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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
404
405	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
407	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408			EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
412	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
413			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
414
415	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416			keyboards
417
418	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
420
421	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422			Use software keyboard repeat
423
424	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
425			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427			    enabled until the next reboot
428			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
430			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433			    userspace auditd.
434			Default: unset
435
436	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438			Default: 64
439
440	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
441			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442			Format: { "0" | "1" }
443			0 - Disable the BAU.
444			1 - Enable the BAU.
445			unset - Disable the BAU.
446
447	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
448			Format: <io>,<mode>
449
450	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451			Format: <io>,<mode>
452			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
454	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
455			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
456			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
459	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
460			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
461			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
464	bert_disable	[ACPI]
465			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
466
467	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
468			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
469
470	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
471			embedded devices based on command line input.
472			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
473
474	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
475			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
476			no delay (0).
477			Format: integer
478
479	bootconfig	[KNL]
480			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
481			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
482
483			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
484
485	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
486	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
487			kernel args too.
488	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
489	bttv.tuner=
490
491	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493			at a time.
494
495	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
497	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
498			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502			This option provides an override for these situations.
503
504	carrier_timeout=
505			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507			it waits 120 seconds.
508
509	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511			trust validation.
512			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
513
514	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518			others).
519
520	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
521			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
522
523	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
525			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527			  a single hierarchy
528			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529			  subsystem
530			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532			  created
533			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
536			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537			stall information accounting feature
538
539	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
542			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
544			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546			all v1 hierarchies.
547
548	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549			Format: <string>
550			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
551			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
552
553	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
556			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557				any implied execute protection).
558			1 -- check protection requested by application.
559			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
560			Value can be changed at runtime via
561				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
562			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
563
564	cio_ignore=	[S390]
565			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
566
567	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
568			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
569			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
570			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
571			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
572			ones should be.
573			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
574			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
575			instability issue. However, not all features have names
576			in /proc/cpuinfo.
577			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
578			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
579			or using the feature without checking anything
580			will still see it. This just prevents it from
581			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
582			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
583			some critical bits.
584
585	clk_ignore_unused
586			[CLK]
587			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
588			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
589			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
590			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
591			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
592			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
593			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
594			platform with proper driver support.  For more
595			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
596
597	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
598			[Deprecated]
599			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
600			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
601			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
602			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
603
604	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
605			Format: <string>
606			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
607			with the name specified.
608			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
609			the platform:
610			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
611			[ACPI] acpi_pm
612			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
613				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
614			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
615				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
616			[MIPS] MIPS
617			[PARISC] cr16
618			[S390] tod
619			[SH] SuperH
620			[SPARC64] tick
621			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
622
623	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
624			[ARM,ARM64]
625			Format: <bool>
626			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
627			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
628			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
629			systems.
630
631	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
632			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
633			external delays before the clock will be marked
634			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
635			three attempts to read the clock under test.
636
637	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
638			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
639			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
640			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
641			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
642			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
643			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
644			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
645			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
646
647	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
648			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
649			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
650			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
651			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
652
653	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
654			[KNL,CMA]
655			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
656			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
657			placement constraint by the physical address range of
658			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
659			altogether. For more information, see
660			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
661
662	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
663			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
666			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
667			specificed, the default value is 0.
668			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
669			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
670			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
671			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
672
673	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
674			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
675			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
676			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
677			a hypervisor.
678			Default: yes
679
680	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
681			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
682			allocations, by default set to 256K.
683
684	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
685			Format:
686			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
687
688	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
689			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
690
691	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
692			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
693			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
694
695	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
696	conmode=
697
698	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
699
700		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
701
702		ttyS<n>[,options]
703		ttyUSB0[,options]
704			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
705			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
706			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
707			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
708			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
709
710			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
711			information.  See
712			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
713			alternative.
714
715		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
716		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
717		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
718		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
719		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
720			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
721			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
722			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
723			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
724			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
725			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
726			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
727			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
728			the h/w is not re-initialized.
729
730		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
731			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
732
733		{ null | "" }
734			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
735			console messages discarded.
736			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
737			kernel command line.
738
739		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
740		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
741			console=brl,ttyS0
742		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
743
744	console_msg_format=
745			[KNL] Change console messages format
746		default
747			By default we print messages on consoles in
748			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
749			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
750			`printk_time' param).
751		syslog
752			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
753			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
754			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
755			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
756			from /proc/kmsg.
757
758	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
759			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
760			Defaults to 0.
761
762	coredump_filter=
763			[KNL] Change the default value for
764			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
765			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
766
767	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
768			[ARM,ARM64]
769			Format: <bool>
770			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
771			0: default value, disable debugging
772			1: enable debugging at boot time
773
774	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
775			Format:
776			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
777
778	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
779			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
780			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
781			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
782			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
783			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
784			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
785			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
786			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
787			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
788			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
789			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
790			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
791
792	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
793			disable the cpuidle sub-system
794
795	cpuidle.governor=
796			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
797
798	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
799			disable the cpufreq sub-system
800
801	cpufreq.default_governor=
802			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
803			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
804			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
805
806	cpu_init_udelay=N
807			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
808			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
809			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
810			Default: 10000
811
812	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
813			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
814			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
815			succeeds in any situation.
816			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
817			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
818			kernel more unstable.
819
820	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
821			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
822			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
823			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
824			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
825			is selected automatically.
826			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
827			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
828			hasn't been specified.
829			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
830
831	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
832			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
833			in the running system. The syntax of range is
834			start-[end] where start and end are both
835			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
836			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
837
838	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
839			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
840			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
841			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
842			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
843			available.
844			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
845	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
846			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
847			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
848			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
849			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
850			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
851			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
852			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
853			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
854			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
855			for second kernel instead.
856			0: to disable low allocation.
857			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
858			or memory reserved is below 4G.
859
860			[KNL, ARM64] range in low memory.
861			This one lets the user specify a low range in the
862			DMA zone for the crash dump kernel.
863			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
864			or memory reserved is located in the DMA zones.
865
866	cryptomgr.notests
867			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
868
869	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
870			Format: <dma>
871
872	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
873			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
874
875	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
876			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
877			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
878			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
879			to resolve the hang situation.
880			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
881			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
882			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
883			     but more data)
884
885	dasd=		[HW,NET]
886			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
887
888	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
889			(one device per port)
890			Format: <port#>,<type>
891			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
892
893	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
894
895	debug_boot_weak_hash
896			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
897			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
898			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
899			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
900			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
901			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
902
903	debug_locks_verbose=
904			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
905			Format: <int>
906			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
907			self-tests.
908			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
909			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
910			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
911			useful to lockdep developers.
912
913	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
914
915	no_debug_objects
916			[KNL] Disable object debugging
917
918	debug_guardpage_minorder=
919			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
920			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
921			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
922			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
923			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
924			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
925			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
926			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
927			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
928			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
929			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
930			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
931			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
932			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
933			bypassed) which are not detectable by
934			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
935			tracking down these problems.
936
937	debug_pagealloc=
938			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
939			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
940			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
941			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
942			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
943			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
944			on: enable the feature
945
946	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
947			and debugfs internal clients.
948			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
949			on: 	All functions are enabled.
950			no-mount:
951				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
952			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
953				its content. There is nothing to mount.
954			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
955			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
956				or directories within debugfs.
957				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
958				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
959			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
960
961	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
962
963	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
964			Format: <area>[,<node>]
965			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
966
967	default_hugepagesz=
968			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
969			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
970			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
971			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
972			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
973			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
974			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
975			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
976			Format: size[KMG]
977
978	deferred_probe_timeout=
979			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
980			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
981			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
982			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
983			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
984			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
985			successful driver registration. This option will also
986			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
987			retrying.
988
989	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
990
991	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
992			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
993			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
994			hardware.
995
996	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
997			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
998			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
999			blacklisted features.
1000
1001	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1002			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1003			(disabled by default).
1004
1005	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1006			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1007			capability is set.
1008
1009	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1010			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1011
1012	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1013			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1014
1015	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1016			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1017			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1018			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1019			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1020			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1021			          only (compression on level 1)
1022			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1023			          only (decompression)
1024			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1025			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1026
1027	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1028			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1029
1030	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1031			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1032			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1033			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1034			miss to occur.
1035
1036	stress_slb	[PPC]
1037			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
1038			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
1039			on kernel addresses.
1040
1041	disable=	[IPV6]
1042			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1043
1044	disable_radix	[PPC]
1045			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1046
1047	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
1048			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
1049			invalidate.
1050
1051	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1052			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1053			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1054
1055	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1056			Format: <int>
1057			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1058			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1059			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1060			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1061			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1062			INIT from AP to BSP.
1063
1064	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1065			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1066			to workaround buggy firmware.
1067
1068	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1069			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1070
1071	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1072			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1073			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1074			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1075
1076	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1077			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1078			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1079			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1080			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1081
1082	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1083			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1084			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1085
1086	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1087
1088	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1089			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1090
1091	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1092			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1093			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1094			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1095			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1096			architectural default is too low.
1097
1098	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1099			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1100			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1101			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1102			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1103			driver later using sysfs.
1104
1105	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1106			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1107			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1108			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1109			match the *.
1110			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1111
1112	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1113			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1114			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1115			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1116			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1117			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1118			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1119			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1120			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1121			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1122			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1123			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1124			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1125			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1126			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1127			data set with no connector name will be used for
1128			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1129
1130	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1131
1132	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1133			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1134			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1135			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1136			exists).
1137			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1138			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1139			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1140
1141	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1142			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1143			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1144			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1145
1146	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1147	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1148			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1149			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1150			for details.
1151
1152	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1153			in some Intel CPUs.
1154
1155	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1156			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1157
1158	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1159			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1160			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1161			which are not unmapped.
1162
1163	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1164
1165			When used with no options, the early console is
1166			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1167			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1168			the platform.
1169
1170		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1171			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1172			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1173			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1174			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1175			configured.
1176
1177		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1178		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1179		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1180		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1181		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1182			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1183			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1184			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1185			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1186			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1187			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1188			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1189			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1190
1191		pl011,<addr>
1192		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1193			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1194			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1195			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1196			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1197			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1198			the device registers.
1199
1200		liteuart,<addr>
1201			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1202			specified address. The serial port must already be
1203			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
1205		meson,<addr>
1206			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1207			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1208			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1209			supported.
1210
1211		msm_serial,<addr>
1212			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1213			port at the specified address. The serial port
1214			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1215			yet supported.
1216
1217		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1219			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1220			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1221			yet supported.
1222
1223		owl,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1225			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1226			specified address. The serial port must already be
1227			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1228
1229		rda,<addr>
1230			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1231			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1232			specified address. The serial port must already be
1233			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1234
1235		sbi
1236			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1237			console.
1238
1239		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1240
1241		s3c2410,<addr>
1242		s3c2412,<addr>
1243		s3c2440,<addr>
1244		s3c6400,<addr>
1245		s5pv210,<addr>
1246		exynos4210,<addr>
1247			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1248			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1249			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1250			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1251			Options are not yet supported.
1252
1253		lantiq,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1255			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1256			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1257			yet supported.
1258
1259		lpuart,<addr>
1260		lpuart32,<addr>
1261			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1262			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1263			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1264			port must already be setup and configured.
1265
1266		ec_imx21,<addr>
1267		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1269			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1270			must already be setup and configured.
1271
1272		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1273			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1274			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1275			address. The serial port must already be setup
1276			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1277
1278		qcom_geni,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1280			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1281			specified address. The serial port must already be
1282			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		efifb,[options]
1285			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1286			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1287			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1288			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1289			mapped with the correct attributes.
1290
1291		linflex,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1293			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1294			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1295			already be setup and configured.
1296
1297	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1298			earlyprintk=vga
1299			earlyprintk=sclp
1300			earlyprintk=xen
1301			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1302			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1303			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1304			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1305			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1306			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1307
1308			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1309			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1310			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1311
1312			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1313			takes over.
1314
1315			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1316			be used at a time.
1317
1318			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1319			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1320			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1321			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1322				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1323			You can find the port for a given device in
1324			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1325				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1326
1327			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1328			very good.
1329
1330			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1331			the real console.
1332
1333			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1334
1335			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1336
1337			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1338			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1339			UART class.
1340
1341	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1342			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1343			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1344			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1345			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1346			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1347			default: on.
1348
1349	edd=		[EDD]
1350			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1351
1352	efi=		[EFI]
1353			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1354				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1355				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1356			debug: enable misc debug output.
1357			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1358			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1359			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1360			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1361			firmware implementations.
1362			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1363			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1364			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1365			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1366			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1367			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1368			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1369			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1370			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1371			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1372
1373	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1374			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1375			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1376			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1377			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1378
1379	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1380			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1381			updating original EFI memory map.
1382			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1383			from ss to ss+nn.
1384
1385			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1386			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1387			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1388			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1389
1390			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1391			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1392			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1393
1394			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1395			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1396			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1397			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1398			"soft reserved".
1399
1400	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1401			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1402			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1403			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1404			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1405
1406
1407	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1408			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1409
1410	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1411			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1412
1413			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1414			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1415
1416			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1417			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1418			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1419			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1420
1421	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1422			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1423			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1424
1425	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1426			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1427			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1428			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1429			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1430
1431	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1432			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1433			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1434			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1435
1436	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1437			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1438			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1439			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1440			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1441
1442	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1443			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1444			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1445			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1446			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1447			Default value is 0.
1448			Value can be changed at runtime via
1449			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1450
1451	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1452			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1453			support.
1454
1455	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1456			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1457			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1458
1459	evm=		[EVM]
1460			Format: { "fix" }
1461			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1462			current integrity status.
1463
1464	failslab=
1465	fail_usercopy=
1466	fail_page_alloc=
1467	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1468			General fault injection mechanism.
1469			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1470			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1471
1472	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1473			Format: { initns | none }
1474			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1475			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1476
1477	floppy=		[HW]
1478			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1479
1480	force_pal_cache_flush
1481			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1482			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1483			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1484			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1485
1486	forcepae	[X86-32]
1487			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1488			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1489			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1490			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1491			and may cause unknown problems.
1492
1493	ftrace=[tracer]
1494			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1495			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1496			boot debugging.
1497
1498	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1499			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1500			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1501			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1502			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1503			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1504			start up functionality.
1505
1506	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1507			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1508			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1509			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1510			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1511			oops.
1512
1513	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1514			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1515			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1516			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1517			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1518			tracing directory.
1519
1520	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1521			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1522			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1523			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1524			tracing directory.
1525
1526	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1527			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1528			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1529			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1530			that can be changed at run time by the
1531			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1532
1533	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1534			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1535			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1536			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1537			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1538
1539	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1540			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1541			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1542			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1543			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1544
1545	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1546			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1547			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1548			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1549			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1550			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1551			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1552			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1553			suppliers).
1554			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1555			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1556			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1557				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1558				up (sync_state() calls).
1559			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1560				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1561			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1562
1563	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1564			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1565			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1566			Format: <bool>
1567
1568	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1569			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1570			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1571			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1572			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1573
1574	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1575
1576	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1577			Format: off | on
1578			default: on
1579
1580	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1581			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1582			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1583			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1584			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1585
1586	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1587			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1588			android emulator
1589
1590	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1591			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1592			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1593	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1594			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1595
1596	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1597			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1598			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1599			GPT to be used instead.
1600
1601	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1602			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1603			Format: 0 | 1
1604			Default: 0
1605	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1606			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1607			Format: 0 | 1
1608			Default: 0
1609	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1610			Format: 0 | 1
1611			Default: 0
1612	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1613			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1614			Default: 1024
1615	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1616			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1617			Default: 1024
1618
1619	hardened_usercopy=
1620			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1621			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1622			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1623			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1624			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1625			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1626			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1627		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1628		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1629
1630	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1631			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1632			backtraces on all cpus.
1633			Format: 0 | 1
1634
1635	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1636			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1637			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1638			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1639
1640	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1641
1642	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1643			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1644
1645	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1646			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1647			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1648			logic will be disabled.
1649
1650	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1651		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1652				present during boot.
1653		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1654		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1655		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1656				(that will set all pages holding image data
1657				during restoration read-only).
1658
1659	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1660			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1661			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1662			size on bigger boxes.
1663
1664	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1665			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1666			Default: "on"
1667
1668	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1669
1670	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1671			Format: <string>
1672			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1673			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1674			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1675			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1676			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1677			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1678			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1679			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1680			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1681			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1682
1683	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1684			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1685				verbose }
1686			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1687			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1688				VIA, nVidia)
1689			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1690
1691	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1692			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1693
1694	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1695			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1696			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1697			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1698			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1699			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1700			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1701			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1702			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1703				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1704
1705	hugepagesz=
1706			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1707			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1708			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1709			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1710			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1711			architecture dependent.  See also
1712			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1713			Format: size[KMG]
1714
1715	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1716			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1717			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1718			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1719				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1720
1721			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1722			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1723			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1724
1725	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1726			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1727			enabled.
1728			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1729			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1730			Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) }
1731
1732			[oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature
1733			[oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature
1734
1735			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1736			the default is on.
1737
1738			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1739			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1740			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1741
1742	hung_task_panic=
1743			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1744			Format: 0 | 1
1745
1746			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1747			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1748			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1749			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1750			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1751
1752	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1753				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1754	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1755				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1756				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1757
1758	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1759				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1760				      guest on lock contention.
1761
1762	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1763			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1764			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1765			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1766			the real console.
1767
1768	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1769				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1770				registered from board initialization code.
1771				Format:
1772				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1773
1774	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1775	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1776			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1777			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1778			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1779	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1780	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1781			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1782			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1783	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1784	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1785	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1786			     for the AUX port
1787	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1788			     controller
1789	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1790			     controllers
1791	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1792	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1793			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1794			     transitions, or never reset
1795			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1796			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1797			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1798			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1799			architectures force reset to be always executed
1800	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1801	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1802	i8042.probe_defer
1803			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1804
1805	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1806
1807	i915.invert_brightness=
1808			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1809			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1810			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1811			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1812			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1813			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1814			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1815			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1816			value switches the backlight off.
1817			-1 -- never invert brightness
1818			 0 -- machine default
1819			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1820
1821	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1822			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1823
1824
1825	idle=		[X86]
1826			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1827			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1828			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1829			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1830			Not recommended.
1831			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1832			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1833			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1834
1835	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1836			Format: <bool>
1837			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1838			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1839			true (1).
1840
1841	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1842			Format: <bool>
1843			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1844			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1845
1846	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1847			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1848			Default: strict
1849
1850			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1851			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1852			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1853			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1854			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1855			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1856			encoding mode.
1857
1858			Available settings are as follows:
1859			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1860				supported by the FPU
1861			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1862				by the FPU
1863			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1864				by the FPU
1865			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1866				supported by the FPU
1867
1868			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1869			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1870			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1871			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1872			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1873			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1874			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1875			MIPS64 CPUs.
1876
1877			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1878			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1879			except where unsupported by hardware.
1880
1881	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1882			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1883			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1884			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1885			could change it dynamically, usually by
1886			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1887
1888	ignore_rlimit_data
1889			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1890			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1891			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1892
1893	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1894			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1895
1896	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1897			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1898			default: "enforce"
1899
1900	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1901			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1902			owned by uid=0.
1903
1904	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1905			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1906			measurements, instead of host native format.
1907
1908	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1909			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1910				   | sha512 | ... }
1911			default: "sha1"
1912
1913			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1914			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1915
1916	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1917			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1918			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1919				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1920
1921			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1922			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1923			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1924			uid=0.
1925
1926			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1927			all files owned by root.
1928
1929			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1930			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1931			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1932
1933			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1934			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1935			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1936			flag.
1937
1938			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1939			critical data.
1940
1941	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1942			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1943			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1944			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1945			opened for read by uid=0.
1946
1947	ima_template=	[IMA]
1948			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1949			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1950				   "ima-sigv2" }
1951			Default: "ima-ng"
1952
1953	ima_template_fmt=
1954			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1955			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1956
1957	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1958			Format: <min_file_size>
1959			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1960			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1961
1962			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1963			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1964			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1965
1966	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1967			Format: <bufsize>
1968			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1969
1970			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1971			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1972			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1973
1974	init=		[KNL]
1975			Format: <full_path>
1976			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1977			process.
1978
1979	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1980			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1981			startup.
1982
1983	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1984			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1985			modules and initcalls.
1986
1987	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1988			Format: <bool>
1989			Default: 1
1990			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1991			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1992			with devices being probed and
1993			initialized. This should normally just work,
1994			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1995			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1996			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1997			late_ initcalls.
1998
1999	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2000
2001	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2002			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2003			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2004			setting.
2005			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2006			Default is 0, 0
2007
2008	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2009			zeroes.
2010			Format: 0 | 1
2011			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2012
2013	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2014			Format: 0 | 1
2015			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2016
2017	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2018			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2019			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2020			override in debugfs after boot.
2021
2022	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2023			Format: <irq>
2024
2025	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2026
2027	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2028			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2029			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2030			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2031
2032	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2033		on
2034			Enable intel iommu driver.
2035		off
2036			Disable intel iommu driver.
2037		igfx_off [Default Off]
2038			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2039			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2040			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2041			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2042			DMA.
2043		strict [Default Off]
2044			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2045		sp_off [Default Off]
2046			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2047			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2048			not be supported.
2049		sm_on
2050			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2051			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2052			translation.
2053		sm_off
2054			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2055		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2056			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2057			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2058			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2059			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2060			mapping is enabled.
2061			Note that using this option lowers the security
2062			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2063			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2064
2065	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2066			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2067			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2068
2069	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2070			disable
2071			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2072			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2073			passive
2074			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2075			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2076			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2077			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2078			  feature.
2079			force
2080			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2081			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2082			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2083			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2084			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2085			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2086			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2087			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2088			no_hwp
2089			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2090			  if available.
2091			hwp_only
2092			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2093			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2094			support_acpi_ppc
2095			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2096			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2097			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2098			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2099			per_cpu_perf_limits
2100			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2101			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2102
2103	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2104			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2105			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2106			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2107			no_x2apic_optout
2108				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2109			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2110
2111	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2112		strict	regions from userspace.
2113		relaxed
2114
2115	iommu=		[X86]
2116		off
2117		force
2118		noforce
2119		biomerge
2120		panic
2121		nopanic
2122		merge
2123		nomerge
2124		soft
2125		pt		[X86]
2126		nopt		[X86]
2127		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2128			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2129
2130	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2131			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2132			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2133			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2134			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2135			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2136			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2137
2138	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2139			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2140			0 - Lazy mode.
2141			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2142			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2143			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2144			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2145			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2146			1 - Strict mode.
2147			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2148			  synchronously.
2149			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2150			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2151			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2152
2153	iommu.passthrough=
2154			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2155			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2156			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2157			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2158			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2159
2160	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2161			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2162			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2163
2164	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2165		0x80
2166			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2167		0xed
2168			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2169		udelay
2170			Simple two microseconds delay
2171		none
2172			No delay
2173
2174	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2175			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2176
2177	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2178			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2179
2180	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2181			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2182
2183	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2184			[ARM, ARM64]
2185			Format: <bool>
2186			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2187			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2188			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2189
2190	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2191			[ARM, ARM64]
2192			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2193			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2194			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2195			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2196			LPIs.
2197
2198	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2199			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2200			requires the kernel to be built with
2201			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2202
2203	irqfixup	[HW]
2204			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2205			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2206			firmware running.
2207
2208	irqpoll		[HW]
2209			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2210			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2211			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2212			firmware running.
2213
2214	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2215			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2216
2217	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2218			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2219			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2220
2221			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2222			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2223
2224			nohz
2225			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2226
2227			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2228			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2229			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2230			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2231			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2232
2233			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2234			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2235			  be configured manually after bootup.
2236
2237			domain
2238			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2239			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2240			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2241			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2242			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2243			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2244			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2245			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2246
2247			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2248			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2249			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2250			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2251
2252			managed_irq
2253
2254			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2255			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2256			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2257			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2258			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2259
2260			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2261			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2262			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2263			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2264			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2265			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2266			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2267
2268			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2269			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2270			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2271			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2272			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2273			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2274			  queues.
2275
2276			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2277
2278	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2279
2280	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2281			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2282			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2283			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2284			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2285				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2286
2287	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2288			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2289			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2290			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2291			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2292				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2293
2294	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2295			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2296			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2297			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2298			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2299				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2300
2301	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2302			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2303
2304	nokaslr		[KNL]
2305			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2306			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2307			Layout Randomization).
2308
2309	kasan_multi_shot
2310			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2311			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2312			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2313			invalid access.
2314
2315	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2316
2317	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2318			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2319			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2320			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2321			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2322			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2323			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2324			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2325			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2326			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2327
2328			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2329			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2330			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2331			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2332			zone if it does not.
2333
2334			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2335			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2336			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2337			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2338			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2339			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2340			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2341
2342	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2343			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2344			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2345			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2346			optional and is the number seconds in between
2347			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2348			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2349			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2350			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2351			the kernel debugger.
2352
2353	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2354			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2355			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2356			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2357			 keyboard only format: kbd
2358			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2359			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2360			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2361			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2362
2363	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2364			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2365			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2366			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2367			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2368			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2369			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2370
2371			The name of the early console should be specified
2372			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2373			the early console might be different than the tty
2374			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2375			blank and the first boot console that implements
2376			read() will be picked.
2377
2378	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2379			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2380
2381	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2382			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2383			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2384
2385	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2386			Valid arguments: on, off
2387			Default: on
2388			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2389			the default is off.
2390
2391	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2392			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2393			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2394			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2395			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2396			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2397			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2398
2399			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2400
2401			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2402			Boot Parameter" section.
2403
2404	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2405			and kernel address spaces.
2406			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2407			0: force disabled
2408			1: force enabled
2409
2410	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2411			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2412
2413	kvm.eager_page_split=
2414			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2415			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2416			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2417			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2418			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2419			required to split huge pages lazily.
2420
2421			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2422			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2423			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2424			still be used for reads.
2425
2426			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2427			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2428			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2429			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2430			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2431			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2432			cleared.
2433
2434			Eager page splitting currently only supports splitting
2435			huge pages mapped by the TDP MMU.
2436
2437			Default is Y (on).
2438
2439	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2440				   Default is false (don't support).
2441
2442	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2443			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2444			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2445			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2446			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2447			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2448				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2449
2450			Default is 'auto'.
2451
2452			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2453			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2454
2455	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2456			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2457			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2458			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2459			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2460
2461	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2462			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2463			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2464			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2465			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2466			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2467
2468	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2469			Default is 1 (enabled)
2470
2471	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2472			for all guests.
2473			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2474
2475	kvm-arm.mode=
2476			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2477
2478			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2479
2480			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2481			      protected guests.
2482
2483			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2484				   state is kept private from the host.
2485
2486			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2487			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2488			for the host.
2489
2490	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2491			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2492			system registers
2493
2494	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2495			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2496			system registers
2497
2498	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2499			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2500			system registers
2501
2502	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2503			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2504			LPIs.
2505
2506	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2507			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2508			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2509			allocation.
2510			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2511			Format: <integer>
2512			Default: 5
2513
2514	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2515			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2516			Default is 1 (enabled)
2517
2518	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2519			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2520			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2521			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2522			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2523			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2524			Default is 1 (enabled)
2525
2526	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2527			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2528			Default is 1 (enabled)
2529
2530	kvm-intel.nested=
2531			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2532			Default is 0 (disabled)
2533
2534	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2535			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2536			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2537			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2538
2539	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2540			CVE-2018-3620.
2541
2542			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2543
2544			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2545			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2546				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2547			never:	Disables the mitigation
2548
2549			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2550
2551	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2552			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2553			Default is 1 (enabled)
2554
2555	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2556			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2557
2558			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2559			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2560			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2561
2562			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2563			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2564			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2565			not have direct access.
2566
2567			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2568			options are:
2569
2570			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2571
2572	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2573			      affected CPUs
2574
2575			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2576			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2577
2578			full
2579				Provides all available mitigations for the
2580				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2581				enables all mitigations in the
2582				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2583
2584				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2585				sysfs interface is still possible after
2586				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2587				when the first VM is started in a
2588				potentially insecure configuration,
2589				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2590
2591			full,force
2592				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2593				flush runtime control. Implies the
2594				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2595				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2596
2597			flush
2598				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2599				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2600				L1D flush.
2601
2602				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2603				sysfs interface is still possible after
2604				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2605				when the first VM is started in a
2606				potentially insecure configuration,
2607				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2608
2609			flush,nosmt
2610
2611				Disables SMT and enables the default
2612				hypervisor mitigation.
2613
2614				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2615				sysfs interface is still possible after
2616				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2617				when the first VM is started in a
2618				potentially insecure configuration,
2619				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2620
2621			flush,nowarn
2622				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2623				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2624				insecure configuration.
2625
2626			off
2627				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2628				emit any warnings.
2629				It also drops the swap size and available
2630				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2631				bare metal.
2632
2633			Default is 'flush'.
2634
2635			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2636
2637	l2cr=		[PPC]
2638
2639	l3cr=		[PPC]
2640
2641	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2642			disabled it.
2643
2644	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2645			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2646			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2647			Format: notscdeadline
2648
2649	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2650			in C2 power state.
2651
2652	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2653			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2654			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2655			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2656			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2657			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2658			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2659
2660	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2661			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2662			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2663
2664	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2665			when set.
2666			Format: <int>
2667
2668	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2669			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2670			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2671			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2672			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2673			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2674			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2675			to all ports, links and devices.
2676
2677			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2678			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2679			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2680			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2681			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2682			host link and device attached to it.
2683
2684			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2685			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2686			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2687			The following configurations can be forced.
2688
2689			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2690			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2691
2692			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2693
2694			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2695			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2696			  allowed.
2697
2698			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2699			  resets.
2700
2701			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2702			  link recovery.
2703
2704			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2705			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2706			  detection.
2707
2708			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2709
2710			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2711
2712			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2713
2714			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2715
2716			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2717
2718			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2719
2720			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2721
2722			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2723
2724			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2725			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2726
2727			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2728			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2729
2730			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2731			  identify device data log.
2732
2733			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2734			  purpose log directory.
2735
2736			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2737
2738			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2739			  1024 sectors.
2740
2741			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2742			  65535 sectors.
2743
2744			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2745
2746			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2747			  should be skipped.
2748
2749			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2750
2751			* disable: Disable this device.
2752
2753			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2754			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2755
2756	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2757
2758	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2759			Format: <integer>
2760
2761	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2762			Format: <integer>
2763
2764	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2765			Format: <integer>
2766
2767	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2768			Format: <integer>
2769
2770	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2771			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2772			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2773			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2774			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2775			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2776			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2777			are also disabled.
2778
2779	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2780			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2781			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2782			number of online CPUs.
2783
2784	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2785			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2786
2787	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2788			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2789
2790	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2791			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2792			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2793
2794	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2795			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2796			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2797			mode during the locktorture test.
2798
2799	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2800			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2801			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2802
2803	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2804			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2805
2806	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2807			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2808			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2809			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2810			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2811			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2812
2813	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2814			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2815
2816	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2817			Enable additional printk() statements.
2818
2819	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2820			Format: <irq>
2821
2822	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2823			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2824			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2825			loglevels are defined as follows:
2826
2827			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2828			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2829			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2830			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2831			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2832			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2833			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2834			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2835
2836	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2837			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2838			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2839			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2840			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2841			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2842			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2843
2844	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2845			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2846			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2847			kernel boot problems.
2848
2849	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2850	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2851	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2852	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2853				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2854				attached printers to be reset. Using
2855				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2856				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2857				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2858				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2859				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2860				port specification list means that device IDs
2861				from each port should be examined, to see if
2862				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2863				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2864				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2865
2866	lpj=n		[KNL]
2867			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2868			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2869			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2870			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2871			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2872			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2873			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2874			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2875			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2876			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2877			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2878			hardware.
2879
2880	ltpc=		[NET]
2881			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2882
2883	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2884
2885	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2886			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2887			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2888
2889	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2890			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2891			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2892
2893	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2894			different yeeloong laptops.
2895			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2896
2897	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2898			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2899
2900	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2901			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2902			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2903			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2904			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2905			only takes effect during system bootup.
2906			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2907			which also disables the IO APIC.
2908
2909	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2910	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2911			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2912			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2913			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2914			/dev/loop-control interface.
2915
2916	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2917
2918	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2919
2920	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2921			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2922
2923	mdacon=		[MDA]
2924			Format: <first>,<last>
2925			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2926
2927	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2928			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2929			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2930
2931			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2932			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2933			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2934
2935			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2936			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2937			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2938			not have direct access.
2939
2940			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2941			options are:
2942
2943			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2944			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2945				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2946			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2947
2948			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2949			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2950			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2951			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2952			too.
2953
2954			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2955			mds=full.
2956
2957			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2958
2959	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2960			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2961
2962	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2963			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2964
2965			1 for test;
2966			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2967			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2968			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2969			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2970
2971			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2972			high memory is not affected.
2973
2974			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2975			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2976
2977			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2978			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2979			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2980			belonging to unused RAM.
2981
2982			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2983			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2984			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2985
2986	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2987			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2988			firmware.
2989			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2990			ss[KMG].
2991			Multiple different regions can be specified with
2992			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2993
2994	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2995			memory.
2996
2997	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2998
2999	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3000			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3001			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3002
3003	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3004			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3005			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3006			set according to the
3007			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3008			option.
3009			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3010
3011	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3012			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3013			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3014			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3015			option description.
3016
3017	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3018			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3019			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3020			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3021			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3022			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3023			comma delimited.
3024			Example:
3025				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3026
3027	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3028			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3029			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3030
3031	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3032			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3033			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3034			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3035			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3036			         or
3037			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3038			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3039			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3040			will be eaten.
3041
3042	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3043			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3044			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3045			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3046			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3047
3048	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3049			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3050			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3051			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3052			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3053			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3054			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3055			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3056
3057	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3058			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3059			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3060			Setting this option will scan the memory
3061			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3062			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3063			from using the memory being corrupted.
3064			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3065			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3066			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3067			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3068
3069	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3070			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3071			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3072			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3073			corruption in more or less memory.
3074
3075	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3076			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3077			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3078			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3079
3080	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3081			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3082			Format: {on | off (default)}
3083			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3084			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
3085			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
3086			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
3087			additional memory to do so.
3088			This feature is disabled by default because it
3089			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3090			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3091			memory blocks).
3092			The state of the flag can be read in
3093			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3094			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3095			the feature is not effective.
3096
3097			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
3098			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
3099			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
3100
3101	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3102			Format: <integer>
3103			default : 0 <disable>
3104			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3105			performed. Each pass selects another test
3106			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3107			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3108			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3109			regions that are detected.
3110
3111	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3112			Valid arguments: on, off
3113			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3114			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3115			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3116			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3117			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3118
3119			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3120			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3121
3122	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3123			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3124			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3125			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3126			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3127
3128	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3129			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3130
3131	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3132			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3133			platforms.
3134
3135	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3136			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3137			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3138			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3139
3140	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3141
3142	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3143			physical address is ignored.
3144
3145	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3146			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3147			Default: "0tb"
3148			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3149			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3150			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3151			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3152			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3153			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3154			unconfigured.
3155			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3156			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3157			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3158			VGA shield.
3159			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3160			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3161			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3162			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3163			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3164			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3165
3166	mitigations=
3167			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3168			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3169			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3170			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3171
3172			off
3173				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3174				improves system performance, but it may also
3175				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3176				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3177					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3178					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3179					       nobp=0 [S390]
3180					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3181					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3182					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3183					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3184					       l1tf=off [X86]
3185					       mds=off [X86]
3186					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3187					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3188					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3189					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3190					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3191					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3192
3193				Exceptions:
3194					       This does not have any effect on
3195					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3196					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3197
3198			auto (default)
3199				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3200				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3201				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3202				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3203				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3204				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3205
3206			auto,nosmt
3207				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3208				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3209				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3210				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3211					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3212					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3213					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3214
3215	mminit_loglevel=
3216			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3217			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3218			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3219			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3220			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3221			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3222
3223	mmio_stale_data=
3224			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3225			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3226
3227			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3228			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3229			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3230			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3231			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3232			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3233
3234			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3235			options are:
3236
3237			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3238
3239			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3240				     vulnerable CPUs.
3241
3242			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3243
3244			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3245			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3246			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3247			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3248			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3249			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3250
3251			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3252			mmio_stale_data=full.
3253
3254			For details see:
3255			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3256
3257	module.sig_enforce
3258			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3259			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3260			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3261			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3262
3263	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3264			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3265
3266	mousedev.tap_time=
3267			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3268			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3269			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3270			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3271			Format: <msecs>
3272	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3273			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3274	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3275			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3276
3277	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3278			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3279			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3280			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3281			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3282			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3283			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3284			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3285			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3286			is not too small.
3287
3288	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3289			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3290			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3291			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3292			allocations. Use with caution!
3293
3294	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3295			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3296
3297	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3298			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3299
3300	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3301			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3302
3303	mtdset=		[ARM]
3304			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3305
3306			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3307
3308	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3309			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3310			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3311
3312	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3313			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3314			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3315
3316	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3317			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3318			Default is 1.
3319			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3320			using up MTRRs.
3321
3322	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3323			Format: <integer>
3324			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3325			Default : 1
3326			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3327			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3328
3329	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3330			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3331			at a time.
3332
3333	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3334
3335	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3336			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3337			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3338			something different and driver-specific.
3339			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3340			file if at all.
3341
3342	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3343			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3344			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3345			waits 4 seconds.
3346
3347	nf_conntrack.acct=
3348			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3349			0 to disable accounting
3350			1 to enable accounting
3351			Default value is 0.
3352
3353	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3354			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3355
3356	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3357			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3358
3359	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3360			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3361
3362	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3363			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3364			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3365			requests.
3366
3367	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3368			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3369			channel should listen.
3370
3371	nfs.cache_getent=
3372			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3373			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3374
3375	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3376			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3377			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3378
3379	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3380			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3381			entries.
3382
3383	nfs.enable_ino64=
3384			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3385			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3386			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3387			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3388			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3389
3390	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3391			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3392			slots the client will assign to the callback
3393			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3394			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3395			a particular server.
3396
3397	nfs.max_session_slots=
3398			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3399			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3400			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3401			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3402			Note that there is little point in setting this
3403			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3404
3405	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3406			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3407			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3408			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3409			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3410			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3411			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3412			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3413			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3414			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3415			back to using the idmapper.
3416			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3417	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3418			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3419			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3420			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3421			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3422
3423	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3424			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3425			information in exchange_id requests.
3426			If zero, no implementation identification information
3427			will be sent.
3428			The default is to send the implementation identification
3429			information.
3430
3431	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3432			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3433			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3434			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3435			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3436			after the locks are lost.
3437			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3438			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3439			parameter to '1'.
3440			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3441			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3442
3443	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3444			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3445			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3446
3447			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3448			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3449			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3450			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3451
3452	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3453			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3454			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3455			the destination of the copy.
3456
3457	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3458			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3459			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3460			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3461			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3462			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3463			this parameter.
3464
3465	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3466			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3467			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3468			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3469			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3470			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3471
3472
3473	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3474			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3475			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3476
3477	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3478			when a NMI is triggered.
3479			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3480
3481	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3482			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3483			Valid num: 0 or 1
3484			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3485			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3486			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3487			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3488			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3489			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3490			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3491			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3492			need the box quickly up again.
3493
3494			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3495			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3496
3497	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3498			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3499			is present.
3500
3501	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3502			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3503
3504	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3505
3506	no_console_suspend
3507			[HW] Never suspend the console
3508			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3509			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3510			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3511			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3512			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3513			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3514			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3515			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3516			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3517			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3518			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3519			turn on/off it dynamically.
3520
3521	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3522			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3523			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3524			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3525			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3526			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3527			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3528			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3529			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3530			is set.
3531
3532	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3533			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3534			but will impact performance.
3535
3536	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3537
3538	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3539			(CPU alternatives feature).
3540
3541	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3542			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3543
3544	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3545
3546	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3547			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3548
3549	nocache		[ARM]
3550
3551	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3552
3553	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3554
3555	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3556
3557	noexec		[IA-64]
3558
3559	nosmap		[PPC]
3560			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3561			even if it is supported by processor.
3562
3563	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3564			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3565			even if it is supported by processor.
3566
3567	noexec32	[X86-64]
3568			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3569			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3570				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3571			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3572				read implies executable mappings
3573
3574	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3575
3576	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3577			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3578			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3579
3580	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3581
3582	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3583
3584	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3585			Equivalent to smt=1.
3586
3587			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3588			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3589				     via the sysfs control file.
3590
3591	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3592			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3593			possible in the system.
3594
3595	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3596			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3597			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3598			option.
3599
3600	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3601			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3602
3603	no_uaccess_flush
3604	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3605
3606	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3607			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3608			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3609
3610	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3611			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3612			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3613			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3614			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3615			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3616
3617	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3618			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3619			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3620			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3621			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3622			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3623			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3624
3625	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3626			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3627			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3628			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3629			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3630			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3631			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3632			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3633
3634	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3635			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3636			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3637
3638	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3639			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3640			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3641			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3642			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3643			real-time systems.
3644
3645	no_hash_pointers
3646			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3647			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3648			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3649			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3650			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3651			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3652			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3653			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3654			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3655			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3656			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3657			kernels.
3658
3659	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3660
3661	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3662			Valid arguments: on, off
3663			Default: on
3664
3665	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3666			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3667			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3668			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3669			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3670			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3671			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3672			just as if they had also been called out in the
3673			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3674
3675	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3676
3677	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3678			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3679
3680	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3681			broken timer IRQ sources.
3682
3683	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3684
3685	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3686			initial RAM disk.
3687
3688	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3689			remapping.
3690			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3691
3692	nointroute	[IA-64]
3693
3694	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3695
3696	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3697
3698	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3699
3700	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3701			fault handling.
3702
3703	no-vmw-sched-clock
3704			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3705			clock and use the default one.
3706
3707	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3708			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3709			influence scheduler behaviour
3710
3711	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3712
3713	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3714
3715	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3716			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3717
3718	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3719
3720	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3721
3722	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3723			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3724
3725	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3726			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3727			irq.
3728
3729	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3730			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3731			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3732			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3733
3734			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3735
3736	nomodule	Disable module load
3737
3738	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3739			pagetables) support.
3740
3741	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3742
3743	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3744			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3745
3746	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3747			with UP alternatives
3748
3749	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3750			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3751			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3752			available to user space applications.
3753
3754	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3755			space.
3756
3757	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3758			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3759			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3760
3761	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3762
3763	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3764
3765	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3766			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3767
3768	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3769
3770	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3771
3772	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3773			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3774
3775	nowb		[ARM]
3776
3777	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3778
3779	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3780			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3781			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3782			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3783			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3784			parameter's value.
3785			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3786			Default: 255
3787
3788	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3789			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3790			SAL PALO.
3791
3792	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3793			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3794			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3795			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3796			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3797			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3798			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3799			hot plugging.
3800
3801	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3802
3803	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3804			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3805
3806	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3807			NUMA balancing.
3808			Allowed values are enable and disable
3809
3810	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3811			'node', 'default' can be specified
3812			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3813			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3814
3815	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3816			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3817			info.
3818
3819	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3820			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3821			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3822			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3823			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3824			interrupts *may* be lost!
3825
3826	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3827			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3828			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3829			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3830
3831	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3832
3833			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3834
3835			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3836				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3837			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3838				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3839				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3840
3841	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3842			process, but there is a small probability of
3843			deadlocking the machine.
3844			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3845			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3846
3847	page_alloc.shuffle=
3848			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3849			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3850			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3851			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3852			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3853			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3854			can be read from sysfs at:
3855			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3856
3857	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3858			Storage of the information about who allocated
3859			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3860			we can turn it on.
3861			on: enable the feature
3862
3863	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3864			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3865			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3866			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3867			on: turn on poisoning
3868
3869	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3870			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3871			Format: <integer>
3872			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3873			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3874
3875	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3876			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3877			timeout = 0: wait forever
3878			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3879			Format: <timeout>
3880
3881	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3882			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3883			bit 0: print all tasks info
3884			bit 1: print system memory info
3885			bit 2: print timer info
3886			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3887			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3888			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3889			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3890			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3891			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3892			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3893			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3894
3895	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3896			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3897			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3898			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3899			called with any of the flags in this set.
3900			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3901			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3902			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3903			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3904			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3905			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3906			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3907
3908	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3909			on a WARN().
3910
3911	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3912			connected to, default is 0.
3913			Format: <parport#>
3914	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3915			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3916			Format: <mode>
3917
3918	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3919			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3920			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3921			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3922			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3923			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3924			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3925			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3926			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3927			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3928			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3929			are specified on the command line, starting
3930			with parport0.
3931
3932	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3933			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3934			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3935			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3936			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3937			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3938			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3939
3940	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3941			Format: <int>
3942			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3943			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3944			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3945
3946	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3947			Format: <int>
3948			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3949			changes.  Disabled by default.
3950
3951	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3952			Format: <int>
3953			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3954			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3955			Disabled by default.
3956
3957	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3958			Format: <int>
3959			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3960			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3961			Disabled by default.
3962
3963	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3964			Format: <int>
3965			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3966			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3967			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3968			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3969			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3970			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3971			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3972			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3973			all channels.
3974
3975	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3976			Format: <int>
3977			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3978			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3979			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3980
3981	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3982			Format: <int>
3983			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3984			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3985			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3986
3987	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3988			Format: <int>
3989			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3990			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3991			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3992			All modes allowed by default.
3993
3994	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3995			Format: <int>
3996			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3997			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3998
3999	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4000			Format: <int>
4001			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4002			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4003			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4004			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4005			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4006			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4007			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4008			By default all supported ports are probed.
4009
4010	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4011			Format: <int>
4012			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4013			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4014
4015	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4016			Format: <int>
4017			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4018			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4019			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4020			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4021			0 otherwise.
4022
4023	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4024			Format: <int>
4025			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4026			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4027			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4028			allowed by default.
4029
4030	pause_on_oops=
4031			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4032			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4033			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4034
4035	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4036
4037	pcd.		[PARIDE]
4038			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
4039			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4040
4041	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4042
4043				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4044				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4045				specified in one of the following formats:
4046
4047				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4048				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4049
4050				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4051				bus/device/function address which may change
4052				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4053				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4054				by other kernel parameters. If the
4055				domain is left unspecified, it is
4056				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4057				to a device through multiple device/function
4058				addresses can be specified after the base
4059				address (this is more robust against
4060				renumbering issues).  The second format
4061				selects devices using IDs from the
4062				configuration space which may match multiple
4063				devices in the system.
4064
4065		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4066				changes anything
4067		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4068		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4069				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4070				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4071		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4072				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4073				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4074				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4075		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4076				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4077				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4078		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4079				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4080				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4081				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4082				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4083				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4084				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4085		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4086				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4087				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4088		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4089				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4090		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4091				Configuration
4092		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4093				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4094				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4095		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4096				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4097				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4098		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4099				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4100				should never be necessary.
4101		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4102				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4103				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4104				when the system masks IRQs.
4105		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4106				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4107				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4108				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4109		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4110				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4111				on several machines and they hang the machine
4112				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4113				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4114				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4115				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4116				motherboard.
4117		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4118				Use with caution as certain devices share
4119				address decoders between ROMs and other
4120				resources.
4121		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4122				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4123				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4124		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4125				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4126		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4127				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4128				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4129				this way.
4130		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4131				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4132				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4133				F0000h-100000h range.
4134		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4135				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4136				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4137				explicitly which ones they are.
4138		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4139				numbers ourselves, overriding
4140				whatever the firmware may have done.
4141		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4142				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4143				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4144				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4145				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4146				IRQ routing is enabled.
4147		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4148				or for PCI scanning.
4149		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4150				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4151				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4152				please report a bug.
4153		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4154				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4155		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4156				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4157				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4158				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4159				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4160		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4161				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4162				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4163				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4164		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4165				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4166				so this option is a temporary workaround
4167				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4168		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4169				handle more pci cards
4170		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4171				This might help on some broken boards which
4172				machine check when some devices' config space
4173				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4174				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4175		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4176				This sorting is done to get a device
4177				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4178		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4179		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4180				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4181		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4182				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4183		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4184				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4185				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4186				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4187				or bus can support) for best performance.
4188		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4189				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4190				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4191				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4192				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4193				that hot-added devices will work.
4194		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4195				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4196				The default value is 256 bytes.
4197		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4198				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4199				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4200		resource_alignment=
4201				Format:
4202				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4203				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4204				aligned memory resources. How to
4205				specify the device is described above.
4206				If <order of align> is not specified,
4207				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4208				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4209				windows need to be expanded.
4210				To specify the alignment for several
4211				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4212				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4213				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4214				for 4096-byte alignment.
4215		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4216				end-to-end CRC checking).
4217				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4218				the default.
4219				off: Turn ECRC off
4220				on: Turn ECRC on.
4221		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4222				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4223				Default size is 256 bytes.
4224		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4225				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4226				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4227		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4228				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4229				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4230		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4231				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4232				MMIO_PREF window.
4233				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4234		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4235				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4236				Default is 1.
4237		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4238				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4239				accommodate resources required by all child
4240				devices.
4241				off: Turn realloc off
4242				on: Turn realloc on
4243		realloc		same as realloc=on
4244		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4245		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4246				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4247		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4248				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4249				port.
4250		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4251				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4252				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4253				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4254				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4255				taints the kernel.
4256		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4257				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4258				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4259				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4260				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4261				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4262				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4263				this removes isolation between devices and
4264				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4265		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4266		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4267		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4268				one PCI domain per PCI function
4269
4270	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4271			Management.
4272		off	Disable ASPM.
4273		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4274			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4275
4276	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4277		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4278			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4279			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4280			also tries to use these services.
4281		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4282				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4283		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4284			hotplug).
4285
4286	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4287		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4288		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4289
4290	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4291		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4292			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4293
4294	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4295
4296	pd_ignore_unused
4297			[PM]
4298			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4299			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4300			for debug and development, but should not be
4301			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4302
4303	pd.		[PARIDE]
4304			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4305
4306	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4307			boot time.
4308			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4309			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4310
4311	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4312			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4313			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4314			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4315			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4316			and performance comparison.
4317
4318	pf.		[PARIDE]
4319			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4320
4321	pg.		[PARIDE]
4322			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4323
4324	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4325			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4326
4327	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4328			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4329			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4330
4331	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4332			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4333			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4334
4335	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4336			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4337			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4338			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4339			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4340			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4341			remains 0.
4342
4343	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4344			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4345
4346	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4347			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4348			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4349			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4350			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4351			possible settings and some assignment information.
4352
4353	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4354			{ off }
4355
4356	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4357			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4358
4359	pnp_reserve_irq=
4360			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4361
4362	pnp_reserve_dma=
4363			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4364
4365	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4366			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4367
4368	pnp_reserve_mem=
4369			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4370			autoconfiguration.
4371			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4372
4373	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4374			Default is 21.
4375			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4376			may be specified.
4377			Format: <port>,<port>....
4378
4379	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4380			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4381			platform machine description specific power_save
4382			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4383			execution priority.
4384
4385	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4386			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4387			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4388			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4389			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4390
4391	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4392			Format: {"off"}
4393			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4394
4395	preempt=	[KNL]
4396			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4397			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4398			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4399			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4400			       can be preempted anytime.
4401
4402	print-fatal-signals=
4403			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4404
4405			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4406			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4407			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4408			coredump - etc.
4409
4410			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4411			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4412
4413			default: off.
4414
4415	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4416			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4417			panics
4418			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4419			default: disabled
4420
4421	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4422			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4423			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4424			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4425			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4426			in order to provide more debug information.
4427			Format: <bool>
4428			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4429
4430	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4431			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4432			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4433			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4434			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4435			Default: ratelimit
4436
4437	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4438			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4439
4440	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4441			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4442			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4443
4444	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4445			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4446			instead using the legacy FADT method
4447
4448	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4449			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4450			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4451				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4452			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4453			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4454				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4455			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4456			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4457				statistical time based profiling.
4458
4459	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4460
4461	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4462			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4463			that).
4464			Format: <bool>
4465
4466	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4467			tracking.
4468			Format: <bool>
4469
4470	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4471			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4472	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4473			per second.
4474	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4475			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4476			(0 = never).
4477	psmouse.resolution=
4478			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4479	psmouse.smartscroll=
4480			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4481			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4482
4483	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4484
4485	pt.		[PARIDE]
4486			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4487
4488	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4489			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4490			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4491			system calls and interrupts.
4492
4493			on   - unconditionally enable
4494			off  - unconditionally disable
4495			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4496			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4497
4498			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4499
4500	nopti		[X86-64]
4501			Equivalent to pti=off
4502
4503	pty.legacy_count=
4504			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4505			default number.
4506
4507	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4508
4509	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4510
4511	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4512			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4513
4514	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4515			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4516
4517	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4518
4519	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4520			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4521			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4522			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4523			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4524
4525	random.trust_bootloader={on,off}
4526			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of a
4527			seed passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4528			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4529			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER.
4530
4531	randomize_kstack_offset=
4532			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4533			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4534			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4535			that depend on stack address determinism or
4536			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4537			available on architectures that have defined
4538			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4539			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4540			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4541
4542	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4543
4544		cec_disable	[X86]
4545				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4546				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4547
4548	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4549			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4550			as described above.
4551
4552			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4553			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4554			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4555			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4556			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4557			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4558			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4559			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4560			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4561			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4562			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4563			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4564
4565			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4566			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4567
4568			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4569			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4570			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4571			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4572
4573	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4574			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4575			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4576			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4577			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4578			This improves the real-time response for the
4579			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4580			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4581			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4582			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4583
4584	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4585			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4586			process in one batch.
4587
4588	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4589			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4590			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4591			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4592
4593	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4594			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4595			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4596
4597	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4598			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4599			RCU grace-period initialization.
4600
4601	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4602			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4603			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4604			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4605			the rcu_node combining tree.
4606
4607	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4608			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4609			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4610			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4611			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4612
4613			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4614			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4615			to zero.
4616
4617	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4618			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4619			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4620			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4621			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4622
4623	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4624			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4625			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4626			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4627			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4628			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4629			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4630
4631	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4632			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4633			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4634			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4635			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4636			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4637			condition.
4638
4639	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4640			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4641			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4642			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4643
4644	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4645			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4646			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4647			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4648			and maximum value is HZ.
4649
4650	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4651			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4652			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4653			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4654
4655	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4656			Set required age in jiffies for a
4657			given grace period before RCU starts
4658			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4659			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4660			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4661			a value based on the most recent settings
4662			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4663			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4664			This calculated value may be viewed in
4665			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4666			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4667			overwritten.
4668
4669	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4670			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4671			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4672			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4673			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4674			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4675			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4676			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4677			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4678			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4679			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4680			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4681
4682	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4683			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4684			each group, which defaults to the square root
4685			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4686			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4687			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4688			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4689
4690	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4691			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4692			batch limiting is disabled.
4693
4694	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4695			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4696			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4697
4698	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4699			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4700			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4701			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4702			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4703			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4704			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4705			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4706
4707	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4708			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4709			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4710			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4711			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4712			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4713
4714	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4715			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4716			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4717			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4718			Larger delays increase the probability of
4719			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4720			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4721			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4722
4723	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4724			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4725			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4726			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4727
4728	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4729			Measure performance of asynchronous
4730			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4731
4732	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4733			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4734			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4735			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4736			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4737			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4738
4739	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4740			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4741			grace-period primitives.
4742
4743	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4744			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4745			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4746			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4747			interference.
4748
4749	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4750			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4751
4752	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4753			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4754			If this parameter has the same value as
4755			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4756			and double-argument variants are tested.
4757
4758	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4759			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4760			If this parameter has the same value as
4761			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4762			and double-argument variants are tested.
4763
4764	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4765			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4766
4767	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4768			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4769
4770	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4771			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4772			of allocations and frees.
4773
4774	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4775			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4776			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4777			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4778			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4779			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4780			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4781			a single reader.
4782
4783	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4784			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4785			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4786			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4787
4788	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4789			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4790
4791	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4792			Shut the system down after performance tests
4793			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4794			testing.
4795
4796	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4797			Enable additional printk() statements.
4798
4799	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4800			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4801			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4802			no holdoff.
4803
4804	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4805			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4806			in microseconds.
4807
4808	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4809			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4810			in microseconds.
4811
4812	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4813			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4814			in seconds.
4815
4816	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4817			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4818			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4819			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4820			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4821			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4822			of CPUs to be used.
4823
4824	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4825			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4826			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4827
4828	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4829			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4830			forward-progress tests.
4831
4832	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4833			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4834			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4835			testing.
4836
4837	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4838			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4839			primitives, if available.
4840
4841	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4842			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4843
4844	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4845			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4846			update-side primitives, if available.
4847
4848	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4849			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4850			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4851			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4852			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4853			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4854			they are all non-zero.
4855
4856	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4857			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4858			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4859			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4860
4861	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4862			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4863			This can of course result in splats, and is
4864			intended to test the ability of things like
4865			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4866			such leaks.
4867
4868	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4869			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4870
4871	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4872			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4873			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4874			test, hence the "fake".
4875
4876	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4877			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4878			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4879
4880	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4881			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4882			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4883
4884	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4885			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4886			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4887			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4888			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4889			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4890
4891	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4892			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4893
4894	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4895			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4896
4897	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4898			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4899			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4900
4901	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4902			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4903			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4904			task-exit processing.
4905
4906	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4907			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4908			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4909			is spawned.
4910
4911	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4912			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4913			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4914
4915	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4916			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4917			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4918			during the rcutorture test.
4919
4920	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4921			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4922			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4923
4924	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4925			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4926			warnings, zero to disable.
4927
4928	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4929			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4930			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4931			to any other stall-related activity.
4932
4933	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4934			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4935
4936	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4937			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4938
4939	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4940			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4941			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4942			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4943			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4944			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4945
4946	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4947			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4948
4949	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4950			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4951			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4952			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4953			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4954
4955	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4956			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4957			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4958			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4959
4960	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4961			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4962
4963	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4964			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4965
4966	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4967			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4968			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4969
4970	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4971			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4972
4973	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4974			Enable additional printk() statements.
4975
4976	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4977			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4978			stall warning.
4979
4980	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4981			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4982
4983	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4984			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4985			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4986			during early boot, that is, during the time
4987			before the init task is spawned.
4988
4989	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4990			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4991			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
4992			value is 300 seconds.
4993
4994	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4995			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
4996			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
4997			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
4998			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
4999			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5000			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5001			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5002			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5003
5004	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5005			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5006			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5007			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5008			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5009			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5010			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5011
5012	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5013			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5014			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5015			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5016			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5017			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5018			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5019			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5020			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5021
5022	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5023			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5024			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5025			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5026			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5027
5028			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5029			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5030			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5031			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5032			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5033			grace-period processing.
5034
5035	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5036			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5037			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5038			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5039			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5040			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5041			set to the default value of -1.
5042
5043	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5044			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5045			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5046			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5047			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5048			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5049			the default value of -1.
5050
5051	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5052			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5053			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5054			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5055			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5056			for use in testing.
5057
5058	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5059			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5060			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5061			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5062			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5063			but lengthens grace periods.
5064
5065	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5066			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5067			informational messages, which give some indication
5068			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5069			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5070			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5071			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5072			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5073			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5074			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5075
5076	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5077			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5078			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5079			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5080			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5081			the value three, so that the first informational
5082			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5083			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5084			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5085			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5086
5087	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5088			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5089			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5090			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5091			A change in value does not take effect until
5092			the beginning of the next grace period.
5093
5094	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5095			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5096
5097	rdinit=		[KNL]
5098			Format: <full_path>
5099			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5100			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5101
5102	rdrand=		[X86]
5103			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5104				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5105				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5106				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5107				path).
5108
5109	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5110			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5111			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5112			mba.
5113			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5114				rdt=cmt,!mba
5115
5116	reboot=		[KNL]
5117			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5118				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5119				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5120				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5121				[[,]f[orce]
5122			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5123					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5124					reboot only),
5125			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5126			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5127			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5128					to be used for rebooting.
5129
5130	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5131			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5132			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5133			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5134			interference.
5135
5136	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5137			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5138			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5139			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5140			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5141			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5142			x86 laptops.
5143
5144	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5145			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5146			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5147			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5148
5149	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5150			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5151			the console log.
5152
5153	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5154			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5155			measured in microseconds.
5156
5157	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5158			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5159
5160	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5161			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5162			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5163			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5164			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5165
5166	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5167			Enable additional printk() statements.
5168
5169	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5170			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5171			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5172			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5173			specified.
5174
5175	relax_domain_level=
5176			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5177			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5178
5179	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5180			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5181			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5182			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5183			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5184
5185	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5186			Format: nn[KMG]
5187			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5188			address space.
5189
5190	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5191			during initialization.
5192
5193	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5194			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5195			Format:
5196			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5197
5198	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5199			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5200			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5201			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5202			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5203
5204	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5205			read the resume files
5206
5207	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5208			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5209			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5210
5211	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5212
5213	rfkill.default_state=
5214		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5215			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5216		1	Unblocked.
5217
5218	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5219		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5220		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5221			blocked and the previous configuration.
5222		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5223			blocked and everything unblocked.
5224
5225	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5226			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5227
5228	ring3mwait=disable
5229			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5230			CPUs.
5231
5232	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5233
5234	rodata=		[KNL]
5235		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5236		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5237
5238	rockchip.usb_uart
5239			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5240			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5241			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5242			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5243
5244	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5245			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5246
5247	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5248			mount the root filesystem
5249
5250	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5251
5252	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5253
5254	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5255			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5256			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5257
5258	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5259			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5260			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5261			managed by CMA.
5262
5263	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5264
5265	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5266
5267	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5268			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5269		strict
5270			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5271			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5272			which is faster.
5273
5274	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5275			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5276			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5277			factor of the size of main memory.
5278			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5279			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5280			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5281			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5282			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5283			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5284			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5285
5286	sa1100ir	[NET]
5287			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5288
5289	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5290
5291	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5292			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5293			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5294			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5295
5296	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5297			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5298			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5299			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5300			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5301			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5302			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5303			value.
5304			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5305			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5306				1			64 ms
5307				2			128 ms
5308			and so on.
5309			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5310			Default is 0.
5311
5312	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5313			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5314			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5315			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5316			tests.
5317
5318	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5319			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5320			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5321			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5322			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5323			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5324			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5325
5326	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5327			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5328			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5329			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5330			equal to the number of CPUs.
5331
5332	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5333			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5334			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5335
5336	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5337			Number seconds to wait between successive
5338			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5339			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5340
5341	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5342			The number of seconds following the start of the
5343			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5344			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5345			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5346
5347	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5348			The number of seconds between outputting the
5349			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5350			of zero disables statistics output.
5351
5352	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5353			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5354			to the set of CPUs under test.
5355
5356	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5357			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5358			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5359			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5360			functions.
5361
5362	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5363			Enable additional printk() statements.
5364
5365	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5366			The probability weighting to use for the
5367			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5368			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5369			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5370			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5371			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5372
5373	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5374			The probability weighting to use for the
5375			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5376			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5377
5378	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5379			The probability weighting to use for the
5380			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5381			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5382			Note well that setting a high probability for
5383			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5384			on the system.
5385
5386	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5387			The probability weighting to use for the
5388			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5389			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5390			and weight_many.
5391
5392	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5393			The probability weighting to use for the
5394			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5395			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5396			weight_many.
5397
5398	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5399			The probability weighting to use for the
5400			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5401			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5402			and weight_many.
5403
5404	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5405			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5406			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5407			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5408			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5409			1 -- enable.
5410			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5411			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5412
5413	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5414			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5415			"lsm=" parameter.
5416
5417	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5418			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5419			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5420			0 -- disable.
5421			1 -- enable.
5422			Default value is 1.
5423
5424	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5425			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5426			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5427			0 -- disable.
5428			1 -- enable.
5429			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5430
5431	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5432
5433	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5434
5435	shapers=	[NET]
5436			Maximal number of shapers.
5437
5438	simeth=		[IA-64]
5439	simscsi=
5440
5441	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5442
5443	slab_merge	[MM]
5444			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5445			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5446
5447	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5448			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5449			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5450			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5451			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5452			layout control by attackers can usually be
5453			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5454			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5455			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5456			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5457			own.
5458			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5459
5460	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5461			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5462			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5463			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5464			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5465
5466	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5467			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5468			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5469			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5470			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5471			last alloc / free. For more information see
5472			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5473
5474	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5475			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5476			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5477			fragmentation. For more information see
5478			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5479
5480	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5481			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5482			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5483			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5484			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5485			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5486			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5487			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5488
5489	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5490			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5491			lower than slub_max_order.
5492			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5493
5494	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5495			Same with slab_merge.
5496
5497	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5498			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5499			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5500
5501	smart2=		[HW]
5502			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5503
5504	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5505			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5506			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5507			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5508			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5509			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5510			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5511			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5512			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5513			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5514
5515	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5516	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5517	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5518	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5519	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5520	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5521	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5522				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5523				1: Fast pin select (default)
5524				2: ATC IRMode
5525
5526	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5527			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5528			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5529			actual hardware limit.
5530			Format: <integer>
5531			Default: -1 (no limit)
5532
5533	softlockup_panic=
5534			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5535			Format: 0 | 1
5536
5537			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5538			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5539			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5540			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5541			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5542
5543	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5544			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5545			backtraces on all cpus.
5546			Format: 0 | 1
5547
5548	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5549			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5550
5551	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5552			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5553			The default operation protects the kernel from
5554			user space attacks.
5555
5556			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5557			       spectre_v2_user=on
5558			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5559			       spectre_v2_user=off
5560			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5561			       vulnerable
5562
5563			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5564			mitigation method at run time according to the
5565			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5566			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5567			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5568
5569			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5570			against user space to user space task attacks.
5571
5572			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5573			the user space protections.
5574
5575			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5576
5577			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5578			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5579			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5580			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5581			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5582			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5583			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5584
5585			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5586			spectre_v2=auto.
5587
5588	spectre_v2_user=
5589			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5590		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5591		        user space tasks
5592
5593			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5594				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5595
5596			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5597				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5598
5599			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5600				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5601				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5602				  is inherited on fork.
5603
5604			prctl,ibpb
5605				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5606				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5607				  always when switching between different user
5608				  space processes.
5609
5610			seccomp
5611				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5612				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5613				  they explicitly opt out.
5614
5615			seccomp,ibpb
5616				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5617				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5618				  always when switching between different
5619				  user space processes.
5620
5621			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5622				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5623
5624			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5625
5626			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5627			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5628
5629	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5630			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5631			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5632
5633			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5634			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5635			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5636			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5637			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5638			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5639			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5640			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5641
5642			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5643			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5644			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5645			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5646
5647			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5648			Bypass optimization is used.
5649
5650			On x86 the options are:
5651
5652			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5653			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5654			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5655				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5656				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5657				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5658				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5659				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5660			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5661				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5662				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5663				  is inherited on fork.
5664			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5665				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5666
5667			Default mitigations:
5668			X86:	"prctl"
5669
5670			On powerpc the options are:
5671
5672			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5673				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5674				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5675				  exit.
5676			off	- No action.
5677
5678			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5679			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5680
5681	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5682	spia_fio_base=
5683	spia_pedr=
5684	spia_peddr=
5685
5686	split_lock_detect=
5687			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5688
5689			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5690			instructions that access data across cache line
5691			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5692			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5693			bus lock detection.
5694
5695			off	- not enabled
5696
5697			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5698				  about applications triggering the #AC
5699				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5700				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5701				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5702				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5703				  enabled in hardware.
5704
5705			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5706				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5707				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5708				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5709
5710			ratelimit:N -
5711				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5712				  per second for bus lock detection.
5713				  0 < N <= 1000.
5714
5715				  N/A for split lock detection.
5716
5717
5718			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5719			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5720			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5721			mode.
5722
5723			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5724			CPL > 0.
5725
5726	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5727			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5728			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5729
5730			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5731			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5732			number generator.
5733
5734			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5735			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5736			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5737			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5738			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5739
5740			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5741			the following option:
5742
5743			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5744				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5745
5746	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5747			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5748			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5749			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5750			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5751			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5752			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5753			(decide at boot).
5754
5755	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5756			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5757			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5758			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5759
5760				   0:  Never.
5761				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5762				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5763				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5764				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5765
5766			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5767			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5768			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5769
5770	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5771			Specifies how frequently to check for
5772			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5773			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5774			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5775			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5776			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5777			are ignored.
5778
5779	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5780			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5781			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5782			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5783			grace period will be considered for automatic
5784			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5785			expediting.
5786
5787	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5788			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5789			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5790			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5791			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5792			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5793			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5794
5795	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5796			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5797
5798			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5799			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5800			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5801			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5802
5803			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5804				   for both kernel and userspace
5805			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5806				   for both kernel and userspace
5807			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5808				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5809				   to allow userspace to register its
5810				   interest in being mitigated too.
5811
5812	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5813			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5814			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5815			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5816			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5817			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5818
5819	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5820			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5821			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5822			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5823			to false.
5824
5825	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5826			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5827
5828	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5829			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5830			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5831			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5832			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5833			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5834			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5835
5836	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5837			Format: <num>
5838			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5839			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5840			as the initial boot-console.
5841			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5842
5843	sti_font=	[HW]
5844			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5845
5846	stifb=		[HW]
5847			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5848
5849        strict_sas_size=
5850			[X86]
5851			Format: <bool>
5852			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5853			against the required signal frame size which
5854			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5855			be used to filter out binaries which have
5856			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5857
5858	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5859	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5860			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5861			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5862			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5863			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5864			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5865			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5866			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5867			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5868			maximum port values.
5869
5870	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5871			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5872			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5873			process in parallel from a single connection.
5874			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5875
5876	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5877			[NFS]
5878			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5879			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5880			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5881			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5882			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5883			NFS server is running.
5884
5885			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5886				    automatically using heuristics
5887			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5888			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5889			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5890				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5891
5892	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5893	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5894			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5895			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5896			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5897			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5898			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5899			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5900
5901	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5902			[SUSPEND]
5903			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5904			mode before resuming the system (see
5905			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5906			is set. Default value is 5.
5907
5908	svm=		[PPC]
5909			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5910			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5911			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5912
5913	swapaccount=	[KNL]
5914			Format: [0|1]
5915			Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5916			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5917			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5918
5919	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5920			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5921			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5922			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5923			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5924			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5925
5926	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5927
5928	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5929			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5930			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5931			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5932			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5933			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5934			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5935			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5936
5937	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5938			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5939			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5940			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5941			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5942			in older udev will not work anymore.
5943			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5944			the kernel configuration.
5945
5946	sysrq_always_enabled
5947			[KNL]
5948			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5949			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5950			Useful for debugging.
5951
5952	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5953			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5954			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5955			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5956			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5957			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5958
5959	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5960
5961	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
5962			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
5963			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5964			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5965			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5966			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5967			The system is woken from this state using a
5968			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5969
5970	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5971			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5972
5973	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5974			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5975			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5976
5977	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5978			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5979			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5980
5981	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5982			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5983			critical and hot trip points.
5984
5985	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5986			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5987
5988	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5989			-1: disable all passive trip points
5990			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5991			value
5992
5993	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5994			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5995			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5996			0: no polling (default)
5997
5998	threadirqs	[KNL]
5999			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6000			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6001
6002	topology=	[S390]
6003			Format: {off | on}
6004			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6005			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6006			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6007			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6008			Default is on.
6009
6010	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6011			Format: {off}
6012			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6013			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6014			LPAR.
6015
6016	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6017			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6018			until after init has spawned.
6019
6020	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6021			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6022			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6023			very costly operation when many torture tests
6024			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6025			with rotating-rust storage.
6026
6027	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6028			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6029			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6030			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6031
6032	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6033			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6034
6035	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6036
6037	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6038			Format: integer pcr id
6039			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6040			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6041			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6042			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6043			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6044			are saved.
6045
6046	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6047			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6048			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6049			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6050			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6051			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6052
6053			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6054			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6055			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6056			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6057
6058			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6059			to stop the printing of events to console at
6060			late_initcall_sync.
6061
6062			** CAUTION **
6063
6064			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6065			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6066			the system to live lock.
6067
6068	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6069			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6070			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6071			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6072			make the system inoperable.
6073
6074			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6075			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6076
6077	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6078			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6079
6080	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6081			at boot up.
6082			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6083				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6084				depending on the architecture, may not be
6085				in sync between CPUs.
6086			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6087				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6088				but better for some race conditions.
6089			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6090				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6091				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6092				once per event.
6093			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6094			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6095			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6096			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6097				stamps.
6098			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6099			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6100			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6101
6102	trace_event=[event-list]
6103			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6104			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6105			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6106			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6107
6108	trace_options=[option-list]
6109			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6110			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6111			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6112			to echo the option name into
6113
6114			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
6115
6116			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6117			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6118
6119			      trace_options=stacktrace
6120
6121			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6122			section.
6123
6124	traceoff_on_warning
6125			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6126			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6127			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6128			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
6129
6130			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6131			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6132			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6133
6134			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6135			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6136
6137	transparent_hugepage=
6138			[KNL]
6139			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6140			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6141			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6142			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6143			for more details.
6144
6145	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6146			Format: <string>
6147			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6148			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6149			sources:
6150			- "tpm"
6151			- "tee"
6152			- "caam"
6153			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6154			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6155			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6156			successfully during iteration.
6157
6158	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6159			Format: <string>
6160			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6161			Can be one of:
6162			- "kernel"
6163			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6164			- "default"
6165			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6166			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6167
6168	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6169			Format: <string>
6170			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6171			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6172			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6173			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6174			virtualized environment.
6175			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6176			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6177			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6178			can add overhead.
6179			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6180			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6181			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6182			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6183			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6184			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6185			acceptable).
6186
6187	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6188			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6189			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6190			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6191			Format: <unsigned int>
6192
6193	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6194			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6195			support TSX control.
6196
6197			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6198
6199			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6200				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6201				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6202				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6203				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6204				with leaving it enabled.
6205
6206			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6207				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6208				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6209				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6210				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6211				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6212				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6213
6214			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6215				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6216
6217			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6218
6219			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6220			for more details.
6221
6222	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6223			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6224
6225			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6226			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6227			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6228			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6229			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6230			conditions.
6231
6232			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6233			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6234			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6235			access.
6236
6237			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6238			options are:
6239
6240			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6241				     if TSX is enabled.
6242
6243			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6244				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6245				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6246				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6247			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6248
6249			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6250			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6251			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6252			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6253
6254			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6255			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6256			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6257			required and doesn't provide any additional
6258			mitigation.
6259
6260			For details see:
6261			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6262
6263	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6264			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6265			Format:
6266			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6267			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6268
6269	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6270			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6271			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6272			help "seeing" what's going on.
6273
6274	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6275			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6276
6277	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6278			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6279			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6280			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6281			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6282			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6283			reported either.
6284
6285	unknown_nmi_panic
6286			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6287
6288	usbcore.authorized_default=
6289			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6290			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6291			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6292			if device connected to internal port)
6293
6294	usbcore.autosuspend=
6295			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6296			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6297			is the time required before an idle device will be
6298			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6299			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6300
6301	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6302			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6303
6304	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6305			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6306			(default = 65536).
6307
6308	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6309			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6310
6311	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6312			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6313			scheme (default 0 = off).
6314
6315	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6316			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6317			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6318
6319	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6320			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6321			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6322
6323	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6324			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6325			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6326			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6327
6328	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6329
6330	usbcore.quirks=
6331			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6332			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6333			commas. Each entry has the form
6334			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6335			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6336			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6337			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6338			the following meanings:
6339				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6340					descriptors must not be fetched using
6341					a 255-byte read);
6342				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6343					correctly so reset it instead);
6344				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6345					Set-Interface requests);
6346				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6347					handle its Configuration or Interface
6348					strings);
6349				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6350					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6351				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6352					more interface descriptions than the
6353					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6354					talking to these interfaces);
6355				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6356					during initialization, after we read
6357					the device descriptor);
6358				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6359					high speed and super speed interrupt
6360					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6361					require the interval in microframes (1
6362					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6363					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6364					(bInterval-1).
6365					Devices with this quirk report their
6366					bInterval as the result of this
6367					calculation instead of the exponent
6368					variable used in the calculation);
6369				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6370					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6371					requests);
6372				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6373					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6374					remote wakeup capability);
6375				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6376					Power Management);
6377				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6378					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6379					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6380					calculation);
6381				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6382					to be disconnected before suspend to
6383					prevent spurious wakeup);
6384				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6385					pause after every control message);
6386				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6387					delay after resetting its port);
6388			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6389
6390	usbhid.mousepoll=
6391			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6392
6393	usbhid.jspoll=
6394			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6395
6396	usbhid.kbpoll=
6397			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6398
6399	usb-storage.delay_use=
6400			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6401			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6402
6403	usb-storage.quirks=
6404			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6405			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6406			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6407			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6408			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6409			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6410			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6411				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6412					of sense data, not on uas);
6413				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6414					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6415				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6416					device capacity by one sector);
6417				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6418					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6419				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6420					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6421				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6422					command, uas only);
6423				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6424					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6425				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6426					reported device capacity by one
6427					sector if the number is odd);
6428				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6429					device);
6430				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6431					command, uas only);
6432				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6433				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6434					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6435				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6436					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6437					not on uas);
6438				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6439					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6440				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6441					reported by the device, not on uas);
6442				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6443					by default, not on uas);
6444				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6445					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6446				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6447					Logical Unit);
6448				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6449					commands, uas only);
6450				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6451				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6452					medium is write-protected).
6453				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6454					even if the device claims no cache,
6455					not on uas)
6456			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6457
6458	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6459			Format: <int>
6460			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6461				 1 - undefined instruction events
6462				 2 - system calls
6463				 4 - invalid data aborts
6464				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6465				16 - SIGBUS faults
6466			Example: user_debug=31
6467
6468	userpte=
6469			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6470
6471				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6472					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6473					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6474
6475	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6476			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6477
6478			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6479			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6480
6481	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6482			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6483			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6484
6485			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6486			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6487			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6488
6489			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6490			alias for vdso32=0.
6491
6492			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6493			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6494
6495	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6496			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6497
6498	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6499			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6500
6501	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6502			Format: [0|1]
6503			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6504			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6505			level and then send out the event to user space through
6506			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6507			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6508			brightness level.
6509			default: 1
6510
6511	virtio_mmio.device=
6512			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6513
6514				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6515			where:
6516				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6517						like K, M and G)
6518				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6519				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6520						request_irq())
6521				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6522			example:
6523				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6524
6525			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6526
6527	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6528			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6529			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6530			Use vga=ask for menu.
6531			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6532			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6533
6534	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6535			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6536			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6537			All options are enabled by default, and this
6538			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6539			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6540			debugging features.
6541
6542			Available options are:
6543			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6544			  -	Disable all of the above options
6545
6546	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6547			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6548			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6549			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6550			mapped kernel RAM.
6551
6552	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6553			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6554			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6555
6556	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6557			Format: <command>
6558
6559	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6560			Format: <command>
6561
6562	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6563			Format: <command>
6564
6565	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6566			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6567			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6568			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6569			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6570			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6571			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6572
6573			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6574			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6575				    page is readable.
6576
6577			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6578			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6579				    page is not readable.
6580
6581			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6582			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6583			            might break your system.
6584
6585	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6586			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6587			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6588
6589	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6590			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6591			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6592			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6593
6594	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6595			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6596			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6597			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6598			ranging from 0-255.
6599
6600	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6601			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6602			Change the default green palette of the console.
6603			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6604			ranging from 0-255.
6605
6606	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6607			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6608			Change the default red palette of the console.
6609			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6610			ranging from 0-255.
6611
6612	vt.default_utf8=
6613			[VT]
6614			Format=<0|1>
6615			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6616			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6617			newly opened terminals.
6618
6619	vt.global_cursor_default=
6620			[VT]
6621			Format=<-1|0|1>
6622			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6623			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6624			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6625			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6626			cursors, 1 will display them.
6627
6628	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6629			Default: 2 = green.
6630
6631	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6632			Default: 3 = cyan.
6633
6634	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6635			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6636			or other driver-specific files in the
6637			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6638
6639	watchdog_thresh=
6640			[KNL]
6641			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6642			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6643			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6644			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6645			seconds.
6646
6647	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6648			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6649			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6650			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6651			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6652			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6653			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6654			corresponding sysfs file.
6655
6656	workqueue.disable_numa
6657			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6658			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6659			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6660			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6661			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6662			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6663			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6664
6665	workqueue.power_efficient
6666			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6667			they show better performance thanks to cache
6668			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6669			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6670
6671			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6672			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6673			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6674			power usage at the cost of small performance
6675			overhead.
6676
6677			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6678			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6679
6680	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6681			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6682			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6683			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6684			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6685			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6686			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6687			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6688			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6689			impacted.
6690
6691	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6692			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6693			supporting x2apic.
6694
6695	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6696			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6697			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6698			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6699			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6700			domains.
6701
6702	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6703			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6704			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6705			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6706			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6707			nics -- unplug network devices
6708			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6709			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6710				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6711				the unplug protocol
6712			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6713
6714	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6715			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6716			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6717
6718	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6719			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6720			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6721			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6722
6723	xen_nopv	[X86]
6724			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6725			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6726			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6727			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6728
6729	xen_no_vector_callback
6730			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6731			event channel interrupts.
6732
6733	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6734			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6735			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6736			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6737			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6738
6739	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6740			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6741			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6742			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6743			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6744			more timer interrupts.
6745
6746	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6747			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6748			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6749			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6750			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6751			max. Default is 180.
6752
6753	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6754			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6755			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6756
6757	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6758			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6759			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6760
6761	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6762			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6763			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6764			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6765			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6766			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6767
6768	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6769			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6770			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6771			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6772
6773	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6774			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6775			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6776			contention.
6777
6778	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6779			Format:
6780			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6781
6782	xive=		[PPC]
6783			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6784			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6785			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6786
6787			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6788				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6789				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6790
6791	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6792			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6793			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6794			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6795			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6796
6797	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6798			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6799			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6800			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6801
6802	xmon		[PPC]
6803			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6804			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6805			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6806			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6807				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6808			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6809				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6810				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6811				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6812			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6813				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6814				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6815				can be written using xmon commands.
6816			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6817				memory, and other data can't be written using
6818				xmon commands.
6819			off	xmon is disabled.
6820