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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>
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	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
375			Identification support
376
377	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
378			support
379
380	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
381
382	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
383
384	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
385			EzKey and similar keyboards
386
387	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
388
389	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
390			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
391
392	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
393			keyboards
394
395	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
396			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
397
398	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
399			Use software keyboard repeat
400
401	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
402			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
403			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
404			    enabled until the next reboot
405			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
406			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
407			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
408			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
409			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
410			    userspace auditd.
411			Default: unset
412
413	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
414			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
415			Default: 64
416
417	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
418			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
419			Format: { "0" | "1" }
420			0 - Disable the BAU.
421			1 - Enable the BAU.
422			unset - Disable the BAU.
423
424	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
425			Format: <io>,<mode>
426
427	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
428			Format: <io>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
430
431	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
432			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
433			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
434			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
435
436	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
437			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
438			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
439			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
440
441	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
442			embedded devices based on command line input.
443			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
444
445	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
446			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
447			no delay (0).
448			Format: integer
449
450	bootconfig	[KNL]
451			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
452			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
453
454			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
455
456	bert_disable	[ACPI]
457			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
458
459	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
460			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
461
462	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
463	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
464			kernel args too.
465	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
466	bttv.tuner=
467
468	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
469			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
470			at a time.
471
472	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
473
474	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
475			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
476			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
477			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
478			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
479			This option provides an override for these situations.
480
481	carrier_timeout=
482			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
483			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
484			it waits 120 seconds.
485
486	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
487			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
488			trust validation.
489			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
490
491	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
492			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
493			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
494			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
495			others).
496
497	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
498			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
499
500	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
501			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
502			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
503			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
504			  a single hierarchy
505			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
506			  subsystem
507			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
508			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
509			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
510
511	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
512			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
513			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
514			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
515			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
516			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
517			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
518			all v1 hierarchies.
519
520	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
521			Format: <string>
522			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
523			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
524
525	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
526			Format: { "0" | "1" }
527			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
528			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
529				any implied execute protection).
530			1 -- check protection requested by application.
531			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
532			Value can be changed at runtime via
533				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
534			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
535
536	cio_ignore=	[S390]
537			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
538	clk_ignore_unused
539			[CLK]
540			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
541			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
542			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
543			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
544			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
545			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
546			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
547			platform with proper driver support.  For more
548			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
549
550	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
551			[Deprecated]
552			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
553			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
554			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
555			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
556
557	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
558			Format: <string>
559			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
560			with the name specified.
561			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
562			the platform:
563			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
564			[ACPI] acpi_pm
565			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
566				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
567			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
568				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
569			[MIPS] MIPS
570			[PARISC] cr16
571			[S390] tod
572			[SH] SuperH
573			[SPARC64] tick
574			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
575
576	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
577			[ARM,ARM64]
578			Format: <bool>
579			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
580			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
581			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
582			systems.
583
584	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
585			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
586			external delays before the clock will be marked
587			unstable.  Defaults to three retries, that is,
588			four attempts to read the clock under test.
589
590	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
591			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
592			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
593			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
594			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
595			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
596			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
597			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
598			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
599
600	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
601			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
602			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
603			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
604			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
605
606	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
607			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
608			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
609			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
610			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
611			ones should be.
612			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
613			or using the feature without checking anything
614			will still see it. This just prevents it from
615			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
616			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
617			some critical bits.
618
619	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
620			[KNL,CMA]
621			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
622			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
623			placement constraint by the physical address range of
624			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
625			altogether. For more information, see
626			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
627
628	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
629			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
630			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
631			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
632			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
633			specificed, the default value is 0.
634			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
635			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
636			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
637			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
638
639	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
640			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
641			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
642			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
643			a hypervisor.
644			Default: yes
645
646	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
647			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
648			allocations, by default set to 256K.
649
650	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
651			Format:
652			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
653
654	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
655			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
656
657	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
658			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
659			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
660
661	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
662	conmode=
663
664	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
665
666		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
667
668		ttyS<n>[,options]
669		ttyUSB0[,options]
670			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
671			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
672			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
673			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
674			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
675
676			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
677			information.  See
678			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
679			alternative.
680
681		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
682		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
683		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
684		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
685		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
686			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
687			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
688			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
689			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
690			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
691			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
692			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
693			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
694			the h/w is not re-initialized.
695
696		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
697			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
698
699		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
700		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
701			console=brl,ttyS0
702		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
703
704	console_msg_format=
705			[KNL] Change console messages format
706		default
707			By default we print messages on consoles in
708			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
709			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
710			`printk_time' param).
711		syslog
712			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
713			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
714			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
715			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
716			from /proc/kmsg.
717
718	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
719			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
720			Defaults to 0.
721
722	coredump_filter=
723			[KNL] Change the default value for
724			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
725			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
726
727	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
728			[ARM,ARM64]
729			Format: <bool>
730			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
731			0: default value, disable debugging
732			1: enable debugging at boot time
733
734	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
735			disable the cpuidle sub-system
736
737	cpuidle.governor=
738			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
739
740	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
741			disable the cpufreq sub-system
742
743	cpufreq.default_governor=
744			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
745			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
746			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
747
748	cpu_init_udelay=N
749			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
750			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
751			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
752			Default: 10000
753
754	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
755			Format:
756			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
757
758	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
759			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
760			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
761			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
762			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
763			is selected automatically.
764			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
765			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
766			hasn't been specified.
767			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
768
769	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
770			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
771			in the running system. The syntax of range is
772			start-[end] where start and end are both
773			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
774			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
775
776	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
777			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
778			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
779			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
780			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
781			available.
782			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
783	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
784			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
785			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
786			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
787			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
788			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
789			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
790			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
791			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
792			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
793			for second kernel instead.
794			0: to disable low allocation.
795			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
796			or memory reserved is below 4G.
797
798	cryptomgr.notests
799			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
800
801	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
802			Format: <dma>
803
804	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
805			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
806
807	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
808			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
809			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
810			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
811			to resolve the hang situation.
812			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
813			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
814			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
815			     but more data)
816
817	dasd=		[HW,NET]
818			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
819
820	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
821			(one device per port)
822			Format: <port#>,<type>
823			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
824
825	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
826			time. See
827			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
828			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
829
830	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
831
832	debug_boot_weak_hash
833			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
834			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
835			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
836			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
837			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
838			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
839
840	debug_locks_verbose=
841			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
842			Format: <int>
843			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
844			self-tests.
845			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
846			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
847			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
848			useful to lockdep developers.
849
850	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
851
852	no_debug_objects
853			[KNL] Disable object debugging
854
855	debug_guardpage_minorder=
856			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
857			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
858			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
859			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
860			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
861			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
862			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
863			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
864			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
865			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
866			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
867			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
868			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
869			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
870			bypassed) which are not detectable by
871			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
872			tracking down these problems.
873
874	debug_pagealloc=
875			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
876			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
877			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
878			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
879			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
880			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
881			on: enable the feature
882
883	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
884			and debugfs internal clients.
885			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
886			on: 	All functions are enabled.
887			no-mount:
888				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
889			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
890				its content. There is nothing to mount.
891			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
892			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
893				or directories within debugfs.
894				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
895				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
896			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
897
898	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
899
900	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
901			Format: <area>[,<node>]
902			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
903
904	default_hugepagesz=
905			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
906			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
907			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
908			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
909			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
910			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
911			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
912			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
913			Format: size[KMG]
914
915	deferred_probe_timeout=
916			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
917			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
918			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
919			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
920			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
921			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
922			retrying.
923
924	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
925			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
926			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
927			          level 1 and decompression (default)
928			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
929			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
930			          only (compression on level 1)
931			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
932			          only (decompression)
933			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
934			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
935
936	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
937			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
938
939	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
940			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
941			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
942			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
943			miss to occur.
944
945	stress_slb	[PPC]
946			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
947			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
948			on kernel addresses.
949
950	disable=	[IPV6]
951			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
952
953	hardened_usercopy=
954                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
955                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
956                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
957                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
958                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
959                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
960                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
961                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
962                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
963
964	disable_radix	[PPC]
965			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
966
967	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
968			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
969			invalidate.
970
971	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
972			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
973			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
974
975	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
976			Format: <int>
977			The number of initial APIC ID for the
978			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
979			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
980			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
981			causing system reset or hang due to sending
982			INIT from AP to BSP.
983
984	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
985			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
986			to workaround buggy firmware.
987
988	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
989			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
990
991	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
992			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
993			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
994			entry later. This parameter disables that.
995
996	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
997			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
998			memory out of your available memory pool based on
999			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1000			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1001
1002	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1003			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1004			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1005
1006	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1007
1008	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1009			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1010
1011	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1012			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1013			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1014			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1015			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1016			architectural default is too low.
1017
1018	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1019			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1020			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1021			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1022			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1023			driver later using sysfs.
1024
1025	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1026			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1027			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1028
1029	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1030			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1031			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1032			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1033			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1034			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1035			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1036			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1037			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1038			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1039			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1040			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1041			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1042			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1043			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1044			data set with no connector name will be used for
1045			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1046
1047	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1048
1049	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1050			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1051			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1052			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1053			exists).
1054			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1055			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1056			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1057
1058	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1059			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1060			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1061			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1062
1063	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1064	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1065			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1066			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1067			for details.
1068
1069	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1070			in some Intel CPUs.
1071
1072	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1073			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1074
1075	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1076			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1077			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1078			which are not unmapped.
1079
1080	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1081
1082			When used with no options, the early console is
1083			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1084			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1085			the platform.
1086
1087		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1088			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1089			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1090			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1091			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1092			configured.
1093
1094		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1095		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1096		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1097		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1098		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1099			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1100			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1101			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1102			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1103			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1104			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1105			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1106			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1107
1108		pl011,<addr>
1109		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1110			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1111			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1112			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1113			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1114			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1115			the device registers.
1116
1117		meson,<addr>
1118			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1119			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1120			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1121			supported.
1122
1123		msm_serial,<addr>
1124			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1125			port at the specified address. The serial port
1126			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1127			yet supported.
1128
1129		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1130			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1131			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1132			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1133			yet supported.
1134
1135		owl,<addr>
1136			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1137			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1138			specified address. The serial port must already be
1139			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1140
1141		rda,<addr>
1142			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1143			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1144			specified address. The serial port must already be
1145			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1146
1147		sbi
1148			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1149			console.
1150
1151		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1152
1153		s3c2410,<addr>
1154		s3c2412,<addr>
1155		s3c2440,<addr>
1156		s3c6400,<addr>
1157		s5pv210,<addr>
1158		exynos4210,<addr>
1159			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1160			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1161			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1162			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1163			Options are not yet supported.
1164
1165		lantiq,<addr>
1166			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1167			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1168			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1169			yet supported.
1170
1171		lpuart,<addr>
1172		lpuart32,<addr>
1173			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1174			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1175			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1176			port must already be setup and configured.
1177
1178		ec_imx21,<addr>
1179		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1180			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1181			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1182			must already be setup and configured.
1183
1184		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1185			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1186			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1187			address. The serial port must already be setup
1188			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1189
1190		qcom_geni,<addr>
1191			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1192			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1193			specified address. The serial port must already be
1194			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1195
1196		efifb,[options]
1197			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1198			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1199			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1200			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1201			mapped with the correct attributes.
1202
1203		linflex,<addr>
1204			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1205			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1206			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1207			already be setup and configured.
1208
1209	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1210			earlyprintk=vga
1211			earlyprintk=sclp
1212			earlyprintk=xen
1213			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1214			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1215			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1216			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1217			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1218			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1219
1220			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1221			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1222			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1223
1224			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1225			takes over.
1226
1227			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1228			be used at a time.
1229
1230			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1231			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1232			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1233			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1234				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1235			You can find the port for a given device in
1236			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1237				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1238
1239			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1240			very good.
1241
1242			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1243			the real console.
1244
1245			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1246
1247			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1248
1249			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1250			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1251			UART class.
1252
1253	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1254			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1255			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1256			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1257			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1258			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1259			default: on.
1260
1261	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1262			ekgdboc=kbd
1263
1264			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1265			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1266
1267			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1268			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1269			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1270			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1271
1272	edd=		[EDD]
1273			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1274
1275	efi=		[EFI]
1276			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1277				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1278				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1279			debug: enable misc debug output.
1280			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1281			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1282			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1283			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1284			firmware implementations.
1285			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1286			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1287			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1288			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1289			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1290			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1291			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1292			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1293			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1294			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1295
1296	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1297			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1298			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1299			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1300			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1301
1302	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1303			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1304			updating original EFI memory map.
1305			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1306			from ss to ss+nn.
1307
1308			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1309			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1310			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1311			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1312
1313			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1314			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1315			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1316
1317			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1318			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1319			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1320			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1321			"soft reserved".
1322
1323	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1324			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1325			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1326			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1327			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1328
1329
1330	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1331			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1332
1333	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1334			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1335			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1336
1337	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1338			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1339			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1340			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1341			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1342
1343	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1344			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1345			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1346			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1347
1348	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1349			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1350			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1351			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1352			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1353
1354	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1355			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1356			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1357			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1358			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1359			Default value is 0.
1360			Value can be changed at runtime via
1361			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1362
1363	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1364			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1365			support.
1366
1367	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1368			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1369			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1370
1371	evm=		[EVM]
1372			Format: { "fix" }
1373			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1374			current integrity status.
1375
1376	failslab=
1377	fail_usercopy=
1378	fail_page_alloc=
1379	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1380			General fault injection mechanism.
1381			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1382			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1383
1384	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1385			Format: { initns | none }
1386			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1387			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1388
1389	floppy=		[HW]
1390			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1391
1392	force_pal_cache_flush
1393			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1394			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1395			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1396			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1397
1398	forcepae	[X86-32]
1399			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1400			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1401			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1402			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1403			and may cause unknown problems.
1404
1405	ftrace=[tracer]
1406			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1407			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1408			boot debugging.
1409
1410	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1411			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1412			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1413			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1414			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1415			oops.
1416
1417	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1418			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1419			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1420			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1421			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1422			tracing directory.
1423
1424	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1425			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1426			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1427			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1428			tracing directory.
1429
1430	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1431			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1432			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1433			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1434			that can be changed at run time by the
1435			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1436
1437	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1438			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1439			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1440			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1441			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1442
1443	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1444			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1445			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1446			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1447			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1448
1449	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1450			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1451			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1452			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1453			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1454			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1455			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1456			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1457			suppliers).
1458			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1459			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1460			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1461				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1462				up (sync_state() calls).
1463			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1464				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1465			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1466
1467	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1468			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1469			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1470			Format: <bool>
1471
1472	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1473			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1474			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1475			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1476			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1477
1478	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1479
1480	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1481			Format: off | on
1482			default: on
1483
1484	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1485			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1486			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1487			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1488			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1489
1490	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1491			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1492			android emulator
1493
1494	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1495			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1496			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1497	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1498			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1499
1500	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1501			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1502			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1503			GPT to be used instead.
1504
1505	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1506			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1507			Format: 0 | 1
1508			Default: 0
1509	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1510			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1511			Format: 0 | 1
1512			Default: 0
1513	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1514			Format: 0 | 1
1515			Default: 0
1516	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1517			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1518			Default: 1024
1519	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1520			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1521			Default: 1024
1522
1523	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1524			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1525			backtraces on all cpus.
1526			Format: 0 | 1
1527
1528	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1529			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1530			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1531			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1532
1533	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1534
1535	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1536			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1537
1538	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1539			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1540			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1541			logic will be disabled.
1542
1543	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1544			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1545			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1546			size on bigger boxes.
1547
1548	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1549			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1550			Default: "on"
1551
1552	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1553
1554	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1555			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1556				verbose }
1557			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1558			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1559				VIA, nVidia)
1560			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1561
1562	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1563			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1564
1565	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1566			of gigantic hugepages.
1567			Format: nn[KMGTPE]
1568
1569			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1570			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1571			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1572
1573	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1574			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1575			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1576			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1577			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1578			the default huge page size.  See also
1579			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1580			Format: <integer>
1581
1582	hugepagesz=
1583			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1584			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1585			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1586			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1587			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1588			architecture dependent.  See also
1589			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1590			Format: size[KMG]
1591
1592	hung_task_panic=
1593			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1594			Format: 0 | 1
1595
1596			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1597			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1598			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1599			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1600			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1601
1602	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1603				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1604	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1605				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1606				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1607
1608	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1609				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1610				      guest on lock contention.
1611
1612	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1613			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1614			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1615			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1616			the real console.
1617
1618	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1619				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1620				registered from board initialization code.
1621				Format:
1622				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1623
1624	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1625	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1626			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1627			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1628			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1629	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1630	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1631			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1632			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1633	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1634	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1635	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1636			     for the AUX port
1637	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1638			     controller
1639	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1640			     controllers
1641	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1642	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1643			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1644			     transitions, or never reset
1645			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1646			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1647			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1648			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1649			architectures force reset to be always executed
1650	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1651	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1652
1653	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1654
1655	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1656			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1657			hardware.
1658	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1659			does not match list of supported models.
1660	i8k.power_status
1661			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1662			(disabled by default)
1663	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1664			capability is set.
1665
1666	i915.invert_brightness=
1667			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1668			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1669			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1670			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1671			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1672			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1673			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1674			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1675			value switches the backlight off.
1676			-1 -- never invert brightness
1677			 0 -- machine default
1678			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1679
1680	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1681			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1682
1683	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1684			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1685			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1686			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1687			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1688
1689	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1690			Format: <int>
1691			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1692			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1693			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1694			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1695			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1696			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1697			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1698			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1699			was 0x3.
1700
1701	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1702			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1703
1704	idle=		[X86]
1705			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1706			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1707			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1708			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1709			Not recommended.
1710			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1711			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1712			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1713
1714	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1715			Format: <bool>
1716			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1717			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1718			true (1).
1719
1720	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1721			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1722			Default: strict
1723
1724			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1725			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1726			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1727			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1728			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1729			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1730			encoding mode.
1731
1732			Available settings are as follows:
1733			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1734				supported by the FPU
1735			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1736				by the FPU
1737			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1738				by the FPU
1739			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1740				supported by the FPU
1741
1742			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1743			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1744			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1745			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1746			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1747			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1748			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1749			MIPS64 CPUs.
1750
1751			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1752			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1753			except where unsupported by hardware.
1754
1755	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1756			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1757			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1758			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1759			could change it dynamically, usually by
1760			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1761
1762	ignore_rlimit_data
1763			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1764			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1765			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1766
1767	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1768			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1769
1770	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1771			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1772			default: "enforce"
1773
1774	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1775			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1776			owned by uid=0.
1777
1778	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1779			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1780			measurements, instead of host native format.
1781
1782	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1783			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1784				   | sha512 | ... }
1785			default: "sha1"
1786
1787			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1788			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1789
1790	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1791			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1792			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1793				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1794
1795			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1796			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1797			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1798			uid=0.
1799
1800			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1801			all files owned by root.
1802
1803			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1804			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1805			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1806
1807			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1808			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1809			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1810			flag.
1811
1812			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1813			critical data.
1814
1815	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1816			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1817			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1818			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1819			opened for read by uid=0.
1820
1821	ima_template=	[IMA]
1822			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1823			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1824			Default: "ima-ng"
1825
1826	ima_template_fmt=
1827			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1828			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1829
1830	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1831			Format: <min_file_size>
1832			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1833			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1834
1835			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1836			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1837			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1838
1839	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1840			Format: <bufsize>
1841			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1842
1843			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1844			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1845			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1846
1847	init=		[KNL]
1848			Format: <full_path>
1849			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1850			process.
1851
1852	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1853			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1854			startup.
1855
1856	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1857			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1858			modules and initcalls.
1859
1860	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1861			Format: <bool>
1862			Default: 1
1863			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1864			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1865			with devices being probed and
1866			initialized. This should normally just work,
1867			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1868			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1869			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1870			late_ initcalls.
1871
1872	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1873
1874	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1875			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1876			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1877			setting.
1878			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1879			Default is 0, 0
1880
1881	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1882			zeroes.
1883			Format: 0 | 1
1884			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1885
1886	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1887			Format: 0 | 1
1888			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1889
1890	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1891			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1892			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1893			override in debugfs after boot.
1894
1895	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1896			Format: <irq>
1897
1898	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1899
1900	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1901			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1902			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1903			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1904
1905	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1906		on
1907			Enable intel iommu driver.
1908		off
1909			Disable intel iommu driver.
1910		igfx_off [Default Off]
1911			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1912			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1913			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1914			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1915			DMA.
1916		strict [Default Off]
1917			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1918			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1919			to batching them for performance.
1920		sp_off [Default Off]
1921			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1922			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1923			not be supported.
1924		sm_on [Default Off]
1925			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1926			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1927			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1928			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1929		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1930			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1931			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1932			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1933			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1934			mapping is enabled.
1935			Note that using this option lowers the security
1936			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1937			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1938
1939	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1940			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1941			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1942
1943	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1944			disable
1945			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1946			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1947			passive
1948			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1949			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1950			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1951			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1952			  feature.
1953			force
1954			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1955			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1956			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1957			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1958			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1959			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1960			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1961			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1962			no_hwp
1963			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1964			  if available.
1965			hwp_only
1966			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1967			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1968			support_acpi_ppc
1969			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1970			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1971			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1972			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1973			per_cpu_perf_limits
1974			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1975			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1976
1977	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1978			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1979			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1980			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1981			no_x2apic_optout
1982				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1983			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1984
1985	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1986		strict	regions from userspace.
1987		relaxed
1988
1989	iommu=		[X86]
1990		off
1991		force
1992		noforce
1993		biomerge
1994		panic
1995		nopanic
1996		merge
1997		nomerge
1998		soft
1999		pt		[X86]
2000		nopt		[X86]
2001		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2002			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2003
2004	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2005			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2006			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2007			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2008			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2009			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2010			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2011
2012	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2013			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2014			0 - Lazy mode.
2015			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2016			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2017			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2018			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2019			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2020			1 - Strict mode (default).
2021			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2022			  synchronously.
2023
2024	iommu.passthrough=
2025			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2026			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2027			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2028			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2029			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2030
2031	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2032			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2033			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2034
2035	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2036		0x80
2037			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2038		0xed
2039			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2040		udelay
2041			Simple two microseconds delay
2042		none
2043			No delay
2044
2045	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2046			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2047
2048	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2049			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2050
2051	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2052			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2053
2054	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2055			[ARM, ARM64]
2056			Format: <bool>
2057			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2058			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2059			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2060
2061	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2062			[ARM, ARM64]
2063			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2064			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2065			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2066			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2067			LPIs.
2068
2069	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2070			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2071			requires the kernel to be built with
2072			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2073
2074	irqfixup	[HW]
2075			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2076			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2077			firmware running.
2078
2079	irqpoll		[HW]
2080			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2081			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2082			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2083			firmware running.
2084
2085	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2086			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2087
2088	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2089			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2090			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2091
2092			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2093			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2094
2095			nohz
2096			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2097
2098			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2099			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2100			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2101			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2102			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2103
2104			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2105			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2106			  be configured manually after bootup.
2107
2108			domain
2109			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2110			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2111			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2112			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2113			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2114			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2115			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2116			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2117
2118			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2119			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2120			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2121			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2122
2123			managed_irq
2124
2125			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2126			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2127			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2128			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2129			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2130
2131			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2132			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2133			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2134			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2135			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2136			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2137			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2138
2139			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2140			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2141			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2142			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2143			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2144			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2145			  queues.
2146
2147			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2148
2149	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2150
2151	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2152			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2153			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2154			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2155			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2156				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2157
2158	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2159			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2160			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2161			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2162			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2163				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2164
2165	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2166			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2167			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2168			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2169			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2170				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2171
2172	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2173			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2174
2175	nokaslr		[KNL]
2176			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2177			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2178			Layout Randomization).
2179
2180	kasan_multi_shot
2181			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2182			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2183			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2184			invalid access.
2185
2186	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2187
2188	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2189			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2190			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2191			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2192			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2193			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2194			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2195			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2196			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2197			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2198
2199			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2200			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2201			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2202			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2203			zone if it does not.
2204
2205			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2206			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2207			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2208			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2209			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2210			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2211			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2212
2213	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2214			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2215			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2216			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2217			optional and is the number seconds in between
2218			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2219			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2220			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2221			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2222			the kernel debugger.
2223
2224	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2225			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2226			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2227			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2228			 keyboard only format: kbd
2229			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2230			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2231			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2232			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2233
2234	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2235			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2236			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2237			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2238			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2239			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2240			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2241
2242			The name of the early console should be specified
2243			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2244			the early console might be different than the tty
2245			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2246			blank and the first boot console that implements
2247			read() will be picked.
2248
2249	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2250			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2251
2252	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2253			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2254			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2255
2256	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2257			Valid arguments: on, off
2258			Default: on
2259			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2260			the default is off.
2261
2262	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2263			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2264			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2265			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2266			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2267			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2268			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2269
2270			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2271
2272			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2273			Boot Parameter" section.
2274
2275	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2276			and kernel address spaces.
2277			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2278			0: force disabled
2279			1: force enabled
2280
2281	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2282			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2283
2284	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2285				   Default is false (don't support).
2286
2287	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2288			KVM MMU at runtime.
2289			Default is 0 (off)
2290
2291	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2292			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2293			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2294			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2295			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2296			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2297				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2298
2299			Default is 'auto'.
2300
2301			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2302			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2303
2304	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2305			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2306			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2307			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2308			minute.  The default is 60.
2309
2310	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2311			Default is 1 (enabled)
2312
2313	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2314			for all guests.
2315			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2316
2317	kvm-arm.mode=
2318			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2319
2320			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2321			      protected guests.
2322
2323			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2324				   state is kept private from the host.
2325				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2326
2327			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support.
2328
2329	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2330			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2331			system registers
2332
2333	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2334			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2335			system registers
2336
2337	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2338			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2339			system registers
2340
2341	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2342			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2343			LPIs.
2344
2345	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2346			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2347			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2348			allocation.
2349			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2350			Format: <integer>
2351			Default: 5
2352
2353	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2354			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2355			Default is 1 (enabled)
2356
2357	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2358			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2359			Default is 0 (disabled)
2360
2361	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2362			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2363			Default is 1 (enabled)
2364
2365	kvm-intel.nested=
2366			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2367			Default is 0 (disabled)
2368
2369	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2370			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2371			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2372			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2373
2374	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2375			CVE-2018-3620.
2376
2377			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2378
2379			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2380			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2381				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2382			never:	Disables the mitigation
2383
2384			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2385
2386	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2387			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2388			Default is 1 (enabled)
2389
2390	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2391			      affected CPUs
2392
2393			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2394			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2395
2396			full
2397				Provides all available mitigations for the
2398				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2399				enables all mitigations in the
2400				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2401
2402				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2403				sysfs interface is still possible after
2404				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2405				when the first VM is started in a
2406				potentially insecure configuration,
2407				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2408
2409			full,force
2410				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2411				flush runtime control. Implies the
2412				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2413				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2414
2415			flush
2416				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2417				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2418				L1D flush.
2419
2420				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2421				sysfs interface is still possible after
2422				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2423				when the first VM is started in a
2424				potentially insecure configuration,
2425				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2426
2427			flush,nosmt
2428
2429				Disables SMT and enables the default
2430				hypervisor mitigation.
2431
2432				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2433				sysfs interface is still possible after
2434				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2435				when the first VM is started in a
2436				potentially insecure configuration,
2437				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2438
2439			flush,nowarn
2440				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2441				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2442				insecure configuration.
2443
2444			off
2445				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2446				emit any warnings.
2447				It also drops the swap size and available
2448				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2449				bare metal.
2450
2451			Default is 'flush'.
2452
2453			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2454
2455	l2cr=		[PPC]
2456
2457	l3cr=		[PPC]
2458
2459	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2460			disabled it.
2461
2462	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2463			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2464			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2465			Format: notscdeadline
2466
2467	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2468			in C2 power state.
2469
2470	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2471			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2472			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2473			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2474			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2475			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2476			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2477
2478	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2479			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2480			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2481
2482	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2483			when set.
2484			Format: <int>
2485
2486	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2487			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2488			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2489			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2490			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2491			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2492			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2493			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2494
2495			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2496			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2497			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2498			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2499			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2500			host link and device attached to it.
2501
2502			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2503			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2504			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2505			The following configurations can be forced.
2506
2507			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2508			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2509
2510			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2511
2512			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2513			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2514			  allowed.
2515
2516			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2517
2518			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2519
2520			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2521			  and both resets.
2522
2523			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2524			  hot-unplug link recovery
2525
2526			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2527
2528			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2529
2530			* disable: Disable this device.
2531
2532			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2533			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2534
2535	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2536
2537	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2538
2539	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2540			Format: <integer>
2541
2542	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2543			Format: <integer>
2544
2545	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2546			Format: <integer>
2547
2548	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2549			Format: <integer>
2550
2551	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2552			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2553			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2554			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2555			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2556			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2557			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2558			are also disabled.
2559
2560	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2561			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2562			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2563			number of online CPUs.
2564
2565	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2566			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2567
2568	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2569			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2570
2571	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2572			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2573			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2574
2575	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2576			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2577			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2578			mode during the locktorture test.
2579
2580	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2581			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2582			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2583
2584	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2585			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2586
2587	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2588			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2589			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2590			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2591			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2592			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2593
2594	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2595			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2596
2597	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2598			Enable additional printk() statements.
2599
2600	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2601			Format: <irq>
2602
2603	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2604			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2605			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2606			loglevels are defined as follows:
2607
2608			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2609			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2610			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2611			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2612			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2613			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2614			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2615			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2616
2617	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2618			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2619			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2620			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2621			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2622			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2623			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2624
2625	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2626			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2627			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2628			kernel boot problems.
2629
2630	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2631	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2632	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2633	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2634				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2635				attached printers to be reset. Using
2636				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2637				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2638				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2639				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2640				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2641				port specification list means that device IDs
2642				from each port should be examined, to see if
2643				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2644				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2645				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2646
2647	lpj=n		[KNL]
2648			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2649			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2650			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2651			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2652			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2653			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2654			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2655			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2656			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2657			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2658			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2659			hardware.
2660
2661	ltpc=		[NET]
2662			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2663
2664	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2665
2666	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2667			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2668			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2669
2670	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2671			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2672			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2673
2674	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2675			different yeeloong laptops.
2676			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2677
2678	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2679			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2680
2681	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2682			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2683			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2684			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2685			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2686			only takes effect during system bootup.
2687			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2688			which also disables the IO APIC.
2689
2690	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2691	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2692			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2693			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2694			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2695			/dev/loop-control interface.
2696
2697	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2698
2699	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2700
2701	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2702			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2703
2704	mdacon=		[MDA]
2705			Format: <first>,<last>
2706			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2707
2708	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2709			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2710			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2711
2712			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2713			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2714			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2715
2716			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2717			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2718			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2719			not have direct access.
2720
2721			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2722			options are:
2723
2724			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2725			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2726				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2727			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2728
2729			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2730			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2731			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2732			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2733			too.
2734
2735			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2736			mds=full.
2737
2738			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2739
2740	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2741			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2742
2743			1 for test;
2744			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2745			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2746			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2747
2748			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2749			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2750			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2751			belonging to unused RAM.
2752
2753			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2754			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2755			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2756
2757	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2758			memory.
2759
2760	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2761			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2762			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2763
2764	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2765			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2766			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2767			set according to the
2768			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2769			option.
2770			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2771
2772	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2773			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2774			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2775			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2776			option description.
2777
2778	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2779			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2780			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2781			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2782			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2783			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2784			comma delimited.
2785			Example:
2786				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2787
2788	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2789			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2790			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2791
2792	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2793			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2794			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2795			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2796			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2797			         or
2798			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2799			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2800			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2801			will be eaten.
2802
2803	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2804			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2805			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2806			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2807			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2808
2809	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2810			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2811			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2812			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2813			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2814			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2815			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2816			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2817
2818	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2819			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2820			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2821			Setting this option will scan the memory
2822			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2823			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2824			from using the memory being corrupted.
2825			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2826			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2827			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2828			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2829
2830	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2831			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2832			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2833			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2834			corruption in more or less memory.
2835
2836	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2837			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2838			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2839			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2840
2841	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2842			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2843			Format: {on | off (default)}
2844			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2845			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2846			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2847			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2848			additional memory to do so.
2849			This feature is disabled by default because it
2850			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2851			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2852			memory blocks).
2853			The state of the flag can be read in
2854			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2855			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2856			the feature is not effective.
2857
2858	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2859			Format: <integer>
2860			default : 0 <disable>
2861			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2862			performed. Each pass selects another test
2863			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2864			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2865			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2866			regions that are detected.
2867
2868	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2869			Valid arguments: on, off
2870			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2871			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2872			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2873			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2874			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2875
2876			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2877			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2878
2879	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2880			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2881			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2882			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2883			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2884
2885	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2886			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2887
2888	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2889			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2890			platforms.
2891
2892	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2893			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2894			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2895			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2896
2897	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2898
2899	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2900			physical address is ignored.
2901
2902	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2903			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2904			Default: "0tb"
2905			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2906			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2907			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2908			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2909			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2910			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2911			unconfigured.
2912			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2913			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2914			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2915			VGA shield.
2916			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2917			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2918			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2919			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2920			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2921			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2922
2923	mitigations=
2924			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2925			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2926			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2927			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2928
2929			off
2930				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2931				improves system performance, but it may also
2932				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2933				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2934					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2935					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2936					       nobp=0 [S390]
2937					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2938					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2939					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2940					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2941					       l1tf=off [X86]
2942					       mds=off [X86]
2943					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2944					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2945					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
2946					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
2947
2948				Exceptions:
2949					       This does not have any effect on
2950					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2951					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2952
2953			auto (default)
2954				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2955				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2956				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2957				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2958				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2959				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2960
2961			auto,nosmt
2962				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2963				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2964				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2965				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2966					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2967					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2968
2969	mminit_loglevel=
2970			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2971			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2972			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2973			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2974			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2975			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2976
2977	module.sig_enforce
2978			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2979			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2980			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2981			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2982
2983	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2984			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2985
2986	mousedev.tap_time=
2987			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2988			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2989			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2990			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2991			Format: <msecs>
2992	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2993			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2994	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2995			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2996
2997	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2998			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2999			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3000			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3001			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3002			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3003			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3004			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3005			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3006			is not too small.
3007
3008	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3009			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3010			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3011			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3012			allocations. Use with caution!
3013
3014	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3015			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3016
3017	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3018			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3019
3020	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3021			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3022
3023	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3024			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3025			at a time.
3026
3027	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3028
3029			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3030
3031			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3032				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3033			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3034				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3035				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3036
3037	mtdset=		[ARM]
3038			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3039
3040			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3041
3042	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3043			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3044			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3045
3046	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3047			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3048			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3049
3050	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3051			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3052			Default is 1.
3053			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3054			using up MTRRs.
3055
3056	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3057			Format: <integer>
3058			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3059			Default : 1
3060			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3061			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3062
3063	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3064
3065	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3066			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3067			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3068			something different and driver-specific.
3069			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3070			file if at all.
3071
3072	nf_conntrack.acct=
3073			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3074			0 to disable accounting
3075			1 to enable accounting
3076			Default value is 0.
3077
3078	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3079			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3080
3081	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3082			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3083
3084	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3085			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3086
3087	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3088			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3089			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3090			requests.
3091
3092	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3093			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3094			channel should listen.
3095
3096	nfs.cache_getent=
3097			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3098			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3099
3100	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3101			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3102			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3103
3104	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3105			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3106			entries.
3107
3108	nfs.enable_ino64=
3109			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3110			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3111			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3112			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3113			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3114
3115	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3116			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3117			slots the client will assign to the callback
3118			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3119			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3120			a particular server.
3121
3122	nfs.max_session_slots=
3123			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3124			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3125			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3126			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3127			Note that there is little point in setting this
3128			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3129
3130	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3131			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3132			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3133			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3134			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3135			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3136			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3137			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3138			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3139			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3140			back to using the idmapper.
3141			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3142	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3143			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3144			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3145			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3146			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3147
3148	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3149			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3150			information in exchange_id requests.
3151			If zero, no implementation identification information
3152			will be sent.
3153			The default is to send the implementation identification
3154			information.
3155
3156	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3157			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3158			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3159			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3160			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3161			after the locks are lost.
3162			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3163			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3164			parameter to '1'.
3165			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3166			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3167
3168	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3169			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3170			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3171
3172			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3173			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3174			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3175			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3176
3177	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3178			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3179			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3180			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3181			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3182			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3183
3184	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3185			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3186			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3187
3188	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3189			when a NMI is triggered.
3190			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3191
3192	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3193			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3194			Valid num: 0 or 1
3195			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3196			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3197			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3198			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3199			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3200			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3201			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3202			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3203			need the box quickly up again.
3204
3205			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3206			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3207
3208	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3209			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3210			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3211			waits 4 seconds.
3212
3213	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3214			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3215			is present.
3216
3217	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3218			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3219
3220	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3221
3222	no_console_suspend
3223			[HW] Never suspend the console
3224			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3225			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3226			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3227			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3228			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3229			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3230			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3231			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3232			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3233			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3234			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3235			turn on/off it dynamically.
3236
3237	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3238			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3239			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3240			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3241			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3242			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3243			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3244			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3245			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3246			is set.
3247
3248	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3249			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3250			but will impact performance.
3251
3252	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3253
3254	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3255			(CPU alternatives feature).
3256
3257	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3258			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3259
3260	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3261
3262	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3263			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3264
3265	nocache		[ARM]
3266
3267	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3268
3269	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3270
3271	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3272
3273	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3274
3275	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3276
3277	noexec		[IA-64]
3278
3279	noexec		[X86]
3280			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3281			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3282			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3283
3284	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3285			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3286			even if it is supported by processor.
3287
3288	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3289			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3290			even if it is supported by processor.
3291
3292	noexec32	[X86-64]
3293			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3294			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3295				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3296			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3297				read implies executable mappings
3298
3299	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3300
3301	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3302			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3303			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3304
3305	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3306
3307	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3308
3309	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3310			Equivalent to smt=1.
3311
3312			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3313			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3314				     via the sysfs control file.
3315
3316	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3317			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3318			possible in the system.
3319
3320	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3321			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3322			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3323			option.
3324
3325	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3326			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3327
3328	no_uaccess_flush
3329	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3330
3331	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3332			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3333			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3334
3335	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3336			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3337			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3338			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3339			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3340			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3341
3342	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3343			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3344			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3345			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3346			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3347			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3348			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3349
3350	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3351			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3352			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3353			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3354			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3355			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3356			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3357			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3358
3359	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3360			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3361			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3362
3363	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3364			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3365			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3366			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3367			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3368			real-time systems.
3369
3370	no_hash_pointers
3371			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3372			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3373			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3374			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3375			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3376			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3377			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3378			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3379			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3380			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3381			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
3382			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3383			kernels.
3384
3385	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3386
3387	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3388			Valid arguments: on, off
3389			Default: on
3390
3391	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3392			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3393			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3394			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3395			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3396			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3397			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3398			just as if they had also been called out in the
3399			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3400
3401	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3402
3403	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3404			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3405
3406	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3407			broken timer IRQ sources.
3408
3409	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3410
3411	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3412			initial RAM disk.
3413
3414	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3415			remapping.
3416			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3417
3418	nointroute	[IA-64]
3419
3420	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3421
3422	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3423
3424	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3425
3426	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3427			fault handling.
3428
3429	no-vmw-sched-clock
3430			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3431			clock and use the default one.
3432
3433	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3434			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3435			influence scheduler behaviour
3436
3437	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3438
3439	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3440
3441	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3442			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3443
3444	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3445
3446	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3447
3448	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3449			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3450
3451	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3452			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3453			irq.
3454
3455	nomodule	Disable module load
3456
3457	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3458			pagetables) support.
3459
3460	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3461
3462	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3463			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3464
3465	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3466			with UP alternatives
3467
3468	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3469			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3470			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3471			available to user space applications.
3472
3473	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3474			space.
3475
3476	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3477			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3478			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3479
3480	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3481
3482	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3483
3484	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3485
3486	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3487			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3488
3489	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3490
3491	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3492
3493	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3494			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3495
3496	nowb		[ARM]
3497
3498	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3499
3500	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3501			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3502			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3503			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3504			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3505			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3506			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3507			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3508			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3509			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3510			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3511			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3512			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3513
3514	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3515			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3516			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3517			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3518			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3519			parameter's value.
3520			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3521			Default: 255
3522
3523	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3524			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3525			SAL PALO.
3526
3527	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3528			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3529			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3530			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3531			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3532			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3533			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3534			hot plugging.
3535
3536	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3537
3538	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3539			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3540
3541	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3542			NUMA balancing.
3543			Allowed values are enable and disable
3544
3545	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3546			'node', 'default' can be specified
3547			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3548			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3549
3550	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3551			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3552			info.
3553
3554	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3555			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3556			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3557			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3558			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3559			interrupts *may* be lost!
3560
3561	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3562			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3563			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3564			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3565
3566	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3567			process, but there is a small probability of
3568			deadlocking the machine.
3569			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3570			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3571
3572	page_alloc.shuffle=
3573			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3574			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3575			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3576			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3577			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3578			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3579			can be read from sysfs at:
3580			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3581
3582	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3583			Storage of the information about who allocated
3584			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3585			we can turn it on.
3586			on: enable the feature
3587
3588	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3589			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3590			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3591			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3592			on: turn on poisoning
3593
3594	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3595			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3596			timeout = 0: wait forever
3597			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3598			Format: <timeout>
3599
3600	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3601			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3602			bit 0: print all tasks info
3603			bit 1: print system memory info
3604			bit 2: print timer info
3605			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3606			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3607			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3608
3609	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3610			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3611			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3612			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3613			called with any of the flags in this set.
3614			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3615			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3616			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3617			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3618			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3619			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3620			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3621
3622	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3623			on a WARN().
3624
3625	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3626			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3627			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3628			succeeds in any situation.
3629			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3630			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3631			kernel more unstable.
3632
3633	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3634			connected to, default is 0.
3635			Format: <parport#>
3636	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3637			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3638			Format: <mode>
3639
3640	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3641			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3642			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3643			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3644			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3645			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3646			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3647			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3648			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3649			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3650			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3651			are specified on the command line, starting
3652			with parport0.
3653
3654	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3655			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3656			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3657			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3658			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3659			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3660			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3661
3662	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3663			Format: <int>
3664			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3665			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3666			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3667
3668	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3669			Format: <int>
3670			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3671			changes.  Disabled by default.
3672
3673	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3674			Format: <int>
3675			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3676			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3677			Disabled by default.
3678
3679	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3680			Format: <int>
3681			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3682			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3683			Disabled by default.
3684
3685	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3686			Format: <int>
3687			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3688			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3689			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3690			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3691			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3692			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3693			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3694			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3695			all channels.
3696
3697	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3698			Format: <int>
3699			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3700			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3701			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3702
3703	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3704			Format: <int>
3705			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3706			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3707			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3708
3709	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3710			Format: <int>
3711			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3712			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3713			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3714			All modes allowed by default.
3715
3716	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3717			Format: <int>
3718			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3719			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3720
3721	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3722			Format: <int>
3723			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3724			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3725			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3726			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3727			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3728			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3729			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3730			By default all supported ports are probed.
3731
3732	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3733			Format: <int>
3734			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3735			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3736
3737	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3738			Format: <int>
3739			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3740			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3741			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3742			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3743			0 otherwise.
3744
3745	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3746			Format: <int>
3747			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3748			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3749			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3750			allowed by default.
3751
3752	pause_on_oops=
3753			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3754			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3755			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3756
3757	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3758
3759	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3760			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3761			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3762
3763	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3764
3765				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3766				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3767				specified in one of the following formats:
3768
3769				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3770				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3771
3772				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3773				bus/device/function address which may change
3774				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3775				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3776				by other kernel parameters. If the
3777				domain is left unspecified, it is
3778				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3779				to a device through multiple device/function
3780				addresses can be specified after the base
3781				address (this is more robust against
3782				renumbering issues).  The second format
3783				selects devices using IDs from the
3784				configuration space which may match multiple
3785				devices in the system.
3786
3787		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3788				changes anything
3789		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3790		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3791				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3792				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3793		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3794				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3795				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3796				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3797		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3798				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3799				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3800		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3801				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3802				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3803				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3804				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3805				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3806				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3807		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3808				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3809				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3810		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3811				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3812		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3813				Configuration
3814		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3815				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3816				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3817		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3818				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3819				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3820		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3821				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3822				should never be necessary.
3823		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3824				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3825				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3826				when the system masks IRQs.
3827		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3828				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3829				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3830				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3831		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3832				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3833				on several machines and they hang the machine
3834				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3835				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3836				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3837				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3838				motherboard.
3839		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3840				Use with caution as certain devices share
3841				address decoders between ROMs and other
3842				resources.
3843		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3844				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3845				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3846		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3847				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3848		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3849				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3850				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3851				this way.
3852		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3853				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3854				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3855				F0000h-100000h range.
3856		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3857				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3858				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3859				explicitly which ones they are.
3860		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3861				numbers ourselves, overriding
3862				whatever the firmware may have done.
3863		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3864				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3865				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3866				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3867				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3868				IRQ routing is enabled.
3869		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3870				or for PCI scanning.
3871		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3872				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3873				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3874				please report a bug.
3875		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3876				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3877		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3878				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3879				so this option is a temporary workaround
3880				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3881		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3882				handle more pci cards
3883		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3884				This might help on some broken boards which
3885				machine check when some devices' config space
3886				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3887				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3888		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3889				This sorting is done to get a device
3890				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3891		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3892		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3893				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3894		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3895				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3896		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3897				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3898				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3899				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3900				or bus can support) for best performance.
3901		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3902				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3903				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3904				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3905				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3906				that hot-added devices will work.
3907		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3908				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3909				The default value is 256 bytes.
3910		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3911				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3912				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3913		resource_alignment=
3914				Format:
3915				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3916				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3917				aligned memory resources. How to
3918				specify the device is described above.
3919				If <order of align> is not specified,
3920				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3921				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3922				windows need to be expanded.
3923				To specify the alignment for several
3924				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3925				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3926				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3927				for 4096-byte alignment.
3928		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3929				end-to-end CRC checking).
3930				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3931				the default.
3932				off: Turn ECRC off
3933				on: Turn ECRC on.
3934		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3935				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3936				Default size is 256 bytes.
3937		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3938				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3939				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3940		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3941				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3942				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3943		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3944				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3945				MMIO_PREF window.
3946				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3947		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3948				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3949				Default is 1.
3950		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3951				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3952				accommodate resources required by all child
3953				devices.
3954				off: Turn realloc off
3955				on: Turn realloc on
3956		realloc		same as realloc=on
3957		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3958		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3959				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3960		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3961				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3962				port.
3963		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3964				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3965				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3966				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3967				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3968				taints the kernel.
3969		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3970				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3971				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3972				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3973				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3974				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3975				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3976				this removes isolation between devices and
3977				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3978		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3979		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3980		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
3981				one PCI domain per PCI function
3982
3983	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3984			Management.
3985		off	Disable ASPM.
3986		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3987			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3988
3989	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3990		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3991			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3992			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3993			also tries to use these services.
3994		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3995				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3996		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3997			hotplug).
3998
3999	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4000		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4001		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4002
4003	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4004		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4005			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4006
4007	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4008
4009	pd_ignore_unused
4010			[PM]
4011			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4012			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4013			for debug and development, but should not be
4014			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4015
4016	pd.		[PARIDE]
4017			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4018
4019	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4020			boot time.
4021			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4022			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4023
4024	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4025			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4026			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4027			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4028			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4029			and performance comparison.
4030
4031	pf.		[PARIDE]
4032			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4033
4034	pg.		[PARIDE]
4035			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4036
4037	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4038			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4039
4040	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4041			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4042			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4043
4044	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4045			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4046			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4047
4048	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4049			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4050
4051	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4052			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4053			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4054			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4055			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4056			possible settings and some assignment information.
4057
4058	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4059			{ off }
4060
4061	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4062			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4063
4064	pnp_reserve_irq=
4065			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4066
4067	pnp_reserve_dma=
4068			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4069
4070	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4071			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4072
4073	pnp_reserve_mem=
4074			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4075			autoconfiguration.
4076			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4077
4078	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4079			Default is 21.
4080			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4081			may be specified.
4082			Format: <port>,<port>....
4083
4084	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4085			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4086			platform machine description specific power_save
4087			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4088			execution priority.
4089
4090	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4091			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4092			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4093			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4094			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4095
4096	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4097			Format: {"off"}
4098			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4099
4100	preempt=	[KNL]
4101			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4102			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4103			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4104			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4105			       can be preempted anytime.
4106
4107	print-fatal-signals=
4108			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4109
4110			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4111			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4112			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4113			coredump - etc.
4114
4115			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4116			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4117
4118			default: off.
4119
4120	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4121			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4122			panics
4123			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4124			default: disabled
4125
4126	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4127			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4128			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4129			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4130			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4131			Default: ratelimit
4132
4133	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4134			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4135
4136	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4137			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4138			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4139
4140	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4141			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4142			instead using the legacy FADT method
4143
4144	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4145			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4146			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4147				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4148			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4149			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4150				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4151			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4152			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4153				statistical time based profiling.
4154
4155	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4156
4157	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4158			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4159			that).
4160			Format: <bool>
4161
4162	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4163			tracking.
4164			Format: <bool>
4165
4166	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4167			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4168	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4169			per second.
4170	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4171			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4172			(0 = never).
4173	psmouse.resolution=
4174			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4175	psmouse.smartscroll=
4176			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4177			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4178
4179	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4180
4181	pt.		[PARIDE]
4182			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4183
4184	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4185			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4186			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4187			system calls and interrupts.
4188
4189			on   - unconditionally enable
4190			off  - unconditionally disable
4191			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4192			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4193
4194			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4195
4196	nopti		[X86-64]
4197			Equivalent to pti=off
4198
4199	pty.legacy_count=
4200			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4201			default number.
4202
4203	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4204
4205	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4206
4207	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4208			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4209
4210	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4211			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4212
4213	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4214
4215	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4216			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4217			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4218			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4219			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4220
4221	randomize_kstack_offset=
4222			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4223			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4224			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4225			that depend on stack address determinism or
4226			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4227			available on architectures that have defined
4228			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4229			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4230			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4231
4232	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4233
4234		cec_disable	[X86]
4235				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4236				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4237
4238	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
4239			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4240
4241			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
4242			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
4243			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
4244			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
4245			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
4246			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
4247			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
4248			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
4249			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
4250			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4251
4252	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4253			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4254			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4255			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4256			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4257			This improves the real-time response for the
4258			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4259			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4260			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4261			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4262
4263	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4264			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4265			process in one batch.
4266
4267	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4268			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4269			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4270			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4271
4272	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4273			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4274			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4275
4276	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4277			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4278			RCU grace-period initialization.
4279
4280	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4281			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4282			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4283			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4284			the rcu_node combining tree.
4285
4286	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4287			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4288			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4289			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4290			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4291
4292			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4293			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4294			to zero.
4295
4296	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4297			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4298			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4299			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4300			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4301
4302	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4303			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4304			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4305			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4306			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4307			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4308			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4309
4310	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4311			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4312			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4313			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4314			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4315			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4316			condition.
4317
4318	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4319			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4320			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4321			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4322			and maximum value is HZ.
4323
4324	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4325			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4326			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4327			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4328
4329	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4330			Set required age in jiffies for a
4331			given grace period before RCU starts
4332			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4333			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4334			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4335			a value based on the most recent settings
4336			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4337			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4338			This calculated value may be viewed in
4339			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4340			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4341			overwritten.
4342
4343	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4344			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4345			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4346			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4347			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4348			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4349			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4350			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4351			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4352			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4353
4354	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4355			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4356			each group, which defaults to the square root
4357			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4358			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4359			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4360			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4361
4362	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4363			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4364			batch limiting is disabled.
4365
4366	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4367			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4368			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4369
4370	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4371			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4372			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4373			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4374			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4375			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4376			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4377			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4378
4379	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4380			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4381			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4382
4383	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4384			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4385			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4386			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4387			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4388			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4389
4390	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4391			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4392			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4393			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4394			Larger delays increase the probability of
4395			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4396			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4397			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4398
4399	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4400			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4401			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4402			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4403
4404	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4405			Measure performance of asynchronous
4406			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4407
4408	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4409			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4410			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4411			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4412			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4413			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4414
4415	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4416			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4417			grace-period primitives.
4418
4419	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4420			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4421			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4422			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4423			interference.
4424
4425	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4426			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4427
4428	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4429			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4430			If this parameter has the same value as
4431			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4432			and double-argument variants are tested.
4433
4434	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4435			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4436			If this parameter has the same value as
4437			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4438			and double-argument variants are tested.
4439
4440	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4441			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4442
4443	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4444			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4445
4446	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4447			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4448			of allocations and frees.
4449
4450	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4451			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4452			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4453			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4454			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4455			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4456			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4457			a single reader.
4458
4459	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4460			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4461			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4462			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4463
4464	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4465			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4466
4467	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4468			Shut the system down after performance tests
4469			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4470			testing.
4471
4472	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4473			Enable additional printk() statements.
4474
4475	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4476			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4477			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4478			no holdoff.
4479
4480	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4481			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4482			in microseconds.
4483
4484	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4485			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4486			in microseconds.
4487
4488	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4489			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4490			in seconds.
4491
4492	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4493			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4494			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4495
4496	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4497			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4498			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4499
4500	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4501			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4502			forward-progress tests.
4503
4504	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4505			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4506			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4507			testing.
4508
4509	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4510			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4511			primitives, if available.
4512
4513	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4514			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4515
4516	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4517			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4518			update-side primitives, if available.
4519
4520	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4521			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4522			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4523			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4524			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4525			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4526			they are all non-zero.
4527
4528	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4529			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4530			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4531			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4532
4533	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4534			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4535			This can of course result in splats, and is
4536			intended to test the ability of things like
4537			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4538			such leaks.
4539
4540	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4541			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4542
4543	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4544			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4545			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4546			test, hence the "fake".
4547
4548	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4549			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4550			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4551
4552	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4553			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4554			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4555
4556	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4557			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4558			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4559			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4560			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4561			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4562
4563	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4564			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4565
4566	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4567			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4568
4569	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4570			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4571			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4572
4573	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4574			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4575			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4576			task-exit processing.
4577
4578	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4579			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4580			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4581			is spawned.
4582
4583	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4584			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4585			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4586
4587	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4588			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4589			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4590			during the rcutorture test.
4591
4592	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4593			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4594			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4595
4596	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4597			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4598			warnings, zero to disable.
4599
4600	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4601			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4602			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4603			to any other stall-related activity.
4604
4605	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4606			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4607
4608	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4609			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4610
4611	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4612			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4613			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4614			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4615			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4616			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4617
4618	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4619			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4620
4621	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4622			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4623			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4624			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4625			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4626
4627	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4628			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4629			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4630			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4631
4632	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4633			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4634
4635	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4636			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4637
4638	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4639			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4640			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4641
4642	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4643			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4644
4645	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4646			Enable additional printk() statements.
4647
4648	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4649			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4650			stall warning.
4651
4652	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4653			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4654
4655	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4656			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4657			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4658			during early boot, that is, during the time
4659			before the init task is spawned.
4660
4661	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4662			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4663
4664	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4665			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4666			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4667			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4668			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4669			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4670			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4671
4672	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4673			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4674			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4675			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4676			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4677			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4678			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4679			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4680			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4681
4682	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4683			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4684			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4685			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4686			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4687
4688			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4689			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4690			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4691			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4692			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4693			grace-period processing.
4694
4695	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4696			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4697			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4698			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4699			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4700			but lengthens grace periods.
4701
4702	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4703			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4704			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4705			to zero.
4706
4707	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4708			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4709
4710	rdinit=		[KNL]
4711			Format: <full_path>
4712			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4713			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4714
4715	rdrand=		[X86]
4716			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4717				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4718				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4719				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4720				path).
4721
4722	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4723			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4724			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4725			mba.
4726			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4727				rdt=cmt,!mba
4728
4729	reboot=		[KNL]
4730			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4731				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4732				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4733				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4734				[[,]f[orce]
4735			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4736					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4737					reboot only),
4738			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4739			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4740			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4741					to be used for rebooting.
4742
4743	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4744			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4745			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4746			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4747			interference.
4748
4749	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4750			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4751			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4752			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4753			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4754			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4755			x86 laptops.
4756
4757	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4758			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4759			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4760			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4761
4762	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4763			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4764			the console log.
4765
4766	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4767			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4768			measured in microseconds.
4769
4770	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4771			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4772
4773	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4774			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4775			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4776			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4777			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4778
4779	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4780			Enable additional printk() statements.
4781
4782	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4783			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4784			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4785			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4786			specified.
4787
4788	relax_domain_level=
4789			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4790			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4791
4792	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4793			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4794			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4795			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4796			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4797
4798	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4799			Format: nn[KMG]
4800			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4801			address space.
4802
4803	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4804			during initialization.
4805
4806	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4807			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4808			Format:
4809			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4810
4811	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4812			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4813			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4814			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4815			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4816
4817	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4818			read the resume files
4819
4820	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4821			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4822			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4823
4824	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4825		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4826				present during boot.
4827		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4828		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4829		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4830				(that will set all pages holding image data
4831				during restoration read-only).
4832
4833	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4834
4835	rfkill.default_state=
4836		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4837			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4838		1	Unblocked.
4839
4840	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4841		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4842		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4843			blocked and the previous configuration.
4844		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4845			blocked and everything unblocked.
4846
4847	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4848			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4849
4850	ring3mwait=disable
4851			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4852			CPUs.
4853
4854	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4855
4856	rodata=		[KNL]
4857		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4858		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4859
4860	rockchip.usb_uart
4861			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4862			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4863			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4864			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4865
4866	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4867			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4868
4869	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4870			mount the root filesystem
4871
4872	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4873
4874	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4875
4876	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4877			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4878			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4879
4880	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4881			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4882			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4883			managed by CMA.
4884
4885	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4886
4887	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4888
4889	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4890			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4891		strict
4892			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4893			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4894			which is faster.
4895
4896	sa1100ir	[NET]
4897			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4898
4899	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4900
4901	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4902
4903	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4904			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4905			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4906			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4907
4908	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
4909			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
4910			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
4911			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
4912			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
4913			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
4914			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
4915			value.
4916			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
4917			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
4918				1			64 ms
4919				2			128 ms
4920			and so on.
4921			Format: integer between 0 and 10
4922			Default is 0.
4923
4924	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
4925			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
4926			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
4927			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
4928			tests.
4929
4930	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
4931			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
4932			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
4933			default) disables this feature.  Please note
4934			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
4935			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
4936			softlockup complaints, and so on.
4937
4938	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
4939			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
4940			smp_call_function() family of functions.
4941			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
4942			equal to the number of CPUs.
4943
4944	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4945			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
4946			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
4947
4948	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4949			Number seconds to wait between successive
4950			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
4951			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
4952
4953	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4954			The number of seconds following the start of the
4955			test after which to shut down the system.  The
4956			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
4957			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
4958
4959	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4960			The number of seconds between outputting the
4961			current test statistics to the console.  A value
4962			of zero disables statistics output.
4963
4964	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
4965			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
4966			to the set of CPUs under test.
4967
4968	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
4969			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
4970			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
4971			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
4972			functions.
4973
4974	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
4975			Enable additional printk() statements.
4976
4977	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
4978			The probability weighting to use for the
4979			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
4980			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
4981			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
4982			if at least one weight has some other value, a
4983			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
4984
4985	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
4986			The probability weighting to use for the
4987			smp_call_function_single() function with a
4988			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4989
4990	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
4991			The probability weighting to use for the
4992			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
4993			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
4994			Note well that setting a high probability for
4995			this weighting can place serious IPI load
4996			on the system.
4997
4998	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
4999			The probability weighting to use for the
5000			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5001			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5002			and weight_many.
5003
5004	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5005			The probability weighting to use for the
5006			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5007			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5008			weight_many.
5009
5010	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5011			The probability weighting to use for the
5012			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5013			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5014			and weight_many.
5015
5016	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5017			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5018			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5019			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5020			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5021			1 -- enable.
5022			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5023			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5024
5025	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5026			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5027			"lsm=" parameter.
5028
5029	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5030			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5031			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5032			0 -- disable.
5033			1 -- enable.
5034			Default value is 1.
5035
5036	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5037			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5038			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5039			0 -- disable.
5040			1 -- enable.
5041			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5042
5043	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5044
5045	shapers=	[NET]
5046			Maximal number of shapers.
5047
5048	simeth=		[IA-64]
5049	simscsi=
5050
5051	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5052
5053	slab_merge	[MM]
5054			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5055			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5056
5057	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5058			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5059			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5060			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5061			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5062			layout control by attackers can usually be
5063			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5064			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5065			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5066			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5067			own.
5068			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5069
5070	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5071			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5072			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5073			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5074			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5075
5076	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5077			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5078			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5079			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5080			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5081			last alloc / free. For more information see
5082			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5083
5084	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5085			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5086			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5087			fragmentation. For more information see
5088			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5089
5090	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5091			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5092			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5093			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5094			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5095			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5096			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5097			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5098
5099	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5100			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5101			lower than slub_max_order.
5102			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5103
5104	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5105			Same with slab_merge.
5106
5107	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5108			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5109			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5110
5111	smart2=		[HW]
5112			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5113
5114	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5115	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5116	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5117	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5118	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5119	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5120	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5121				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5122				1: Fast pin select (default)
5123				2: ATC IRMode
5124
5125	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5126			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5127			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5128			actual hardware limit.
5129			Format: <integer>
5130			Default: -1 (no limit)
5131
5132	softlockup_panic=
5133			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5134			Format: 0 | 1
5135
5136			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5137			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5138			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5139			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5140			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5141
5142	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5143			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5144			backtraces on all cpus.
5145			Format: 0 | 1
5146
5147	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5148			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5149
5150	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5151			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5152			The default operation protects the kernel from
5153			user space attacks.
5154
5155			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5156			       spectre_v2_user=on
5157			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5158			       spectre_v2_user=off
5159			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5160			       vulnerable
5161
5162			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5163			mitigation method at run time according to the
5164			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5165			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5166			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5167
5168			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5169			against user space to user space task attacks.
5170
5171			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5172			the user space protections.
5173
5174			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5175
5176			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5177			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
5178			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
5179
5180			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5181			spectre_v2=auto.
5182
5183	spectre_v2_user=
5184			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5185		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5186		        user space tasks
5187
5188			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5189				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5190
5191			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5192				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5193
5194			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5195				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5196				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5197				  is inherited on fork.
5198
5199			prctl,ibpb
5200				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5201				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5202				  always when switching between different user
5203				  space processes.
5204
5205			seccomp
5206				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5207				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5208				  they explicitly opt out.
5209
5210			seccomp,ibpb
5211				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5212				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5213				  always when switching between different
5214				  user space processes.
5215
5216			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5217				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5218
5219			Default mitigation:
5220			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5221
5222			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5223			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5224
5225	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5226			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5227			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5228
5229			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5230			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5231			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5232			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5233			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5234			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5235			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5236			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5237
5238			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5239			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5240			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5241			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5242
5243			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5244			Bypass optimization is used.
5245
5246			On x86 the options are:
5247
5248			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5249			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5250			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5251				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5252				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5253				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5254				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5255				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5256			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5257				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5258				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5259				  is inherited on fork.
5260			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5261				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5262
5263			Default mitigations:
5264			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
5265
5266			On powerpc the options are:
5267
5268			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5269				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5270				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5271				  exit.
5272			off	- No action.
5273
5274			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5275			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5276
5277	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5278	spia_fio_base=
5279	spia_pedr=
5280	spia_peddr=
5281
5282	split_lock_detect=
5283			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5284
5285			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5286			instructions that access data across cache line
5287			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5288			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5289			bus lock detection.
5290
5291			off	- not enabled
5292
5293			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5294				  about applications triggering the #AC
5295				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5296				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5297				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5298				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5299				  enabled in hardware.
5300
5301			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5302				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5303				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5304				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5305
5306			ratelimit:N -
5307				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5308				  per second for bus lock detection.
5309				  0 < N <= 1000.
5310
5311				  N/A for split lock detection.
5312
5313
5314			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5315			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5316			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5317			mode.
5318
5319			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5320			CPL > 0.
5321
5322	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5323			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5324			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5325
5326			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5327			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5328			number generator.
5329
5330			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5331			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5332			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5333			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5334			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5335
5336			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5337			the following option:
5338
5339			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5340				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5341
5342	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5343			Specifies how frequently to check for
5344			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5345			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5346			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5347			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5348			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5349			are ignored.
5350
5351	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5352			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5353			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5354			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5355			grace period will be considered for automatic
5356			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5357			expediting.
5358
5359	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5360			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5361
5362			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5363			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5364			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5365			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5366
5367			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5368				   for both kernel and userspace
5369			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5370				   for both kernel and userspace
5371			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5372				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5373				   to allow userspace to register its
5374				   interest in being mitigated too.
5375
5376	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5377			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5378			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5379			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5380			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5381			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5382
5383	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5384			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5385			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5386			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5387			to false.
5388
5389	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5390			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5391
5392	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5393			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5394			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5395			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5396			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5397			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5398			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5399
5400	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5401			Format: <num>
5402			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5403			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5404			as the initial boot-console.
5405			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5406
5407	sti_font=	[HW]
5408			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5409
5410	stifb=		[HW]
5411			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5412
5413	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5414	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5415			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5416			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5417			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5418			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5419			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5420			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5421			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5422			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5423			maximum port values.
5424
5425	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5426			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5427			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5428			process in parallel from a single connection.
5429			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5430
5431	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5432			[NFS]
5433			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5434			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5435			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5436			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5437			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5438			NFS server is running.
5439
5440			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5441				    automatically using heuristics
5442			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5443			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5444			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5445				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5446
5447	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5448	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5449			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5450			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5451			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5452			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5453			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5454			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5455
5456	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5457			[SUSPEND]
5458			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5459			mode before resuming the system (see
5460			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5461			is set. Default value is 5.
5462
5463	svm=		[PPC]
5464			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5465			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5466			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5467
5468	swapaccount=[0|1]
5469			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5470			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5471			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5472
5473	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5474			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5475			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5476			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5477			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5478			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5479
5480	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5481
5482	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5483			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5484			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5485			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5486			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5487			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5488			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5489			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5490
5491	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5492			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5493			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5494			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5495			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5496			in older udev will not work anymore.
5497			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5498			the kernel configuration.
5499
5500	sysrq_always_enabled
5501			[KNL]
5502			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5503			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5504			Useful for debugging.
5505
5506	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5507			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5508			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5509			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5510			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5511			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5512
5513	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5514
5515	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5516			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5517			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5518			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5519			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5520			The system is woken from this state using a
5521			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5522
5523	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5524			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5525
5526	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5527			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5528			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5529
5530	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5531			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5532			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5533
5534	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5535			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5536			critical and hot trip points.
5537
5538	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5539			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5540
5541	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5542			-1: disable all passive trip points
5543			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5544			value
5545
5546	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5547			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5548			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5549			0: no polling (default)
5550
5551	threadirqs	[KNL]
5552			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5553			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5554
5555	topology=	[S390]
5556			Format: {off | on}
5557			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5558			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5559			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5560			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5561			Default is on.
5562
5563	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5564			Format: {off}
5565			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5566			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5567			LPAR.
5568
5569	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5570			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5571			until after init has spawned.
5572
5573	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5574			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5575			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5576			very costly operation when many torture tests
5577			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5578			with rotating-rust storage.
5579
5580	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5581			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5582			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5583			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5584
5585	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5586			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5587
5588	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5589
5590	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5591			Format: integer pcr id
5592			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5593			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5594			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5595			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5596			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5597			are saved.
5598
5599	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5600			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5601
5602	trace_event=[event-list]
5603			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5604			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5605			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5606			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5607
5608	trace_options=[option-list]
5609			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5610			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5611			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5612			to echo the option name into
5613
5614			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5615
5616			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5617			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5618
5619			      trace_options=stacktrace
5620
5621			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5622			section.
5623
5624	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5625			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5626			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5627			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5628			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5629			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5630
5631			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5632			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5633			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5634			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5635
5636			** CAUTION **
5637
5638			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5639			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5640			the system to live lock.
5641
5642	traceoff_on_warning
5643			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5644			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5645			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5646			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5647
5648			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5649			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5650			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5651
5652			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5653			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5654
5655	transparent_hugepage=
5656			[KNL]
5657			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5658			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5659			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5660			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5661			for more details.
5662
5663	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
5664			Format: <string>
5665			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5666			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5667			sources:
5668			- "tpm"
5669			- "tee"
5670			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5671			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5672			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5673			successfully during iteration.
5674
5675	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5676			Format: <string>
5677			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5678			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5679			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5680			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5681			virtualized environment.
5682			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5683			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5684			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5685			can add overhead.
5686			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5687			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5688			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5689			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5690			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5691			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5692			acceptable).
5693
5694	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5695			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5696			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5697			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5698			Format: <unsigned int>
5699
5700	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5701			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5702			support TSX control.
5703
5704			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5705
5706			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5707				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5708				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5709				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5710				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5711				with leaving it enabled.
5712
5713			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5714				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5715				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5716				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5717				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5718				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5719				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5720
5721			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5722				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5723
5724			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5725
5726			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5727			for more details.
5728
5729	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5730			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5731
5732			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5733			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5734			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5735			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5736			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5737			conditions.
5738
5739			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5740			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5741			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5742			access.
5743
5744			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5745			options are:
5746
5747			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5748				     if TSX is enabled.
5749
5750			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5751				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5752				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5753				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5754			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5755
5756			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5757			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5758			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5759			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5760
5761			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5762			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5763			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5764			required and doesn't provide any additional
5765			mitigation.
5766
5767			For details see:
5768			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5769
5770	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5771			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5772			Format:
5773			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5774			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5775
5776	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5777			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5778			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5779			help "seeing" what's going on.
5780
5781	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5782			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5783
5784	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5785			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5786			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5787			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5788			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5789			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5790			reported either.
5791
5792	unknown_nmi_panic
5793			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5794
5795	usbcore.authorized_default=
5796			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5797			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5798			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5799			if device connected to internal port)
5800
5801	usbcore.autosuspend=
5802			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5803			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5804			is the time required before an idle device will be
5805			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5806			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5807
5808	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5809			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5810
5811	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5812			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5813			(default = 65536).
5814
5815	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5816			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5817
5818	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5819			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5820			scheme (default 0 = off).
5821
5822	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5823			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5824			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5825
5826	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5827			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5828			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5829
5830	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5831			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5832			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5833			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5834
5835	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5836
5837	usbcore.quirks=
5838			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5839			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5840			commas. Each entry has the form
5841			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5842			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5843			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5844			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5845			the following meanings:
5846				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5847					descriptors must not be fetched using
5848					a 255-byte read);
5849				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5850					correctly so reset it instead);
5851				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5852					Set-Interface requests);
5853				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5854					handle its Configuration or Interface
5855					strings);
5856				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5857					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5858				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5859					more interface descriptions than the
5860					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5861					talking to these interfaces);
5862				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5863					during initialization, after we read
5864					the device descriptor);
5865				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5866					high speed and super speed interrupt
5867					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5868					require the interval in microframes (1
5869					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5870					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5871					(bInterval-1).
5872					Devices with this quirk report their
5873					bInterval as the result of this
5874					calculation instead of the exponent
5875					variable used in the calculation);
5876				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5877					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5878					requests);
5879				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5880					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5881					remote wakeup capability);
5882				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5883					Power Management);
5884				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5885					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5886					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5887					calculation);
5888				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5889					to be disconnected before suspend to
5890					prevent spurious wakeup);
5891				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5892					pause after every control message);
5893				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5894					delay after resetting its port);
5895			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5896
5897	usbhid.mousepoll=
5898			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5899
5900	usbhid.jspoll=
5901			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5902
5903	usbhid.kbpoll=
5904			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5905
5906	usb-storage.delay_use=
5907			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5908			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5909
5910	usb-storage.quirks=
5911			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5912			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5913			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5914			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5915			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5916			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5917			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5918				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5919					of sense data, not on uas);
5920				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5921					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5922				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5923					device capacity by one sector);
5924				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5925					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5926				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5927					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5928				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5929					command, uas only);
5930				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5931					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5932				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5933					reported device capacity by one
5934					sector if the number is odd);
5935				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5936					device);
5937				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5938					command, uas only);
5939				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
5940				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5941					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5942				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5943					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5944					not on uas);
5945				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5946					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5947				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5948					reported by the device, not on uas);
5949				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5950					by default, not on uas);
5951				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5952					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5953				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5954					Logical Unit);
5955				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5956					commands, uas only);
5957				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5958				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5959					medium is write-protected).
5960				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5961					even if the device claims no cache,
5962					not on uas)
5963			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5964
5965	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5966			Format: <int>
5967			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5968				 1 - undefined instruction events
5969				 2 - system calls
5970				 4 - invalid data aborts
5971				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5972				16 - SIGBUS faults
5973			Example: user_debug=31
5974
5975	userpte=
5976			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5977
5978				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5979					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5980					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5981
5982	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5983			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5984
5985			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5986			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5987
5988	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5989			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5990			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5991
5992			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5993			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5994			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5995
5996			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5997			alias for vdso32=0.
5998
5999			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6000			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6001
6002	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6003			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6004
6005	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6006			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6007
6008	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6009			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6010			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6011			level and then send out the event to user space through
6012			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6013			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6014			brightness level.
6015			default: 1
6016
6017	virtio_mmio.device=
6018			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6019
6020				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6021			where:
6022				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6023						like K, M and G)
6024				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6025				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6026						request_irq())
6027				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6028			example:
6029				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6030
6031			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6032
6033	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6034			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6035			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6036			Use vga=ask for menu.
6037			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6038			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6039
6040	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6041			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6042			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6043			All options are enabled by default, and this
6044			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6045			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6046			debugging features.
6047
6048			Available options are:
6049			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6050			  -	Disable all of the above options
6051
6052	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6053			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6054			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6055			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6056			mapped kernel RAM.
6057
6058	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6059			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6060			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6061
6062	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6063			Format: <command>
6064
6065	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6066			Format: <command>
6067
6068	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6069			Format: <command>
6070
6071	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6072			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6073			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6074			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6075			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6076			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6077			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6078
6079			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6080			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6081				    page is readable.
6082
6083			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6084			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6085				    page is not readable.
6086
6087			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6088			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6089			            might break your system.
6090
6091	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6092			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6093			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6094
6095	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6096			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6097			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6098			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6099
6100	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6101			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6102			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6103			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6104			ranging from 0-255.
6105
6106	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6107			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6108			Change the default green palette of the console.
6109			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6110			ranging from 0-255.
6111
6112	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6113			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6114			Change the default red palette of the console.
6115			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6116			ranging from 0-255.
6117
6118	vt.default_utf8=
6119			[VT]
6120			Format=<0|1>
6121			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6122			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6123			newly opened terminals.
6124
6125	vt.global_cursor_default=
6126			[VT]
6127			Format=<-1|0|1>
6128			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6129			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6130			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6131			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6132			cursors, 1 will display them.
6133
6134	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6135			Default: 2 = green.
6136
6137	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6138			Default: 3 = cyan.
6139
6140	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6141			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6142			or other driver-specific files in the
6143			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6144
6145	watchdog_thresh=
6146			[KNL]
6147			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6148			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6149			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6150			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6151			seconds.
6152
6153	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6154			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6155			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6156			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6157			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6158			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6159			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6160			corresponding sysfs file.
6161
6162	workqueue.disable_numa
6163			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6164			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6165			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6166			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6167			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6168			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6169			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6170
6171	workqueue.power_efficient
6172			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6173			they show better performance thanks to cache
6174			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6175			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6176
6177			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6178			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6179			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6180			power usage at the cost of small performance
6181			overhead.
6182
6183			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6184			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6185
6186	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6187			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6188			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6189			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6190			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6191			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6192			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6193			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6194			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6195			impacted.
6196
6197	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6198			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6199			supporting x2apic.
6200
6201	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6202			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6203			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6204			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6205			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6206			domains.
6207
6208	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6209			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6210			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6211			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6212			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6213			nics -- unplug network devices
6214			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6215			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6216				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6217				the unplug protocol
6218			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6219
6220	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6221			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6222			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6223
6224	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6225			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6226			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6227			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6228
6229	xen_nopv	[X86]
6230			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6231			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6232			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6233			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6234
6235	xen_no_vector_callback
6236			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6237			event channel interrupts.
6238
6239	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6240			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6241			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6242			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6243			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6244
6245	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6246			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6247			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6248			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6249			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6250			more timer interrupts.
6251
6252	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6253			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6254			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6255
6256	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6257			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6258			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6259
6260	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6261			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6262			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6263			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6264			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6265			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6266
6267	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6268			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6269			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6270			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6271
6272	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6273			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6274			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6275			contention.
6276
6277	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6278			Format:
6279			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6280
6281	xive=		[PPC]
6282			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6283			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6284			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6285
6286			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6287				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6288				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6289
6290	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6291			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6292			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6293			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6294
6295	xmon		[PPC]
6296			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6297			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6298			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6299			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6300				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6301			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6302				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6303				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6304				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6305			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6306				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6307				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6308				can be written using xmon commands.
6309			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6310				memory, and other data can't be written using
6311				xmon commands.
6312			off	xmon is disabled.
6313