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