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5642			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5643			mba, smba, bmec.
5644			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5645				rdt=cmt,!mba
5646
5647	reboot=		[KNL]
5648			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5649				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5650				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5651				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5652				[[,]f[orce]
5653			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5654					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5655					reboot only),
5656			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5657			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5658			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5659					to be used for rebooting.
5660
5661	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5662			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5663			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5664			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5665			interference.
5666
5667	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5668			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5669			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5670			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5671			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5672
5673	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5674			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5675			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5676			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5677			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5678			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5679			x86 laptops.
5680
5681	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5682			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5683			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5684			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5685
5686	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5687			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5688			the console log.
5689
5690	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5691			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5692			measured in microseconds.
5693
5694	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5695			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5696
5697	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5698			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5699			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5700			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5701			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5702
5703	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5704			Enable additional printk() statements.
5705
5706	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5707			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5708			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5709			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5710			specified.
5711
5712	regulator_ignore_unused
5713			[REGULATOR]
5714			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5715			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5716			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5717			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5718
5719	relax_domain_level=
5720			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5721			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5722
5723	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5724			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5725			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5726			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5727			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5728
5729	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
5730			Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label>
5731			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
5732			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
5733			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
5734			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
5735			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
5736			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
5737			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
5738			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
5739			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
5740			different location.
5741			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
5742			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
5743			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
5744			located at the same location.
5745
5746			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
5747			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
5748
5749			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
5750
5751	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5752			Format: nn[KMG]
5753			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5754			address space.
5755
5756	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5757			during initialization.
5758
5759	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5760			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5761			Format:
5762			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5763
5764	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5765			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5766			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5767			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5768			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5769
5770	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5771			read the resume files
5772
5773	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5774			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5775			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5776
5777	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5778			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5779
5780	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5781			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5782			vulnerability.
5783
5784			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5785			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5786			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5787			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5788			that don't.
5789
5790			off          - no mitigation
5791			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5792			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5793				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5794				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5795				       and older without STIBP).
5796			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5797				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5798				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5799				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5800				       on Intel.
5801			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5802				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5803				       the alternative for systems which do not
5804				       have STIBP.
5805			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5806				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5807				       systems.
5808			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5809				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5810				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5811
5812			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5813			time according to the CPU.
5814
5815			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5816
5817	rfkill.default_state=
5818		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5819			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5820		1	Unblocked.
5821
5822	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5823		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5824		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5825			blocked and the previous configuration.
5826		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5827			blocked and everything unblocked.
5828
5829	ring3mwait=disable
5830			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5831			CPUs.
5832
5833	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5834			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5835			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5836			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5837			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5838			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5839
5840	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5841
5842	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5843		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5844		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5845		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5846		        [arm64]
5847
5848	rockchip.usb_uart
5849			[EARLY]
5850			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5851			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5852			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5853			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5854
5855	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5856			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5857			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5858			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5859			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5860			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5861			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5862
5863	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5864			mount the root filesystem
5865
5866	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5867
5868	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5869
5870	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5871			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5872			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5873
5874	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5875			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5876			filesystem.
5877
5878	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5879			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5880			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5881			managed by CMA.
5882
5883	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5884
5885	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5886
5887	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5888			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5889		strict
5890			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5891			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5892			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5893			iommu.strict=1.
5894
5895	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5896			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5897			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5898			factor of the size of main memory.
5899			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5900			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5901			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5902			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5903			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5904			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5905			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5906
5907	sa1100ir	[NET]
5908			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5909
5910	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5911
5912	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5913			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5914			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5915			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5916
5917	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5918			[Deprecated]
5919			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5920			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5921			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5922			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5923			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5924			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5925			value.
5926			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5927			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5928				1			64 ms
5929				2			128 ms
5930			and so on.
5931			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5932			Default is 0.
5933
5934	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5935			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5936			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5937			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5938			tests.
5939
5940	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5941			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5942			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5943			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5944			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5945			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5946			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5947
5948	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5949			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5950			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5951			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5952			equal to the number of CPUs.
5953
5954	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5955			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5956			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5957
5958	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5959			Number seconds to wait between successive
5960			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5961			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5962
5963	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5964			The number of seconds following the start of the
5965			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5966			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5967			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5968
5969	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5970			The number of seconds between outputting the
5971			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5972			of zero disables statistics output.
5973
5974	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5975			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5976			to the set of CPUs under test.
5977
5978	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5979			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5980			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5981			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5982			functions.
5983
5984	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5985			Enable additional printk() statements.
5986
5987	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5988			The probability weighting to use for the
5989			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5990			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5991			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5992			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5993			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5994
5995	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5996			The probability weighting to use for the
5997			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5998			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5999
6000	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6001			The probability weighting to use for the
6002			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6003			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6004			Note well that setting a high probability for
6005			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6006			on the system.
6007
6008	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6009			The probability weighting to use for the
6010			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6011			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6012			and weight_many.
6013
6014	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6015			The probability weighting to use for the
6016			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6017			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6018			weight_many.
6019
6020	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6021			The probability weighting to use for the
6022			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6023			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6024			and weight_many.
6025
6026	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6027			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6028			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6029			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6030			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6031			1 -- enable.
6032			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6033			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6034
6035	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6036			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6037			"lsm=" parameter.
6038
6039	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6040			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6041			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6042			0 -- disable.
6043			1 -- enable.
6044			Default value is 1.
6045
6046	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6047
6048	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
6049
6050	shapers=	[NET]
6051			Maximal number of shapers.
6052
6053	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6054			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6055			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6056			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6057			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6058			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6059			apic=verbose is specified.
6060			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6061
6062	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6063			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6064			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6065			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6066			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6067			last alloc / free. For more information see
6068			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6069			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6070
6071	slab_max_order= [MM]
6072			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6073			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6074			fragmentation. For more information see
6075			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6076			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6077
6078	slab_merge	[MM]
6079			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6080			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6081			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6082
6083	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6084			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6085			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6086			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6087			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6088			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6089			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6090			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6091			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6092
6093	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6094			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6095			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6096			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6097			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6098
6099	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6100			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6101			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6102			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6103			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6104			layout control by attackers can usually be
6105			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6106			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6107			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6108			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6109			own.
6110			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6111			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6112
6113	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6114
6115	smart2=		[HW]
6116			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6117
6118	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6119			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6120			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6121			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6122			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6123			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6124			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6125			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6126			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6127			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6128
6129	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6130			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6131			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6132			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6133			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6134			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6135
6136	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6137	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6138	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6139	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6140	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6141	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6142	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6143				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6144				1: Fast pin select (default)
6145				2: ATC IRMode
6146
6147	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6148			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6149			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6150			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6151			Format: <integer>
6152			Default: -1 (no limit)
6153
6154	softlockup_panic=
6155			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6156			Format: 0 | 1
6157
6158			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6159			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6160			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6161			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6162			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6163
6164	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6165			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6166			backtraces on all cpus.
6167			Format: 0 | 1
6168
6169	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6170			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6171
6172	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6173			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6174			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6175			clearing sequence.
6176
6177			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6178				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6179				 both syscalls and VMs.
6180			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6181				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6182				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6183				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6184				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6185			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6186
6187	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6188			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6189			The default operation protects the kernel from
6190			user space attacks.
6191
6192			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6193			       spectre_v2_user=on
6194			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6195			       spectre_v2_user=off
6196			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6197			       vulnerable
6198
6199			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6200			mitigation method at run time according to the
6201			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6202			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6203			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6204
6205			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6206			against user space to user space task attacks.
6207
6208			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6209			the user space protections.
6210
6211			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6212
6213			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6214			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6215			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6216			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6217			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6218			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6219			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6220			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6221
6222			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6223			spectre_v2=auto.
6224
6225	spectre_v2_user=
6226			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6227		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6228		        user space tasks
6229
6230			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6231				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6232
6233			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6234				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6235
6236			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6237				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6238				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6239				  is inherited on fork.
6240
6241			prctl,ibpb
6242				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6243				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6244				  always when switching between different user
6245				  space processes.
6246
6247			seccomp
6248				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6249				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6250				  they explicitly opt out.
6251
6252			seccomp,ibpb
6253				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6254				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6255				  always when switching between different
6256				  user space processes.
6257
6258			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6259				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6260
6261			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6262
6263			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6264			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6265
6266	spec_rstack_overflow=
6267			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6268
6269			off		- Disable mitigation
6270			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6271			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6272			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6273					  kernel entry
6274			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6275					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6276
6277	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6278			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6279			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6280
6281			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6282			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6283			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6284			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6285			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6286			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6287			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6288			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6289
6290			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6291			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6292			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6293			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6294
6295			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6296			Bypass optimization is used.
6297
6298			On x86 the options are:
6299
6300			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6301			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6302			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6303				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6304				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6305				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6306				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6307				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6308			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6309				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6310				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6311				  is inherited on fork.
6312			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6313				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6314
6315			Default mitigations:
6316			X86:	"prctl"
6317
6318			On powerpc the options are:
6319
6320			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6321				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6322				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6323				  exit.
6324			off	- No action.
6325
6326			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6327			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6328
6329	split_lock_detect=
6330			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6331
6332			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6333			instructions that access data across cache line
6334			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6335			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6336			bus lock detection.
6337
6338			off	- not enabled
6339
6340			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6341				  about applications triggering the #AC
6342				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6343				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6344				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6345				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6346				  enabled in hardware.
6347
6348			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6349				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6350				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6351				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6352
6353			ratelimit:N -
6354				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6355				  per second for bus lock detection.
6356				  0 < N <= 1000.
6357
6358				  N/A for split lock detection.
6359
6360
6361			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6362			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6363			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6364			mode.
6365
6366			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6367			CPL > 0.
6368
6369	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6370			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6371			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6372
6373			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6374			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6375			number generator.
6376
6377			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6378			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6379			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6380			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6381			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6382
6383			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6384			the following option:
6385
6386			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6387				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6388
6389	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6390			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6391			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6392			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6393			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6394			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6395			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6396			(decide at boot).
6397
6398	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6399			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6400			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6401			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6402
6403				   0:  Never.
6404				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6405				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6406				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6407				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6408
6409			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6410			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6411			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6412
6413	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6414			Specifies how frequently to check for
6415			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6416			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6417			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6418			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6419			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6420			are ignored.
6421
6422	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6423			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6424			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6425			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6426			grace period will be considered for automatic
6427			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6428			expediting.
6429
6430	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6431			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6432			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6433			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6434			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6435			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6436
6437	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6438			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6439			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6440			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6441			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6442			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6443
6444	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6445			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6446			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6447
6448	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6449			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6450			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6451			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6452			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6453			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6454			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6455
6456	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6457			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6458
6459			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6460			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6461			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6462			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6463
6464			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6465				   for both kernel and userspace
6466			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6467				   for both kernel and userspace
6468			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6469				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6470				   to allow userspace to register its
6471				   interest in being mitigated too.
6472
6473	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6474			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6475			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6476			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6477			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6478			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6479
6480	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6481			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6482			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6483			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6484			to false.
6485
6486	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6487			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6488
6489	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6490			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6491			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6492			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6493			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6494			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6495			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6496
6497	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6498			Format: <num>
6499			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6500			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6501			as the initial boot-console.
6502			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6503
6504	sti_font=	[HW]
6505			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6506
6507	stifb=		[HW]
6508			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6509
6510        strict_sas_size=
6511			[X86]
6512			Format: <bool>
6513			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6514			against the required signal frame size which
6515			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6516			be used to filter out binaries which have
6517			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6518
6519	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6520			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6521			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6522			faults on kernel addresses.
6523
6524	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6525			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6526			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6527			on kernel addresses.
6528
6529	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6530	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6531			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6532			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6533			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6534			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6535			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6536			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6537			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6538			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6539			maximum port values.
6540
6541	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6542			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6543			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6544			process in parallel from a single connection.
6545			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6546
6547	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6548			[NFS]
6549			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6550			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6551			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6552			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6553			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6554			NFS server is running.
6555
6556			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6557				    automatically using heuristics
6558			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6559			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6560			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6561				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6562
6563	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6564	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6565			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6566			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6567			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6568			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6569			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6570			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6571
6572	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6573			[SUSPEND]
6574			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6575			mode before resuming the system (see
6576			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6577			is set. Default value is 5.
6578
6579	svm=		[PPC]
6580			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6581			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6582			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6583
6584	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
6585			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6586			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6587			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6588				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6589				 to a power of 2.
6590			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6591			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6592			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6593
6594	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6595
6596	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6597			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6598			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6599			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6600			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6601			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6602			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6603			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6604
6605	sysrq_always_enabled
6606			[KNL]
6607			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6608			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6609			Useful for debugging.
6610
6611	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6612			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6613			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6614			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6615			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6616			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6617
6618	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6619
6620	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6621			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6622			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6623			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6624			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6625			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6626			The system is woken from this state using a
6627			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6628
6629	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6630			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6631
6632	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6633			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6634			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6635
6636	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6637			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6638			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6639
6640	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6641			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6642
6643	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6644			-1: disable all passive trip points
6645			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6646			value
6647
6648	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6649			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6650			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6651			0: no polling (default)
6652
6653	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6654			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6655			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6656
6657	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6658			Format: {off | on}
6659			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6660			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6661			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6662			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6663			Default is on.
6664
6665	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6666			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6667			until after init has spawned.
6668
6669	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6670			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6671			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6672			very costly operation when many torture tests
6673			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6674			with rotating-rust storage.
6675
6676	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6677			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6678			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6679			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6680
6681	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6682			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6683
6684	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6685			Format: integer pcr id
6686			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6687			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6688			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6689			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6690			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6691			are saved.
6692
6693	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6694			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6695			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6696			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6697			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6698			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6699
6700	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6701			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6702			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6703			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6704			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6705			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6706
6707			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6708			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6709			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6710			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6711
6712			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6713			to stop the printing of events to console at
6714			late_initcall_sync.
6715
6716			** CAUTION **
6717
6718			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6719			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6720			the system to live lock.
6721
6722	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6723			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6724			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6725			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6726			make the system inoperable.
6727
6728			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6729			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6730
6731	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6732			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6733
6734	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6735			at boot up.
6736			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6737				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6738				depending on the architecture, may not be
6739				in sync between CPUs.
6740			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6741				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6742				but better for some race conditions.
6743			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6744				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6745				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6746				once per event.
6747			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6748			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6749			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6750			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6751				stamps.
6752			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6753			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6754			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6755
6756	trace_event=[event-list]
6757			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6758			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6759			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6760			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6761
6762	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6763			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6764			This will be listed in:
6765
6766				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6767
6768			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6769			via:
6770
6771				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6772
6773			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6774			unique.
6775
6776				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6777
6778			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6779			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6780			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6781
6782	trace_options=[option-list]
6783			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6784			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6785			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6786			to echo the option name into
6787
6788			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6789
6790			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6791			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6792
6793			      trace_options=stacktrace
6794
6795			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6796			section.
6797
6798	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6799			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6800			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6801			filter.
6802
6803			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6804			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6805
6806			For example:
6807
6808			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6809
6810			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6811			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6812			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6813
6814			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6815
6816
6817	traceoff_on_warning
6818			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6819			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6820			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6821			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6822
6823			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6824			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6825			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6826
6827			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6828			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6829
6830	transparent_hugepage=
6831			[KNL]
6832			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6833			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6834			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6835			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6836			for more details.
6837
6838	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6839			Format: <string>
6840			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6841			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6842			sources:
6843			- "tpm"
6844			- "tee"
6845			- "caam"
6846			- "dcp"
6847			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6848			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6849			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6850			successfully during iteration.
6851
6852	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6853			Format: <string>
6854			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6855			Can be one of:
6856			- "kernel"
6857			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6858			- "default"
6859			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6860			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6861
6862	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
6863			This is intended to be used in combination with
6864			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
6865			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
6866
6867	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
6868			This is intended to be used in combination with
6869			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
6870			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
6871			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
6872			scenarios.
6873
6874	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6875			Format: <string>
6876			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6877			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6878			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6879			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6880			virtualized environment.
6881			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6882			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6883			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6884			can add overhead.
6885			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6886			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6887			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6888			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6889			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6890			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6891			acceptable).
6892			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6893			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6894			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6895			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6896			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6897			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6898			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6899			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6900			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6901			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6902
6903	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6904			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6905			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6906			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6907			Format: <unsigned int>
6908
6909	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6910			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6911			support TSX control.
6912
6913			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6914
6915			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6916				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6917				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6918				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6919				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6920				with leaving it enabled.
6921
6922			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6923				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6924				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6925				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6926				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6927				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6928				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6929
6930			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6931				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6932
6933			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6934
6935			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6936			for more details.
6937
6938	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6939			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6940
6941			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6942			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6943			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6944			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6945			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6946			conditions.
6947
6948			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6949			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6950			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6951			access.
6952
6953			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6954			options are:
6955
6956			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6957				     if TSX is enabled.
6958
6959			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6960				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6961				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6962				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6963			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6964
6965			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6966			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6967			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6968			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6969
6970			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6971			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6972			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6973			required and doesn't provide any additional
6974			mitigation.
6975
6976			For details see:
6977			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6978
6979	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6980			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6981			Format:
6982			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6983			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6984
6985	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6986			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6987			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6988			help "seeing" what's going on.
6989
6990	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6991			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6992
6993	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6994			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6995			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6996			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6997			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6998			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6999			reported either.
7000
7001	unknown_nmi_panic
7002			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
7003
7004	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
7005			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
7006			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
7007			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
7008			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
7009
7010	usbcore.authorized_default=
7011			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
7012			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
7013			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
7014			if device connected to internal port)
7015
7016	usbcore.autosuspend=
7017			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
7018			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
7019			is the time required before an idle device will be
7020			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
7021			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
7022
7023	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
7024			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
7025
7026	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
7027			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
7028			(default = 65536).
7029
7030	usbcore.blinkenlights=
7031			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
7032
7033	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
7034			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
7035			scheme (default 0 = off).
7036
7037	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7038			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7039			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7040
7041	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7042			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7043			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7044
7045	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7046			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7047			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7048			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7049
7050	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7051
7052	usbcore.quirks=
7053			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7054			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7055			commas. Each entry has the form
7056			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7057			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7058			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7059			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7060			the following meanings:
7061				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7062					descriptors must not be fetched using
7063					a 255-byte read);
7064				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7065					correctly so reset it instead);
7066				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7067					Set-Interface requests);
7068				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7069					handle its Configuration or Interface
7070					strings);
7071				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7072					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7073				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7074					more interface descriptions than the
7075					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7076					talking to these interfaces);
7077				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7078					during initialization, after we read
7079					the device descriptor);
7080				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7081					high speed and super speed interrupt
7082					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7083					require the interval in microframes (1
7084					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7085					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7086					(bInterval-1).
7087					Devices with this quirk report their
7088					bInterval as the result of this
7089					calculation instead of the exponent
7090					variable used in the calculation);
7091				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7092					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7093					requests);
7094				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7095					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7096					remote wakeup capability);
7097				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7098					Power Management);
7099				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7100					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7101					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7102					calculation);
7103				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7104					to be disconnected before suspend to
7105					prevent spurious wakeup);
7106				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7107					pause after every control message);
7108				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7109					delay after resetting its port);
7110				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7111					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7112					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7113			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7114
7115	usbhid.mousepoll=
7116			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7117
7118	usbhid.jspoll=
7119			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7120
7121	usbhid.kbpoll=
7122			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7123
7124	usb-storage.delay_use=
7125			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7126			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7127			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7128			suffix with "ms".
7129			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7130
7131	usb-storage.quirks=
7132			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7133			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7134			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7135			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7136			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7137			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7138			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7139				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7140					of sense data, not on uas);
7141				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7142					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7143				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7144					device capacity by one sector);
7145				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7146					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7147				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7148					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7149				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7150					command, uas only);
7151				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7152					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7153				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7154					reported device capacity by one
7155					sector if the number is odd);
7156				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7157					device);
7158				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7159					command, uas only);
7160				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7161				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7162					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7163				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7164					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7165					not on uas);
7166				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7167					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7168				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7169					reported by the device, not on uas);
7170				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7171					by default, not on uas);
7172				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7173					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7174				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7175					Logical Unit);
7176				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7177					commands, uas only);
7178				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7179				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7180					medium is write-protected).
7181				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7182					even if the device claims no cache,
7183					not on uas)
7184			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7185
7186	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7187			Format: <int>
7188			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7189				 1 - undefined instruction events
7190				 2 - system calls
7191				 4 - invalid data aborts
7192				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7193				16 - SIGBUS faults
7194			Example: user_debug=31
7195
7196	userpte=
7197			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7198
7199				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7200					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7201					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7202
7203	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7204			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7205
7206			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7207			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7208
7209	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7210			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7211			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7212
7213			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7214			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7215			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7216
7217			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7218			alias for vdso32=0.
7219
7220			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7221			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7222
7223	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7224			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7225
7226	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7227			Format: [0|1]
7228			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7229			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7230			level and then send out the event to user space through
7231			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7232			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7233			brightness level.
7234			default: 1
7235
7236	virtio_mmio.device=
7237			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7238
7239				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7240			where:
7241				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7242						like K, M and G)
7243				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7244				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7245						request_irq())
7246				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7247			example:
7248				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7249
7250			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7251
7252	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7253			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7254			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7255			Use vga=ask for menu.
7256			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7257			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7258
7259	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7260			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7261			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7262			All options are enabled by default, and this
7263			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7264			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7265			debugging features.
7266
7267			Available options are:
7268			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7269			  -	Disable all of the above options
7270
7271	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7272			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7273			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7274			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7275			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7276			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7277			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7278			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7279
7280	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7281			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7282			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7283
7284	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7285			Format: <command>
7286
7287	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7288			Format: <command>
7289
7290	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7291			Format: <command>
7292
7293	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7294			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7295			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7296			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7297			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7298			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7299			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7300
7301			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7302			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7303				    readable.
7304
7305			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7306			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7307				    page is not readable.
7308
7309			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7310			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7311			            might break your system.
7312
7313	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7314			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7315			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7316
7317	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7318			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7319			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7320			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7321
7322	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7323			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7324			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7325			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7326			ranging from 0-255.
7327
7328	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7329			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7330			Change the default green palette of the console.
7331			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7332			ranging from 0-255.
7333
7334	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7335			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7336			Change the default red palette of the console.
7337			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7338			ranging from 0-255.
7339
7340	vt.default_utf8=
7341			[VT]
7342			Format=<0|1>
7343			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7344			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7345			newly opened terminals.
7346
7347	vt.global_cursor_default=
7348			[VT]
7349			Format=<-1|0|1>
7350			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7351			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7352			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7353			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7354			cursors, 1 will display them.
7355
7356	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7357			Default: 2 = green.
7358
7359	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7360			Default: 3 = cyan.
7361
7362	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7363			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7364			or other driver-specific files in the
7365			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7366
7367	watchdog_thresh=
7368			[KNL]
7369			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7370			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7371			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7372			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7373			seconds.
7374
7375	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7376			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7377			to use in unbound workqueues.
7378			Format: <cpu-list>
7379			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7380			unbound workqueues.
7381
7382	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7383			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7384			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7385			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7386			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7387			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7388			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7389			corresponding sysfs file.
7390
7391	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
7392			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
7393			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
7394			stall to trigger panic.
7395
7396			The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall.
7397
7398	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7399			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7400			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7401			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7402			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7403			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7404
7405			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7406			will report the work functions which violate this
7407			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7408			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7409
7410	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7411			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7412			will report the work functions which violate the
7413			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7414			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7415			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7416
7417			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7418
7419	workqueue.power_efficient
7420			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7421			they show better performance thanks to cache
7422			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7423			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7424
7425			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7426			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7427			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7428			power usage at the cost of small performance
7429			overhead.
7430
7431			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7432			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7433
7434        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7435			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7436			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7437			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7438			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7439			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7440
7441			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7442			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7443			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7444			updated accordingly.
7445
7446	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7447			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7448			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7449			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7450			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7451			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7452			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7453			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7454			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7455			impacted.
7456
7457	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7458			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7459
7460			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7461			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7462
7463	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7464			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7465			supporting x2apic.
7466
7467	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7468			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7469			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7470			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7471			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7472			domains.
7473
7474	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7475			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7476			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7477			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7478			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7479			nics -- unplug network devices
7480			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7481			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7482				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7483				the unplug protocol
7484			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7485
7486	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7487			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7488			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7489
7490	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7491			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
7492			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
7493			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7494			debug data in case of multicall errors.
7495
7496	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7497			Format: <bool>
7498			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7499			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7500			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7501
7502	xen_nopv	[X86]
7503			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7504			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7505			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7506			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7507
7508	xen_no_vector_callback
7509			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7510			event channel interrupts.
7511
7512	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7513			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7514			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7515			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7516			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7517
7518	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7519			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7520			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7521			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7522			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7523			more timer interrupts.
7524
7525	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7526			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7527			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7528			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7529			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7530			max. Default is 180.
7531
7532	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7533			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7534			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7535
7536	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7537			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7538			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7539
7540	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7541			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7542			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7543			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7544			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7545			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7546
7547	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7548			Format:
7549			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7550
7551	xive=		[PPC]
7552			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7553			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7554			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7555
7556			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7557				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7558				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7559
7560	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7561			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7562			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7563			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7564			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7565
7566	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7567			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7568			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7569			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7570
7571	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7572			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7573			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7574			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7575			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7576				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7577			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7578				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7579				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7580				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7581			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7582				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7583				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7584				can be written using xmon commands.
7585			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7586				memory, and other data can't be written using
7587				xmon commands.
7588			off	xmon is disabled.
7589