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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.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
110			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
111			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
112			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
113			auto-serialization feature.
114			This feature is enabled by default.
115			This option allows to turn off the feature.
116
117	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
118			   kernels.
119
120	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
121			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
122			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
123			installed automatically and they will appear under
124			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
125			This option turns off this feature.
126			Note that specifying this option does not affect
127			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
128			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
129
130	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
131			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
132			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
133			second kernel for kdump.
134
135	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
136			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
137
138	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
139			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
140			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
141			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
142			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
143
144	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
145			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
146			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
147			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
148			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
149						  strings
150			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
151						  strings
152			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
153
154			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
155			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
156			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
157			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
158			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
159			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
160			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
161			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
162			care about the state of the feature group strings which
163			should be controlled by the OSPM.
164			Examples:
165			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
166			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
167			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
168
169			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
170			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
171			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
172			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
173			multiple times through kernel command line is also
174			meaningless.
175			Examples:
176			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
177			     FALSE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
180			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
181			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
182			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
183			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
184			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
185			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
186			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
187			is useful when one want to control the state of the
188			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
189			the OSPM features.
190			Examples:
191			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
192			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
193			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
194			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
195			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
196			     equivalent to
197			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
198			     and
199			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
200			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
201
202	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
203			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
204			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
205			and always returns good values.
206
207	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
208			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
209
210	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
211			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
212			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
213
214	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
215			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
216				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
217			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
218			s3_bios and s3_mode.
219			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
220			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
221			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
222			used during resume from hibernation.
223			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
224			control method, with respect to putting devices into
225			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
226			of _PTS is used by default).
227			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
228			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
229			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
230			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
231			but some broken systems don't work without it).
232
233	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
234			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
235			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
236
237	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
238			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
239
240	agp=		[AGP]
241			{ off | try_unsupported }
242			off: disable AGP support
243			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
244				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
245
246	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
247			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
248
249	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
250			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
251			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
252			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
253
254	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
255			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
256			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
257			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
258			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
259			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
260			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
261
262			32: only for 32-bit processes
263			64: only for 64-bit processes
264			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
265			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
266
267	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
268			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
269			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
270			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
271			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
272			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
273
274	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
275			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
276			Possible values are:
277			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
278				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
279				    flushed before they will be reused, which
280				    is a lot of faster
281			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
282				    the system
283			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
284					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
285					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
286					  requirements as needed. This option
287					  does not override iommu=pt
288
289	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
290			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
291			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
292			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
293			IOMMU initialization.
294
295	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
296			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
297			remapping modes:
298			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
299			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
300			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
301			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
302			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
303
304	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
305			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
306			Format: <a>,<b>
307			See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
308
309	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
310			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
311			connected to one of 16 gameports
312			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
313
314	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
315			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
316			Format: noidle
317			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
318			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
319			APC and your system crashes randomly.
320
321	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
322			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
323			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
324			Change the amount of debugging information output
325			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
326
327	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
328			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
329			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
330			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
331			      backup of CPU 0
332			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
333			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
334			      shot down by NMI
335
336	autoconf=	[IPV6]
337			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
338
339	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
340			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
341			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
342			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
343			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
344			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
345			apic=verbose is specified.
346			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
347
348	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
349			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
350
351	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
352			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
353
354	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
355
356	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
357
358	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
359			EzKey and similar keyboards
360
361	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
362
363	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
364			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
365
366	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
367			keyboards
368
369	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
370			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
371
372	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
373			Use software keyboard repeat
374
375	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
376			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
377			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
378			    until the next reboot
379			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
380			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
381			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
382			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
383			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
384			    auditd.
385			Default: unset
386
387	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
388			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
389			Default: 64
390
391	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
392			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
393			Format: { "0" | "1" }
394			0 - Disable the BAU.
395			1 - Enable the BAU.
396			unset - Disable the BAU.
397
398	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
399			Format: <io>,<mode>
400
401	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
402			Format: <io>,<mode>
403			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
404
405	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
406			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
407			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
408			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
409
410	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
411			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
412			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
413			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
414
415	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
416			embedded devices based on command line input.
417			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
418
419	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
420			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
421			no delay (0).
422			Format: integer
423
424	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
425
426	bert_disable	[ACPI]
427			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
428
429	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
430	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
431			kernel args too.
432	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
433	bttv.tuner=
434
435	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
436			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
437			at a time.
438
439	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
440
441	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
442			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
443			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
444			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
445			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
446			This option provides an override for these situations.
447
448	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
449			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
450			trust validation.
451			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
452
453	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
454			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
455			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
456			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
457			others).
458
459	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
460			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
461
462	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
463			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
464			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
465			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
466			  a single hierarchy
467			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
468			  subsystem
469			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
470			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
471			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
472
473	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
474			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
475			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
476			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
477
478	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
479			Format: <string>
480			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
481			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
482
483	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
484			Format: { "0" | "1" }
485			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
486			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
487				any implied execute protection).
488			1 -- check protection requested by application.
489			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
490			Value can be changed at runtime via
491				/selinux/checkreqprot.
492
493	cio_ignore=	[S390]
494			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
495	clk_ignore_unused
496			[CLK]
497			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
498			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
499			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
500			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
501			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
502			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
503			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
504			platform with proper driver support.  For more
505			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
506
507	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
508			[Deprecated]
509			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
510			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
511			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
512			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
513
514	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
515			Format: <string>
516			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
517			with the name specified.
518			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
519			the platform:
520			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
521			[ACPI] acpi_pm
522			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
523				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
524			[AVR32] avr32
525			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
526				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
527			[MIPS] MIPS
528			[PARISC] cr16
529			[S390] tod
530			[SH] SuperH
531			[SPARC64] tick
532			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
533
534	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
535			[ARM,ARM64]
536			Format: <bool>
537			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
538			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
539			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
540			systems.
541
542	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585=
543			[ARM64]
544			Format: <bool>
545			Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP
546			erratum A-008585.  This can be useful for KVM
547			guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the
548			erratum.  If unspecified, the workaround is
549			enabled based on the device tree.
550
551	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
553			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
554			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
555			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556			ones should be.
557			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558			or using the feature without checking anything
559			will still see it. This just prevents it from
560			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562			some critical bits.
563
564	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565			[ARM,X86,KNL]
566			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568			placement constraint by the physical address range of
569			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570			altogether. For more information, see
571			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
573	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
576			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577			a hypervisor.
578			Default: yes
579
580	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
581			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
582			allocations, by default set to 256K.
583
584	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
585			in an oops report.
586			Range: 0 - 8192
587			Default: 64
588
589	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
590			Format:
591			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
592
593	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
596	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
597			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
601	conmode=
602
603	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607		ttyS<n>[,options]
608		ttyUSB0[,options]
609			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
610			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
614
615			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
616			information.  See
617			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618			alternative.
619
620		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
625			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
627			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
629			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
633			the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
635		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
637
638                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640			console=brl,ttyS0
641		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
643	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644			seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645			disables the blank timer.
646
647	coredump_filter=
648			[KNL] Change the default value for
649			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
652	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
653			disable the cpuidle sub-system
654
655	cpu_init_udelay=N
656			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
657			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
658			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
659			Default: 10000
660
661	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
662			Format:
663			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
664
665	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
666			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
667			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
668			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
669			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
670			is selected automatically. Check
671			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
672
673	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
674			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
675			in the running system. The syntax of range is
676			start-[end] where start and end are both
677			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
678			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
679
680	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
681			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
682			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
683			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
684			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
685			available.
686			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
687	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
688			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
689			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
690			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
691			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
692			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
693			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
694			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
695			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
696			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
697			for second kernel instead.
698			0: to disable low allocation.
699			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
700			or memory reserved is below 4G.
701
702	cryptomgr.notests
703                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
704
705	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
706			Format: <dma>
707
708	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
709			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
710
711	dasd=		[HW,NET]
712			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
713
714	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
715			(one device per port)
716			Format: <port#>,<type>
717			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
718
719	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
720			time. See Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for
721			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
722
723	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
724
725	debug_locks_verbose=
726			[KNL] verbose self-tests
727			Format=<0|1>
728			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
729			self-tests.
730			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
731			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
732			only useful to kernel developers.
733
734	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
735
736	no_debug_objects
737			[KNL] Disable object debugging
738
739	debug_guardpage_minorder=
740			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
741			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
742			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
743			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
744			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
745			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
746			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
747			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
748			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
749			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
750			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
751			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
752			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
753			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
754			bypassed) which are not detectable by
755			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
756			tracking down these problems.
757
758	debug_pagealloc=
759			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
760			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
761			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
762			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
763			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
764			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
765			on: enable the feature
766
767	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
768
769	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
770			Format: <area>[,<node>]
771			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
772
773	default_hugepagesz=
774			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
775			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
776			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
777			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
778			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
779			if not specified.
780
781	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
782			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
783
784	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
785			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
786			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
787			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
788			miss to occur.
789
790	disable=	[IPV6]
791			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
792
793	disable_radix	[PPC]
794			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
795
796	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
797			Format: <int>
798			The number of initial APIC ID for the
799			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
800			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
801			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
802			causing system reset or hang due to sending
803			INIT from AP to BSP.
804
805	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
806			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
807			to workaround buggy firmware.
808
809	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
810			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
811
812	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
813			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
814			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
815			entry later. This parameter disables that.
816
817	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
818			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
819			memory out of your available memory pool based on
820			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
821			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
822
823	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
824			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
825			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
826
827	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
828
829	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
830			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
831
832	dma_debug_entries=<number>
833			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
834			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
835			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
836			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
837			architectural default is too low.
838
839	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
840			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
841			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
842			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
843			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
844			driver later using sysfs.
845
846	drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
847			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
848			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
849			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
850			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
851			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
852			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
853			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
854			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
855			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
856			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
857			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
858			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
859			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
860			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
861			data set with no connector name will be used for
862			any connectors not explicitly specified.
863
864	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
865
866	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
867	module.dyndbg[="val"]
868			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
869			Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
870
871	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
872			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
873			information about the feature.
874
875	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
876			in some Intel CPUs.
877
878	eagerfpu=	[X86]
879			on	enable eager fpu restore
880			off	disable eager fpu restore
881			auto	selects the default scheme, which automatically
882				enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
883
884	module.async_probe [KNL]
885			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
886
887	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
888			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
889			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
890			which are not unmapped.
891
892	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
893
894			When used with no options, the early console is
895			determined by the stdout-path property in device
896			tree's chosen node.
897
898		cdns,<addr>[,options]
899			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
900			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
901			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
902			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
903			configured.
904
905		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
906		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
907		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
908		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
909		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
910			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
911			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
912			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
913			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
914			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
915			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
916			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
917			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
918
919		pl011,<addr>
920		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
921			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
922			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
923			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
924			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
925			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
926			the device registers.
927
928		meson,<addr>
929			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
930			port at the specified address. The serial port must
931			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
932			supported.
933
934		msm_serial,<addr>
935			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
936			port at the specified address. The serial port
937			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
938			yet supported.
939
940		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
941			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
942			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
943			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
944			yet supported.
945
946		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
947
948		s3c2410,<addr>
949		s3c2412,<addr>
950		s3c2440,<addr>
951		s3c6400,<addr>
952		s5pv210,<addr>
953		exynos4210,<addr>
954			Use early console provided by serial driver available
955			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
956			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
957			serial port must already be setup and configured.
958			Options are not yet supported.
959
960		lpuart,<addr>
961		lpuart32,<addr>
962			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
963			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
964			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
965			port must already be setup and configured.
966
967		armada3700_uart,<addr>
968			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
969			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
970			address. The serial port must already be setup
971			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
972
973	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
974			earlyprintk=vga
975			earlyprintk=efi
976			earlyprintk=xen
977			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
978			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
979			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
980			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
981			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
982
983			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
984			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
985			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
986
987			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
988			takes over.
989
990			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
991			be used at a time.
992
993			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
994			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
995			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
996			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
997				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
998			You can find the port for a given device in
999			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1000				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1001
1002			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1003			very good.
1004
1005			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1006			the real console.
1007
1008			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1009
1010	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1011			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1012			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1013			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1014			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1015			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1016			default: on.
1017
1018	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1019			ekgdboc=kbd
1020
1021			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1022			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1023
1024	edd=		[EDD]
1025			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1026
1027	efi=		[EFI]
1028			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1029			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1030			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1031			default.
1032			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1033			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1034			firmware implementations.
1035			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1036			debug: enable misc debug output
1037
1038	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1039			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1040			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1041			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1042			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1043
1044	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1045			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1046			updating original EFI memory map.
1047			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1048			from ss to ss+nn.
1049			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1050			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1051			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1052			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1053
1054			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1055			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1056			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1057			doesn't support it.
1058
1059	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1060			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1061			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1062			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1063			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1064
1065
1066	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1067			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1068
1069	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1070			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1071			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1072
1073	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1074			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1075			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1076			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1077
1078	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1079			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1080			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1081			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1082			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1083
1084	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1085			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1086			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1087			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1088
1089	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1090			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1091			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1092			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1093			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1094
1095	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1096			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1097			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1098			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1099			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1100			Default value is 0.
1101			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1102
1103	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1104			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1105			support.
1106
1107	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1108			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1109			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1110
1111	evm=		[EVM]
1112			Format: { "fix" }
1113			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1114			current integrity status.
1115
1116	failslab=
1117	fail_page_alloc=
1118	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1119			General fault injection mechanism.
1120			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1121			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1122
1123	floppy=		[HW]
1124			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1125
1126	force_pal_cache_flush
1127			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1128			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1129			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1130			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1131
1132	forcepae [X86-32]
1133			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1134			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1135			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1136			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1137			and may cause unknown problems.
1138
1139	ftrace=[tracer]
1140			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1141			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1142			boot debugging.
1143
1144	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1145			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1146			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1147			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1148			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1149			oops.
1150
1151	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1152			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1153			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1154			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1155			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1156			tracing directory.
1157
1158	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1159			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1160			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1161			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1162			tracing directory.
1163
1164	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1165			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1166			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1167			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1168			that can be changed at run time by the
1169			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1170
1171	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1172			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1173			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1174			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1175			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1176
1177	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1178			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1179			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1180			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1181			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1182
1183	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1184
1185	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1186			Format: off | on
1187			default: on
1188
1189	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1190			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1191			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1192			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1193			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1194
1195	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1196			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1197			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1198			GPT to be used instead.
1199
1200	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1201			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1202			Format: 0 | 1
1203			Default: 0
1204	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1205			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1206			Format: 0 | 1
1207			Default: 0
1208	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1209			Format: 0 | 1
1210			Default: 0
1211	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1212			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1213			Default: 1024
1214	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1215			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1216			Default: 1024
1217
1218	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1219			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1220			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1221
1222	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1223			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1224			backtraces on all cpus.
1225			Format: <integer>
1226
1227	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1228			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1229			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1230			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1231
1232	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1233
1234	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1235			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1236
1237	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1238			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1239			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1240			logic will be disabled.
1241
1242	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1243			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1244			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1245			size on bigger boxes.
1246
1247	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1248			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1249			Default: "on"
1250
1251	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1252			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1253
1254	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1255
1256	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1257			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1258				verbose }
1259			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1260			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1261				VIA, nVidia)
1262			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1263
1264	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1265			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1266
1267	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1268	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1269			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1270			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1271			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1272			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1273			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1274
1275	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1276			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1277	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1278			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1279			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1280
1281	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1282			        hardware thread id mappings.
1283				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1284
1285	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1286			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1287			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1288			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1289			the real console.
1290
1291	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1292			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1293			     registered from board initialization code.
1294			     Format:
1295			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1296
1297	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1298	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1299			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1300			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1301			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1302	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1303	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1304			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1305			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1306	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1307	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1308	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1309			     for the AUX port
1310	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1311			     controller
1312	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1313			     controllers
1314	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1315	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1316			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1317			     transitions, or never reset
1318			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1319			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1320			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1321			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1322			architectures force reset to be always executed
1323	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1324	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1325
1326	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1327
1328	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1329			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1330			hardware.
1331	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1332			does not match list of supported models.
1333	i8k.power_status
1334			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1335			(disabled by default)
1336	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1337			capability is set.
1338
1339	i915.invert_brightness=
1340			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1341			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1342			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1343			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1344			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1345			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1346			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1347			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1348			value switches the backlight off.
1349			-1 -- never invert brightness
1350			 0 -- machine default
1351			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1352
1353	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1354			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1355
1356	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1357			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1358			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1359			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1360			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1361
1362	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1363			Format: <int>
1364			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1365			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1366			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1367			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1368			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1369			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1370			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1371			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1372			was 0x3.
1373
1374	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1375			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1376
1377	idle=		[X86]
1378			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1379			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1380			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1381			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1382			Not recommended.
1383			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1384			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1385			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1386
1387	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1388			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1389			Default: strict
1390
1391			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1392			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1393			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1394			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1395			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1396			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1397			encoding mode.
1398
1399			Available settings are as follows:
1400			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1401				supported by the FPU
1402			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1403				by the FPU
1404			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1405				by the FPU
1406			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1407				supported by the FPU
1408
1409			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1410			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1411			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1412			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1413			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1414			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1415			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1416			MIPS64 CPUs.
1417
1418			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1419			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1420			except where unsupported by hardware.
1421
1422	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1423			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1424			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1425			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1426			could change it dynamically, usually by
1427			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1428
1429	ignore_rlimit_data
1430			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1431			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1432			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1433
1434	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1435			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1436
1437	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1438			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1439			default: "enforce"
1440
1441	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1442			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1443			owned by uid=0.
1444
1445	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1446			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1447				   | sha512 | ... }
1448			default: "sha1"
1449
1450			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1451			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1452
1453	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1454			The builtin measurement policy to load during IMA
1455			setup.  Specyfing "tcb" as the value, measures all
1456			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1457			opened with the read mode bit set by either the
1458			effective uid (euid=0) or uid=0.
1459			Format: "tcb"
1460
1461	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1462			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1463			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1464			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1465			opened for read by uid=0.
1466
1467	ima_template=   [IMA]
1468			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1469			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1470			Default: "ima-ng"
1471
1472	ima_template_fmt=
1473	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1474			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1475
1476	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1477			Format: <min_file_size>
1478			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1479			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1480
1481			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1482			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1483			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1484
1485	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1486			Format: <bufsize>
1487			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1488
1489			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1490			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1491			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1492
1493	init=		[KNL]
1494			Format: <full_path>
1495			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1496			process.
1497
1498	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1499			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1500			startup.
1501
1502	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1503			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1504			modules and initcalls.
1505
1506	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1507
1508	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1509			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1510			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1511			override in debugfs after boot.
1512
1513	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1514			Format: <irq>
1515
1516	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1517
1518	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1519			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1520			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1521			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1522
1523	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1524		on
1525			Enable intel iommu driver.
1526		off
1527			Disable intel iommu driver.
1528		igfx_off [Default Off]
1529			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1530			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1531			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1532			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1533			DMA.
1534		forcedac [x86_64]
1535			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1536			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1537			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1538			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1539			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1540			then look in the higher range.
1541		strict [Default Off]
1542			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1543			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1544			to batching them for performance.
1545		sp_off [Default Off]
1546			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1547			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1548			not be supported.
1549		ecs_off [Default Off]
1550			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1551			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1552			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1553			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1554			on hardware which claims to support them.
1555
1556	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1557			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1558			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1559
1560	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1561		       disable
1562		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1563		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1564		       force
1565			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1566			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1567			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1568			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1569			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1570			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1571			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1572			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1573		       no_hwp
1574		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1575			 if available.
1576		hwp_only
1577			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1578			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1579		support_acpi_ppc
1580			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1581			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1582			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1583			then this feature is turned on by default.
1584
1585	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1586			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1587			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1588			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1589			no_x2apic_optout
1590				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1591			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1592
1593	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1594		strict	regions from userspace.
1595		relaxed
1596
1597	iommu=		[x86]
1598		off
1599		force
1600		noforce
1601		biomerge
1602		panic
1603		nopanic
1604		merge
1605		nomerge
1606		forcesac
1607		soft
1608		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1609		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1610			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1611
1612
1613	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1614			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1615			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1616
1617	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1618		0x80
1619			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1620		0xed
1621			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1622		udelay
1623			Simple two microseconds delay
1624		none
1625			No delay
1626
1627	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1628			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1629
1630	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1631			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1632
1633	irqfixup	[HW]
1634			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1635			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1636			firmware running.
1637
1638	irqpoll		[HW]
1639			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1640			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1641			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1642			firmware running.
1643
1644	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1645			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1646
1647	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1648			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1649
1650			This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1651			to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1652			algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1653			"isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1654			<cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1655			"number of CPUs in system - 1".
1656
1657			This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1658			alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1659			tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1660			suboptimal load balancer performance.
1661
1662	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1663
1664	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1665			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1666			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1667			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1668			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1669				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1670
1671	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1672			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1673			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1674			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1675			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1676				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1677
1678	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1679			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1680			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1681			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1682			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1683				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1684
1685	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1686			See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1687
1688	nokaslr		[KNL]
1689			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1690			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1691			Layout Randomization).
1692
1693	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1694
1695	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1696			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1697			This parameter
1698			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1699			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1700			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1701			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1702			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1703			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1704			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1705			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1706			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1707			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1708			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1709			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1710			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1711			zone if it does not.
1712
1713			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1714			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1715			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1716			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1717			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1718			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1719			time.
1720
1721	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1722			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1723			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1724			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1725			optional and is the number seconds in between
1726			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1727			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1728			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1729			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1730			the kernel debugger.
1731
1732	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1733			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1734			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1735			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1736			 keyboard only format: kbd
1737			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1738			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1739			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1740			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1741
1742	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1743			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1744
1745	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1746			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1747			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1748
1749	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1750			Valid arguments: on, off
1751			Default: on
1752			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1753			the default is off.
1754
1755	kmemcheck=	[X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1756			Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1757			kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1758			kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1759			kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1760			Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1761
1762	kstack=N	[X86] Print N words from the kernel stack
1763			in oops dumps.
1764
1765	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1766			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1767
1768	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1769			KVM MMU at runtime.
1770			Default is 0 (off)
1771
1772	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1773			Default is 1 (enabled)
1774
1775	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1776			for all guests.
1777			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1778
1779	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1780			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1781			Default is 1 (enabled)
1782
1783	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1784			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1785			Default is 0 (disabled)
1786
1787	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1788			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1789			Default is 1 (enabled)
1790
1791	kvm-intel.nested=
1792			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1793			Default is 0 (disabled)
1794
1795	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1796			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1797			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1798			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1799
1800	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1801			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1802			Default is 1 (enabled)
1803
1804	l2cr=		[PPC]
1805
1806	l3cr=		[PPC]
1807
1808	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1809			disabled it.
1810
1811	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1812			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1813			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1814
1815	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1816			in C2 power state.
1817
1818	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1819			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1820			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1821			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1822			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1823			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1824			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1825
1826	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1827			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1828			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1829
1830	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1831			when set.
1832			Format: <int>
1833
1834	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1835			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1836			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1837			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1838			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1839			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1840			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1841			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1842
1843			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1844			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1845			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1846			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1847			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1848			host link and device attached to it.
1849
1850			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1851			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1852			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1853			The following configurations can be forced.
1854
1855			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1856			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1857
1858			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1859
1860			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1861			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1862			  allowed.
1863
1864			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1865
1866			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1867
1868			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1869                          and both resets.
1870
1871			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1872			  hot-unplug link recovery
1873
1874			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1875
1876			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1877
1878			* disable: Disable this device.
1879
1880			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1881			the same attribute, the last one is used.
1882
1883	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1884
1885	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1886			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1887
1888	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
1889			Format: <integer>
1890
1891	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
1892			Format: <integer>
1893
1894	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
1895			Format: <integer>
1896
1897	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
1898			Format: <integer>
1899
1900	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1901			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
1902			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
1903			number of online CPUs.
1904
1905	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
1906			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
1907
1908	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
1909			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
1910
1911	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
1912			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
1913			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
1914
1915	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
1916			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
1917			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
1918			mode during the locktorture test.
1919
1920	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
1921			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
1922			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
1923
1924	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
1925			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
1926
1927	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
1928			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
1929			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
1930			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
1931			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
1932			transition abruptly to and from idle.
1933
1934	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
1935			Start locktorture running at boot time.
1936
1937	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
1938			Specify the locking implementation to test.
1939
1940	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
1941			Enable additional printk() statements.
1942
1943	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
1944			Format: <irq>
1945
1946	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
1947			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
1948			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
1949			loglevels are defined as follows:
1950
1951			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
1952			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
1953			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
1954			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
1955			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
1956			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
1957			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
1958			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
1959
1960	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
1961			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
1962			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
1963			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
1964			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
1965			that allows to increase the default size depending on
1966			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1967
1968	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
1969			This may be used to provide more screen space for
1970			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
1971			kernel boot problems.
1972
1973	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
1974	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
1975	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
1976	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
1977				specified in addition to the ports) causes
1978				attached printers to be reset. Using
1979				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
1980				to associate lp devices with, starting with
1981				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
1982				that lp device, or a parport name such as
1983				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
1984				port specification list means that device IDs
1985				from each port should be examined, to see if
1986				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
1987				so, the driver will manage that printer.
1988				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
1989
1990	lpj=n		[KNL]
1991			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
1992			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
1993			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
1994			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
1995			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
1996			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
1997			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
1998			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
1999			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2000			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2001			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2002			hardware.
2003
2004	ltpc=		[NET]
2005			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2006
2007	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2008			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2009			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2010
2011	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2012			 yeeloong laptop.
2013			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2014
2015	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2016			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2017
2018	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2019			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2020			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2021			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2022			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2023			only takes effect during system bootup.
2024			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2025			which also disables the IO APIC.
2026
2027	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2028	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2029			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2030			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2031			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2032			/dev/loop-control interface.
2033
2034	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2035
2036	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2037
2038	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2039			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2040
2041	mdacon=		[MDA]
2042			Format: <first>,<last>
2043			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2044
2045	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2046			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2047			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2048			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2049			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2050			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2051			belonging to unused RAM.
2052
2053	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2054			memory.
2055
2056	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2057			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2058			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2059
2060        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2061			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2062			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2063			set according to the
2064			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2065			option.
2066			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2067
2068	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2069			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2070			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2071			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2072			option description.
2073
2074	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2075			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2076			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2077
2078	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2079			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2080			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2081
2082	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2083			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2084			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2085			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2086			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2087			         or
2088			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2089
2090	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2091			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2092			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2093			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2094			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2095
2096	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2097			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2098			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2099			Setting this option will scan the memory
2100			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2101			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2102			from using the memory being corrupted.
2103			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2104			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2105			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2106			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2107
2108	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2109			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2110			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2111			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2112			corruption in more or less memory.
2113
2114	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2115			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2116			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2117			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2118
2119	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2120			Format: <integer>
2121			default : 0 <disable>
2122			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2123			performed. Each pass selects another test
2124			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2125			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2126			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2127			regions that are detected.
2128
2129	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2130			See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2131
2132	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2133			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2134			platforms.
2135
2136	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2137			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2138			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2139			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2140
2141	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2142
2143	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2144			physical address is ignored.
2145
2146	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2147			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2148			Default: "0tb"
2149			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2150			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2151			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2152			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2153			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2154			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2155			unconfigured.
2156			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2157			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2158			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2159			VGA shield.
2160			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2161			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2162			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2163			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2164			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2165			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2166
2167	mminit_loglevel=
2168			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2169			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2170			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2171			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2172			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2173			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2174
2175	module.sig_enforce
2176			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2177			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2178			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2179			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2180
2181	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2182			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2183
2184	mousedev.tap_time=
2185			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2186			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2187			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2188			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2189			Format: <msecs>
2190	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2191			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2192	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2193			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2194
2195	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2196			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2197			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2198			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2199			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2200			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2201			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2202			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2203			is not too small.
2204
2205	movable_node	[KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
2206			of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
2207
2208	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2209			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2210
2211	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2212			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2213
2214	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2215			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2216
2217	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2218			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2219			at a time.
2220
2221	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2222
2223			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2224
2225			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2226				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2227			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2228				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2229				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2230
2231	mtdset=		[ARM]
2232			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2233
2234			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2235
2236	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2237			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2238			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2239
2240	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2241			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2242			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2243
2244	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2245			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2246			Default is 1.
2247			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2248			using up MTRRs.
2249
2250	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2251			Format: <integer>
2252			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2253			Default : 1
2254			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2255			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2256
2257	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2258
2259	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2260			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2261			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2262			something different and driver-specific.
2263			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2264			file if at all.
2265
2266	nf_conntrack.acct=
2267			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2268			0 to disable accounting
2269			1 to enable accounting
2270			Default value is 0.
2271
2272	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2273			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2274
2275	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2276			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2277
2278	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2279			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2280
2281	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2282			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2283			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2284			requests.
2285
2286	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2287			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2288			channel should listen.
2289
2290	nfs.cache_getent=
2291			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2292			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2293
2294	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2295			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2296			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2297
2298	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2299			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2300			entries.
2301
2302	nfs.enable_ino64=
2303			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2304			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2305			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2306			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2307			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2308
2309	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2310			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2311			slots the client will assign to the callback
2312			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2313			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2314			a particular server.
2315
2316	nfs.max_session_slots=
2317			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2318			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2319			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2320			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2321			Note that there is little point in setting this
2322			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2323
2324	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2325			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2326			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2327			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2328			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2329			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2330			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2331			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2332			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2333			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2334			back to using the idmapper.
2335			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2336	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2337			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2338			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2339			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2340			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2341
2342	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2343			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2344			information in exchange_id requests.
2345			If zero, no implementation identification information
2346			will be sent.
2347			The default is to send the implementation identification
2348			information.
2349
2350	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2351			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2352			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2353			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2354			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2355			after the locks are lost.
2356			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2357			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2358			parameter to '1'.
2359			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2360			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2361
2362	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2363			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2364			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2365
2366			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2367			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2368			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2369			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2370
2371	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2372			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2373			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2374			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2375			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2376			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2377
2378	objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog=
2379			[NFS] [OBJLAYOUT] sets the pathname to the program which
2380			is used to automatically discover and login into new
2381			osd-targets. Please see:
2382			Documentation/filesystems/pnfs.txt for more explanations
2383
2384	nmi_debug=	[KNL,AVR32,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2385			when a NMI is triggered.
2386			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2387
2388	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2389			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2390			Valid num: 0 or 1
2391			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2392			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2393			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2394			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2395			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2396			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2397			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2398			need the box quickly up again.
2399
2400	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2401			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2402			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2403			waits 4 seconds.
2404
2405	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2406			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2407			is present.
2408
2409	no_console_suspend
2410			[HW] Never suspend the console
2411			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2412			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2413			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2414			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2415			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2416			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2417			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2418			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2419			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2420			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2421			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2422			turn on/off it dynamically.
2423
2424	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2425			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2426			but will impact performance.
2427
2428	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2429
2430	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2431			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2432
2433	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2434
2435	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2436			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2437
2438	nocache		[ARM]
2439
2440	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2441
2442	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2443
2444	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2445
2446	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2447
2448	noexec		[IA-64]
2449
2450	noexec		[X86]
2451			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2452			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2453			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2454
2455	nosmap		[X86]
2456			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2457			even if it is supported by processor.
2458
2459	nosmep		[X86]
2460			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2461			even if it is supported by processor.
2462
2463	noexec32	[X86-64]
2464			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2465			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2466				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2467			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2468				read implies executable mappings
2469
2470	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2471
2472	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2473			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2474			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2475
2476	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2477
2478	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2479			Equivalent to smt=1.
2480
2481	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2482			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2483			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2484
2485	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2486			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2487			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2488			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2489			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2490			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2491
2492	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2493			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2494			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2495			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2496			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2497			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2498			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2499
2500	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2501			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2502			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2503
2504	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2505			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2506			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2507
2508	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2509			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2510			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2511			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2512			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2513			real-time systems.
2514
2515	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2516
2517	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2518			Valid arguments: on, off
2519			Default: on
2520
2521	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
2522			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2523			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2524			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2525			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2526			the range to maintain the timekeeping.
2527			The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
2528			rcu_nocbs= set.
2529
2530	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2531
2532	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2533			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2534
2535	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2536			broken timer IRQ sources.
2537
2538	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2539
2540	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2541			initial RAM disk.
2542
2543	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2544			remapping.
2545			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2546
2547	nointroute	[IA-64]
2548
2549	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2550
2551	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2552
2553	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2554
2555	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2556			fault handling.
2557
2558	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2559			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2560			behaviour
2561
2562	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2563
2564	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2565
2566	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2567			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2568
2569	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2570
2571	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2572
2573	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2574			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2575
2576	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2577			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2578			irq.
2579
2580	nomodule	Disable module load
2581
2582	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2583			pagetables) support.
2584
2585	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2586			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2587
2588	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2589
2590	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2591			with UP alternatives
2592
2593	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2594			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2595			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2596			available to user space applications.
2597
2598	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2599			space.
2600
2601	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2602			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2603			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2604
2605	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2606
2607	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2608
2609	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2610			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2611
2612	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2613
2614	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2615
2616	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2617
2618	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2619                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2620
2621	nowb		[ARM]
2622
2623	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2624
2625	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2626			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2627			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2628			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2629			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2630			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2631			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2632			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2633			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2634			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2635			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2636			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2637			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2638
2639	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2640			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2641			SAL PALO.
2642
2643	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2644			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2645			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2646			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2647			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2648			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2649			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2650			hot plugging.
2651
2652	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2653
2654	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2655			Allowed values are enable and disable
2656
2657	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2658			one of ['zone', 'node', 'default'] can be specified
2659			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2660			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2661
2662	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2663			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2664			info.
2665
2666	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2667			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2668			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2669			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2670			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2671			interrupts *may* be lost!
2672
2673	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2674			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2675			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2676			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2677
2678	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2679			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2680
2681	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2682			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2683			userland or if you want common events.
2684			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2685			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2686				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2687				CPU specific event set.
2688			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2689				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2690				for generic hr timer mode)
2691
2692	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2693			process, but there is a small probability of
2694			deadlocking the machine.
2695			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2696			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2697
2698	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2699			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2700
2701	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2702			Storage of the information about who allocated
2703			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2704			we can turn it on.
2705			on: enable the feature
2706
2707	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2708			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2709			off: turn off poisoning
2710			on: turn on poisoning
2711
2712	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2713			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2714			timeout = 0: wait forever
2715			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2716			Format: <timeout>
2717
2718	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2719			on a WARN().
2720
2721	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2722			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2723			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2724			succeeds in any situation.
2725			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2726			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2727			kernel more unstable.
2728
2729	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2730			connected to, default is 0.
2731			Format: <parport#>
2732	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2733			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2734			Format: <mode>
2735
2736	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2737			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2738			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2739			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2740			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2741			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2742			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2743			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2744			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2745			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2746			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2747			are specified on the command line, starting
2748			with parport0.
2749
2750	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2751			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2752			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2753			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2754			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2755			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2756			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2757
2758	pause_on_oops=
2759			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2760			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2761			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2762
2763	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2764
2765	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2766			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2767			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2768
2769	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2770		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2771			        changes anything
2772		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2773		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2774				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2775				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2776		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2777				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2778				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2779				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2780		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2781				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2782				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2783		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2784				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2785				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2786				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2787				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2788				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2789				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2790		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2791				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2792				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2793		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2794				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2795		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2796				Configuration
2797		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2798				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2799				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2800		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2801				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2802				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2803		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2804				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2805				should never be necessary.
2806		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2807				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2808				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2809				when the system masks IRQs.
2810		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2811				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2812				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2813				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2814		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2815				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2816				on several machines and they hang the machine
2817				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2818				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2819				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2820				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2821				motherboard.
2822		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2823				Use with caution as certain devices share
2824				address decoders between ROMs and other
2825				resources.
2826		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2827				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2828				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2829		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2830				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2831		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2832				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2833				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2834				this way.
2835		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
2836				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2837				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2838				F0000h-100000h range.
2839		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2840				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2841				secondary buses and you want to tell it
2842				explicitly which ones they are.
2843		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2844				numbers ourselves, overriding
2845				whatever the firmware may have done.
2846		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2847				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2848				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2849				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2850				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2851				IRQ routing is enabled.
2852		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2853				or for PCI scanning.
2854		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2855				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2856				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
2857				please report a bug.
2858		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2859			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2860		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2861				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2862				so this option is a temporary workaround
2863				for broken drivers that don't call it.
2864		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2865				handle more pci cards
2866		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2867				This might help on some broken boards which
2868				machine check when some devices' config space
2869				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2870				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2871		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2872				This sorting is done to get a device
2873				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
2874		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
2875		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
2876				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
2877		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
2878				supported by all devices below the root complex.
2879		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
2880				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
2881				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
2882				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
2883				or bus can support) for best performance.
2884		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
2885				every device is guaranteed to support. This
2886				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
2887				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
2888				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
2889				that hot-added devices will work.
2890		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2891				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
2892				The default value is 256 bytes.
2893		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2894				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
2895				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
2896		resource_alignment=
2897				Format:
2898				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
2899				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
2900						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
2901				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
2902				aligned memory resources.
2903				If <order of align> is not specified,
2904				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
2905				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
2906				windows need to be expanded.
2907				To specify the alignment for several
2908				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
2909				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
2910				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
2911		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
2912				end-to-end CRC checking).
2913				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
2914				the default.
2915				off: Turn ECRC off
2916				on: Turn ECRC on.
2917		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2918				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
2919				Default size is 256 bytes.
2920		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
2921				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
2922				Default size is 2 megabytes.
2923		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
2924				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
2925				Default is 1.
2926		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
2927				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
2928				accommodate resources required by all child
2929				devices.
2930				off: Turn realloc off
2931				on: Turn realloc on
2932		realloc		same as realloc=on
2933		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
2934		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
2935				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
2936				port.
2937
2938	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
2939			Management.
2940		off	Disable ASPM.
2941		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
2942			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
2943
2944	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
2945		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
2946			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
2947
2948	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
2949		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
2950			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
2951			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
2952		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
2953			unconditionally.
2954		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
2955			ports driver.
2956
2957	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
2958		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
2959		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
2960
2961	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
2962		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
2963			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
2964
2965	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
2966
2967	pd_ignore_unused
2968			[PM]
2969			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
2970			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
2971			for debug and development, but should not be
2972			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
2973
2974	pd.		[PARIDE]
2975			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2976
2977	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
2978			boot time.
2979			Format: { 0 | 1 }
2980			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
2981
2982	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
2983			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
2984			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
2985			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
2986			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
2987			and performance comparison.
2988
2989	pf.		[PARIDE]
2990			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2991
2992	pg.		[PARIDE]
2993			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2994
2995	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
2996			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
2997
2998	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
2999			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3000			See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3001
3002	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3003			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3004			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3005
3006	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3007			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3008			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3009			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3010			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3011			possible settings and some assignment information.
3012
3013	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3014			{ off }
3015
3016	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3017			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3018
3019	pnp_reserve_irq=
3020			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3021
3022	pnp_reserve_dma=
3023			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3024
3025	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3026			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3027
3028	pnp_reserve_mem=
3029			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3030			autoconfiguration.
3031			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3032
3033	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3034			Default is 21.
3035			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3036			may be specified.
3037			Format: <port>,<port>....
3038
3039	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3040			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3041			platform machine description specific power_save
3042			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3043			execution priority.
3044
3045	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3046			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3047			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3048			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3049			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3050
3051	print-fatal-signals=
3052			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3053
3054			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3055			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3056			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3057			coredump - etc.
3058
3059			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3060			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3061
3062			default: off.
3063
3064	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3065			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3066			panics
3067			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3068			default: disabled
3069
3070	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3071			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3072			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3073			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3074			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3075			Default: ratelimit
3076
3077	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3078			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3079
3080	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3081			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3082			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3083
3084	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3085			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3086			instead using the legacy FADT method
3087
3088	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3089			Format: [schedule,]<number>
3090			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3091			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3092				statistical time based profiling.
3093			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3094				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3095			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3096
3097	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3098			before loading.
3099			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3100
3101	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3102			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3103	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3104			per second.
3105	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3106			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3107			(0 = never).
3108	psmouse.resolution=
3109			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3110	psmouse.smartscroll=
3111			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3112			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3113
3114	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3115
3116	pt.		[PARIDE]
3117			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3118
3119	pty.legacy_count=
3120			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3121			default number.
3122
3123	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3124
3125	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3126
3127	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3128			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3129
3130	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3131			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3132
3133	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3134			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3135
3136			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3137			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3138			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3139			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3140			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3141			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3142			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3143			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3144			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3145			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3146
3147	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3148			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3149			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3150			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3151			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3152			This improves the real-time response for the
3153			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3154			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3155			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3156			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3157
3158	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3159			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3160			process in one batch.
3161
3162	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3163			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3164			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3165			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3166
3167	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3168			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3169			RCU grace-period cleanup.  This only has effect
3170			when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
3171
3172	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3173			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3174			RCU grace-period initialization.  This only has
3175			effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
3176			is set.
3177
3178	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3179			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3180			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3181			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3182			the rcu_node combining tree.  This only has effect
3183			when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
3184
3185	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3186			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3187			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3188			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3189			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3190
3191	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3192			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3193			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3194			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3195			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3196			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3197			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3198
3199	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3200			Set required age in jiffies for a
3201			given grace period before RCU starts
3202			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3203			rcu_note_context_switch().
3204
3205	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3206			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3207			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3208			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3209			and maximum value is HZ.
3210
3211	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3212			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3213			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3214			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3215
3216	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3217			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3218			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3219			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3220			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3221			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3222			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3223			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3224			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3225			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3226
3227	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3228			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3229			defaults to the square root of the number of
3230			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3231			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3232			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3233
3234	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3235			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3236			batch limiting is disabled.
3237
3238	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3239			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3240			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3241
3242	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3243			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3244			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3245
3246	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3247			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3248			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3249			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3250			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3251
3252	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3253			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3254			grace-period primitives.
3255
3256	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3257			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3258			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3259			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3260			interference.
3261
3262	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3263			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3264			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3265			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3266			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3267			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3268			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3269			a single reader.
3270
3271	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3272			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3273			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3274			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3275
3276	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3277			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3278
3279	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3280			Shut the system down after performance tests
3281			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3282			testing.
3283
3284	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3285			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3286
3287	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3288			Enable additional printk() statements.
3289
3290	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3291			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3292			callback-flood tests.
3293
3294	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3295			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3296			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3297			test.
3298
3299	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3300			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3301			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3302			disable callback-flood testing.
3303
3304	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3305			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3306			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3307
3308	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3309			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3310			in microseconds.
3311
3312	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3313			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3314			in microseconds.
3315
3316	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3317			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3318			in seconds.
3319
3320	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3321			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3322			primitives, if available.
3323
3324	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3325			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3326
3327	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3328			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3329			update-side primitives, if available.
3330
3331	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3332			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3333			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3334			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3335			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3336			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3337			they are all non-zero.
3338
3339	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3340			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3341
3342	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3343			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3344			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3345			test, hence the "fake".
3346
3347	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3348			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3349			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3350			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3351			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3352			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3353
3354	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3355			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3356
3357	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3358			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3359
3360	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3361			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3362			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3363
3364	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3365			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3366			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3367			during the rcutorture test.
3368
3369	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3370			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3371			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3372
3373	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3374			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3375			warnings, zero to disable.
3376
3377	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3378			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3379
3380	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3381			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3382
3383	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3384			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3385			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3386			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3387			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3388
3389	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3390			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3391			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3392			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3393
3394	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3395			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3396
3397	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3398			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3399
3400	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3401			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3402			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3403
3404	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3405			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3406
3407	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3408			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3409
3410	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3411			Enable additional printk() statements.
3412
3413	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3414			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3415
3416	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3417			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3418
3419	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3420			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3421			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3422			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3423			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3424			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3425			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3426
3427	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3428			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3429			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3430			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3431			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3432			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3433			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3434			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3435			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3436
3437	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3438			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3439			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3440			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3441			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3442
3443	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3444			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3445			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3446			to zero.
3447
3448	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3449			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3450
3451	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3452			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3453
3454	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3455			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3456
3457	rdinit=		[KNL]
3458			Format: <full_path>
3459			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3460			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3461
3462	reboot=		[KNL]
3463			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3464				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3465				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3466				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3467				[[,]f[orce]
3468			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3469			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3470			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3471			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3472					to be used for rebooting.
3473
3474	relax_domain_level=
3475			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3476			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3477
3478	relative_sleep_states=
3479			[SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
3480			state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
3481			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3482			0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
3483			1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
3484
3485	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3486
3487	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3488			Format: nn[KMG]
3489			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3490			address space.
3491
3492	reservelow=	[X86]
3493			Format: nn[K]
3494			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3495			the bottom of the address space.
3496
3497	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3498			during initialization.
3499
3500	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3501			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3502			Format:
3503			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3504
3505	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3506			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3507			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3508			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3509			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3510
3511	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3512			read the resume files
3513
3514	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3515			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3516			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3517
3518	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3519		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3520				present during boot.
3521		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3522		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3523		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3524				(that will set all pages holding image data
3525				during restoration read-only).
3526
3527	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3528
3529	rfkill.default_state=
3530		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3531			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3532		1	Unblocked.
3533
3534	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3535		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3536		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3537			blocked and the previous configuration.
3538		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3539			blocked and everything unblocked.
3540
3541	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3542			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3543
3544	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3545
3546	rodata=		[KNL]
3547		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3548		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3549
3550	rockchip.usb_uart
3551			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3552			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3553			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3554			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3555
3556	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3557			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3558
3559	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3560			mount the root filesystem
3561
3562	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3563
3564	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3565
3566	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3567			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3568			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3569
3570	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3571			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3572			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3573			managed by CMA.
3574
3575	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3576
3577	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3578
3579	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3580			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3581		strict
3582			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3583			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3584			which is faster.
3585
3586	sa1100ir	[NET]
3587			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3588
3589	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3590
3591	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3592
3593	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3594			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3595			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3596			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3597
3598	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3599			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3600			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3601			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3602			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3603			1 -- enable.
3604			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3605			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3606
3607	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3608			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3609			security module asking for security registration will be
3610			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3611			as if no module has been chosen.
3612
3613	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3614			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3615			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3616			0 -- disable.
3617			1 -- enable.
3618			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3619			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3620			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3621
3622	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3623			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3624			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3625			0 -- disable.
3626			1 -- enable.
3627			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3628
3629	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3630
3631	shapers=	[NET]
3632			Maximal number of shapers.
3633
3634	show_msr=	[x86] show boot-time MSR settings
3635			Format: { <integer> }
3636			Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings.
3637			The parameter means the number of CPUs to show,
3638			for example 1 means boot CPU only.
3639
3640	simeth=		[IA-64]
3641	simscsi=
3642
3643	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3644
3645	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3646			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3647			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3648			allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
3649			merging on their own.
3650			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3651
3652	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3653			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3654			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3655			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3656			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3657
3658	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3659			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3660			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3661			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3662			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3663			last alloc / free. For more information see
3664			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3665
3666	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3667			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3668			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3669			fragmentation. For more information see
3670			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3671
3672	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3673			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3674			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3675			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3676			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3677			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3678			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3679			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3680
3681	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3682			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3683			lower than slub_max_order.
3684			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3685
3686	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3687			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3688			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3689
3690	smart2=		[HW]
3691			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3692
3693	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3694	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3695	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3696	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3697	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3698	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3699	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3700				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3701				1: Fast pin select (default)
3702				2: ATC IRMode
3703
3704	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3705			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3706			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3707			actual hardware limit.
3708			Format: <integer>
3709			Default: -1 (no limit)
3710
3711	softlockup_panic=
3712			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3713			Format: <integer>
3714
3715	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3716			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3717			backtraces on all cpus.
3718			Format: <integer>
3719
3720	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3721			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3722
3723	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3724	spia_fio_base=
3725	spia_pedr=
3726	spia_peddr=
3727
3728	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
3729			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3730
3731	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3732			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3733			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3734			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3735			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3736			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3737			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3738
3739	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
3740			Format: <num>
3741			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3742			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3743			as the initial boot-console.
3744			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3745
3746	sti_font=	[HW]
3747			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3748
3749	stifb=		[HW]
3750			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3751
3752	sunrpc.min_resvport=
3753	sunrpc.max_resvport=
3754			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3755			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3756			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3757			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3758			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3759			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3760			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3761			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3762			maximum port values.
3763
3764	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3765			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3766			Limit the number of requests that the server will
3767			process in parallel from a single connection.
3768			The default value is 0 (no limit).
3769
3770	sunrpc.pool_mode=
3771			[NFS]
3772			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3773			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
3774			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3775			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3776			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3777			NFS server is running.
3778
3779			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
3780				    automatically using heuristics
3781			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
3782			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
3783			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3784				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
3785
3786	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3787	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3788			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3789			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3790			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3791			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3792			improve throughput, but will also increase the
3793			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3794
3795	suspend.pm_test_delay=
3796			[SUSPEND]
3797			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3798			mode before resuming the system (see
3799			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3800			is set. Default value is 5.
3801
3802	swapaccount=[0|1]
3803			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3804			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3805			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
3806
3807	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3808			Format: { <int> | force }
3809			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3810			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3811			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
3812
3813	switches=	[HW,M68k]
3814
3815	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
3816			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
3817			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
3818			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
3819			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
3820			in older udev will not work anymore.
3821			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
3822			the kernel configuration.
3823
3824	sysrq_always_enabled
3825			[KNL]
3826			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
3827			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
3828			Useful for debugging.
3829
3830	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
3831			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
3832			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
3833			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
3834			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
3835			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
3836
3837	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
3838
3839	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
3840			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
3841			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
3842			as the system sleep state during system startup with
3843			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
3844			The system is woken from this state using a
3845			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
3846
3847	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3848			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
3849
3850	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
3851			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
3852			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
3853
3854	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
3855			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
3856			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
3857
3858	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
3859			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
3860			critical and hot trip points.
3861
3862	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
3863			1: disable ACPI thermal control
3864
3865	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
3866			-1: disable all passive trip points
3867			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
3868			value
3869
3870	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
3871			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
3872			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
3873			0: no polling (default)
3874
3875	threadirqs	[KNL]
3876			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
3877			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
3878
3879	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
3880			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
3881
3882	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3883			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
3884			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
3885
3886	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3887			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
3888			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
3889			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
3890
3891	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3892			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
3893			to the hypervisor.
3894
3895	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
3896			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
3897			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
3898			kernel based on different criteria.
3899
3900	topology=	[S390]
3901			Format: {off | on}
3902			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
3903			topology information if the hardware supports this.
3904			The scheduler will make use of this information and
3905			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
3906			Default is on.
3907
3908	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
3909			Format: {off}
3910			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
3911			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
3912			LPAR.
3913
3914	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
3915
3916	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
3917			Format: integer pcr id
3918			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
3919			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
3920			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
3921			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
3922			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
3923			are saved.
3924
3925	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3926			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
3927
3928	trace_event=[event-list]
3929			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
3930			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
3931			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
3932			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
3933
3934	trace_options=[option-list]
3935			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
3936			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
3937			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
3938			to echo the option name into
3939
3940			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
3941
3942			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
3943			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
3944
3945			      trace_options=stacktrace
3946
3947			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
3948			section.
3949
3950	tp_printk[FTRACE]
3951			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
3952			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
3953			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
3954			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
3955			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
3956
3957			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
3958			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
3959			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
3960			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
3961
3962			** CAUTION **
3963
3964			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
3965			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
3966			the system to live lock.
3967
3968	traceoff_on_warning
3969			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
3970			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
3971			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
3972			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
3973
3974			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
3975			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
3976			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
3977
3978			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
3979			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
3980
3981	transparent_hugepage=
3982			[KNL]
3983			Format: [always|madvise|never]
3984			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
3985			with respect to transparent hugepages.
3986			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
3987
3988	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
3989			Format: <string>
3990			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
3991			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
3992			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
3993			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
3994			virtualized environment.
3995			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
3996			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
3997			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
3998			can add overhead.
3999
4000	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4001			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4002			Format:
4003			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4004			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4005
4006	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4007			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4008			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4009			help "seeing" what's going on.
4010
4011	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4012			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4013
4014	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4015			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4016			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4017			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4018			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4019			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4020			reported either.
4021
4022	unknown_nmi_panic
4023			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4024
4025	usbcore.authorized_default=
4026			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4027			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4028			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4029
4030	usbcore.autosuspend=
4031			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4032			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4033			is the time required before an idle device will be
4034			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4035			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4036
4037	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4038			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4039
4040	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4041			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4042			(default = 65536).
4043
4044	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4045			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4046
4047	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4048			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4049			scheme (default 0 = off).
4050
4051	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4052			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4053			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4054
4055	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4056			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4057			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4058
4059	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4060			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4061                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4062			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4063
4064	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4065
4066	usbhid.mousepoll=
4067			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4068
4069	usb-storage.delay_use=
4070			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4071			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4072
4073	usb-storage.quirks=
4074			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4075			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4076			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4077			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4078			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4079			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4080			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4081				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4082					of sense data);
4083				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4084					bytes of sense data);
4085				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4086					device capacity by one sector);
4087				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4088					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4089				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4090					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4091				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4092					command, uas only);
4093				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4094					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4095				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4096					reported device capacity by one
4097					sector if the number is odd);
4098				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4099					device);
4100				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4101					command, uas only);
4102				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4103					unlock ejectable media);
4104				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4105					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4106				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4107					initial READ(10) command);
4108				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4109					reported by the device);
4110				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4111					by default);
4112				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4113					bogus residue values);
4114				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4115					Logical Unit);
4116				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4117					commands, uas only);
4118				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4119				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4120					medium is write-protected).
4121				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4122					even if the device claims no cache)
4123			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4124
4125	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4126			Format: <int>
4127			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4128				 1 - undefined instruction events
4129				 2 - system calls
4130				 4 - invalid data aborts
4131				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4132				16 - SIGBUS faults
4133			Example: user_debug=31
4134
4135	userpte=
4136			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4137
4138				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4139					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4140					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4141
4142	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4143			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4144
4145			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4146			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4147
4148	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4149			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4150			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4151
4152			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4153			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4154			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4155
4156			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4157			alias for vdso32=0.
4158
4159			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4160			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4161
4162	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4163			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4164
4165	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4166			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4167
4168	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4169			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4170			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4171			level and then send out the event to user space through
4172			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4173			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4174			brightness level.
4175			default: 1
4176
4177	virtio_mmio.device=
4178			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4179
4180				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4181			where:
4182				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4183						like K, M and G)
4184				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4185				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4186						request_irq())
4187				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4188			example:
4189				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4190
4191			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4192
4193	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4194			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4195			Documentation/svga.txt.
4196			Use vga=ask for menu.
4197			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4198			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4199
4200	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4201			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4202			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4203			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4204			mapped kernel RAM.
4205
4206	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4207			Format: <command>
4208
4209	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4210			Format: <command>
4211
4212	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4213			Format: <command>
4214
4215	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4216			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4217			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4218			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4219			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4220			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4221			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4222
4223			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4224			            emulated reasonably safely.
4225
4226			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4227			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4228			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4229			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4230			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4231
4232			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4233			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4234			            might break your system.
4235
4236	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4237			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4238			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4239
4240	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4241			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4242			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4243			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4244
4245	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4246			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4247			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4248			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4249			ranging from 0-255.
4250
4251	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4252			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4253			Change the default green palette of the console.
4254			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4255			ranging from 0-255.
4256
4257	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4258			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4259			Change the default red palette of the console.
4260			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4261			ranging from 0-255.
4262
4263	vt.default_utf8=
4264			[VT]
4265			Format=<0|1>
4266			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4267			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4268			newly opened terminals.
4269
4270	vt.global_cursor_default=
4271			[VT]
4272			Format=<-1|0|1>
4273			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4274			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4275			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4276			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4277			cursors, 1 will display them.
4278
4279	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4280			Default: 2 = green.
4281
4282	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4283			Default: 3 = cyan.
4284
4285	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4286			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4287			or other driver-specific files in the
4288			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4289
4290	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4291			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4292			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4293			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4294			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4295			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4296			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4297			corresponding sysfs file.
4298
4299	workqueue.disable_numa
4300			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4301			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4302			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4303			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4304			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4305			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4306			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4307
4308	workqueue.power_efficient
4309			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4310			they show better performance thanks to cache
4311			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4312			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4313
4314			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4315			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4316			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4317			power usage at the cost of small performance
4318			overhead.
4319
4320			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4321			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4322
4323	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4324			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4325			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4326			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4327			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4328			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4329			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4330			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4331			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4332			impacted.
4333
4334	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4335			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4336			supporting x2apic.
4337
4338	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4339			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4340			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4341			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4342			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4343
4344	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4345			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4346			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4347			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4348			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4349			domains.
4350
4351	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4352			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4353			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4354			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4355			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4356			nics -- unplug network devices
4357			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4358			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4359				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4360				the unplug protocol
4361			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4362
4363	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4364			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4365			optimizations.
4366
4367	xen_nopv	[X86]
4368			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4369			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4370
4371	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4372			Format:
4373			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4374