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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: <byte>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
375
376	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379			EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
384			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387			keyboards
388
389	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393			Use software keyboard repeat
394
395	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398			    enabled until the next reboot
399			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404			    userspace auditd.
405			Default: unset
406
407	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409			Default: 64
410
411	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
412			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413			Format: { "0" | "1" }
414			0 - Disable the BAU.
415			1 - Enable the BAU.
416			unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
419			Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422			Format: <io>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
426			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
431			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436			embedded devices based on command line input.
437			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
438
439	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441			no delay (0).
442			Format: integer
443
444	bootconfig	[KNL]
445			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
446			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
447
448			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
449
450	bert_disable	[ACPI]
451			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
452
453	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
454	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
455			kernel args too.
456	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
457	bttv.tuner=
458
459	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
460			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
461			at a time.
462
463	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
464
465	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
466			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
467			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
468			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
469			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
470			This option provides an override for these situations.
471
472	carrier_timeout=
473			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
474			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
475			it waits 120 seconds.
476
477	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
478			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
479			trust validation.
480			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
481
482	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
483			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
484			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
485			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
486			others).
487
488	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
489			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
490
491	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
492			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
493			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
494			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
495			  a single hierarchy
496			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
497			  subsystem
498			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
499			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
500			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
501
502	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
503			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
504			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
505			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
506			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
507			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
508			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
509			all v1 hierarchies.
510
511	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
512			Format: <string>
513			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
514			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
515
516	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
517			Format: { "0" | "1" }
518			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
519			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
520				any implied execute protection).
521			1 -- check protection requested by application.
522			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
523			Value can be changed at runtime via
524				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
525
526	cio_ignore=	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528	clk_ignore_unused
529			[CLK]
530			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
531			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
532			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
533			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
534			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
535			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
536			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
537			platform with proper driver support.  For more
538			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
539
540	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
541			[Deprecated]
542			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
543			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
544			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
545			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
546
547	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
548			Format: <string>
549			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
550			with the name specified.
551			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
552			the platform:
553			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
554			[ACPI] acpi_pm
555			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
556				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
557			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
558				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
559			[MIPS] MIPS
560			[PARISC] cr16
561			[S390] tod
562			[SH] SuperH
563			[SPARC64] tick
564			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
565
566	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
567			[ARM,ARM64]
568			Format: <bool>
569			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
570			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
571			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
572			systems.
573
574	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
575			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
576			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
577			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
578			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
579			ones should be.
580			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
581			or using the feature without checking anything
582			will still see it. This just prevents it from
583			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
584			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
585			some critical bits.
586
587	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
588			[ARM,X86,KNL]
589			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
590			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
591			placement constraint by the physical address range of
592			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
593			altogether. For more information, see
594			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
595
596	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
597			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
598			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
599			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
600			a hypervisor.
601			Default: yes
602
603	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
604			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
605			allocations, by default set to 256K.
606
607	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
608			Format:
609			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
610
611	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
612			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
613
614	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
615			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
616			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
617
618	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
619	conmode=
620
621	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
622
623		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
624
625		ttyS<n>[,options]
626		ttyUSB0[,options]
627			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
628			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
629			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
630			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
631			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
632
633			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
634			information.  See
635			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
636			alternative.
637
638		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
639		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
640		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
641		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
642		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
643			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
644			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
645			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
646			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
647			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
648			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
649			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
650			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
651			the h/w is not re-initialized.
652
653		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
654			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
655
656		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
657		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
658			console=brl,ttyS0
659		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
660
661	console_msg_format=
662			[KNL] Change console messages format
663		default
664			By default we print messages on consoles in
665			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
666			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
667			`printk_time' param).
668		syslog
669			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
670			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
671			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
672			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
673			from /proc/kmsg.
674
675	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
676			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
677			Defaults to 0.
678
679	coredump_filter=
680			[KNL] Change the default value for
681			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
682			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
683
684	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
685			[ARM,ARM64]
686			Format: <bool>
687			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
688			0: default value, disable debugging
689			1: enable debugging at boot time
690
691	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
692			disable the cpuidle sub-system
693
694	cpuidle.governor=
695			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
696
697	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
698			disable the cpufreq sub-system
699
700	cpu_init_udelay=N
701			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
702			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
703			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
704			Default: 10000
705
706	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
707			Format:
708			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
709
710	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
711			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
712			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
713			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
714			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
715			is selected automatically.
716			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
717			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
718			hasn't been specified.
719			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
720
721	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
722			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
723			in the running system. The syntax of range is
724			start-[end] where start and end are both
725			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
726			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
727
728	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
729			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
730			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
731			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
732			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
733			available.
734			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
735	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
736			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
737			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
738			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
739			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
740			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
741			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
742			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
743			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
744			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
745			for second kernel instead.
746			0: to disable low allocation.
747			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
748			or memory reserved is below 4G.
749
750	cryptomgr.notests
751			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
752
753	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
754			Format: <dma>
755
756	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
757			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
758
759	dasd=		[HW,NET]
760			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763			(one device per port)
764			Format: <port#>,<type>
765			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
766
767	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768			time. See
769			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
770			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
771
772	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
773
774	debug_boot_weak_hash
775			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
776			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
777			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
778			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
779			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
780			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
781
782	debug_locks_verbose=
783			[KNL] verbose self-tests
784			Format=<0|1>
785			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
786			self-tests.
787			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
788			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
789			only useful to kernel developers.
790
791	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
792
793	no_debug_objects
794			[KNL] Disable object debugging
795
796	debug_guardpage_minorder=
797			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
798			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
799			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
800			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
801			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
802			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
803			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
804			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
805			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
806			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
807			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
808			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
809			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
810			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
811			bypassed) which are not detectable by
812			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
813			tracking down these problems.
814
815	debug_pagealloc=
816			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
817			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
818			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
819			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
820			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
821			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
822			on: enable the feature
823
824	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
825
826	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
827			Format: <area>[,<node>]
828			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
829
830	default_hugepagesz=
831			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
832			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
833			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
834			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
835			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
836			if not specified.
837
838	deferred_probe_timeout=
839			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
840			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
841			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
842			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
843			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
844			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
845			retrying.
846
847	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
848			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
849			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
850			          level 1 and decompression (default)
851			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
852			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
853			          only (compression on level 1)
854			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
855			          only (decompression)
856			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
857			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
858
859	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
860			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
861
862	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
863			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
864			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
865			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
866			miss to occur.
867
868	disable=	[IPV6]
869			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
870
871	hardened_usercopy=
872                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
873                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
874                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
875                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
876                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
877                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
878                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
879                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
880                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
881
882	disable_radix	[PPC]
883			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
884
885	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
886			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
887			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
888
889	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
890			Format: <int>
891			The number of initial APIC ID for the
892			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
893			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
894			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
895			causing system reset or hang due to sending
896			INIT from AP to BSP.
897
898	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
899			Format: <bool>
900			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
901			The feature only exists starting from
902			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
903
904	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
905			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
906			to workaround buggy firmware.
907
908	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
909			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
910
911	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
912			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
913			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
914			entry later. This parameter disables that.
915
916	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
917			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
918			memory out of your available memory pool based on
919			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
920			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
921
922	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
923			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
924			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
925
926	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
927
928	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
929			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
930
931	dma_debug_entries=<number>
932			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
933			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
934			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
935			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
936			architectural default is too low.
937
938	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
939			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
940			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
941			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
942			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
943			driver later using sysfs.
944
945	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
946			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
947			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
948
949	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
954			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
960			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
962			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
964			data set with no connector name will be used for
965			any connectors not explicitly specified.
966
967	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
968
969	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
970			Format: {"off" | "known"}
971			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
972			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
973			exists).
974			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
975			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
976			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
977
978	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
979			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
980			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
981			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
982
983	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
984	module.dyndbg[="val"]
985			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
986			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
987			for details.
988
989	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
990			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
991			information about the feature.
992
993	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
994			in some Intel CPUs.
995
996	module.async_probe [KNL]
997			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
998
999	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1000			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1001			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1002			which are not unmapped.
1003
1004	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1005
1006			When used with no options, the early console is
1007			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1008			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1009			the platform.
1010
1011		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1012			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1013			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1014			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1015			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1016			configured.
1017
1018		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1019		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1020		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1021		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1022		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1023			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1024			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1025			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1026			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1027			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1028			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1029			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1030			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1031
1032		pl011,<addr>
1033		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1034			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1035			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1036			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1038			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1039			the device registers.
1040
1041		meson,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1043			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1044			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1045			supported.
1046
1047		msm_serial,<addr>
1048			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1049			port at the specified address. The serial port
1050			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1051			yet supported.
1052
1053		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1054			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1055			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1056			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1057			yet supported.
1058
1059		owl,<addr>
1060			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1061			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1062			specified address. The serial port must already be
1063			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1064
1065		rda,<addr>
1066			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1067			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1068			specified address. The serial port must already be
1069			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071		sbi
1072			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1073			console.
1074
1075		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1076
1077		s3c2410,<addr>
1078		s3c2412,<addr>
1079		s3c2440,<addr>
1080		s3c6400,<addr>
1081		s5pv210,<addr>
1082		exynos4210,<addr>
1083			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1084			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1085			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1086			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1087			Options are not yet supported.
1088
1089		lantiq,<addr>
1090			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1091			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1092			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1093			yet supported.
1094
1095		lpuart,<addr>
1096		lpuart32,<addr>
1097			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1098			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1099			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1100			port must already be setup and configured.
1101
1102		ec_imx21,<addr>
1103		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1104			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1105			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1106			must already be setup and configured.
1107
1108		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1109			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1110			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1111			address. The serial port must already be setup
1112			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1113
1114		qcom_geni,<addr>
1115			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1116			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1117			specified address. The serial port must already be
1118			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1119
1120		efifb,[options]
1121			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1122			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1123			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1124			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1125			mapped with the correct attributes.
1126
1127		linflex,<addr>
1128			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1129			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1130			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1131			already be setup and configured.
1132
1133	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1134			earlyprintk=vga
1135			earlyprintk=sclp
1136			earlyprintk=xen
1137			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1138			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1139			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1140			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1141			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1142			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1143
1144			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1145			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1146			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1147
1148			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1149			takes over.
1150
1151			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1152			be used at a time.
1153
1154			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1155			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1156			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1157			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1158				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1159			You can find the port for a given device in
1160			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1161				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1162
1163			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1164			very good.
1165
1166			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1167			the real console.
1168
1169			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1170
1171			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1172
1173			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1174			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1175			UART class.
1176
1177	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1178			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1179			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1180			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1181			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1182			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1183			default: on.
1184
1185	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1186			ekgdboc=kbd
1187
1188			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1189			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1190
1191	edd=		[EDD]
1192			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1193
1194	efi=		[EFI]
1195			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1196				  "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1197				  "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1198			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1199			runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1200			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1201			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1202			firmware implementations.
1203			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1204			debug: enable misc debug output
1205			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1206			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1207			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1208			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1209			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1210			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1211			disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1212			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1213			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1214			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1215
1216	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1217			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1218			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1219			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1220			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1221
1222	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1223			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1224			updating original EFI memory map.
1225			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1226			from ss to ss+nn.
1227
1228			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1229			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1230			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1231			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1232
1233			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1234			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1235			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1236
1237			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1238			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1239			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1240			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1241			"soft reserved".
1242
1243	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1244			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1245			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1246			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1247			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1248
1249
1250	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1251			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1252
1253	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1254			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1255			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1256
1257	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1258			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1259			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1260			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1261			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1262
1263	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1264			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1265			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1266			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1267
1268	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1269			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1270			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1271			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1272			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1273
1274	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1275			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1276			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1277			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1278			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1279			Default value is 0.
1280			Value can be changed at runtime via
1281			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1282
1283	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1284			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1285			support.
1286
1287	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1288			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1289			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1290
1291	evm=		[EVM]
1292			Format: { "fix" }
1293			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1294			current integrity status.
1295
1296	failslab=
1297	fail_page_alloc=
1298	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1299			General fault injection mechanism.
1300			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1301			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1302
1303	floppy=		[HW]
1304			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1305
1306	force_pal_cache_flush
1307			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1308			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1309			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1310			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1311
1312	forcepae	[X86-32]
1313			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1314			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1315			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1316			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1317			and may cause unknown problems.
1318
1319	ftrace=[tracer]
1320			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1321			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1322			boot debugging.
1323
1324	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1325			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1326			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1327			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1328			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1329			oops.
1330
1331	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1332			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1333			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1334			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1335			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1336			tracing directory.
1337
1338	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1339			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1340			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1341			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1342			tracing directory.
1343
1344	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1345			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1346			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1347			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1348			that can be changed at run time by the
1349			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1350
1351	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1352			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1353			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1354			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1355			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1356
1357	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1358			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1359			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1360			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1361			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1362
1363	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1364			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1365			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1366			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1367			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1368
1369	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1370
1371	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1372			Format: off | on
1373			default: on
1374
1375	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1376			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1377			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1378			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1379			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1380
1381	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1382			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1383			android emulator
1384
1385	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1386			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1387			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1388			GPT to be used instead.
1389
1390	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1391			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1392			Format: 0 | 1
1393			Default: 0
1394	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1395			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1396			Format: 0 | 1
1397			Default: 0
1398	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1399			Format: 0 | 1
1400			Default: 0
1401	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1402			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1403			Default: 1024
1404	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1405			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1406			Default: 1024
1407
1408	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1409			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1410			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1411
1412	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1413			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1414			backtraces on all cpus.
1415			Format: <integer>
1416
1417	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1418			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1419			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1420			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1421
1422	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1423
1424	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1425			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1426
1427	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1428			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1429			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1430			logic will be disabled.
1431
1432	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1433			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1434			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1435			size on bigger boxes.
1436
1437	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1438			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1439			Default: "on"
1440
1441	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1442
1443	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1444			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1445				verbose }
1446			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1447			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1448				VIA, nVidia)
1449			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1450
1451	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1452			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1453
1454	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1455	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1456			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1457			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1458			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1459			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1460			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1461
1462	hung_task_panic=
1463			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1464			Format: <integer>
1465
1466			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1467			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1468			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1469			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1470			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1471
1472	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1473				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1474	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1475				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1476				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1477
1478	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1479				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1480				      guest on lock contention.
1481
1482	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1483			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1484			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1485			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1486			the real console.
1487
1488	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1489				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1490				registered from board initialization code.
1491				Format:
1492				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1493
1494	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1495	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1496			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1497			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1498			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1499	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1500	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1501			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1502			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1503	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1504	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1505	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1506			     for the AUX port
1507	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1508			     controller
1509	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1510			     controllers
1511	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1512	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1513			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1514			     transitions, or never reset
1515			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1516			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1517			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1518			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1519			architectures force reset to be always executed
1520	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1521	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1522
1523	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1524
1525	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1526			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1527			hardware.
1528	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1529			does not match list of supported models.
1530	i8k.power_status
1531			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1532			(disabled by default)
1533	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1534			capability is set.
1535
1536	i915.invert_brightness=
1537			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1538			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1539			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1540			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1541			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1542			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1543			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1544			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1545			value switches the backlight off.
1546			-1 -- never invert brightness
1547			 0 -- machine default
1548			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1549
1550	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1551			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1552
1553	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1554			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1555			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1556			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1557			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1558
1559	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1560			Format: <int>
1561			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1562			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1563			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1564			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1565			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1566			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1567			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1568			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1569			was 0x3.
1570
1571	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1572			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1573
1574	idle=		[X86]
1575			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1576			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1577			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1578			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1579			Not recommended.
1580			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1581			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1582			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1583
1584	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1585			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1586			Default: strict
1587
1588			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1589			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1590			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1591			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1592			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1593			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1594			encoding mode.
1595
1596			Available settings are as follows:
1597			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1598				supported by the FPU
1599			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1600				by the FPU
1601			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1602				by the FPU
1603			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1604				supported by the FPU
1605
1606			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1607			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1608			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1609			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1610			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1611			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1612			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1613			MIPS64 CPUs.
1614
1615			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1616			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1617			except where unsupported by hardware.
1618
1619	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1620			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1621			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1622			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1623			could change it dynamically, usually by
1624			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1625
1626	ignore_rlimit_data
1627			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1628			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1629			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1630
1631	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1632			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1633
1634	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1635			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1636			default: "enforce"
1637
1638	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1639			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1640			owned by uid=0.
1641
1642	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1643			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1644			measurements, instead of host native format.
1645
1646	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1647			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1648				   | sha512 | ... }
1649			default: "sha1"
1650
1651			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1652			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1653
1654	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1655			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1656			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1657				 fail_securely"
1658
1659			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1660			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1661			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1662			uid=0.
1663
1664			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1665			all files owned by root.
1666
1667			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1668			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1669			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1670
1671			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1672			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1673			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1674			flag.
1675
1676	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1677			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1678			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1679			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1680			opened for read by uid=0.
1681
1682	ima_template=	[IMA]
1683			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1684			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1685			Default: "ima-ng"
1686
1687	ima_template_fmt=
1688			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1689			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1690
1691	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1692			Format: <min_file_size>
1693			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1694			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1695
1696			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1697			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1698			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1699
1700	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1701			Format: <bufsize>
1702			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1703
1704			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1705			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1706			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1707
1708	init=		[KNL]
1709			Format: <full_path>
1710			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1711			process.
1712
1713	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1714			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1715			startup.
1716
1717	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1718			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1719			modules and initcalls.
1720
1721	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1722
1723	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1724			zeroes.
1725			Format: 0 | 1
1726			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1727
1728	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1729			Format: 0 | 1
1730			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1731
1732	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1733			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1734			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1735			override in debugfs after boot.
1736
1737	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1738			Format: <irq>
1739
1740	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1741
1742	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1743			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1744			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1745			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1746
1747	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1748		on
1749			Enable intel iommu driver.
1750		off
1751			Disable intel iommu driver.
1752		igfx_off [Default Off]
1753			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1754			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1755			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1756			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1757			DMA.
1758		forcedac [x86_64]
1759			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1760			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1761			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1762			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1763			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1764			then look in the higher range.
1765		strict [Default Off]
1766			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1767			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1768			to batching them for performance.
1769		sp_off [Default Off]
1770			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1771			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1772			not be supported.
1773		sm_on [Default Off]
1774			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1775			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1776			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1777			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1778		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1779			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1780			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1781			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1782			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1783			mapping is enabled.
1784			Note that using this option lowers the security
1785			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1786			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1787		nobounce [Default off]
1788			Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
1789			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1790			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1791			risks of DMA attacks.
1792
1793	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1794			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1795			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1796
1797	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1798			disable
1799			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1800			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1801			passive
1802			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1803			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1804			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1805			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1806			  feature.
1807			force
1808			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1809			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1810			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1811			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1812			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1813			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1814			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1815			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1816			no_hwp
1817			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1818			  if available.
1819			hwp_only
1820			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1821			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1822			support_acpi_ppc
1823			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1824			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1825			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1826			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1827			per_cpu_perf_limits
1828			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1829			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1830
1831	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1832			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1833			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1834			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1835			no_x2apic_optout
1836				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1837			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1838
1839	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1840		strict	regions from userspace.
1841		relaxed
1842
1843	iommu=		[x86]
1844		off
1845		force
1846		noforce
1847		biomerge
1848		panic
1849		nopanic
1850		merge
1851		nomerge
1852		soft
1853		pt		[x86]
1854		nopt		[x86]
1855		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1856			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1857
1858	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1859			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1860			0 - Lazy mode.
1861			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1862			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1863			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1864			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1865			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1866			1 - Strict mode (default).
1867			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1868			  synchronously.
1869
1870	iommu.passthrough=
1871			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1872			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1873			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1874			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1875			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1876
1877	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1878			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1879			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1880
1881	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1882		0x80
1883			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1884		0xed
1885			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1886		udelay
1887			Simple two microseconds delay
1888		none
1889			No delay
1890
1891	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1892			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1893
1894	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1895			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1896
1897	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1898			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1899
1900	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1901			[ARM, ARM64]
1902			Format: <bool>
1903			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1904			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1905			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1906
1907	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1908			[ARM, ARM64]
1909			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1910			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1911			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1912			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1913			LPIs.
1914
1915	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1916			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1917			requires the kernel to be built with
1918			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1919
1920	irqfixup	[HW]
1921			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1922			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1923			firmware running.
1924
1925	irqpoll		[HW]
1926			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1927			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1928			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1929			firmware running.
1930
1931	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1932			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1933
1934	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1935			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1936			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1937
1938			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1939			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1940
1941			nohz
1942			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1943
1944			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1945			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1946			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1947			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1948			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1949
1950			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1951			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1952			  be configured manually after bootup.
1953
1954			domain
1955			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1956			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1957			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1958			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1959			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1960			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1961			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1962			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1963
1964			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1965			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1966			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1967			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1968
1969			managed_irq
1970
1971			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1972			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1973			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1974			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1975			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1976
1977			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
1978			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1979			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1980			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1981			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
1982			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
1983			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
1984
1985			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
1986			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
1987			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
1988			  only delivered when tasks running on those
1989			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
1990			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
1991			  queues.
1992
1993			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
1994
1995	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1996
1997	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1998			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1999			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2000			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2001			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2002				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2003
2004	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
2005			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2006			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2007			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2008			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2009				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2010
2011	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
2012			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2013			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2014			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2015			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2016				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2017
2018	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2019			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2020
2021	nokaslr		[KNL]
2022			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2023			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2024			Layout Randomization).
2025
2026	kasan_multi_shot
2027			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2028			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2029			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2030			invalid access.
2031
2032	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2033
2034	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2035			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2036			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2037			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2038			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2039			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2040			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2041			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2042			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2043			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2044
2045			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2046			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2047			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2048			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2049			zone if it does not.
2050
2051			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2052			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2053			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2054			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2055			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2056			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2057			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2058
2059	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2060			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2061			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2062			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2063			optional and is the number seconds in between
2064			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2065			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2066			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2067			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2068			the kernel debugger.
2069
2070	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2071			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2072			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2073			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2074			 keyboard only format: kbd
2075			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2076			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2077			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2078			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2079
2080	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2081			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2082
2083	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2084			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2085			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2086
2087	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2088			Valid arguments: on, off
2089			Default: on
2090			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2091			the default is off.
2092
2093	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2094			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2095			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2096			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2097			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2098			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2099			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2100
2101			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2102
2103			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2104			Boot Parameter" section.
2105
2106	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2107			and kernel address spaces.
2108			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2109			0: force disabled
2110			1: force enabled
2111
2112	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2113			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2114
2115	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2116				   Default is false (don't support).
2117
2118	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2119			KVM MMU at runtime.
2120			Default is 0 (off)
2121
2122	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2123			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2124			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2125			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2126			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2127			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2128				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2129
2130			Default is 'auto'.
2131
2132			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2133			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2134
2135	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2136			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2137			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2138			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2139			minute.  The default is 60.
2140
2141	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2142			Default is 1 (enabled)
2143
2144	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2145			for all guests.
2146			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2147
2148	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2149			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2150			system registers
2151
2152	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2153			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2154			system registers
2155
2156	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2157			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2158			system registers
2159
2160	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2161			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2162			LPIs.
2163
2164	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2165			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2166			Default is 1 (enabled)
2167
2168	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2169			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2170			Default is 0 (disabled)
2171
2172	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2173			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2174			Default is 1 (enabled)
2175
2176	kvm-intel.nested=
2177			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2178			Default is 0 (disabled)
2179
2180	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2181			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2182			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2183			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2184
2185	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2186			CVE-2018-3620.
2187
2188			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2189
2190			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2191			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2192				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2193			never:	Disables the mitigation
2194
2195			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2196
2197	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2198			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2199			Default is 1 (enabled)
2200
2201	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2202			      affected CPUs
2203
2204			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2205			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2206
2207			full
2208				Provides all available mitigations for the
2209				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2210				enables all mitigations in the
2211				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2212
2213				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2214				sysfs interface is still possible after
2215				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2216				when the first VM is started in a
2217				potentially insecure configuration,
2218				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2219
2220			full,force
2221				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2222				flush runtime control. Implies the
2223				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2224				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2225
2226			flush
2227				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2228				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2229				L1D flush.
2230
2231				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2232				sysfs interface is still possible after
2233				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2234				when the first VM is started in a
2235				potentially insecure configuration,
2236				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2237
2238			flush,nosmt
2239
2240				Disables SMT and enables the default
2241				hypervisor mitigation.
2242
2243				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2244				sysfs interface is still possible after
2245				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2246				when the first VM is started in a
2247				potentially insecure configuration,
2248				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2249
2250			flush,nowarn
2251				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2252				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2253				insecure configuration.
2254
2255			off
2256				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2257				emit any warnings.
2258				It also drops the swap size and available
2259				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2260				bare metal.
2261
2262			Default is 'flush'.
2263
2264			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2265
2266	l2cr=		[PPC]
2267
2268	l3cr=		[PPC]
2269
2270	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2271			disabled it.
2272
2273	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2274			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2275			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2276
2277	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2278			in C2 power state.
2279
2280	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2281			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2282			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2283			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2284			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2285			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2286			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2287
2288	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2289			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2290			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2291
2292	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2293			when set.
2294			Format: <int>
2295
2296	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2297			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2298			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2299			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2300			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2301			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2302			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2303			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2304
2305			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2306			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2307			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2308			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2309			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2310			host link and device attached to it.
2311
2312			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2313			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2314			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2315			The following configurations can be forced.
2316
2317			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2318			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2319
2320			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2321
2322			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2323			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2324			  allowed.
2325
2326			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2327
2328			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2329
2330			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2331			  and both resets.
2332
2333			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2334			  hot-unplug link recovery
2335
2336			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2337
2338			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2339
2340			* disable: Disable this device.
2341
2342			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2343			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2344
2345	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2346
2347	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2348			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2349
2350	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2351			Format: <integer>
2352
2353	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2354			Format: <integer>
2355
2356	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2357			Format: <integer>
2358
2359	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2360			Format: <integer>
2361
2362	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2363			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2364			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2365			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2366			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2367			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2368			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2369			are also disabled.
2370
2371	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2372			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2373			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2374			number of online CPUs.
2375
2376	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2377			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2378
2379	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2380			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2381
2382	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2383			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2384			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2385
2386	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2387			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2388			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2389			mode during the locktorture test.
2390
2391	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2392			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2393			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2394
2395	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2396			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2397
2398	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2399			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2400			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2401			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2402			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2403			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2404
2405	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2406			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2407
2408	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2409			Enable additional printk() statements.
2410
2411	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2412			Format: <irq>
2413
2414	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2415			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2416			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2417			loglevels are defined as follows:
2418
2419			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2420			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2421			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2422			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2423			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2424			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2425			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2426			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2427
2428	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2429			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2430			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2431			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2432			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2433			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2434			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2435
2436	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2437			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2438			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2439			kernel boot problems.
2440
2441	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2442	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2443	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2444	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2445				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2446				attached printers to be reset. Using
2447				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2448				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2449				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2450				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2451				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2452				port specification list means that device IDs
2453				from each port should be examined, to see if
2454				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2455				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2456				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2457
2458	lpj=n		[KNL]
2459			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2460			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2461			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2462			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2463			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2464			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2465			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2466			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2467			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2468			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2469			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2470			hardware.
2471
2472	ltpc=		[NET]
2473			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2474
2475	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2476
2477	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2478			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2479			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2480
2481	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2482			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2483			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2484
2485	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2486			 yeeloong laptop.
2487			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2488
2489	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2490			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2491
2492	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2493			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2494			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2495			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2496			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2497			only takes effect during system bootup.
2498			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2499			which also disables the IO APIC.
2500
2501	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2502	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2503			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2504			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2505			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2506			/dev/loop-control interface.
2507
2508	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2509
2510	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2511
2512	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2513			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2514
2515	mdacon=		[MDA]
2516			Format: <first>,<last>
2517			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2518
2519	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2520			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2521			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2522
2523			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2524			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2525			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2526
2527			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2528			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2529			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2530			not have direct access.
2531
2532			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2533			options are:
2534
2535			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2536			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2537				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2538			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2539
2540			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2541			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2542			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2543			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2544			too.
2545
2546			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2547			mds=full.
2548
2549			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2550
2551	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2552			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2553			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2554			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2555			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2556			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2557			belonging to unused RAM.
2558
2559	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2560			memory.
2561
2562	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2563			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2564			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2565
2566	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2567			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2568			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2569			set according to the
2570			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2571			option.
2572			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2573
2574	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2575			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2576			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2577			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2578			option description.
2579
2580	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2581			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2582			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2583			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2584			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2585			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2586			comma delimited.
2587			Example:
2588				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2589
2590	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2591			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2592			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2593
2594	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2595			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2596			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2597			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2598			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2599			         or
2600			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2601			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2602			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2603			will be eaten.
2604
2605	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2606			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2607			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2608			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2609			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2610
2611	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2612			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2613			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2614			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2615			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2616			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2617			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2618			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2619
2620	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2621			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2622			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2623			Setting this option will scan the memory
2624			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2625			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2626			from using the memory being corrupted.
2627			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2628			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2629			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2630			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2631
2632	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2633			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2634			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2635			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2636			corruption in more or less memory.
2637
2638	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2639			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2640			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2641			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2642
2643	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2644			Format: <integer>
2645			default : 0 <disable>
2646			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2647			performed. Each pass selects another test
2648			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2649			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2650			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2651			regions that are detected.
2652
2653	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2654			Valid arguments: on, off
2655			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2656			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2657			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2658			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2659			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2660
2661			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2662			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2663
2664	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2665			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2666			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2667			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2668			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2669
2670	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2671			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2672
2673	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2674			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2675			platforms.
2676
2677	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2678			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2679			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2680			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2681
2682	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2683
2684	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2685			physical address is ignored.
2686
2687	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2688			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2689			Default: "0tb"
2690			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2691			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2692			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2693			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2694			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2695			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2696			unconfigured.
2697			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2698			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2699			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2700			VGA shield.
2701			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2702			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2703			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2704			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2705			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2706			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2707
2708	mitigations=
2709			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2710			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2711			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2712			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2713
2714			off
2715				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2716				improves system performance, but it may also
2717				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2718				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2719					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2720					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2721					       nobp=0 [S390]
2722					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2723					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2724					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2725					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2726					       l1tf=off [X86]
2727					       mds=off [X86]
2728					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2729					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2730
2731				Exceptions:
2732					       This does not have any effect on
2733					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2734					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2735
2736			auto (default)
2737				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2738				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2739				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2740				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2741				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2742				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2743
2744			auto,nosmt
2745				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2746				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2747				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2748				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2749					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2750					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2751
2752	mminit_loglevel=
2753			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2754			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2755			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2756			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2757			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2758			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2759
2760	module.sig_enforce
2761			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2762			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2763			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2764			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2765
2766	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2767			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2768
2769	mousedev.tap_time=
2770			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2771			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2772			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2773			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2774			Format: <msecs>
2775	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2776			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2777	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2778			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2779
2780	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2781			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2782			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2783			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2784			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2785			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2786			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2787			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2788			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2789			is not too small.
2790
2791	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2792			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2793			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2794			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2795			allocations. Use with caution!
2796
2797	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2798			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2799
2800	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2801			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2802
2803	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2804			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2805
2806	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2807			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2808			at a time.
2809
2810	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2811
2812			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2813
2814			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2815				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2816			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2817				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2818				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2819
2820	mtdset=		[ARM]
2821			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2822
2823			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2824
2825	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2826			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2827			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2828
2829	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2830			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2831			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2832
2833	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2834			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2835			Default is 1.
2836			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2837			using up MTRRs.
2838
2839	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2840			Format: <integer>
2841			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2842			Default : 1
2843			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2844			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2845
2846	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2847
2848	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2849			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2850			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2851			something different and driver-specific.
2852			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2853			file if at all.
2854
2855	nf_conntrack.acct=
2856			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2857			0 to disable accounting
2858			1 to enable accounting
2859			Default value is 0.
2860
2861	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2862			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2863
2864	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2865			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2866
2867	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2868			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2869
2870	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2871			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2872			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2873			requests.
2874
2875	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2876			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2877			channel should listen.
2878
2879	nfs.cache_getent=
2880			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2881			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2882
2883	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2884			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2885			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2886
2887	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2888			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2889			entries.
2890
2891	nfs.enable_ino64=
2892			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2893			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2894			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2895			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2896			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2897
2898	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2899			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2900			slots the client will assign to the callback
2901			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2902			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2903			a particular server.
2904
2905	nfs.max_session_slots=
2906			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2907			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2908			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2909			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2910			Note that there is little point in setting this
2911			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2912
2913	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2914			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2915			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2916			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2917			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2918			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2919			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2920			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2921			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2922			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2923			back to using the idmapper.
2924			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2925	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2926			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2927			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2928			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2929			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2930
2931	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2932			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2933			information in exchange_id requests.
2934			If zero, no implementation identification information
2935			will be sent.
2936			The default is to send the implementation identification
2937			information.
2938
2939	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2940			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2941			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2942			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2943			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2944			after the locks are lost.
2945			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2946			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2947			parameter to '1'.
2948			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2949			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2950
2951	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2952			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2953			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2954
2955			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2956			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2957			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2958			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2959
2960	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2961			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2962			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2963			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2964			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2965			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2966
2967	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2968			when a NMI is triggered.
2969			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2970
2971	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2972			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2973			Valid num: 0 or 1
2974			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2975			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2976			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2977			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2978			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2979			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2980			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2981			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2982			need the box quickly up again.
2983
2984			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2985			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2986
2987	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2988			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2989			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2990			waits 4 seconds.
2991
2992	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2993			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2994			is present.
2995
2996	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2997			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2998
2999	no_console_suspend
3000			[HW] Never suspend the console
3001			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3002			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3003			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3004			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3005			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3006			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3007			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3008			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3009			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3010			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3011			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3012			turn on/off it dynamically.
3013
3014	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3015			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3016			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3017			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3018			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3019			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3020			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3021			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3022			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3023			is set.
3024
3025	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3026			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3027			but will impact performance.
3028
3029	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3030
3031	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3032			(CPU alternatives feature).
3033
3034	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3035			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3036
3037	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3038
3039	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3040			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3041
3042	nocache		[ARM]
3043
3044	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3045
3046	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3047
3048	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3049
3050	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3051
3052	noexec		[IA-64]
3053
3054	noexec		[X86]
3055			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3056			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3057			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3058
3059	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3060			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3061			even if it is supported by processor.
3062
3063	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3064			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3065			even if it is supported by processor.
3066
3067	noexec32	[X86-64]
3068			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3069			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3070				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3071			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3072				read implies executable mappings
3073
3074	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3075
3076	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3077			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3078			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3079
3080	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3081
3082	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3083			Equivalent to smt=1.
3084
3085			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3086			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3087				     via the sysfs control file.
3088
3089	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3090			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3091			possible in the system.
3092
3093	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3094			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3095			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3096			option.
3097
3098	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3099			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3100
3101	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3102			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3103			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3104
3105	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3106			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3107			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3108			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3109			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3110			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3111
3112	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3113			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3114			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3115			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3116			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3117			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3118			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3119
3120	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3121			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3122			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3123
3124	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3125			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3126			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3127
3128	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3129			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3130			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3131			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3132			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3133			real-time systems.
3134
3135	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3136
3137	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3138			Valid arguments: on, off
3139			Default: on
3140
3141	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3142			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3143			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3144			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3145			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3146			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3147			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3148			just as if they had also been called out in the
3149			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3150
3151	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3152
3153	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3154			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3155
3156	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3157			broken timer IRQ sources.
3158
3159	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3160
3161	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3162			initial RAM disk.
3163
3164	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3165			remapping.
3166			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3167
3168	nointroute	[IA-64]
3169
3170	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3171
3172	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3173
3174	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3175
3176	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3177			fault handling.
3178
3179	no-vmw-sched-clock
3180			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3181			clock and use the default one.
3182
3183	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3184			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3185			influence scheduler behaviour
3186
3187	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3188
3189	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3190
3191	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3192			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3193
3194	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3195
3196	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3197
3198	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3199			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3200
3201	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3202			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3203			irq.
3204
3205	nomodule	Disable module load
3206
3207	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3208			pagetables) support.
3209
3210	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3211
3212	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3213			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3214
3215	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3216			with UP alternatives
3217
3218	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3219			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3220			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3221			available to user space applications.
3222
3223	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3224			space.
3225
3226	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3227			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3228			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3229
3230	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3231
3232	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3233
3234	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3235			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3236
3237	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3238
3239	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3240
3241	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3242			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3243
3244	nowb		[ARM]
3245
3246	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3247
3248	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3249			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3250			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3251			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3252			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3253			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3254			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3255			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3256			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3257			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3258			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3259			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3260			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3261
3262	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3263			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3264			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3265			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3266			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3267			parameter's value.
3268			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3269			Default: 255
3270
3271	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3272			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3273			SAL PALO.
3274
3275	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3276			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3277			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3278			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3279			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3280			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3281			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3282			hot plugging.
3283
3284	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3285
3286	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3287			Allowed values are enable and disable
3288
3289	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3290			'node', 'default' can be specified
3291			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3292			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3293
3294	of_devlink	[OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
3295			supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
3296			consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
3297			will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
3298			probed successfully.
3299
3300	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3301			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3302			info.
3303
3304	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3305			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3306			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3307			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3308			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3309			interrupts *may* be lost!
3310
3311	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3312			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3313			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3314			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3315
3316	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3317			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3318
3319	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3320			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3321			userland or if you want common events.
3322			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3323			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3324				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3325				CPU specific event set.
3326			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3327				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3328				for generic hr timer mode)
3329
3330	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3331			process, but there is a small probability of
3332			deadlocking the machine.
3333			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3334			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3335
3336	page_alloc.shuffle=
3337			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3338			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3339			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3340			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3341			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3342			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3343			can be read from sysfs at:
3344			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3345
3346	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3347			Storage of the information about who allocated
3348			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3349			we can turn it on.
3350			on: enable the feature
3351
3352	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3353			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3354			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3355			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3356			on: turn on poisoning
3357
3358	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3359			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3360			timeout = 0: wait forever
3361			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3362			Format: <timeout>
3363
3364	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3365			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3366			bit 0: print all tasks info
3367			bit 1: print system memory info
3368			bit 2: print timer info
3369			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3370			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3371			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3372
3373	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3374			on a WARN().
3375
3376	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3377			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3378			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3379			succeeds in any situation.
3380			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3381			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3382			kernel more unstable.
3383
3384	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3385			connected to, default is 0.
3386			Format: <parport#>
3387	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3388			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3389			Format: <mode>
3390
3391	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3392			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3393			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3394			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3395			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3396			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3397			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3398			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3399			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3400			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3401			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3402			are specified on the command line, starting
3403			with parport0.
3404
3405	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3406			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3407			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3408			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3409			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3410			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3411			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3412
3413	pause_on_oops=
3414			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3415			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3416			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3417
3418	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3419
3420	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3421			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3422			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3423
3424	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3425
3426				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3427				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3428				specified in one of the following formats:
3429
3430				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3431				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3432
3433				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3434				bus/device/function address which may change
3435				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3436				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3437				by other kernel parameters. If the
3438				domain is left unspecified, it is
3439				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3440				to a device through multiple device/function
3441				addresses can be specified after the base
3442				address (this is more robust against
3443				renumbering issues).  The second format
3444				selects devices using IDs from the
3445				configuration space which may match multiple
3446				devices in the system.
3447
3448		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3449				changes anything
3450		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3451		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3452				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3453				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3454		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3455				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3456				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3457				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3458		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3459				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3460				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3461		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3462				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3463				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3464				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3465				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3466				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3467				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3468		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3469				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3470				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3471		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3472				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3473		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3474				Configuration
3475		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3476				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3477				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3478		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3479				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3480				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3481		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3482				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3483				should never be necessary.
3484		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3485				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3486				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3487				when the system masks IRQs.
3488		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3489				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3490				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3491				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3492		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3493				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3494				on several machines and they hang the machine
3495				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3496				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3497				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3498				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3499				motherboard.
3500		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3501				Use with caution as certain devices share
3502				address decoders between ROMs and other
3503				resources.
3504		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3505				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3506				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3507		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3508				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3509		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3510				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3511				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3512				this way.
3513		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3514				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3515				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3516				F0000h-100000h range.
3517		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3518				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3519				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3520				explicitly which ones they are.
3521		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3522				numbers ourselves, overriding
3523				whatever the firmware may have done.
3524		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3525				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3526				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3527				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3528				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3529				IRQ routing is enabled.
3530		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3531				or for PCI scanning.
3532		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3533				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3534				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3535				please report a bug.
3536		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3537				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3538		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3539				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3540				so this option is a temporary workaround
3541				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3542		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3543				handle more pci cards
3544		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3545				This might help on some broken boards which
3546				machine check when some devices' config space
3547				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3548				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3549		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3550				This sorting is done to get a device
3551				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3552		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3553		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3554				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3555		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3556				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3557		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3558				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3559				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3560				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3561				or bus can support) for best performance.
3562		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3563				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3564				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3565				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3566				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3567				that hot-added devices will work.
3568		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3569				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3570				The default value is 256 bytes.
3571		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3572				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3573				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3574		resource_alignment=
3575				Format:
3576				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3577				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3578				aligned memory resources. How to
3579				specify the device is described above.
3580				If <order of align> is not specified,
3581				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3582				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3583				windows need to be expanded.
3584				To specify the alignment for several
3585				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3586				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3587				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3588				for 4096-byte alignment.
3589		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3590				end-to-end CRC checking).
3591				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3592				the default.
3593				off: Turn ECRC off
3594				on: Turn ECRC on.
3595		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3596				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3597				Default size is 256 bytes.
3598		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3599				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3600				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3601		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3602				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3603				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3604		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3605				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3606				MMIO_PREF window.
3607				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3608		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3609				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3610				Default is 1.
3611		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3612				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3613				accommodate resources required by all child
3614				devices.
3615				off: Turn realloc off
3616				on: Turn realloc on
3617		realloc		same as realloc=on
3618		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3619		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3620				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3621		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3622				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3623				port.
3624		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3625				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3626				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3627				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3628				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3629				taints the kernel.
3630		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3631				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3632				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3633				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3634				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3635				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3636				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3637				this removes isolation between devices and
3638				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3639		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3640		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3641
3642	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3643			Management.
3644		off	Disable ASPM.
3645		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3646			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3647
3648	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3649		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3650			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3651			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3652			also tries to use these services.
3653		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3654				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3655		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3656			hotplug).
3657
3658	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3659		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3660		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3661
3662	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3663		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3664			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3665
3666	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3667
3668	pd_ignore_unused
3669			[PM]
3670			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3671			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3672			for debug and development, but should not be
3673			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3674
3675	pd.		[PARIDE]
3676			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3677
3678	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3679			boot time.
3680			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3681			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3682
3683	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3684			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3685			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3686			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3687			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3688			and performance comparison.
3689
3690	pf.		[PARIDE]
3691			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3692
3693	pg.		[PARIDE]
3694			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3695
3696	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3697			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3698
3699	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3700			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3701			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3702
3703	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3704			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3705			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3706
3707	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3708			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3709			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3710			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3711			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3712			possible settings and some assignment information.
3713
3714	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3715			{ off }
3716
3717	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3718			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3719
3720	pnp_reserve_irq=
3721			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3722
3723	pnp_reserve_dma=
3724			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3725
3726	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3727			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3728
3729	pnp_reserve_mem=
3730			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3731			autoconfiguration.
3732			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3733
3734	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3735			Default is 21.
3736			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3737			may be specified.
3738			Format: <port>,<port>....
3739
3740	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3741			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3742			platform machine description specific power_save
3743			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3744			execution priority.
3745
3746	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3747			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3748			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3749			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3750			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3751
3752	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3753			Format: {"off"}
3754			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3755
3756	print-fatal-signals=
3757			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3758
3759			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3760			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3761			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3762			coredump - etc.
3763
3764			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3765			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3766
3767			default: off.
3768
3769	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3770			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3771			panics
3772			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3773			default: disabled
3774
3775	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3776			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3777			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3778			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3779			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3780			Default: ratelimit
3781
3782	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3783			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3784
3785	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3786			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3787			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3788
3789	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3790			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3791			instead using the legacy FADT method
3792
3793	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3794			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3795			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3796				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3797			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3798			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3799				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3800			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3801			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3802				statistical time based profiling.
3803
3804	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3805			before loading.
3806			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3807
3808	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3809			tracking.
3810			Format: <bool>
3811
3812	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3813			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3814	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3815			per second.
3816	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3817			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3818			(0 = never).
3819	psmouse.resolution=
3820			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3821	psmouse.smartscroll=
3822			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3823			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3824
3825	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3826
3827	pt.		[PARIDE]
3828			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3829
3830	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3831			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3832			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3833			system calls and interrupts.
3834
3835			on   - unconditionally enable
3836			off  - unconditionally disable
3837			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3838			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3839
3840			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3841
3842	nopti		[X86_64]
3843			Equivalent to pti=off
3844
3845	pty.legacy_count=
3846			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3847			default number.
3848
3849	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3850
3851	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3852
3853	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3854			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3855
3856	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3857			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3858
3859	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3860			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3861			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3862			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3863			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3864
3865	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3866
3867		cec_disable	[X86]
3868				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3869				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3870
3871	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3872			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3873			except that the string "all" can be used to
3874			specify every CPU on the system.
3875
3876			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3877			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3878			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3879			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3880			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3881			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3882			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3883			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3884			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3885			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3886
3887	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3888			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3889			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3890			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3891			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3892			This improves the real-time response for the
3893			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3894			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3895			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3896			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3897
3898	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3899			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3900			process in one batch.
3901
3902	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3903			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3904			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3905			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3906
3907	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3908			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3909			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3910
3911	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3912			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3913			RCU grace-period initialization.
3914
3915	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3916			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3917			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3918			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3919			the rcu_node combining tree.
3920
3921	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3922			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3923			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3924			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3925			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3926
3927	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3928			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3929			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3930			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3931			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3932
3933	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3934			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3935			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3936			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3937			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3938			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3939			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3940
3941	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3942			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3943			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3944			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3945			and maximum value is HZ.
3946
3947	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3948			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3949			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3950			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3951
3952	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3953			Set required age in jiffies for a
3954			given grace period before RCU starts
3955			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3956			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3957			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3958			a value based on the most recent settings
3959			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3960			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3961			This calculated value may be viewed in
3962			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3963			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3964			overwritten.
3965
3966	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3967			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3968			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3969			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3970			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3971			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3972			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3973			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3974			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3975			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3976
3977	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3978			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3979			each group, which defaults to the square root
3980			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3981			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3982			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3983			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3984
3985	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3986			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3987			batch limiting is disabled.
3988
3989	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3990			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3991			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3992
3993	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3994			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3995			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3996
3997	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3998			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3999			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4000			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4001			prove do nothing more than free memory.
4002
4003	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4004			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4005			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4006			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4007			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4008			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4009
4010	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4011			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4012			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4013			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4014
4015	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4016			Measure performance of asynchronous
4017			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4018
4019	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4020			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4021			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4022			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4023			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4024			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4025
4026	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4027			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4028			grace-period primitives.
4029
4030	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4031			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4032			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4033			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4034			interference.
4035
4036	rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4037			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4038
4039	rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4040			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4041
4042	rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4043			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4044
4045	rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4046			Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4047			of allocations and frees.
4048
4049	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4050			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4051			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4052			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4053			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4054			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4055			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4056			a single reader.
4057
4058	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4059			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4060			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4061			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4062
4063	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4064			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4065
4066	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4067			Shut the system down after performance tests
4068			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4069			testing.
4070
4071	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4072			Enable additional printk() statements.
4073
4074	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4075			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4076			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4077			no holdoff.
4078
4079	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4080			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4081			in microseconds.
4082
4083	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4084			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4085			in microseconds.
4086
4087	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4088			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4089			in seconds.
4090
4091	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4092			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4093			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4094
4095	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4096			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4097			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4098
4099	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4100			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4101			forward-progress tests.
4102
4103	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4104			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4105			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4106			testing.
4107
4108	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4109			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4110			primitives, if available.
4111
4112	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4113			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4114
4115	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4116			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4117			update-side primitives, if available.
4118
4119	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4120			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4121			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4122			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4123			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4124			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4125			they are all non-zero.
4126
4127	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4128			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4129
4130	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4131			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4132			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4133			test, hence the "fake".
4134
4135	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4136			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4137			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4138			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4139			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4140			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4141
4142	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4143			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4144
4145	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4146			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4147
4148	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4149			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4150			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4151
4152	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4153			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4154			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4155			during the rcutorture test.
4156
4157	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4158			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4159			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4160
4161	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4162			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4163			warnings, zero to disable.
4164
4165	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4166			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4167
4168	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4169			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4170
4171	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4172			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4173
4174	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4175			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4176			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4177			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4178			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4179
4180	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4181			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4182			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4183			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4184
4185	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4186			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4187
4188	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4189			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4190
4191	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4192			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4193			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4194
4195	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4196			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4197
4198	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4199			Enable additional printk() statements.
4200
4201	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4202			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4203			stall warning.
4204
4205	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4206			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4207
4208	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4209			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4210
4211	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4212			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4213			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4214			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4215			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4216			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4217			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4218
4219	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4220			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4221			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4222			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4223			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4224			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4225			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4226			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4227			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4228
4229	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4230			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4231			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4232			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4233			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4234
4235	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4236			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4237			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4238			to zero.
4239
4240	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4241			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4242
4243	rdinit=		[KNL]
4244			Format: <full_path>
4245			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4246			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4247
4248	rdrand=		[X86]
4249			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4250				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4251				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4252				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4253				path).
4254
4255	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4256			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4257			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4258			mba.
4259			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4260				rdt=cmt,!mba
4261
4262	reboot=		[KNL]
4263			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4264				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4265				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4266				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4267				[[,]f[orce]
4268			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4269					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4270					reboot only),
4271			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4272			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4273			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4274					to be used for rebooting.
4275
4276	relax_domain_level=
4277			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4278			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4279
4280	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4281			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4282			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4283			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4284			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4285
4286	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4287			Format: nn[KMG]
4288			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4289			address space.
4290
4291	reservelow=	[X86]
4292			Format: nn[K]
4293			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4294			the bottom of the address space.
4295
4296	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4297			during initialization.
4298
4299	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4300			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4301			Format:
4302			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4303
4304	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4305			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4306			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4307			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4308			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4309
4310	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4311			read the resume files
4312
4313	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4314			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4315			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4316
4317	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4318		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4319				present during boot.
4320		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4321		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4322		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4323				(that will set all pages holding image data
4324				during restoration read-only).
4325
4326	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4327
4328	rfkill.default_state=
4329		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4330			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4331		1	Unblocked.
4332
4333	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4334		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4335		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4336			blocked and the previous configuration.
4337		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4338			blocked and everything unblocked.
4339
4340	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4341			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4342
4343	ring3mwait=disable
4344			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4345			CPUs.
4346
4347	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4348
4349	rodata=		[KNL]
4350		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4351		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4352
4353	rockchip.usb_uart
4354			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4355			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4356			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4357			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4358
4359	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4360			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4361
4362	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4363			mount the root filesystem
4364
4365	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4366
4367	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4368
4369	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4370			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4371			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4372
4373	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4374			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4375			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4376			managed by CMA.
4377
4378	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4379
4380	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4381
4382	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4383			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4384		strict
4385			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4386			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4387			which is faster.
4388
4389	sa1100ir	[NET]
4390			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4391
4392	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4393
4394	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4395
4396	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4397			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4398			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4399			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4400
4401	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4402			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4403			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4404			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4405			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4406			1 -- enable.
4407			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4408			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4409
4410	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4411			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4412			"lsm=" parameter.
4413
4414	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4415			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4416			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4417			0 -- disable.
4418			1 -- enable.
4419			Default value is 1.
4420
4421	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4422			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4423			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4424			0 -- disable.
4425			1 -- enable.
4426			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4427
4428	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4429
4430	shapers=	[NET]
4431			Maximal number of shapers.
4432
4433	simeth=		[IA-64]
4434	simscsi=
4435
4436	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4437
4438	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4439			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4440			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4441			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4442			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4443			layout control by attackers can usually be
4444			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4445			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4446			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4447			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4448			own.
4449			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4450
4451	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4452			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4453			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4454			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4455			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4456
4457	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4458			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4459			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4460			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4461			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4462			last alloc / free. For more information see
4463			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4464
4465	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4466			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4467			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4468			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4469			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4470			directories and files being created under
4471			/sys/kernel/slub.
4472
4473	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4474			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4475			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4476			fragmentation. For more information see
4477			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4478
4479	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4480			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4481			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4482			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4483			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4484			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4485			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4486			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4487
4488	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4489			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4490			lower than slub_max_order.
4491			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4492
4493	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4494			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4495			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4496
4497	smart2=		[HW]
4498			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4499
4500	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4501	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4502	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4503	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4504	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4505	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4506	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4507				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4508				1: Fast pin select (default)
4509				2: ATC IRMode
4510
4511	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4512			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4513			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4514			actual hardware limit.
4515			Format: <integer>
4516			Default: -1 (no limit)
4517
4518	softlockup_panic=
4519			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4520			Format: <integer>
4521
4522			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4523			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4524			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4525			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4526			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4527
4528	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4529			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4530			backtraces on all cpus.
4531			Format: <integer>
4532
4533	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4534			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4535
4536	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4537			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4538			The default operation protects the kernel from
4539			user space attacks.
4540
4541			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4542			       spectre_v2_user=on
4543			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4544			       spectre_v2_user=off
4545			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4546			       vulnerable
4547
4548			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4549			mitigation method at run time according to the
4550			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4551			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4552			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4553
4554			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4555			against user space to user space task attacks.
4556
4557			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4558			the user space protections.
4559
4560			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4561
4562			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4563			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4564			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4565
4566			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4567			spectre_v2=auto.
4568
4569	spectre_v2_user=
4570			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4571		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4572		        user space tasks
4573
4574			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4575				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4576
4577			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4578				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4579
4580			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4581				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4582				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4583				  is inherited on fork.
4584
4585			prctl,ibpb
4586				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4587				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4588				  always when switching between different user
4589				  space processes.
4590
4591			seccomp
4592				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4593				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4594				  they explicitly opt out.
4595
4596			seccomp,ibpb
4597				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4598				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4599				  always when switching between different
4600				  user space processes.
4601
4602			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4603				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4604
4605			Default mitigation:
4606			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4607
4608			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4609			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4610
4611	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4612			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4613			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4614
4615			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4616			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4617			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4618			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4619			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4620			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4621			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4622			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4623
4624			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4625			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4626			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4627			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4628
4629			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4630			Bypass optimization is used.
4631
4632			On x86 the options are:
4633
4634			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4635			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4636			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4637				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4638				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4639				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4640				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4641				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4642			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4643				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4644				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4645				  is inherited on fork.
4646			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4647				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4648
4649			Default mitigations:
4650			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4651
4652			On powerpc the options are:
4653
4654			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4655				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4656				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4657				  exit.
4658			off	- No action.
4659
4660			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4661			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4662
4663	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4664	spia_fio_base=
4665	spia_pedr=
4666	spia_peddr=
4667
4668	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4669			Specifies how frequently to check for
4670			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4671			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4672			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4673			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4674			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4675			are ignored.
4676
4677	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4678			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4679			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4680			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4681			grace period will be considered for automatic
4682			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4683			expediting.
4684
4685	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4686			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4687
4688			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4689			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4690			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4691			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4692
4693			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4694				   for both kernel and userspace
4695			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4696				   for both kernel and userspace
4697			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4698				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4699				   to allow userspace to register its
4700				   interest in being mitigated too.
4701
4702	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4703			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4704			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4705			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4706			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4707			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4708
4709	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4710			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4711
4712	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4713			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4714			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4715			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4716			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4717			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4718			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4719
4720	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4721			Format: <num>
4722			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4723			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4724			as the initial boot-console.
4725			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4726
4727	sti_font=	[HW]
4728			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4729
4730	stifb=		[HW]
4731			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4732
4733	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4734	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4735			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4736			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4737			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4738			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4739			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4740			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4741			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4742			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4743			maximum port values.
4744
4745	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4746			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4747			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4748			process in parallel from a single connection.
4749			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4750
4751	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4752			[NFS]
4753			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4754			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4755			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4756			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4757			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4758			NFS server is running.
4759
4760			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4761				    automatically using heuristics
4762			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4763			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4764			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4765				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4766
4767	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4768	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4769			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4770			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4771			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4772			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4773			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4774			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4775
4776	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4777			[SUSPEND]
4778			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4779			mode before resuming the system (see
4780			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4781			is set. Default value is 5.
4782
4783	svm=		[PPC]
4784			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4785			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4786			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4787
4788	swapaccount=[0|1]
4789			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4790			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4791			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4792
4793	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4794			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4795			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4796			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4797			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4798			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4799
4800	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4801
4802	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4803			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4804			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4805			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4806			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4807			in older udev will not work anymore.
4808			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4809			the kernel configuration.
4810
4811	sysrq_always_enabled
4812			[KNL]
4813			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4814			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4815			Useful for debugging.
4816
4817	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4818			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4819			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4820			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4821			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4822			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4823
4824	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4825
4826	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4827			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4828			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4829			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4830			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4831			The system is woken from this state using a
4832			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4833
4834	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4835			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4836
4837	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4838			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4839			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4840
4841	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4842			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4843			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4844
4845	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4846			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4847			critical and hot trip points.
4848
4849	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4850			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4851
4852	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4853			-1: disable all passive trip points
4854			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4855			value
4856
4857	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4858			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4859			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4860			0: no polling (default)
4861
4862	threadirqs	[KNL]
4863			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4864			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4865
4866	topology=	[S390]
4867			Format: {off | on}
4868			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4869			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4870			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4871			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4872			Default is on.
4873
4874	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4875			Format: {off}
4876			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4877			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4878			LPAR.
4879
4880	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4881
4882	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4883			Format: integer pcr id
4884			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4885			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4886			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4887			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4888			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4889			are saved.
4890
4891	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4892			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4893
4894	trace_event=[event-list]
4895			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4896			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4897			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4898			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4899
4900	trace_options=[option-list]
4901			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4902			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4903			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4904			to echo the option name into
4905
4906			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4907
4908			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4909			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4910
4911			      trace_options=stacktrace
4912
4913			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4914			section.
4915
4916	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4917			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4918			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4919			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4920			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4921			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4922
4923			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4924			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4925			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4926			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4927
4928			** CAUTION **
4929
4930			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4931			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4932			the system to live lock.
4933
4934	traceoff_on_warning
4935			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4936			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4937			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4938			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4939
4940			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4941			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4942			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4943
4944			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4945			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4946
4947	transparent_hugepage=
4948			[KNL]
4949			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4950			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4951			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4952			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4953			for more details.
4954
4955	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4956			Format: <string>
4957			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4958			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4959			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4960			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4961			virtualized environment.
4962			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4963			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4964			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4965			can add overhead.
4966			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4967			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4968			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4969			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4970			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4971			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4972			acceptable).
4973
4974	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4975			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4976			support TSX control.
4977
4978			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4979
4980			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4981				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4982				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4983				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4984				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4985				with leaving it enabled.
4986
4987			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
4988				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
4989				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
4990				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
4991				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
4992				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
4993				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
4994
4995			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
4996				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
4997
4998			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
4999
5000			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5001			for more details.
5002
5003	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5004			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5005
5006			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5007			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5008			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5009			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5010			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5011			conditions.
5012
5013			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5014			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5015			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5016			access.
5017
5018			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5019			options are:
5020
5021			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5022				     if TSX is enabled.
5023
5024			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5025				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5026				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5027				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5028			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5029
5030			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5031			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5032			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5033			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5034
5035			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5036			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5037			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5038			required and doesn't provide any additional
5039			mitigation.
5040
5041			For details see:
5042			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5043
5044	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5045			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5046			Format:
5047			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5048			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5049
5050	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5051			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5052			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5053			help "seeing" what's going on.
5054
5055	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5056			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5057
5058	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5059			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5060			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5061			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5062			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5063			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5064			reported either.
5065
5066	unknown_nmi_panic
5067			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5068
5069	usbcore.authorized_default=
5070			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5071			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5072			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5073			if device connected to internal port)
5074
5075	usbcore.autosuspend=
5076			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5077			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5078			is the time required before an idle device will be
5079			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5080			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5081
5082	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5083			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5084
5085	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5086			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5087			(default = 65536).
5088
5089	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5090			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5091
5092	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5093			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5094			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
5095			 (default 0 = off).
5096
5097	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5098			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5099			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5100
5101	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5102			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5103			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5104
5105	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5106			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5107			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5108			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5109
5110	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5111
5112	usbcore.quirks=
5113			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5114			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5115			commas. Each entry has the form
5116			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5117			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5118			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5119			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5120			the following meanings:
5121				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5122					descriptors must not be fetched using
5123					a 255-byte read);
5124				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5125					correctly so reset it instead);
5126				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5127					Set-Interface requests);
5128				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5129					handle its Configuration or Interface
5130					strings);
5131				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5132					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5133				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5134					more interface descriptions than the
5135					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5136					talking to these interfaces);
5137				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5138					during initialization, after we read
5139					the device descriptor);
5140				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5141					high speed and super speed interrupt
5142					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5143					require the interval in microframes (1
5144					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5145					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5146					(bInterval-1).
5147					Devices with this quirk report their
5148					bInterval as the result of this
5149					calculation instead of the exponent
5150					variable used in the calculation);
5151				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5152					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5153					requests);
5154				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5155					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5156					remote wakeup capability);
5157				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5158					Power Management);
5159				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5160					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5161					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5162					calculation);
5163				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5164					to be disconnected before suspend to
5165					prevent spurious wakeup);
5166				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5167					pause after every control message);
5168				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5169					delay after resetting its port);
5170			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5171
5172	usbhid.mousepoll=
5173			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5174
5175	usbhid.jspoll=
5176			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5177
5178	usbhid.kbpoll=
5179			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5180
5181	usb-storage.delay_use=
5182			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5183			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5184
5185	usb-storage.quirks=
5186			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5187			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5188			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5189			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5190			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5191			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5192			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5193				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5194					of sense data, not on uas);
5195				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5196					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5197				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5198					device capacity by one sector);
5199				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5200					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5201				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5202					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5203				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5204					command, uas only);
5205				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5206					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5207				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5208					reported device capacity by one
5209					sector if the number is odd);
5210				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5211					device);
5212				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5213					command, uas only);
5214				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5215					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5216				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5217					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5218					not on uas);
5219				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5220					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5221				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5222					reported by the device, not on uas);
5223				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5224					by default, not on uas);
5225				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5226					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5227				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5228					Logical Unit);
5229				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5230					commands, uas only);
5231				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5232				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5233					medium is write-protected).
5234				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5235					even if the device claims no cache,
5236					not on uas)
5237			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5238
5239	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5240			Format: <int>
5241			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5242				 1 - undefined instruction events
5243				 2 - system calls
5244				 4 - invalid data aborts
5245				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5246				16 - SIGBUS faults
5247			Example: user_debug=31
5248
5249	userpte=
5250			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5251
5252				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5253					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5254					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5255
5256	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5257			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5258
5259			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5260			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5261
5262	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5263			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5264			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5265
5266			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5267			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5268			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5269
5270			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5271			alias for vdso32=0.
5272
5273			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5274			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5275
5276	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5277			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5278
5279	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5280			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5281
5282	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5283			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5284			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5285			level and then send out the event to user space through
5286			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5287			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5288			brightness level.
5289			default: 1
5290
5291	virtio_mmio.device=
5292			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5293
5294				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5295			where:
5296				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5297						like K, M and G)
5298				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5299				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5300						request_irq())
5301				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5302			example:
5303				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5304
5305			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5306
5307	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5308			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5309			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5310			Use vga=ask for menu.
5311			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5312			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5313
5314	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5315			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5316			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5317			All options are enabled by default, and this
5318			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5319			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5320			debugging features.
5321
5322			Available options are:
5323			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5324			  -	Disable all of the above options
5325
5326	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5327			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5328			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5329			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5330			mapped kernel RAM.
5331
5332	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5333			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5334			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5335
5336	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5337			Format: <command>
5338
5339	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5340			Format: <command>
5341
5342	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5343			Format: <command>
5344
5345	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5346			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5347			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5348			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5349			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5350			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5351			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5352
5353			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5354			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5355				    page is readable.
5356
5357			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5358			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5359				    page is not readable.
5360
5361			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5362			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5363			            might break your system.
5364
5365	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5366			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5367			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5368
5369	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5370			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5371			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5372			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5373
5374	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5375			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5376			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5377			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5378			ranging from 0-255.
5379
5380	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5381			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5382			Change the default green palette of the console.
5383			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5384			ranging from 0-255.
5385
5386	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5387			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5388			Change the default red palette of the console.
5389			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5390			ranging from 0-255.
5391
5392	vt.default_utf8=
5393			[VT]
5394			Format=<0|1>
5395			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5396			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5397			newly opened terminals.
5398
5399	vt.global_cursor_default=
5400			[VT]
5401			Format=<-1|0|1>
5402			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5403			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5404			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5405			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5406			cursors, 1 will display them.
5407
5408	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5409			Default: 2 = green.
5410
5411	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5412			Default: 3 = cyan.
5413
5414	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5415			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5416			or other driver-specific files in the
5417			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5418
5419	watchdog_thresh=
5420			[KNL]
5421			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5422			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5423			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5424			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5425			seconds.
5426
5427	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5428			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5429			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5430			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5431			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5432			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5433			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5434			corresponding sysfs file.
5435
5436	workqueue.disable_numa
5437			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5438			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5439			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5440			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5441			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5442			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5443			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5444
5445	workqueue.power_efficient
5446			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5447			they show better performance thanks to cache
5448			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5449			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5450
5451			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5452			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5453			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5454			power usage at the cost of small performance
5455			overhead.
5456
5457			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5458			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5459
5460	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5461			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5462			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5463			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5464			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5465			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5466			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5467			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5468			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5469			impacted.
5470
5471	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5472			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5473			supporting x2apic.
5474
5475	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5476			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5477			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5478			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5479			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5480
5481	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5482			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5483			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5484			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5485			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5486			domains.
5487
5488	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5489			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5490			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5491			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5492			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5493			nics -- unplug network devices
5494			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5495			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5496				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5497				the unplug protocol
5498			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5499
5500	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5501			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5502			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5503
5504	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5505			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5506			optimizations.
5507
5508	xen_nopv	[X86]
5509			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5510			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5511			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5512			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5513
5514	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5515			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5516			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5517			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5518			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5519
5520	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5521			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5522			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5523			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5524			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5525			more timer interrupts.
5526
5527	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5528			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5529			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5530			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5531
5532	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5533			Format:
5534			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5535
5536	xive=		[PPC]
5537			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5538			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5539			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5540
5541			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5542				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5543				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5544
5545	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5546			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5547			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5548			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5549
5550	xmon		[PPC]
5551			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5552			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5553			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5554			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5555				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5556			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5557				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5558				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5559				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5560			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5561				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5562				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5563				can be written using xmon commands.
5564			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5565				memory, and other data can't be written using
5566				xmon commands.
5567			off	xmon is disabled.
5568