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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64]
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,riscv64]
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 and RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or
14			"acpi=force" are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326			irtcachedis  - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
327
328	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
329			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
330			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
331			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
332			IOMMU initialization.
333
334	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
335			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
336			remapping modes:
337			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
338			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
339			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
340			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
341			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
342
343	amd_pstate=	[X86]
344			disable
345			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
346			  scaling driver for the supported processors
347			passive
348			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
349			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
350			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
351			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
352			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
353			active
354			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
355			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
356			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
357			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
358			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
359			  frequency.
360			guided
361			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
362			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
363			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
364			  to the current workload.
365
366	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
367			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
368			Format: <a>,<b>
369			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
370
371	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
372			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
373			connected to one of 16 gameports
374			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
375
376	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
377			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
378			Format: noidle
379			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
380			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
381			APC and your system crashes randomly.
382
383	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
384			Change the output verbosity while booting
385			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
386			Change the amount of debugging information output
387			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
388			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
389			driver name.
390			Format: apic=driver_name
391			Examples: apic=bigsmp
392
393	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
394			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
395			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
396			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
397			      backup of CPU 0
398			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
399			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
400			      shot down by NMI
401
402	autoconf=	[IPV6]
403			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
404
405	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
406			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
407
408	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
409			Format: { "0" | "1" }
410			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
411			0 -- disable.
412			1 -- enable.
413			Default value is set via kernel config option.
414
415	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
416			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
417
418	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
419			Identification support
420
421	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
422			Set instructions support
423
424	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
425			support
426
427	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
428			support
429
430	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
431			Extension support
432
433	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
434			Extension support
435
436	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
437
438	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
439
440	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
441			EzKey and similar keyboards
442
443	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
444
445	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
446			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
447
448	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
449			keyboards
450
451	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
452			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
453
454	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
455			Use software keyboard repeat
456
457	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
458			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
459			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
460			    enabled until the next reboot
461			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
462			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
463			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
464			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
465			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
466			    userspace auditd.
467			Default: unset
468
469	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
470			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
471			Default: 64
472
473	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
474			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
475			Format: { "0" | "1" }
476			0 - Disable the BAU.
477			1 - Enable the BAU.
478			unset - Disable the BAU.
479
480	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
481			Format: <io>,<mode>
482
483	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
484			Format: <io>,<mode>
485			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
486
487	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
488			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
489			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
490			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
491
492	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
493			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
494			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
495			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
496
497	bert_disable	[ACPI]
498			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
499
500	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
501			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
502
503	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
504			embedded devices based on command line input.
505			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
506
507	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
508			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
509			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
510			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
511			erroneous and ignored.
512			Format: integer
513
514	bootconfig	[KNL]
515			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
516			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
517
518			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
519
520	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
521	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
522			kernel args too.
523	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
524	bttv.tuner=
525
526	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
527			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
528			at a time.
529
530	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
531
532	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
533			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
534			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
535			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
536			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
537			This option provides an override for these situations.
538
539	carrier_timeout=
540			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
541			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
542			it waits 120 seconds.
543
544	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
545			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
546			trust validation.
547			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
548
549	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
550			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
551			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
552			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
553			others).
554
555	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
556			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
557
558	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
559			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
560			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
561			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
562			  a single hierarchy
563			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
564			  subsystem
565			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
566			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
567			  created
568			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
569			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
570			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
571			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
572			stall information accounting feature
573
574	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
575			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
576			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
577			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
578			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
579			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
580			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
581			all v1 hierarchies.
582
583	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
584			Format: { "true" | "false" }
585			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
586
587	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
588			Format: <string>
589			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
590			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
591			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
592
593	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
594			Format: { "0" | "1" }
595			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
596			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
597				any implied execute protection).
598			1 -- check protection requested by application.
599			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
600			Value can be changed at runtime via
601				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
602			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
603
604	cio_ignore=	[S390]
605			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
606
607	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
608			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
609			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
610			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
611			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
612			ones should be.
613			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
614			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
615			instability issue. However, not all features have names
616			in /proc/cpuinfo.
617			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
618			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
619			or using the feature without checking anything
620			will still see it. This just prevents it from
621			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
622			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
623			some critical bits.
624
625	clk_ignore_unused
626			[CLK]
627			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
628			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
629			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
630			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
631			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
632			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
633			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
634			platform with proper driver support.  For more
635			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
636
637	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
638			[Deprecated]
639			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
640			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
641			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
642			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
643
644	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
645			Format: <string>
646			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
647			with the name specified.
648			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
649			the platform:
650			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
651			[ACPI] acpi_pm
652			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
653				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
654			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
655				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
656			[MIPS] MIPS
657			[PARISC] cr16
658			[S390] tod
659			[SH] SuperH
660			[SPARC64] tick
661			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
662
663	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
664			[ARM,ARM64]
665			Format: <bool>
666			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
667			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
668			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
669			systems.
670
671	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
672			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
673			external delays before the clock will be marked
674			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
675			three attempts to read the clock under test.
676
677	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
678			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
679			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
680			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
681			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
682			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
683			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
684			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
685			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
686
687	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
688			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
689			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
690			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
691			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
692
693	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
694			[KNL,CMA]
695			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
696			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
697			placement constraint by the physical address range of
698			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
699			altogether. For more information, see
700			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
701
702	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
703			[KNL,CMA]
704			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
705			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
706			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
707			specified, the default value is 0.
708			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
709			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
710			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
711			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
712
713	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
714			[KNL,CMA]
715			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
716			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
717			area for the specified node.
718
719			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
720			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
721			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
722			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
723
724	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
725			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
726			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
727			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
728			a hypervisor.
729			Default: yes
730
731	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
732			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
733			allocations, by default set to 256K.
734
735	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
736			Format:
737			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
738
739	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
740			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
741
742	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
743			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
744			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
745
746	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
747	conmode=
748
749	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
750			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
751			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
752			the console buffer is full. In this case the
753			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
754			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
755			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
756			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
757			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
758			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
759
760	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
761
762		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
763
764		ttyS<n>[,options]
765		ttyUSB0[,options]
766			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
767			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
768			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
769			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
770			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
771
772			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
773			information.  See
774			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
775			alternative.
776
777		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
778		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
779		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
780		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
781		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
782			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
783			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
784			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
785			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
786			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
787			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
788			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
789			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
790			the h/w is not re-initialized.
791
792		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
793			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
794
795		{ null | "" }
796			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
797			console messages discarded.
798			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
799			kernel command line.
800
801		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
802		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
803			console=brl,ttyS0
804		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
805
806	console_msg_format=
807			[KNL] Change console messages format
808		default
809			By default we print messages on consoles in
810			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
811			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
812			`printk_time' param).
813		syslog
814			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
815			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
816			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
817			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
818			from /proc/kmsg.
819
820	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
821			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
822			Defaults to 0.
823
824	coredump_filter=
825			[KNL] Change the default value for
826			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
827			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
828
829	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
830			[ARM,ARM64]
831			Format: <bool>
832			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
833			0: default value, disable debugging
834			1: enable debugging at boot time
835
836	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
837			Format:
838			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
839
840	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
841			disable the cpuidle sub-system
842
843	cpuidle.governor=
844			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
845
846	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
847			disable the cpufreq sub-system
848
849	cpufreq.default_governor=
850			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
851			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
852			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
853
854	cpu_init_udelay=N
855			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
856			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
857			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
858			Default: 10000
859
860	cpuhp.parallel=
861			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
862			Format: <bool>
863			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
864			the parameter has no effect.
865
866	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
867			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
868			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
869			succeeds in any situation.
870			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
871			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
872			kernel more unstable.
873
874	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
875			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
876			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
877			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
878			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
879			is selected automatically.
880			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] Select a region under 4G first, and
881			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
882			hasn't been specified.
883			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
884
885	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
886			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
887			in the running system. The syntax of range is
888			start-[end] where start and end are both
889			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
890			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
891
892	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
893			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range could be above 4G.
894			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
895			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
896			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
897			below 4G, if available.
898			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
899	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
900			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
901			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
902			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
903			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
904			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
905			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
906			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
907			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
908			size is	platform dependent.
909			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
910			  --> arm64: 128MiB
911			  --> riscv: 128MiB
912			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
913			for second kernel instead.
914			0: to disable low allocation.
915			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
916			or memory reserved is below 4G.
917
918	cryptomgr.notests
919			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
920
921	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
922			Format: <dma>
923
924	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
925			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
926
927	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
928			function call handling. When switched on,
929			additional debug data is printed to the console
930			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
931			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
932			the hang situation.  The default value of this
933			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
934			Kconfig option.
935
936	dasd=		[HW,NET]
937			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
938
939	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
940			(one device per port)
941			Format: <port#>,<type>
942			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
943
944	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
945
946	debug_boot_weak_hash
947			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
948			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
949			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
950			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
951			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
952			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
953
954	debug_locks_verbose=
955			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
956			Format: <int>
957			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
958			self-tests.
959			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
960			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
961			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
962			useful to lockdep developers.
963
964	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
965
966	debug_guardpage_minorder=
967			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
968			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
969			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
970			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
971			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
972			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
973			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
974			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
975			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
976			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
977			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
978			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
979			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
980			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
981			bypassed) which are not detectable by
982			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
983			tracking down these problems.
984
985	debug_pagealloc=
986			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
987			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
988			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
989			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
990			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
991			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
992			on: enable the feature
993
994	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
995			and debugfs internal clients.
996			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
997			on: 	All functions are enabled.
998			no-mount:
999				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
1000			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
1001				its content. There is nothing to mount.
1002			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1003			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1004				or directories within debugfs.
1005				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1006				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1007			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1008
1009	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1010
1011	default_hugepagesz=
1012			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1013			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1014			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1015			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1016			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1017			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1018			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1019			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1020			Format: size[KMG]
1021
1022	deferred_probe_timeout=
1023			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1024			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1025			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1026			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1027			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1028			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1029			successful driver registration. This option will also
1030			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1031			retrying.
1032
1033	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1034
1035	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1036			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1037			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1038			hardware.
1039
1040	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1041			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1042			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1043			blacklisted features.
1044
1045	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1046			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1047			(disabled by default).
1048
1049	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1050			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1051			capability is set.
1052
1053	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1054			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1055
1056	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1057			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1058
1059	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1060			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1061			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1062			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1063			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1064			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1065			          only (compression on level 1)
1066			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1067			          only (decompression)
1068			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1069			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1070
1071	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1072			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1073
1074	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1075			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1076			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1077			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1078			miss to occur.
1079
1080	disable=	[IPV6]
1081			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1082
1083	disable_radix	[PPC]
1084			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1085
1086	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1087			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1088			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1089
1090	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1091			Format: <int>
1092			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1093			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1094			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1095			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1096			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1097			INIT from AP to BSP.
1098
1099	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1100			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1101			to workaround buggy firmware.
1102
1103	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1104			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1105
1106	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1107			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1108			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1109			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1110
1111	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1112			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1113			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1114			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1115			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1116
1117	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1118			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1119			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1120
1121	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1122
1123	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1124			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1125
1126	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1127			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1128			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1129			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1130			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1131			architectural default is too low.
1132
1133	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1134			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1135			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1136			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1137			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1138			driver later using sysfs.
1139
1140	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1141			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1142			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1143			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1144			match the *.
1145			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1146
1147	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1148			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1149			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1150			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1151			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1152			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1153			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1154			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1155			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1156			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1157			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1158			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1159			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1160			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1161			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1162			data set with no connector name will be used for
1163			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1164
1165	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1166
1167	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1168			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1169			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1170			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1171			exists).
1172			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1173			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1174			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1175
1176	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1177			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1178			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1179			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1180
1181	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1182	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1183			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1184			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1185			for details.
1186
1187	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1188			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1189			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1190			which are not unmapped.
1191
1192	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1193
1194			When used with no options, the early console is
1195			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1196			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1197			the platform.
1198
1199		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1200			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1201			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1202			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1203			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1204			configured.
1205
1206		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1207		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1208		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1209		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1210		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1211			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1212			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1213			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1214			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1215			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1216			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1217			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1218			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1219			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1220			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1221
1222		pl011,<addr>
1223		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1225			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1226			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1227			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1228			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1229			the device registers.
1230
1231		liteuart,<addr>
1232			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1233			specified address. The serial port must already be
1234			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1235
1236		meson,<addr>
1237			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1238			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1239			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1240			supported.
1241
1242		msm_serial,<addr>
1243			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1244			port at the specified address. The serial port
1245			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1246			yet supported.
1247
1248		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1249			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1250			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1251			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1252			yet supported.
1253
1254		owl,<addr>
1255			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1256			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1257			specified address. The serial port must already be
1258			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1259
1260		rda,<addr>
1261			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1262			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1263			specified address. The serial port must already be
1264			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1265
1266		sbi
1267			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1268			console.
1269
1270		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1271
1272		s3c2410,<addr>
1273		s3c2412,<addr>
1274		s3c2440,<addr>
1275		s3c6400,<addr>
1276		s5pv210,<addr>
1277		exynos4210,<addr>
1278			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1279			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1280			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1281			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1282			Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		lantiq,<addr>
1285			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1286			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1287			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1288			yet supported.
1289
1290		lpuart,<addr>
1291		lpuart32,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1293			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1294			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1295			port must already be setup and configured.
1296
1297		ec_imx21,<addr>
1298		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1299			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1300			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1301			must already be setup and configured.
1302
1303		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1304			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1305			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1306			address. The serial port must already be setup
1307			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1308
1309		qcom_geni,<addr>
1310			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1311			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1312			specified address. The serial port must already be
1313			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1314
1315		efifb,[options]
1316			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1317			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1318			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1319			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1320			mapped with the correct attributes.
1321
1322		linflex,<addr>
1323			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1324			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1325			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1326			already be setup and configured.
1327
1328	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1329			earlyprintk=vga
1330			earlyprintk=sclp
1331			earlyprintk=xen
1332			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1333			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1334			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1335			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1336			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1337			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1338			earlyprintk=bios
1339
1340			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1341			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1342			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1343
1344			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1345			takes over.
1346
1347			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1348			be used at a time.
1349
1350			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1351			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1352			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1353			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1354				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1355			You can find the port for a given device in
1356			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1357				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1358
1359			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1360			very good.
1361
1362			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1363			the real console.
1364
1365			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1366
1367			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1368
1369			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1370
1371			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1372			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1373			UART class.
1374
1375	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1376			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1377			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1378			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1379			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1380			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1381			default: on.
1382
1383	edd=		[EDD]
1384			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1385
1386	efi=		[EFI]
1387			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1388				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1389				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1390			debug: enable misc debug output.
1391			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1392			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1393			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1394			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1395			firmware implementations.
1396			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1397			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1398			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1399			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1400			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1401			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1402			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1403			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1404			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1405			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1406
1407	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1408			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1409			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1410			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1411			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1412
1413	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1414			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1415			updating original EFI memory map.
1416			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1417			from ss to ss+nn.
1418
1419			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1420			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1421			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1422			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1423
1424			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1425			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1426			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1427
1428			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1429			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1430			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1431			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1432			"soft reserved".
1433
1434	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1435			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1436			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1437			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1438			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1439
1440
1441	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1442			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1443
1444	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1445			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1446
1447			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1448			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1449
1450			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1451			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1452			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1453			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1454
1455	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1456			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1457			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1458
1459	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1460			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1461			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1462			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1463			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1464
1465	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1466			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1467			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1468			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1469
1470	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1471			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1472			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1473			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1474			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1475
1476	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1477			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1478			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1479			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1480			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1481			Default value is 0.
1482			Value can be changed at runtime via
1483			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1484
1485	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1486			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1487			support.
1488
1489	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1490			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1491			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1492
1493	evm=		[EVM]
1494			Format: { "fix" }
1495			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1496			current integrity status.
1497
1498	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1499			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1500			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1501			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1502			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1503			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1504			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1505
1506	failslab=
1507	fail_usercopy=
1508	fail_page_alloc=
1509	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1510			General fault injection mechanism.
1511			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1512			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1513
1514	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1515			Format: { initns | none }
1516			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1517			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1518
1519	floppy=		[HW]
1520			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1521
1522	forcepae	[X86-32]
1523			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1524			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1525			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1526			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1527			and may cause unknown problems.
1528
1529	ftrace=[tracer]
1530			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1531			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1532			boot debugging.
1533
1534	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1535			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1536			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1537			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1538			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1539			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1540			start up functionality.
1541
1542			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1543			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1544			line parameter.
1545
1546			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1547
1548			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1549			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1550
1551	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1552			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1553			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1554			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1555			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1556			oops.
1557
1558	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1559			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1560			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1561			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1562			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1563			tracing directory.
1564
1565	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1566			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1567			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1568			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1569			tracing directory.
1570
1571	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1572			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1573			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1574			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1575			that can be changed at run time by the
1576			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1577
1578	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1579			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1580			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1581			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1582			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1583
1584	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1585			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1586			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1587			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1588			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1589
1590	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1591			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1592			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1593			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1594			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1595			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1596			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1597			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1598			suppliers).
1599			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1600			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1601			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1602				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1603				up (sync_state() calls).
1604			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1605				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1606			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1607
1608	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1609			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1610			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1611			Format: <bool>
1612
1613	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1614			[KNL] When all devices that could probe have finished
1615			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1616			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1617			calls.
1618			Format: { strict | timeout }
1619			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1620				probe successfully.
1621			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1622				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1623				received their sync_state() calls after
1624				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1625				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1626
1627	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1628			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1629			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1630			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1631			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1632
1633	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1634
1635	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1636			Format: off | on
1637			default: on
1638
1639	gather_data_sampling=
1640			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1641			mitigation.
1642
1643			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1644			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1645			previously stored in vector registers.
1646
1647			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1648			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1649			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1650			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1651
1652			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1653				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1654				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1655				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1656
1657			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1658
1659	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1660			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1661			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1662			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1663			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1664
1665	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1666			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1667			android emulator
1668
1669	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1670			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1671			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1672	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1673			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1674
1675	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1676			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1677			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1678			GPT to be used instead.
1679
1680	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1681			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1682			Format: 0 | 1
1683			Default: 0
1684	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1685			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1686			Format: 0 | 1
1687			Default: 0
1688	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1689			Format: 0 | 1
1690			Default: 0
1691	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1692			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1693			Default: 1024
1694	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1695			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1696			Default: 1024
1697
1698	hardened_usercopy=
1699			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1700			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1701			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1702			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1703			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1704			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1705			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1706		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1707		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1708
1709	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1710			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1711			backtraces on all cpus.
1712			Format: 0 | 1
1713
1714	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1715			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1716			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1717			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1718
1719	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1720
1721	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1722			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1723
1724	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1725			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1726			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1727			logic will be disabled.
1728
1729	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1730		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1731				present during boot.
1732		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1733		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1734		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1735				(that will set all pages holding image data
1736				during restoration read-only).
1737
1738	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1739			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1740			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1741			size on bigger boxes.
1742
1743	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1744			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1745			Default: "on"
1746
1747	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1748
1749	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1750			Format: <string>
1751			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1752			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1753			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1754			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1755			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1756			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1757			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1758			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1759			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1760			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1761
1762	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1763			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1764				verbose }
1765			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1766			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1767				VIA, nVidia)
1768			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1769
1770	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1771			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1772
1773	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1774			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1775			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1776			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1777			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1778			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1779			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1780			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1781			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1782				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1783
1784	hugepagesz=
1785			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1786			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1787			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1788			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1789			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1790			architecture dependent.  See also
1791			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1792			Format: size[KMG]
1793
1794	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1795			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1796			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1797			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1798				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1799
1800			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1801			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1802			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1803
1804	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1805			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1806			enabled.
1807			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1808			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1809			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1810			Format: { on | off (default) }
1811
1812			on: enable HVO
1813			off: disable HVO
1814
1815			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1816			the default is on.
1817
1818			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1819			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1820			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1821			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1822			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1823
1824	hung_task_panic=
1825			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1826			Format: 0 | 1
1827
1828			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1829			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1830			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1831			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1832			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1833
1834	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1835				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1836	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1837				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1838				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1839
1840	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1841				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1842				      guest on lock contention.
1843
1844	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1845				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1846				registered from board initialization code.
1847				Format:
1848				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1849
1850	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1851	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1852			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1853			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1854			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1855	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1856	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1857			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1858			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1859	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1860	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1861	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1862			     for the AUX port
1863	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1864			     controller
1865	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1866			     controllers
1867	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1868	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1869			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1870			     transitions, or never reset
1871			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1872			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1873			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1874			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1875			architectures force reset to be always executed
1876	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1877	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1878	i8042.probe_defer
1879			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1880
1881	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1882
1883	i915.invert_brightness=
1884			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1885			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1886			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1887			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1888			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1889			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1890			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1891			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1892			value switches the backlight off.
1893			-1 -- never invert brightness
1894			 0 -- machine default
1895			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1896
1897	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
1898			Format: <bool>
1899			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
1900			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
1901			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
1902
1903	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1904			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1905
1906
1907	idle=		[X86]
1908			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1909			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1910			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1911			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1912			Not recommended.
1913			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1914			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1915			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1916
1917	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1918			Format: <bool>
1919			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1920			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1921			true (1).
1922
1923	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1924			Format: <bool>
1925			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1926			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1927
1928	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1929			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1930			Default: strict
1931
1932			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1933			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1934			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1935			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1936			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1937			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1938			encoding mode.
1939
1940			Available settings are as follows:
1941			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1942				supported by the FPU
1943			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1944				by the FPU
1945			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1946				by the FPU
1947			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1948				supported by the FPU
1949
1950			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1951			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1952			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1953			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1954			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1955			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1956			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1957			MIPS64 CPUs.
1958
1959			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1960			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1961			except where unsupported by hardware.
1962
1963	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1964			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1965			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1966			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1967			could change it dynamically, usually by
1968			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1969
1970	ignore_rlimit_data
1971			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1972			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1973			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1974
1975	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1976			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1977
1978	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1979			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1980			default: "enforce"
1981
1982	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1983			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1984			owned by uid=0.
1985
1986	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1987			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1988			measurements, instead of host native format.
1989
1990	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1991			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1992				   | sha512 | ... }
1993			default: "sha1"
1994
1995			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1996			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1997
1998	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1999			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2000			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2001				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2002
2003			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2004			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2005			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2006			uid=0.
2007
2008			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2009			all files owned by root.
2010
2011			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2012			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2013			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2014
2015			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2016			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2017			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2018			flag.
2019
2020			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2021			critical data.
2022
2023	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2024			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2025			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2026			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2027			opened for read by uid=0.
2028
2029	ima_template=	[IMA]
2030			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2031			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2032				   "ima-sigv2" }
2033			Default: "ima-ng"
2034
2035	ima_template_fmt=
2036			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2037			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2038
2039	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
2040			Format: <min_file_size>
2041			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
2042			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
2043
2044			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
2045			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2046			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
2047
2048	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
2049			Format: <bufsize>
2050			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
2051
2052			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
2053			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
2054			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
2055
2056	init=		[KNL]
2057			Format: <full_path>
2058			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2059			process.
2060
2061	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2062			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2063			startup.
2064
2065	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2066			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2067			modules and initcalls.
2068
2069	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2070			Format: <bool>
2071			Default: 1
2072			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2073			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2074			with devices being probed and
2075			initialized. This should normally just work,
2076			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2077			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2078			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2079			late_ initcalls.
2080
2081	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2082
2083	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2084			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2085			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2086			setting.
2087			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2088			Default is 0, 0
2089
2090	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2091			zeroes.
2092			Format: 0 | 1
2093			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2094
2095	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2096			Format: 0 | 1
2097			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2098
2099	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2100			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2101			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2102			override in debugfs after boot.
2103
2104	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2105			Format: <irq>
2106
2107	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2108
2109	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2110			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2111			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2112			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2113
2114	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2115		on
2116			Enable intel iommu driver.
2117		off
2118			Disable intel iommu driver.
2119		igfx_off [Default Off]
2120			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2121			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2122			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2123			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2124			DMA.
2125		strict [Default Off]
2126			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2127		sp_off [Default Off]
2128			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2129			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2130			not be supported.
2131		sm_on
2132			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2133			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2134			translation.
2135		sm_off
2136			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2137		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2138			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2139			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2140			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2141			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2142			mapping is enabled.
2143			Note that using this option lowers the security
2144			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2145			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2146
2147	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2148			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2149			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2150
2151	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2152			disable
2153			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2154			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2155                        active
2156                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2157                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2158                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2159                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2160                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2161                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2162                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2163                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2164                          and possibly on the processor model.
2165			passive
2166			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2167			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2168			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2169			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2170			  feature.
2171			force
2172			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2173			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2174			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2175			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2176			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2177			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2178			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2179			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2180			no_hwp
2181			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2182			  if available.
2183			hwp_only
2184			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2185			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2186			support_acpi_ppc
2187			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2188			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2189			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2190			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2191			per_cpu_perf_limits
2192			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2193			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2194
2195	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2196			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2197			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2198			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2199			no_x2apic_optout
2200				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2201			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2202
2203	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2204		strict	regions from userspace.
2205		relaxed
2206
2207	iommu=		[X86]
2208		off
2209		force
2210		noforce
2211		biomerge
2212		panic
2213		nopanic
2214		merge
2215		nomerge
2216		soft
2217		pt		[X86]
2218		nopt		[X86]
2219		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2220			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2221
2222	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2223			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2224			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2225			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2226			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2227			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2228			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2229
2230	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86, S390] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2231			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2232			0 - Lazy mode.
2233			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2234			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2235			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2236			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2237			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2238			1 - Strict mode.
2239			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2240			  synchronously.
2241			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2242			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2243			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2244
2245	iommu.passthrough=
2246			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2247			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2248			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2249			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2250			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2251
2252	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2253			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2254			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2255
2256	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2257		0x80
2258			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2259		0xed
2260			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2261		udelay
2262			Simple two microseconds delay
2263		none
2264			No delay
2265
2266	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2267			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2268
2269	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2270			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2271
2272	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2273			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2274
2275	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2276			[ARM, ARM64]
2277			Format: <bool>
2278			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2279			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2280			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2281
2282	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2283			[ARM, ARM64]
2284			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2285			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2286			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2287			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2288			LPIs.
2289
2290	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2291			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2292			requires the kernel to be built with
2293			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2294
2295	irqfixup	[HW]
2296			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2297			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2298			firmware running.
2299
2300	irqpoll		[HW]
2301			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2302			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2303			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2304			firmware running.
2305
2306	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2307			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2308
2309	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2310			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2311			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2312
2313			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2314			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2315
2316			nohz
2317			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2318
2319			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2320			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2321			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2322			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2323			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2324
2325			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2326			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2327			  be configured manually after bootup.
2328
2329			domain
2330			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2331			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2332			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2333			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2334			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2335			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2336			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2337			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2338
2339			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2340			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2341			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2342			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2343
2344			managed_irq
2345
2346			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2347			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2348			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2349			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2350			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2351
2352			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2353			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2354			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2355			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2356			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2357			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2358			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2359
2360			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2361			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2362			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2363			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2364			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2365			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2366			  queues.
2367
2368			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2369
2370	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2371
2372	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2373			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2374			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2375			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2376
2377			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2378			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2379			write the parameter as:
2380				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2381
2382			Deprecated formats:
2383			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2384			  write the parameter as:
2385				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2386			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2387			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2388				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2389
2390	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2391			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2392			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2393			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2394
2395			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2396			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2397			write the parameter as:
2398				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2399
2400			Deprecated formats:
2401			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2402			  write the parameter as:
2403				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2404			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2405			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2406				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2407
2408	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2409			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2410			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2411			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2412
2413			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2414			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2415			write the parameter as:
2416				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2417
2418			Deprecated formats:
2419			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2420			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2421				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2422			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2423			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2424				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2425
2426	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2427			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2428
2429	kasan_multi_shot
2430			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2431			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2432			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2433			invalid access.
2434
2435	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2436			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2437			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2438			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2439			the real console.
2440
2441	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2442
2443	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2444			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2445			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2446			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2447			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2448			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2449			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2450			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2451			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2452			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2453
2454			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2455			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2456			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2457			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2458			zone if it does not.
2459
2460			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2461			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2462			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2463			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2464			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2465			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2466			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2467
2468	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2469			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2470			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2471			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2472			optional and is the number seconds in between
2473			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2474			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2475			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2476			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2477			the kernel debugger.
2478
2479	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2480			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2481			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2482			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2483			 keyboard only format: kbd
2484			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2485			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2486			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2487			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2488
2489	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2490			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2491			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2492			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2493			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2494			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2495			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2496
2497			The name of the early console should be specified
2498			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2499			the early console might be different than the tty
2500			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2501			blank and the first boot console that implements
2502			read() will be picked.
2503
2504	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2505			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2506
2507	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2508			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2509			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2510
2511	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2512			Valid arguments: on, off
2513			Default: on
2514			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2515			the default is off.
2516
2517	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2518			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2519			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2520			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2521			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2522			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2523			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2524
2525			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2526
2527			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2528			Boot Parameter" section.
2529
2530	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2531			and kernel address spaces.
2532			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2533			0: force disabled
2534			1: force enabled
2535
2536	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2537			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2538			default value can be overridden via
2539			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2540			Default is 1 (enabled)
2541
2542	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2543			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2544
2545	kvm.eager_page_split=
2546			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2547			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2548			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2549			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2550			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2551			required to split huge pages lazily.
2552
2553			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2554			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2555			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2556			still be used for reads.
2557
2558			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2559			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2560			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2561			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2562			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2563			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2564			cleared.
2565
2566			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2567
2568			Default is Y (on).
2569
2570	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2571				   Default is false (don't support).
2572
2573	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2574			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2575			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2576			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2577			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2578			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2579				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2580
2581			Default is 'auto'.
2582
2583			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2584			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2585
2586	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2587			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2588			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2589			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2590			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2591
2592	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2593			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2594			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2595			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2596			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2597			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2598
2599	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
2600			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
2601
2602	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
2603			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
2604			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2605			for NPT.
2606
2607	kvm-arm.mode=
2608			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2609
2610			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2611
2612			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2613			      protected guests.
2614
2615			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2616				   state is kept private from the host.
2617
2618			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
2619				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3
2620				hardware.
2621
2622			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2623			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2624			for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be
2625			used with extreme caution.
2626
2627	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2628			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2629			system registers
2630
2631	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2632			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2633			system registers
2634
2635	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2636			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2637			system registers
2638
2639	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2640			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2641			LPIs.
2642
2643	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2644			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2645			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2646			allocation.
2647			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2648			Format: <integer>
2649			Default: 5
2650
2651	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
2652			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
2653			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2654			for EPT.
2655
2656	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2657			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
2658			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
2659			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
2660			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
2661			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2662			Default is 1 (enabled).
2663
2664	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2665			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
2666			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
2667			hardware lacks support for it.
2668
2669	kvm-intel.nested=
2670			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
2671			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
2672
2673	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2674			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
2675			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
2676			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
2677			hardware lacks support for it.
2678
2679	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2680			CVE-2018-3620.
2681
2682			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2683
2684			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2685			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2686				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2687			never:	Disables the mitigation
2688
2689			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2690
2691	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
2692			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
2693			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
2694			for it.
2695
2696	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2697			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2698
2699			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2700			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2701			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2702
2703			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2704			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2705			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2706			not have direct access.
2707
2708			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2709			options are:
2710
2711			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2712
2713	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2714			      affected CPUs
2715
2716			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2717			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2718
2719			full
2720				Provides all available mitigations for the
2721				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2722				enables all mitigations in the
2723				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2724
2725				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2726				sysfs interface is still possible after
2727				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2728				when the first VM is started in a
2729				potentially insecure configuration,
2730				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2731
2732			full,force
2733				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2734				flush runtime control. Implies the
2735				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2736				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2737
2738			flush
2739				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2740				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2741				L1D flush.
2742
2743				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2744				sysfs interface is still possible after
2745				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2746				when the first VM is started in a
2747				potentially insecure configuration,
2748				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2749
2750			flush,nosmt
2751
2752				Disables SMT and enables the default
2753				hypervisor mitigation.
2754
2755				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2756				sysfs interface is still possible after
2757				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2758				when the first VM is started in a
2759				potentially insecure configuration,
2760				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2761
2762			flush,nowarn
2763				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2764				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2765				insecure configuration.
2766
2767			off
2768				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2769				emit any warnings.
2770				It also drops the swap size and available
2771				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2772				bare metal.
2773
2774			Default is 'flush'.
2775
2776			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2777
2778	l2cr=		[PPC]
2779
2780	l3cr=		[PPC]
2781
2782	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2783			disabled it.
2784
2785	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2786			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2787			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2788			Format: notscdeadline
2789
2790	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2791			in C2 power state.
2792
2793	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2794			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2795			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2796			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2797			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2798			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2799			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2800
2801	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2802			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2803			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2804
2805	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2806			when set.
2807			Format: <int>
2808
2809	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2810			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2811			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2812			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2813			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2814			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2815			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2816			to all ports, links and devices.
2817
2818			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2819			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2820			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2821			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2822			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2823			host link and device attached to it.
2824
2825			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2826			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2827			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2828			The following configurations can be forced.
2829
2830			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2831			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2832
2833			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2834
2835			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2836			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2837			  allowed.
2838
2839			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2840			  resets.
2841
2842			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2843			  link recovery.
2844
2845			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2846			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2847			  detection.
2848
2849			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2850
2851			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2852
2853			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2854
2855			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2856
2857			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2858
2859			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2860
2861			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2862
2863			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2864
2865			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2866			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2867
2868			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2869			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2870
2871			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2872			  identify device data log.
2873
2874			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2875			  purpose log directory.
2876
2877			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2878
2879			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2880			  1024 sectors.
2881
2882			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2883			  65535 sectors.
2884
2885			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2886
2887			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2888			  should be skipped.
2889
2890			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2891			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2892
2893			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2894
2895			* disable: Disable this device.
2896
2897			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2898			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2899
2900	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2901
2902	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2903			Format: <integer>
2904
2905	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2906			Format: <integer>
2907
2908	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2909			Format: <integer>
2910
2911	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2912			Format: <integer>
2913
2914	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2915			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2916			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2917			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2918			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2919			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2920			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2921			are also disabled.
2922
2923	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
2924			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
2925			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
2926			will result in a splat once they do complete.
2927
2928	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
2929			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
2930			to be bound.
2931
2932	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
2933			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
2934			to be bound.
2935
2936	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
2937			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
2938			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
2939			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
2940			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
2941			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
2942
2943	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
2944			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
2945			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
2946			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
2947
2948	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
2949			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
2950			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
2951			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
2952			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
2953			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
2954
2955	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2956			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2957			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2958			number of online CPUs.
2959
2960	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2961			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2962
2963	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2964			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2965
2966	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2967			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2968			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2969
2970	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
2971			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
2972			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
2973			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
2974			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
2975			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
2976			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
2977			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
2978			disable boosting.
2979
2980	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
2981			Number that determines how often and for how
2982			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
2983			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
2984			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
2985			constant as the number of writers increases.
2986			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
2987			increases with the number of writers.
2988
2989	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2990			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2991			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2992			mode during the locktorture test.
2993
2994	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2995			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2996			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2997
2998	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2999			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3000
3001	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3002			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3003			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3004			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3005			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3006			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3007
3008	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3009			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3010
3011	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3012			Enable additional printk() statements.
3013
3014	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3015			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3016			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3017
3018	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3019			Format: <irq>
3020
3021	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3022			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3023			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3024			loglevels are defined as follows:
3025
3026			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3027			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3028			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3029			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3030			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3031			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3032			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3033			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3034
3035	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
3036			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
3037			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
3038			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
3039			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
3040			that allows to increase the default size depending on
3041			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
3042
3043	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3044			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3045			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3046			kernel boot problems.
3047
3048	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3049	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3050	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3051	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3052				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3053				attached printers to be reset. Using
3054				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3055				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3056				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3057				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3058				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3059				port specification list means that device IDs
3060				from each port should be examined, to see if
3061				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3062				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3063				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3064
3065	lpj=n		[KNL]
3066			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3067			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3068			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3069			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3070			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3071			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3072			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3073			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3074			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3075			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3076			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3077			hardware.
3078
3079	ltpc=		[NET]
3080			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
3081
3082	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3083
3084	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3085			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3086			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3087
3088	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
3089			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
3090			Example: machvec=hpzx1
3091
3092	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3093			different yeeloong laptops.
3094			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3095
3096	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
3097			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
3098
3099	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3100			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3101			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3102			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3103			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3104			only takes effect during system bootup.
3105			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3106			which also disables the IO APIC.
3107
3108	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3109	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3110			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3111			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3112			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3113			/dev/loop-control interface.
3114
3115	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
3116
3117	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
3118
3119	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3120			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3121
3122	mdacon=		[MDA]
3123			Format: <first>,<last>
3124			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3125
3126	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
3127			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3128			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3129
3130			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3131			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3132			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3133
3134			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3135			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3136			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3137			not have direct access.
3138
3139			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3140			options are:
3141
3142			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3143			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3144				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3145			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3146
3147			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3148			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3149			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3150			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3151			too.
3152
3153			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3154			mds=full.
3155
3156			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3157
3158	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3159			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3160
3161	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3162			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3163
3164			1 for test;
3165			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3166			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3167			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3168			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3169
3170			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3171			high memory is not affected.
3172
3173			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3174			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3175
3176			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3177			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3178			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3179			belonging to unused RAM.
3180
3181			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3182			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3183			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3184
3185	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3186			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3187			firmware.
3188			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3189			ss[KMG].
3190			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3191			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3192
3193	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3194			memory.
3195
3196	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3197
3198	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3199			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3200			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3201
3202	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3203			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3204			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3205			set according to the
3206			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3207			option.
3208			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3209
3210	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3211			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3212			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3213			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3214			option description.
3215
3216	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3217			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3218			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3219			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3220			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3221			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3222			comma delimited.
3223			Example:
3224				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3225
3226	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3227			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3228			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3229
3230	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3231			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3232			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3233			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3234			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3235			         or
3236			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3237			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3238			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3239			will be eaten.
3240
3241	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3242			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3243			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3244			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3245			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3246
3247	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3248			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3249			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3250			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3251			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3252			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3253			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3254			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3255
3256	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3257			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3258			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3259			Setting this option will scan the memory
3260			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3261			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3262			from using the memory being corrupted.
3263			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3264			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3265			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3266			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3267
3268	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3269			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3270			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3271			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3272			corruption in more or less memory.
3273
3274	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3275			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3276			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3277			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3278
3279	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3280			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3281			Format: {on | off (default)}
3282			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3283			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3284			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3285			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3286			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3287			lot of memory without requiring additional
3288			memory to do so.
3289			This feature is disabled by default because it
3290			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3291			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3292			memory blocks).
3293			The state of the flag can be read in
3294			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3295			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3296			the feature is not effective.
3297
3298	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3299			Format: <integer>
3300			default : 0 <disable>
3301			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3302			performed. Each pass selects another test
3303			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3304			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3305			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3306			regions that are detected.
3307
3308	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3309			Valid arguments: on, off
3310			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3311			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3312			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3313			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3314			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3315
3316			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3317			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3318
3319	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3320			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3321			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3322			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3323			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3324
3325	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3326			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3327			platforms.
3328
3329	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3330			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3331			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3332			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3333
3334	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3335
3336	microcode.force_minrev=	[X86]
3337			Format: <bool>
3338			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
3339			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
3340
3341	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3342			physical address is ignored.
3343
3344	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3345			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3346			Default: "0tb"
3347			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3348			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3349			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3350			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3351			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3352			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3353			unconfigured.
3354			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3355			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3356			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3357			VGA shield.
3358			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3359			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3360			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3361			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3362			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3363			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3364
3365	mitigations=
3366			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3367			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3368			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3369			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3370
3371			off
3372				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3373				improves system performance, but it may also
3374				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3375				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3376					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
3377					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3378					       l1tf=off [X86]
3379					       mds=off [X86]
3380					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3381					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3382					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3383					       nobp=0 [S390]
3384					       nopti [X86,PPC]
3385					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3386					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3387					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3388					       retbleed=off [X86]
3389					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3390					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3391					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3392					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3393					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3394
3395				Exceptions:
3396					       This does not have any effect on
3397					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3398					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3399
3400			auto (default)
3401				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3402				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3403				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3404				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3405				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3406				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3407
3408			auto,nosmt
3409				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3410				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3411				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3412				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3413					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3414					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3415					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3416					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3417
3418	mminit_loglevel=
3419			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3420			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3421			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3422			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3423			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3424			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3425
3426	mmio_stale_data=
3427			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3428			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3429
3430			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3431			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3432			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3433			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3434			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3435			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3436
3437			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3438			options are:
3439
3440			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3441
3442			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3443				     vulnerable CPUs.
3444
3445			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3446
3447			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3448			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3449			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3450			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3451			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3452			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3453
3454			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3455			mmio_stale_data=full.
3456
3457			For details see:
3458			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3459
3460	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3461			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3462			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3463			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3464			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3465			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3466
3467	module.async_probe=<bool>
3468			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3469			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3470			specific module, use the module specific control that
3471			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3472			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3473			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3474			the specific module.
3475
3476	module.enable_dups_trace
3477			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
3478			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
3479			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
3480			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
3481			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
3482	module.sig_enforce
3483			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3484			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3485			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3486			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3487
3488	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3489			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3490
3491	mousedev.tap_time=
3492			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3493			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3494			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3495			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3496			Format: <msecs>
3497	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3498			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3499	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3500			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3501
3502	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3503			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3504			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3505			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3506			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3507			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3508			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3509			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3510			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3511			is not too small.
3512
3513	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3514			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3515			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3516			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3517			allocations. Use with caution!
3518
3519	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3520			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3521
3522	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3523			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3524
3525	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3526			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3527
3528	mtdset=		[ARM]
3529			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3530
3531			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3532
3533	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3534			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3535			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3536
3537	mtrr=debug	[X86]
3538			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
3539			registers at boot time.
3540
3541	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3542			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3543			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3544
3545	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3546			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3547			Default is 1.
3548			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3549			using up MTRRs.
3550
3551	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3552			Format: <integer>
3553			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3554			Default : 1
3555			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3556			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3557
3558	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3559			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3560			at a time.
3561
3562	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3563
3564	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3565			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3566			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3567			something different and driver-specific.
3568			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3569			file if at all.
3570
3571	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3572			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3573			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3574			waits 4 seconds.
3575
3576	nf_conntrack.acct=
3577			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3578			0 to disable accounting
3579			1 to enable accounting
3580			Default value is 0.
3581
3582	nfs.cache_getent=
3583			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3584			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3585
3586	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3587			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3588			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3589
3590	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3591			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3592			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3593			requests.
3594
3595	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3596			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3597			channel should listen.
3598
3599	nfs.delay_retrans=
3600			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
3601			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
3602			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
3603			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
3604			and the specified value is >= 0.
3605
3606	nfs.enable_ino64=
3607			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3608			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3609			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3610			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3611			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3612
3613	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3614			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3615			entries.
3616
3617	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3618			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3619			slots the client will assign to the callback
3620			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3621			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3622			a particular server.
3623
3624	nfs.max_session_slots=
3625			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3626			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3627			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3628			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3629			Note that there is little point in setting this
3630			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3631
3632	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3633			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3634			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3635			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3636			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3637			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3638			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3639			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3640			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3641			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3642			back to using the idmapper.
3643			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3644
3645	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3646			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3647			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3648			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3649			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3650
3651	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
3652			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3653			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3654			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3655			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3656			after the locks are lost.
3657			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3658			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3659			parameter to '1'.
3660			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3661			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3662
3663	nfs.send_implementation_id=
3664			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3665			information in exchange_id requests.
3666			If zero, no implementation identification information
3667			will be sent.
3668			The default is to send the implementation identification
3669			information.
3670
3671	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
3672			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3673			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3674
3675			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3676			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3677			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3678			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3679
3680	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
3681			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3682			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3683			the destination of the copy.
3684
3685	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3686			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3687			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3688			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3689			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3690			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3691
3692	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
3693			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3694			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3695			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3696			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3697			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3698			this parameter.
3699
3700	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3701			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3702
3703	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3704			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3705
3706	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3707			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3708
3709	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3710			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3711			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3712
3713	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3714			when a NMI is triggered.
3715			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3716
3717	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3718			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3719			Valid num: 0 or 1
3720			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3721			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3722			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3723			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3724			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3725			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3726			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3727			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3728			need the box quickly up again.
3729
3730			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3731			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3732
3733	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3734			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3735			is present.
3736
3737	no4lvl		[RISCV] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. Forces
3738			kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
3739
3740	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3741			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3742
3743	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3744			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3745			but will impact performance.
3746
3747	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3748
3749	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3750			(CPU alternatives feature).
3751
3752	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3753			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3754
3755	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3756
3757	nocache		[ARM]
3758
3759	no_console_suspend
3760			[HW] Never suspend the console
3761			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3762			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3763			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3764			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3765			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3766			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3767			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3768			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3769			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3770			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3771			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3772			turn on/off it dynamically.
3773
3774	no_debug_objects
3775			[KNL] Disable object debugging
3776
3777	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3778
3779	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3780
3781	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3782
3783	noexec		[IA-64]
3784
3785	noexec32	[X86-64]
3786			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3787			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3788				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3789			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3790				read implies executable mappings
3791
3792	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3793			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3794			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3795
3796	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3797
3798	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3799
3800	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3801			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3802			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3803
3804	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3805			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3806			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3807			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3808			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3809			real-time systems.
3810
3811	no_hash_pointers
3812			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3813			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3814			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3815			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3816			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3817			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3818			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3819			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3820			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3821			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3822			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3823			kernels.
3824
3825	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3826
3827	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
3828			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3829			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3830			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3831			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3832			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3833			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3834			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3835
3836	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3837
3838	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3839
3840	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3841			Valid arguments: on, off
3842			Default: on
3843
3844	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3845			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3846			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3847			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3848			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3849			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3850			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3851			just as if they had also been called out in the
3852			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3853
3854			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3855			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3856
3857	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3858			initial RAM disk.
3859
3860	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3861			remapping.
3862			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3863
3864	nointroute	[IA-64]
3865
3866	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3867
3868	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3869
3870	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3871			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3872
3873	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3874
3875	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3876
3877	nokaslr		[KNL]
3878			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3879			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3880			Layout Randomization).
3881
3882	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3883			fault handling.
3884
3885	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3886
3887	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3888
3889	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3890
3891	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3892
3893	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3894
3895	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3896			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3897
3898	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3899			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3900			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3901			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3902			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3903			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3904			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3905
3906			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3907
3908	nomodule	Disable module load
3909
3910	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3911			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3912			irq.
3913
3914	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3915			pagetables) support.
3916
3917	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3918
3919	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3920			in some Intel CPUs.
3921
3922	nopti		[X86-64]
3923			Equivalent to pti=off
3924
3925	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3926			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3927			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3928			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3929
3930	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3931			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3932			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3933			contention.
3934
3935	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3936			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3937
3938	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3939			with UP alternatives
3940
3941	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3942			space.
3943
3944	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3945
3946	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3947			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3948			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3949
3950	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3951
3952	nosmap		[PPC]
3953			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3954			even if it is supported by processor.
3955
3956	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3957			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3958			even if it is supported by processor.
3959
3960	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3961			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3962
3963	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3964			Equivalent to smt=1.
3965
3966			[KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3967			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3968				     via the sysfs control file.
3969
3970	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3971
3972	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3973			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3974
3975	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3976			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3977			with this option.
3978
3979	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3980			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3981			possible in the system.
3982
3983	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3984			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3985			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3986			option.
3987
3988	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3989			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3990			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3991
3992	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3993
3994	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3995			broken timer IRQ sources.
3996
3997	no_uaccess_flush
3998	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3999
4000	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4001			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4002			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4003			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4004			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4005			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4006			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4007			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4008			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4009			is set.
4010
4011	no-vmw-sched-clock
4012			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
4013			clock and use the default one.
4014
4015	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4016			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4017
4018	nowb		[ARM]
4019
4020	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4021
4022			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4023			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4024			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4025
4026	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4027			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4028			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4029
4030	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4031			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4032			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4033			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4034			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4035			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4036
4037	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4038			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4039			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4040			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4041			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4042			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4043			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4044
4045	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
4046			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
4047			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
4048			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
4049			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
4050			parameter's value.
4051			Format: integer between 1 and 255
4052			Default: 255
4053
4054	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
4055			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
4056			SAL PALO.
4057
4058	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
4059			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4060			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4061			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4062			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4063			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4064			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4065			hot plugging.
4066
4067	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4068
4069	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
4070			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
4071
4072	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4073			NUMA balancing.
4074			Allowed values are enable and disable
4075
4076	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4077			'node', 'default' can be specified
4078			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4079			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4080
4081	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4082			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4083			info.
4084
4085	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4086			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4087			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4088			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4089			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4090			interrupts *may* be lost!
4091
4092	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4093			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4094			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4095			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4096
4097	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4098
4099			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4100
4101			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4102				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4103			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4104				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4105				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4106
4107	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4108			process, but there is a small probability of
4109			deadlocking the machine.
4110			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4111			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4112
4113	page_alloc.shuffle=
4114			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4115			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
4116			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
4117			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
4118			cache, and this parameter can be used to
4119			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
4120			can be read from sysfs at:
4121			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4122
4123	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4124			Storage of the information about who allocated
4125			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4126			we can turn it on.
4127			on: enable the feature
4128
4129	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4130			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4131			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4132			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4133			on: turn on poisoning
4134
4135	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4136			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4137			Format: <integer>
4138			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4139			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
4140
4141	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4142			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4143			timeout = 0: wait forever
4144			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4145			Format: <timeout>
4146
4147	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4148			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4149			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4150			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4151			called with any of the flags in this set.
4152			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4153			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4154			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4155			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4156			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4157			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4158			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4159
4160	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4161			on a WARN().
4162
4163	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4164			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4165			bit 0: print all tasks info
4166			bit 1: print system memory info
4167			bit 2: print timer info
4168			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4169			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4170			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
4171			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4172			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4173			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4174			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4175			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4176
4177	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4178			connected to, default is 0.
4179			Format: <parport#>
4180	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4181			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4182			Format: <mode>
4183
4184	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4185			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4186			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4187			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4188			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4189			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4190			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4191			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4192			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4193			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4194			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4195			are specified on the command line, starting
4196			with parport0.
4197
4198	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4199			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4200			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4201			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4202			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4203			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4204			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4205
4206	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4207			Format: <int>
4208			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4209			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4210			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4211
4212	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4213			Format: <int>
4214			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4215			changes.  Disabled by default.
4216
4217	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4218			Format: <int>
4219			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4220			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4221			Disabled by default.
4222
4223	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4224			Format: <int>
4225			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4226			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4227			Disabled by default.
4228
4229	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4230			Format: <int>
4231			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4232			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4233			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4234			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4235			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4236			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4237			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4238			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4239			all channels.
4240
4241	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4242			Format: <int>
4243			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4244			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4245			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4246
4247	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4248			Format: <int>
4249			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4250			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4251			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4252
4253	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4254			Format: <int>
4255			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4256			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4257			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4258			All modes allowed by default.
4259
4260	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4261			Format: <int>
4262			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4263			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4264
4265	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4266			Format: <int>
4267			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4268			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4269			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4270			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4271			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4272			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4273			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4274			By default all supported ports are probed.
4275
4276	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4277			Format: <int>
4278			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4279			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4280
4281	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4282			Format: <int>
4283			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4284			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4285			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4286			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4287			0 otherwise.
4288
4289	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4290			Format: <int>
4291			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4292			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4293			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4294			allowed by default.
4295
4296	pause_on_oops=<int>
4297			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4298			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4299			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4300
4301	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4302
4303	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4304
4305				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4306				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4307				specified in one of the following formats:
4308
4309				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4310				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4311
4312				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4313				bus/device/function address which may change
4314				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4315				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4316				by other kernel parameters. If the
4317				domain is left unspecified, it is
4318				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4319				to a device through multiple device/function
4320				addresses can be specified after the base
4321				address (this is more robust against
4322				renumbering issues).  The second format
4323				selects devices using IDs from the
4324				configuration space which may match multiple
4325				devices in the system.
4326
4327		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4328				changes anything
4329		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4330		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4331				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4332				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4333		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4334				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4335				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4336				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4337		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4338				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4339				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4340		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4341				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4342				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4343				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4344				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4345				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4346				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4347		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4348				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4349				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4350		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4351				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4352		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4353				Configuration
4354		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4355				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4356				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4357		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4358				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4359				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4360		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4361				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4362				should never be necessary.
4363		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4364				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4365				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4366				when the system masks IRQs.
4367		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4368				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4369				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4370				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4371		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4372				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4373				on several machines and they hang the machine
4374				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4375				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4376				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4377				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4378				motherboard.
4379		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4380				Use with caution as certain devices share
4381				address decoders between ROMs and other
4382				resources.
4383		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4384				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4385				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4386		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4387				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4388		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4389				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4390				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4391				this way.
4392		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4393				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4394				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4395				F0000h-100000h range.
4396		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4397				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4398				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4399				explicitly which ones they are.
4400		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4401				numbers ourselves, overriding
4402				whatever the firmware may have done.
4403		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4404				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4405				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4406				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4407				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4408				IRQ routing is enabled.
4409		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4410				or for PCI scanning.
4411		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4412				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4413				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4414				please report a bug.
4415		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4416				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4417		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4418				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4419				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4420				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4421				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4422		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4423				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4424				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4425				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4426		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4427				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4428				so this option is a temporary workaround
4429				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4430		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4431				handle more pci cards
4432		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4433				This might help on some broken boards which
4434				machine check when some devices' config space
4435				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4436				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4437		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4438				This sorting is done to get a device
4439				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4440		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4441		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4442				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4443		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4444				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4445		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4446				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4447				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4448				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4449				or bus can support) for best performance.
4450		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4451				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4452				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4453				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4454				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4455				that hot-added devices will work.
4456		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4457				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4458				The default value is 256 bytes.
4459		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4460				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4461				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4462		resource_alignment=
4463				Format:
4464				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4465				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4466				aligned memory resources. How to
4467				specify the device is described above.
4468				If <order of align> is not specified,
4469				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4470				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4471				windows need to be expanded.
4472				To specify the alignment for several
4473				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4474				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4475				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4476				for 4096-byte alignment.
4477		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4478				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
4479				OS has native AER control (either granted by
4480				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
4481				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4482				the default.
4483				off: Turn ECRC off
4484				on: Turn ECRC on.
4485		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4486				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4487				Default size is 256 bytes.
4488		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4489				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4490				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4491		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4492				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4493				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4494		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4495				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4496				MMIO_PREF window.
4497				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4498		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4499				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4500				Default is 1.
4501		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4502				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4503				accommodate resources required by all child
4504				devices.
4505				off: Turn realloc off
4506				on: Turn realloc on
4507		realloc		same as realloc=on
4508		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4509		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4510				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4511		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4512				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4513				port.
4514		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4515				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4516				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4517				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4518				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4519				taints the kernel.
4520		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4521				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4522				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4523				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4524				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4525				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4526				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4527				this removes isolation between devices and
4528				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4529		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4530		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4531		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4532				one PCI domain per PCI function
4533
4534	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4535			Management.
4536		off	Disable ASPM.
4537		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4538			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4539
4540	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4541		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4542			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4543			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4544			also tries to use these services.
4545		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4546				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4547		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4548			hotplug).
4549
4550	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4551		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4552		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4553
4554	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4555		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4556			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4557
4558	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4559
4560	pd_ignore_unused
4561			[PM]
4562			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4563			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4564			for debug and development, but should not be
4565			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4566
4567	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4568			boot time.
4569			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4570			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4571
4572	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4573			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4574			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4575			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4576			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4577			and performance comparison.
4578
4579	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4580			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4581
4582	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4583			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4584			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4585
4586	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4587			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4588			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4589
4590	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4591			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4592			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4593			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4594			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4595			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4596			remains 0.
4597
4598	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4599			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4600
4601	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4602			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4603			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4604			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4605			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4606			possible settings and some assignment information.
4607
4608	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4609			{ off }
4610
4611	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4612			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4613
4614	pnp_reserve_irq=
4615			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4616
4617	pnp_reserve_dma=
4618			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4619
4620	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4621			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4622
4623	pnp_reserve_mem=
4624			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4625			autoconfiguration.
4626			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4627
4628	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4629			Default is 21.
4630			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4631			may be specified.
4632			Format: <port>,<port>....
4633
4634	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4635			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4636			platform machine description specific power_save
4637			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4638			execution priority.
4639
4640	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4641			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4642			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4643			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4644			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4645
4646	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4647			Format: {"off"}
4648			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4649
4650	preempt=	[KNL]
4651			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4652			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4653			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4654			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4655			       can be preempted anytime.
4656
4657	print-fatal-signals=
4658			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4659
4660			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4661			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4662			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4663			coredump - etc.
4664
4665			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4666			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4667
4668			default: off.
4669
4670	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4671			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4672			panics
4673			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4674			default: disabled
4675
4676	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4677			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4678			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4679			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4680			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4681			in order to provide more debug information.
4682			Format: <bool>
4683			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4684
4685	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4686			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4687			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4688			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4689			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4690			Default: ratelimit
4691
4692	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4693			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4694
4695	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4696			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4697			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4698
4699	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4700			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4701			instead using the legacy FADT method
4702
4703	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4704			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4705			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4706				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4707			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4708			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4709				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4710			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4711			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4712				statistical time based profiling.
4713
4714	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4715
4716	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4717			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4718			that).
4719			Format: <bool>
4720
4721	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4722			tracking.
4723			Format: <bool>
4724
4725	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4726			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4727	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4728			per second.
4729	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4730			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4731			(0 = never).
4732	psmouse.resolution=
4733			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4734	psmouse.smartscroll=
4735			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4736			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4737
4738	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4739
4740	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4741			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4742			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4743			system calls and interrupts.
4744
4745			on   - unconditionally enable
4746			off  - unconditionally disable
4747			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4748			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4749
4750			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4751
4752	pty.legacy_count=
4753			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4754			default number.
4755
4756	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4757
4758	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4759
4760	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4761			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4762			invalidate.
4763
4764	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4765			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4766
4767	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4768			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4769
4770	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4771
4772	random.trust_cpu=off
4773			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4774			random number generator (if available) to
4775			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4776
4777	random.trust_bootloader=off
4778			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4779			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4780			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4781
4782	randomize_kstack_offset=
4783			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4784			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4785			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4786			that depend on stack address determinism or
4787			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4788			available on architectures that have defined
4789			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4790			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4791			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4792
4793	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4794
4795		cec_disable	[X86]
4796				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4797				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4798
4799	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4800			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4801			as described above.
4802
4803			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4804			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4805			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4806			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4807			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4808			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4809			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4810			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4811			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4812			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4813			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4814			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4815
4816			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4817			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4818
4819			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4820			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4821			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4822			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4823
4824			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4825			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4826
4827	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4828			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4829			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4830			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4831			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4832			This improves the real-time response for the
4833			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4834			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4835			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4836			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4837
4838	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4839			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4840			process in one batch.
4841
4842	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
4843			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
4844			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
4845			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
4846			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
4847			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
4848
4849	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4850			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4851			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4852			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4853
4854	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4855			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4856			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4857
4858	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4859			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4860			RCU grace-period initialization.
4861
4862	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4863			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4864			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4865			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4866			the rcu_node combining tree.
4867
4868	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4869			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4870			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4871			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4872			and maximum value is HZ.
4873
4874	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4875			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4876			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4877			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4878
4879	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4880			Set required age in jiffies for a
4881			given grace period before RCU starts
4882			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4883			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4884			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4885			a value based on the most recent settings
4886			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4887			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4888			This calculated value may be viewed in
4889			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4890			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4891			overwritten.
4892
4893	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4894			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4895			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4896			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4897			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4898			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4899			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4900			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4901			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4902			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4903			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4904			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4905
4906	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4907			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4908			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4909			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4910			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4911			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4912			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4913			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4914			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4915			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4916			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4917			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4918
4919	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4920			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4921			batch limiting is disabled.
4922
4923	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4924			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4925			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4926
4927	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4928			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4929			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4930			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4931			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4932			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4933			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4934			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4935
4936	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4937			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4938			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4939			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4940
4941	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4942			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4943			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4944			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4945			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4946			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4947			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4948			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4949
4950			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4951			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4952			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4953			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4954			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4955
4956	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4957			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4958			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4959			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4960			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4961
4962	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4963			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4964			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4965			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4966			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4967			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4968			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4969
4970	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4971			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4972			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4973			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4974			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4975			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4976			condition.
4977
4978	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4979			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4980			each group, which defaults to the square root
4981			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4982			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4983			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4984			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4985
4986	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4987			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4988			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4989			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4990			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4991			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4992
4993	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
4994			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
4995			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
4996			By default, this limit is checked only once
4997			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
4998			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
4999
5000	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5001			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5002			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5003			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5004			Larger delays increase the probability of
5005			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5006			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5007			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5008
5009	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5010			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5011			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5012			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5013
5014	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5015			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5016			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5017			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5018			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5019
5020			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5021			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5022			to zero.
5023
5024	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5025			Measure performance of asynchronous
5026			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5027
5028	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5029			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5030			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5031			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5032			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5033			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5034
5035	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5036			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5037			grace-period primitives.
5038
5039	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5040			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5041			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5042			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5043			interference.
5044
5045	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5046			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5047			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5048
5049	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5050			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5051			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5052			Defaults to 1.
5053
5054	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5055			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5056
5057	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5058			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5059			If this parameter has the same value as
5060			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5061			and double-argument variants are tested.
5062
5063	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5064			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5065			If this parameter has the same value as
5066			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5067			and double-argument variants are tested.
5068
5069	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5070			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5071
5072	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5073			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5074
5075	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5076			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5077			of allocations and frees.
5078
5079	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5080			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5081			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5082			but instead allows better measurement of things
5083			like CPU consumption.
5084
5085	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5086			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5087			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5088			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5089			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5090			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5091			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5092			a single reader.
5093
5094	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5095			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5096			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5097			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5098
5099	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5100			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5101
5102	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5103			Shut the system down after performance tests
5104			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5105			testing.
5106
5107	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5108			Enable additional printk() statements.
5109
5110	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5111			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5112			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5113			no holdoff.
5114
5115	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5116			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5117			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5118			says no holdoff.
5119
5120	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5121			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5122			in microseconds.
5123
5124	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5125			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5126			in microseconds.
5127
5128	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5129			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5130			in seconds.
5131
5132	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5133			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5134			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5135			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5136			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5137			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5138			of CPUs to be used.
5139
5140	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5141			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5142			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5143
5144	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5145			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5146			forward-progress tests.
5147
5148	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5149			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5150			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5151			testing.
5152
5153	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5154			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5155			primitives, if available.
5156
5157	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
5158			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
5159
5160	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
5161			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
5162			update-side primitives, if available.
5163
5164	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
5165			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
5166			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
5167			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
5168			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
5169			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
5170			they are all non-zero.
5171
5172	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
5173			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
5174			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
5175			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
5176
5177	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
5178			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
5179			This can of course result in splats, and is
5180			intended to test the ability of things like
5181			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
5182			such leaks.
5183
5184	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
5185			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
5186
5187	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
5188			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
5189			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
5190			test, hence the "fake".
5191
5192	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
5193			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
5194			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
5195
5196	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
5197			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
5198			callback-offload toggling attempts.
5199
5200	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
5201			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5202			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5203			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
5204			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5205			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5206
5207	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5208			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5209
5210	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5211			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5212
5213	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5214			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5215			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5216
5217	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5218			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5219			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5220			task-exit processing.
5221
5222	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5223			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5224			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5225			is spawned.
5226
5227	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5228			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5229			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5230
5231	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5232			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5233			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5234			during the rcutorture test.
5235
5236	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5237			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5238			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5239
5240	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5241			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5242			warnings, zero to disable.
5243
5244	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5245			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5246			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
5247			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
5248			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
5249			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
5250			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
5251			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
5252			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
5253			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
5254
5255			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
5256
5257
5258	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5259			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5260
5261	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5262			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5263
5264	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5265			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5266			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5267			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5268			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5269			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5270
5271	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5272			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5273
5274	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5275			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5276			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5277			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5278			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5279
5280	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5281			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5282			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5283			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5284
5285	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5286			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5287
5288	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5289			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5290
5291	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5292			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5293			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5294
5295	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5296			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5297
5298	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5299			Enable additional printk() statements.
5300
5301	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5302			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5303			stall warning.
5304
5305	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5306			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5307
5308	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5309			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5310			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5311			during early boot, that is, during the time
5312			before the init task is spawned.
5313
5314	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5315			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5316			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5317			value is 300 seconds.
5318
5319	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5320			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5321			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5322			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5323			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5324			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5325			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5326			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5327			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5328
5329	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5330			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5331			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5332			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5333			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5334
5335	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5336			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5337			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5338			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5339
5340	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5341			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5342			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5343			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5344			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5345			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5346			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5347
5348	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5349			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5350			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5351			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5352			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5353			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5354			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5355			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5356			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5357
5358	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5359			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5360			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5361			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5362			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5363
5364			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5365			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5366			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5367			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5368			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5369			grace-period processing.
5370
5371	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5372			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5373			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5374			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5375			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5376			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5377			set to the default value of -1.
5378
5379	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5380			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5381			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5382			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5383			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5384			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5385			the default value of -1.
5386
5387	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5388			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5389			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5390			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5391			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5392			for use in testing.
5393
5394	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5395			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5396			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5397			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5398			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5399			but lengthens grace periods.
5400
5401	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
5402			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
5403			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
5404			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
5405			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
5406			callback flooding.
5407
5408	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5409			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5410			informational messages, which give some indication
5411			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5412			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5413			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5414			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5415			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5416			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5417			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5418
5419	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5420			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5421			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5422			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5423			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5424			the value three, so that the first informational
5425			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5426			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5427			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5428			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5429
5430	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5431			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5432			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5433			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5434			A change in value does not take effect until
5435			the beginning of the next grace period.
5436
5437	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5438			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
5439			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
5440			A negative value will take the default.  A value
5441			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
5442			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
5443
5444	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_rude_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5445			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5446			Rude asynchronous callback batching for
5447			call_rcu_tasks_rude().	A negative value
5448			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5449			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5450			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
5451
5452	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL]
5453			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks
5454			Trace asynchronous callback batching for
5455			call_rcu_tasks_trace().  A negative value
5456			will take the default.	A value of zero will
5457			disable batching.  Batching is always disabled
5458			for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
5459
5460	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5461			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5462
5463	rdinit=		[KNL]
5464			Format: <full_path>
5465			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5466			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5467
5468	rdrand=		[X86]
5469			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5470				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5471				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5472				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5473				path).
5474
5475	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5476			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5477			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5478			mba, smba, bmec.
5479			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5480				rdt=cmt,!mba
5481
5482	reboot=		[KNL]
5483			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5484				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5485				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5486				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5487				[[,]f[orce]
5488			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5489					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5490					reboot only),
5491			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5492			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5493			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5494					to be used for rebooting.
5495
5496	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5497			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5498			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5499			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5500			interference.
5501
5502	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
5503			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
5504			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
5505			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
5506			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
5507
5508	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5509			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5510			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5511			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5512			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5513			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5514			x86 laptops.
5515
5516	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5517			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5518			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5519			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5520
5521	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5522			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5523			the console log.
5524
5525	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5526			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5527			measured in microseconds.
5528
5529	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5530			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5531
5532	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5533			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5534			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5535			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5536			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5537
5538	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5539			Enable additional printk() statements.
5540
5541	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5542			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5543			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5544			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5545			specified.
5546
5547	relax_domain_level=
5548			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5549			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5550
5551	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5552			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5553			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5554			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5555			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5556
5557	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5558			Format: nn[KMG]
5559			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5560			address space.
5561
5562	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5563			during initialization.
5564
5565	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5566			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5567			Format:
5568			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5569
5570	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5571			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5572			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5573			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5574			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5575
5576	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5577			read the resume files
5578
5579	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5580			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5581			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5582
5583	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5584
5585	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5586			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5587			vulnerability.
5588
5589			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5590			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5591			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5592			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5593			that don't.
5594
5595			off          - no mitigation
5596			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5597			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5598				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5599				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5600				       and older without STIBP).
5601			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5602				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5603				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5604				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5605				       on Intel.
5606			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5607				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5608				       the alternative for systems which do not
5609				       have STIBP.
5610			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5611				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5612				       systems.
5613			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5614				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5615				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5616
5617			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5618			time according to the CPU.
5619
5620			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5621
5622	rfkill.default_state=
5623		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5624			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5625		1	Unblocked.
5626
5627	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5628		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5629		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5630			blocked and the previous configuration.
5631		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5632			blocked and everything unblocked.
5633
5634	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5635			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5636
5637	ring3mwait=disable
5638			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5639			CPUs.
5640
5641	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV]
5642			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
5643			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
5644			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
5645			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
5646			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
5647
5648	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5649
5650	rodata=		[KNL]
5651		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5652		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5653		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5654		        [arm64]
5655
5656	rockchip.usb_uart
5657			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5658			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5659			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5660			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5661
5662	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5663			Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
5664			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
5665			block/early-lookup.c for details.
5666			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
5667			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
5668			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
5669
5670	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5671			mount the root filesystem
5672
5673	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5674
5675	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5676
5677	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5678			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5679			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5680
5681	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
5682			to show up before attempting to mount the root
5683			filesystem.
5684
5685	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5686			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5687			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5688			managed by CMA.
5689
5690	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5691
5692	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5693
5694	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5695			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5696		strict
5697			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
5698			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
5699			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
5700			iommu.strict=1.
5701
5702	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5703			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5704			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5705			factor of the size of main memory.
5706			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5707			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5708			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5709			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5710			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5711			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5712			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5713
5714	sa1100ir	[NET]
5715			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5716
5717	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5718
5719	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5720			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5721			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5722			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5723
5724	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5725			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5726			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5727			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5728			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5729			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5730			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5731			value.
5732			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5733			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5734				1			64 ms
5735				2			128 ms
5736			and so on.
5737			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5738			Default is 0.
5739
5740	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5741			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5742			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5743			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5744			tests.
5745
5746	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5747			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5748			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5749			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5750			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5751			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5752			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5753
5754	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5755			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5756			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5757			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5758			equal to the number of CPUs.
5759
5760	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5761			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5762			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5763
5764	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5765			Number seconds to wait between successive
5766			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5767			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5768
5769	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5770			The number of seconds following the start of the
5771			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5772			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5773			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5774
5775	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5776			The number of seconds between outputting the
5777			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5778			of zero disables statistics output.
5779
5780	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5781			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5782			to the set of CPUs under test.
5783
5784	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5785			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5786			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5787			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5788			functions.
5789
5790	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5791			Enable additional printk() statements.
5792
5793	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5794			The probability weighting to use for the
5795			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5796			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5797			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5798			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5799			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5800
5801	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5802			The probability weighting to use for the
5803			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5804			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5805
5806	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5807			The probability weighting to use for the
5808			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5809			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5810			Note well that setting a high probability for
5811			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5812			on the system.
5813
5814	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5815			The probability weighting to use for the
5816			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5817			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5818			and weight_many.
5819
5820	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5821			The probability weighting to use for the
5822			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5823			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5824			weight_many.
5825
5826	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5827			The probability weighting to use for the
5828			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5829			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5830			and weight_many.
5831
5832	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5833			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5834			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5835			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5836			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5837			1 -- enable.
5838			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5839			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5840
5841	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5842			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5843			"lsm=" parameter.
5844
5845	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5846			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5847			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5848			0 -- disable.
5849			1 -- enable.
5850			Default value is 1.
5851
5852	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5853
5854	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5855
5856	shapers=	[NET]
5857			Maximal number of shapers.
5858
5859	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5860			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5861			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5862			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5863			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5864			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5865			apic=verbose is specified.
5866			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5867
5868	simeth=		[IA-64]
5869	simscsi=
5870
5871	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5872
5873	slab_merge	[MM]
5874			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5875			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5876
5877	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5878			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5879			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5880			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5881			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5882			layout control by attackers can usually be
5883			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5884			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5885			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5886			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5887			own.
5888			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5889
5890	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5891			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5892			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5893			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5894			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5895
5896	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5897			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5898			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5899			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5900			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5901			last alloc / free. For more information see
5902			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5903
5904	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5905			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5906			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5907			fragmentation. For more information see
5908			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5909
5910	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5911			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5912			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5913			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5914			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5915			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5916			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5917			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5918
5919	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5920			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5921			lower than slub_max_order.
5922			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5923
5924	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5925			Same with slab_merge.
5926
5927	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5928			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5929			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5930
5931	smart2=		[HW]
5932			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5933
5934	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5935			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5936			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5937			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5938			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5939			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5940			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5941			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5942			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5943			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5944
5945	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
5946			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
5947			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
5948			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
5949			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
5950			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
5951
5952	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5953	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5954	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5955	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5956	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5957	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5958	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5959				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5960				1: Fast pin select (default)
5961				2: ATC IRMode
5962
5963	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5964			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5965			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5966			actual hardware limit.
5967			Format: <integer>
5968			Default: -1 (no limit)
5969
5970	softlockup_panic=
5971			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5972			Format: 0 | 1
5973
5974			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5975			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5976			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5977			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5978			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5979
5980	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5981			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5982			backtraces on all cpus.
5983			Format: 0 | 1
5984
5985	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5986			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5987
5988	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5989			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5990			The default operation protects the kernel from
5991			user space attacks.
5992
5993			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5994			       spectre_v2_user=on
5995			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5996			       spectre_v2_user=off
5997			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5998			       vulnerable
5999
6000			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
6001			mitigation method at run time according to the
6002			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
6003			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
6004			compiler with which the kernel was built.
6005
6006			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
6007			against user space to user space task attacks.
6008
6009			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
6010			the user space protections.
6011
6012			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
6013
6014			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
6015			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
6016			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
6017			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
6018			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
6019			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
6020			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
6021			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
6022
6023			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6024			spectre_v2=auto.
6025
6026	spectre_v2_user=
6027			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
6028		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
6029		        user space tasks
6030
6031			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
6032				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
6033
6034			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
6035				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
6036
6037			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
6038				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
6039				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
6040				  is inherited on fork.
6041
6042			prctl,ibpb
6043				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
6044				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6045				  always when switching between different user
6046				  space processes.
6047
6048			seccomp
6049				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
6050				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
6051				  they explicitly opt out.
6052
6053			seccomp,ibpb
6054				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
6055				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
6056				  always when switching between different
6057				  user space processes.
6058
6059			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
6060				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6061
6062			Default mitigation: "prctl"
6063
6064			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6065			spectre_v2_user=auto.
6066
6067	spec_rstack_overflow=
6068			[X86] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
6069
6070			off		- Disable mitigation
6071			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
6072			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
6073			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
6074					  kernel entry
6075			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
6076					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
6077
6078	spec_store_bypass_disable=
6079			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
6080			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
6081
6082			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
6083			a common industry wide performance optimization known
6084			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
6085			to the same memory location may not be observed by
6086			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
6087			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
6088			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
6089			end of a particular speculation execution window.
6090
6091			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6092			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
6093			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
6094			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
6095
6096			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
6097			Bypass optimization is used.
6098
6099			On x86 the options are:
6100
6101			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
6102			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
6103			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
6104				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
6105				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
6106				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
6107				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
6108				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
6109			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
6110				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
6111				  for a process by default. The state of the control
6112				  is inherited on fork.
6113			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
6114				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
6115
6116			Default mitigations:
6117			X86:	"prctl"
6118
6119			On powerpc the options are:
6120
6121			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
6122				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
6123				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
6124				  exit.
6125			off	- No action.
6126
6127			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6128			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
6129
6130	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
6131	spia_fio_base=
6132	spia_pedr=
6133	spia_peddr=
6134
6135	split_lock_detect=
6136			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
6137
6138			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
6139			instructions that access data across cache line
6140			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
6141			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
6142			bus lock detection.
6143
6144			off	- not enabled
6145
6146			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
6147				  about applications triggering the #AC
6148				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
6149				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
6150				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
6151				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
6152				  enabled in hardware.
6153
6154			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
6155				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
6156				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
6157				  both features are enabled in hardware.
6158
6159			ratelimit:N -
6160				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
6161				  per second for bus lock detection.
6162				  0 < N <= 1000.
6163
6164				  N/A for split lock detection.
6165
6166
6167			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
6168			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
6169			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
6170			mode.
6171
6172			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
6173			CPL > 0.
6174
6175	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
6176			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
6177			(SRBDS) mitigation.
6178
6179			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
6180			exploit which can leak bits from the random
6181			number generator.
6182
6183			By default, this issue is mitigated by
6184			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
6185			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
6186			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
6187			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
6188
6189			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
6190			the following option:
6191
6192			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
6193				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
6194
6195	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
6196			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
6197			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
6198			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
6199			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
6200			but takes effect only when the low-order four
6201			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
6202			(decide at boot).
6203
6204	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
6205			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
6206			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
6207			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
6208
6209				   0:  Never.
6210				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
6211				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
6212				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
6213				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
6214
6215			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
6216			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
6217			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
6218
6219	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
6220			Specifies how frequently to check for
6221			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
6222			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
6223			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
6224			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
6225			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
6226			are ignored.
6227
6228	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
6229			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
6230			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
6231			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
6232			grace period will be considered for automatic
6233			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
6234			expediting.
6235
6236	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
6237			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
6238			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
6239			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
6240			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
6241			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
6242
6243	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
6244			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
6245			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
6246			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
6247			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
6248			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
6249
6250	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
6251			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
6252			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
6253
6254	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
6255			Specifies the number of update-side contention
6256			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
6257			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
6258			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
6259			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
6260			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
6261
6262	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
6263			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
6264
6265			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
6266			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
6267			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
6268			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
6269
6270			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
6271				   for both kernel and userspace
6272			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
6273				   for both kernel and userspace
6274			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
6275				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
6276				   to allow userspace to register its
6277				   interest in being mitigated too.
6278
6279	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
6280			override the default stack gap protection. The value
6281			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
6282			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
6283			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
6284			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6285
6286	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6287			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6288			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6289			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6290			to false.
6291
6292	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6293			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6294
6295	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6296			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6297			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6298			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6299			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6300			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6301			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6302
6303	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6304			Format: <num>
6305			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6306			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6307			as the initial boot-console.
6308			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6309
6310	sti_font=	[HW]
6311			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6312
6313	stifb=		[HW]
6314			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6315
6316        strict_sas_size=
6317			[X86]
6318			Format: <bool>
6319			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6320			against the required signal frame size which
6321			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6322			be used to filter out binaries which have
6323			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6324
6325	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6326			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6327			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6328			faults on kernel addresses.
6329
6330	stress_slb	[PPC]
6331			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6332			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6333			on kernel addresses.
6334
6335	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6336	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6337			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6338			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6339			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6340			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6341			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6342			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6343			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6344			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6345			maximum port values.
6346
6347	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6348			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6349			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6350			process in parallel from a single connection.
6351			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6352
6353	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6354			[NFS]
6355			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6356			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6357			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6358			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6359			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6360			NFS server is running.
6361
6362			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6363				    automatically using heuristics
6364			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6365			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6366			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6367				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6368
6369	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6370	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6371			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6372			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6373			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6374			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6375			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6376			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6377
6378	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6379			[SUSPEND]
6380			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6381			mode before resuming the system (see
6382			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6383			is set. Default value is 5.
6384
6385	svm=		[PPC]
6386			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6387			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6388			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6389
6390	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6391			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6392			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6393			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6394				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6395				 to a power of 2.
6396			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6397			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6398			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6399
6400	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6401
6402	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6403			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6404			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6405			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6406			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6407			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6408			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6409			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6410
6411	sysrq_always_enabled
6412			[KNL]
6413			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6414			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6415			Useful for debugging.
6416
6417	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6418			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6419			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6420			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6421			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6422			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6423
6424	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6425
6426	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6427			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6428			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6429			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6430			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6431			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6432			The system is woken from this state using a
6433			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6434
6435	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6436			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6437
6438	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6439			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6440			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6441
6442	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6443			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6444			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6445
6446	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6447			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6448
6449	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6450			-1: disable all passive trip points
6451			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6452			value
6453
6454	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6455			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6456			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6457			0: no polling (default)
6458
6459	threadirqs	[KNL]
6460			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6461			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6462
6463	topology=	[S390]
6464			Format: {off | on}
6465			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6466			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6467			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6468			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6469			Default is on.
6470
6471	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6472			Format: {off}
6473			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6474			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6475			LPAR.
6476
6477	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6478			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6479			until after init has spawned.
6480
6481	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6482			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6483			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6484			very costly operation when many torture tests
6485			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6486			with rotating-rust storage.
6487
6488	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6489			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6490			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6491			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6492
6493	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6494			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6495
6496	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6497
6498	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6499			Format: integer pcr id
6500			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6501			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6502			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6503			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6504			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6505			are saved.
6506
6507	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
6508			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
6509			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
6510			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
6511			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
6512			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
6513
6514	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6515			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6516			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6517			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6518			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6519			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6520
6521			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6522			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6523			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6524			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6525
6526			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6527			to stop the printing of events to console at
6528			late_initcall_sync.
6529
6530			** CAUTION **
6531
6532			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6533			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6534			the system to live lock.
6535
6536	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6537			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6538			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6539			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6540			make the system inoperable.
6541
6542			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6543			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6544
6545	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6546			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6547
6548	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6549			at boot up.
6550			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6551				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6552				depending on the architecture, may not be
6553				in sync between CPUs.
6554			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6555				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6556				but better for some race conditions.
6557			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6558				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6559				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6560				once per event.
6561			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6562			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6563			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6564			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6565				stamps.
6566			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6567			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6568			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6569
6570	trace_event=[event-list]
6571			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6572			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6573			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6574			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6575
6576	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6577			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6578			This will be listed in:
6579
6580				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6581
6582			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6583			via:
6584
6585				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6586
6587			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6588			unique.
6589
6590				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6591
6592			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6593			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6594			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6595
6596	trace_options=[option-list]
6597			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6598			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6599			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6600			to echo the option name into
6601
6602			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6603
6604			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6605			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6606
6607			      trace_options=stacktrace
6608
6609			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6610			section.
6611
6612	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6613			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6614			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6615			filter.
6616
6617			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6618			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6619
6620			For example:
6621
6622			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6623
6624			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6625			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6626			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6627
6628			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6629
6630
6631	traceoff_on_warning
6632			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6633			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6634			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6635			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6636
6637			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6638			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6639			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6640
6641			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6642			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6643
6644	transparent_hugepage=
6645			[KNL]
6646			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6647			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6648			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6649			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6650			for more details.
6651
6652	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6653			Format: <string>
6654			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6655			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6656			sources:
6657			- "tpm"
6658			- "tee"
6659			- "caam"
6660			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6661			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6662			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6663			successfully during iteration.
6664
6665	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6666			Format: <string>
6667			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6668			Can be one of:
6669			- "kernel"
6670			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6671			- "default"
6672			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6673			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6674
6675	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6676			Format: <string>
6677			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6678			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6679			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6680			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6681			virtualized environment.
6682			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6683			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6684			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6685			can add overhead.
6686			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6687			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6688			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6689			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6690			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6691			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6692			acceptable).
6693			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6694			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6695			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6696			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6697			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6698			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6699			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6700			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6701			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6702			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6703
6704	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6705			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6706			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6707			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6708			Format: <unsigned int>
6709
6710	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6711			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6712			support TSX control.
6713
6714			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6715
6716			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6717				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6718				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6719				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6720				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6721				with leaving it enabled.
6722
6723			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6724				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6725				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6726				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6727				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6728				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6729				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6730
6731			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6732				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6733
6734			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6735
6736			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6737			for more details.
6738
6739	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6740			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6741
6742			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6743			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6744			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6745			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6746			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6747			conditions.
6748
6749			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6750			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6751			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6752			access.
6753
6754			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6755			options are:
6756
6757			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6758				     if TSX is enabled.
6759
6760			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6761				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6762				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6763				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6764			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6765
6766			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6767			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6768			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6769			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6770
6771			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6772			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6773			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6774			required and doesn't provide any additional
6775			mitigation.
6776
6777			For details see:
6778			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6779
6780	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6781			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6782			Format:
6783			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6784			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6785
6786	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6787			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6788			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6789			help "seeing" what's going on.
6790
6791	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6792			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6793
6794	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6795			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6796			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6797			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6798			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6799			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6800			reported either.
6801
6802	unknown_nmi_panic
6803			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6804
6805	unwind_debug	[X86-64]
6806			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
6807			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
6808			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
6809			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
6810
6811	usbcore.authorized_default=
6812			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6813			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
6814			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6815			if device connected to internal port)
6816
6817	usbcore.autosuspend=
6818			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6819			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6820			is the time required before an idle device will be
6821			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6822			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6823
6824	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6825			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6826
6827	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6828			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6829			(default = 65536).
6830
6831	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6832			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6833
6834	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6835			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6836			scheme (default 0 = off).
6837
6838	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6839			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6840			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6841
6842	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6843			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6844			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6845
6846	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6847			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6848			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6849			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6850
6851	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6852
6853	usbcore.quirks=
6854			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6855			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6856			commas. Each entry has the form
6857			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6858			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6859			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6860			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6861			the following meanings:
6862				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6863					descriptors must not be fetched using
6864					a 255-byte read);
6865				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6866					correctly so reset it instead);
6867				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6868					Set-Interface requests);
6869				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6870					handle its Configuration or Interface
6871					strings);
6872				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6873					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6874				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6875					more interface descriptions than the
6876					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6877					talking to these interfaces);
6878				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6879					during initialization, after we read
6880					the device descriptor);
6881				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6882					high speed and super speed interrupt
6883					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6884					require the interval in microframes (1
6885					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6886					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6887					(bInterval-1).
6888					Devices with this quirk report their
6889					bInterval as the result of this
6890					calculation instead of the exponent
6891					variable used in the calculation);
6892				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6893					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6894					requests);
6895				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6896					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6897					remote wakeup capability);
6898				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6899					Power Management);
6900				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6901					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6902					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6903					calculation);
6904				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6905					to be disconnected before suspend to
6906					prevent spurious wakeup);
6907				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6908					pause after every control message);
6909				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6910					delay after resetting its port);
6911			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6912
6913	usbhid.mousepoll=
6914			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6915
6916	usbhid.jspoll=
6917			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6918
6919	usbhid.kbpoll=
6920			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6921
6922	usb-storage.delay_use=
6923			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6924			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6925
6926	usb-storage.quirks=
6927			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6928			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6929			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6930			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6931			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6932			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6933			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6934				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6935					of sense data, not on uas);
6936				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6937					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6938				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6939					device capacity by one sector);
6940				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6941					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6942				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6943					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6944				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6945					command, uas only);
6946				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6947					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6948				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6949					reported device capacity by one
6950					sector if the number is odd);
6951				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6952					device);
6953				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6954					command, uas only);
6955				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6956				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6957					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6958				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6959					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6960					not on uas);
6961				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6962					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6963				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6964					reported by the device, not on uas);
6965				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6966					by default, not on uas);
6967				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6968					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6969				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6970					Logical Unit);
6971				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6972					commands, uas only);
6973				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6974				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6975					medium is write-protected).
6976				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6977					even if the device claims no cache,
6978					not on uas)
6979			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6980
6981	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6982			Format: <int>
6983			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6984				 1 - undefined instruction events
6985				 2 - system calls
6986				 4 - invalid data aborts
6987				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6988				16 - SIGBUS faults
6989			Example: user_debug=31
6990
6991	userpte=
6992			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6993
6994				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6995					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6996					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6997
6998	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6999			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
7000
7001			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
7002			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
7003
7004	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
7005			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
7006			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
7007
7008			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
7009			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
7010			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
7011
7012			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
7013			alias for vdso32=0.
7014
7015			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
7016			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
7017
7018	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
7019			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
7020
7021	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
7022			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
7023
7024	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
7025			Format: [0|1]
7026			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
7027			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
7028			level and then send out the event to user space through
7029			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
7030			will only send out the event without touching backlight
7031			brightness level.
7032			default: 1
7033
7034	virtio_mmio.device=
7035			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
7036
7037				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
7038			where:
7039				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
7040						like K, M and G)
7041				<baseaddr> := physical base address
7042				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
7043						request_irq())
7044				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
7045			example:
7046				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
7047
7048			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
7049
7050	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
7051			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
7052			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
7053			Use vga=ask for menu.
7054			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
7055			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
7056
7057	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
7058			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
7059			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
7060			All options are enabled by default, and this
7061			interface is meant to allow for selectively
7062			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
7063			debugging features.
7064
7065			Available options are:
7066			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
7067			  -	Disable all of the above options
7068
7069	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
7070			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
7071			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
7072			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
7073			mapped kernel RAM.
7074
7075	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
7076			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
7077			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
7078
7079	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
7080			Format: <command>
7081
7082	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
7083			Format: <command>
7084
7085	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
7086			Format: <command>
7087
7088	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
7089			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
7090			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
7091			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
7092			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
7093			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
7094			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
7095
7096			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
7097			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
7098				    readable.
7099
7100			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
7101			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
7102				    page is not readable.
7103
7104			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
7105			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
7106			            might break your system.
7107
7108	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
7109			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
7110			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
7111
7112	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
7113			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
7114			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
7115			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
7116
7117	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
7118			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
7119			Change the default blue palette of the console.
7120			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7121			ranging from 0-255.
7122
7123	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
7124			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
7125			Change the default green palette of the console.
7126			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7127			ranging from 0-255.
7128
7129	vt.default_red=	[VT]
7130			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
7131			Change the default red palette of the console.
7132			This is a 16-member array composed of values
7133			ranging from 0-255.
7134
7135	vt.default_utf8=
7136			[VT]
7137			Format=<0|1>
7138			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
7139			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
7140			newly opened terminals.
7141
7142	vt.global_cursor_default=
7143			[VT]
7144			Format=<-1|0|1>
7145			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
7146			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
7147			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
7148			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
7149			cursors, 1 will display them.
7150
7151	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
7152			Default: 2 = green.
7153
7154	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
7155			Default: 3 = cyan.
7156
7157	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
7158			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
7159			or other driver-specific files in the
7160			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
7161
7162	watchdog_thresh=
7163			[KNL]
7164			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
7165			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
7166			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
7167			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
7168			seconds.
7169
7170	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
7171			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
7172			to use in unbound workqueues.
7173			Format: <cpu-list>
7174			By default, all online CPUs are available for
7175			unbound workqueues.
7176
7177	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
7178			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
7179			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
7180			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
7181			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
7182			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
7183			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
7184			corresponding sysfs file.
7185
7186	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
7187			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
7188			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
7189			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
7190			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
7191			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
7192
7193			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
7194			will report the work functions which violate this
7195			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
7196			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
7197
7198	workqueue.power_efficient
7199			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
7200			they show better performance thanks to cache
7201			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
7202			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
7203
7204			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
7205			were observed to contribute significantly to power
7206			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
7207			power usage at the cost of small performance
7208			overhead.
7209
7210			The default value of this parameter is determined by
7211			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
7212
7213        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
7214			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
7215			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
7216			"numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more
7217			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
7218			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
7219
7220			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
7221			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
7222			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
7223			updated accordignly.
7224
7225	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
7226			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
7227			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
7228			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
7229			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
7230			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
7231			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
7232			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
7233			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
7234			impacted.
7235
7236	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH] Control the MAT (Memory Access Type) of
7237			ioremap_wc().
7238
7239			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
7240			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
7241
7242	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
7243			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
7244			supporting x2apic.
7245
7246	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
7247			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
7248			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
7249			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
7250			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
7251			domains.
7252
7253	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
7254			Unplug Xen emulated devices
7255			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
7256			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
7257			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
7258			nics -- unplug network devices
7259			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
7260			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
7261				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
7262				the unplug protocol
7263			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
7264
7265	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
7266			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
7267			panic() code such as dumping handler.
7268
7269	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
7270			Format: <bool>
7271			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
7272			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
7273			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
7274
7275	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
7276			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
7277			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
7278			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7279
7280	xen_nopv	[X86]
7281			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
7282			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
7283			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
7284			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
7285
7286	xen_no_vector_callback
7287			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
7288			event channel interrupts.
7289
7290	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
7291			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
7292			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
7293			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
7294			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
7295
7296	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
7297			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
7298			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
7299			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
7300			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
7301			more timer interrupts.
7302
7303	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
7304			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
7305			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
7306			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
7307			started with less memory configured than allowed at
7308			max. Default is 180.
7309
7310	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
7311			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
7312			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7313
7314	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7315			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7316			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7317
7318	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7319			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7320			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7321			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7322			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7323			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7324
7325	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7326			Format:
7327			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7328
7329	xive=		[PPC]
7330			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7331			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7332			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7333
7334			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7335				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7336				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7337
7338	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7339			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7340			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7341			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7342			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7343
7344	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7345			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7346			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7347			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7348
7349	xmon		[PPC]
7350			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7351			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7352			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7353			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7354				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7355			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7356				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7357				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7358				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7359			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7360				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7361				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7362				can be written using xmon commands.
7363			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7364				memory, and other data can't be written using
7365				xmon commands.
7366			off	xmon is disabled.
7367
7368