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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			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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: <int>
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_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142			second kernel for kdump.
143
144	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
147	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
153	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
154			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
155			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
156			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
157			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
158						  strings
159			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
160						  strings
161			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
162
163			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
166			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
170			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
171			care about the state of the feature group strings which
172			should be controlled by the OSPM.
173			Examples:
174			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
181			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182			multiple times through kernel command line is also
183			meaningless.
184			Examples:
185			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186			     FALSE.
187
188			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
191			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
194			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
196			is useful when one want to control the state of the
197			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198			the OSPM features.
199			Examples:
200			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205			     equivalent to
206			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207			     and
208			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
211	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
212			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214			and always returns good values.
215
216	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
219	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
225				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
226			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
227			s3_bios and s3_mode.
228			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231			used during resume from hibernation.
232			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233			control method, with respect to putting devices into
234			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235			of _PTS is used by default).
236			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
238			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240			but some broken systems don't work without it).
241			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
244
245	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
249	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
252	agp=		[AGP]
253			{ off | try_unsupported }
254			off: disable AGP support
255			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
258	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
259			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
260
261	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
262			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
264			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
266	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
267			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
274			32: only for 32-bit processes
275			64: only for 64-bit processes
276			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
279	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
280			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
286	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
287			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288			Possible values are:
289			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291				    flushed before they will be reused, which
292				    is a lot of faster
293			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294				    the system
295			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
298					  requirements as needed. This option
299					  does not override iommu=pt
300
301	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
302			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305			IOMMU initialization.
306
307	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
308			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309			remapping modes:
310			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
316	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318			Format: <a>,<b>
319			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
320
321	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323			connected to one of 16 gameports
324			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
326	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
327			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
328			Format: noidle
329			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331			APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
333	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
334			Change the output verbosity while booting
335			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336			Change the amount of debugging information output
337			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
338			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339			driver name.
340			Format: apic=driver_name
341			Examples: apic=bigsmp
342
343	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347			      backup of CPU 0
348			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350			      shot down by NMI
351
352	autoconf=	[IPV6]
353			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
355	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361			apic=verbose is specified.
362			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
364	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
365			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
366
367	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
371
372	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
374	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375			EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
379	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
380			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
381
382	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383			keyboards
384
385	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
387
388	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389			Use software keyboard repeat
390
391	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
392			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394			    enabled until the next reboot
395			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
397			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400			    userspace auditd.
401			Default: unset
402
403	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405			Default: 64
406
407	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
408			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			0 - Disable the BAU.
411			1 - Enable the BAU.
412			unset - Disable the BAU.
413
414	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
415			Format: <io>,<mode>
416
417	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418			Format: <io>,<mode>
419			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
421	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
422			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
423			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
426	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
427			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
428			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
431	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432			embedded devices based on command line input.
433			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
434
435	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437			no delay (0).
438			Format: integer
439
440	bert_disable	[ACPI]
441			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
442
443	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
444	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
445			kernel args too.
446	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
447	bttv.tuner=
448
449	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
450			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
451			at a time.
452
453	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
454
455	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
456			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
457			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
458			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
459			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
460			This option provides an override for these situations.
461
462	carrier_timeout=
463			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
464			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
465			it waits 120 seconds.
466
467	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
468			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
469			trust validation.
470			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
471
472	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
473			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
474			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
475			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
476			others).
477
478	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
479			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
480
481	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
482			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
483			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
484			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
485			  a single hierarchy
486			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
487			  subsystem
488			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
489			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
490			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
491
492	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
493			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
494			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
495			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
496			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
497			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
498			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
499			all v1 hierarchies.
500
501	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
502			Format: <string>
503			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
504			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
505
506	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
507			Format: { "0" | "1" }
508			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
509			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
510				any implied execute protection).
511			1 -- check protection requested by application.
512			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
513			Value can be changed at runtime via
514				/selinux/checkreqprot.
515
516	cio_ignore=	[S390]
517			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
518	clk_ignore_unused
519			[CLK]
520			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
521			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
522			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
523			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
524			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
525			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
526			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
527			platform with proper driver support.  For more
528			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
529
530	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
531			[Deprecated]
532			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
533			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
534			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
535			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
536
537	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
538			Format: <string>
539			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
540			with the name specified.
541			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
542			the platform:
543			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
544			[ACPI] acpi_pm
545			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
546				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
547			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
548				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
549			[MIPS] MIPS
550			[PARISC] cr16
551			[S390] tod
552			[SH] SuperH
553			[SPARC64] tick
554			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
555
556	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
557			[ARM,ARM64]
558			Format: <bool>
559			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
560			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
561			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
562			systems.
563
564	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
565			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
566			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
567			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
568			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
569			ones should be.
570			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
571			or using the feature without checking anything
572			will still see it. This just prevents it from
573			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
574			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
575			some critical bits.
576
577	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
578			[ARM,X86,KNL]
579			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
580			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
581			placement constraint by the physical address range of
582			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
583			altogether. For more information, see
584			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
585
586	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
587			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
588			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
589			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
590			a hypervisor.
591			Default: yes
592
593	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
594			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
595			allocations, by default set to 256K.
596
597	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
598			Format:
599			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
600
601	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
602			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
603
604	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
605			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
606			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
607
608	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
609	conmode=
610
611	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
612
613		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
614
615		ttyS<n>[,options]
616		ttyUSB0[,options]
617			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
618			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
619			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
620			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
621			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
622
623			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
624			information.  See
625			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
626			alternative.
627
628		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
629		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
630		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
631		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
632		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
633			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
634			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
635			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
636			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
637			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
638			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
639			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
640			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
641			the h/w is not re-initialized.
642
643		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
644			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
645
646		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
647		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
648			console=brl,ttyS0
649		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
650
651	console_msg_format=
652			[KNL] Change console messages format
653		default
654			By default we print messages on consoles in
655			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
656			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
657			`printk_time' param).
658		syslog
659			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
660			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
661			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
662			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
663			from /proc/kmsg.
664
665	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
666			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
667			Defaults to 0.
668
669	coredump_filter=
670			[KNL] Change the default value for
671			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
672			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
673
674	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
675			[ARM,ARM64]
676			Format: <bool>
677			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
678			0: default value, disable debugging
679			1: enable debugging at boot time
680
681	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
682			disable the cpuidle sub-system
683
684	cpuidle.governor=
685			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
686
687	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
688			disable the cpufreq sub-system
689
690	cpu_init_udelay=N
691			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
692			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
693			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
694			Default: 10000
695
696	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
697			Format:
698			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
699
700	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
701			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
702			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
703			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
704			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
705			is selected automatically.
706			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
707			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
708			hasn't been specified.
709			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
710
711	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
712			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
713			in the running system. The syntax of range is
714			start-[end] where start and end are both
715			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
716			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
717
718	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
719			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
720			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
721			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
722			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
723			available.
724			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
725	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
726			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
727			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
728			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
729			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
730			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
731			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
732			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
733			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
734			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
735			for second kernel instead.
736			0: to disable low allocation.
737			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
738			or memory reserved is below 4G.
739
740	cryptomgr.notests
741			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
742
743	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
744			Format: <dma>
745
746	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
747			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
748
749	dasd=		[HW,NET]
750			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
751
752	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
753			(one device per port)
754			Format: <port#>,<type>
755			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
756
757	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
758			time. See
759			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
760			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
761
762	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
763
764	debug_boot_weak_hash
765			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
766			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
767			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
768			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
769			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
770			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
771
772	debug_locks_verbose=
773			[KNL] verbose self-tests
774			Format=<0|1>
775			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
776			self-tests.
777			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
778			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
779			only useful to kernel developers.
780
781	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
782
783	no_debug_objects
784			[KNL] Disable object debugging
785
786	debug_guardpage_minorder=
787			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
788			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
789			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
790			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
791			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
792			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
793			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
794			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
795			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
796			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
797			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
798			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
799			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
800			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
801			bypassed) which are not detectable by
802			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
803			tracking down these problems.
804
805	debug_pagealloc=
806			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
807			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
808			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
809			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
810			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
811			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
812			on: enable the feature
813
814	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
815
816	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
817			Format: <area>[,<node>]
818			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
819
820	default_hugepagesz=
821			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
822			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
823			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
824			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
825			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
826			if not specified.
827
828	deferred_probe_timeout=
829			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
830			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
831			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
832			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
833			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
834			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
835			retrying.
836
837	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
838			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
839
840	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
841			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
842			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
843			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
844			miss to occur.
845
846	disable=	[IPV6]
847			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
848
849	hardened_usercopy=
850                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
851                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
852                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
853                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
854                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
855                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
856                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
857                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
858                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
859
860	disable_radix	[PPC]
861			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
862
863	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
864			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
865			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
866
867	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
868			Format: <int>
869			The number of initial APIC ID for the
870			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
871			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
872			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
873			causing system reset or hang due to sending
874			INIT from AP to BSP.
875
876	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
877			Format: <bool>
878			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
879			The feature only exists starting from
880			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
881
882	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
883			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
884			to workaround buggy firmware.
885
886	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
887			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
888
889	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
890			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
891			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
892			entry later. This parameter disables that.
893
894	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
895			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
896			memory out of your available memory pool based on
897			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
898			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
899
900	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
901			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
902			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
903
904	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
905
906	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
907			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
908
909	dma_debug_entries=<number>
910			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
911			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
912			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
913			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
914			architectural default is too low.
915
916	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
917			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
918			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
919			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
920			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
921			driver later using sysfs.
922
923	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
924			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
925			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
926
927	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
928			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
929			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
930			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
931			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
932			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
933			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
934			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
935			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
936			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
937			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
938			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
939			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
940			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
941			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
942			data set with no connector name will be used for
943			any connectors not explicitly specified.
944
945	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
946
947	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
948			Format: {"off" | "known"}
949			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
950			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
951			exists).
952			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
953			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
954			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
955
956	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
957			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
958			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
959			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
960
961	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
962	module.dyndbg[="val"]
963			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
964			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
965			for details.
966
967	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
968			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
969			information about the feature.
970
971	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
972			in some Intel CPUs.
973
974	module.async_probe [KNL]
975			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
976
977	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
978			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
979			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
980			which are not unmapped.
981
982	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
983
984			When used with no options, the early console is
985			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
986			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
987			the platform.
988
989		cdns,<addr>[,options]
990			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
991			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
992			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
993			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
994			configured.
995
996		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
997		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
998		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
999		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1000		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1001			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1002			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1003			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1004			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1005			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1006			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1007			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1008			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1009
1010		pl011,<addr>
1011		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1012			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1013			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1014			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1015			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1016			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1017			the device registers.
1018
1019		meson,<addr>
1020			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1021			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1022			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1023			supported.
1024
1025		msm_serial,<addr>
1026			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1027			port at the specified address. The serial port
1028			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1029			yet supported.
1030
1031		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1032			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1033			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1034			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1035			yet supported.
1036
1037		owl,<addr>
1038			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1039			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1040			specified address. The serial port must already be
1041			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1042
1043		rda,<addr>
1044			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1045			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1046			specified address. The serial port must already be
1047			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1048
1049		sbi
1050			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1051			console.
1052
1053		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1054
1055		s3c2410,<addr>
1056		s3c2412,<addr>
1057		s3c2440,<addr>
1058		s3c6400,<addr>
1059		s5pv210,<addr>
1060		exynos4210,<addr>
1061			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1062			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1063			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1064			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1065			Options are not yet supported.
1066
1067		lantiq,<addr>
1068			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1069			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1070			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1071			yet supported.
1072
1073		lpuart,<addr>
1074		lpuart32,<addr>
1075			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1076			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1077			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1078			port must already be setup and configured.
1079
1080		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1081			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1082			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1083			address. The serial port must already be setup
1084			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1085
1086		qcom_geni,<addr>
1087			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1088			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1089			specified address. The serial port must already be
1090			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1091
1092		efifb,[options]
1093			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1094			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1095			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1096			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1097			mapped with the correct attributes.
1098
1099		linflex,<addr>
1100			Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART
1101			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1102			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1103			already be setup and configured.
1104
1105	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1106			earlyprintk=vga
1107			earlyprintk=sclp
1108			earlyprintk=xen
1109			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1110			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1111			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1112			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1113			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1114			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1115
1116			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1117			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1118			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1119
1120			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1121			takes over.
1122
1123			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1124			be used at a time.
1125
1126			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1127			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1128			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1129			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1130				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1131			You can find the port for a given device in
1132			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1133				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1134
1135			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1136			very good.
1137
1138			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1139			the real console.
1140
1141			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1142
1143			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1144
1145			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1146			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1147			UART class.
1148
1149	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1150			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1151			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1152			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1153			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1154			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1155			default: on.
1156
1157	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1158			ekgdboc=kbd
1159
1160			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1161			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1162
1163	edd=		[EDD]
1164			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1165
1166	efi=		[EFI]
1167			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1168			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1169			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1170			default.
1171			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1172			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1173			firmware implementations.
1174			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1175			debug: enable misc debug output
1176
1177	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1178			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1179			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1180			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1181			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1182
1183	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1184			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1185			updating original EFI memory map.
1186			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1187			from ss to ss+nn.
1188			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1189			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1190			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1191			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1192
1193			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1194			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1195			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1196			doesn't support it.
1197
1198	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1199			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1200			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1201			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1202			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1203
1204
1205	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1206			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1207
1208	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1209			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1210			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1211
1212	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1213			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1214			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1215			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1216			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1217
1218	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1219			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1220			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1221			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1222
1223	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1224			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1225			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1226			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1227			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1228
1229	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1230			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1231			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1232			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1233			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1234			Default value is 0.
1235			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1236
1237	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1238			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1239			support.
1240
1241	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1242			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1243			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1244
1245	evm=		[EVM]
1246			Format: { "fix" }
1247			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1248			current integrity status.
1249
1250	failslab=
1251	fail_page_alloc=
1252	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1253			General fault injection mechanism.
1254			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1255			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1256
1257	floppy=		[HW]
1258			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1259
1260	force_pal_cache_flush
1261			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1262			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1263			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1264			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1265
1266	forcepae	[X86-32]
1267			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1268			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1269			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1270			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1271			and may cause unknown problems.
1272
1273	ftrace=[tracer]
1274			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1275			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1276			boot debugging.
1277
1278	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1279			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1280			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1281			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1282			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1283			oops.
1284
1285	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1286			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1287			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1288			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1289			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1290			tracing directory.
1291
1292	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1293			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1294			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1295			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1296			tracing directory.
1297
1298	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1299			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1300			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1301			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1302			that can be changed at run time by the
1303			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1304
1305	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1306			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1307			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1308			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1309			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1310
1311	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1312			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1313			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1314			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1315			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1316
1317	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1318			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1319			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1320			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1321			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1322
1323	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1324
1325	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1326			Format: off | on
1327			default: on
1328
1329	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1330			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1331			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1332			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1333			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1334
1335	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1336			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1337			android emulator
1338
1339	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1340			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1341			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1342			GPT to be used instead.
1343
1344	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1345			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1346			Format: 0 | 1
1347			Default: 0
1348	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1349			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1350			Format: 0 | 1
1351			Default: 0
1352	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1353			Format: 0 | 1
1354			Default: 0
1355	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1356			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1357			Default: 1024
1358	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1359			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1360			Default: 1024
1361
1362	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1363			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1364			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1365
1366	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1367			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1368			backtraces on all cpus.
1369			Format: <integer>
1370
1371	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1372			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1373			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1374			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1375
1376	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1377
1378	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1379			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1380
1381	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1382			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1383			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1384			logic will be disabled.
1385
1386	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1387			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1388			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1389			size on bigger boxes.
1390
1391	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1392			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1393			Default: "on"
1394
1395	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1396
1397	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1398			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1399				verbose }
1400			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1401			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1402				VIA, nVidia)
1403			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1404
1405	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1406			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1407
1408	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1409	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1410			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1411			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1412			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1413			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1414			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1415
1416	hung_task_panic=
1417			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1418			Format: <integer>
1419
1420			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1421			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1422			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1423			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1424			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1425
1426	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1427				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1428	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1429				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1430				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1431
1432	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1433				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1434				      guest on lock contention.
1435
1436	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1437			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1438			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1439			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1440			the real console.
1441
1442	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1443				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1444				registered from board initialization code.
1445				Format:
1446				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1447
1448	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1449	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1450			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1451			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1452			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1453	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1454	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1455			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1456			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1457	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1458	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1459	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1460			     for the AUX port
1461	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1462			     controller
1463	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1464			     controllers
1465	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1466	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1467			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1468			     transitions, or never reset
1469			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1470			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1471			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1472			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1473			architectures force reset to be always executed
1474	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1475	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1476
1477	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1478
1479	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1480			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1481			hardware.
1482	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1483			does not match list of supported models.
1484	i8k.power_status
1485			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1486			(disabled by default)
1487	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1488			capability is set.
1489
1490	i915.invert_brightness=
1491			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1492			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1493			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1494			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1495			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1496			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1497			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1498			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1499			value switches the backlight off.
1500			-1 -- never invert brightness
1501			 0 -- machine default
1502			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1503
1504	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1505			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1506
1507	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1508			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1509			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1510			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1511			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1512
1513	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1514			Format: <int>
1515			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1516			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1517			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1518			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1519			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1520			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1521			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1522			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1523			was 0x3.
1524
1525	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1526			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1527
1528	idle=		[X86]
1529			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1530			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1531			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1532			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1533			Not recommended.
1534			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1535			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1536			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1537
1538	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1539			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1540			Default: strict
1541
1542			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1543			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1544			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1545			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1546			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1547			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1548			encoding mode.
1549
1550			Available settings are as follows:
1551			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1552				supported by the FPU
1553			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1554				by the FPU
1555			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1556				by the FPU
1557			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1558				supported by the FPU
1559
1560			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1561			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1562			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1563			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1564			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1565			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1566			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1567			MIPS64 CPUs.
1568
1569			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1570			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1571			except where unsupported by hardware.
1572
1573	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1574			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1575			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1576			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1577			could change it dynamically, usually by
1578			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1579
1580	ignore_rlimit_data
1581			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1582			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1583			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1584
1585	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1586			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1587
1588	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1589			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1590			default: "enforce"
1591
1592	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1593			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1594			owned by uid=0.
1595
1596	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1597			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1598			measurements, instead of host native format.
1599
1600	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1601			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1602				   | sha512 | ... }
1603			default: "sha1"
1604
1605			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1606			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1607
1608	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1609			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1610			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1611				 fail_securely"
1612
1613			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1614			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1615			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1616			uid=0.
1617
1618			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1619			all files owned by root.
1620
1621			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1622			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1623			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1624
1625			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1626			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1627			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1628			flag.
1629
1630	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1631			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1632			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1633			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1634			opened for read by uid=0.
1635
1636	ima_template=	[IMA]
1637			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1638			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1639			Default: "ima-ng"
1640
1641	ima_template_fmt=
1642			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1643			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1644
1645	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1646			Format: <min_file_size>
1647			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1648			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1649
1650			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1651			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1652			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1653
1654	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1655			Format: <bufsize>
1656			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1657
1658			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1659			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1660			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1661
1662	init=		[KNL]
1663			Format: <full_path>
1664			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1665			process.
1666
1667	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1668			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1669			startup.
1670
1671	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1672			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1673			modules and initcalls.
1674
1675	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1676
1677	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1678			zeroes.
1679			Format: 0 | 1
1680			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1681
1682	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1683			Format: 0 | 1
1684			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1685
1686	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1687			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1688			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1689			override in debugfs after boot.
1690
1691	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1692			Format: <irq>
1693
1694	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1695
1696	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1697			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1698			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1699			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1700
1701	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1702		on
1703			Enable intel iommu driver.
1704		off
1705			Disable intel iommu driver.
1706		igfx_off [Default Off]
1707			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1708			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1709			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1710			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1711			DMA.
1712		forcedac [x86_64]
1713			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1714			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1715			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1716			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1717			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1718			then look in the higher range.
1719		strict [Default Off]
1720			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1721			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1722			to batching them for performance.
1723		sp_off [Default Off]
1724			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1725			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1726			not be supported.
1727		sm_on [Default Off]
1728			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1729			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1730			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1731			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1732		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1733			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1734			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1735			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1736			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1737			mapping is enabled.
1738			Note that using this option lowers the security
1739			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1740			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1741		nobounce [Default off]
1742			Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
1743			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1744			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1745			risks of DMA attacks.
1746
1747	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1748			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1749			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1750
1751	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1752			disable
1753			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1754			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1755			passive
1756			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1757			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1758			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1759			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1760			  feature.
1761			force
1762			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1763			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1764			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1765			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1766			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1767			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1768			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1769			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1770			no_hwp
1771			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1772			  if available.
1773			hwp_only
1774			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1775			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1776			support_acpi_ppc
1777			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1778			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1779			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1780			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1781			per_cpu_perf_limits
1782			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1783			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1784
1785	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1786			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1787			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1788			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1789			no_x2apic_optout
1790				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1791			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1792
1793	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1794		strict	regions from userspace.
1795		relaxed
1796
1797	iommu=		[x86]
1798		off
1799		force
1800		noforce
1801		biomerge
1802		panic
1803		nopanic
1804		merge
1805		nomerge
1806		soft
1807		pt		[x86]
1808		nopt		[x86]
1809		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1810			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1811
1812	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1813			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1814			0 - Lazy mode.
1815			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1816			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1817			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1818			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1819			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1820			1 - Strict mode (default).
1821			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1822			  synchronously.
1823
1824	iommu.passthrough=
1825			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1826			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1827			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1828			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1829			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1830
1831	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1832			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1833			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1834
1835	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1836		0x80
1837			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1838		0xed
1839			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1840		udelay
1841			Simple two microseconds delay
1842		none
1843			No delay
1844
1845	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1846			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1847
1848	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1849			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1850
1851	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1852			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1853
1854	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1855			[ARM, ARM64]
1856			Format: <bool>
1857			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1858			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1859			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1860
1861	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1862			[ARM, ARM64]
1863			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1864			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1865			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1866			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1867			LPIs.
1868
1869	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1870			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1871			requires the kernel to be built with
1872			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1873
1874	irqfixup	[HW]
1875			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1876			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1877			firmware running.
1878
1879	irqpoll		[HW]
1880			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1881			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1882			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1883			firmware running.
1884
1885	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1886			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1887
1888	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1889			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1890			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1891
1892			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1893			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1894
1895			nohz
1896			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1897
1898			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1899			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1900			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1901			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1902			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1903
1904			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1905			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1906			  be configured manually after bootup.
1907
1908			domain
1909			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1910			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1911			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1912			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1913			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1914			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1915			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1916			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1917
1918			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1919			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1920			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1921			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1922
1923			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1924
1925
1926
1927	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1928
1929	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1930			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1931			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1932			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1933			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1934				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1935
1936	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1937			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1938			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1939			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1940			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1941				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1942
1943	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1944			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1945			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1946			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1947			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1948				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1949
1950	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1951			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1952
1953	nokaslr		[KNL]
1954			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1955			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1956			Layout Randomization).
1957
1958	kasan_multi_shot
1959			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1960			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1961			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1962			invalid access.
1963
1964	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1965
1966	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1967			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1968			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1969			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
1970			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1971			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
1972			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
1973			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1974			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1975			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1976
1977			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1978			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1979			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1980			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1981			zone if it does not.
1982
1983			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1984			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1985			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
1986			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1987			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1988			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1989			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
1990
1991	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1992			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1993			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1994			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1995			optional and is the number seconds in between
1996			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1997			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1998			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1999			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2000			the kernel debugger.
2001
2002	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2003			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2004			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2005			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2006			 keyboard only format: kbd
2007			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2008			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2009			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2010			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2011
2012	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2013			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2014
2015	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2016			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2017			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2018
2019	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2020			Valid arguments: on, off
2021			Default: on
2022			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2023			the default is off.
2024
2025	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2026			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2027			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2028			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2029			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2030			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2031			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2032
2033			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2034
2035			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2036			Boot Parameter" section.
2037
2038	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2039			and kernel address spaces.
2040			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2041			0: force disabled
2042			1: force enabled
2043
2044	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2045			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2046
2047	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2048				   Default is false (don't support).
2049
2050	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2051			KVM MMU at runtime.
2052			Default is 0 (off)
2053
2054	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2055			Default is 1 (enabled)
2056
2057	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2058			for all guests.
2059			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2060
2061	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2062			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2063			system registers
2064
2065	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2066			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2067			system registers
2068
2069	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2070			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2071			system registers
2072
2073	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2074			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2075			LPIs.
2076
2077	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2078			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2079			Default is 1 (enabled)
2080
2081	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2082			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2083			Default is 0 (disabled)
2084
2085	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2086			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2087			Default is 1 (enabled)
2088
2089	kvm-intel.nested=
2090			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2091			Default is 0 (disabled)
2092
2093	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2094			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2095			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2096			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2097
2098	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2099			CVE-2018-3620.
2100
2101			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2102
2103			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2104			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2105				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2106			never:	Disables the mitigation
2107
2108			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2109
2110	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2111			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2112			Default is 1 (enabled)
2113
2114	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2115			      affected CPUs
2116
2117			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2118			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2119
2120			full
2121				Provides all available mitigations for the
2122				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2123				enables all mitigations in the
2124				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2125
2126				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2127				sysfs interface is still possible after
2128				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2129				when the first VM is started in a
2130				potentially insecure configuration,
2131				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2132
2133			full,force
2134				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2135				flush runtime control. Implies the
2136				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2137				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2138
2139			flush
2140				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2141				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2142				L1D flush.
2143
2144				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2145				sysfs interface is still possible after
2146				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2147				when the first VM is started in a
2148				potentially insecure configuration,
2149				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2150
2151			flush,nosmt
2152
2153				Disables SMT and enables the default
2154				hypervisor mitigation.
2155
2156				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2157				sysfs interface is still possible after
2158				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2159				when the first VM is started in a
2160				potentially insecure configuration,
2161				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2162
2163			flush,nowarn
2164				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2165				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2166				insecure configuration.
2167
2168			off
2169				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2170				emit any warnings.
2171				It also drops the swap size and available
2172				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2173				bare metal.
2174
2175			Default is 'flush'.
2176
2177			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2178
2179	l2cr=		[PPC]
2180
2181	l3cr=		[PPC]
2182
2183	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2184			disabled it.
2185
2186	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2187			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2188			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2189
2190	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2191			in C2 power state.
2192
2193	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2194			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2195			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2196			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2197			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2198			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2199			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2200
2201	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2202			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2203			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2204
2205	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2206			when set.
2207			Format: <int>
2208
2209	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2210			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2211			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2212			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2213			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2214			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2215			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2216			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2217
2218			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2219			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2220			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2221			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2222			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2223			host link and device attached to it.
2224
2225			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2226			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2227			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2228			The following configurations can be forced.
2229
2230			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2231			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2232
2233			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2234
2235			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2236			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2237			  allowed.
2238
2239			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2240
2241			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2242
2243			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2244			  and both resets.
2245
2246			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2247			  hot-unplug link recovery
2248
2249			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2250
2251			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2252
2253			* disable: Disable this device.
2254
2255			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2256			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2257
2258	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2259
2260	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2261			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2262
2263	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2264			Format: <integer>
2265
2266	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2267			Format: <integer>
2268
2269	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2270			Format: <integer>
2271
2272	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2273			Format: <integer>
2274
2275	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2276			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2277			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2278			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2279			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2280			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2281			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2282			are also disabled.
2283
2284	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2285			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2286			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2287			number of online CPUs.
2288
2289	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2290			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2291
2292	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2293			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2294
2295	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2296			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2297			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2298
2299	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2300			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2301			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2302			mode during the locktorture test.
2303
2304	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2305			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2306			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2307
2308	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2309			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2310
2311	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2312			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2313			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2314			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2315			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2316			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2317
2318	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2319			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2320
2321	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2322			Enable additional printk() statements.
2323
2324	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2325			Format: <irq>
2326
2327	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2328			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2329			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2330			loglevels are defined as follows:
2331
2332			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2333			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2334			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2335			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2336			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2337			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2338			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2339			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2340
2341	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2342			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2343			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2344			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2345			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2346			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2347			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2348
2349	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2350			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2351			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2352			kernel boot problems.
2353
2354	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2355	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2356	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2357	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2358				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2359				attached printers to be reset. Using
2360				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2361				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2362				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2363				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2364				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2365				port specification list means that device IDs
2366				from each port should be examined, to see if
2367				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2368				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2369				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2370
2371	lpj=n		[KNL]
2372			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2373			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2374			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2375			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2376			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2377			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2378			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2379			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2380			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2381			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2382			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2383			hardware.
2384
2385	ltpc=		[NET]
2386			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2387
2388	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2389
2390	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2391			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2392			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2393
2394	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2395			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2396			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2397
2398	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2399			 yeeloong laptop.
2400			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2401
2402	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2403			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2404
2405	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2406			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2407			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2408			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2409			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2410			only takes effect during system bootup.
2411			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2412			which also disables the IO APIC.
2413
2414	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2415	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2416			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2417			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2418			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2419			/dev/loop-control interface.
2420
2421	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2422
2423	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2424
2425	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2426			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2427
2428	mdacon=		[MDA]
2429			Format: <first>,<last>
2430			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2431
2432	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2433			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2434			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2435
2436			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2437			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2438			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2439
2440			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2441			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2442			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2443			not have direct access.
2444
2445			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2446			options are:
2447
2448			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2449			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2450				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2451			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2452
2453			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2454			mds=full.
2455
2456			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2457
2458	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2459			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2460			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2461			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2462			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2463			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2464			belonging to unused RAM.
2465
2466	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2467			memory.
2468
2469	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2470			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2471			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2472
2473	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2474			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2475			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2476			set according to the
2477			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2478			option.
2479			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2480
2481	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2482			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2483			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2484			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2485			option description.
2486
2487	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2488			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2489			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2490			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2491			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2492			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2493			comma delimited.
2494			Example:
2495				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2496
2497	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2498			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2499			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2500
2501	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2502			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2503			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2504			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2505			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2506			         or
2507			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2508			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2509			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2510			will be eaten.
2511
2512	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2513			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2514			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2515			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2516			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2517
2518	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2519			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2520			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2521			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2522			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2523			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2524			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2525			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2526
2527	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2528			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2529			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2530			Setting this option will scan the memory
2531			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2532			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2533			from using the memory being corrupted.
2534			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2535			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2536			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2537			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2538
2539	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2540			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2541			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2542			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2543			corruption in more or less memory.
2544
2545	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2546			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2547			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2548			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2549
2550	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2551			Format: <integer>
2552			default : 0 <disable>
2553			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2554			performed. Each pass selects another test
2555			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2556			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2557			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2558			regions that are detected.
2559
2560	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2561			Valid arguments: on, off
2562			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2563			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2564			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2565			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2566			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2567
2568			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2569			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2570
2571	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2572			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2573			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2574			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2575			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2576
2577	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2578			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2579
2580	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2581			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2582			platforms.
2583
2584	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2585			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2586			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2587			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2588
2589	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2590
2591	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2592			physical address is ignored.
2593
2594	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2595			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2596			Default: "0tb"
2597			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2598			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2599			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2600			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2601			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2602			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2603			unconfigured.
2604			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2605			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2606			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2607			VGA shield.
2608			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2609			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2610			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2611			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2612			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2613			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2614
2615	mitigations=
2616			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2617			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2618			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2619			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2620
2621			off
2622				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2623				improves system performance, but it may also
2624				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2625				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2626					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2627					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2628					       nobp=0 [S390]
2629					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2630					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2631					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2632					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2633					       l1tf=off [X86]
2634					       mds=off [X86]
2635
2636			auto (default)
2637				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2638				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2639				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2640				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2641				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2642				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2643
2644			auto,nosmt
2645				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2646				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2647				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2648				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2649					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2650
2651	mminit_loglevel=
2652			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2653			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2654			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2655			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2656			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2657			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2658
2659	module.sig_enforce
2660			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2661			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2662			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2663			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2664
2665	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2666			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2667
2668	mousedev.tap_time=
2669			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2670			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2671			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2672			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2673			Format: <msecs>
2674	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2675			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2676	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2677			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2678
2679	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2680			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2681			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2682			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2683			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2684			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2685			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2686			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2687			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2688			is not too small.
2689
2690	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2691			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2692			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2693			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2694			allocations. Use with caution!
2695
2696	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2697			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2698
2699	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2700			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2701
2702	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2703			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2704
2705	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2706			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2707			at a time.
2708
2709	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2710
2711			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2712
2713			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2714				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2715			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2716				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2717				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2718
2719	mtdset=		[ARM]
2720			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2721
2722			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2723
2724	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2725			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2726			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2727
2728	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2729			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2730			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2731
2732	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2733			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2734			Default is 1.
2735			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2736			using up MTRRs.
2737
2738	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2739			Format: <integer>
2740			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2741			Default : 1
2742			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2743			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2744
2745	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2746
2747	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2748			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2749			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2750			something different and driver-specific.
2751			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2752			file if at all.
2753
2754	nf_conntrack.acct=
2755			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2756			0 to disable accounting
2757			1 to enable accounting
2758			Default value is 0.
2759
2760	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2761			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2762
2763	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2764			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2765
2766	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2767			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2768
2769	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2770			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2771			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2772			requests.
2773
2774	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2775			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2776			channel should listen.
2777
2778	nfs.cache_getent=
2779			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2780			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2781
2782	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2783			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2784			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2785
2786	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2787			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2788			entries.
2789
2790	nfs.enable_ino64=
2791			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2792			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2793			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2794			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2795			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2796
2797	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2798			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2799			slots the client will assign to the callback
2800			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2801			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2802			a particular server.
2803
2804	nfs.max_session_slots=
2805			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2806			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2807			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2808			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2809			Note that there is little point in setting this
2810			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2811
2812	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2813			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2814			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2815			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2816			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2817			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2818			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2819			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2820			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2821			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2822			back to using the idmapper.
2823			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2824	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2825			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2826			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2827			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2828			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2829
2830	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2831			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2832			information in exchange_id requests.
2833			If zero, no implementation identification information
2834			will be sent.
2835			The default is to send the implementation identification
2836			information.
2837
2838	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2839			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2840			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2841			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2842			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2843			after the locks are lost.
2844			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2845			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2846			parameter to '1'.
2847			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2848			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2849
2850	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2851			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2852			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2853
2854			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2855			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2856			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2857			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2858
2859	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2860			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2861			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2862			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2863			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2864			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2865
2866	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2867			when a NMI is triggered.
2868			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2869
2870	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2871			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2872			Valid num: 0 or 1
2873			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2874			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2875			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2876			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2877			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2878			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2879			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2880			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2881			need the box quickly up again.
2882
2883			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2884			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2885
2886	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2887			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2888			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2889			waits 4 seconds.
2890
2891	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2892			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2893			is present.
2894
2895	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2896			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2897
2898	no_console_suspend
2899			[HW] Never suspend the console
2900			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2901			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2902			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2903			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2904			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2905			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2906			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2907			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2908			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2909			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2910			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2911			turn on/off it dynamically.
2912
2913	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
2914			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2915			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2916			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
2917			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2918			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
2919			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2920			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
2921			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2922			is set.
2923
2924	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2925			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2926			but will impact performance.
2927
2928	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2929
2930	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2931			(CPU alternatives feature).
2932
2933	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2934			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2935
2936	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2937
2938	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2939			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2940
2941	nocache		[ARM]
2942
2943	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2944
2945	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2946
2947	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2948
2949	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2950
2951	noexec		[IA-64]
2952
2953	noexec		[X86]
2954			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2955			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2956			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2957
2958	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
2959			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2960			even if it is supported by processor.
2961
2962	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
2963			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2964			even if it is supported by processor.
2965
2966	noexec32	[X86-64]
2967			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2968			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2969				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2970			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2971				read implies executable mappings
2972
2973	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2974
2975	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2976			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2977			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2978
2979	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2980
2981	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2982			Equivalent to smt=1.
2983
2984			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2985			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2986				     via the sysfs control file.
2987
2988	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2989			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2990			possible in the system.
2991
2992	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2993			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2994			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2995			option.
2996
2997	nospec_store_bypass_disable
2998			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2999
3000	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3001			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3002			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3003
3004	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3005			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3006			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3007			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3008			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3009			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3010
3011	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3012			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3013			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3014			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3015			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3016			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3017			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3018
3019	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3020			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3021			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3022
3023	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3024			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3025			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3026
3027	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3028			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3029			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3030			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3031			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3032			real-time systems.
3033
3034	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3035
3036	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3037			Valid arguments: on, off
3038			Default: on
3039
3040	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3041			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3042			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3043			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3044			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3045			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3046			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3047			just as if they had also been called out in the
3048			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3049
3050	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3051
3052	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3053			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3054
3055	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3056			broken timer IRQ sources.
3057
3058	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3059
3060	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3061			initial RAM disk.
3062
3063	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3064			remapping.
3065			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3066
3067	nointroute	[IA-64]
3068
3069	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3070
3071	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3072
3073	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3074
3075	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3076			fault handling.
3077
3078	no-vmw-sched-clock
3079			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3080			clock and use the default one.
3081
3082	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
3083			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3084			behaviour
3085
3086	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3087
3088	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3089
3090	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3091			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3092
3093	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3094
3095	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3096
3097	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3098			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3099
3100	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3101			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3102			irq.
3103
3104	nomodule	Disable module load
3105
3106	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3107			pagetables) support.
3108
3109	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3110
3111	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3112			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3113
3114	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3115			with UP alternatives
3116
3117	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3118			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3119			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3120			available to user space applications.
3121
3122	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3123			space.
3124
3125	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3126			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3127			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3128
3129	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3130
3131	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3132
3133	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3134			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3135
3136	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3137
3138	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3139
3140	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3141			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3142
3143	nowb		[ARM]
3144
3145	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3146
3147	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3148			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3149			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3150			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3151			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3152			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3153			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3154			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3155			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3156			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3157			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3158			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3159			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3160
3161	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3162			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3163			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3164			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3165			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3166			parameter's value.
3167			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3168			Default: 255
3169
3170	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3171			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3172			SAL PALO.
3173
3174	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3175			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3176			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3177			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3178			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3179			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3180			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3181			hot plugging.
3182
3183	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3184
3185	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3186			Allowed values are enable and disable
3187
3188	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3189			'node', 'default' can be specified
3190			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3191			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3192
3193	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3194			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3195			info.
3196
3197	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3198			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3199			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3200			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3201			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3202			interrupts *may* be lost!
3203
3204	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3205			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3206			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3207			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3208
3209	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3210			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3211
3212	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3213			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3214			userland or if you want common events.
3215			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3216			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3217				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3218				CPU specific event set.
3219			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3220				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3221				for generic hr timer mode)
3222
3223	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3224			process, but there is a small probability of
3225			deadlocking the machine.
3226			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3227			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3228
3229	page_alloc.shuffle=
3230			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3231			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3232			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3233			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3234			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3235			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3236			can be read from sysfs at:
3237			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3238
3239	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3240			Storage of the information about who allocated
3241			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3242			we can turn it on.
3243			on: enable the feature
3244
3245	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3246			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3247			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3248			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3249			on: turn on poisoning
3250
3251	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3252			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3253			timeout = 0: wait forever
3254			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3255			Format: <timeout>
3256
3257	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3258			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3259			bit 0: print all tasks info
3260			bit 1: print system memory info
3261			bit 2: print timer info
3262			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3263			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3264			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3265
3266	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3267			on a WARN().
3268
3269	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3270			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3271			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3272			succeeds in any situation.
3273			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3274			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3275			kernel more unstable.
3276
3277	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3278			connected to, default is 0.
3279			Format: <parport#>
3280	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3281			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3282			Format: <mode>
3283
3284	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3285			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3286			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3287			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3288			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3289			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3290			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3291			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3292			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3293			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3294			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3295			are specified on the command line, starting
3296			with parport0.
3297
3298	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3299			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3300			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3301			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3302			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3303			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3304			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3305
3306	pause_on_oops=
3307			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3308			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3309			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3310
3311	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3312
3313	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3314			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3315			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3316
3317	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3318
3319				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3320				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3321				specified in one of the following formats:
3322
3323				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3324				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3325
3326				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3327				bus/device/function address which may change
3328				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3329				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3330				by other kernel parameters. If the
3331				domain is left unspecified, it is
3332				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3333				to a device through multiple device/function
3334				addresses can be specified after the base
3335				address (this is more robust against
3336				renumbering issues).  The second format
3337				selects devices using IDs from the
3338				configuration space which may match multiple
3339				devices in the system.
3340
3341		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3342				changes anything
3343		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3344		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3345				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3346				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3347		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3348				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3349				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3350				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3351		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3352				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3353				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3354		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3355				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3356				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3357				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3358				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3359				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3360				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3361		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3362				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3363				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3364		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3365				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3366		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3367				Configuration
3368		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3369				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3370				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3371		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3372				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3373				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3374		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3375				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3376				should never be necessary.
3377		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3378				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3379				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3380				when the system masks IRQs.
3381		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3382				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3383				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3384				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3385		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3386				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3387				on several machines and they hang the machine
3388				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3389				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3390				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3391				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3392				motherboard.
3393		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3394				Use with caution as certain devices share
3395				address decoders between ROMs and other
3396				resources.
3397		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3398				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3399				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3400		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3401				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3402		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3403				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3404				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3405				this way.
3406		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3407				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3408				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3409				F0000h-100000h range.
3410		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3411				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3412				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3413				explicitly which ones they are.
3414		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3415				numbers ourselves, overriding
3416				whatever the firmware may have done.
3417		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3418				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3419				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3420				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3421				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3422				IRQ routing is enabled.
3423		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3424				or for PCI scanning.
3425		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3426				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3427				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3428				please report a bug.
3429		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3430				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3431		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3432				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3433				so this option is a temporary workaround
3434				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3435		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3436				handle more pci cards
3437		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3438				This might help on some broken boards which
3439				machine check when some devices' config space
3440				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3441				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3442		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3443				This sorting is done to get a device
3444				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3445		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3446		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3447				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3448		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3449				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3450		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3451				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3452				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3453				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3454				or bus can support) for best performance.
3455		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3456				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3457				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3458				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3459				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3460				that hot-added devices will work.
3461		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3462				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3463				The default value is 256 bytes.
3464		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3465				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3466				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3467		resource_alignment=
3468				Format:
3469				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3470				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3471				aligned memory resources. How to
3472				specify the device is described above.
3473				If <order of align> is not specified,
3474				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3475				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3476				windows need to be expanded.
3477				To specify the alignment for several
3478				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3479				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3480				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3481				for 4096-byte alignment.
3482		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3483				end-to-end CRC checking).
3484				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3485				the default.
3486				off: Turn ECRC off
3487				on: Turn ECRC on.
3488		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3489				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3490				Default size is 256 bytes.
3491		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3492				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3493				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3494		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3495				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3496				Default is 1.
3497		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3498				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3499				accommodate resources required by all child
3500				devices.
3501				off: Turn realloc off
3502				on: Turn realloc on
3503		realloc		same as realloc=on
3504		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3505		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3506				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3507		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3508				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3509				port.
3510		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3511				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3512				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3513				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3514				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3515				taints the kernel.
3516		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3517				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3518				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3519				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3520				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3521				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3522				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3523				this removes isolation between devices and
3524				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3525		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3526		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3527
3528	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3529			Management.
3530		off	Disable ASPM.
3531		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3532			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3533
3534	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3535		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3536			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3537			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3538			also tries to use these services.
3539		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3540			hotplug).
3541
3542	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3543		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3544		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3545
3546	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3547		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3548			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3549
3550	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3551
3552	pd_ignore_unused
3553			[PM]
3554			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3555			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3556			for debug and development, but should not be
3557			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3558
3559	pd.		[PARIDE]
3560			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3561
3562	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3563			boot time.
3564			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3565			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3566
3567	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3568			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3569			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3570			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3571			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3572			and performance comparison.
3573
3574	pf.		[PARIDE]
3575			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3576
3577	pg.		[PARIDE]
3578			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3579
3580	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3581			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3582
3583	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3584			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3585			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3586
3587	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3588			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3589			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3590
3591	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3592			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3593			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3594			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3595			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3596			possible settings and some assignment information.
3597
3598	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3599			{ off }
3600
3601	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3602			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3603
3604	pnp_reserve_irq=
3605			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3606
3607	pnp_reserve_dma=
3608			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3609
3610	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3611			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3612
3613	pnp_reserve_mem=
3614			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3615			autoconfiguration.
3616			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3617
3618	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3619			Default is 21.
3620			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3621			may be specified.
3622			Format: <port>,<port>....
3623
3624	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3625			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3626			platform machine description specific power_save
3627			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3628			execution priority.
3629
3630	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3631			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3632			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3633			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3634			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3635
3636	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3637			Format: {"off"}
3638			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3639
3640	print-fatal-signals=
3641			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3642
3643			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3644			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3645			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3646			coredump - etc.
3647
3648			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3649			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3650
3651			default: off.
3652
3653	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3654			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3655			panics
3656			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3657			default: disabled
3658
3659	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3660			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3661			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3662			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3663			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3664			Default: ratelimit
3665
3666	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3667			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3668
3669	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3670			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3671			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3672
3673	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3674			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3675			instead using the legacy FADT method
3676
3677	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3678			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3679			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3680				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3681			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3682			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3683				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3684			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3685			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3686				statistical time based profiling.
3687
3688	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3689			before loading.
3690			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3691
3692	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3693			tracking.
3694			Format: <bool>
3695
3696	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3697			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3698	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3699			per second.
3700	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3701			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3702			(0 = never).
3703	psmouse.resolution=
3704			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3705	psmouse.smartscroll=
3706			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3707			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3708
3709	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3710
3711	pt.		[PARIDE]
3712			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3713
3714	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3715			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3716			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3717			system calls and interrupts.
3718
3719			on   - unconditionally enable
3720			off  - unconditionally disable
3721			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3722			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3723
3724			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3725
3726	nopti		[X86_64]
3727			Equivalent to pti=off
3728
3729	pty.legacy_count=
3730			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3731			default number.
3732
3733	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3734
3735	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3736
3737	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3738			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3739
3740	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3741			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3742
3743	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3744			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3745			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3746			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3747			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3748
3749	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3750
3751		cec_disable	[X86]
3752				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3753				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3754
3755	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3756			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3757			except that the string "all" can be used to
3758			specify every CPU on the system.
3759
3760			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3761			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3762			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3763			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3764			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3765			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3766			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3767			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3768			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3769			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3770
3771	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3772			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3773			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3774			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3775			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3776			This improves the real-time response for the
3777			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3778			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3779			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3780			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3781
3782	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3783			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3784			process in one batch.
3785
3786	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3787			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3788			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3789			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3790
3791	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3792			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3793			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3794
3795	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3796			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3797			RCU grace-period initialization.
3798
3799	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3800			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3801			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3802			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3803			the rcu_node combining tree.
3804
3805	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3806			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3807			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3808			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3809			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3810
3811	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3812			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3813			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3814			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3815			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3816
3817	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3818			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3819			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3820			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3821			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3822			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3823			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3824
3825	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3826			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3827			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3828			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3829			and maximum value is HZ.
3830
3831	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3832			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3833			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3834			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3835
3836	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3837			Set required age in jiffies for a
3838			given grace period before RCU starts
3839			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3840			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3841			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3842			a value based on the most recent settings
3843			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3844			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3845			This calculated value may be viewed in
3846			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3847			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3848			overwritten.
3849
3850	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3851			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3852			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3853			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3854			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3855			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3856			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3857			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3858			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3859			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3860
3861	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3862			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3863			each group, which defaults to the square root
3864			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3865			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3866			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3867			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3868
3869	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3870			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3871			batch limiting is disabled.
3872
3873	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3874			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3875			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3876
3877	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3878			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3879			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3880
3881	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3882			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3883			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3884			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3885			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3886
3887	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3888			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3889			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3890			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3891			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3892			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3893
3894	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3895			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3896			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3897			why a new grace period has not yet started.
3898
3899	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3900			Measure performance of asynchronous
3901			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3902
3903	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3904			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3905			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3906			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3907			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3908			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3909
3910	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3911			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3912			grace-period primitives.
3913
3914	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3915			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3916			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3917			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3918			interference.
3919
3920	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3921			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3922			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3923			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3924			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3925			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3926			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3927			a single reader.
3928
3929	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3930			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3931			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3932			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3933
3934	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3935			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3936
3937	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3938			Shut the system down after performance tests
3939			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3940			testing.
3941
3942	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3943			Enable additional printk() statements.
3944
3945	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3946			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3947			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3948			no holdoff.
3949
3950	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3951			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3952			in microseconds.
3953
3954	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3955			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3956			in microseconds.
3957
3958	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3959			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3960			in seconds.
3961
3962	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3963			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3964			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3965
3966	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3967			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3968			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3969
3970	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3971			Number of seconds to wait between successive
3972			forward-progress tests.
3973
3974	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3975			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3976			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3977			testing.
3978
3979	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3980			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3981			primitives, if available.
3982
3983	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3984			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3985
3986	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3987			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3988			update-side primitives, if available.
3989
3990	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3991			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3992			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3993			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3994			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3995			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3996			they are all non-zero.
3997
3998	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3999			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4000
4001	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4002			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4003			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4004			test, hence the "fake".
4005
4006	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4007			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4008			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4009			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4010			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4011			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4012
4013	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4014			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4015
4016	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4017			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4018
4019	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4020			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4021			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4022
4023	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4024			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4025			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4026			during the rcutorture test.
4027
4028	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4029			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4030			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4031
4032	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4033			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4034			warnings, zero to disable.
4035
4036	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4037			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4038
4039	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4040			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4041
4042	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4043			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4044
4045	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4046			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4047			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4048			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4049			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4050
4051	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4052			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4053			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4054			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4055
4056	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4057			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4058
4059	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4060			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4061
4062	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4063			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4064			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4065
4066	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4067			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4068
4069	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4070			Enable additional printk() statements.
4071
4072	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4073			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4074			stall warning.
4075
4076	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4077			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4078
4079	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4080			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4081
4082	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4083			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4084			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4085			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4086			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4087			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4088			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4089
4090	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4091			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4092			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4093			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4094			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4095			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4096			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4097			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4098			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4099
4100	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4101			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4102			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4103			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4104			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4105
4106	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4107			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4108			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4109			to zero.
4110
4111	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4112			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4113
4114	rdinit=		[KNL]
4115			Format: <full_path>
4116			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4117			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4118
4119	rdrand=		[X86]
4120			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4121				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4122				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4123				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4124				path).
4125
4126	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4127			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4128			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4129			mba.
4130			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4131				rdt=cmt,!mba
4132
4133	reboot=		[KNL]
4134			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4135				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4136				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4137				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4138				[[,]f[orce]
4139			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4140					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4141					reboot only),
4142			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4143			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4144			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4145					to be used for rebooting.
4146
4147	relax_domain_level=
4148			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4149			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4150
4151	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4152			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4153			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4154			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4155			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4156
4157	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4158			Format: nn[KMG]
4159			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4160			address space.
4161
4162	reservelow=	[X86]
4163			Format: nn[K]
4164			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4165			the bottom of the address space.
4166
4167	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4168			during initialization.
4169
4170	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4171			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4172			Format:
4173			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4174
4175	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4176			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4177			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4178			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4179			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4180
4181	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4182			read the resume files
4183
4184	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4185			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4186			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4187
4188	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4189		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4190				present during boot.
4191		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4192		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4193		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4194				(that will set all pages holding image data
4195				during restoration read-only).
4196
4197	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4198
4199	rfkill.default_state=
4200		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4201			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4202		1	Unblocked.
4203
4204	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4205		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4206		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4207			blocked and the previous configuration.
4208		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4209			blocked and everything unblocked.
4210
4211	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4212			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4213
4214	ring3mwait=disable
4215			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4216			CPUs.
4217
4218	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4219
4220	rodata=		[KNL]
4221		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4222		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4223
4224	rockchip.usb_uart
4225			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4226			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4227			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4228			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4229
4230	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4231			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4232
4233	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4234			mount the root filesystem
4235
4236	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4237
4238	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4239
4240	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4241			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4242			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4243
4244	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4245			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4246			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4247			managed by CMA.
4248
4249	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4250
4251	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4252
4253	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4254			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4255		strict
4256			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4257			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4258			which is faster.
4259
4260	sa1100ir	[NET]
4261			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4262
4263	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4264
4265	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4266
4267	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4268			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4269			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4270			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4271
4272	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4273			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4274			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4275			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4276			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4277			1 -- enable.
4278			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4279			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4280
4281	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4282			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4283			"lsm=" parameter.
4284
4285	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4286			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4287			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4288			0 -- disable.
4289			1 -- enable.
4290			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4291			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4292			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4293
4294	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4295			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4296			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4297			0 -- disable.
4298			1 -- enable.
4299			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4300
4301	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4302
4303	shapers=	[NET]
4304			Maximal number of shapers.
4305
4306	simeth=		[IA-64]
4307	simscsi=
4308
4309	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4310
4311	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4312			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4313			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4314			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4315			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4316			layout control by attackers can usually be
4317			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4318			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4319			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4320			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4321			own.
4322			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4323
4324	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4325			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4326			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4327			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4328			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4329
4330	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4331			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4332			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4333			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4334			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4335			last alloc / free. For more information see
4336			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4337
4338	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4339			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4340			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4341			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4342			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4343			directories and files being created under
4344			/sys/kernel/slub.
4345
4346	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4347			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4348			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4349			fragmentation. For more information see
4350			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4351
4352	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4353			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4354			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4355			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4356			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4357			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4358			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4359			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4360
4361	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4362			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4363			lower than slub_max_order.
4364			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4365
4366	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4367			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4368			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4369
4370	smart2=		[HW]
4371			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4372
4373	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4374	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4375	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4376	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4377	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4378	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4379	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4380				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4381				1: Fast pin select (default)
4382				2: ATC IRMode
4383
4384	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4385			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4386			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4387			actual hardware limit.
4388			Format: <integer>
4389			Default: -1 (no limit)
4390
4391	softlockup_panic=
4392			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4393			Format: <integer>
4394
4395			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4396			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4397			is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4398			which is the respective build-time switch to that
4399			functionality.
4400
4401	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4402			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4403			backtraces on all cpus.
4404			Format: <integer>
4405
4406	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4407			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4408
4409	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4410			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4411			The default operation protects the kernel from
4412			user space attacks.
4413
4414			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4415			       spectre_v2_user=on
4416			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4417			       spectre_v2_user=off
4418			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4419			       vulnerable
4420
4421			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4422			mitigation method at run time according to the
4423			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4424			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4425			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4426
4427			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4428			against user space to user space task attacks.
4429
4430			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4431			the user space protections.
4432
4433			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4434
4435			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4436			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4437			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4438
4439			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4440			spectre_v2=auto.
4441
4442	spectre_v2_user=
4443			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4444		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4445		        user space tasks
4446
4447			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4448				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4449
4450			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4451				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4452
4453			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4454				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4455				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4456				  is inherited on fork.
4457
4458			prctl,ibpb
4459				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4460				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4461				  always when switching between different user
4462				  space processes.
4463
4464			seccomp
4465				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4466				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4467				  they explicitly opt out.
4468
4469			seccomp,ibpb
4470				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4471				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4472				  always when switching between different
4473				  user space processes.
4474
4475			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4476				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4477
4478			Default mitigation:
4479			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4480
4481			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4482			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4483
4484	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4485			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4486			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4487
4488			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4489			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4490			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4491			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4492			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4493			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4494			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4495			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4496
4497			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4498			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4499			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4500			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4501
4502			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4503			Bypass optimization is used.
4504
4505			On x86 the options are:
4506
4507			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4508			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4509			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4510				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4511				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4512				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4513				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4514				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4515			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4516				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4517				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4518				  is inherited on fork.
4519			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4520				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4521
4522			Default mitigations:
4523			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4524
4525			On powerpc the options are:
4526
4527			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4528				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4529				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4530				  exit.
4531			off	- No action.
4532
4533			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4534			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4535
4536	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4537	spia_fio_base=
4538	spia_pedr=
4539	spia_peddr=
4540
4541	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4542			Specifies how frequently to check for
4543			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4544			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4545			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4546			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4547			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4548			are ignored.
4549
4550	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4551			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4552			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4553			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4554			grace period will be considered for automatic
4555			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4556			expediting.
4557
4558	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4559			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4560
4561			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4562			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4563			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4564			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4565
4566			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4567				   for both kernel and userspace
4568			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4569				   for both kernel and userspace
4570			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4571				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4572				   to allow userspace to register its
4573				   interest in being mitigated too.
4574
4575	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4576			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4577			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4578			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4579			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4580			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4581
4582	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4583			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4584
4585	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4586			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4587			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4588			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4589			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4590			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4591			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4592
4593	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4594			Format: <num>
4595			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4596			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4597			as the initial boot-console.
4598			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4599
4600	sti_font=	[HW]
4601			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4602
4603	stifb=		[HW]
4604			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4605
4606	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4607	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4608			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4609			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4610			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4611			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4612			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4613			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4614			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4615			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4616			maximum port values.
4617
4618	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4619			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4620			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4621			process in parallel from a single connection.
4622			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4623
4624	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4625			[NFS]
4626			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4627			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4628			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4629			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4630			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4631			NFS server is running.
4632
4633			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4634				    automatically using heuristics
4635			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4636			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4637			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4638				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4639
4640	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4641	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4642			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4643			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4644			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4645			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4646			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4647			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4648
4649	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4650			[SUSPEND]
4651			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4652			mode before resuming the system (see
4653			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4654			is set. Default value is 5.
4655
4656	svm=		[PPC]
4657			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4658			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4659			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4660
4661	swapaccount=[0|1]
4662			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4663			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4664			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4665
4666	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4667			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4668			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4669			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4670			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4671			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4672
4673	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4674
4675	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4676			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4677			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4678			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4679			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4680			in older udev will not work anymore.
4681			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4682			the kernel configuration.
4683
4684	sysrq_always_enabled
4685			[KNL]
4686			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4687			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4688			Useful for debugging.
4689
4690	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4691			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4692			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4693			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4694			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4695			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4696
4697	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4698
4699	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4700			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4701			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4702			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4703			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4704			The system is woken from this state using a
4705			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4706
4707	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4708			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4709
4710	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4711			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4712			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4713
4714	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4715			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4716			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4717
4718	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4719			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4720			critical and hot trip points.
4721
4722	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4723			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4724
4725	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4726			-1: disable all passive trip points
4727			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4728			value
4729
4730	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4731			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4732			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4733			0: no polling (default)
4734
4735	threadirqs	[KNL]
4736			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4737			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4738
4739	topology=	[S390]
4740			Format: {off | on}
4741			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4742			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4743			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4744			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4745			Default is on.
4746
4747	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4748			Format: {off}
4749			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4750			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4751			LPAR.
4752
4753	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4754
4755	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4756			Format: integer pcr id
4757			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4758			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4759			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4760			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4761			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4762			are saved.
4763
4764	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4765			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4766
4767	trace_event=[event-list]
4768			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4769			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4770			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4771			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4772
4773	trace_options=[option-list]
4774			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4775			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4776			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4777			to echo the option name into
4778
4779			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4780
4781			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4782			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4783
4784			      trace_options=stacktrace
4785
4786			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4787			section.
4788
4789	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4790			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4791			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4792			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4793			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4794			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4795
4796			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4797			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4798			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4799			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4800
4801			** CAUTION **
4802
4803			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4804			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4805			the system to live lock.
4806
4807	traceoff_on_warning
4808			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4809			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4810			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4811			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4812
4813			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4814			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4815			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4816
4817			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4818			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4819
4820	transparent_hugepage=
4821			[KNL]
4822			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4823			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4824			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4825			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4826			for more details.
4827
4828	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4829			Format: <string>
4830			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4831			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4832			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4833			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4834			virtualized environment.
4835			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4836			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4837			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4838			can add overhead.
4839			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4840			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4841			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4842			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4843			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4844			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4845			acceptable).
4846
4847	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4848			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4849			Format:
4850			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4851			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
4852
4853	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4854			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4855			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4856			help "seeing" what's going on.
4857
4858	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4859			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4860
4861	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4862			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4863			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4864			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4865			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4866			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4867			reported either.
4868
4869	unknown_nmi_panic
4870			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4871
4872	usbcore.authorized_default=
4873			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4874			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4875			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4876			if device connected to internal port)
4877
4878	usbcore.autosuspend=
4879			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4880			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4881			is the time required before an idle device will be
4882			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4883			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4884
4885	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4886			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4887
4888	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4889			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4890			(default = 65536).
4891
4892	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4893			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4894
4895	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4896			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4897			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
4898			 (default 0 = off).
4899
4900	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4901			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4902			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4903
4904	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4905			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4906			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4907
4908	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4909			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4910			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4911			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4912
4913	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4914
4915	usbcore.quirks=
4916			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4917			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4918			commas. Each entry has the form
4919			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4920			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4921			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4922			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4923			the following meanings:
4924				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4925					descriptors must not be fetched using
4926					a 255-byte read);
4927				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4928					correctly so reset it instead);
4929				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4930					Set-Interface requests);
4931				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4932					handle its Configuration or Interface
4933					strings);
4934				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4935					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4936				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4937					more interface descriptions than the
4938					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4939					talking to these interfaces);
4940				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4941					during initialization, after we read
4942					the device descriptor);
4943				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4944					high speed and super speed interrupt
4945					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4946					require the interval in microframes (1
4947					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4948					calculated as interval = 2 ^
4949					(bInterval-1).
4950					Devices with this quirk report their
4951					bInterval as the result of this
4952					calculation instead of the exponent
4953					variable used in the calculation);
4954				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4955					handle device_qualifier descriptor
4956					requests);
4957				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4958					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4959					remote wakeup capability);
4960				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4961					Power Management);
4962				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4963					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
4964					frames instead of the USB 2.0
4965					calculation);
4966				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4967					to be disconnected before suspend to
4968					prevent spurious wakeup);
4969				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4970					pause after every control message);
4971				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4972					delay after resetting its port);
4973			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4974
4975	usbhid.mousepoll=
4976			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4977
4978	usbhid.jspoll=
4979			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4980
4981	usbhid.kbpoll=
4982			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4983
4984	usb-storage.delay_use=
4985			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4986			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4987
4988	usb-storage.quirks=
4989			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4990			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4991			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4992			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4993			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4994			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4995			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4996				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4997					of sense data);
4998				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4999					bytes of sense data);
5000				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5001					device capacity by one sector);
5002				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5003					READ_DISC_INFO command);
5004				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5005					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5006				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5007					command, uas only);
5008				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5009					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5010				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5011					reported device capacity by one
5012					sector if the number is odd);
5013				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5014					device);
5015				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5016					command, uas only);
5017				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5018					unlock ejectable media);
5019				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5020					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
5021				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5022					initial READ(10) command);
5023				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5024					reported by the device);
5025				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5026					by default);
5027				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5028					bogus residue values);
5029				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5030					Logical Unit);
5031				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5032					commands, uas only);
5033				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5034				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5035					medium is write-protected).
5036				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5037					even if the device claims no cache)
5038			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5039
5040	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5041			Format: <int>
5042			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5043				 1 - undefined instruction events
5044				 2 - system calls
5045				 4 - invalid data aborts
5046				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5047				16 - SIGBUS faults
5048			Example: user_debug=31
5049
5050	userpte=
5051			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5052
5053				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5054					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5055					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5056
5057	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5058			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5059
5060			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5061			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5062
5063	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5064			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5065			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5066
5067			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5068			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5069			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5070
5071			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5072			alias for vdso32=0.
5073
5074			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5075			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5076
5077	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5078			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5079
5080	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5081			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5082
5083	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5084			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5085			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5086			level and then send out the event to user space through
5087			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5088			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5089			brightness level.
5090			default: 1
5091
5092	virtio_mmio.device=
5093			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5094
5095				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5096			where:
5097				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5098						like K, M and G)
5099				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5100				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5101						request_irq())
5102				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5103			example:
5104				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5105
5106			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5107
5108	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5109			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5110			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5111			Use vga=ask for menu.
5112			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5113			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5114
5115	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5116			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5117			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5118			All options are enabled by default, and this
5119			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5120			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5121			debugging features.
5122
5123			Available options are:
5124			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5125			  -	Disable all of the above options
5126
5127	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5128			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5129			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5130			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5131			mapped kernel RAM.
5132
5133	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5134			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5135			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5136
5137	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5138			Format: <command>
5139
5140	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5141			Format: <command>
5142
5143	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5144			Format: <command>
5145
5146	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5147			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5148			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5149			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5150			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5151			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5152			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5153
5154			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5155			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5156				    page is readable.
5157
5158			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5159			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5160				    page is not readable.
5161
5162			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5163			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5164			            might break your system.
5165
5166	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5167			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5168			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5169
5170	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5171			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5172			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5173			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5174
5175	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5176			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5177			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5178			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5179			ranging from 0-255.
5180
5181	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5182			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5183			Change the default green palette of the console.
5184			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5185			ranging from 0-255.
5186
5187	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5188			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5189			Change the default red palette of the console.
5190			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5191			ranging from 0-255.
5192
5193	vt.default_utf8=
5194			[VT]
5195			Format=<0|1>
5196			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5197			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5198			newly opened terminals.
5199
5200	vt.global_cursor_default=
5201			[VT]
5202			Format=<-1|0|1>
5203			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5204			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5205			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5206			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5207			cursors, 1 will display them.
5208
5209	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5210			Default: 2 = green.
5211
5212	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5213			Default: 3 = cyan.
5214
5215	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5216			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5217			or other driver-specific files in the
5218			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5219
5220	watchdog_thresh=
5221			[KNL]
5222			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5223			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5224			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5225			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5226			seconds.
5227
5228	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5229			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5230			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5231			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5232			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5233			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5234			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5235			corresponding sysfs file.
5236
5237	workqueue.disable_numa
5238			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5239			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5240			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5241			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5242			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5243			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5244			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5245
5246	workqueue.power_efficient
5247			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5248			they show better performance thanks to cache
5249			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5250			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5251
5252			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5253			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5254			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5255			power usage at the cost of small performance
5256			overhead.
5257
5258			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5259			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5260
5261	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5262			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5263			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5264			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5265			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5266			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5267			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5268			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5269			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5270			impacted.
5271
5272	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5273			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5274			supporting x2apic.
5275
5276	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5277			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5278			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5279			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5280			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5281
5282	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5283			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5284			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5285			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5286			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5287			domains.
5288
5289	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5290			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5291			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5292			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5293			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5294			nics -- unplug network devices
5295			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5296			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5297				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5298				the unplug protocol
5299			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5300
5301	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5302			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5303			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5304
5305	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5306			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5307			optimizations.
5308
5309	xen_nopv	[X86]
5310			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5311			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5312			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5313			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5314
5315	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5316			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5317			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5318			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5319			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5320
5321	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5322			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5323			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5324			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5325			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5326			more timer interrupts.
5327
5328	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5329			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5330			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5331			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5332
5333	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5334			Format:
5335			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5336
5337	xive=		[PPC]
5338			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5339			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5340			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5341
5342			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5343				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5344				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5345
5346	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5347			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5348			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5349			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5350
5351	xmon		[PPC]
5352			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5353			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5354			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5355			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5356				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5357			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5358				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5359				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5360				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5361			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5362				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5363				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5364				can be written using xmon commands.
5365			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5366				memory, and other data can't be written using
5367				xmon commands.
5368			off	xmon is disabled.
5369