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1	accept_memory=  [MM]
2			Format: { eager | lazy }
3			default: lazy
4			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
5			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
6			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
7			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
8			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
9			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
10			at once during boot.
11
12	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
13			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
14			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
15				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
16			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
17			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
18			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
19			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
20			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
21				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
22			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
23			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
24			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
25				default _serial_ console on ARM64
26			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
27			"acpi=nospcr" are available
28			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
29			are available
30
31			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
32
33	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
34			Format: <int>
35			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
36			1,0: use 1st APIC table
37			default: 0
38
39	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
40			{ vendor | video | native | none }
41			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
42			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
43			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
44			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
45			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
46			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
47
48	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
49			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
50			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
51			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
52			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
53
54	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
55			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
56			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
57			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
58			This option is useful for developers to identify the
59			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
60			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
61
62	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
63	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
64			Format: <int>
65			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
66			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
67			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
68			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
69			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
70			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
71			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
72			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
73			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
74			debug layers and levels.
75
76			Enable processor driver info messages:
77			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
78			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
79			object while interpreting AML:
80			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
81			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
82			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
83
84			Some values produce so much output that the system is
85			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
86			if you need to capture more output.
87
88	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
89			{ strict | lax | no }
90			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
91			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
92			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
93			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
94			can interfere with legacy drivers.
95			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
96			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
97			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
98			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
99			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
100			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
101			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
102			no further checks are performed.
103
104	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
105			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
106			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
107			size limitation.
108
109	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
110			ACPI will balance active IRQs
111			default in APIC mode
112
113	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
114			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
115			default in PIC mode
116
117	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
118			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
119
120	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
121			use by PCI
122			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
123
124	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
125			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
126			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
127			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
128			the GPE dispatcher.
129			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
130			GPE floodings.
131			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
132
133	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
134			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
135			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
136			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
137			auto-serialization feature.
138			This feature is enabled by default.
139			This option allows to turn off the feature.
140
141	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
142			   kernels.
143
144	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
145			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
146			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
147			installed automatically and they will appear under
148			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
149			This option turns off this feature.
150			Note that specifying this option does not affect
151			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
152			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
153
154	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
155			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
156			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
157
158	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
159			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
160			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
161			second kernel for kdump.
162
163	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
164			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
165
166	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
167			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
168			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
169			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
170			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
171
172	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
173			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
174			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
175			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
176			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
177						  strings
178			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
179						  strings
180			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
181
182			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
183			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
184			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
185			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
186			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
187			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
188			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
189			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
190			care about the state of the feature group strings which
191			should be controlled by the OSPM.
192			Examples:
193			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
194			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
195			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
196
197			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
198			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
199			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
200			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
201			multiple times through kernel command line is also
202			meaningless.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
205			     FALSE.
206
207			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
208			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
209			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
210			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
211			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
212			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
213			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
214			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
215			is useful when one want to control the state of the
216			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
217			the OSPM features.
218			Examples:
219			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
220			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
221			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
222			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
223			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
224			     equivalent to
225			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
226			     and
227			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
228			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
229
230	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
231			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
232			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
233			and always returns good values.
234
235	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
236			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
237
238	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
239			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
240			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
241
242	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
243			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
244				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
245				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
246			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
247			s3_bios and s3_mode.
248			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
249			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
250			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
251			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
252			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
253			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
254			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
255			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
256			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
257			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
258			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
259			used (or even warned about) during resume.
260			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
261			control method, with respect to putting devices into
262			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
263			of _PTS is used by default).
264			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
265			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
266			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
267			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
268			but some broken systems don't work without it).
269			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
270			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
271			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
272
273	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
274			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
275			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
276
277	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
278			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
279
280	agp=		[AGP]
281			{ off | try_unsupported }
282			off: disable AGP support
283			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
284				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
285
286	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
287			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
288
289	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
290			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
291			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
292			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
293
294	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
295			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
296			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
297			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
298			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
299			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
300			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
301
302			32: only for 32-bit processes
303			64: only for 64-bit processes
304			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
305			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
306
307	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
308			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
309			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
310			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
311			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
312			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
313
314	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
315			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
316			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
317			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
318			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
319			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
320			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
321
322			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
323			information.
324
325	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
327			Possible values are:
328			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
329			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
330				    the system
331			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
332					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
333					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
334					  requirements as needed. This option
335					  does not override iommu=pt
336			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
337				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
338				       option with care.
339			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
340			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
341			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
342
343	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
344			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
345			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
346			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
347			IOMMU initialization.
348
349	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
350			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
351			remapping modes:
352			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
353			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
354			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
355			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
356			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
357
358	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
359			disable
360			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
361			  scaling driver for the supported processors
362			passive
363			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
364			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
365			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
366			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
367			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
368			active
369			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
370			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
371			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
372			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
373			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
374			  frequency.
375			guided
376			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
377			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
378			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
379			  to the current workload.
380
381	amd_prefcore=
382			[X86]
383			disable
384			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
385
386	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
387			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
388			Format: <a>,<b>
389			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
390
391	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
392			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
393			connected to one of 16 gameports
394			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
395
396	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
397			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
398			Format: noidle
399			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
400			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
401			APC and your system crashes randomly.
402
403	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
404			Change the output verbosity while booting
405			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
406			Change the amount of debugging information output
407			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
408			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
409			driver name.
410			Format: apic=driver_name
411			Examples: apic=bigsmp
412
413	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
414			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
415			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
416			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
417			      backup of CPU 0
418			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
419			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
420			      shot down by NMI
421
422	autoconf=	[IPV6]
423			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
424
425	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
426			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
427
428	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
429			Format: { "0" | "1" }
430			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
431			0 -- disable.
432			1 -- enable.
433			Default value is set via kernel config option.
434
435	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
436			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
437
438	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
439			32 bit applications.
440
441	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
442			Identification support
443
444	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
445			Set instructions support
446
447	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
448			support
449
450	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
451			support
452
453	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
454			Extension support
455
456	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
457			Extension support
458
459	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
460
461	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
462
463	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
464			EzKey and similar keyboards
465
466	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
467
468	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
469			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
470
471	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
472			keyboards
473
474	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
475			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
476
477	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
478			Use software keyboard repeat
479
480	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
481			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
482			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
483			    enabled until the next reboot
484			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
485			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
486			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
487			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
488			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
489			    userspace auditd.
490			Default: unset
491
492	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
493			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
494			Default: 64
495
496	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
497			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
498			Format: { "0" | "1" }
499			0 - Disable the BAU.
500			1 - Enable the BAU.
501			unset - Disable the BAU.
502
503	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
504			Format: <io>,<mode>
505
506	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
507			Format: <io>,<mode>
508			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
509
510	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
511			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
512			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
513			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
514
515	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
516			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
517			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
518			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
519
520	bert_disable	[ACPI]
521			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
522
523	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
524			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
525
526	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
527			embedded devices based on command line input.
528			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
529
530	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
531			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
532			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
533			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
534			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
535			erroneous and ignored.
536			Format: integer
537
538	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
539			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
540			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
541
542			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
543
544	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
545	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
546			kernel args too.
547	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
548	bttv.tuner=
549
550	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
551			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
552			at a time.
553
554	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
555
556	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
557			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
558			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
559			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
560			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
561			This option provides an override for these situations.
562
563	carrier_timeout=
564			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
565			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
566			it waits 120 seconds.
567
568	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
569			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
570			trust validation.
571			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
572
573	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
574			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
575			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
576			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
577			others).
578
579	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
580			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
581
582	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
583			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
584			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
585			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
586			  a single hierarchy
587			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
588			  subsystem
589			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
590			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
591			  created
592			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
593			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
594			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
595			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
596			stall information accounting feature
597
598	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
599			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
600			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
601			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
602			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
603			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
604			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
605			all v1 hierarchies.
606
607	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
608			Format: { "true" | "false" }
609			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
610
611	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
612			Format: <string>
613			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
614			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
615			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
616
617	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
618			Format: { "0" | "1" }
619			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
620			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
621				any implied execute protection).
622			1 -- check protection requested by application.
623			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
624			Value can be changed at runtime via
625				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
626			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
627
628	cio_ignore=	[S390]
629			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
630
631	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
632			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
633			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
634			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
635			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
636			ones should be.
637			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
638			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
639			instability issue. However, not all features have names
640			in /proc/cpuinfo.
641			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
642			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
643			or using the feature without checking anything
644			will still see it. This just prevents it from
645			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
646			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
647			some critical bits.
648
649	clk_ignore_unused
650			[CLK]
651			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
652			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
653			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
654			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
655			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
656			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
657			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
658			platform with proper driver support.  For more
659			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
660
661	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
662			[Deprecated]
663			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
664			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
665			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
666			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
667
668	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
669			Format: <string>
670			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
671			with the name specified.
672			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
673			the platform:
674			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
675			[ACPI] acpi_pm
676			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
677				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
678			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
679				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
680			[MIPS] MIPS
681			[PARISC] cr16
682			[S390] tod
683			[SH] SuperH
684			[SPARC64] tick
685			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
686
687	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
688			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
689			Format: <bool>
690			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
691			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
692			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
693			systems.
694
695	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
696			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
697			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
698			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
699			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
700			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
701			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
702			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
703			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
704
705	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
706			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
707			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
708			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
709			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
710
711	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
712			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
713			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
714			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
715			placement constraint by the physical address range of
716			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
717			altogether. For more information, see
718			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
719
720	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
721			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
722			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
723			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
724			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
725			specified, the default value is 0.
726			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
727			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
728			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
729			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
730
731	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
732			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
733			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
734			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
735			area for the specified node.
736
737			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
738			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
739			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
740			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
741
742	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
743			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
744			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
745			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
746			a hypervisor.
747			Default: yes
748
749	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
750			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
751			allocations, by default set to 256K.
752
753	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
754			Format:
755			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
756
757	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
758			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
759
760	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
761			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
762			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
763
764	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
765	conmode=
766
767	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
768			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
769			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
770			the console buffer is full. In this case the
771			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
772			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
773			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
774			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
775			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
776			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
777
778	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
779
780		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
781
782		ttyS<n>[,options]
783		ttyUSB0[,options]
784			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
785			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
786			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
787			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
788			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
789
790			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
791			information.  See
792			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
793			alternative.
794
795		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
796			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
797			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
798			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
799			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
800			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
801
802			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
803			can be viewed with:
804
805			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
806			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
807
808			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
809			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
810			way will only get added when the related device driver
811			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
812			the console may be desired for console output early on.
813
814		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
815		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
816		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
817		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
818		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
819			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
820			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
821			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
822			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
823			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
824			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
825			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
826			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
827			the h/w is not re-initialized.
828
829		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
830			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
831
832		{ null | "" }
833			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
834			console messages discarded.
835			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
836			kernel command line.
837
838		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
839		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
840			console=brl,ttyS0
841		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
842
843	console_msg_format=
844			[KNL] Change console messages format
845		default
846			By default we print messages on consoles in
847			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
848			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
849			`printk_time' param).
850		syslog
851			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
852			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
853			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
854			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
855			from /proc/kmsg.
856
857	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
858			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
859			Defaults to 0.
860
861	coredump_filter=
862			[KNL] Change the default value for
863			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
864			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
865
866	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
867			[ARM,ARM64]
868			Format: <bool>
869			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
870			0: default value, disable debugging
871			1: enable debugging at boot time
872
873	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
874			Format:
875			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
876
877	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
878			disable the cpuidle sub-system
879
880	cpuidle.governor=
881			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
882
883	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
884			disable the cpufreq sub-system
885
886	cpufreq.default_governor=
887			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
888			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
889			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
890
891	cpu_init_udelay=N
892			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
893			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
894			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
895			Default: 10000
896
897	cpuhp.parallel=
898			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
899			Format: <bool>
900			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
901			the parameter has no effect.
902
903	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
904			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
905			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
906			succeeds in any situation.
907			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
908			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
909			kernel more unstable.
910
911	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
912			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
913			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
914			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
915			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
916			is selected automatically.
917			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
918			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
919			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
920			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
921
922	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
923			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
924			in the running system. The syntax of range is
925			start-[end] where start and end are both
926			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
927			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
928
929	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
930			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
931			above 4G.
932			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
933			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
934			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
935			below 4G, if available.
936			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
937	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
938			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
939			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
940			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
941			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
942			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
943			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
944			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
945			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
946			size is	platform dependent.
947			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
948			  --> arm64: 128MiB
949			  --> riscv: 128MiB
950			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
951			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
952			for second kernel instead.
953			0: to disable low allocation.
954			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
955			or memory reserved is below 4G.
956
957	cryptomgr.notests
958			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
959
960	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
961			Format: <dma>
962
963	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
964			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
965
966	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
967			function call handling. When switched on,
968			additional debug data is printed to the console
969			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
970			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
971			the hang situation.  The default value of this
972			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
973			Kconfig option.
974
975	dasd=		[HW,NET]
976			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
977
978	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
979			(one device per port)
980			Format: <port#>,<type>
981			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
982
983	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
984
985	debug_boot_weak_hash
986			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
987			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
988			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
989			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
990			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
991			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
992
993	debug_locks_verbose=
994			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
995			Format: <int>
996			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
997			self-tests.
998			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
999			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1000			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1001			useful to lockdep developers.
1002
1003	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1004
1005	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1006			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1007			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1008			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1009			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1010			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1011			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1012			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1013			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1014			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1015			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1016			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1017			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1018			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1019			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1020			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1021			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1022			help tracking down these problems.
1023
1024	debug_pagealloc=
1025			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1026			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1027			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1028			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1029			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1030			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1031			on: enable the feature
1032
1033	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1034			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1035			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
1036			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1037			no-mount:
1038				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1039			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1040				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1041			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1042			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1043				or directories within debugfs.
1044				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1045				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1046			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1047
1048	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1049
1050	default_hugepagesz=
1051			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1052			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1053			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1054			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1055			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1056			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1057			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1058			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1059			Format: size[KMG]
1060
1061	deferred_probe_timeout=
1062			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1063			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1064			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1065			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1066			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1067			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1068			successful driver registration. This option will also
1069			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1070			retrying.
1071
1072	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1073
1074	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1075			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1076			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1077			hardware.
1078
1079	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1080			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1081			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1082			blacklisted features.
1083
1084	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1085			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1086			(disabled by default).
1087
1088	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1089			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1090			capability is set.
1091
1092	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1093			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1094
1095	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1096			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1097
1098	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1099			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1100			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1101			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1102			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1103			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1104			          only (compression on level 1)
1105			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1106			          only (decompression)
1107			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1108			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1109
1110	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1111			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1112
1113	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1114			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1115			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1116			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1117			miss to occur.
1118
1119	disable=	[IPV6]
1120			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1121
1122	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1123			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1124
1125	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1126			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1127			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1128
1129	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1130			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1131			to workaround buggy firmware.
1132
1133	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1134			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1135
1136	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1137			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1138			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1139			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1140
1141	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1142			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1143			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1144			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1145			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1146
1147	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1148			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1149			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1150
1151	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1152
1153	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1154			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1155
1156	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1157			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1158			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1159			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1160			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1161			architectural default is too low.
1162
1163	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1164			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1165			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1166			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1167			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1168			driver later using sysfs.
1169
1170	reg_file_data_sampling=
1171			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1172			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1173			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1174			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1175			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1176			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1177
1178			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1179			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1180
1181			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1182			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1183			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1184			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1185			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1186
1187			For details see:
1188			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1189
1190	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1191			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1192			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1193			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1194			match the *.
1195			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1196
1197	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1198			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1199			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1200			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1201			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1202			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1203			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1204			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1205			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1206			data set with no connector name will be used for
1207			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1208
1209	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1210
1211	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1212			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1213			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1214			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1215			exists).
1216			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1217			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1218			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1219
1220	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1221			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1222			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1223			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1224
1225	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1226	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1227			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1228			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1229			for details.
1230
1231	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1232			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1233			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1234			which are not unmapped.
1235
1236	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1237
1238			When used with no options, the early console is
1239			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1240			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1241			the platform.
1242
1243		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1244			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1245			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1246			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1247			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1248			configured.
1249
1250		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1251		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1252		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1253		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1254		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1255			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1256			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1257			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1258			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1259			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1260			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1261			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1262			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1263			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1264			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1265
1266		pl011,<addr>
1267		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1269			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1270			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1271			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1272			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1273			the device registers.
1274
1275		liteuart,<addr>
1276			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1277			specified address. The serial port must already be
1278			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1279
1280		meson,<addr>
1281			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1282			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1283			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1284			supported.
1285
1286		msm_serial,<addr>
1287			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1288			port at the specified address. The serial port
1289			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1290			yet supported.
1291
1292		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1293			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1294			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1295			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1296			yet supported.
1297
1298		owl,<addr>
1299			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1300			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1301			specified address. The serial port must already be
1302			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1303
1304		rda,<addr>
1305			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1306			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1307			specified address. The serial port must already be
1308			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1309
1310		sbi
1311			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1312			console.
1313
1314		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1315
1316		s3c2410,<addr>
1317		s3c2412,<addr>
1318		s3c2440,<addr>
1319		s3c6400,<addr>
1320		s5pv210,<addr>
1321		exynos4210,<addr>
1322			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1323			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1324			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1325			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1326			Options are not yet supported.
1327
1328		lantiq,<addr>
1329			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1330			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1331			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1332			yet supported.
1333
1334		lpuart,<addr>
1335		lpuart32,<addr>
1336			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1337			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1338			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1339			port must already be setup and configured.
1340
1341		ec_imx21,<addr>
1342		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1343			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1344			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1345			must already be setup and configured.
1346
1347		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1348			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1349			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1350			address. The serial port must already be setup
1351			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1352
1353		qcom_geni,<addr>
1354			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1355			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1356			specified address. The serial port must already be
1357			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1358
1359		efifb,[options]
1360			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1361			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1362			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1363			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1364			mapped with the correct attributes.
1365
1366		linflex,<addr>
1367			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1368			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1369			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1370			already be setup and configured.
1371
1372	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1373			earlyprintk=vga
1374			earlyprintk=sclp
1375			earlyprintk=xen
1376			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1377			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1378			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1379			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1380			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1381			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1382			earlyprintk=bios
1383
1384			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1385			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1386			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1387
1388			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1389			takes over.
1390
1391			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1392			be used at a time.
1393
1394			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1395			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1396			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1397			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1398				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1399			You can find the port for a given device in
1400			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1401				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1402
1403			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1404			very good.
1405
1406			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1407			the real console.
1408
1409			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1410
1411			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1412
1413			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1414
1415			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1416			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1417			UART class.
1418
1419	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1420			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1421			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1422			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1423			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1424			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1425			default: on.
1426
1427	edd=		[EDD]
1428			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1429
1430	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1431			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1432				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1433				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1434			debug: enable misc debug output.
1435			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1436			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1437			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1438			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1439			firmware implementations.
1440			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1441			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1442			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1443			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1444			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1445			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1446			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1447			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1448			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1449			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1450
1451	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1452			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1453			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1454			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1455			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1456
1457	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1458			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1459			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1460			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1461			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1462
1463
1464	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1465			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1466
1467	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1468			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1469
1470			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1471			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1472
1473			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1474			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1475			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1476			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1477
1478	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1479			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1480			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1481
1482	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1483			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1484			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1485			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1486			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1487
1488	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1489			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1490			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1491			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1492
1493	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1494			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1495			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1496			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1497			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1498
1499	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1500			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1501			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1502			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1503			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1504			Default value is 0.
1505			Value can be changed at runtime via
1506			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1507
1508	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1509			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1510			support.
1511
1512	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1513			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1514			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1515
1516	evm=		[EVM]
1517			Format: { "fix" }
1518			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1519			current integrity status.
1520
1521	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1522			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1523			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1524			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1525			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1526			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1527			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1528
1529	failslab=
1530	fail_usercopy=
1531	fail_page_alloc=
1532	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1533			General fault injection mechanism.
1534			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1535			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1536
1537	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1538			Format: { initns | none }
1539			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1540			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1541
1542	floppy=		[HW]
1543			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1544
1545	forcepae	[X86-32]
1546			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1547			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1548			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1549			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1550			and may cause unknown problems.
1551
1552	fred=		[X86-64]
1553			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1554			Format: { on | off }
1555			on: enable FRED when it's present.
1556			off: disable FRED, the default setting.
1557
1558	ftrace=[tracer]
1559			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1560			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1561			boot debugging.
1562
1563	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1564			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1565			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1566			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1567			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1568			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1569			start up functionality.
1570
1571			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1572			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1573			line parameter.
1574
1575			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1576
1577			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1578			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1579
1580	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1581			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1582			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1583			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1584			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1585			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1586			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1587			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1588			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1589			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1590			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1591
1592			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1593
1594			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1595			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1596
1597			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1598
1599			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1600			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1601			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1602
1603	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1604			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1605			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1606			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1607			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1608			tracing directory.
1609
1610	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1611			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1612			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1613			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1614			tracing directory.
1615
1616	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1617			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1618			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1619			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1620			that can be changed at run time by the
1621			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1622
1623	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1624			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1625			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1626			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1627			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1628
1629	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1630			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1631			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1632			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1633			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1634
1635	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1636			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1637			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1638			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1639			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1640			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1641			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1642			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1643			suppliers).
1644			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1645			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1646			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1647				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1648				up (sync_state() calls).
1649			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1650				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1651			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1652
1653	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1654			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1655			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1656			Format: <bool>
1657
1658	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1659			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1660			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1661			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1662			calls.
1663			Format: { strict | timeout }
1664			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1665				probe successfully.
1666			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1667				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1668				received their sync_state() calls after
1669				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1670				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1671
1672	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1673			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1674			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1675			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1676			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1677
1678	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1679
1680	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1681			Format: off | on
1682			default: on
1683
1684	gather_data_sampling=
1685			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1686			mitigation.
1687
1688			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1689			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1690			previously stored in vector registers.
1691
1692			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1693			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1694			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1695			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1696
1697			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1698				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1699				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1700				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1701
1702			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1703
1704	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1705			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1706			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1707			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1708			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1709
1710	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1711			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1712			android emulator
1713
1714	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1715			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1716			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1717	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1718			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1719
1720	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1721			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1722			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1723			GPT to be used instead.
1724
1725	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1726			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1727			Format: 0 | 1
1728			Default: 0
1729	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1730			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1731			Format: 0 | 1
1732			Default: 0
1733	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1734			Format: 0 | 1
1735			Default: 0
1736	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1737			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1738			Default: 1024
1739	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1740			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1741			Default: 1024
1742
1743	hardened_usercopy=
1744			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1745			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1746			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1747			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1748			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1749			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1750			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1751		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1752		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1753
1754	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1755			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1756			backtraces on all cpus.
1757			Format: 0 | 1
1758
1759	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1760			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1761			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1762			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1763
1764	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1765			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1766
1767	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1768			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1769			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1770			logic will be disabled.
1771
1772	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1773		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1774				present during boot.
1775		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1776		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1777		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1778				(that will set all pages holding image data
1779				during restoration read-only).
1780
1781	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
1782				used with hibernation.
1783				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
1784				Default: lzo
1785
1786				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
1787				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1788
1789				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
1790				compress/decompress hibernation image.
1791
1792	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1793			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1794			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1795			size on bigger boxes.
1796
1797	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1798			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1799			Default: "on"
1800
1801	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1802
1803	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1804			Format: <string>
1805			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1806			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1807			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1808			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1809			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1810			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1811			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1812			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1813			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1814			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1815
1816	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1817			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1818				verbose }
1819			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1820			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1821				VIA, nVidia)
1822			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1823
1824	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1825			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1826
1827	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1828			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1829			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1830			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1831			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1832			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1833			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1834			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1835			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1836				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1837
1838	hugepagesz=
1839			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1840			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1841			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1842			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1843			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1844			architecture dependent.  See also
1845			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1846			Format: size[KMG]
1847
1848	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1849			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1850			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1851			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1852				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1853
1854			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1855			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1856			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1857
1858	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1859			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1860			enabled.
1861			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1862			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1863			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1864			Format: { on | off (default) }
1865
1866			on: enable HVO
1867			off: disable HVO
1868
1869			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1870			the default is on.
1871
1872			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1873			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1874			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1875			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1876			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1877
1878	hung_task_panic=
1879			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1880			Format: 0 | 1
1881
1882			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1883			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1884			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1885			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1886			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1887
1888	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1889				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1890	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1891				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1892				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1893
1894	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
1895			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1896			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
1897			on lock contention.
1898
1899	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1900				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1901				registered from board initialization code.
1902				Format:
1903				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1904
1905	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
1906			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
1907			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
1908			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
1909			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
1910			adding a DMI quirk for this.
1911
1912			Format:
1913			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
1914			Where <val> is one of:
1915			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
1916			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
1917			Anything else		Set a string device-property
1918
1919			Examples (split over multiple lines):
1920			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
1921			touchscreen-inverted-y
1922
1923			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
1924			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
1925			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
1926
1927	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1928	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1929			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1930			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1931			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1932	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1933	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1934			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1935			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1936	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1937	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1938	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1939			     for the AUX port
1940	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1941			     controller
1942	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1943			     controllers
1944	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1945	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1946			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1947			     transitions, or never reset
1948			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1949			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1950			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1951			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1952			architectures force reset to be always executed
1953	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1954	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1955	i8042.probe_defer
1956			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1957
1958	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1959
1960	i915.invert_brightness=
1961			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1962			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1963			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1964			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1965			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1966			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1967			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1968			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1969			value switches the backlight off.
1970			-1 -- never invert brightness
1971			 0 -- machine default
1972			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1973
1974	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1975			Format: <bool>
1976			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1977			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1978			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1979
1980	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1981			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1982
1983
1984	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
1985			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1986			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1987			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1988			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1989			Not recommended.
1990			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1991			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1992			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1993
1994	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1995			Format: <bool>
1996			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1997			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1998			true (1).
1999
2000	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2001			Format: <bool>
2002			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2003			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2004
2005	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2006			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2007			Default: strict
2008
2009			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2010			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2011			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2012			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2013			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2014			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2015			encoding mode.
2016
2017			Available settings are as follows:
2018			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2019				supported by the FPU
2020			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2021				by the FPU
2022			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2023				by the FPU
2024			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2025				supported by the FPU
2026			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2027				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2028
2029			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2030			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2031			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2032			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2033			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2034			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2035			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2036			MIPS64 CPUs.
2037
2038			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2039			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2040			except where unsupported by hardware.
2041
2042	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2043			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2044			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2045			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2046			could change it dynamically, usually by
2047			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2048
2049	ignore_rlimit_data
2050			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2051			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2052			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2053
2054	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2055			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2056
2057	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2058			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2059			default: "enforce"
2060
2061	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2062			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2063			owned by uid=0.
2064
2065	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2066			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2067			measurements, instead of host native format.
2068
2069	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2070			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2071				   | sha512 | ... }
2072			default: "sha1"
2073
2074			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2075			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2076
2077	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2078			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2079			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2080				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2081
2082			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2083			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2084			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2085			uid=0.
2086
2087			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2088			all files owned by root.
2089
2090			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2091			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2092			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2093
2094			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2095			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2096			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2097			flag.
2098
2099			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2100			critical data.
2101
2102	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2103			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2104			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2105			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2106			opened for read by uid=0.
2107
2108	ima_template=	[IMA]
2109			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2110			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2111				   "ima-sigv2" }
2112			Default: "ima-ng"
2113
2114	ima_template_fmt=
2115			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2116			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2117
2118	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2119			Format: <min_file_size>
2120			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2121			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2122
2123			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2124			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2125			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2126
2127	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2128			Format: <bufsize>
2129			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2130
2131			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2132			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2133			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2134
2135	init=		[KNL]
2136			Format: <full_path>
2137			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2138			process.
2139
2140	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2141			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2142			startup.
2143
2144	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2145			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2146			modules and initcalls.
2147
2148	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2149			Format: <bool>
2150			Default: 1
2151			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2152			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2153			with devices being probed and
2154			initialized. This should normally just work,
2155			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2156			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2157			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2158			late_ initcalls.
2159
2160	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2161
2162	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2163			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2164			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2165			setting.
2166			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2167			Default is 0, 0
2168
2169	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2170			zeroes.
2171			Format: 0 | 1
2172			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2173
2174	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2175			Format: 0 | 1
2176			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2177
2178	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2179			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2180			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2181			override in debugfs after boot.
2182
2183	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2184			Format: <irq>
2185
2186	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2187
2188	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2189			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2190			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2191			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2192
2193	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2194		on
2195			Enable intel iommu driver.
2196		off
2197			Disable intel iommu driver.
2198		igfx_off [Default Off]
2199			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2200			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2201			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2202			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2203			DMA.
2204		strict [Default Off]
2205			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2206		sp_off [Default Off]
2207			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2208			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2209			not be supported.
2210		sm_on
2211			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2212			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2213			translation.
2214		sm_off
2215			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2216		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2217			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2218			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2219			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2220			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2221			mapping is enabled.
2222			Note that using this option lowers the security
2223			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2224			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2225
2226	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2227			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2228			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2229
2230	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2231			disable
2232			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2233			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2234                        active
2235                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2236                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2237                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2238                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2239                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2240                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2241                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2242                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2243                          and possibly on the processor model.
2244			passive
2245			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2246			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2247			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2248			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2249			  feature.
2250			force
2251			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2252			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2253			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2254			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2255			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2256			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2257			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2258			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2259			no_hwp
2260			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2261			  if available.
2262			hwp_only
2263			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2264			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2265			support_acpi_ppc
2266			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2267			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2268			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2269			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2270			per_cpu_perf_limits
2271			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2272			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2273
2274	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2275			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2276			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2277			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2278			no_x2apic_optout
2279				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2280			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2281			posted_msi
2282				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2283
2284	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2285		strict	regions from userspace.
2286		relaxed
2287
2288	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2289		off
2290		force
2291		noforce
2292		biomerge
2293		panic
2294		nopanic
2295		merge
2296		nomerge
2297		soft
2298		pt		[X86]
2299		nopt		[X86]
2300		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2301			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2302
2303	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2304			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2305			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2306			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2307			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2308			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2309			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2310
2311	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2312			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2313			0 - Lazy mode.
2314			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2315			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2316			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2317			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2318			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2319			1 - Strict mode.
2320			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2321			  synchronously.
2322			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2323			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2324			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2325
2326	iommu.passthrough=
2327			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2328			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2329			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2330			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2331			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2332
2333	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2334			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2335			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2336
2337	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2338		0x80
2339			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2340		0xed
2341			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2342		udelay
2343			Simple two microseconds delay
2344		none
2345			No delay
2346
2347	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2348			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2349
2350	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2351			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2352
2353	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2354			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2355
2356	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2357			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2358			Format: <bool>
2359			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2360			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2361			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2362
2363	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2364			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2365			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2366			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2367			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2368			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2369			LPIs.
2370
2371	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2372			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2373			requires the kernel to be built with
2374			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2375
2376	irqfixup	[HW]
2377			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2378			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2379			firmware running.
2380
2381	irqpoll		[HW]
2382			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2383			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2384			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2385			firmware running.
2386
2387	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2388			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2389
2390	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2391			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2392			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2393
2394			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2395			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2396
2397			nohz
2398			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2399
2400			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2401			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2402			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2403			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2404			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2405
2406			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2407			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2408			  be configured manually after bootup.
2409
2410			domain
2411			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2412			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2413			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2414			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2415			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2416			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2417			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2418			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2419
2420			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2421			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2422			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2423			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2424
2425			managed_irq
2426
2427			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2428			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2429			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2430			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2431			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2432
2433			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2434			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2435			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2436			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2437			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2438			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2439			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2440
2441			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2442			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2443			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2444			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2445			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2446			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2447			  queues.
2448
2449			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2450
2451	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2452
2453	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2454			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2455			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2456			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2457
2458			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2459			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2460			write the parameter as:
2461				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2462
2463			Deprecated formats:
2464			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2465			  write the parameter as:
2466				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2467			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2468			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2469				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2470
2471	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2472			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2473			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2474			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2475
2476			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2477			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2478			write the parameter as:
2479				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2480
2481			Deprecated formats:
2482			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2483			  write the parameter as:
2484				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2485			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2486			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2487				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2488
2489	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2490			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2491			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2492			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2493
2494			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2495			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2496			write the parameter as:
2497				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2498
2499			Deprecated formats:
2500			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2501			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2502				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2503			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2504			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2505				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2506
2507	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2508			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2509
2510	kasan_multi_shot
2511			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2512			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2513			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2514			invalid access.
2515
2516	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2517			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2518			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2519			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2520			the real console.
2521
2522	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2523
2524	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2525			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2526			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2527			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2528			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2529			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2530			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2531			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2532			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2533			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2534
2535			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2536			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2537			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2538			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2539			zone if it does not.
2540
2541			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2542			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2543			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2544			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2545			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2546			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2547			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2548
2549	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2550			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2551			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2552			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2553			optional and is the number seconds in between
2554			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2555			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2556			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2557			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2558			the kernel debugger.
2559
2560	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2561			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2562			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2563			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2564			 keyboard only format: kbd
2565			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2566			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2567			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2568			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2569
2570	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2571			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2572			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2573			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2574			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2575			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2576			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2577
2578			The name of the early console should be specified
2579			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2580			the early console might be different than the tty
2581			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2582			blank and the first boot console that implements
2583			read() will be picked.
2584
2585	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2586			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2587
2588	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2589			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2590			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2591
2592	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2593			Valid arguments: on, off
2594			Default: on
2595			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2596			the default is off.
2597
2598	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2599			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2600			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2601			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2602			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2603			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2604			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2605
2606			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2607
2608			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2609			Boot Parameter" section.
2610
2611	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
2612			user and kernel address spaces.
2613			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2614			0: force disabled
2615			1: force enabled
2616
2617	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2618			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2619			default value can be overridden via
2620			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2621			Default is 1 (enabled)
2622
2623	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2624			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2625
2626	kvm.eager_page_split=
2627			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2628			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2629			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2630			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2631			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2632			required to split huge pages lazily.
2633
2634			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2635			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2636			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2637			still be used for reads.
2638
2639			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2640			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2641			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2642			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2643			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2644			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2645			cleared.
2646
2647			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2648
2649			Default is Y (on).
2650
2651	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2652				   Default is false (don't support).
2653
2654	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2655			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2656			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2657			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2658			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2659			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2660				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2661
2662			Default is 'auto'.
2663
2664			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2665			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2666
2667	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2668			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2669			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2670			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2671			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2672
2673	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2674			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2675			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2676			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2677			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2678			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2679
2680	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2681			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2682
2683	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2684			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2685			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2686			for NPT.
2687
2688	kvm-arm.mode=
2689			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
2690			operation.
2691
2692			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2693
2694			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2695			      protected guests.
2696
2697			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2698				   state is kept private from the host.
2699
2700			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2701				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2702				hardware.
2703
2704			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2705			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2706			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2707			used with extreme caution.
2708
2709	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2710			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2711			system registers
2712
2713	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2714			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2715			system registers
2716
2717	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2718			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2719			system registers
2720
2721	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2722			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
2723			injection of LPIs.
2724
2725	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
2726			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
2727			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2728			CPU architecture.
2729
2730			trap: set WFE instruction trap
2731
2732			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
2733
2734	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
2735			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
2736			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
2737			CPU architecture.
2738
2739			trap: set WFI instruction trap
2740
2741			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
2742
2743	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
2744			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2745			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2746			allocation.
2747			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2748			Format: <integer>
2749			Default: 5
2750
2751	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2752			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2753			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2754			for EPT.
2755
2756	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2757			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2758			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2759			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2760			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2761			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2762			Default is 1 (enabled).
2763
2764	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2765			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2766			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2767			hardware lacks support for it.
2768
2769	kvm-intel.nested=
2770			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2771			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2772
2773	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2774			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2775			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2776			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2777			hardware lacks support for it.
2778
2779	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2780			CVE-2018-3620.
2781
2782			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2783
2784			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2785			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2786				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2787			never:	Disables the mitigation
2788
2789			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2790
2791	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2792			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2793			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2794			for it.
2795
2796	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
2797			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2798
2799			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2800			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2801			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2802
2803			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2804			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2805			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2806			not have direct access.
2807
2808			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2809			options are:
2810
2811			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2812
2813	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2814			      affected CPUs
2815
2816			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2817			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2818
2819			full
2820				Provides all available mitigations for the
2821				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2822				enables all mitigations in the
2823				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2824
2825				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2826				sysfs interface is still possible after
2827				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2828				when the first VM is started in a
2829				potentially insecure configuration,
2830				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2831
2832			full,force
2833				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2834				flush runtime control. Implies the
2835				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2836				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2837
2838			flush
2839				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2840				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2841				L1D flush.
2842
2843				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2844				sysfs interface is still possible after
2845				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2846				when the first VM is started in a
2847				potentially insecure configuration,
2848				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2849
2850			flush,nosmt
2851
2852				Disables SMT and enables the default
2853				hypervisor mitigation.
2854
2855				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2856				sysfs interface is still possible after
2857				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2858				when the first VM is started in a
2859				potentially insecure configuration,
2860				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2861
2862			flush,nowarn
2863				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2864				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2865				insecure configuration.
2866
2867			off
2868				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2869				emit any warnings.
2870				It also drops the swap size and available
2871				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2872				bare metal.
2873
2874			Default is 'flush'.
2875
2876			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2877
2878	l2cr=		[PPC]
2879
2880	l3cr=		[PPC]
2881
2882	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2883			disabled it.
2884
2885	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2886			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2887			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2888			Format: notscdeadline
2889
2890	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
2891			in C2 power state.
2892
2893	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2894			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2895			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2896			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2897			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2898			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2899			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2900
2901	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2902			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2903			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2904
2905	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2906			when set.
2907			Format: <int>
2908
2909	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2910			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2911			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2912			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2913			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2914			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2915			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2916			to all ports, links and devices.
2917
2918			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2919			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2920			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2921			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2922			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2923			host link and device attached to it.
2924
2925			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2926			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2927			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2928			The following configurations can be forced.
2929
2930			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2931			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2932
2933			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2934
2935			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2936			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2937			  allowed.
2938
2939			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2940			  resets.
2941
2942			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2943			  link recovery.
2944
2945			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2946			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2947			  detection.
2948
2949			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2950
2951			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2952
2953			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2954
2955			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2956
2957			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2958
2959			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2960
2961			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2962
2963			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2964
2965			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2966			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2967
2968			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2969			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2970
2971			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2972			  identify device data log.
2973
2974			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2975			  purpose log directory.
2976
2977			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2978
2979			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2980			  1024 sectors.
2981
2982			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2983			  65535 sectors.
2984
2985			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2986
2987			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2988			  should be skipped.
2989
2990			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2991			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2992
2993			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2994
2995			* disable: Disable this device.
2996
2997			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2998			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2999
3000	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
3001
3002	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3003			Format: <integer>
3004
3005	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3006			Format: <integer>
3007
3008	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3009			Format: <integer>
3010
3011	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3012			Format: <integer>
3013
3014	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3015			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3016			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3017			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3018			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3019			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3020			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3021			are also disabled.
3022
3023	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3024			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3025			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3026			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3027
3028	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3029			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3030			to be bound.
3031
3032	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3033			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3034			to be bound.
3035
3036	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3037			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3038			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3039			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3040			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3041			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3042
3043	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3044			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3045			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3046			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3047
3048	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3049			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3050			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3051			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3052			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3053			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3054
3055	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3056			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3057			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3058			number of online CPUs.
3059
3060	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3061			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3062
3063	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3064			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3065
3066	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3067			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3068			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3069
3070	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3071			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3072			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3073			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3074			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3075			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3076			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3077			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3078			disable boosting.
3079
3080	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3081			Number that determines how often and for how
3082			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3083			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3084			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3085			constant as the number of writers increases.
3086			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3087			increases with the number of writers.
3088
3089	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3090			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3091			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3092			mode during the locktorture test.
3093
3094	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3095			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3096			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3097
3098	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3099			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3100
3101	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3102			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3103			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3104			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3105			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3106			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3107
3108	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3109			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3110
3111	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3112			Enable additional printk() statements.
3113
3114	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3115			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3116			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3117
3118	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3119			Format: <irq>
3120
3121	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3122			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3123			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3124			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3125			loglevels are defined as follows:
3126
3127			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3128			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3129			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3130			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3131			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3132			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3133			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3134			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3135
3136	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3137			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3138			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3139			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3140			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3141			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3142			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3143			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3144			for more details.
3145
3146	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3147			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3148			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3149			kernel boot problems.
3150
3151	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3152	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3153	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3154	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3155				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3156				attached printers to be reset. Using
3157				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3158				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3159				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3160				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3161				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3162				port specification list means that device IDs
3163				from each port should be examined, to see if
3164				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3165				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3166				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3167
3168	lpj=n		[KNL]
3169			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3170			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3171			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3172			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3173			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3174			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3175			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3176			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3177			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3178			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3179			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3180			hardware.
3181
3182	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3183
3184	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3185			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3186			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3187
3188	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3189			different yeeloong laptops.
3190			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3191
3192	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3193			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3194			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3195			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3196			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3197			only takes effect during system bootup.
3198			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3199			which also disables the IO APIC.
3200
3201	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3202	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3203			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3204			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3205			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3206			/dev/loop-control interface.
3207
3208	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3209
3210	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3211
3212	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3213			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3214
3215	mdacon=		[MDA]
3216			Format: <first>,<last>
3217			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3218
3219	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3220			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3221			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3222
3223			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3224			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3225			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3226
3227			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3228			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3229			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3230			not have direct access.
3231
3232			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3233			options are:
3234
3235			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3236			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3237				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3238			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3239
3240			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3241			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3242			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3243			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3244			too.
3245
3246			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3247			mds=full.
3248
3249			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3250
3251	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3252			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3253
3254	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3255			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3256			as follows:
3257
3258			1 for test;
3259			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3260			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3261			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3262			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3263
3264			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3265			high memory is not affected.
3266
3267			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3268			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3269
3270			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3271			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3272			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3273			belonging to unused RAM.
3274
3275			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3276			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3277			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3278
3279	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3280			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3281			reported by firmware.
3282			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3283			ss[KMG].
3284			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3285			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3286
3287	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3288			memory.
3289
3290	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3291
3292	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3293			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3294			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3295
3296	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3297			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3298			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3299			set according to the
3300			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3301			option.
3302			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3303
3304	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3305			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3306			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3307			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3308			option description.
3309
3310	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3311			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3312			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3313			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3314			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3315			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3316			comma delimited.
3317			Example:
3318				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3319
3320	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3321			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3322			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3323
3324	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3325			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3326			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3327			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3328			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3329			         or
3330			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3331			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3332			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3333			will be eaten.
3334
3335	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3336			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3337			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3338			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3339			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3340
3341	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3342			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3343			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3344			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3345			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3346			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3347			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3348			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3349
3350	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3351			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3352			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3353			Setting this option will scan the memory
3354			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3355			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3356			from using the memory being corrupted.
3357			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3358			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3359			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3360			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3361
3362	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3363			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3364			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3365			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3366			corruption in more or less memory.
3367
3368	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3369			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3370			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3371			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3372
3373	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3374			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3375			Format: {on | off (default)}
3376			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3377			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3378			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3379			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3380			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3381			lot of memory without requiring additional
3382			memory to do so.
3383			This feature is disabled by default because it
3384			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3385			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3386			memory blocks).
3387			The state of the flag can be read in
3388			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3389			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3390			the feature is not effective.
3391
3392	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3393			Format: <integer>
3394			default : 0 <disable>
3395			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3396			performed. Each pass selects another test
3397			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3398			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3399			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3400			regions that are detected.
3401
3402	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3403			Valid arguments: on, off
3404			Default: off
3405			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3406			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3407
3408			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3409			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3410
3411	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3412			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3413			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3414			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3415			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3416
3417	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3418			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3419			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3420			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3421
3422	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3423
3424	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3425			Format: <bool>
3426			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3427			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3428
3429	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3430			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3431			Default: "0tb"
3432			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3433			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3434			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3435			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3436			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3437			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3438			unconfigured.
3439			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3440			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3441			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3442			VGA shield.
3443			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3444			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3445			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3446			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3447			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3448			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3449
3450	mitigations=
3451			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
3452			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3453			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3454			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3455
3456			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
3457			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
3458
3459			off
3460				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3461				improves system performance, but it may also
3462				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3463				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3464					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3465					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3466					       l1tf=off [X86]
3467					       mds=off [X86]
3468					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3469					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3470					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3471					       nobp=0 [S390]
3472					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3473					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3474					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3475					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3476					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
3477					       retbleed=off [X86]
3478					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
3479					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3480					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
3481					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3482					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3483					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3484					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3485
3486				Exceptions:
3487					       This does not have any effect on
3488					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3489					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3490
3491			auto (default)
3492				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3493				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3494				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3495				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3496				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3497				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3498
3499			auto,nosmt
3500				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3501				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3502				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3503				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3504					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3505					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3506					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3507					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3508
3509	mminit_loglevel=
3510			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3511			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3512			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3513			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3514			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3515			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3516
3517	mmio_stale_data=
3518			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
3519			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3520
3521			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3522			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3523			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3524			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3525			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3526			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3527
3528			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3529			options are:
3530
3531			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3532
3533			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3534				     vulnerable CPUs.
3535
3536			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3537
3538			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3539			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3540			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3541			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3542			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3543			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3544
3545			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3546			mmio_stale_data=full.
3547
3548			For details see:
3549			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3550
3551	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3552			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3553			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3554			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3555			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3556			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3557
3558	module.async_probe=<bool>
3559			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3560			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3561			specific module, use the module specific control that
3562			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3563			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3564			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3565			the specific module.
3566
3567	module.enable_dups_trace
3568			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3569			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3570			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3571			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3572			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3573	module.sig_enforce
3574			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3575			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3576			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3577			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3578
3579	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3580			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3581
3582	mousedev.tap_time=
3583			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3584			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3585			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3586			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3587			Format: <msecs>
3588	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3589			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3590	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3591			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3592
3593	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
3594			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3595			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3596			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3597			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3598			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3599			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3600			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3601			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3602			is not too small.
3603
3604	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3605			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3606			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3607			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3608			allocations. Use with caution!
3609
3610	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3611			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3612
3613	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3614			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3615
3616	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3617			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3618
3619	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3620			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3621			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3622
3623	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
3624			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3625			registers at boot time.
3626
3627	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3628			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3629			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3630
3631	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
3632			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3633			Default is 1.
3634			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3635			using up MTRRs.
3636
3637	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
3638			Format: <integer>
3639			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3640			Default : 1
3641			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3642			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3643
3644	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3645			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3646			at a time.
3647
3648	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3649
3650	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3651			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3652			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3653			something different and driver-specific.
3654			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3655			file if at all.
3656
3657	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3658			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3659			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3660			waits 4 seconds.
3661
3662	nf_conntrack.acct=
3663			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3664			0 to disable accounting
3665			1 to enable accounting
3666			Default value is 0.
3667
3668	nfs.cache_getent=
3669			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3670			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3671
3672	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3673			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3674			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3675
3676	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3677			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3678			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3679			requests.
3680
3681	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3682			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3683			channel should listen.
3684
3685	nfs.delay_retrans=
3686			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3687			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3688			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3689			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3690			and the specified value is >= 0.
3691
3692	nfs.enable_ino64=
3693			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3694			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3695			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3696			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3697			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3698
3699	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3700			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3701			entries.
3702
3703	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3704			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3705			slots the client will assign to the callback
3706			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3707			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3708			a particular server.
3709
3710	nfs.max_session_slots=
3711			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3712			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3713			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3714			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3715			Note that there is little point in setting this
3716			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3717
3718	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3719			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3720			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3721			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3722			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3723			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3724			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3725			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3726			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3727			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3728			back to using the idmapper.
3729			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3730
3731	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3732			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3733			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3734			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3735			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3736
3737	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3738			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3739			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3740			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3741			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3742			after the locks are lost.
3743			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3744			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3745			parameter to '1'.
3746			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3747			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3748
3749	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3750			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3751			information in exchange_id requests.
3752			If zero, no implementation identification information
3753			will be sent.
3754			The default is to send the implementation identification
3755			information.
3756
3757	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3758			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3759			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3760
3761			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3762			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3763			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3764			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3765
3766	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3767			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3768			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3769			the destination of the copy.
3770
3771	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3772			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3773			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3774			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3775			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3776			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3777
3778	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3779			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3780			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3781			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3782			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3783			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3784			this parameter.
3785
3786	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3787			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3788
3789	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3790			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3791
3792	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3793			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3794
3795	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3796			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3797			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3798
3799	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3800			when a NMI is triggered.
3801			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3802
3803	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3804			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
3805			Valid num: 0 or 1
3806			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3807			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3808			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
3809
3810			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3811			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3812			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3813			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3814			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3815			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3816			need the box quickly up again.
3817
3818			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3819			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3820
3821	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3822			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3823			is present.
3824
3825	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
3826			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3827
3828	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3829			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3830
3831	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3832
3833	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3834			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3835
3836	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3837
3838	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
3839
3840	no_console_suspend
3841			[HW] Never suspend the console
3842			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3843			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3844			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3845			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3846			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3847			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3848			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3849			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3850			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3851			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3852			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3853			turn on/off it dynamically.
3854
3855	no_debug_objects
3856			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
3857
3858	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3859
3860	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
3861
3862	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3863
3864	noexec32	[X86-64]
3865			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3866			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3867				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3868			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3869				read implies executable mappings
3870
3871	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3872			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3873			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3874
3875	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3876
3877	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3878
3879	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3880			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3881			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3882
3883	no_hash_pointers
3884			[KNL,EARLY]
3885			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3886			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3887			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3888			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3889			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3890			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3891			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3892			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3893			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3894			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3895			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3896			kernels.
3897
3898	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3899
3900	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
3901			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3902			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3903			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3904			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3905			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3906			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3907			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3908
3909	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3910
3911	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3912
3913	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3914			Valid arguments: on, off
3915			Default: on
3916
3917	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3918			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3919			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3920			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3921			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3922			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3923			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3924			just as if they had also been called out in the
3925			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3926
3927			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3928			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3929
3930	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3931			initial RAM disk.
3932
3933	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
3934			remapping.
3935			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3936
3937	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3938
3939	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3940
3941	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3942			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3943
3944	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3945
3946	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
3947			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3948			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3949			Layout Randomization).
3950
3951	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3952			fault handling.
3953
3954	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3955
3956	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3957
3958	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3959
3960	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3961
3962	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3963			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3964
3965	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3966			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3967			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3968			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3969			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3970			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3971			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3972
3973			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3974
3975	nomodule	Disable module load
3976
3977	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3978			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3979			irq.
3980
3981	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3982			pagetables) support.
3983
3984	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3985
3986	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3987			in some Intel CPUs.
3988
3989	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
3990			Equivalent to pti=off
3991
3992	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
3993			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3994			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3995			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3996
3997	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
3998			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3999			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4000			contention.
4001
4002	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4003			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4004
4005	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4006			with UP alternatives
4007
4008	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4009			space.
4010
4011	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4012			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4013			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4014
4015	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4016
4017	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4018			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4019			even if it is supported by processor.
4020
4021	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4022			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4023			even if it is supported by processor.
4024
4025	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4026			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4027
4028	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4029			Equivalent to smt=1.
4030
4031			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4032			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4033				     via the sysfs control file.
4034
4035	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4036
4037	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4038			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4039			Store Bypass vulnerability
4040
4041	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4042			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4043			with this option.
4044
4045	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4046			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4047			possible in the system.
4048
4049	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4050			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4051			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4052			leaks with this option.
4053
4054	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4055			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4056			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4057
4058	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4059
4060	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
4061			broken timer IRQ sources.
4062
4063	no_uaccess_flush
4064	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4065
4066	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4067			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4068			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4069			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4070			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4071			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4072			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4073			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4074			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4075			is set.
4076
4077	no-vmw-sched-clock
4078			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4079			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4080
4081	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4082			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4083
4084	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4085
4086	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4087
4088			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4089			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4090			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4091
4092	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4093			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4094			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4095
4096	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4097			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4098			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4099			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4100			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4101			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4102
4103	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4104			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4105			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4106			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4107			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4108			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4109			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4110
4111	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4112			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4113			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4114			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4115			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4116			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4117			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4118			hot plugging.
4119
4120	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4121
4122	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4123			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4124			spanning all memory.
4125
4126	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4127			NUMA balancing.
4128			Allowed values are enable and disable
4129
4130	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4131			'node', 'default' can be specified
4132			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4133			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4134
4135	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4136			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4137			info.
4138
4139	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4140			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4141			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4142			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4143			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4144			interrupts *may* be lost!
4145
4146	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4147			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4148			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4149			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4150
4151	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4152
4153			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4154
4155			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4156				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4157			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4158				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4159				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4160
4161	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4162			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4163			process, but there is a small probability of
4164			deadlocking the machine.
4165			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4166			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4167
4168	page_alloc.shuffle=
4169			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4170			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4171			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4172			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4173			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4174			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4175
4176	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4177			Storage of the information about who allocated
4178			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4179			we can turn it on.
4180			on: enable the feature
4181
4182	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4183			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4184			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4185			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4186			on: turn on poisoning
4187
4188	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4189			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4190			Format: <integer>
4191			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4192			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4193
4194	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4195			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4196			timeout = 0: wait forever
4197			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4198			Format: <timeout>
4199
4200	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4201			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4202			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4203			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4204			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4205			called with any of the flags in this set.
4206			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4207			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4208			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4209			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4210			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4211			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4212			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4213
4214	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4215			on a WARN().
4216
4217	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4218			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4219			bit 0: print all tasks info
4220			bit 1: print system memory info
4221			bit 2: print timer info
4222			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4223			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4224			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4225			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4226			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4227			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4228			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4229			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4230			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4231
4232	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4233			connected to, default is 0.
4234			Format: <parport#>
4235	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4236			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4237			Format: <mode>
4238
4239	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4240			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4241			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4242			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4243			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4244			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4245			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4246			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4247			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4248			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4249			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4250			are specified on the command line, starting
4251			with parport0.
4252
4253	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4254			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4255			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4256			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4257			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4258			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4259			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4260
4261	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4262			Format: <int>
4263			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4264			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4265			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4266
4267	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4268			Format: <int>
4269			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4270			changes.  Disabled by default.
4271
4272	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4273			Format: <int>
4274			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4275			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4276			Disabled by default.
4277
4278	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4279			Format: <int>
4280			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4281			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4282			Disabled by default.
4283
4284	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4285			Format: <int>
4286			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4287			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4288			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4289			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4290			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4291			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4292			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4293			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4294			all channels.
4295
4296	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4297			Format: <int>
4298			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4299			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4300			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4301
4302	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4303			Format: <int>
4304			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4305			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4306			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4307
4308	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4309			Format: <int>
4310			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4311			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4312			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4313			All modes allowed by default.
4314
4315	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4316			Format: <int>
4317			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4318			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4319
4320	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4321			Format: <int>
4322			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4323			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4324			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4325			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4326			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4327			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4328			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4329			By default all supported ports are probed.
4330
4331	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4332			Format: <int>
4333			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4334			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4335
4336	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4337			Format: <int>
4338			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4339			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4340			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4341			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4342			0 otherwise.
4343
4344	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4345			Format: <int>
4346			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4347			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4348			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4349			allowed by default.
4350
4351	pause_on_oops=<int>
4352			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4353			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4354			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4355
4356	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4357
4358	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
4359
4360				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4361				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4362				specified in one of the following formats:
4363
4364				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4365				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4366
4367				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4368				bus/device/function address which may change
4369				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4370				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4371				by other kernel parameters. If the
4372				domain is left unspecified, it is
4373				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4374				to a device through multiple device/function
4375				addresses can be specified after the base
4376				address (this is more robust against
4377				renumbering issues).  The second format
4378				selects devices using IDs from the
4379				configuration space which may match multiple
4380				devices in the system.
4381
4382		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4383				changes anything
4384		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4385		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4386				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4387				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4388		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4389				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4390				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4391				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4392		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4393				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4394				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4395		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4396				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4397				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4398				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4399				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4400				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4401				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4402		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4403				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4404				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4405		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4406				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4407		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4408				Configuration
4409		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4410				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4411				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4412		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4413				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4414				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4415		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4416				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4417				should never be necessary.
4418		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4419				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4420				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4421				when the system masks IRQs.
4422		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4423				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4424				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4425				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4426		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4427				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4428				on several machines and they hang the machine
4429				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4430				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4431				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4432				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4433				motherboard.
4434		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4435				Use with caution as certain devices share
4436				address decoders between ROMs and other
4437				resources.
4438		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4439				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4440				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4441		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4442				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4443		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4444				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4445				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4446				this way.
4447		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4448				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4449				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4450				F0000h-100000h range.
4451		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4452				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4453				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4454				explicitly which ones they are.
4455		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4456				numbers ourselves, overriding
4457				whatever the firmware may have done.
4458		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4459				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4460				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4461				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4462				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4463				IRQ routing is enabled.
4464		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4465				or for PCI scanning.
4466		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4467				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4468				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4469				please report a bug.
4470		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4471				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4472		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4473				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4474				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4475				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4476				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4477		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4478				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4479				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4480				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4481		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4482				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4483				so this option is a temporary workaround
4484				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4485		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4486				handle more pci cards
4487		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4488				This might help on some broken boards which
4489				machine check when some devices' config space
4490				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4491				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4492		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4493				This sorting is done to get a device
4494				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4495		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4496		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4497				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4498		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4499				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4500		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4501				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4502				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4503				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4504				or bus can support) for best performance.
4505		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4506				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4507				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4508				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4509				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4510				that hot-added devices will work.
4511		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4512				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4513				The default value is 256 bytes.
4514		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4515				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4516				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4517		resource_alignment=
4518				Format:
4519				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4520				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4521				aligned memory resources. How to
4522				specify the device is described above.
4523				If <order of align> is not specified,
4524				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4525				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4526				windows need to be expanded.
4527				To specify the alignment for several
4528				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4529				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4530				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4531				for 4096-byte alignment.
4532		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4533				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4534				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4535				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4536				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4537				the default.
4538				off: Turn ECRC off
4539				on: Turn ECRC on.
4540		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4541				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4542				Default size is 256 bytes.
4543		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4544				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4545				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4546		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4547				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4548				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4549		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4550				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4551				MMIO_PREF window.
4552				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4553		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4554				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4555				Default is 1.
4556		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4557				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4558				accommodate resources required by all child
4559				devices.
4560				off: Turn realloc off
4561				on: Turn realloc on
4562		realloc		same as realloc=on
4563		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4564		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4565				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4566		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4567				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4568				port.
4569		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4570				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4571				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4572				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4573				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4574				taints the kernel.
4575		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4576				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4577				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4578				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4579				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4580				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4581				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4582				this removes isolation between devices and
4583				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4584		config_acs=
4585				Format:
4586				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
4587				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4588				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
4589				and separated by semicolons. The respective
4590				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
4591				unchanged based on what is specified in
4592				flags.
4593
4594				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
4595				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
4596				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
4597				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
4598				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
4599				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
4600				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
4601				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
4602				Each bit can be marked as:
4603				  '0' – force disabled
4604				  '1' – force enabled
4605				  'x' – unchanged
4606				For example,
4607				  pci=config_acs=10x
4608				would configure all devices that support
4609				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
4610				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
4611				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
4612				or firmware set it to.
4613
4614				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
4615				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4616		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4617		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4618		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4619				one PCI domain per PCI function
4620
4621	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
4622			Management.
4623		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
4624			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
4625		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4626			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4627
4628	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4629		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4630			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4631			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4632			also tries to use these services.
4633		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4634				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4635		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4636			hotplug).
4637
4638	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4639		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4640		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4641
4642	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4643		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4644			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4645
4646	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4647
4648	pd_ignore_unused
4649			[PM]
4650			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4651			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4652			for debug and development, but should not be
4653			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4654
4655	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4656			boot time.
4657			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4658			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4659
4660	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
4661			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4662			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4663			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4664			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4665			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4666			and performance comparison.
4667
4668	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4669			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4670
4671	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4672			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4673			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4674
4675	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4676			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4677			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4678
4679	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4680			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4681			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4682			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4683			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4684			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4685			remains 0.
4686
4687	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4688			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4689
4690	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4691			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4692			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4693			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4694			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4695			possible settings and some assignment information.
4696
4697	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4698			{ off }
4699
4700	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4701			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4702
4703	pnp_reserve_irq=
4704			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4705
4706	pnp_reserve_dma=
4707			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4708
4709	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4710			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4711
4712	pnp_reserve_mem=
4713			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4714			autoconfiguration.
4715			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4716
4717	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4718			Default is 21.
4719			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4720			may be specified.
4721			Format: <port>,<port>....
4722
4723	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
4724			Format: <unsigned int>
4725			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
4726			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
4727
4728	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4729			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4730			platform machine description specific power_save
4731			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4732			execution priority.
4733
4734	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4735			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4736			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4737			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4738			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4739
4740	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
4741			Format: {"off"}
4742			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4743
4744	preempt=	[KNL]
4745			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4746			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4747			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4748			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4749			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
4750			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
4751			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
4752
4753	print-fatal-signals=
4754			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4755
4756			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4757			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4758			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4759			coredump - etc.
4760
4761			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4762			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4763
4764			default: off.
4765
4766	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4767			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4768			panics
4769			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4770			default: disabled
4771
4772	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4773			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4774			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4775			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4776			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4777			in order to provide more debug information.
4778			Format: <bool>
4779			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4780
4781	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4782			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4783			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4784			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4785			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4786			Default: ratelimit
4787
4788	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4789			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4790
4791	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4792			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4793			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4794
4795	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4796			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4797			instead using the legacy FADT method
4798
4799	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4800			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4801			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
4802				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4803			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4804			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4805			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4806				statistical time based profiling.
4807
4808	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4809
4810	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4811			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4812			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
4813			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
4814			Layout Randomization is disabled.
4815			Format: <bool>
4816
4817	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4818			tracking.
4819			Format: <bool>
4820
4821	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4822			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4823	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4824			per second.
4825	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4826			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4827			(0 = never).
4828	psmouse.resolution=
4829			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4830	psmouse.smartscroll=
4831			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4832			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4833
4834	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4835
4836	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4837			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4838			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4839			system calls and interrupts.
4840
4841			on   - unconditionally enable
4842			off  - unconditionally disable
4843			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4844			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4845
4846			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4847
4848	pty.legacy_count=
4849			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4850			default number.
4851
4852	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
4853
4854	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4855
4856	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4857			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4858			invalidate.
4859
4860	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4861			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4862
4863	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4864			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4865
4866	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4867
4868	random.trust_cpu=off
4869			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4870			random number generator (if available) to
4871			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4872
4873	random.trust_bootloader=off
4874			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4875			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4876			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4877
4878	randomize_kstack_offset=
4879			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4880			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4881			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4882			that depend on stack address determinism or
4883			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4884			available on architectures that have defined
4885			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4886			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4887			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4888
4889	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4890
4891		cec_disable	[X86]
4892				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4893				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4894
4895	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4896			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4897			as described above.
4898
4899			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4900			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4901			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4902			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4903			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4904			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4905			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4906			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4907			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4908			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4909			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4910			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4911
4912			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4913			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4914
4915			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4916			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4917			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4918			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4919
4920			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4921			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4922
4923	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4924			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4925			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4926			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4927			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4928			This improves the real-time response for the
4929			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4930			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4931			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4932			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4933
4934	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4935			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4936			process in one batch.
4937
4938	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4939			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4940			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4941			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4942			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4943			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4944
4945	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4946			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4947			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4948			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4949
4950	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4951			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4952			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4953
4954	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4955			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4956			RCU grace-period initialization.
4957
4958	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4959			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4960			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4961			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4962			the rcu_node combining tree.
4963
4964	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4965			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4966			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4967			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4968			and maximum value is HZ.
4969
4970	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4971			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4972			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4973			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4974
4975	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4976			Set required age in jiffies for a
4977			given grace period before RCU starts
4978			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4979			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4980			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4981			a value based on the most recent settings
4982			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4983			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4984			This calculated value may be viewed in
4985			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4986			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4987			overwritten.
4988
4989	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4990			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4991			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4992			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4993			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4994			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4995			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4996			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4997			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4998			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4999			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5000			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5001
5002	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5003			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5004			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5005			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5006			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5007			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5008			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5009			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5010			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5011			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5012			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5013			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5014
5015	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5016			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5017			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5018			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5019			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5020			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5021			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5022
5023	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5024			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5025			batch limiting is disabled.
5026
5027	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5028			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5029			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5030
5031	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5032			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5033			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5034			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5035			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5036			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5037			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5038			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5039
5040	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5041			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5042			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5043			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5044
5045	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5046			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5047			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5048			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5049			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5050			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5051			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5052			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5053
5054			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5055			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5056			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5057			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5058			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5059
5060	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5061			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5062			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5063			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5064			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5065
5066	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5067			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5068			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5069			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5070			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5071			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5072			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5073
5074	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5075			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5076			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5077			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5078			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5079			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5080			condition.
5081
5082	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5083			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5084			each group, which defaults to the square root
5085			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5086			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5087			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5088			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5089
5090	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5091			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5092			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5093			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5094			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5095			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5096
5097	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5098			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5099			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5100			By default, this limit is checked only once
5101			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5102			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5103
5104	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5105			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5106			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5107			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5108			Larger delays increase the probability of
5109			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5110			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5111			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5112
5113	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5114			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5115			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5116			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5117
5118	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5119			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5120			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5121			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5122			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5123
5124			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5125			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5126			to zero.
5127
5128	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5129			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5130			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5131			big.
5132
5133	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5134			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5135			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5136			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5137			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5138			normal grace period.
5139
5140			How to enable it:
5141
5142			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5143			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5144
5145			Default is 0.
5146
5147	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5148			Measure performance of asynchronous
5149			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5150
5151	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5152			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5153			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5154			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5155			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5156			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5157
5158	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5159			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5160			grace-period primitives.
5161
5162	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5163			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5164			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5165			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5166			interference.
5167
5168	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5169			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5170			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5171
5172	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5173			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5174			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5175			Defaults to 1.
5176
5177	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5178			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5179
5180	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5181			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5182			If this parameter has the same value as
5183			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5184			and double-argument variants are tested.
5185
5186	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5187			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5188			If this parameter has the same value as
5189			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5190			and double-argument variants are tested.
5191
5192	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5193			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5194
5195	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5196			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5197
5198	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5199			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5200			of allocations and frees.
5201
5202	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5203			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5204			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5205			but instead allows better measurement of things
5206			like CPU consumption.
5207
5208	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5209			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5210			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5211			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5212			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5213			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5214			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5215			a single reader.
5216
5217	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5218			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5219			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5220			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5221
5222	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5223			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5224
5225	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5226			Shut the system down after performance tests
5227			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5228			testing.
5229
5230	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5231			Enable additional printk() statements.
5232
5233	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5234			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5235			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5236			no holdoff.
5237
5238	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5239			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5240			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5241			says no holdoff.
5242
5243	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5244			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5245			in microseconds.
5246
5247	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5248			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5249			in microseconds.
5250
5251	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5252			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5253			in seconds.
5254
5255	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5256			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5257			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5258			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5259			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5260			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5261			of CPUs to be used.
5262
5263	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5264			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5265			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5266
5267	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5268			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5269			forward-progress tests.
5270
5271	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5272			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5273			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5274			testing.
5275
5276	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5277			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5278			primitives, if available.
5279
5280	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5281			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5282
5283	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5284			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5285			update-side primitives, if available.
5286
5287	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5288			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5289			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5290			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5291			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5292			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5293			they are all non-zero.
5294
5295	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5296			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5297			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5298			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5299
5300	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5301			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5302			This can of course result in splats, and is
5303			intended to test the ability of things like
5304			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5305			such leaks.
5306
5307	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5308			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5309
5310	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5311			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5312			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5313			test, hence the "fake".
5314
5315	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5316			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5317			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5318
5319	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5320			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5321			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5322
5323	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5324			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5325			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5326			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5327			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5328			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5329
5330	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5331			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5332
5333	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5334			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5335
5336	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5337			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5338			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5339
5340	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5341			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5342			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5343			task-exit processing.
5344
5345	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5346			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5347			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5348			is spawned.
5349
5350	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5351			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5352			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5353
5354	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5355			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5356			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5357			during the rcutorture test.
5358
5359	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5360			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5361			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5362
5363	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5364			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5365			warnings, zero to disable.
5366
5367	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5368			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5369			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5370			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5371			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5372			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5373			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5374			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5375			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5376			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5377
5378			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5379
5380
5381	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5382			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5383
5384	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5385			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5386
5387	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5388			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5389			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5390			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5391			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5392			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5393
5394	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5395			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5396
5397	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5398			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5399			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5400			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5401			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5402
5403	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5404			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5405			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5406			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5407
5408	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5409			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5410
5411	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5412			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5413
5414	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5415			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5416			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5417
5418	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5419			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5420
5421	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5422			Enable additional printk() statements.
5423
5424	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5425			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5426			stall warning.
5427
5428	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
5429			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
5430			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
5431			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
5432			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
5433
5434	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5435			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5436
5437	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5438			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5439			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5440			during early boot, that is, during the time
5441			before the init task is spawned.
5442
5443	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5444			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5445			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5446			value is 300 seconds.
5447
5448	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5449			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5450			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5451			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5452			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5453			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5454			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5455			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5456			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5457
5458	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5459			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5460			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5461			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5462			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5463
5464	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5465			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5466			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5467			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5468
5469	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5470			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5471			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5472			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5473			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5474			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5475			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5476
5477	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5478			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5479			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5480			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5481			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5482			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5483			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5484			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5485			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5486
5487	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5488			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5489			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5490			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5491			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5492
5493			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5494			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5495			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5496			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5497			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5498			grace-period processing.
5499
5500	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5501			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5502			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5503			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5504			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5505			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5506			set to the default value of -1.
5507
5508	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5509			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5510			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5511			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5512			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5513			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5514			the default value of -1.
5515
5516	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5517			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5518			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5519			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5520			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5521			for use in testing.
5522
5523	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5524			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5525			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5526			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5527			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5528			but lengthens grace periods.
5529
5530	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5531			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5532			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5533			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5534			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5535			callback flooding.
5536
5537	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5538			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5539			informational messages, which give some indication
5540			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5541			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5542			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5543			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5544			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5545			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5546			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5547
5548	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5549			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5550			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5551			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5552			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5553			the value three, so that the first informational
5554			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5555			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5556			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5557			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5558
5559	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5560			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5561			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5562			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5563			A change in value does not take effect until
5564			the beginning of the next grace period.
5565
5566	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5567			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5568			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5569			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5570			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5571			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5572
5573	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5574			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5575			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5576			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5577			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5578			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5579			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5580
5581	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5582			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5583			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5584			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5585			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5586			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5587			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5588
5589	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5590			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5591
5592	rdinit=		[KNL]
5593			Format: <full_path>
5594			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5595			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5596
5597	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
5598			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5599				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5600				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5601				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5602				path).
5603
5604	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5605			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5606			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5607			mba, smba, bmec.
5608			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5609				rdt=cmt,!mba
5610
5611	reboot=		[KNL]
5612			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5613				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5614				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5615				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5616				[[,]f[orce]
5617			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5618					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5619					reboot only),
5620			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5621			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5622			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5623					to be used for rebooting.
5624
5625	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5626			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5627			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5628			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5629			interference.
5630
5631	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5632			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5633			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5634			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5635			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5636
5637	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5638			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5639			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5640			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5641			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5642			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5643			x86 laptops.
5644
5645	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5646			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5647			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5648			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5649
5650	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5651			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5652			the console log.
5653
5654	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5655			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5656			measured in microseconds.
5657
5658	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5659			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5660
5661	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5662			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5663			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5664			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5665			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5666
5667	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5668			Enable additional printk() statements.
5669
5670	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5671			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5672			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5673			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5674			specified.
5675
5676	regulator_ignore_unused
5677			[REGULATOR]
5678			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
5679			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
5680			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
5681			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5682
5683	relax_domain_level=
5684			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5685			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5686
5687	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5688			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5689			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5690			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5691			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5692
5693	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
5694			Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label>
5695			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
5696			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
5697			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
5698			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
5699			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
5700			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
5701			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
5702			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
5703			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
5704			different location.
5705			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
5706			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
5707			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
5708			located at the same location.
5709
5710			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
5711			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
5712
5713			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
5714
5715	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
5716			Format: nn[KMG]
5717			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5718			address space.
5719
5720	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5721			during initialization.
5722
5723	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5724			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5725			Format:
5726			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5727
5728	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5729			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5730			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5731			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5732			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5733
5734	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5735			read the resume files
5736
5737	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5738			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5739			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5740
5741	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
5742			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
5743
5744	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5745			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5746			vulnerability.
5747
5748			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5749			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5750			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5751			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5752			that don't.
5753
5754			off          - no mitigation
5755			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5756			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5757				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5758				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5759				       and older without STIBP).
5760			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5761				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5762				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5763				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5764				       on Intel.
5765			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5766				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5767				       the alternative for systems which do not
5768				       have STIBP.
5769			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5770				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5771				       systems.
5772			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5773				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5774				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5775
5776			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5777			time according to the CPU.
5778
5779			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5780
5781	rfkill.default_state=
5782		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5783			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5784		1	Unblocked.
5785
5786	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5787		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5788		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5789			blocked and the previous configuration.
5790		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5791			blocked and everything unblocked.
5792
5793	ring3mwait=disable
5794			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5795			CPUs.
5796
5797	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
5798			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5799			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5800			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5801			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5802			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5803
5804	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5805
5806	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
5807		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5808		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5809		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5810		        [arm64]
5811
5812	rockchip.usb_uart
5813			[EARLY]
5814			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5815			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5816			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5817			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5818
5819	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5820			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5821			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5822			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5823			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5824			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5825			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5826
5827	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5828			mount the root filesystem
5829
5830	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5831
5832	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5833
5834	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5835			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5836			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5837
5838	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5839			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5840			filesystem.
5841
5842	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5843			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5844			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5845			managed by CMA.
5846
5847	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5848
5849	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5850
5851	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5852			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5853		strict
5854			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5855			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5856			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5857			iommu.strict=1.
5858
5859	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5860			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5861			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5862			factor of the size of main memory.
5863			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5864			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5865			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5866			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5867			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5868			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5869			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5870
5871	sa1100ir	[NET]
5872			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5873
5874	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5875
5876	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5877			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5878			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5879			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5880
5881	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5882			[Deprecated]
5883			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5884			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5885			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5886			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5887			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5888			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5889			value.
5890			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5891			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5892				1			64 ms
5893				2			128 ms
5894			and so on.
5895			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5896			Default is 0.
5897
5898	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5899			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5900			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5901			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5902			tests.
5903
5904	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5905			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5906			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5907			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5908			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5909			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5910			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5911
5912	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5913			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5914			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5915			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5916			equal to the number of CPUs.
5917
5918	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5919			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5920			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5921
5922	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5923			Number seconds to wait between successive
5924			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5925			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5926
5927	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5928			The number of seconds following the start of the
5929			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5930			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5931			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5932
5933	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5934			The number of seconds between outputting the
5935			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5936			of zero disables statistics output.
5937
5938	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5939			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5940			to the set of CPUs under test.
5941
5942	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5943			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5944			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5945			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5946			functions.
5947
5948	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5949			Enable additional printk() statements.
5950
5951	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5952			The probability weighting to use for the
5953			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5954			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5955			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5956			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5957			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5958
5959	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5960			The probability weighting to use for the
5961			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5962			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5963
5964	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5965			The probability weighting to use for the
5966			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5967			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5968			Note well that setting a high probability for
5969			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5970			on the system.
5971
5972	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5973			The probability weighting to use for the
5974			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5975			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5976			and weight_many.
5977
5978	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5979			The probability weighting to use for the
5980			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5981			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5982			weight_many.
5983
5984	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5985			The probability weighting to use for the
5986			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5987			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5988			and weight_many.
5989
5990	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5991			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5992			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5993			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5994			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5995			1 -- enable.
5996			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5997			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5998
5999	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6000			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6001			"lsm=" parameter.
6002
6003	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6004			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6005			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6006			0 -- disable.
6007			1 -- enable.
6008			Default value is 1.
6009
6010	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6011
6012	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
6013
6014	shapers=	[NET]
6015			Maximal number of shapers.
6016
6017	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6018			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6019			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6020			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6021			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6022			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6023			apic=verbose is specified.
6024			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6025
6026	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6027			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6028			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6029			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6030			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6031			last alloc / free. For more information see
6032			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6033			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6034
6035	slab_max_order= [MM]
6036			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6037			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6038			fragmentation. For more information see
6039			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6040			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6041
6042	slab_merge	[MM]
6043			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6044			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6045			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6046
6047	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6048			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6049			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6050			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6051			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6052			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6053			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6054			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6055			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6056
6057	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6058			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6059			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6060			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6061			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6062
6063	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6064			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6065			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6066			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6067			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6068			layout control by attackers can usually be
6069			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6070			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6071			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6072			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
6073			own.
6074			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
6075			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
6076
6077	slram=		[HW,MTD]
6078
6079	smart2=		[HW]
6080			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
6081
6082	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
6083			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
6084			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
6085			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
6086			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
6087			disabling interrupts for extended periods
6088			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
6089			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
6090			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
6091			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
6092
6093	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
6094			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
6095			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
6096			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
6097			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
6098			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
6099
6100	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
6101	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
6102	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
6103	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
6104	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
6105	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
6106	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
6107				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
6108				1: Fast pin select (default)
6109				2: ATC IRMode
6110
6111	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
6112			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
6113			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
6114			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
6115			Format: <integer>
6116			Default: -1 (no limit)
6117
6118	softlockup_panic=
6119			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
6120			Format: 0 | 1
6121
6122			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
6123			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
6124			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
6125			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
6126			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
6127
6128	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
6129			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
6130			backtraces on all cpus.
6131			Format: 0 | 1
6132
6133	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
6134			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
6135
6136	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
6137			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
6138			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
6139			clearing sequence.
6140
6141			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
6142				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
6143				 both syscalls and VMs.
6144			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
6145				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
6146				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
6147				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
6148				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
6149			off    - Disable the mitigation.
6150
6151	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6152			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
6153			The default operation protects the kernel from
6154			user space attacks.
6155
6156			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
6157			       spectre_v2_user=on
6158			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
6159			       spectre_v2_user=off
6160			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
6161			       vulnerable
6162
6163			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6164			mitigation method at run time according to the
6165			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6166			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
6167			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
6168
6169			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6170			against user space to user space task attacks.
6171
6172			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6173			the user space protections.
6174
6175			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6176
6177			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6178			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6179			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6180			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6181			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6182			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6183			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6184			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6185
6186			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6187			spectre_v2=auto.
6188
6189	spectre_v2_user=
6190			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6191		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6192		        user space tasks
6193
6194			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6195				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6196
6197			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6198				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6199
6200			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6201				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6202				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6203				  is inherited on fork.
6204
6205			prctl,ibpb
6206				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6207				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6208				  always when switching between different user
6209				  space processes.
6210
6211			seccomp
6212				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6213				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6214				  they explicitly opt out.
6215
6216			seccomp,ibpb
6217				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6218				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6219				  always when switching between different
6220				  user space processes.
6221
6222			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6223				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6224
6225			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6226
6227			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6228			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6229
6230	spec_rstack_overflow=
6231			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6232
6233			off		- Disable mitigation
6234			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6235			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6236			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6237					  kernel entry
6238			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6239					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6240
6241	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6242			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6243			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6244
6245			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6246			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6247			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6248			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6249			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6250			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6251			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6252			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6253
6254			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6255			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6256			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6257			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6258
6259			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6260			Bypass optimization is used.
6261
6262			On x86 the options are:
6263
6264			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6265			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6266			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6267				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6268				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6269				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6270				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6271				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6272			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6273				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6274				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6275				  is inherited on fork.
6276			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6277				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6278
6279			Default mitigations:
6280			X86:	"prctl"
6281
6282			On powerpc the options are:
6283
6284			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6285				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6286				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6287				  exit.
6288			off	- No action.
6289
6290			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6291			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6292
6293	split_lock_detect=
6294			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6295
6296			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6297			instructions that access data across cache line
6298			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6299			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6300			bus lock detection.
6301
6302			off	- not enabled
6303
6304			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6305				  about applications triggering the #AC
6306				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6307				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6308				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6309				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6310				  enabled in hardware.
6311
6312			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6313				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6314				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6315				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6316
6317			ratelimit:N -
6318				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6319				  per second for bus lock detection.
6320				  0 < N <= 1000.
6321
6322				  N/A for split lock detection.
6323
6324
6325			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6326			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6327			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6328			mode.
6329
6330			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6331			CPL > 0.
6332
6333	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
6334			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6335			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6336
6337			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6338			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6339			number generator.
6340
6341			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6342			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6343			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6344			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6345			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6346
6347			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6348			the following option:
6349
6350			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6351				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6352
6353	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6354			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6355			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6356			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6357			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6358			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6359			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6360			(decide at boot).
6361
6362	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6363			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6364			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6365			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6366
6367				   0:  Never.
6368				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6369				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6370				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6371				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6372
6373			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6374			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6375			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6376
6377	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6378			Specifies how frequently to check for
6379			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6380			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6381			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6382			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6383			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6384			are ignored.
6385
6386	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6387			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6388			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6389			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6390			grace period will be considered for automatic
6391			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6392			expediting.
6393
6394	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6395			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6396			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6397			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6398			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6399			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6400
6401	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6402			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6403			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6404			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6405			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6406			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6407
6408	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6409			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6410			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6411
6412	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6413			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6414			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6415			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6416			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6417			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6418			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6419
6420	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
6421			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6422
6423			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6424			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6425			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6426			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6427
6428			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6429				   for both kernel and userspace
6430			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6431				   for both kernel and userspace
6432			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6433				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6434				   to allow userspace to register its
6435				   interest in being mitigated too.
6436
6437	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6438			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6439			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6440			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6441			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6442			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6443
6444	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
6445			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6446			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6447			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6448			to false.
6449
6450	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6451			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6452
6453	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6454			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6455			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6456			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6457			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6458			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6459			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6460
6461	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6462			Format: <num>
6463			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6464			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6465			as the initial boot-console.
6466			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6467
6468	sti_font=	[HW]
6469			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6470
6471	stifb=		[HW]
6472			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6473
6474        strict_sas_size=
6475			[X86]
6476			Format: <bool>
6477			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6478			against the required signal frame size which
6479			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6480			be used to filter out binaries which have
6481			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6482
6483	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
6484			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6485			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6486			faults on kernel addresses.
6487
6488	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
6489			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6490			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6491			on kernel addresses.
6492
6493	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6494	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6495			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6496			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6497			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6498			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6499			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6500			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6501			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6502			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6503			maximum port values.
6504
6505	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6506			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6507			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6508			process in parallel from a single connection.
6509			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6510
6511	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6512			[NFS]
6513			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6514			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6515			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6516			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6517			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6518			NFS server is running.
6519
6520			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6521				    automatically using heuristics
6522			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6523			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6524			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6525				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6526
6527	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6528	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6529			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6530			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6531			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6532			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6533			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6534			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6535
6536	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6537			[SUSPEND]
6538			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6539			mode before resuming the system (see
6540			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6541			is set. Default value is 5.
6542
6543	svm=		[PPC]
6544			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6545			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6546			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6547
6548	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
6549			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6550			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6551			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6552				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6553				 to a power of 2.
6554			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6555			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6556			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6557
6558	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
6559
6560	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6561			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6562			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6563			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6564			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6565			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6566			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6567			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6568
6569	sysrq_always_enabled
6570			[KNL]
6571			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6572			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6573			Useful for debugging.
6574
6575	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6576			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6577			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6578			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6579			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6580			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6581
6582	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6583
6584	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6585			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6586			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6587			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6588			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6589			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6590			The system is woken from this state using a
6591			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6592
6593	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6594			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6595
6596	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6597			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6598			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6599
6600	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6601			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6602			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6603
6604	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6605			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6606
6607	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6608			-1: disable all passive trip points
6609			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6610			value
6611
6612	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6613			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6614			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6615			0: no polling (default)
6616
6617	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
6618			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6619			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6620
6621	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
6622			Format: {off | on}
6623			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6624			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6625			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6626			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6627			Default is on.
6628
6629	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6630			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6631			until after init has spawned.
6632
6633	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6634			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6635			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6636			very costly operation when many torture tests
6637			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6638			with rotating-rust storage.
6639
6640	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6641			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6642			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6643			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6644
6645	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6646			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6647
6648	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6649			Format: integer pcr id
6650			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6651			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6652			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6653			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6654			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6655			are saved.
6656
6657	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6658			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6659			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6660			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6661			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6662			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6663
6664	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6665			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6666			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6667			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6668			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6669			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6670
6671			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6672			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6673			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6674			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6675
6676			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6677			to stop the printing of events to console at
6678			late_initcall_sync.
6679
6680			** CAUTION **
6681
6682			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6683			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6684			the system to live lock.
6685
6686	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6687			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6688			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6689			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6690			make the system inoperable.
6691
6692			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6693			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6694
6695	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6696			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6697
6698	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6699			at boot up.
6700			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6701				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6702				depending on the architecture, may not be
6703				in sync between CPUs.
6704			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6705				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6706				but better for some race conditions.
6707			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6708				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6709				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6710				once per event.
6711			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6712			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6713			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6714			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6715				stamps.
6716			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6717			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6718			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6719
6720	trace_event=[event-list]
6721			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6722			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6723			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6724			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6725
6726	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6727			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6728			This will be listed in:
6729
6730				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6731
6732			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6733			via:
6734
6735				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6736
6737			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6738			unique.
6739
6740				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6741
6742			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6743			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6744			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6745
6746	trace_options=[option-list]
6747			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6748			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6749			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6750			to echo the option name into
6751
6752			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6753
6754			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6755			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6756
6757			      trace_options=stacktrace
6758
6759			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6760			section.
6761
6762	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6763			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6764			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6765			filter.
6766
6767			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6768			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6769
6770			For example:
6771
6772			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6773
6774			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6775			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6776			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6777
6778			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6779
6780
6781	traceoff_on_warning
6782			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6783			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6784			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6785			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6786
6787			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6788			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6789			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6790
6791			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6792			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6793
6794	transparent_hugepage=
6795			[KNL]
6796			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6797			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6798			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6799			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6800			for more details.
6801
6802	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6803			Format: <string>
6804			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6805			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6806			sources:
6807			- "tpm"
6808			- "tee"
6809			- "caam"
6810			- "dcp"
6811			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6812			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6813			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6814			successfully during iteration.
6815
6816	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6817			Format: <string>
6818			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6819			Can be one of:
6820			- "kernel"
6821			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6822			- "default"
6823			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6824			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6825
6826	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
6827			This is intended to be used in combination with
6828			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
6829			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
6830
6831	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
6832			This is intended to be used in combination with
6833			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
6834			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
6835			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
6836			scenarios.
6837
6838	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6839			Format: <string>
6840			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6841			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6842			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6843			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6844			virtualized environment.
6845			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6846			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6847			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6848			can add overhead.
6849			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6850			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6851			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6852			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6853			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6854			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6855			acceptable).
6856			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6857			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6858			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6859			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6860			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6861			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6862			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6863			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6864			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6865			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6866
6867	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6868			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6869			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6870			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6871			Format: <unsigned int>
6872
6873	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6874			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6875			support TSX control.
6876
6877			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6878
6879			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6880				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6881				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6882				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6883				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6884				with leaving it enabled.
6885
6886			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6887				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6888				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6889				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6890				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6891				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6892				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6893
6894			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6895				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6896
6897			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6898
6899			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6900			for more details.
6901
6902	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6903			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6904
6905			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6906			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6907			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6908			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6909			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6910			conditions.
6911
6912			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6913			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6914			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6915			access.
6916
6917			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6918			options are:
6919
6920			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6921				     if TSX is enabled.
6922
6923			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6924				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6925				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6926				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6927			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6928
6929			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6930			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6931			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6932			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6933
6934			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6935			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6936			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6937			required and doesn't provide any additional
6938			mitigation.
6939
6940			For details see:
6941			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6942
6943	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6944			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6945			Format:
6946			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6947			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6948
6949	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6950			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6951			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6952			help "seeing" what's going on.
6953
6954	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6955			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6956
6957	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6958			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6959			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6960			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6961			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6962			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6963			reported either.
6964
6965	unknown_nmi_panic
6966			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6967
6968	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
6969			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6970			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6971			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6972			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6973
6974	usbcore.authorized_default=
6975			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6976			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6977			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6978			if device connected to internal port)
6979
6980	usbcore.autosuspend=
6981			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6982			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6983			is the time required before an idle device will be
6984			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6985			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6986
6987	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6988			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6989
6990	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6991			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6992			(default = 65536).
6993
6994	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6995			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6996
6997	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6998			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6999			scheme (default 0 = off).
7000
7001	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
7002			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
7003			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
7004
7005	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
7006			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
7007			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
7008
7009	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
7010			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
7011			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
7012			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
7013
7014	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
7015
7016	usbcore.quirks=
7017			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
7018			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
7019			commas. Each entry has the form
7020			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
7021			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
7022			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
7023			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
7024			the following meanings:
7025				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
7026					descriptors must not be fetched using
7027					a 255-byte read);
7028				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
7029					correctly so reset it instead);
7030				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
7031					Set-Interface requests);
7032				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
7033					handle its Configuration or Interface
7034					strings);
7035				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
7036					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
7037				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
7038					more interface descriptions than the
7039					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
7040					talking to these interfaces);
7041				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
7042					during initialization, after we read
7043					the device descriptor);
7044				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
7045					high speed and super speed interrupt
7046					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
7047					require the interval in microframes (1
7048					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
7049					calculated as interval = 2 ^
7050					(bInterval-1).
7051					Devices with this quirk report their
7052					bInterval as the result of this
7053					calculation instead of the exponent
7054					variable used in the calculation);
7055				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
7056					handle device_qualifier descriptor
7057					requests);
7058				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
7059					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
7060					remote wakeup capability);
7061				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
7062					Power Management);
7063				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
7064					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
7065					frames instead of the USB 2.0
7066					calculation);
7067				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
7068					to be disconnected before suspend to
7069					prevent spurious wakeup);
7070				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
7071					pause after every control message);
7072				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
7073					delay after resetting its port);
7074				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
7075					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
7076					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
7077			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
7078
7079	usbhid.mousepoll=
7080			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
7081
7082	usbhid.jspoll=
7083			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
7084
7085	usbhid.kbpoll=
7086			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
7087
7088	usb-storage.delay_use=
7089			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
7090			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
7091			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
7092			suffix with "ms".
7093			Example: delay_use=2567ms
7094
7095	usb-storage.quirks=
7096			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
7097			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
7098			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
7099			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
7100			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
7101			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
7102			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
7103				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
7104					of sense data, not on uas);
7105				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
7106					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
7107				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
7108					device capacity by one sector);
7109				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
7110					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
7111				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
7112					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
7113				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
7114					command, uas only);
7115				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
7116					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
7117				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
7118					reported device capacity by one
7119					sector if the number is odd);
7120				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
7121					device);
7122				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
7123					command, uas only);
7124				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
7125				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
7126					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
7127				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
7128					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
7129					not on uas);
7130				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
7131					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
7132				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
7133					reported by the device, not on uas);
7134				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
7135					by default, not on uas);
7136				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
7137					bogus residue values, not on uas);
7138				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
7139					Logical Unit);
7140				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
7141					commands, uas only);
7142				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
7143				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
7144					medium is write-protected).
7145				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
7146					even if the device claims no cache,
7147					not on uas)
7148			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
7149
7150	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
7151			Format: <int>
7152			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
7153				 1 - undefined instruction events
7154				 2 - system calls
7155				 4 - invalid data aborts
7156				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
7157				16 - SIGBUS faults
7158			Example: user_debug=31
7159
7160	userpte=
7161			[X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
7162
7163				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
7164					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
7165					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
7166
7167	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
7168			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7169
7170			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7171			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7172
7173	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7174			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7175			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7176
7177			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7178			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7179			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7180
7181			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7182			alias for vdso32=0.
7183
7184			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7185			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7186
7187	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
7188			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7189
7190	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7191			Format: [0|1]
7192			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7193			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7194			level and then send out the event to user space through
7195			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7196			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7197			brightness level.
7198			default: 1
7199
7200	virtio_mmio.device=
7201			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7202
7203				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7204			where:
7205				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7206						like K, M and G)
7207				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7208				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7209						request_irq())
7210				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7211			example:
7212				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7213
7214			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7215
7216	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7217			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7218			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7219			Use vga=ask for menu.
7220			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7221			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7222
7223	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7224			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7225			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7226			All options are enabled by default, and this
7227			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7228			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7229			debugging features.
7230
7231			Available options are:
7232			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7233			  -	Disable all of the above options
7234
7235	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
7236			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
7237			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
7238			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
7239			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
7240			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
7241			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
7242			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
7243
7244	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
7245			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7246			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7247
7248	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7249			Format: <command>
7250
7251	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7252			Format: <command>
7253
7254	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7255			Format: <command>
7256
7257	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
7258			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7259			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7260			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7261			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7262			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7263			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7264
7265			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7266			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7267				    readable.
7268
7269			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7270			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7271				    page is not readable.
7272
7273			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7274			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7275			            might break your system.
7276
7277	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7278			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7279			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7280
7281	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7282			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7283			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7284			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7285
7286	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7287			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7288			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7289			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7290			ranging from 0-255.
7291
7292	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7293			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7294			Change the default green palette of the console.
7295			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7296			ranging from 0-255.
7297
7298	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7299			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7300			Change the default red palette of the console.
7301			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7302			ranging from 0-255.
7303
7304	vt.default_utf8=
7305			[VT]
7306			Format=<0|1>
7307			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7308			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7309			newly opened terminals.
7310
7311	vt.global_cursor_default=
7312			[VT]
7313			Format=<-1|0|1>
7314			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7315			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7316			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7317			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7318			cursors, 1 will display them.
7319
7320	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7321			Default: 2 = green.
7322
7323	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7324			Default: 3 = cyan.
7325
7326	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7327			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7328			or other driver-specific files in the
7329			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7330
7331	watchdog_thresh=
7332			[KNL]
7333			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7334			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7335			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7336			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7337			seconds.
7338
7339	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7340			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7341			to use in unbound workqueues.
7342			Format: <cpu-list>
7343			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7344			unbound workqueues.
7345
7346	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7347			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7348			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7349			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7350			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7351			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7352			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7353			corresponding sysfs file.
7354
7355	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7356			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7357			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7358			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7359			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7360			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7361
7362			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7363			will report the work functions which violate this
7364			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7365			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7366
7367	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
7368			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7369			will report the work functions which violate the
7370			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
7371			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
7372			function has violated this threshold number of times.
7373
7374			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
7375
7376	workqueue.power_efficient
7377			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7378			they show better performance thanks to cache
7379			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7380			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7381
7382			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7383			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7384			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7385			power usage at the cost of small performance
7386			overhead.
7387
7388			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7389			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7390
7391        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7392			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7393			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7394			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7395			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7396			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7397
7398			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7399			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7400			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7401			updated accordingly.
7402
7403	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7404			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7405			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7406			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7407			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7408			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7409			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7410			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7411			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7412			impacted.
7413
7414	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
7415			Type) of ioremap_wc().
7416
7417			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7418			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7419
7420	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7421			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7422			supporting x2apic.
7423
7424	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7425			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7426			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7427			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7428			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7429			domains.
7430
7431	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
7432			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7433			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7434			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7435			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7436			nics -- unplug network devices
7437			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7438			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7439				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7440				the unplug protocol
7441			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7442
7443	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7444			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7445			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7446
7447	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7448			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
7449			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
7450			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
7451			debug data in case of multicall errors.
7452
7453	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
7454			Format: <bool>
7455			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7456			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7457			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7458
7459	xen_nopv	[X86]
7460			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7461			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7462			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7463			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7464
7465	xen_no_vector_callback
7466			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7467			event channel interrupts.
7468
7469	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7470			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7471			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7472			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7473			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7474
7475	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
7476			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7477			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7478			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7479			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7480			more timer interrupts.
7481
7482	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7483			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7484			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7485			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7486			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7487			max. Default is 180.
7488
7489	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7490			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7491			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7492
7493	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7494			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7495			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7496
7497	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7498			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7499			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7500			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7501			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7502			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7503
7504	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7505			Format:
7506			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7507
7508	xive=		[PPC]
7509			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7510			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7511			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7512
7513			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7514				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7515				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7516
7517	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7518			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7519			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7520			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7521			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7522
7523	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7524			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7525			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7526			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7527
7528	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
7529			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7530			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7531			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7532			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7533				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7534			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7535				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7536				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7537				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7538			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7539				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7540				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7541				can be written using xmon commands.
7542			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7543				memory, and other data can't be written using
7544				xmon commands.
7545			off	xmon is disabled.
7546