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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
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_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326
327	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
328			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
329			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
330			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
331			IOMMU initialization.
332
333	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
334			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
335			remapping modes:
336			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
337			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
338			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
339			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
340			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
341
342	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
343			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
344			Format: <a>,<b>
345			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
346
347	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
348			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
349			connected to one of 16 gameports
350			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
351
352	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
353			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
354			Format: noidle
355			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
356			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
357			APC and your system crashes randomly.
358
359	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Change the output verbosity while booting
361			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
362			Change the amount of debugging information output
363			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
364			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
365			driver name.
366			Format: apic=driver_name
367			Examples: apic=bigsmp
368
369	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
370			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
371			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
372			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
373			      backup of CPU 0
374			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
375			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
376			      shot down by NMI
377
378	autoconf=	[IPV6]
379			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
380
381	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
382			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
383
384	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
385			Format: { "0" | "1" }
386			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
387			0 -- disable.
388			1 -- enable.
389			Default value is set via kernel config option.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
482			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
483			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
484			erroneous and ignored.
485			Format: integer
486
487	bootconfig	[KNL]
488			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
489			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
490
491			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
492
493	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
494	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
495			kernel args too.
496	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
497	bttv.tuner=
498
499	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
500			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
501			at a time.
502
503	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
504
505	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
506			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
507			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
508			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
509			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
510			This option provides an override for these situations.
511
512	carrier_timeout=
513			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
514			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
515			it waits 120 seconds.
516
517	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
518			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
519			trust validation.
520			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
521
522	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
523			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
524			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
525			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
526			others).
527
528	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
529			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
530
531	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
532			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
533			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
534			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
535			  a single hierarchy
536			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
537			  subsystem
538			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
539			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
540			  created
541			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
542			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
543			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
544			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
545			stall information accounting feature
546
547	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
548			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
549			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
550			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
551			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
552			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
553			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
554			all v1 hierarchies.
555
556	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
557			Format: <string>
558			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
559			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
560			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
561
562	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
563			Format: { "0" | "1" }
564			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
565			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
566				any implied execute protection).
567			1 -- check protection requested by application.
568			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
569			Value can be changed at runtime via
570				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
571			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
572
573	cio_ignore=	[S390]
574			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
575
576	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
577			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
578			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
579			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
580			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
581			ones should be.
582			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
583			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
584			instability issue. However, not all features have names
585			in /proc/cpuinfo.
586			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
587			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
588			or using the feature without checking anything
589			will still see it. This just prevents it from
590			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
591			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
592			some critical bits.
593
594	clk_ignore_unused
595			[CLK]
596			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
597			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
598			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
599			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
600			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
601			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
602			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
603			platform with proper driver support.  For more
604			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
605
606	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
607			[Deprecated]
608			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
609			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
610			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
611			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
612
613	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
614			Format: <string>
615			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
616			with the name specified.
617			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
618			the platform:
619			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
620			[ACPI] acpi_pm
621			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
622				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
623			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
624				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
625			[MIPS] MIPS
626			[PARISC] cr16
627			[S390] tod
628			[SH] SuperH
629			[SPARC64] tick
630			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
631
632	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
633			[ARM,ARM64]
634			Format: <bool>
635			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
636			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
637			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
638			systems.
639
640	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
641			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
642			external delays before the clock will be marked
643			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
644			three attempts to read the clock under test.
645
646	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
647			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
648			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
649			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
650			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
651			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
652			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
653			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
654			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
655
656	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
657			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
658			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
659			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
660			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
661
662	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
663			[KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
666			placement constraint by the physical address range of
667			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
668			altogether. For more information, see
669			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
670
671	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
672			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
673			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
674			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
675			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
676			specified, the default value is 0.
677			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
678			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
679			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
680			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
681
682	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
683			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
684			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
685			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
686			a hypervisor.
687			Default: yes
688
689	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
690			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
691			allocations, by default set to 256K.
692
693	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
694			Format:
695			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
696
697	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
698			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
699
700	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
701			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
702			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
703
704	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
705	conmode=
706
707	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
708			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
709			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
710			the console buffer is full. In this case the
711			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
712			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
713			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
714			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
715			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
716			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
717
718	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
719
720		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
721
722		ttyS<n>[,options]
723		ttyUSB0[,options]
724			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
725			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
726			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
727			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
728			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
729
730			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
731			information.  See
732			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
733			alternative.
734
735		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
736		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
737		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
738		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
739		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
740			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
741			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
742			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
743			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
744			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
745			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
746			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
747			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
748			the h/w is not re-initialized.
749
750		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
751			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
752
753		{ null | "" }
754			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
755			console messages discarded.
756			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
757			kernel command line.
758
759		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
760		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
761			console=brl,ttyS0
762		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
763
764	console_msg_format=
765			[KNL] Change console messages format
766		default
767			By default we print messages on consoles in
768			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
769			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
770			`printk_time' param).
771		syslog
772			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
773			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
774			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
775			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
776			from /proc/kmsg.
777
778	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
779			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
780			Defaults to 0.
781
782	coredump_filter=
783			[KNL] Change the default value for
784			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
785			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
786
787	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
788			[ARM,ARM64]
789			Format: <bool>
790			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
791			0: default value, disable debugging
792			1: enable debugging at boot time
793
794	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
795			Format:
796			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
797
798	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
799			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
800			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
801			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
802			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
803			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
804			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
805			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
806			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
807			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
808			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
809			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
810			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
811
812	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
813			disable the cpuidle sub-system
814
815	cpuidle.governor=
816			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
817
818	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
819			disable the cpufreq sub-system
820
821	cpufreq.default_governor=
822			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
823			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
824			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
825
826	cpu_init_udelay=N
827			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
828			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
829			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
830			Default: 10000
831
832	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
833			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
834			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
835			succeeds in any situation.
836			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
837			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
838			kernel more unstable.
839
840	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
841			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
842			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
843			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
844			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
845			is selected automatically.
846			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
847			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
848			hasn't been specified.
849			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
850
851	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
852			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
853			in the running system. The syntax of range is
854			start-[end] where start and end are both
855			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
856			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
857
858	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
859			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
860			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
861			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
862			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
863			available.
864			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
865	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
866			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
867			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
868			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
869			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
870			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
871			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
872			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
873			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
874			size is	platform dependent.
875			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
876			  --> arm64: 128MiB
877			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
878			for second kernel instead.
879			0: to disable low allocation.
880			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
881			or memory reserved is below 4G.
882
883	cryptomgr.notests
884			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
885
886	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
887			Format: <dma>
888
889	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
890			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
891
892	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
893			function call handling. When switched on,
894			additional debug data is printed to the console
895			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
896			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
897			the hang situation.  The default value of this
898			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
899			Kconfig option.
900
901	dasd=		[HW,NET]
902			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
903
904	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
905			(one device per port)
906			Format: <port#>,<type>
907			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
908
909	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
910
911	debug_boot_weak_hash
912			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
913			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
914			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
915			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
916			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
917			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
918
919	debug_locks_verbose=
920			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
921			Format: <int>
922			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
923			self-tests.
924			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
925			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
926			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
927			useful to lockdep developers.
928
929	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
930
931	no_debug_objects
932			[KNL] Disable object debugging
933
934	debug_guardpage_minorder=
935			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
936			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
937			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
938			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
939			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
940			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
941			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
942			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
943			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
944			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
945			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
946			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
947			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
948			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
949			bypassed) which are not detectable by
950			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
951			tracking down these problems.
952
953	debug_pagealloc=
954			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
955			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
956			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
957			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
958			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
959			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
960			on: enable the feature
961
962	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
963			and debugfs internal clients.
964			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
965			on: 	All functions are enabled.
966			no-mount:
967				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
968			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
969				its content. There is nothing to mount.
970			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
971			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
972				or directories within debugfs.
973				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
974				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
975			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
976
977	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
978
979	default_hugepagesz=
980			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
981			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
982			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
983			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
984			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
985			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
986			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
987			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
988			Format: size[KMG]
989
990	deferred_probe_timeout=
991			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
992			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
993			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
994			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
995			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
996			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
997			successful driver registration. This option will also
998			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
999			retrying.
1000
1001	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1002
1003	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1004			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1005			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1006			hardware.
1007
1008	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1009			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1010			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1011			blacklisted features.
1012
1013	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1014			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1015			(disabled by default).
1016
1017	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1018			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1019			capability is set.
1020
1021	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1022			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1023
1024	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1025			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1026
1027	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1028			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1029			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1030			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1031			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1032			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1033			          only (compression on level 1)
1034			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1035			          only (decompression)
1036			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1037			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1038
1039	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1040			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1041
1042	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1043			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1044			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1045			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1046			miss to occur.
1047
1048	disable=	[IPV6]
1049			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1050
1051	disable_radix	[PPC]
1052			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1053
1054	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1055			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1056			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1057
1058	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1059			Format: <int>
1060			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1061			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1062			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1063			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1064			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1065			INIT from AP to BSP.
1066
1067	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1068			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1069			to workaround buggy firmware.
1070
1071	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1072			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1073
1074	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1075			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1076			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1077			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1078
1079	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1080			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1081			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1082			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1083			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1084
1085	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1086			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1087			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1088
1089	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1090
1091	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1092			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1093
1094	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1095			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1096			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1097			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1098			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1099			architectural default is too low.
1100
1101	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1102			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1103			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1104			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1105			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1106			driver later using sysfs.
1107
1108	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1109			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1110			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1111			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1112			match the *.
1113			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1114
1115	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1116			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1117			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1118			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1119			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1120			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1121			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1122			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1123			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1124			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1125			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1126			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1127			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1128			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1129			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1130			data set with no connector name will be used for
1131			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1132
1133	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1134
1135	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1136			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1137			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1138			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1139			exists).
1140			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1141			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1142			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1143
1144	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1145			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1146			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1147			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1148
1149	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1150	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1151			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1152			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1153			for details.
1154
1155	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1156			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1157			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1158			which are not unmapped.
1159
1160	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1161
1162			When used with no options, the early console is
1163			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1164			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1165			the platform.
1166
1167		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1168			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1169			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1170			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1171			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1172			configured.
1173
1174		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1175		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1176		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1177		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1178		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1179			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1180			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1181			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1182			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1183			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1184			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1185			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1186			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1187			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1188			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1189
1190		pl011,<addr>
1191		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1192			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1193			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1194			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1195			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1196			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1197			the device registers.
1198
1199		liteuart,<addr>
1200			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1201			specified address. The serial port must already be
1202			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1203
1204		meson,<addr>
1205			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1206			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1207			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1208			supported.
1209
1210		msm_serial,<addr>
1211			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1212			port at the specified address. The serial port
1213			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1214			yet supported.
1215
1216		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1217			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1218			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1219			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1220			yet supported.
1221
1222		owl,<addr>
1223			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1224			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1225			specified address. The serial port must already be
1226			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1227
1228		rda,<addr>
1229			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1230			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1231			specified address. The serial port must already be
1232			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1233
1234		sbi
1235			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1236			console.
1237
1238		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1239
1240		s3c2410,<addr>
1241		s3c2412,<addr>
1242		s3c2440,<addr>
1243		s3c6400,<addr>
1244		s5pv210,<addr>
1245		exynos4210,<addr>
1246			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1247			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1248			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1249			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1250			Options are not yet supported.
1251
1252		lantiq,<addr>
1253			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1254			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1255			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1256			yet supported.
1257
1258		lpuart,<addr>
1259		lpuart32,<addr>
1260			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1261			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1262			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1263			port must already be setup and configured.
1264
1265		ec_imx21,<addr>
1266		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1267			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1268			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1269			must already be setup and configured.
1270
1271		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1272			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1273			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1274			address. The serial port must already be setup
1275			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1276
1277		qcom_geni,<addr>
1278			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1279			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1280			specified address. The serial port must already be
1281			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1282
1283		efifb,[options]
1284			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1285			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1286			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1287			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1288			mapped with the correct attributes.
1289
1290		linflex,<addr>
1291			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1292			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1293			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1294			already be setup and configured.
1295
1296	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1297			earlyprintk=vga
1298			earlyprintk=sclp
1299			earlyprintk=xen
1300			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1301			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1302			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1303			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1304			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1305			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1306
1307			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1308			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1309			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1310
1311			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1312			takes over.
1313
1314			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1315			be used at a time.
1316
1317			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1318			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1319			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1320			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1321				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1322			You can find the port for a given device in
1323			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1324				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1325
1326			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1327			very good.
1328
1329			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1330			the real console.
1331
1332			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1333
1334			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1335
1336			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1337			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1338			UART class.
1339
1340	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1341			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1342			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1343			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1344			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1345			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1346			default: on.
1347
1348	edd=		[EDD]
1349			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1350
1351	efi=		[EFI]
1352			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1353				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1354				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1355			debug: enable misc debug output.
1356			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1357			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1358			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1359			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1360			firmware implementations.
1361			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1362			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1363			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1364			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1365			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1366			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1367			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1368			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1369			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1370			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1371
1372	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1373			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1374			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1375			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1376			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1377
1378	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1379			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1380			updating original EFI memory map.
1381			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1382			from ss to ss+nn.
1383
1384			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1385			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1386			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1387			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1388
1389			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1390			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1391			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1392
1393			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1394			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1395			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1396			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1397			"soft reserved".
1398
1399	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1400			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1401			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1402			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1403			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1404
1405
1406	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1407			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1408
1409	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1410			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1411
1412			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1413			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1414
1415			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1416			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1417			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1418			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1419
1420	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1421			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1422			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1423
1424	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1425			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1426			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1427			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1428			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1429
1430	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1431			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1432			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1433			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1434
1435	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1436			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1437			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1438			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1439			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1440
1441	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1442			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1443			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1444			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1445			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1446			Default value is 0.
1447			Value can be changed at runtime via
1448			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1449
1450	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1451			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1452			support.
1453
1454	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1455			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1456			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1457
1458	evm=		[EVM]
1459			Format: { "fix" }
1460			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1461			current integrity status.
1462
1463	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1464			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1465			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1466			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1467			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1468			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1469			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1470
1471	failslab=
1472	fail_usercopy=
1473	fail_page_alloc=
1474	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1475			General fault injection mechanism.
1476			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1477			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1478
1479	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1480			Format: { initns | none }
1481			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1482			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1483
1484	floppy=		[HW]
1485			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1486
1487	force_pal_cache_flush
1488			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1489			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1490			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1491			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1492
1493	forcepae	[X86-32]
1494			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1495			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1496			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1497			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1498			and may cause unknown problems.
1499
1500	ftrace=[tracer]
1501			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1502			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1503			boot debugging.
1504
1505	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1506			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1507			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1508			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1509			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1510			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1511			start up functionality.
1512
1513			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1514			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1515			line parameter.
1516
1517			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1518
1519			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1520			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1521
1522	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1523			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1524			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1525			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1526			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1527			oops.
1528
1529	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1530			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1531			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1532			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1533			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1534			tracing directory.
1535
1536	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1537			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1538			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1539			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1540			tracing directory.
1541
1542	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1543			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1544			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1545			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1546			that can be changed at run time by the
1547			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1548
1549	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1550			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1551			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1552			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1553			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1554
1555	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1556			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1557			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1558			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1559			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1560
1561	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1562			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1563			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1564			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1565			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1566			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1567			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1568			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1569			suppliers).
1570			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1571			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1572			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1573				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1574				up (sync_state() calls).
1575			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1576				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1577			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1578
1579	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1580			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1581			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1582			Format: <bool>
1583
1584	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1585			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1586			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1587			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1588			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1589
1590	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1591
1592	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1593			Format: off | on
1594			default: on
1595
1596	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1597			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1598			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1599			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1600			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1601
1602	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1603			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1604			android emulator
1605
1606	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1607			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1608			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1609	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1610			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1611
1612	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1613			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1614			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1615			GPT to be used instead.
1616
1617	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1618			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1619			Format: 0 | 1
1620			Default: 0
1621	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1622			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1623			Format: 0 | 1
1624			Default: 0
1625	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1626			Format: 0 | 1
1627			Default: 0
1628	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1629			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1630			Default: 1024
1631	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1632			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1633			Default: 1024
1634
1635	hardened_usercopy=
1636			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1637			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1638			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1639			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1640			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1641			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1642			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1643		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1644		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1645
1646	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1647			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1648			backtraces on all cpus.
1649			Format: 0 | 1
1650
1651	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1652			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1653			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1654			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1655
1656	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1657
1658	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1659			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1660
1661	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1662			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1663			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1664			logic will be disabled.
1665
1666	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1667		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1668				present during boot.
1669		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1670		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1671		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1672				(that will set all pages holding image data
1673				during restoration read-only).
1674
1675	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1676			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1677			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1678			size on bigger boxes.
1679
1680	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1681			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1682			Default: "on"
1683
1684	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1685
1686	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1687			Format: <string>
1688			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1689			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1690			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1691			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1692			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1693			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1694			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1695			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1696			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1697			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1698
1699	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1700			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1701				verbose }
1702			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1703			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1704				VIA, nVidia)
1705			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1706
1707	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1708			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1709
1710	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1711			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1712			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1713			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1714			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1715			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1716			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1717			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1718			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1719				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1720
1721	hugepagesz=
1722			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1723			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1724			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1725			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1726			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1727			architecture dependent.  See also
1728			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1729			Format: size[KMG]
1730
1731	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1732			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1733			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1734			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1735				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1736
1737			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1738			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1739			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1740
1741	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1742			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1743			enabled.
1744			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1745			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1746			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1747			Format: { on | off (default) }
1748
1749			on: enable HVO
1750			off: disable HVO
1751
1752			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1753			the default is on.
1754
1755			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1756			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1757			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1758			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1759			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1760
1761	hung_task_panic=
1762			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1763			Format: 0 | 1
1764
1765			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1766			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1767			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1768			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1769			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1770
1771	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1772				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1773	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1774				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1775				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1776
1777	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1778				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1779				      guest on lock contention.
1780
1781	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1782				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1783				registered from board initialization code.
1784				Format:
1785				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1786
1787	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1788	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1789			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1790			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1791			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1792	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1793	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1794			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1795			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1796	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1797	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1798	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1799			     for the AUX port
1800	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1801			     controller
1802	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1803			     controllers
1804	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1805	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1806			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1807			     transitions, or never reset
1808			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1809			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1810			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1811			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1812			architectures force reset to be always executed
1813	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1814	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1815	i8042.probe_defer
1816			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1817
1818	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1819
1820	i915.invert_brightness=
1821			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1822			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1823			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1824			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1825			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1826			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1827			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1828			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1829			value switches the backlight off.
1830			-1 -- never invert brightness
1831			 0 -- machine default
1832			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1833
1834	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1835			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1836
1837
1838	idle=		[X86]
1839			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1840			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1841			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1842			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1843			Not recommended.
1844			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1845			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1846			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1847
1848	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1849			Format: <bool>
1850			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1851			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1852			true (1).
1853
1854	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1855			Format: <bool>
1856			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1857			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1858
1859	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1860			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1861			Default: strict
1862
1863			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1864			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1865			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1866			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1867			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1868			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1869			encoding mode.
1870
1871			Available settings are as follows:
1872			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1873				supported by the FPU
1874			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1875				by the FPU
1876			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1877				by the FPU
1878			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1879				supported by the FPU
1880
1881			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1882			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1883			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1884			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1885			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1886			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1887			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1888			MIPS64 CPUs.
1889
1890			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1891			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1892			except where unsupported by hardware.
1893
1894	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1895			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1896			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1897			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1898			could change it dynamically, usually by
1899			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1900
1901	ignore_rlimit_data
1902			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1903			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1904			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1905
1906	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1907			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1908
1909	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1910			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1911			default: "enforce"
1912
1913	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1914			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1915			owned by uid=0.
1916
1917	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1918			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1919			measurements, instead of host native format.
1920
1921	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1922			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1923				   | sha512 | ... }
1924			default: "sha1"
1925
1926			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1927			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1928
1929	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1930			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1931			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1932				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1933
1934			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1935			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1936			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1937			uid=0.
1938
1939			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1940			all files owned by root.
1941
1942			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1943			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1944			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1945
1946			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1947			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1948			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1949			flag.
1950
1951			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1952			critical data.
1953
1954	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1955			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1956			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1957			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1958			opened for read by uid=0.
1959
1960	ima_template=	[IMA]
1961			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1962			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1963				   "ima-sigv2" }
1964			Default: "ima-ng"
1965
1966	ima_template_fmt=
1967			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1968			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1969
1970	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1971			Format: <min_file_size>
1972			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1973			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1974
1975			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1976			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1977			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1978
1979	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1980			Format: <bufsize>
1981			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1982
1983			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1984			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1985			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1986
1987	init=		[KNL]
1988			Format: <full_path>
1989			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1990			process.
1991
1992	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1993			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1994			startup.
1995
1996	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1997			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1998			modules and initcalls.
1999
2000	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2001			Format: <bool>
2002			Default: 1
2003			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2004			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2005			with devices being probed and
2006			initialized. This should normally just work,
2007			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2008			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2009			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2010			late_ initcalls.
2011
2012	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2013
2014	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2015			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2016			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2017			setting.
2018			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2019			Default is 0, 0
2020
2021	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2022			zeroes.
2023			Format: 0 | 1
2024			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2025
2026	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2027			Format: 0 | 1
2028			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2029
2030	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2031			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2032			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2033			override in debugfs after boot.
2034
2035	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2036			Format: <irq>
2037
2038	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2039
2040	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2041			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2042			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2043			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2044
2045	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2046		on
2047			Enable intel iommu driver.
2048		off
2049			Disable intel iommu driver.
2050		igfx_off [Default Off]
2051			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2052			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2053			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2054			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2055			DMA.
2056		strict [Default Off]
2057			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2058		sp_off [Default Off]
2059			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2060			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2061			not be supported.
2062		sm_on
2063			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2064			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2065			translation.
2066		sm_off
2067			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2068		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2069			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2070			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2071			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2072			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2073			mapping is enabled.
2074			Note that using this option lowers the security
2075			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2076			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2077
2078	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2079			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2080			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2081
2082	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2083			disable
2084			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2085			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2086			passive
2087			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2088			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2089			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2090			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2091			  feature.
2092			force
2093			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2094			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2095			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2096			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2097			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2098			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2099			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2100			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2101			no_hwp
2102			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2103			  if available.
2104			hwp_only
2105			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2106			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2107			support_acpi_ppc
2108			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2109			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2110			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2111			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2112			per_cpu_perf_limits
2113			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2114			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2115
2116	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2117			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2118			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2119			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2120			no_x2apic_optout
2121				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2122			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2123
2124	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2125		strict	regions from userspace.
2126		relaxed
2127
2128	iommu=		[X86]
2129		off
2130		force
2131		noforce
2132		biomerge
2133		panic
2134		nopanic
2135		merge
2136		nomerge
2137		soft
2138		pt		[X86]
2139		nopt		[X86]
2140		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2141			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2142
2143	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2144			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2145			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2146			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2147			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2148			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2149			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2150
2151	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2152			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2153			0 - Lazy mode.
2154			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2155			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2156			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2157			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2158			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2159			1 - Strict mode.
2160			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2161			  synchronously.
2162			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2163			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2164			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2165
2166	iommu.passthrough=
2167			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2168			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2169			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2170			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2171			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2172
2173	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2174			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2175			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2176
2177	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2178		0x80
2179			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2180		0xed
2181			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2182		udelay
2183			Simple two microseconds delay
2184		none
2185			No delay
2186
2187	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2188			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2189
2190	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2191			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2192
2193	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2194			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2195
2196	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2197			[ARM, ARM64]
2198			Format: <bool>
2199			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2200			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2201			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2202
2203	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2204			[ARM, ARM64]
2205			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2206			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2207			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2208			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2209			LPIs.
2210
2211	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2212			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2213			requires the kernel to be built with
2214			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2215
2216	irqfixup	[HW]
2217			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2218			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2219			firmware running.
2220
2221	irqpoll		[HW]
2222			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2223			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2224			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2225			firmware running.
2226
2227	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2228			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2229
2230	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2231			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2232			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2233
2234			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2235			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2236
2237			nohz
2238			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2239
2240			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2241			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2242			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2243			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2244			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2245
2246			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2247			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2248			  be configured manually after bootup.
2249
2250			domain
2251			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2252			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2253			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2254			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2255			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2256			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2257			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2258			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2259
2260			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2261			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2262			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2263			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2264
2265			managed_irq
2266
2267			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2268			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2269			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2270			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2271			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2272
2273			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2274			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2275			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2276			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2277			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2278			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2279			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2280
2281			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2282			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2283			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2284			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2285			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2286			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2287			  queues.
2288
2289			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2290
2291	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2292
2293	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2294			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2295			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2296			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2297
2298			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2299			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2300			write the parameter as:
2301				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2302
2303			Deprecated formats:
2304			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2305			  write the parameter as:
2306				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2307			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2308			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2309				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2310
2311	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2312			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2313			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2314			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2315
2316			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2317			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2318			write the parameter as:
2319				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2320
2321			Deprecated formats:
2322			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2323			  write the parameter as:
2324				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2325			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2326			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2327				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2328
2329	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2330			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2331			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2332			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2333
2334			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2335			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2336			write the parameter as:
2337				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2338
2339			Deprecated formats:
2340			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2341			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2342				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2343			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2344			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2345				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2346
2347	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2348			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2349
2350	kasan_multi_shot
2351			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2352			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2353			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2354			invalid access.
2355
2356	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2357			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2358			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2359			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2360			the real console.
2361
2362	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2363
2364	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2365			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2366			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2367			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2368			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2369			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2370			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2371			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2372			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2373			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2374
2375			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2376			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2377			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2378			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2379			zone if it does not.
2380
2381			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2382			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2383			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2384			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2385			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2386			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2387			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2388
2389	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2390			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2391			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2392			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2393			optional and is the number seconds in between
2394			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2395			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2396			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2397			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2398			the kernel debugger.
2399
2400	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2401			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2402			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2403			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2404			 keyboard only format: kbd
2405			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2406			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2407			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2408			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2409
2410	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2411			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2412			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2413			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2414			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2415			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2416			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2417
2418			The name of the early console should be specified
2419			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2420			the early console might be different than the tty
2421			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2422			blank and the first boot console that implements
2423			read() will be picked.
2424
2425	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2426			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2427
2428	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2429			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2430			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2431
2432	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2433			Valid arguments: on, off
2434			Default: on
2435			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2436			the default is off.
2437
2438	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2439			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2440			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2441			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2442			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2443			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2444			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2445
2446			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2447
2448			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2449			Boot Parameter" section.
2450
2451	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2452			and kernel address spaces.
2453			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2454			0: force disabled
2455			1: force enabled
2456
2457	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2458			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2459			default value can be overridden via
2460			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2461			Default is 1 (enabled)
2462
2463	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2464			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2465
2466	kvm.eager_page_split=
2467			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2468			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2469			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2470			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2471			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2472			required to split huge pages lazily.
2473
2474			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2475			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2476			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2477			still be used for reads.
2478
2479			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2480			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2481			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2482			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2483			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2484			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2485			cleared.
2486
2487			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2488
2489			Default is Y (on).
2490
2491	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2492				   Default is false (don't support).
2493
2494	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2495			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2496			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2497			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2498			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2499			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2500				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2501
2502			Default is 'auto'.
2503
2504			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2505			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2506
2507	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2508			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2509			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2510			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2511			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2512
2513	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2514			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2515			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2516			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2517			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2518			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2519
2520	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2521			Default is 1 (enabled)
2522
2523	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2524			for all guests.
2525			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2526
2527	kvm-arm.mode=
2528			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2529
2530			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2531
2532			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2533			      protected guests.
2534
2535			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2536				   state is kept private from the host.
2537
2538			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2539				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2540				hardware.
2541
2542			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2543			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2544			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2545			used with extreme caution.
2546
2547	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2548			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2549			system registers
2550
2551	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2552			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2553			system registers
2554
2555	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2556			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2557			system registers
2558
2559	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2560			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2561			LPIs.
2562
2563	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2564			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2565			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2566			allocation.
2567			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2568			Format: <integer>
2569			Default: 5
2570
2571	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2572			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2573			Default is 1 (enabled)
2574
2575	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2576			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2577			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2578			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2579			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2580			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2581			Default is 1 (enabled)
2582
2583	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2584			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2585			Default is 1 (enabled)
2586
2587	kvm-intel.nested=
2588			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2589			Default is 0 (disabled)
2590
2591	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2592			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2593			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2594			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2595
2596	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2597			CVE-2018-3620.
2598
2599			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2600
2601			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2602			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2603				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2604			never:	Disables the mitigation
2605
2606			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2607
2608	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2609			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2610			Default is 1 (enabled)
2611
2612	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2613			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2614
2615			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2616			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2617			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2618
2619			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2620			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2621			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2622			not have direct access.
2623
2624			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2625			options are:
2626
2627			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2628
2629	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2630			      affected CPUs
2631
2632			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2633			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2634
2635			full
2636				Provides all available mitigations for the
2637				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2638				enables all mitigations in the
2639				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2640
2641				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2642				sysfs interface is still possible after
2643				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2644				when the first VM is started in a
2645				potentially insecure configuration,
2646				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2647
2648			full,force
2649				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2650				flush runtime control. Implies the
2651				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2652				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2653
2654			flush
2655				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2656				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2657				L1D flush.
2658
2659				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2660				sysfs interface is still possible after
2661				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2662				when the first VM is started in a
2663				potentially insecure configuration,
2664				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2665
2666			flush,nosmt
2667
2668				Disables SMT and enables the default
2669				hypervisor mitigation.
2670
2671				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2672				sysfs interface is still possible after
2673				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2674				when the first VM is started in a
2675				potentially insecure configuration,
2676				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2677
2678			flush,nowarn
2679				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2680				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2681				insecure configuration.
2682
2683			off
2684				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2685				emit any warnings.
2686				It also drops the swap size and available
2687				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2688				bare metal.
2689
2690			Default is 'flush'.
2691
2692			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2693
2694	l2cr=		[PPC]
2695
2696	l3cr=		[PPC]
2697
2698	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2699			disabled it.
2700
2701	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2702			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2703			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2704			Format: notscdeadline
2705
2706	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2707			in C2 power state.
2708
2709	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2710			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2711			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2712			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2713			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2714			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2715			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2716
2717	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2718			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2719			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2720
2721	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2722			when set.
2723			Format: <int>
2724
2725	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2726			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2727			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2728			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2729			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2730			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2731			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2732			to all ports, links and devices.
2733
2734			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2735			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2736			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2737			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2738			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2739			host link and device attached to it.
2740
2741			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2742			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2743			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2744			The following configurations can be forced.
2745
2746			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2747			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2748
2749			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2750
2751			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2752			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2753			  allowed.
2754
2755			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2756			  resets.
2757
2758			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2759			  link recovery.
2760
2761			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2762			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2763			  detection.
2764
2765			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2766
2767			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2768
2769			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2770
2771			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2772
2773			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2774
2775			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2776
2777			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2778
2779			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2780
2781			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2782			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2783
2784			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2785			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2786
2787			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2788			  identify device data log.
2789
2790			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2791			  purpose log directory.
2792
2793			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2794
2795			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2796			  1024 sectors.
2797
2798			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2799			  65535 sectors.
2800
2801			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2802
2803			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2804			  should be skipped.
2805
2806			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2807			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2808
2809			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2810
2811			* disable: Disable this device.
2812
2813			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2814			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2815
2816	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2817
2818	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2819			Format: <integer>
2820
2821	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2822			Format: <integer>
2823
2824	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2825			Format: <integer>
2826
2827	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2828			Format: <integer>
2829
2830	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2831			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2832			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2833			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2834			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2835			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2836			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2837			are also disabled.
2838
2839	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2840			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2841			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2842			number of online CPUs.
2843
2844	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2845			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2846
2847	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2848			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2849
2850	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2851			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2852			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2853
2854	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2855			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2856			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2857			mode during the locktorture test.
2858
2859	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2860			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2861			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2862
2863	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2864			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2865
2866	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2867			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2868			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2869			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2870			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2871			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2872
2873	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2874			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2875
2876	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2877			Enable additional printk() statements.
2878
2879	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2880			Format: <irq>
2881
2882	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2883			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2884			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2885			loglevels are defined as follows:
2886
2887			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2888			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2889			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2890			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2891			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2892			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2893			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2894			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2895
2896	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2897			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2898			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2899			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2900			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2901			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2902			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2903
2904	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2905			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2906			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2907			kernel boot problems.
2908
2909	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2910	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2911	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2912	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2913				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2914				attached printers to be reset. Using
2915				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2916				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2917				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2918				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2919				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2920				port specification list means that device IDs
2921				from each port should be examined, to see if
2922				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2923				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2924				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2925
2926	lpj=n		[KNL]
2927			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2928			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2929			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2930			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2931			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2932			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2933			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2934			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2935			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2936			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2937			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2938			hardware.
2939
2940	ltpc=		[NET]
2941			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2942
2943	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2944
2945	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2946			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2947			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2948
2949	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2950			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2951			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2952
2953	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2954			different yeeloong laptops.
2955			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2956
2957	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2958			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2959
2960	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2961			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2962			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2963			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2964			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2965			only takes effect during system bootup.
2966			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2967			which also disables the IO APIC.
2968
2969	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2970	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2971			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2972			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2973			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2974			/dev/loop-control interface.
2975
2976	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2977
2978	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2979
2980	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2981			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2982
2983	mdacon=		[MDA]
2984			Format: <first>,<last>
2985			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2986
2987	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2988			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2989			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2990
2991			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2992			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2993			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2994
2995			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2996			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2997			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2998			not have direct access.
2999
3000			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3001			options are:
3002
3003			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3004			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3005				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3006			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3007
3008			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3009			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3010			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3011			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3012			too.
3013
3014			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3015			mds=full.
3016
3017			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3018
3019	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3020			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3021
3022	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3023			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3024
3025			1 for test;
3026			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3027			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3028			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3029			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3030
3031			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3032			high memory is not affected.
3033
3034			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3035			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3036
3037			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3038			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3039			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3040			belonging to unused RAM.
3041
3042			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3043			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3044			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3045
3046	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3047			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3048			firmware.
3049			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3050			ss[KMG].
3051			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3052			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3053
3054	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3055			memory.
3056
3057	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3058
3059	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3060			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3061			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3062
3063	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3064			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3065			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3066			set according to the
3067			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3068			option.
3069			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3070
3071	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3072			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3073			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3074			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3075			option description.
3076
3077	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3078			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3079			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3080			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3081			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3082			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3083			comma delimited.
3084			Example:
3085				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3086
3087	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3088			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3089			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3090
3091	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3092			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3093			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3094			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3095			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3096			         or
3097			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3098			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3099			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3100			will be eaten.
3101
3102	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3103			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3104			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3105			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3106			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3107
3108	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3109			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3110			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3111			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3112			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3113			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3114			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3115			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3116
3117	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3118			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3119			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3120			Setting this option will scan the memory
3121			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3122			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3123			from using the memory being corrupted.
3124			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3125			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3126			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3127			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3128
3129	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3130			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3131			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3132			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3133			corruption in more or less memory.
3134
3135	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3136			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3137			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3138			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3139
3140	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3141			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3142			Format: {on | off (default)}
3143			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3144			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3145			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3146			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3147			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3148			lot of memory without requiring additional
3149			memory to do so.
3150			This feature is disabled by default because it
3151			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3152			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3153			memory blocks).
3154			The state of the flag can be read in
3155			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3156			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3157			the feature is not effective.
3158
3159	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3160			Format: <integer>
3161			default : 0 <disable>
3162			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3163			performed. Each pass selects another test
3164			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3165			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3166			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3167			regions that are detected.
3168
3169	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3170			Valid arguments: on, off
3171			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3172			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3173			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3174			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3175			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3176
3177			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3178			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3179
3180	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3181			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3182			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3183			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3184			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3185
3186	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3187			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3188
3189	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3190			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3191			platforms.
3192
3193	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3194			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3195			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3196			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3197
3198	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3199
3200	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3201			physical address is ignored.
3202
3203	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3204			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3205			Default: "0tb"
3206			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3207			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3208			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3209			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3210			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3211			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3212			unconfigured.
3213			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3214			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3215			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3216			VGA shield.
3217			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3218			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3219			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3220			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3221			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3222			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3223
3224	mitigations=
3225			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3226			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3227			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3228			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3229
3230			off
3231				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3232				improves system performance, but it may also
3233				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3234				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3235					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3236					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3237					       nobp=0 [S390]
3238					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3239					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3240					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3241					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3242					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3243					       l1tf=off [X86]
3244					       mds=off [X86]
3245					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3246					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3247					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3248					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3249					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3250					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3251					       retbleed=off [X86]
3252
3253				Exceptions:
3254					       This does not have any effect on
3255					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3256					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3257
3258			auto (default)
3259				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3260				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3261				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3262				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3263				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3264				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3265
3266			auto,nosmt
3267				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3268				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3269				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3270				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3271					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3272					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3273					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3274					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3275
3276	mminit_loglevel=
3277			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3278			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3279			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3280			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3281			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3282			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3283
3284	mmio_stale_data=
3285			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3286			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3287
3288			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3289			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3290			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3291			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3292			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3293			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3294
3295			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3296			options are:
3297
3298			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3299
3300			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3301				     vulnerable CPUs.
3302
3303			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3304
3305			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3306			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3307			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3308			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3309			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3310			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3311
3312			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3313			mmio_stale_data=full.
3314
3315			For details see:
3316			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3317
3318	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3319			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3320			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3321			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3322			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3323			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3324
3325	module.async_probe=<bool>
3326			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3327			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3328			specific module, use the module specific control that
3329			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3330			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3331			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3332			the specific module.
3333
3334	module.sig_enforce
3335			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3336			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3337			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3338			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3339
3340	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3341			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3342
3343	mousedev.tap_time=
3344			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3345			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3346			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3347			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3348			Format: <msecs>
3349	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3350			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3351	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3352			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3353
3354	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3355			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3356			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3357			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3358			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3359			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3360			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3361			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3362			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3363			is not too small.
3364
3365	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3366			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3367			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3368			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3369			allocations. Use with caution!
3370
3371	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3372			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3373
3374	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3375			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3376
3377	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3378			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3379
3380	mtdset=		[ARM]
3381			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3382
3383			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3384
3385	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3386			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3387			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3388
3389	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3390			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3391			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3392
3393	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3394			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3395			Default is 1.
3396			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3397			using up MTRRs.
3398
3399	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3400			Format: <integer>
3401			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3402			Default : 1
3403			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3404			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3405
3406	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3407			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3408			at a time.
3409
3410	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3411
3412	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3413			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3414			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3415			something different and driver-specific.
3416			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3417			file if at all.
3418
3419	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3420			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3421			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3422			waits 4 seconds.
3423
3424	nf_conntrack.acct=
3425			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3426			0 to disable accounting
3427			1 to enable accounting
3428			Default value is 0.
3429
3430	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3431			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3432
3433	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3434			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3435
3436	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3437			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3438
3439	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3440			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3441			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3442			requests.
3443
3444	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3445			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3446			channel should listen.
3447
3448	nfs.cache_getent=
3449			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3450			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3451
3452	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3453			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3454			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3455
3456	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3457			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3458			entries.
3459
3460	nfs.enable_ino64=
3461			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3462			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3463			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3464			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3465			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3466
3467	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3468			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3469			slots the client will assign to the callback
3470			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3471			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3472			a particular server.
3473
3474	nfs.max_session_slots=
3475			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3476			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3477			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3478			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3479			Note that there is little point in setting this
3480			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3481
3482	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3483			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3484			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3485			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3486			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3487			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3488			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3489			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3490			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3491			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3492			back to using the idmapper.
3493			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3494	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3495			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3496			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3497			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3498			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3499
3500	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3501			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3502			information in exchange_id requests.
3503			If zero, no implementation identification information
3504			will be sent.
3505			The default is to send the implementation identification
3506			information.
3507
3508	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3509			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3510			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3511			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3512			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3513			after the locks are lost.
3514			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3515			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3516			parameter to '1'.
3517			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3518			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3519
3520	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3521			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3522			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3523
3524			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3525			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3526			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3527			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3528
3529	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3530			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3531			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3532			the destination of the copy.
3533
3534	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3535			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3536			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3537			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3538			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3539			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3540			this parameter.
3541
3542	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3543			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3544			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3545			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3546			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3547			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3548
3549
3550	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3551			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3552			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3553
3554	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3555			when a NMI is triggered.
3556			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3557
3558	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3559			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3560			Valid num: 0 or 1
3561			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3562			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3563			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3564			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3565			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3566			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3567			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3568			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3569			need the box quickly up again.
3570
3571			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3572			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3573
3574	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3575			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3576			is present.
3577
3578	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3579			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3580
3581	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3582
3583	no_console_suspend
3584			[HW] Never suspend the console
3585			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3586			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3587			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3588			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3589			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3590			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3591			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3592			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3593			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3594			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3595			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3596			turn on/off it dynamically.
3597
3598	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3599			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3600			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3601			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3602			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3603			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3604			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3605			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3606			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3607			is set.
3608
3609	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3610			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3611			but will impact performance.
3612
3613	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3614
3615	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3616			(CPU alternatives feature).
3617
3618	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3619			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3620
3621	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3622
3623	nocache		[ARM]
3624
3625	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3626
3627	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3628
3629	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3630
3631	noexec		[IA-64]
3632
3633	nosmap		[PPC]
3634			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3635			even if it is supported by processor.
3636
3637	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3638			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3639			even if it is supported by processor.
3640
3641	noexec32	[X86-64]
3642			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3643			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3644				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3645			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3646				read implies executable mappings
3647
3648	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3649
3650	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3651			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3652			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3653
3654	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3655
3656	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3657
3658	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3659			Equivalent to smt=1.
3660
3661			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3662			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3663				     via the sysfs control file.
3664
3665	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3666			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3667			possible in the system.
3668
3669	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3670			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3671			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3672			option.
3673
3674	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3675			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3676			with this option.
3677
3678	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3679			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3680
3681	no_uaccess_flush
3682	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3683
3684	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3685			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3686			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3687
3688	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3689			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3690			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3691			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3692			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3693			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3694
3695	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3696			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3697			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3698			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3699			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3700			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3701			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3702
3703	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3704			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3705			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3706			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3707			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3708			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3709			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3710			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3711
3712	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3713			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3714			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3715
3716	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3717			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3718			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3719			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3720			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3721			real-time systems.
3722
3723	no_hash_pointers
3724			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3725			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3726			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3727			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3728			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3729			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3730			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3731			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3732			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3733			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3734			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3735			kernels.
3736
3737	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3738
3739	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3740			Valid arguments: on, off
3741			Default: on
3742
3743	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3744			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3745			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3746			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3747			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3748			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3749			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3750			just as if they had also been called out in the
3751			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3752
3753			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3754			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3755
3756	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3757
3758	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3759			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3760
3761	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3762			broken timer IRQ sources.
3763
3764	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3765
3766	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3767			initial RAM disk.
3768
3769	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3770			remapping.
3771			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3772
3773	nointroute	[IA-64]
3774
3775	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3776
3777	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3778
3779	nokaslr		[KNL]
3780			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3781			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3782			Layout Randomization).
3783
3784	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3785
3786	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3787			fault handling.
3788
3789	no-vmw-sched-clock
3790			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3791			clock and use the default one.
3792
3793	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3794			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3795			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3796
3797	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3798
3799	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3800
3801	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3802
3803	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3804
3805	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3806			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3807
3808	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3809			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3810			irq.
3811
3812	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3813			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3814			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3815			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3816			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3817			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3818			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3819
3820			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3821
3822	nomodule	Disable module load
3823
3824	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3825			pagetables) support.
3826
3827	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3828
3829	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3830			in some Intel CPUs.
3831
3832	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3833			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3834			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3835			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3836
3837	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3838			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3839			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3840			contention.
3841
3842	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3843			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3844
3845	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3846			with UP alternatives
3847
3848	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3849			space.
3850
3851	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3852			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3853			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3854
3855	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3856
3857	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3858
3859	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3860			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3861
3862	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3863
3864	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3865
3866	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3867			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3868
3869	nowb		[ARM]
3870
3871	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3872
3873			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3874			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3875			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3876
3877	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3878			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3879			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3880			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3881			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3882			parameter's value.
3883			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3884			Default: 255
3885
3886	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3887			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3888			SAL PALO.
3889
3890	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3891			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3892			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3893			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3894			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3895			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3896			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3897			hot plugging.
3898
3899	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3900
3901	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3902			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3903
3904	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3905			NUMA balancing.
3906			Allowed values are enable and disable
3907
3908	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3909			'node', 'default' can be specified
3910			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3911			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3912
3913	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3914			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3915			info.
3916
3917	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3918			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3919			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3920			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3921			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3922			interrupts *may* be lost!
3923
3924	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3925			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3926			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3927			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3928
3929	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3930
3931			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3932
3933			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3934				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3935			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3936				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3937				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3938
3939	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3940			process, but there is a small probability of
3941			deadlocking the machine.
3942			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3943			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3944
3945	page_alloc.shuffle=
3946			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3947			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3948			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3949			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3950			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3951			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3952			can be read from sysfs at:
3953			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3954
3955	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3956			Storage of the information about who allocated
3957			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3958			we can turn it on.
3959			on: enable the feature
3960
3961	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3962			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3963			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3964			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3965			on: turn on poisoning
3966
3967	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3968			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3969			Format: <integer>
3970			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3971			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3972
3973	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3974			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3975			timeout = 0: wait forever
3976			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3977			Format: <timeout>
3978
3979	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3980			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3981			bit 0: print all tasks info
3982			bit 1: print system memory info
3983			bit 2: print timer info
3984			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3985			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3986			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3987			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3988			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3989			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3990			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3991			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3992
3993	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3994			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3995			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3996			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3997			called with any of the flags in this set.
3998			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3999			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4000			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4001			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4002			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4003			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4004			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4005
4006	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4007			on a WARN().
4008
4009	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4010			connected to, default is 0.
4011			Format: <parport#>
4012	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4013			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4014			Format: <mode>
4015
4016	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4017			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4018			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4019			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4020			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4021			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4022			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4023			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4024			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4025			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4026			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4027			are specified on the command line, starting
4028			with parport0.
4029
4030	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4031			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4032			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4033			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4034			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4035			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4036			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4037
4038	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4039			Format: <int>
4040			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4041			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4042			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4043
4044	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4045			Format: <int>
4046			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4047			changes.  Disabled by default.
4048
4049	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4050			Format: <int>
4051			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4052			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4053			Disabled by default.
4054
4055	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4056			Format: <int>
4057			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4058			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4059			Disabled by default.
4060
4061	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4062			Format: <int>
4063			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4064			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4065			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4066			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4067			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4068			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4069			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4070			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4071			all channels.
4072
4073	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4074			Format: <int>
4075			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4076			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4077			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4078
4079	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4080			Format: <int>
4081			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4082			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4083			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4084
4085	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4086			Format: <int>
4087			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4088			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4089			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4090			All modes allowed by default.
4091
4092	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4093			Format: <int>
4094			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4095			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4096
4097	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4098			Format: <int>
4099			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4100			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4101			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4102			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4103			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4104			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4105			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4106			By default all supported ports are probed.
4107
4108	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4109			Format: <int>
4110			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4111			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4112
4113	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4114			Format: <int>
4115			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4116			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4117			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4118			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4119			0 otherwise.
4120
4121	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4122			Format: <int>
4123			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4124			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4125			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4126			allowed by default.
4127
4128	pause_on_oops=
4129			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4130			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4131			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4132
4133	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4134
4135	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4136
4137				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4138				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4139				specified in one of the following formats:
4140
4141				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4142				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4143
4144				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4145				bus/device/function address which may change
4146				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4147				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4148				by other kernel parameters. If the
4149				domain is left unspecified, it is
4150				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4151				to a device through multiple device/function
4152				addresses can be specified after the base
4153				address (this is more robust against
4154				renumbering issues).  The second format
4155				selects devices using IDs from the
4156				configuration space which may match multiple
4157				devices in the system.
4158
4159		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4160				changes anything
4161		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4162		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4163				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4164				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4165		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4166				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4167				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4168				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4169		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4170				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4171				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4172		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4173				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4174				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4175				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4176				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4177				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4178				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4179		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4180				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4181				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4182		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4183				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4184		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4185				Configuration
4186		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4187				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4188				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4189		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4190				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4191				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4192		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4193				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4194				should never be necessary.
4195		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4196				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4197				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4198				when the system masks IRQs.
4199		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4200				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4201				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4202				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4203		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4204				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4205				on several machines and they hang the machine
4206				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4207				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4208				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4209				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4210				motherboard.
4211		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4212				Use with caution as certain devices share
4213				address decoders between ROMs and other
4214				resources.
4215		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4216				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4217				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4218		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4219				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4220		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4221				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4222				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4223				this way.
4224		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4225				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4226				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4227				F0000h-100000h range.
4228		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4229				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4230				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4231				explicitly which ones they are.
4232		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4233				numbers ourselves, overriding
4234				whatever the firmware may have done.
4235		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4236				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4237				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4238				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4239				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4240				IRQ routing is enabled.
4241		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4242				or for PCI scanning.
4243		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4244				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4245				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4246				please report a bug.
4247		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4248				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4249		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4250				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4251				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4252				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4253				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4254		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4255				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4256				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4257				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4258		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4259				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4260				so this option is a temporary workaround
4261				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4262		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4263				handle more pci cards
4264		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4265				This might help on some broken boards which
4266				machine check when some devices' config space
4267				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4268				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4269		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4270				This sorting is done to get a device
4271				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4272		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4273		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4274				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4275		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4276				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4277		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4278				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4279				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4280				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4281				or bus can support) for best performance.
4282		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4283				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4284				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4285				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4286				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4287				that hot-added devices will work.
4288		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4289				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4290				The default value is 256 bytes.
4291		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4292				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4293				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4294		resource_alignment=
4295				Format:
4296				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4297				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4298				aligned memory resources. How to
4299				specify the device is described above.
4300				If <order of align> is not specified,
4301				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4302				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4303				windows need to be expanded.
4304				To specify the alignment for several
4305				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4306				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4307				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4308				for 4096-byte alignment.
4309		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4310				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4311				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4312				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4313				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4314				the default.
4315				off: Turn ECRC off
4316				on: Turn ECRC on.
4317		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4318				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4319				Default size is 256 bytes.
4320		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4321				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4322				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4323		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4324				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4325				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4326		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4327				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4328				MMIO_PREF window.
4329				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4330		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4331				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4332				Default is 1.
4333		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4334				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4335				accommodate resources required by all child
4336				devices.
4337				off: Turn realloc off
4338				on: Turn realloc on
4339		realloc		same as realloc=on
4340		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4341		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4342				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4343		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4344				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4345				port.
4346		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4347				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4348				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4349				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4350				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4351				taints the kernel.
4352		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4353				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4354				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4355				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4356				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4357				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4358				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4359				this removes isolation between devices and
4360				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4361		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4362		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4363		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4364				one PCI domain per PCI function
4365
4366	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4367			Management.
4368		off	Disable ASPM.
4369		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4370			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4371
4372	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4373		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4374			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4375			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4376			also tries to use these services.
4377		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4378				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4379		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4380			hotplug).
4381
4382	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4383		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4384		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4385
4386	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4387		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4388			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4389
4390	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4391
4392	pd_ignore_unused
4393			[PM]
4394			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4395			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4396			for debug and development, but should not be
4397			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4398
4399	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4400			boot time.
4401			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4402			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4403
4404	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4405			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4406			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4407			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4408			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4409			and performance comparison.
4410
4411	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4412			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4413
4414	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4415			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4416			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4417
4418	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4419			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4420			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4421
4422	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4423			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4424			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4425			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4426			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4427			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4428			remains 0.
4429
4430	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4431			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4432
4433	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4434			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4435			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4436			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4437			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4438			possible settings and some assignment information.
4439
4440	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4441			{ off }
4442
4443	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4444			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4445
4446	pnp_reserve_irq=
4447			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4448
4449	pnp_reserve_dma=
4450			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4451
4452	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4453			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4454
4455	pnp_reserve_mem=
4456			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4457			autoconfiguration.
4458			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4459
4460	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4461			Default is 21.
4462			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4463			may be specified.
4464			Format: <port>,<port>....
4465
4466	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4467			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4468			platform machine description specific power_save
4469			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4470			execution priority.
4471
4472	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4473			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4474			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4475			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4476			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4477
4478	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4479			Format: {"off"}
4480			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4481
4482	preempt=	[KNL]
4483			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4484			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4485			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4486			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4487			       can be preempted anytime.
4488
4489	print-fatal-signals=
4490			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4491
4492			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4493			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4494			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4495			coredump - etc.
4496
4497			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4498			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4499
4500			default: off.
4501
4502	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4503			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4504			panics
4505			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4506			default: disabled
4507
4508	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4509			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4510			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4511			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4512			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4513			in order to provide more debug information.
4514			Format: <bool>
4515			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4516
4517	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4518			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4519			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4520			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4521			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4522			Default: ratelimit
4523
4524	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4525			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4526
4527	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4528			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4529			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4530
4531	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4532			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4533			instead using the legacy FADT method
4534
4535	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4536			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4537			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4538				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4539			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4540			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4541				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4542			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4543			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4544				statistical time based profiling.
4545
4546	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4547
4548	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4549			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4550			that).
4551			Format: <bool>
4552
4553	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4554			tracking.
4555			Format: <bool>
4556
4557	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4558			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4559	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4560			per second.
4561	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4562			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4563			(0 = never).
4564	psmouse.resolution=
4565			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4566	psmouse.smartscroll=
4567			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4568			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4569
4570	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4571
4572	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4573			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4574			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4575			system calls and interrupts.
4576
4577			on   - unconditionally enable
4578			off  - unconditionally disable
4579			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4580			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4581
4582			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4583
4584	nopti		[X86-64]
4585			Equivalent to pti=off
4586
4587	pty.legacy_count=
4588			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4589			default number.
4590
4591	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4592
4593	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4594
4595	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4596			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4597			invalidate.
4598
4599	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4600			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4601
4602	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4603			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4604
4605	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4606
4607	random.trust_cpu=off
4608			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4609			random number generator (if available) to
4610			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4611
4612	random.trust_bootloader=off
4613			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4614			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4615			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4616
4617	randomize_kstack_offset=
4618			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4619			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4620			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4621			that depend on stack address determinism or
4622			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4623			available on architectures that have defined
4624			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4625			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4626			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4627
4628	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4629
4630		cec_disable	[X86]
4631				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4632				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4633
4634	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4635			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4636			as described above.
4637
4638			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4639			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4640			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4641			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4642			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4643			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4644			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4645			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4646			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4647			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4648			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4649			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4650
4651			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4652			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4653
4654			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4655			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4656			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4657			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4658
4659			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4660			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4661
4662	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4663			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4664			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4665			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4666			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4667			This improves the real-time response for the
4668			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4669			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4670			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4671			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4672
4673	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4674			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4675			process in one batch.
4676
4677	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4678			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4679			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4680			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4681
4682	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4683			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4684			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4685
4686	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4687			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4688			RCU grace-period initialization.
4689
4690	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4691			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4692			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4693			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4694			the rcu_node combining tree.
4695
4696	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4697			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4698			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4699			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4700			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4701
4702			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4703			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4704			to zero.
4705
4706	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4707			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4708			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4709			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4710			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4711
4712	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4713			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4714			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4715			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4716			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4717			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4718			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4719
4720	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4721			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4722			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4723			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4724			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4725			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4726			condition.
4727
4728	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4729			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4730			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4731			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4732
4733	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4734			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4735			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4736			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4737			and maximum value is HZ.
4738
4739	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4740			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4741			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4742			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4743
4744	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4745			Set required age in jiffies for a
4746			given grace period before RCU starts
4747			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4748			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4749			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4750			a value based on the most recent settings
4751			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4752			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4753			This calculated value may be viewed in
4754			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4755			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4756			overwritten.
4757
4758	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4759			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4760			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4761			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4762			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4763			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4764			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4765			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4766			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4767			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4768			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4769			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4770
4771	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4772			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4773			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4774			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4775			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4776			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4777			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4778			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4779
4780			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4781			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4782			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4783			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4784			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4785
4786	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4787			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4788			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4789			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4790			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4791			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4792			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4793			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4794			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4795			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4796			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4797			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4798
4799	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4800			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4801			each group, which defaults to the square root
4802			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4803			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4804			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4805			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4806
4807	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4808			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4809			batch limiting is disabled.
4810
4811	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4812			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4813			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4814
4815	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4816			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4817			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4818			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4819			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4820			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4821			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4822			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4823
4824	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4825			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4826			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4827			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4828			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4829			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4830
4831	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4832			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4833			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4834			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4835			Larger delays increase the probability of
4836			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4837			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4838			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4839
4840	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4841			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4842			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4843			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4844
4845	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4846			Measure performance of asynchronous
4847			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4848
4849	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4850			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4851			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4852			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4853			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4854			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4855
4856	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4857			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4858			grace-period primitives.
4859
4860	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4861			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4862			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4863			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4864			interference.
4865
4866	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4867			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4868
4869	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4870			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4871			If this parameter has the same value as
4872			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4873			and double-argument variants are tested.
4874
4875	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4876			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4877			If this parameter has the same value as
4878			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4879			and double-argument variants are tested.
4880
4881	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4882			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4883
4884	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4885			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4886
4887	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4888			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4889			of allocations and frees.
4890
4891	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4892			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4893			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4894			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4895			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4896			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4897			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4898			a single reader.
4899
4900	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4901			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4902			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4903			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4904
4905	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4906			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4907
4908	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4909			Shut the system down after performance tests
4910			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4911			testing.
4912
4913	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4914			Enable additional printk() statements.
4915
4916	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4917			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4918			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4919			no holdoff.
4920
4921	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4922			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4923			in microseconds.
4924
4925	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4926			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4927			in microseconds.
4928
4929	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4930			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4931			in seconds.
4932
4933	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4934			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4935			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4936			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4937			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4938			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4939			of CPUs to be used.
4940
4941	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4942			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4943			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4944
4945	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4946			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4947			forward-progress tests.
4948
4949	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4950			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4951			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4952			testing.
4953
4954	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4955			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4956			primitives, if available.
4957
4958	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4959			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4960
4961	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4962			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4963			update-side primitives, if available.
4964
4965	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4966			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4967			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4968			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4969			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4970			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4971			they are all non-zero.
4972
4973	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4974			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4975			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4976			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4977
4978	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4979			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4980			This can of course result in splats, and is
4981			intended to test the ability of things like
4982			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4983			such leaks.
4984
4985	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4986			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4987
4988	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4989			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4990			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4991			test, hence the "fake".
4992
4993	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4994			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4995			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4996
4997	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4998			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4999			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5000
5001	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5002			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5003			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5004			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5005			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5006			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5007
5008	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5009			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5010
5011	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5012			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5013
5014	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5015			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5016			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5017
5018	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5019			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5020			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5021			task-exit processing.
5022
5023	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5024			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5025			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5026			is spawned.
5027
5028	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5029			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5030			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5031
5032	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5033			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5034			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5035			during the rcutorture test.
5036
5037	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5038			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5039			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5040
5041	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5042			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5043			warnings, zero to disable.
5044
5045	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5046			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5047			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
5048			to any other stall-related activity.
5049
5050	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5051			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5052
5053	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5054			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5055
5056	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5057			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5058			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5059			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5060			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5061			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5062
5063	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5064			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5065
5066	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5067			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5068			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5069			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5070			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5071
5072	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5073			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5074			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5075			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5076
5077	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5078			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5079
5080	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5081			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5082
5083	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5084			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5085			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5086
5087	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5088			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5089
5090	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5091			Enable additional printk() statements.
5092
5093	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5094			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5095			stall warning.
5096
5097	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5098			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5099
5100	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5101			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5102			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5103			during early boot, that is, during the time
5104			before the init task is spawned.
5105
5106	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5107			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5108			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5109			value is 300 seconds.
5110
5111	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5112			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5113			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5114			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5115			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5116			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5117			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5118			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5119			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5120
5121	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5122			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5123			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5124			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5125			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5126
5127	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5128			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5129			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5130			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5131
5132	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5133			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5134			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5135			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5136			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5137			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5138			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5139
5140	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5141			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5142			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5143			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5144			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5145			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5146			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5147			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5148			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5149
5150	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5151			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5152			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5153			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5154			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5155
5156			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5157			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5158			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5159			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5160			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5161			grace-period processing.
5162
5163	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5164			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5165			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5166			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5167			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5168			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5169			set to the default value of -1.
5170
5171	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5172			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5173			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5174			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5175			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5176			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5177			the default value of -1.
5178
5179	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5180			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5181			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5182			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5183			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5184			for use in testing.
5185
5186	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5187			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5188			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5189			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5190			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5191			but lengthens grace periods.
5192
5193	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5194			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5195			informational messages, which give some indication
5196			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5197			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5198			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5199			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5200			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5201			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5202			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5203
5204	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5205			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5206			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5207			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5208			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5209			the value three, so that the first informational
5210			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5211			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5212			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5213			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5214
5215	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5216			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5217			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5218			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5219			A change in value does not take effect until
5220			the beginning of the next grace period.
5221
5222	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5223			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5224
5225	rdinit=		[KNL]
5226			Format: <full_path>
5227			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5228			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5229
5230	rdrand=		[X86]
5231			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5232				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5233				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5234				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5235				path).
5236
5237	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5238			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5239			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5240			mba, smba, bmec.
5241			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5242				rdt=cmt,!mba
5243
5244	reboot=		[KNL]
5245			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5246				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5247				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5248				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5249				[[,]f[orce]
5250			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5251					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5252					reboot only),
5253			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5254			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5255			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5256					to be used for rebooting.
5257
5258	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5259			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5260			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5261			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5262			interference.
5263
5264	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5265			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5266			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5267			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5268			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5269			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5270			x86 laptops.
5271
5272	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5273			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5274			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5275			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5276
5277	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5278			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5279			the console log.
5280
5281	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5282			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5283			measured in microseconds.
5284
5285	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5286			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5287
5288	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5289			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5290			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5291			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5292			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5293
5294	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5295			Enable additional printk() statements.
5296
5297	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5298			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5299			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5300			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5301			specified.
5302
5303	relax_domain_level=
5304			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5305			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5306
5307	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5308			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5309			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5310			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5311			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5312
5313	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5314			Format: nn[KMG]
5315			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5316			address space.
5317
5318	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5319			during initialization.
5320
5321	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5322			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5323			Format:
5324			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5325
5326	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5327			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5328			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5329			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5330			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5331
5332	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5333			read the resume files
5334
5335	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5336			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5337			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5338
5339	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5340
5341	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5342			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5343			vulnerability.
5344
5345			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5346			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5347			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5348			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5349			that don't.
5350
5351			off          - no mitigation
5352			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5353			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5354				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5355				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5356				       and older without STIBP).
5357			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5358				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5359				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5360				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5361				       on Intel.
5362			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5363				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5364				       the alternative for systems which do not
5365				       have STIBP.
5366			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5367				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5368				       systems.
5369			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5370				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5371				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5372
5373			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5374			time according to the CPU.
5375
5376			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5377
5378	rfkill.default_state=
5379		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5380			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5381		1	Unblocked.
5382
5383	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5384		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5385		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5386			blocked and the previous configuration.
5387		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5388			blocked and everything unblocked.
5389
5390	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5391			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5392
5393	ring3mwait=disable
5394			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5395			CPUs.
5396
5397	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5398
5399	rodata=		[KNL]
5400		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5401		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5402		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5403		        [arm64]
5404
5405	rockchip.usb_uart
5406			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5407			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5408			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5409			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5410
5411	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5412			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5413
5414	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5415			mount the root filesystem
5416
5417	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5418
5419	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5420
5421	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5422			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5423			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5424
5425	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5426			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5427			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5428			managed by CMA.
5429
5430	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5431
5432	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5433
5434	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5435			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5436		strict
5437			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5438			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5439			which is faster.
5440
5441	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5442			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5443			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5444			factor of the size of main memory.
5445			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5446			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5447			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5448			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5449			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5450			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5451			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5452
5453	sa1100ir	[NET]
5454			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5455
5456	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5457
5458	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5459			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5460			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5461			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5462
5463	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5464			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5465			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5466			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5467			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5468			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5469			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5470			value.
5471			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5472			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5473				1			64 ms
5474				2			128 ms
5475			and so on.
5476			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5477			Default is 0.
5478
5479	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5480			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5481			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5482			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5483			tests.
5484
5485	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5486			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5487			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5488			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5489			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5490			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5491			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5492
5493	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5494			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5495			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5496			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5497			equal to the number of CPUs.
5498
5499	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5500			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5501			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5502
5503	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5504			Number seconds to wait between successive
5505			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5506			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5507
5508	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5509			The number of seconds following the start of the
5510			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5511			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5512			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5513
5514	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5515			The number of seconds between outputting the
5516			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5517			of zero disables statistics output.
5518
5519	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5520			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5521			to the set of CPUs under test.
5522
5523	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5524			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5525			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5526			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5527			functions.
5528
5529	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5530			Enable additional printk() statements.
5531
5532	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5533			The probability weighting to use for the
5534			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5535			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5536			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5537			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5538			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5539
5540	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5541			The probability weighting to use for the
5542			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5543			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5544
5545	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5546			The probability weighting to use for the
5547			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5548			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5549			Note well that setting a high probability for
5550			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5551			on the system.
5552
5553	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5554			The probability weighting to use for the
5555			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5556			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5557			and weight_many.
5558
5559	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5560			The probability weighting to use for the
5561			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5562			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5563			weight_many.
5564
5565	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5566			The probability weighting to use for the
5567			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5568			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5569			and weight_many.
5570
5571	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5572			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5573			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5574			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5575			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5576			1 -- enable.
5577			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5578			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5579
5580	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5581			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5582			"lsm=" parameter.
5583
5584	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5585			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5586			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5587			0 -- disable.
5588			1 -- enable.
5589			Default value is 1.
5590
5591	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5592
5593	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5594
5595	shapers=	[NET]
5596			Maximal number of shapers.
5597
5598	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5599			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5600			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5601			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5602			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5603			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5604			apic=verbose is specified.
5605			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5606
5607	simeth=		[IA-64]
5608	simscsi=
5609
5610	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5611
5612	slab_merge	[MM]
5613			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5614			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5615
5616	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5617			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5618			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5619			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5620			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5621			layout control by attackers can usually be
5622			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5623			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5624			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5625			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5626			own.
5627			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5628
5629	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5630			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5631			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5632			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5633			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5634
5635	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5636			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5637			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5638			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5639			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5640			last alloc / free. For more information see
5641			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5642
5643	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5644			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5645			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5646			fragmentation. For more information see
5647			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5648
5649	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5650			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5651			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5652			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5653			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5654			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5655			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5656			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5657
5658	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5659			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5660			lower than slub_max_order.
5661			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5662
5663	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5664			Same with slab_merge.
5665
5666	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5667			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5668			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5669
5670	smart2=		[HW]
5671			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5672
5673	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5674			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5675			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5676			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5677			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5678			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5679			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5680			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5681			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5682			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5683
5684	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5685	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5686	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5687	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5688	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5689	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5690	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5691				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5692				1: Fast pin select (default)
5693				2: ATC IRMode
5694
5695	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5696			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5697			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5698			actual hardware limit.
5699			Format: <integer>
5700			Default: -1 (no limit)
5701
5702	softlockup_panic=
5703			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5704			Format: 0 | 1
5705
5706			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5707			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5708			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5709			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5710			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5711
5712	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5713			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5714			backtraces on all cpus.
5715			Format: 0 | 1
5716
5717	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5718			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5719
5720	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5721			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5722			The default operation protects the kernel from
5723			user space attacks.
5724
5725			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5726			       spectre_v2_user=on
5727			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5728			       spectre_v2_user=off
5729			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5730			       vulnerable
5731
5732			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5733			mitigation method at run time according to the
5734			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5735			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5736			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5737
5738			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5739			against user space to user space task attacks.
5740
5741			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5742			the user space protections.
5743
5744			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5745
5746			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5747			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5748			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5749			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5750			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5751			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5752			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5753			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5754
5755			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5756			spectre_v2=auto.
5757
5758	spectre_v2_user=
5759			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5760		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5761		        user space tasks
5762
5763			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5764				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5765
5766			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5767				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5768
5769			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5770				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5771				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5772				  is inherited on fork.
5773
5774			prctl,ibpb
5775				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5776				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5777				  always when switching between different user
5778				  space processes.
5779
5780			seccomp
5781				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5782				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5783				  they explicitly opt out.
5784
5785			seccomp,ibpb
5786				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5787				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5788				  always when switching between different
5789				  user space processes.
5790
5791			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5792				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5793
5794			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5795
5796			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5797			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5798
5799	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5800			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5801			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5802
5803			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5804			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5805			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5806			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5807			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5808			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5809			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5810			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5811
5812			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5813			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5814			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5815			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5816
5817			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5818			Bypass optimization is used.
5819
5820			On x86 the options are:
5821
5822			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5823			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5824			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5825				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5826				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5827				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5828				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5829				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5830			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5831				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5832				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5833				  is inherited on fork.
5834			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5835				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5836
5837			Default mitigations:
5838			X86:	"prctl"
5839
5840			On powerpc the options are:
5841
5842			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5843				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5844				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5845				  exit.
5846			off	- No action.
5847
5848			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5849			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5850
5851	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5852	spia_fio_base=
5853	spia_pedr=
5854	spia_peddr=
5855
5856	split_lock_detect=
5857			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5858
5859			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5860			instructions that access data across cache line
5861			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5862			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5863			bus lock detection.
5864
5865			off	- not enabled
5866
5867			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5868				  about applications triggering the #AC
5869				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5870				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5871				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5872				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5873				  enabled in hardware.
5874
5875			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5876				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5877				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5878				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5879
5880			ratelimit:N -
5881				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5882				  per second for bus lock detection.
5883				  0 < N <= 1000.
5884
5885				  N/A for split lock detection.
5886
5887
5888			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5889			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5890			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5891			mode.
5892
5893			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5894			CPL > 0.
5895
5896	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5897			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5898			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5899
5900			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5901			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5902			number generator.
5903
5904			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5905			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5906			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5907			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5908			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5909
5910			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5911			the following option:
5912
5913			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5914				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5915
5916	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5917			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5918			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5919			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5920			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5921			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5922			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5923			(decide at boot).
5924
5925	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5926			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5927			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5928			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5929
5930				   0:  Never.
5931				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5932				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5933				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5934				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5935
5936			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5937			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5938			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5939
5940	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5941			Specifies how frequently to check for
5942			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5943			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5944			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5945			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5946			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5947			are ignored.
5948
5949	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5950			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5951			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5952			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5953			grace period will be considered for automatic
5954			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5955			expediting.
5956
5957	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5958			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5959			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5960			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5961			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5962			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5963
5964	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5965			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5966			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5967			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5968			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5969			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5970
5971	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5972			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5973			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5974
5975	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5976			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5977			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5978			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5979			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5980			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5981			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5982
5983	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5984			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5985
5986			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5987			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5988			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5989			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5990
5991			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5992				   for both kernel and userspace
5993			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5994				   for both kernel and userspace
5995			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5996				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5997				   to allow userspace to register its
5998				   interest in being mitigated too.
5999
6000	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6001			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6002			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6003			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6004			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6005			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6006
6007	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6008			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6009			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6010			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6011			to false.
6012
6013	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6014			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6015
6016	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6017			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6018			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6019			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6020			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6021			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6022			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6023
6024	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6025			Format: <num>
6026			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6027			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6028			as the initial boot-console.
6029			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6030
6031	sti_font=	[HW]
6032			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6033
6034	stifb=		[HW]
6035			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6036
6037        strict_sas_size=
6038			[X86]
6039			Format: <bool>
6040			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6041			against the required signal frame size which
6042			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6043			be used to filter out binaries which have
6044			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6045
6046	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6047			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6048			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6049			faults on kernel addresses.
6050
6051	stress_slb	[PPC]
6052			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6053			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6054			on kernel addresses.
6055
6056	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6057	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6058			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6059			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6060			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6061			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6062			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6063			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6064			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6065			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6066			maximum port values.
6067
6068	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6069			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6070			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6071			process in parallel from a single connection.
6072			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6073
6074	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6075			[NFS]
6076			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6077			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6078			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6079			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6080			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6081			NFS server is running.
6082
6083			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6084				    automatically using heuristics
6085			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6086			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6087			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6088				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6089
6090	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6091	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6092			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6093			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6094			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6095			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6096			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6097			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6098
6099	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6100			[SUSPEND]
6101			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6102			mode before resuming the system (see
6103			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6104			is set. Default value is 5.
6105
6106	svm=		[PPC]
6107			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6108			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6109			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6110
6111	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6112			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6113			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6114			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6115				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6116				 to a power of 2.
6117			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6118			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6119			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6120
6121	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6122
6123	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6124			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6125			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6126			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6127			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6128			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6129			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6130			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6131
6132	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6133			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6134			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6135			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6136			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6137			in older udev will not work anymore.
6138			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6139			the kernel configuration.
6140
6141	sysrq_always_enabled
6142			[KNL]
6143			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6144			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6145			Useful for debugging.
6146
6147	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6148			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6149			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6150			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6151			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6152			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6153
6154	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6155
6156	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6157			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6158			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6159			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6160			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6161			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6162			The system is woken from this state using a
6163			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6164
6165	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6166			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6167
6168	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6169			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6170			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6171
6172	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6173			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6174			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6175
6176	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6177			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6178			critical and hot trip points.
6179
6180	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6181			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6182
6183	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6184			-1: disable all passive trip points
6185			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6186			value
6187
6188	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6189			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6190			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6191			0: no polling (default)
6192
6193	threadirqs	[KNL]
6194			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6195			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6196
6197	topology=	[S390]
6198			Format: {off | on}
6199			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6200			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6201			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6202			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6203			Default is on.
6204
6205	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6206			Format: {off}
6207			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6208			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6209			LPAR.
6210
6211	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6212			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6213			until after init has spawned.
6214
6215	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6216			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6217			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6218			very costly operation when many torture tests
6219			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6220			with rotating-rust storage.
6221
6222	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6223			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6224			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6225			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6226
6227	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6228			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6229
6230	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6231
6232	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6233			Format: integer pcr id
6234			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6235			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6236			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6237			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6238			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6239			are saved.
6240
6241	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6242			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6243			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6244			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6245			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6246			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6247
6248			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6249			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6250			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6251			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6252
6253			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6254			to stop the printing of events to console at
6255			late_initcall_sync.
6256
6257			** CAUTION **
6258
6259			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6260			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6261			the system to live lock.
6262
6263	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6264			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6265			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6266			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6267			make the system inoperable.
6268
6269			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6270			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6271
6272	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6273			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6274
6275	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6276			at boot up.
6277			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6278				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6279				depending on the architecture, may not be
6280				in sync between CPUs.
6281			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6282				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6283				but better for some race conditions.
6284			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6285				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6286				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6287				once per event.
6288			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6289			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6290			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6291			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6292				stamps.
6293			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6294			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6295			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6296
6297	trace_event=[event-list]
6298			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6299			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6300			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6301			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6302
6303	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6304			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6305			This will be listed in:
6306
6307				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6308
6309			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6310			via:
6311
6312				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6313
6314			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6315			unique.
6316
6317				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6318
6319			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6320			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6321			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6322
6323	trace_options=[option-list]
6324			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6325			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6326			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6327			to echo the option name into
6328
6329			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6330
6331			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6332			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6333
6334			      trace_options=stacktrace
6335
6336			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6337			section.
6338
6339	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6340			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6341			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6342			filter.
6343
6344			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6345			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6346
6347			For example:
6348
6349			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6350
6351			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6352			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6353			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6354
6355			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6356
6357
6358	traceoff_on_warning
6359			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6360			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6361			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6362			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6363
6364			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6365			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6366			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6367
6368			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6369			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6370
6371	transparent_hugepage=
6372			[KNL]
6373			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6374			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6375			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6376			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6377			for more details.
6378
6379	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6380			Format: <string>
6381			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6382			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6383			sources:
6384			- "tpm"
6385			- "tee"
6386			- "caam"
6387			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6388			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6389			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6390			successfully during iteration.
6391
6392	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6393			Format: <string>
6394			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6395			Can be one of:
6396			- "kernel"
6397			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6398			- "default"
6399			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6400			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6401
6402	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6403			Format: <string>
6404			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6405			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6406			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6407			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6408			virtualized environment.
6409			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6410			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6411			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6412			can add overhead.
6413			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6414			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6415			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6416			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6417			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6418			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6419			acceptable).
6420			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6421			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6422			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6423			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6424			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6425			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6426			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6427			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6428			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6429			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6430
6431	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6432			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6433			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6434			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6435			Format: <unsigned int>
6436
6437	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6438			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6439			support TSX control.
6440
6441			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6442
6443			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6444				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6445				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6446				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6447				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6448				with leaving it enabled.
6449
6450			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6451				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6452				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6453				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6454				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6455				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6456				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6457
6458			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6459				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6460
6461			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6462
6463			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6464			for more details.
6465
6466	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6467			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6468
6469			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6470			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6471			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6472			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6473			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6474			conditions.
6475
6476			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6477			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6478			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6479			access.
6480
6481			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6482			options are:
6483
6484			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6485				     if TSX is enabled.
6486
6487			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6488				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6489				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6490				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6491			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6492
6493			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6494			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6495			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6496			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6497
6498			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6499			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6500			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6501			required and doesn't provide any additional
6502			mitigation.
6503
6504			For details see:
6505			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6506
6507	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6508			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6509			Format:
6510			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6511			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6512
6513	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6514			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6515			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6516			help "seeing" what's going on.
6517
6518	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6519			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6520
6521	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6522			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6523			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6524			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6525			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6526			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6527			reported either.
6528
6529	unknown_nmi_panic
6530			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6531
6532	usbcore.authorized_default=
6533			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6534			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6535			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6536			if device connected to internal port)
6537
6538	usbcore.autosuspend=
6539			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6540			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6541			is the time required before an idle device will be
6542			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6543			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6544
6545	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6546			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6547
6548	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6549			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6550			(default = 65536).
6551
6552	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6553			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6554
6555	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6556			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6557			scheme (default 0 = off).
6558
6559	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6560			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6561			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6562
6563	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6564			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6565			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6566
6567	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6568			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6569			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6570			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6571
6572	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6573
6574	usbcore.quirks=
6575			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6576			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6577			commas. Each entry has the form
6578			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6579			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6580			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6581			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6582			the following meanings:
6583				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6584					descriptors must not be fetched using
6585					a 255-byte read);
6586				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6587					correctly so reset it instead);
6588				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6589					Set-Interface requests);
6590				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6591					handle its Configuration or Interface
6592					strings);
6593				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6594					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6595				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6596					more interface descriptions than the
6597					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6598					talking to these interfaces);
6599				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6600					during initialization, after we read
6601					the device descriptor);
6602				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6603					high speed and super speed interrupt
6604					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6605					require the interval in microframes (1
6606					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6607					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6608					(bInterval-1).
6609					Devices with this quirk report their
6610					bInterval as the result of this
6611					calculation instead of the exponent
6612					variable used in the calculation);
6613				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6614					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6615					requests);
6616				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6617					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6618					remote wakeup capability);
6619				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6620					Power Management);
6621				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6622					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6623					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6624					calculation);
6625				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6626					to be disconnected before suspend to
6627					prevent spurious wakeup);
6628				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6629					pause after every control message);
6630				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6631					delay after resetting its port);
6632			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6633
6634	usbhid.mousepoll=
6635			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6636
6637	usbhid.jspoll=
6638			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6639
6640	usbhid.kbpoll=
6641			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6642
6643	usb-storage.delay_use=
6644			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6645			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6646
6647	usb-storage.quirks=
6648			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6649			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6650			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6651			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6652			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6653			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6654			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6655				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6656					of sense data, not on uas);
6657				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6658					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6659				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6660					device capacity by one sector);
6661				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6662					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6663				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6664					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6665				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6666					command, uas only);
6667				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6668					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6669				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6670					reported device capacity by one
6671					sector if the number is odd);
6672				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6673					device);
6674				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6675					command, uas only);
6676				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6677				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6678					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6679				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6680					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6681					not on uas);
6682				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6683					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6684				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6685					reported by the device, not on uas);
6686				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6687					by default, not on uas);
6688				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6689					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6690				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6691					Logical Unit);
6692				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6693					commands, uas only);
6694				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6695				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6696					medium is write-protected).
6697				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6698					even if the device claims no cache,
6699					not on uas)
6700			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6701
6702	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6703			Format: <int>
6704			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6705				 1 - undefined instruction events
6706				 2 - system calls
6707				 4 - invalid data aborts
6708				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6709				16 - SIGBUS faults
6710			Example: user_debug=31
6711
6712	userpte=
6713			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6714
6715				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6716					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6717					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6718
6719	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6720			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6721
6722			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6723			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6724
6725	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6726			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6727			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6728
6729			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6730			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6731			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6732
6733			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6734			alias for vdso32=0.
6735
6736			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6737			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6738
6739	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6740			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6741
6742	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6743			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6744
6745	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6746			Format: [0|1]
6747			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6748			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6749			level and then send out the event to user space through
6750			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6751			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6752			brightness level.
6753			default: 1
6754
6755	virtio_mmio.device=
6756			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6757
6758				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6759			where:
6760				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6761						like K, M and G)
6762				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6763				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6764						request_irq())
6765				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6766			example:
6767				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6768
6769			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6770
6771	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6772			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6773			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6774			Use vga=ask for menu.
6775			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6776			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6777
6778	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6779			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6780			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6781			All options are enabled by default, and this
6782			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6783			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6784			debugging features.
6785
6786			Available options are:
6787			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6788			  -	Disable all of the above options
6789
6790	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6791			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6792			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6793			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6794			mapped kernel RAM.
6795
6796	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6797			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6798			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6799
6800	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6801			Format: <command>
6802
6803	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6804			Format: <command>
6805
6806	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6807			Format: <command>
6808
6809	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6810			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6811			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6812			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6813			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6814			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6815			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6816
6817			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
6818			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
6819				    readable.
6820
6821			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6822			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6823				    page is not readable.
6824
6825			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6826			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6827			            might break your system.
6828
6829	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6830			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6831			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6832
6833	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6834			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6835			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6836			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6837
6838	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6839			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6840			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6841			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6842			ranging from 0-255.
6843
6844	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6845			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6846			Change the default green palette of the console.
6847			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6848			ranging from 0-255.
6849
6850	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6851			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6852			Change the default red palette of the console.
6853			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6854			ranging from 0-255.
6855
6856	vt.default_utf8=
6857			[VT]
6858			Format=<0|1>
6859			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6860			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6861			newly opened terminals.
6862
6863	vt.global_cursor_default=
6864			[VT]
6865			Format=<-1|0|1>
6866			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6867			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6868			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6869			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6870			cursors, 1 will display them.
6871
6872	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6873			Default: 2 = green.
6874
6875	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6876			Default: 3 = cyan.
6877
6878	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6879			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6880			or other driver-specific files in the
6881			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6882
6883	watchdog_thresh=
6884			[KNL]
6885			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6886			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6887			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6888			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6889			seconds.
6890
6891	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6892			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6893			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6894			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6895			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6896			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6897			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6898			corresponding sysfs file.
6899
6900	workqueue.disable_numa
6901			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6902			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6903			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6904			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6905			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6906			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6907			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6908
6909	workqueue.power_efficient
6910			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6911			they show better performance thanks to cache
6912			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6913			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6914
6915			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6916			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6917			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6918			power usage at the cost of small performance
6919			overhead.
6920
6921			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6922			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6923
6924	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6925			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6926			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6927			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6928			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6929			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6930			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6931			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6932			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6933			impacted.
6934
6935	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6936			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6937			supporting x2apic.
6938
6939	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6940			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6941			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6942			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6943			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6944			domains.
6945
6946	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6947			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6948			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6949			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6950			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6951			nics -- unplug network devices
6952			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6953			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6954				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6955				the unplug protocol
6956			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6957
6958	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6959			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6960			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6961
6962	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
6963			Format: <bool>
6964			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
6965			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
6966			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
6967
6968	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6969			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6970			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6971			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6972
6973	xen_nopv	[X86]
6974			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6975			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6976			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6977			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6978
6979	xen_no_vector_callback
6980			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6981			event channel interrupts.
6982
6983	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6984			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6985			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6986			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6987			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6988
6989	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6990			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6991			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6992			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6993			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6994			more timer interrupts.
6995
6996	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6997			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6998			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6999			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7000			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7001			max. Default is 180.
7002
7003	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7004			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7005			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7006
7007	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7008			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7009			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7010
7011	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7012			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7013			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7014			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7015			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7016			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7017
7018	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7019			Format:
7020			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7021
7022	xive=		[PPC]
7023			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7024			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7025			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7026
7027			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7028				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7029				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7030
7031	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7032			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7033			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7034			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7035			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7036
7037	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7038			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7039			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7040			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7041
7042	xmon		[PPC]
7043			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7044			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7045			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7046			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7047				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7048			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7049				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7050				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7051				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7052			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7053				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7054				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7055				can be written using xmon commands.
7056			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7057				memory, and other data can't be written using
7058				xmon commands.
7059			off	xmon is disabled.
7060
7061	amd_pstate=	[X86]
7062			disable
7063			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
7064			  scaling driver for the supported processors
7065			passive
7066			  Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a
7067			  desired performance on this abstract scale and the power
7068			  management firmware translates the requests into actual
7069			  hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
7070			  clocks etc.)
7071			active
7072			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
7073			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
7074			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
7075			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
7076			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
7077			  frequency.
7078