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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
229				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
230			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
231			s3_bios and s3_mode.
232			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
233			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
234			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
235			used during resume from hibernation.
236			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
237			control method, with respect to putting devices into
238			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
239			of _PTS is used by default).
240			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
241			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
242			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
243			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
244			but some broken systems don't work without it).
245			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
246			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
247			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
248
249	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
250			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
251			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
252
253	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
254			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
255
256	agp=		[AGP]
257			{ off | try_unsupported }
258			off: disable AGP support
259			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
260				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
261
262	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
263			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
264
265	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
266			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
267			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
268			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
269
270	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
271			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
272			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
273			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
274			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
275			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
276			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
277
278			32: only for 32-bit processes
279			64: only for 64-bit processes
280			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
281			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
282
283	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
284			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
285			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
286			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
287			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
288			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
289
290	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
291			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
292			Possible values are:
293			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
294				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
295				    flushed before they will be reused, which
296				    is a lot of faster
297			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
298				    the system
299			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
300					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
301					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
302					  requirements as needed. This option
303					  does not override iommu=pt
304
305	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
307			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
308			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
309			IOMMU initialization.
310
311	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
312			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
313			remapping modes:
314			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
315			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
316			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
317			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
318			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
319
320	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
321			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
322			Format: <a>,<b>
323			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
324
325	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
326			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
327			connected to one of 16 gameports
328			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
329
330	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
331			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
332			Format: noidle
333			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
334			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
335			APC and your system crashes randomly.
336
337	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
338			Change the output verbosity while booting
339			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
340			Change the amount of debugging information output
341			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
342			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
343			driver name.
344			Format: apic=driver_name
345			Examples: apic=bigsmp
346
347	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
348			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
349			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
350			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
351			      backup of CPU 0
352			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
353			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
354			      shot down by NMI
355
356	autoconf=	[IPV6]
357			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
358
359	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
361			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
362			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
363			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
364			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
365			apic=verbose is specified.
366			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
367
368	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
369			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
370
371	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
372			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
373
374	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
375
376	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
377
378	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
379			EzKey and similar keyboards
380
381	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
382
383	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
384			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
385
386	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
387			keyboards
388
389	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
390			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
391
392	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
393			Use software keyboard repeat
394
395	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
396			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
397			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
398			    enabled until the next reboot
399			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
400			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
401			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
402			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
403			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
404			    userspace auditd.
405			Default: unset
406
407	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
408			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
409			Default: 64
410
411	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
412			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
413			Format: { "0" | "1" }
414			0 - Disable the BAU.
415			1 - Enable the BAU.
416			unset - Disable the BAU.
417
418	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
419			Format: <io>,<mode>
420
421	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
422			Format: <io>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
424
425	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
426			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
427			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
428			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
429
430	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
431			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
432			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
433			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
434
435	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
436			embedded devices based on command line input.
437			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
438
439	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
440			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
441			no delay (0).
442			Format: integer
443
444	bootconfig	[KNL]
445			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
446			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
447
448			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
449
450	bert_disable	[ACPI]
451			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
452
453	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
454	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
455			kernel args too.
456	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
457	bttv.tuner=
458
459	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
460			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
461			at a time.
462
463	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
464
465	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
466			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
467			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
468			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
469			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
470			This option provides an override for these situations.
471
472	carrier_timeout=
473			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
474			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
475			it waits 120 seconds.
476
477	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
478			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
479			trust validation.
480			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
481
482	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
483			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
484			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
485			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
486			others).
487
488	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
489			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
490
491	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller
492			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
493			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
494			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
495			  a single hierarchy
496			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
497			  subsystem
498			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
499			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
500			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
501
502	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
503			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
504			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
505			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
506			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
507			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
508			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
509			all v1 hierarchies.
510
511	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
512			Format: <string>
513			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
514			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
515
516	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
517			Format: { "0" | "1" }
518			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
519			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
520				any implied execute protection).
521			1 -- check protection requested by application.
522			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
523			Value can be changed at runtime via
524				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
525
526	cio_ignore=	[S390]
527			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
528	clk_ignore_unused
529			[CLK]
530			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
531			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
532			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
533			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
534			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
535			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
536			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
537			platform with proper driver support.  For more
538			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
539
540	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
541			[Deprecated]
542			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
543			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
544			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
545			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
546
547	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
548			Format: <string>
549			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
550			with the name specified.
551			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
552			the platform:
553			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
554			[ACPI] acpi_pm
555			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
556				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
557			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
558				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
559			[MIPS] MIPS
560			[PARISC] cr16
561			[S390] tod
562			[SH] SuperH
563			[SPARC64] tick
564			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
565
566	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
567			[ARM,ARM64]
568			Format: <bool>
569			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
570			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
571			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
572			systems.
573
574	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
575			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
576			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
577			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
578			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
579			ones should be.
580			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
581			or using the feature without checking anything
582			will still see it. This just prevents it from
583			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
584			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
585			some critical bits.
586
587	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
588			[ARM,X86,KNL]
589			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
590			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
591			placement constraint by the physical address range of
592			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
593			altogether. For more information, see
594			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
595
596	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
597			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
598			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
599			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
600			a hypervisor.
601			Default: yes
602
603	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
604			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
605			allocations, by default set to 256K.
606
607	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
608			Format:
609			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
610
611	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
612			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
613
614	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
615			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
616			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
617
618	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
619	conmode=
620
621	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
622
623		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
624
625		ttyS<n>[,options]
626		ttyUSB0[,options]
627			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
628			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
629			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
630			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
631			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
632
633			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
634			information.  See
635			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
636			alternative.
637
638		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
639		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
640		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
641		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
642		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
643			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
644			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
645			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
646			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
647			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
648			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
649			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
650			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
651			the h/w is not re-initialized.
652
653		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
654			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
655
656		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
657		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
658			console=brl,ttyS0
659		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
660
661	console_msg_format=
662			[KNL] Change console messages format
663		default
664			By default we print messages on consoles in
665			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
666			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
667			`printk_time' param).
668		syslog
669			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
670			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
671			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
672			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
673			from /proc/kmsg.
674
675	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
676			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
677			Defaults to 0.
678
679	coredump_filter=
680			[KNL] Change the default value for
681			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
682			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
683
684	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
685			[ARM,ARM64]
686			Format: <bool>
687			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
688			0: default value, disable debugging
689			1: enable debugging at boot time
690
691	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
692			disable the cpuidle sub-system
693
694	cpuidle.governor=
695			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
696
697	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
698			disable the cpufreq sub-system
699
700	cpu_init_udelay=N
701			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
702			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
703			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
704			Default: 10000
705
706	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
707			Format:
708			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
709
710	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
711			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
712			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
713			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
714			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
715			is selected automatically.
716			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
717			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
718			hasn't been specified.
719			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
720
721	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
722			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
723			in the running system. The syntax of range is
724			start-[end] where start and end are both
725			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
726			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
727
728	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
729			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
730			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
731			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
732			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
733			available.
734			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
735	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
736			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
737			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
738			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
739			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
740			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
741			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
742			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
743			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
744			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
745			for second kernel instead.
746			0: to disable low allocation.
747			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
748			or memory reserved is below 4G.
749
750	cryptomgr.notests
751			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
752
753	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
754			Format: <dma>
755
756	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
757			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
758
759	dasd=		[HW,NET]
760			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
761
762	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
763			(one device per port)
764			Format: <port#>,<type>
765			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
766
767	ddebug_query=	[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
768			time. See
769			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
770			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
771
772	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
773
774	debug_boot_weak_hash
775			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
776			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
777			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
778			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
779			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
780			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
781
782	debug_locks_verbose=
783			[KNL] verbose self-tests
784			Format=<0|1>
785			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
786			self-tests.
787			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
788			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
789			only useful to kernel developers.
790
791	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
792
793	no_debug_objects
794			[KNL] Disable object debugging
795
796	debug_guardpage_minorder=
797			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
798			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
799			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
800			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
801			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
802			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
803			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
804			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
805			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
806			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
807			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
808			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
809			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
810			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
811			bypassed) which are not detectable by
812			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
813			tracking down these problems.
814
815	debug_pagealloc=
816			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
817			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
818			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
819			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
820			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
821			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
822			on: enable the feature
823
824	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
825
826	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
827			Format: <area>[,<node>]
828			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
829
830	default_hugepagesz=
831			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
832			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
833			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
834			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
835			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
836			if not specified.
837
838	deferred_probe_timeout=
839			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
840			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
841			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
842			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
843			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
844			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
845			retrying.
846
847	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
848			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
849			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
850			          level 1 and decompression (default)
851			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
852			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
853			          only (compression on level 1)
854			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
855			          only (decompression)
856			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
857			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
858
859	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
860			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
861
862	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
863			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
864			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
865			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
866			miss to occur.
867
868	disable=	[IPV6]
869			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
870
871	hardened_usercopy=
872                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
873                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
874                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
875                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
876                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
877                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
878                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
879                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
880                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
881
882	disable_radix	[PPC]
883			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
884
885	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
886			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
887			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
888
889	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
890			Format: <int>
891			The number of initial APIC ID for the
892			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
893			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
894			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
895			causing system reset or hang due to sending
896			INIT from AP to BSP.
897
898	perf_v4_pmi=	[X86,INTEL]
899			Format: <bool>
900			Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
901			The feature only exists starting from
902			Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
903
904	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
905			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
906			to workaround buggy firmware.
907
908	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
909			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
910
911	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
912			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
913			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
914			entry later. This parameter disables that.
915
916	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
917			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
918			memory out of your available memory pool based on
919			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
920			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
921
922	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
923			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
924			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
925
926	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
927
928	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
929			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
930
931	dma_debug_entries=<number>
932			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
933			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
934			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
935			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
936			architectural default is too low.
937
938	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
939			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
940			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
941			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
942			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
943			driver later using sysfs.
944
945	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
946			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
947			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
948
949	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
950			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
951			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
952			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
953			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
954			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
955			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
956			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
957			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
958			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
959			available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
960			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
961			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
962			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
963			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
964			data set with no connector name will be used for
965			any connectors not explicitly specified.
966
967	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
968
969	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
970			Format: {"off" | "known"}
971			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
972			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
973			exists).
974			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
975			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
976			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
977
978	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
979			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
980			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
981			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
982
983	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
984	module.dyndbg[="val"]
985			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
986			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
987			for details.
988
989	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
990			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
991			information about the feature.
992
993	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
994			in some Intel CPUs.
995
996	module.async_probe [KNL]
997			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
998
999	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1000			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1001			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1002			which are not unmapped.
1003
1004	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1005
1006			When used with no options, the early console is
1007			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1008			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1009			the platform.
1010
1011		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1012			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1013			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1014			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1015			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1016			configured.
1017
1018		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1019		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1020		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1021		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1022		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1023			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1024			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1025			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1026			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1027			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1028			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1029			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1030			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1031
1032		pl011,<addr>
1033		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1034			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1035			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1036			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1038			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1039			the device registers.
1040
1041		meson,<addr>
1042			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1043			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1044			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1045			supported.
1046
1047		msm_serial,<addr>
1048			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1049			port at the specified address. The serial port
1050			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1051			yet supported.
1052
1053		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1054			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1055			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1056			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1057			yet supported.
1058
1059		owl,<addr>
1060			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1061			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1062			specified address. The serial port must already be
1063			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1064
1065		rda,<addr>
1066			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1067			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1068			specified address. The serial port must already be
1069			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1070
1071		sbi
1072			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1073			console.
1074
1075		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1076
1077		s3c2410,<addr>
1078		s3c2412,<addr>
1079		s3c2440,<addr>
1080		s3c6400,<addr>
1081		s5pv210,<addr>
1082		exynos4210,<addr>
1083			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1084			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1085			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1086			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1087			Options are not yet supported.
1088
1089		lantiq,<addr>
1090			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1091			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1092			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1093			yet supported.
1094
1095		lpuart,<addr>
1096		lpuart32,<addr>
1097			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1098			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1099			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1100			port must already be setup and configured.
1101
1102		ec_imx21,<addr>
1103		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1104			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1105			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1106			must already be setup and configured.
1107
1108		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1109			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1110			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1111			address. The serial port must already be setup
1112			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1113
1114		qcom_geni,<addr>
1115			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1116			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1117			specified address. The serial port must already be
1118			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1119
1120		efifb,[options]
1121			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1122			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1123			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1124			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1125			mapped with the correct attributes.
1126
1127		linflex,<addr>
1128			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1129			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1130			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1131			already be setup and configured.
1132
1133	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1134			earlyprintk=vga
1135			earlyprintk=sclp
1136			earlyprintk=xen
1137			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1138			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1139			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1140			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1141			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1142			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1143
1144			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1145			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1146			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1147
1148			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1149			takes over.
1150
1151			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1152			be used at a time.
1153
1154			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1155			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1156			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1157			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1158				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1159			You can find the port for a given device in
1160			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1161				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1162
1163			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1164			very good.
1165
1166			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1167			the real console.
1168
1169			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1170
1171			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1172
1173			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1174			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1175			UART class.
1176
1177	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1178			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1179			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1180			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1181			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1182			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1183			default: on.
1184
1185	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1186			ekgdboc=kbd
1187
1188			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1189			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1190
1191	edd=		[EDD]
1192			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1193
1194	efi=		[EFI]
1195			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug",
1196				  "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1197				  "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1198			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1199			runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y]
1200			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1201			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1202			firmware implementations.
1203			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1204			debug: enable misc debug output
1205			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1206			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1207			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1208			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1209			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1210			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1211			disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all
1212			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1213			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1214			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1215
1216	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1217			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1218			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1219			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1220			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1221
1222	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1223			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1224			updating original EFI memory map.
1225			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1226			from ss to ss+nn.
1227
1228			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1229			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1230			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1231			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1232
1233			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1234			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1235			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1236
1237			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1238			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1239			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1240			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1241			"soft reserved".
1242
1243	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1244			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1245			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1246			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1247			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1248
1249
1250	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1251			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1252
1253	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1254			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1255			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1256
1257	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1258			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1259			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1260			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1261			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1262
1263	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1264			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1265			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1266			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1267
1268	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1269			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1270			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1271			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1272			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1273
1274	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1275			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1276			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1277			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1278			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1279			Default value is 0.
1280			Value can be changed at runtime via
1281			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1282
1283	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1284			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1285			support.
1286
1287	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1288			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1289			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1290
1291	evm=		[EVM]
1292			Format: { "fix" }
1293			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1294			current integrity status.
1295
1296	failslab=
1297	fail_page_alloc=
1298	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1299			General fault injection mechanism.
1300			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1301			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1302
1303	floppy=		[HW]
1304			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1305
1306	force_pal_cache_flush
1307			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1308			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1309			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1310			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1311
1312	forcepae	[X86-32]
1313			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1314			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1315			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1316			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1317			and may cause unknown problems.
1318
1319	ftrace=[tracer]
1320			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1321			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1322			boot debugging.
1323
1324	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1325			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1326			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1327			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1328			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1329			oops.
1330
1331	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1332			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1333			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1334			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1335			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1336			tracing directory.
1337
1338	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1339			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1340			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1341			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1342			tracing directory.
1343
1344	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1345			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1346			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1347			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1348			that can be changed at run time by the
1349			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1350
1351	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1352			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1353			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1354			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1355			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1356
1357	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1358			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1359			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1360			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1361			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1362
1363	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1364			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1365			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1366			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1367			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1368			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1369			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1370			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1371			suppliers).
1372			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1373			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1374			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1375				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1376				up (sync_state() calls).
1377			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1378				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1379			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1380
1381	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1382			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1383			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1384			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1385			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1386
1387	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1388
1389	gart_fix_e820=	[X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1390			Format: off | on
1391			default: on
1392
1393	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1394			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1395			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1396			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1397			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1398
1399	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1400			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1401			android emulator
1402
1403	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1404			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1405			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1406			GPT to be used instead.
1407
1408	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1409			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1410			Format: 0 | 1
1411			Default: 0
1412	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1413			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1414			Format: 0 | 1
1415			Default: 0
1416	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1417			Format: 0 | 1
1418			Default: 0
1419	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1420			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1421			Default: 1024
1422	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1423			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1424			Default: 1024
1425
1426	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1427			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1428			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1429
1430	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1431			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1432			backtraces on all cpus.
1433			Format: <integer>
1434
1435	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1436			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1437			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1438			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1439
1440	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1441
1442	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1443			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1444
1445	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1446			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1447			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1448			logic will be disabled.
1449
1450	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1451			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1452			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1453			size on bigger boxes.
1454
1455	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1456			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1457			Default: "on"
1458
1459	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1460
1461	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1462			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1463				verbose }
1464			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1465			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1466				VIA, nVidia)
1467			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1468
1469	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1470			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1471
1472	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1473	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1474			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1475			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1476			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1477			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1478			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1479
1480	hung_task_panic=
1481			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1482			Format: <integer>
1483
1484			A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1485			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1486			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1487			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1488			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1489
1490	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1491				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1492	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1493				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1494				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1495
1496	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1497				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1498				      guest on lock contention.
1499
1500	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1501			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1502			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1503			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1504			the real console.
1505
1506	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1507				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1508				registered from board initialization code.
1509				Format:
1510				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1511
1512	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1513	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1514			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1515			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1516			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1517	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1518	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1519			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1520			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1521	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1522	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1523	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1524			     for the AUX port
1525	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1526			     controller
1527	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1528			     controllers
1529	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1530	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1531			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1532			     transitions, or never reset
1533			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1534			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1535			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1536			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1537			architectures force reset to be always executed
1538	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1539	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1540
1541	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1542
1543	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1544			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1545			hardware.
1546	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1547			does not match list of supported models.
1548	i8k.power_status
1549			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1550			(disabled by default)
1551	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1552			capability is set.
1553
1554	i915.invert_brightness=
1555			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1556			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1557			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1558			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1559			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1560			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1561			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1562			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1563			value switches the backlight off.
1564			-1 -- never invert brightness
1565			 0 -- machine default
1566			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1567
1568	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1569			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1570
1571	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1572			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1573			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1574			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1575			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1576
1577	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1578			Format: <int>
1579			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1580			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1581			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1582			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1583			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1584			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1585			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1586			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1587			was 0x3.
1588
1589	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1590			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1591
1592	idle=		[X86]
1593			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1594			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1595			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1596			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1597			Not recommended.
1598			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1599			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1600			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1601
1602	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1603			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1604			Default: strict
1605
1606			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1607			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1608			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1609			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1610			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1611			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1612			encoding mode.
1613
1614			Available settings are as follows:
1615			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1616				supported by the FPU
1617			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1618				by the FPU
1619			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1620				by the FPU
1621			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1622				supported by the FPU
1623
1624			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1625			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1626			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1627			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1628			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1629			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1630			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1631			MIPS64 CPUs.
1632
1633			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1634			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1635			except where unsupported by hardware.
1636
1637	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1638			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1639			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1640			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1641			could change it dynamically, usually by
1642			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1643
1644	ignore_rlimit_data
1645			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1646			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1647			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1648
1649	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1650			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1651
1652	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1653			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1654			default: "enforce"
1655
1656	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1657			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1658			owned by uid=0.
1659
1660	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1661			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1662			measurements, instead of host native format.
1663
1664	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1665			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1666				   | sha512 | ... }
1667			default: "sha1"
1668
1669			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1670			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1671
1672	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1673			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1674			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1675				 fail_securely"
1676
1677			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1678			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1679			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1680			uid=0.
1681
1682			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1683			all files owned by root.
1684
1685			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1686			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1687			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1688
1689			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1690			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1691			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1692			flag.
1693
1694	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1695			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1696			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1697			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1698			opened for read by uid=0.
1699
1700	ima_template=	[IMA]
1701			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1702			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1703			Default: "ima-ng"
1704
1705	ima_template_fmt=
1706			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1707			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1708
1709	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1710			Format: <min_file_size>
1711			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1712			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1713
1714			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1715			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1716			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1717
1718	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1719			Format: <bufsize>
1720			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1721
1722			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1723			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1724			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1725
1726	init=		[KNL]
1727			Format: <full_path>
1728			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1729			process.
1730
1731	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1732			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1733			startup.
1734
1735	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1736			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1737			modules and initcalls.
1738
1739	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1740
1741	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1742			zeroes.
1743			Format: 0 | 1
1744			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1745
1746	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1747			Format: 0 | 1
1748			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1749
1750	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1751			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1752			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1753			override in debugfs after boot.
1754
1755	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1756			Format: <irq>
1757
1758	int_pln_enable	[x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1759
1760	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1761			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1762			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1763			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1764
1765	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1766		on
1767			Enable intel iommu driver.
1768		off
1769			Disable intel iommu driver.
1770		igfx_off [Default Off]
1771			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1772			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1773			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1774			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1775			DMA.
1776		forcedac [x86_64]
1777			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1778			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1779			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1780			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1781			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1782			then look in the higher range.
1783		strict [Default Off]
1784			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1785			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1786			to batching them for performance.
1787		sp_off [Default Off]
1788			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1789			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1790			not be supported.
1791		sm_on [Default Off]
1792			By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
1793			hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1794			mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
1795			will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
1796		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1797			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1798			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1799			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1800			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1801			mapping is enabled.
1802			Note that using this option lowers the security
1803			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1804			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1805		nobounce [Default off]
1806			Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
1807			the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
1808			devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
1809			risks of DMA attacks.
1810
1811	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1812			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1813			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1814
1815	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1816			disable
1817			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1818			  scaling driver for the supported processors
1819			passive
1820			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1821			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1822			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1823			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1824			  feature.
1825			force
1826			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1827			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1828			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1829			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1830			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1831			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1832			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1833			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1834			no_hwp
1835			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1836			  if available.
1837			hwp_only
1838			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1839			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1840			support_acpi_ppc
1841			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1842			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1843			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1844			  then this feature is turned on by default.
1845			per_cpu_perf_limits
1846			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1847			  cpufreq sysfs interface
1848
1849	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1850			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1851			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1852			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1853			no_x2apic_optout
1854				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1855			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1856
1857	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1858		strict	regions from userspace.
1859		relaxed
1860
1861	iommu=		[x86]
1862		off
1863		force
1864		noforce
1865		biomerge
1866		panic
1867		nopanic
1868		merge
1869		nomerge
1870		soft
1871		pt		[x86]
1872		nopt		[x86]
1873		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1874			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1875
1876	iommu.strict=	[ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1877			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1878			0 - Lazy mode.
1879			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1880			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1881			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1882			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1883			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
1884			1 - Strict mode (default).
1885			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1886			  synchronously.
1887
1888	iommu.passthrough=
1889			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1890			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1891			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1892			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1893			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
1894
1895	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1896			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1897			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1898
1899	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1900		0x80
1901			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1902		0xed
1903			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1904		udelay
1905			Simple two microseconds delay
1906		none
1907			No delay
1908
1909	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1910			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
1911
1912	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1913			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1914
1915	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1916			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1917
1918	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1919			[ARM, ARM64]
1920			Format: <bool>
1921			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1922			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1923			exposed by the device tree is too small.
1924
1925	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1926			[ARM, ARM64]
1927			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1928			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1929			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1930			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1931			LPIs.
1932
1933	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1934			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1935			requires the kernel to be built with
1936			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1937
1938	irqfixup	[HW]
1939			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1940			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1941			firmware running.
1942
1943	irqpoll		[HW]
1944			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1945			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1946			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1947			firmware running.
1948
1949	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1950			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1951
1952	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
1953			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1954			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1955
1956			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1957			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1958
1959			nohz
1960			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
1961
1962			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1963			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1964			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
1965			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1966			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1967
1968			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1969			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1970			  be configured manually after bootup.
1971
1972			domain
1973			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1974			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1975			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1976			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1977			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1978			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1979			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1980			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1981
1982			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1983			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1984			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1985			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1986
1987			managed_irq
1988
1989			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
1990			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
1991			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
1992			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
1993			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
1994
1995			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
1996			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
1997			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
1998			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
1999			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2000			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2001			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2002
2003			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2004			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2005			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2006			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2007			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2008			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2009			  queues.
2010
2011			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2012
2013	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2014
2015	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
2016			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2017			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2018			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2019			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2020				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2021
2022	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
2023			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2024			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2025			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2026			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2027				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2028
2029	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
2030			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2031			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2032			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2033			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2034				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2035
2036	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2037			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2038
2039	nokaslr		[KNL]
2040			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2041			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2042			Layout Randomization).
2043
2044	kasan_multi_shot
2045			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2046			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2047			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2048			invalid access.
2049
2050	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2051
2052	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2053			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2054			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2055			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2056			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2057			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2058			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2059			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2060			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2061			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2062
2063			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2064			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2065			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2066			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2067			zone if it does not.
2068
2069			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2070			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2071			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2072			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2073			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2074			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2075			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2076
2077	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2078			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2079			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2080			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2081			optional and is the number seconds in between
2082			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2083			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2084			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2085			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2086			the kernel debugger.
2087
2088	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2089			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2090			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2091			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2092			 keyboard only format: kbd
2093			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2094			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2095			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2096			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2097
2098	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2099			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2100
2101	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2102			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2103			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2104
2105	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2106			Valid arguments: on, off
2107			Default: on
2108			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2109			the default is off.
2110
2111	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2112			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2113			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2114			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2115			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2116			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2117			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2118
2119			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2120
2121			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2122			Boot Parameter" section.
2123
2124	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2125			and kernel address spaces.
2126			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2127			0: force disabled
2128			1: force enabled
2129
2130	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2131			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2132
2133	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2134				   Default is false (don't support).
2135
2136	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2137			KVM MMU at runtime.
2138			Default is 0 (off)
2139
2140	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2141			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2142			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2143			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2144			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2145			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2146				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2147
2148			Default is 'auto'.
2149
2150			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2151			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2152
2153	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2154			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2155			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2156			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2157			minute.  The default is 60.
2158
2159	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2160			Default is 1 (enabled)
2161
2162	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2163			for all guests.
2164			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2165
2166	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2167			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2168			system registers
2169
2170	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2171			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2172			system registers
2173
2174	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2175			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2176			system registers
2177
2178	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2179			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2180			LPIs.
2181
2182	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2183			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2184			Default is 1 (enabled)
2185
2186	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2187			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2188			Default is 0 (disabled)
2189
2190	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2191			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2192			Default is 1 (enabled)
2193
2194	kvm-intel.nested=
2195			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2196			Default is 0 (disabled)
2197
2198	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2199			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2200			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2201			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2202
2203	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2204			CVE-2018-3620.
2205
2206			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2207
2208			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2209			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2210				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2211			never:	Disables the mitigation
2212
2213			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2214
2215	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2216			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2217			Default is 1 (enabled)
2218
2219	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2220			      affected CPUs
2221
2222			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2223			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2224
2225			full
2226				Provides all available mitigations for the
2227				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2228				enables all mitigations in the
2229				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2230
2231				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2232				sysfs interface is still possible after
2233				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2234				when the first VM is started in a
2235				potentially insecure configuration,
2236				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2237
2238			full,force
2239				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2240				flush runtime control. Implies the
2241				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2242				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2243
2244			flush
2245				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2246				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2247				L1D flush.
2248
2249				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2250				sysfs interface is still possible after
2251				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2252				when the first VM is started in a
2253				potentially insecure configuration,
2254				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2255
2256			flush,nosmt
2257
2258				Disables SMT and enables the default
2259				hypervisor mitigation.
2260
2261				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2262				sysfs interface is still possible after
2263				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2264				when the first VM is started in a
2265				potentially insecure configuration,
2266				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2267
2268			flush,nowarn
2269				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2270				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2271				insecure configuration.
2272
2273			off
2274				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2275				emit any warnings.
2276				It also drops the swap size and available
2277				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2278				bare metal.
2279
2280			Default is 'flush'.
2281
2282			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2283
2284	l2cr=		[PPC]
2285
2286	l3cr=		[PPC]
2287
2288	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2289			disabled it.
2290
2291	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2292			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2293			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2294
2295	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2296			in C2 power state.
2297
2298	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2299			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2300			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2301			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2302			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2303			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2304			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2305
2306	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2307			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2308			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2309
2310	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2311			when set.
2312			Format: <int>
2313
2314	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
2315			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2316			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2317			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2318			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2319			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2320			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2321			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2322
2323			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2324			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2325			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2326			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2327			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2328			host link and device attached to it.
2329
2330			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2331			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2332			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2333			The following configurations can be forced.
2334
2335			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2336			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2337
2338			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2339
2340			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2341			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2342			  allowed.
2343
2344			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2345
2346			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2347
2348			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2349			  and both resets.
2350
2351			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2352			  hot-unplug link recovery
2353
2354			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2355
2356			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2357
2358			* disable: Disable this device.
2359
2360			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2361			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2362
2363	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2364
2365	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
2366			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
2367
2368	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2369			Format: <integer>
2370
2371	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2372			Format: <integer>
2373
2374	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2375			Format: <integer>
2376
2377	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2378			Format: <integer>
2379
2380	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2381			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2382			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2383			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2384			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2385			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2386			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2387			are also disabled.
2388
2389	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2390			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2391			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2392			number of online CPUs.
2393
2394	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2395			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2396
2397	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2398			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2399
2400	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2401			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2402			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2403
2404	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2405			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2406			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2407			mode during the locktorture test.
2408
2409	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2410			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2411			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2412
2413	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2414			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2415
2416	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2417			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2418			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2419			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2420			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2421			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2422
2423	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2424			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2425
2426	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2427			Enable additional printk() statements.
2428
2429	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2430			Format: <irq>
2431
2432	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2433			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2434			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2435			loglevels are defined as follows:
2436
2437			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2438			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2439			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2440			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2441			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2442			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2443			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2444			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2445
2446	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2447			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2448			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2449			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2450			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2451			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2452			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2453
2454	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2455			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2456			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2457			kernel boot problems.
2458
2459	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2460	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2461	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2462	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2463				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2464				attached printers to be reset. Using
2465				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2466				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2467				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2468				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2469				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2470				port specification list means that device IDs
2471				from each port should be examined, to see if
2472				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2473				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2474				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2475
2476	lpj=n		[KNL]
2477			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2478			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2479			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2480			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2481			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2482			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2483			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2484			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2485			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2486			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2487			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2488			hardware.
2489
2490	ltpc=		[NET]
2491			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2492
2493	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2494
2495	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2496			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2497			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2498
2499	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2500			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2501			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2502
2503	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2504			 yeeloong laptop.
2505			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2506
2507	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2508			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2509
2510	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2511			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2512			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2513			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2514			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2515			only takes effect during system bootup.
2516			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2517			which also disables the IO APIC.
2518
2519	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2520	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2521			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2522			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2523			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2524			/dev/loop-control interface.
2525
2526	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2527
2528	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2529
2530	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2531			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2532
2533	mdacon=		[MDA]
2534			Format: <first>,<last>
2535			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2536
2537	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2538			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2539			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2540
2541			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2542			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2543			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2544
2545			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2546			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2547			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2548			not have direct access.
2549
2550			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2551			options are:
2552
2553			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2554			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2555				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2556			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2557
2558			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2559			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2560			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2561			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2562			too.
2563
2564			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2565			mds=full.
2566
2567			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2568
2569	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2570			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2571			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2572			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2573			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2574			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2575			belonging to unused RAM.
2576
2577	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2578			memory.
2579
2580	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2581			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2582			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2583
2584	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2585			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2586			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2587			set according to the
2588			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2589			option.
2590			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2591
2592	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2593			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2594			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2595			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2596			option description.
2597
2598	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2599			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2600			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2601			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2602			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2603			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2604			comma delimited.
2605			Example:
2606				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2607
2608	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2609			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2610			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2611
2612	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2613			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2614			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2615			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2616			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2617			         or
2618			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2619			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2620			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2621			will be eaten.
2622
2623	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2624			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2625			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2626			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2627			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2628
2629	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2630			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2631			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2632			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2633			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2634			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2635			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2636			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2637
2638	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2639			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2640			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2641			Setting this option will scan the memory
2642			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2643			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2644			from using the memory being corrupted.
2645			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2646			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2647			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2648			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2649
2650	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2651			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2652			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2653			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2654			corruption in more or less memory.
2655
2656	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2657			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2658			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2659			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2660
2661	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
2662			Format: <integer>
2663			default : 0 <disable>
2664			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2665			performed. Each pass selects another test
2666			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2667			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2668			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2669			regions that are detected.
2670
2671	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2672			Valid arguments: on, off
2673			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2674			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2675			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2676			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2677			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2678
2679			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2680			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2681
2682	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2683			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2684			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2685			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2686			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2687
2688	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2689			See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
2690
2691	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2692			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2693			platforms.
2694
2695	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2696			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2697			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2698			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2699
2700	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2701
2702	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2703			physical address is ignored.
2704
2705	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2706			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2707			Default: "0tb"
2708			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2709			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2710			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2711			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2712			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2713			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2714			unconfigured.
2715			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2716			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2717			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2718			VGA shield.
2719			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2720			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2721			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2722			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2723			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2724			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2725
2726	mitigations=
2727			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2728			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
2729			arch-independent options, each of which is an
2730			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
2731
2732			off
2733				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
2734				improves system performance, but it may also
2735				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
2736				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
2737					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
2738					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
2739					       nobp=0 [S390]
2740					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
2741					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
2742					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
2743					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
2744					       l1tf=off [X86]
2745					       mds=off [X86]
2746					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
2747					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
2748
2749				Exceptions:
2750					       This does not have any effect on
2751					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
2752					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
2753
2754			auto (default)
2755				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2756				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
2757				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2758				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2759				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
2760				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
2761
2762			auto,nosmt
2763				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2764				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
2765				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
2766				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
2767					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
2768					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
2769
2770	mminit_loglevel=
2771			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2772			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2773			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2774			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2775			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2776			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2777
2778	module.sig_enforce
2779			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2780			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2781			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2782			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2783
2784	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2785			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2786
2787	mousedev.tap_time=
2788			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2789			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2790			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2791			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2792			Format: <msecs>
2793	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2794			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2795	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2796			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2797
2798	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2799			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2800			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2801			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2802			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2803			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2804			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
2805			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
2806			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2807			is not too small.
2808
2809	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2810			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2811			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2812			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2813			allocations. Use with caution!
2814
2815	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2816			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2817
2818	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2819			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2820
2821	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2822			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
2823
2824	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2825			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2826			at a time.
2827
2828	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2829
2830			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2831
2832			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2833				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2834			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2835				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2836				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2837
2838	mtdset=		[ARM]
2839			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2840
2841			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2842
2843	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2844			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2845			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2846
2847	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2848			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2849			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2850
2851	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2852			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2853			Default is 1.
2854			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2855			using up MTRRs.
2856
2857	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2858			Format: <integer>
2859			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2860			Default : 1
2861			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2862			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2863
2864	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2865
2866	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2867			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2868			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2869			something different and driver-specific.
2870			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2871			file if at all.
2872
2873	nf_conntrack.acct=
2874			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2875			0 to disable accounting
2876			1 to enable accounting
2877			Default value is 0.
2878
2879	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2880			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2881
2882	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2883			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2884
2885	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2886			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2887
2888	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2889			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2890			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2891			requests.
2892
2893	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2894			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2895			channel should listen.
2896
2897	nfs.cache_getent=
2898			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2899			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2900
2901	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2902			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2903			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2904
2905	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2906			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2907			entries.
2908
2909	nfs.enable_ino64=
2910			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2911			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2912			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2913			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2914			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2915
2916	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2917			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2918			slots the client will assign to the callback
2919			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2920			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2921			a particular server.
2922
2923	nfs.max_session_slots=
2924			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2925			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2926			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2927			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2928			Note that there is little point in setting this
2929			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2930
2931	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2932			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2933			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2934			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2935			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2936			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2937			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2938			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2939			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2940			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2941			back to using the idmapper.
2942			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2943	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2944			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2945			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2946			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2947			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2948
2949	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2950			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2951			information in exchange_id requests.
2952			If zero, no implementation identification information
2953			will be sent.
2954			The default is to send the implementation identification
2955			information.
2956
2957	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2958			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2959			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2960			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2961			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2962			after the locks are lost.
2963			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2964			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2965			parameter to '1'.
2966			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2967			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2968
2969	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2970			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2971			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2972
2973			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2974			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2975			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2976			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2977
2978	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2979			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2980			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2981			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2982			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2983			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2984
2985	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2986			when a NMI is triggered.
2987			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2988
2989	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2990			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2991			Valid num: 0 or 1
2992			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2993			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2994			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2995			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2996			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2997			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2998			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2999			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3000			need the box quickly up again.
3001
3002			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3003			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3004
3005	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3006			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3007			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3008			waits 4 seconds.
3009
3010	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3011			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3012			is present.
3013
3014	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3015			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3016
3017	no_console_suspend
3018			[HW] Never suspend the console
3019			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3020			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3021			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3022			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3023			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3024			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3025			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3026			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3027			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3028			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3029			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3030			turn on/off it dynamically.
3031
3032	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3033			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3034			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3035			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3036			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3037			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3038			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3039			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3040			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3041			is set.
3042
3043	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3044			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3045			but will impact performance.
3046
3047	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3048
3049	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3050			(CPU alternatives feature).
3051
3052	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3053			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3054
3055	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3056
3057	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3058			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3059
3060	nocache		[ARM]
3061
3062	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3063
3064	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
3065
3066	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3067
3068	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3069
3070	noexec		[IA-64]
3071
3072	noexec		[X86]
3073			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3074			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3075			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3076
3077	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3078			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3079			even if it is supported by processor.
3080
3081	nosmep		[X86,PPC]
3082			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3083			even if it is supported by processor.
3084
3085	noexec32	[X86-64]
3086			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3087			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3088				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3089			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3090				read implies executable mappings
3091
3092	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3093
3094	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3095			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3096			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3097
3098	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3099
3100	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3101			Equivalent to smt=1.
3102
3103			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3104			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3105				     via the sysfs control file.
3106
3107	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3108			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3109			possible in the system.
3110
3111	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3112			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3113			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3114			option.
3115
3116	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3117			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3118
3119	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3120			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3121			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3122
3123	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3124			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3125			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3126			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3127			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3128			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3129
3130	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3131			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3132			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3133			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3134			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3135			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3136			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3137
3138	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3139			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3140			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
3141
3142	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3143			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3144			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3145
3146	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3147			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3148			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3149			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3150			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3151			real-time systems.
3152
3153	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3154
3155	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3156			Valid arguments: on, off
3157			Default: on
3158
3159	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3160			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3161			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3162			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3163			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3164			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3165			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3166			just as if they had also been called out in the
3167			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3168
3169	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3170
3171	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3172			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3173
3174	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3175			broken timer IRQ sources.
3176
3177	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3178
3179	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3180			initial RAM disk.
3181
3182	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3183			remapping.
3184			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3185
3186	nointroute	[IA-64]
3187
3188	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3189
3190	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3191
3192	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3193
3194	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3195			fault handling.
3196
3197	no-vmw-sched-clock
3198			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3199			clock and use the default one.
3200
3201	no-steal-acc	[X86,KVM,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3202			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3203			influence scheduler behaviour
3204
3205	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3206
3207	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3208
3209	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3210			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3211
3212	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3213
3214	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3215
3216	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3217			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3218
3219	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3220			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3221			irq.
3222
3223	nomodule	Disable module load
3224
3225	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3226			pagetables) support.
3227
3228	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3229
3230	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3231			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3232
3233	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3234			with UP alternatives
3235
3236	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3237			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3238			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3239			available to user space applications.
3240
3241	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3242			space.
3243
3244	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3245			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3246			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3247
3248	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3249
3250	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3251
3252	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3253			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3254
3255	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3256
3257	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3258
3259	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3260			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3261
3262	nowb		[ARM]
3263
3264	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3265
3266	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3267			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3268			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3269			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3270			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3271			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3272			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3273			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3274			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3275			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3276			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3277			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3278			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3279
3280	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3281			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3282			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3283			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3284			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3285			parameter's value.
3286			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3287			Default: 255
3288
3289	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3290			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3291			SAL PALO.
3292
3293	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3294			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3295			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3296			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3297			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3298			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3299			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3300			hot plugging.
3301
3302	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3303
3304	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3305			Allowed values are enable and disable
3306
3307	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3308			'node', 'default' can be specified
3309			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3310			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3311
3312	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3313			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3314			info.
3315
3316	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3317			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3318			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3319			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3320			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3321			interrupts *may* be lost!
3322
3323	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3324			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3325			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3326			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3327
3328	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
3329			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3330
3331	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
3332			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3333			userland or if you want common events.
3334			Format: { arch_perfmon }
3335			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
3336				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3337				CPU specific event set.
3338			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3339				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3340				for generic hr timer mode)
3341
3342	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3343			process, but there is a small probability of
3344			deadlocking the machine.
3345			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3346			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3347
3348	page_alloc.shuffle=
3349			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3350			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3351			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3352			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3353			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3354			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3355			can be read from sysfs at:
3356			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3357
3358	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3359			Storage of the information about who allocated
3360			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3361			we can turn it on.
3362			on: enable the feature
3363
3364	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3365			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3366			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3367			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3368			on: turn on poisoning
3369
3370	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3371			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3372			timeout = 0: wait forever
3373			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3374			Format: <timeout>
3375
3376	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3377			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3378			bit 0: print all tasks info
3379			bit 1: print system memory info
3380			bit 2: print timer info
3381			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3382			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3383			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3384
3385	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3386			on a WARN().
3387
3388	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3389			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3390			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3391			succeeds in any situation.
3392			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3393			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3394			kernel more unstable.
3395
3396	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3397			connected to, default is 0.
3398			Format: <parport#>
3399	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3400			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3401			Format: <mode>
3402
3403	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3404			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3405			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3406			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3407			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3408			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3409			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3410			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3411			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3412			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3413			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3414			are specified on the command line, starting
3415			with parport0.
3416
3417	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3418			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3419			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3420			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3421			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3422			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3423			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3424
3425	pause_on_oops=
3426			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3427			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3428			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3429
3430	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3431
3432	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3433			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3434			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3435
3436	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3437
3438				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3439				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3440				specified in one of the following formats:
3441
3442				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3443				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3444
3445				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3446				bus/device/function address which may change
3447				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3448				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3449				by other kernel parameters. If the
3450				domain is left unspecified, it is
3451				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3452				to a device through multiple device/function
3453				addresses can be specified after the base
3454				address (this is more robust against
3455				renumbering issues).  The second format
3456				selects devices using IDs from the
3457				configuration space which may match multiple
3458				devices in the system.
3459
3460		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3461				changes anything
3462		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3463		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3464				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3465				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3466		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3467				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3468				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3469				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3470		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3471				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3472				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3473		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3474				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3475				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3476				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3477				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3478				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3479				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3480		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3481				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3482				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3483		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3484				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3485		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3486				Configuration
3487		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3488				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3489				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3490		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3491				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3492				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3493		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3494				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3495				should never be necessary.
3496		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3497				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3498				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3499				when the system masks IRQs.
3500		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3501				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3502				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3503				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3504		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3505				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3506				on several machines and they hang the machine
3507				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3508				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3509				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3510				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3511				motherboard.
3512		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3513				Use with caution as certain devices share
3514				address decoders between ROMs and other
3515				resources.
3516		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3517				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3518				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3519		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3520				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3521		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3522				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3523				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3524				this way.
3525		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3526				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3527				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3528				F0000h-100000h range.
3529		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3530				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3531				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3532				explicitly which ones they are.
3533		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
3534				numbers ourselves, overriding
3535				whatever the firmware may have done.
3536		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
3537				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3538				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3539				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3540				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3541				IRQ routing is enabled.
3542		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
3543				or for PCI scanning.
3544		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3545				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3546				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
3547				please report a bug.
3548		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
3549				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
3550		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3551				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3552				so this option is a temporary workaround
3553				for broken drivers that don't call it.
3554		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3555				handle more pci cards
3556		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3557				This might help on some broken boards which
3558				machine check when some devices' config space
3559				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3560				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
3561		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3562				This sorting is done to get a device
3563				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3564		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3565		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3566				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3567		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3568				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3569		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3570				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3571				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3572				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3573				or bus can support) for best performance.
3574		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3575				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3576				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3577				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3578				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3579				that hot-added devices will work.
3580		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3581				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3582				The default value is 256 bytes.
3583		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3584				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3585				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3586		resource_alignment=
3587				Format:
3588				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
3589				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3590				aligned memory resources. How to
3591				specify the device is described above.
3592				If <order of align> is not specified,
3593				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3594				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
3595				windows need to be expanded.
3596				To specify the alignment for several
3597				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3598				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3599				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3600				for 4096-byte alignment.
3601		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3602				end-to-end CRC checking).
3603				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3604				the default.
3605				off: Turn ECRC off
3606				on: Turn ECRC on.
3607		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3608				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3609				Default size is 256 bytes.
3610		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3611				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
3612				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3613		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3614				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
3615				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3616		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3617				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
3618				MMIO_PREF window.
3619				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3620		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3621				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3622				Default is 1.
3623		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3624				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3625				accommodate resources required by all child
3626				devices.
3627				off: Turn realloc off
3628				on: Turn realloc on
3629		realloc		same as realloc=on
3630		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3631		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3632				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
3633		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3634				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3635				port.
3636		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3637				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3638				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3639				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3640				conflict with unreported devices), so this
3641				taints the kernel.
3642		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3643				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3644				specified above) separated by semicolons.
3645				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3646				redirect capabilities forced off which will
3647				allow P2P traffic between devices through
3648				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3649				this removes isolation between devices and
3650				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
3651		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
3652		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
3653
3654	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3655			Management.
3656		off	Disable ASPM.
3657		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3658			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3659
3660	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3661		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3662			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3663			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
3664			also tries to use these services.
3665		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
3666				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
3667		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3668			hotplug).
3669
3670	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3671		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3672		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3673
3674	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3675		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3676			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3677
3678	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3679
3680	pd_ignore_unused
3681			[PM]
3682			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3683			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3684			for debug and development, but should not be
3685			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3686
3687	pd.		[PARIDE]
3688			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3689
3690	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3691			boot time.
3692			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3693			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3694
3695	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3696			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3697			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3698			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3699			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3700			and performance comparison.
3701
3702	pf.		[PARIDE]
3703			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3704
3705	pg.		[PARIDE]
3706			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3707
3708	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3709			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
3710
3711	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3712			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3713			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
3714
3715	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3716			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3717			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3718
3719	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3720			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3721			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3722			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3723			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3724			possible settings and some assignment information.
3725
3726	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3727			{ off }
3728
3729	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3730			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3731
3732	pnp_reserve_irq=
3733			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3734
3735	pnp_reserve_dma=
3736			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3737
3738	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3739			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3740
3741	pnp_reserve_mem=
3742			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3743			autoconfiguration.
3744			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3745
3746	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3747			Default is 21.
3748			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3749			may be specified.
3750			Format: <port>,<port>....
3751
3752	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3753			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3754			platform machine description specific power_save
3755			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3756			execution priority.
3757
3758	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3759			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3760			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3761			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3762			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3763
3764	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
3765			Format: {"off"}
3766			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3767
3768	print-fatal-signals=
3769			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3770
3771			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3772			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3773			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3774			coredump - etc.
3775
3776			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3777			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3778
3779			default: off.
3780
3781	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3782			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3783			panics
3784			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3785			default: disabled
3786
3787	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3788			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3789			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3790			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3791			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3792			Default: ratelimit
3793
3794	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3795			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3796
3797	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3798			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3799			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3800
3801	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3802			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3803			instead using the legacy FADT method
3804
3805	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3806			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3807			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3808				[defaults to kernel profiling]
3809			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3810			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3811				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3812			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3813			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3814				statistical time based profiling.
3815
3816	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3817			before loading.
3818			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3819
3820	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3821			tracking.
3822			Format: <bool>
3823
3824	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3825			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3826	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3827			per second.
3828	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3829			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3830			(0 = never).
3831	psmouse.resolution=
3832			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3833	psmouse.smartscroll=
3834			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3835			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3836
3837	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3838
3839	pt.		[PARIDE]
3840			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3841
3842	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3843			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
3844			removes hardening, but improves performance of
3845			system calls and interrupts.
3846
3847			on   - unconditionally enable
3848			off  - unconditionally disable
3849			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3850			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3851
3852			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3853
3854	nopti		[X86_64]
3855			Equivalent to pti=off
3856
3857	pty.legacy_count=
3858			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3859			default number.
3860
3861	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3862
3863	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3864
3865	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3866			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3867
3868	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3869			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
3870
3871	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3872			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3873			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3874			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3875			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3876
3877	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3878
3879		cec_disable	[X86]
3880				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3881				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3882
3883	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3884			The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3885			except that the string "all" can be used to
3886			specify every CPU on the system.
3887
3888			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3889			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3890			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3891			offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3892			purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3893			"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3894			This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3895			which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3896			workloads.  It can also improve energy efficiency
3897			for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3898
3899	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3900			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3901			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3902			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3903			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3904			This improves the real-time response for the
3905			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3906			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3907			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3908			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3909
3910	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3911			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3912			process in one batch.
3913
3914	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3915			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3916			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3917			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3918
3919	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3920			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3921			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3922
3923	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3924			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3925			RCU grace-period initialization.
3926
3927	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3928			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3929			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3930			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3931			the rcu_node combining tree.
3932
3933	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
3934			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3935			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
3936			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3937			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3938
3939	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3940			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3941			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3942			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3943			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3944
3945	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3946			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3947			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3948			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3949			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3950			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3951			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3952
3953	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3954			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3955			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3956			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3957			and maximum value is HZ.
3958
3959	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3960			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3961			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3962			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3963
3964	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3965			Set required age in jiffies for a
3966			given grace period before RCU starts
3967			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3968			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3969			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3970			a value based on the most recent settings
3971			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3972			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3973			This calculated value may be viewed in
3974			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
3975			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3976			overwritten.
3977
3978	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3979			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3980			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3981			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3982			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3983			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3984			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3985			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3986			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3987			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3988
3989	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
3990			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
3991			each group, which defaults to the square root
3992			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
3993			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
3994			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
3995			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
3996
3997	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3998			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3999			batch limiting is disabled.
4000
4001	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4002			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4003			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4004
4005	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
4006			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4007			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4008
4009	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
4010			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
4011			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
4012			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
4013			prove do nothing more than free memory.
4014
4015	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4016			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4017			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4018			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4019			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4020			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4021
4022	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4023			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4024			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4025			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4026
4027	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
4028			Measure performance of asynchronous
4029			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4030
4031	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4032			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4033			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4034			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4035			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4036			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4037
4038	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
4039			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4040			grace-period primitives.
4041
4042	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
4043			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4044			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4045			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4046			interference.
4047
4048	rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4049			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4050
4051	rcuperf.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4052			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4053
4054	rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4055			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4056
4057	rcuperf.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4058			Number of loops doing rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num number
4059			of allocations and frees.
4060
4061	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
4062			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4063			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4064			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4065			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4066			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4067			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4068			a single reader.
4069
4070	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
4071			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4072			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
4073			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4074
4075	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
4076			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4077
4078	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
4079			Shut the system down after performance tests
4080			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4081			testing.
4082
4083	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
4084			Enable additional printk() statements.
4085
4086	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4087			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4088			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4089			no holdoff.
4090
4091	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4092			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4093			in microseconds.
4094
4095	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4096			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4097			in microseconds.
4098
4099	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4100			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4101			in seconds.
4102
4103	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4104			Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4105			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4106
4107	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4108			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4109			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4110
4111	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4112			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4113			forward-progress tests.
4114
4115	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4116			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4117			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4118			testing.
4119
4120	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4121			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4122			primitives, if available.
4123
4124	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4125			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4126
4127	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4128			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4129			update-side primitives, if available.
4130
4131	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4132			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4133			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4134			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4135			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4136			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4137			they are all non-zero.
4138
4139	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4140			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4141
4142	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4143			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4144			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4145			test, hence the "fake".
4146
4147	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4148			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4149			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4150			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4151			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4152			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4153
4154	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4155			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4156
4157	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4158			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4159
4160	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4161			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4162			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4163
4164	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4165			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4166			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4167			during the rcutorture test.
4168
4169	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4170			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4171			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4172
4173	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4174			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4175			warnings, zero to disable.
4176
4177	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4178			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4179
4180	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4181			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4182
4183	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4184			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4185
4186	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4187			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4188			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4189			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4190			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4191
4192	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4193			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4194			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4195			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4196
4197	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4198			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4199
4200	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4201			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4202
4203	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4204			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4205			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4206
4207	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4208			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4209
4210	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4211			Enable additional printk() statements.
4212
4213	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4214			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4215			stall warning.
4216
4217	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4218			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4219
4220	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4221			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4222
4223	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4224			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4225			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4226			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4227			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4228			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4229			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4230
4231	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4232			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4233			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4234			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4235			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4236			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4237			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4238			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4239			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4240
4241	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4242			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4243			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4244			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4245			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4246
4247	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4248			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4249			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4250			to zero.
4251
4252	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4253			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4254
4255	rdinit=		[KNL]
4256			Format: <full_path>
4257			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4258			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4259
4260	rdrand=		[X86]
4261			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4262				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4263				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4264				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4265				path).
4266
4267	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4268			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4269			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4270			mba.
4271			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4272				rdt=cmt,!mba
4273
4274	reboot=		[KNL]
4275			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4276				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4277				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4278				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4279				[[,]f[orce]
4280			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4281					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4282					reboot only),
4283			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4284			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4285			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4286					to be used for rebooting.
4287
4288	relax_domain_level=
4289			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4290			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4291
4292	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4293			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4294			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4295			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4296			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4297
4298	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4299			Format: nn[KMG]
4300			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4301			address space.
4302
4303	reservelow=	[X86]
4304			Format: nn[K]
4305			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4306			the bottom of the address space.
4307
4308	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4309			during initialization.
4310
4311	resume=		[SWSUSP]
4312			Specify the partition device for software suspend
4313			Format:
4314			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
4315
4316	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
4317			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4318			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4319			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
4320			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
4321
4322	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4323			read the resume files
4324
4325	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4326			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4327			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4328
4329	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
4330		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4331				present during boot.
4332		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
4333		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
4334		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
4335				(that will set all pages holding image data
4336				during restoration read-only).
4337
4338	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4339
4340	rfkill.default_state=
4341		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4342			etc. communication is blocked by default.
4343		1	Unblocked.
4344
4345	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4346		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4347		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4348			blocked and the previous configuration.
4349		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4350			blocked and everything unblocked.
4351
4352	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4353			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4354
4355	ring3mwait=disable
4356			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4357			CPUs.
4358
4359	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4360
4361	rodata=		[KNL]
4362		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4363		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4364
4365	rockchip.usb_uart
4366			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4367			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4368			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4369			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4370
4371	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
4372			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
4373
4374	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4375			mount the root filesystem
4376
4377	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4378
4379	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
4380
4381	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4382			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4383			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4384
4385	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4386			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4387			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4388			managed by CMA.
4389
4390	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4391
4392	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
4393
4394	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
4395			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4396		strict
4397			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4398			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4399			which is faster.
4400
4401	sa1100ir	[NET]
4402			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4403
4404	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
4405
4406	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4407
4408	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4409			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4410			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4411			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
4412
4413	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4414			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4415			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4416			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4417			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4418			1 -- enable.
4419			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4420			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4421
4422	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4423			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4424			"lsm=" parameter.
4425
4426	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
4427			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4428			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4429			0 -- disable.
4430			1 -- enable.
4431			Default value is 1.
4432
4433	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4434			Format: { "0" | "1" }
4435			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4436			0 -- disable.
4437			1 -- enable.
4438			Default value is set via kernel config option.
4439
4440	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
4441
4442	shapers=	[NET]
4443			Maximal number of shapers.
4444
4445	simeth=		[IA-64]
4446	simscsi=
4447
4448	slram=		[HW,MTD]
4449
4450	slab_nomerge	[MM]
4451			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4452			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
4453			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4454			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4455			layout control by attackers can usually be
4456			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4457			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4458			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4459			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4460			own.
4461			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4462
4463	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
4464			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4465			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4466			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
4467			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4468
4469	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
4470			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4471			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4472			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4473			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4474			last alloc / free. For more information see
4475			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4476
4477	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
4478			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4479			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4480			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4481			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
4482			directories and files being created under
4483			/sys/kernel/slub.
4484
4485	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
4486			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4487			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4488			fragmentation. For more information see
4489			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4490
4491	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
4492			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4493			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4494			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4495			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4496			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4497			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
4498			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4499
4500	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
4501			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
4502			lower than slub_max_order.
4503			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
4504
4505	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
4506			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4507			See slab_nomerge for more information.
4508
4509	smart2=		[HW]
4510			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4511
4512	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4513	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
4514	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
4515	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
4516	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
4517	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
4518	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4519				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4520				1: Fast pin select (default)
4521				2: ATC IRMode
4522
4523	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4524			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4525			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4526			actual hardware limit.
4527			Format: <integer>
4528			Default: -1 (no limit)
4529
4530	softlockup_panic=
4531			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
4532			Format: <integer>
4533
4534			A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4535			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
4536			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
4537			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
4538			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
4539
4540	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4541			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4542			backtraces on all cpus.
4543			Format: <integer>
4544
4545	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
4546			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
4547
4548	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4549			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
4550			The default operation protects the kernel from
4551			user space attacks.
4552
4553			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
4554			       spectre_v2_user=on
4555			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
4556			       spectre_v2_user=off
4557			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4558			       vulnerable
4559
4560			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4561			mitigation method at run time according to the
4562			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4563			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4564			compiler with which the kernel was built.
4565
4566			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4567			against user space to user space task attacks.
4568
4569			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4570			the user space protections.
4571
4572			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4573
4574			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
4575			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4576			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4577
4578			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4579			spectre_v2=auto.
4580
4581	spectre_v2_user=
4582			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4583		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4584		        user space tasks
4585
4586			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4587				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
4588
4589			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4590				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
4591
4592			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4593				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4594				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
4595				  is inherited on fork.
4596
4597			prctl,ibpb
4598				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4599				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4600				  always when switching between different user
4601				  space processes.
4602
4603			seccomp
4604				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4605				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
4606				  they explicitly opt out.
4607
4608			seccomp,ibpb
4609				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4610				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4611				  always when switching between different
4612				  user space processes.
4613
4614			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4615				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
4616
4617			Default mitigation:
4618			If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4619
4620			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4621			spectre_v2_user=auto.
4622
4623	spec_store_bypass_disable=
4624			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4625			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4626
4627			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4628			a common industry wide performance optimization known
4629			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4630			to the same memory location may not be observed by
4631			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4632			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4633			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4634			end of a particular speculation execution window.
4635
4636			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4637			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4638			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4639			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4640
4641			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4642			Bypass optimization is used.
4643
4644			On x86 the options are:
4645
4646			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4647			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4648			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4649				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4650				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4651				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4652				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4653				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4654			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4655				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4656				  for a process by default. The state of the control
4657				  is inherited on fork.
4658			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4659				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
4660
4661			Default mitigations:
4662			X86:	If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4663
4664			On powerpc the options are:
4665
4666			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4667				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4668				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4669				  exit.
4670			off	- No action.
4671
4672			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4673			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4674
4675	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
4676	spia_fio_base=
4677	spia_pedr=
4678	spia_peddr=
4679
4680	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4681			Specifies how frequently to check for
4682			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4683			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4684			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4685			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4686			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
4687			are ignored.
4688
4689	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4690			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4691			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4692			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4693			grace period will be considered for automatic
4694			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
4695			expediting.
4696
4697	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
4698			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4699
4700			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4701			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4702			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4703			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4704
4705			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4706				   for both kernel and userspace
4707			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4708				   for both kernel and userspace
4709			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
4710				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4711				   to allow userspace to register its
4712				   interest in being mitigated too.
4713
4714	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
4715			override the default stack gap protection. The value
4716			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4717			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4718			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4719			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4720
4721	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
4722			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4723
4724	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4725			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4726			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4727			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4728			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4729			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4730			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4731
4732	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
4733			Format: <num>
4734			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4735			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4736			as the initial boot-console.
4737			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4738
4739	sti_font=	[HW]
4740			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4741
4742	stifb=		[HW]
4743			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4744
4745	sunrpc.min_resvport=
4746	sunrpc.max_resvport=
4747			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4748			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4749			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4750			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4751			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4752			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4753			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4754			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4755			maximum port values.
4756
4757	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4758			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4759			Limit the number of requests that the server will
4760			process in parallel from a single connection.
4761			The default value is 0 (no limit).
4762
4763	sunrpc.pool_mode=
4764			[NFS]
4765			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4766			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
4767			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4768			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4769			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4770			NFS server is running.
4771
4772			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
4773				    automatically using heuristics
4774			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
4775			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
4776			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4777				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
4778
4779	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4780	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4781			[NFS,SUNRPC]
4782			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4783			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4784			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4785			improve throughput, but will also increase the
4786			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4787
4788	suspend.pm_test_delay=
4789			[SUSPEND]
4790			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4791			mode before resuming the system (see
4792			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4793			is set. Default value is 5.
4794
4795	svm=		[PPC]
4796			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
4797			This parameter controls use of the Protected
4798			Execution Facility on pSeries.
4799
4800	swapaccount=[0|1]
4801			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4802			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
4803			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
4804
4805	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
4806			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
4807			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4808			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4809			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4810			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4811
4812	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4813
4814	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4815			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4816			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4817			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4818			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4819			in older udev will not work anymore.
4820			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4821			the kernel configuration.
4822
4823	sysrq_always_enabled
4824			[KNL]
4825			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4826			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4827			Useful for debugging.
4828
4829	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4830			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4831			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4832			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4833			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4834			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4835
4836	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4837
4838	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4839			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4840			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4841			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4842			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4843			The system is woken from this state using a
4844			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4845
4846	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4847			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4848
4849	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4850			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4851			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4852
4853	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4854			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4855			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4856
4857	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4858			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4859			critical and hot trip points.
4860
4861	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4862			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4863
4864	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4865			-1: disable all passive trip points
4866			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4867			value
4868
4869	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4870			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4871			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4872			0: no polling (default)
4873
4874	threadirqs	[KNL]
4875			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4876			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4877
4878	topology=	[S390]
4879			Format: {off | on}
4880			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4881			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4882			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4883			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4884			Default is on.
4885
4886	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4887			Format: {off}
4888			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4889			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4890			LPAR.
4891
4892	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4893
4894	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4895			Format: integer pcr id
4896			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4897			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4898			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4899			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4900			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4901			are saved.
4902
4903	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4904			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4905
4906	trace_event=[event-list]
4907			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4908			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4909			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4910			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
4911
4912	trace_options=[option-list]
4913			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4914			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4915			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4916			to echo the option name into
4917
4918			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4919
4920			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4921			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4922
4923			      trace_options=stacktrace
4924
4925			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
4926			section.
4927
4928	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4929			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4930			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4931			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4932			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4933			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4934
4935			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4936			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4937			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4938			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4939
4940			** CAUTION **
4941
4942			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4943			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4944			the system to live lock.
4945
4946	traceoff_on_warning
4947			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4948			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4949			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4950			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4951
4952			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4953			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4954			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4955
4956			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4957			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4958
4959	transparent_hugepage=
4960			[KNL]
4961			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4962			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4963			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4964			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4965			for more details.
4966
4967	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4968			Format: <string>
4969			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4970			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4971			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4972			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4973			virtualized environment.
4974			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4975			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4976			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4977			can add overhead.
4978			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4979			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4980			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
4981			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4982			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4983			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4984			acceptable).
4985
4986	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
4987			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
4988			support TSX control.
4989
4990			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
4991
4992			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
4993				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
4994				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
4995				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
4996				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
4997				with leaving it enabled.
4998
4999			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5000				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5001				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5002				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5003				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5004				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5005				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5006
5007			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5008				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5009
5010			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5011
5012			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5013			for more details.
5014
5015	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5016			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5017
5018			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5019			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5020			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5021			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5022			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5023			conditions.
5024
5025			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5026			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5027			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5028			access.
5029
5030			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5031			options are:
5032
5033			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5034				     if TSX is enabled.
5035
5036			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5037				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5038				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5039				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5040			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5041
5042			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5043			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5044			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5045			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5046
5047			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5048			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5049			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5050			required and doesn't provide any additional
5051			mitigation.
5052
5053			For details see:
5054			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5055
5056	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
5057			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
5058			Format:
5059			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
5060			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
5061
5062	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
5063			happen after console_init() and before a proper
5064			console driver takes over, this boot options might
5065			help "seeing" what's going on.
5066
5067	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5068			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
5069
5070	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
5071			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
5072			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
5073			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
5074			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
5075			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
5076			reported either.
5077
5078	unknown_nmi_panic
5079			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
5080
5081	usbcore.authorized_default=
5082			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
5083			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
5084			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
5085			if device connected to internal port)
5086
5087	usbcore.autosuspend=
5088			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
5089			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
5090			is the time required before an idle device will be
5091			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
5092			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
5093
5094	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
5095			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
5096
5097	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
5098			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
5099			(default = 65536).
5100
5101	usbcore.blinkenlights=
5102			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
5103
5104	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
5105			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
5106			scheme,  applies only to low and full-speed devices
5107			 (default 0 = off).
5108
5109	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
5110			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
5111			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
5112
5113	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
5114			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
5115			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
5116
5117	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
5118			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
5119			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
5120			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
5121
5122	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
5123
5124	usbcore.quirks=
5125			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
5126			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
5127			commas. Each entry has the form
5128			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
5129			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
5130			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
5131			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
5132			the following meanings:
5133				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
5134					descriptors must not be fetched using
5135					a 255-byte read);
5136				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
5137					correctly so reset it instead);
5138				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
5139					Set-Interface requests);
5140				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
5141					handle its Configuration or Interface
5142					strings);
5143				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
5144					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
5145				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
5146					more interface descriptions than the
5147					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
5148					talking to these interfaces);
5149				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
5150					during initialization, after we read
5151					the device descriptor);
5152				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
5153					high speed and super speed interrupt
5154					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
5155					require the interval in microframes (1
5156					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
5157					calculated as interval = 2 ^
5158					(bInterval-1).
5159					Devices with this quirk report their
5160					bInterval as the result of this
5161					calculation instead of the exponent
5162					variable used in the calculation);
5163				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
5164					handle device_qualifier descriptor
5165					requests);
5166				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
5167					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
5168					remote wakeup capability);
5169				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
5170					Power Management);
5171				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
5172					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
5173					frames instead of the USB 2.0
5174					calculation);
5175				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
5176					to be disconnected before suspend to
5177					prevent spurious wakeup);
5178				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
5179					pause after every control message);
5180				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
5181					delay after resetting its port);
5182			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
5183
5184	usbhid.mousepoll=
5185			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
5186
5187	usbhid.jspoll=
5188			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
5189
5190	usbhid.kbpoll=
5191			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
5192
5193	usb-storage.delay_use=
5194			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
5195			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
5196
5197	usb-storage.quirks=
5198			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
5199			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
5200			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
5201			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
5202			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
5203			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
5204			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
5205				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
5206					of sense data, not on uas);
5207				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
5208					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
5209				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
5210					device capacity by one sector);
5211				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
5212					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
5213				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
5214					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
5215				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
5216					command, uas only);
5217				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
5218					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
5219				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
5220					reported device capacity by one
5221					sector if the number is odd);
5222				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
5223					device);
5224				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
5225					command, uas only);
5226				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
5227					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
5228				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
5229					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
5230					not on uas);
5231				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
5232					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
5233				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
5234					reported by the device, not on uas);
5235				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
5236					by default, not on uas);
5237				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5238					bogus residue values, not on uas);
5239				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5240					Logical Unit);
5241				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5242					commands, uas only);
5243				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
5244				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5245					medium is write-protected).
5246				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5247					even if the device claims no cache,
5248					not on uas)
5249			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5250
5251	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
5252			Format: <int>
5253			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5254				 1 - undefined instruction events
5255				 2 - system calls
5256				 4 - invalid data aborts
5257				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5258				16 - SIGBUS faults
5259			Example: user_debug=31
5260
5261	userpte=
5262			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5263
5264				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5265					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5266					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5267
5268	vdso=		[X86,SH]
5269			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
5270
5271			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
5272			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5273
5274	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5275			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5276			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5277
5278			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5279			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5280			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5281
5282			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5283			alias for vdso32=0.
5284
5285			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5286			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
5287
5288	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
5289			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5290
5291	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
5292			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
5293
5294	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5295			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5296			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5297			level and then send out the event to user space through
5298			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5299			will only send out the event without touching backlight
5300			brightness level.
5301			default: 1
5302
5303	virtio_mmio.device=
5304			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5305
5306				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5307			where:
5308				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
5309						like K, M and G)
5310				<baseaddr> := physical base address
5311				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
5312						request_irq())
5313				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
5314			example:
5315				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5316
5317			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5318
5319	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
5320			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
5321			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
5322			Use vga=ask for menu.
5323			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5324			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5325
5326	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5327			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5328			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5329			All options are enabled by default, and this
5330			interface is meant to allow for selectively
5331			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5332			debugging features.
5333
5334			Available options are:
5335			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
5336			  -	Disable all of the above options
5337
5338	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
5339			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5340			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5341			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5342			mapped kernel RAM.
5343
5344	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
5345			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5346			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5347
5348	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5349			Format: <command>
5350
5351	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5352			Format: <command>
5353
5354	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5355			Format: <command>
5356
5357	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
5358			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5359			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5360			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
5361			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
5362			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5363			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5364
5365			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5366			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5367				    page is readable.
5368
5369			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5370			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
5371				    page is not readable.
5372
5373			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
5374			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
5375			            might break your system.
5376
5377	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
5378			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5379			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5380
5381	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
5382			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5383			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5384			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5385
5386	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
5387			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5388			Change the default blue palette of the console.
5389			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5390			ranging from 0-255.
5391
5392	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
5393			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5394			Change the default green palette of the console.
5395			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5396			ranging from 0-255.
5397
5398	vt.default_red=	[VT]
5399			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5400			Change the default red palette of the console.
5401			This is a 16-member array composed of values
5402			ranging from 0-255.
5403
5404	vt.default_utf8=
5405			[VT]
5406			Format=<0|1>
5407			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5408			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5409			newly opened terminals.
5410
5411	vt.global_cursor_default=
5412			[VT]
5413			Format=<-1|0|1>
5414			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5415			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5416			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5417			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5418			cursors, 1 will display them.
5419
5420	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5421			Default: 2 = green.
5422
5423	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5424			Default: 3 = cyan.
5425
5426	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
5427			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
5428			or other driver-specific files in the
5429			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
5430
5431	watchdog_thresh=
5432			[KNL]
5433			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5434			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5435			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5436			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5437			seconds.
5438
5439	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5440			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5441			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5442			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
5443			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5444			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
5445			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5446			corresponding sysfs file.
5447
5448	workqueue.disable_numa
5449			By default, all work items queued to unbound
5450			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5451			issued on, which results in better behavior in
5452			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5453			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
5454			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5455			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5456
5457	workqueue.power_efficient
5458			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5459			they show better performance thanks to cache
5460			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5461			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5462
5463			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5464			were observed to contribute significantly to power
5465			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5466			power usage at the cost of small performance
5467			overhead.
5468
5469			The default value of this parameter is determined by
5470			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5471
5472	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5473			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5474			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5475			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
5476			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5477			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
5478			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5479			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5480			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5481			impacted.
5482
5483	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5484			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5485			supporting x2apic.
5486
5487	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5488			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
5489			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5490			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
5491			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
5492
5493	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5494			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5495			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5496			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5497			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5498			domains.
5499
5500	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
5501			Unplug Xen emulated devices
5502			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5503			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5504			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5505			nics -- unplug network devices
5506			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
5507			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5508				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5509				the unplug protocol
5510			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
5511
5512	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
5513			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
5514			panic() code such as dumping handler.
5515
5516	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
5517			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5518			optimizations.
5519
5520	xen_nopv	[X86]
5521			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5522			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
5523			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5524			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
5525
5526	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
5527			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5528			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5529			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5530			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5531
5532	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
5533			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5534			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5535			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5536			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5537			more timer interrupts.
5538
5539	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5540			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5541			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5542			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5543
5544	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
5545			Format:
5546			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
5547
5548	xive=		[PPC]
5549			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5550			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5551			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5552
5553			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5554				  controller on both pseries and powernv
5555				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5556
5557	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
5558			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5559			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5560			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
5561
5562	xmon		[PPC]
5563			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
5564			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
5565			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
5566			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
5567				debugger is called from setup_arch().
5568			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5569				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
5570				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
5571				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
5572			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
5573				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
5574				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
5575				can be written using xmon commands.
5576			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
5577				memory, and other data can't be written using
5578				xmon commands.
5579			off	xmon is disabled.
5580