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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324
325	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
326			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
327			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
328			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
329			IOMMU initialization.
330
331	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
332			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
333			remapping modes:
334			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
335			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
336			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
337			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
338			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
339
340	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
341			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
342			Format: <a>,<b>
343			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
344
345	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
346			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
347			connected to one of 16 gameports
348			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
349
350	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
351			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
352			Format: noidle
353			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
354			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
355			APC and your system crashes randomly.
356
357	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
358			Change the output verbosity while booting
359			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
360			Change the amount of debugging information output
361			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
362			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
363			driver name.
364			Format: apic=driver_name
365			Examples: apic=bigsmp
366
367	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
368			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
369			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
370			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
371			      backup of CPU 0
372			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
373			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
374			      shot down by NMI
375
376	autoconf=	[IPV6]
377			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
378
379	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
380			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
381			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
382			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
383			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
384			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
385			apic=verbose is specified.
386			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
387
388	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
389			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
404
405	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
406
407	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
408			EzKey and similar keyboards
409
410	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
411
412	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
413			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
414
415	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
416			keyboards
417
418	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
419			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
420
421	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
422			Use software keyboard repeat
423
424	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
425			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
426			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
427			    enabled until the next reboot
428			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
429			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
430			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
431			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
432			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
433			    userspace auditd.
434			Default: unset
435
436	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
437			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
438			Default: 64
439
440	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
441			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
442			Format: { "0" | "1" }
443			0 - Disable the BAU.
444			1 - Enable the BAU.
445			unset - Disable the BAU.
446
447	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
448			Format: <io>,<mode>
449
450	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
451			Format: <io>,<mode>
452			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
453
454	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
455			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
456			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
457			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
458
459	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
460			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
461			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
462			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
463
464	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
465			embedded devices based on command line input.
466			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
467
468	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
469			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
470			no delay (0).
471			Format: integer
472
473	bootconfig	[KNL]
474			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
475			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
476
477			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
478
479	bert_disable	[ACPI]
480			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
481
482	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
483			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
484
485	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
486	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
487			kernel args too.
488	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
489	bttv.tuner=
490
491	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
492			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
493			at a time.
494
495	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
496
497	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
498			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
499			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
500			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
501			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
502			This option provides an override for these situations.
503
504	carrier_timeout=
505			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
506			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
507			it waits 120 seconds.
508
509	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
510			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
511			trust validation.
512			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
513
514	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
515			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
516			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
517			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
518			others).
519
520	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
521			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
522
523	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
524			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
525			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
526			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
527			  a single hierarchy
528			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
529			  subsystem
530			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
531			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
532			  created
533			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
534			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
535			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
536			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
537			stall information accounting feature
538
539	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
540			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
541			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
542			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
543			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
544			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
545			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
546			all v1 hierarchies.
547
548	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
549			Format: <string>
550			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
551			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
552
553	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
556			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
557				any implied execute protection).
558			1 -- check protection requested by application.
559			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
560			Value can be changed at runtime via
561				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
562			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
563
564	cio_ignore=	[S390]
565			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
566	clk_ignore_unused
567			[CLK]
568			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
569			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
570			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
571			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
572			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
573			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
574			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
575			platform with proper driver support.  For more
576			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
577
578	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
579			[Deprecated]
580			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
581			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
582			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
583			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
584
585	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
586			Format: <string>
587			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
588			with the name specified.
589			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
590			the platform:
591			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
592			[ACPI] acpi_pm
593			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
594				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
595			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
596				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
597			[MIPS] MIPS
598			[PARISC] cr16
599			[S390] tod
600			[SH] SuperH
601			[SPARC64] tick
602			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
603
604	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
605			[ARM,ARM64]
606			Format: <bool>
607			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
608			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
609			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
610			systems.
611
612	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
613			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
614			external delays before the clock will be marked
615			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
616			three attempts to read the clock under test.
617
618	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
619			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
620			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
621			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
622			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
623			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
624			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
625			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
626			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
627
628	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
629			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
630			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
631			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
632			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
633
634	clearcpuid=BITNUM[,BITNUM...] [X86]
635			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
636			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
637			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
638			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
639			ones should be.
640			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
641			or using the feature without checking anything
642			will still see it. This just prevents it from
643			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
644			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
645			some critical bits.
646
647	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
648			[KNL,CMA]
649			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
650			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
651			placement constraint by the physical address range of
652			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
653			altogether. For more information, see
654			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
655
656	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
657			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
658			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
659			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
660			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
661			specificed, the default value is 0.
662			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
663			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
664			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
665			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
666
667	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
668			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
669			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
670			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
671			a hypervisor.
672			Default: yes
673
674	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
675			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
676			allocations, by default set to 256K.
677
678	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
679			Format:
680			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
681
682	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
683			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
684
685	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
686			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
687			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
688
689	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
690	conmode=
691
692	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
693
694		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
695
696		ttyS<n>[,options]
697		ttyUSB0[,options]
698			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
699			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
700			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
701			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
702			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
703
704			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
705			information.  See
706			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
707			alternative.
708
709		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
710		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
711		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
712		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
713		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
714			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
715			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
716			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
717			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
718			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
719			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
720			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
721			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
722			the h/w is not re-initialized.
723
724		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
725			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
726
727		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
728		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
729			console=brl,ttyS0
730		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
731
732	console_msg_format=
733			[KNL] Change console messages format
734		default
735			By default we print messages on consoles in
736			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
737			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
738			`printk_time' param).
739		syslog
740			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
741			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
742			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
743			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
744			from /proc/kmsg.
745
746	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
747			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
748			Defaults to 0.
749
750	coredump_filter=
751			[KNL] Change the default value for
752			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
753			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
754
755	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
756			[ARM,ARM64]
757			Format: <bool>
758			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
759			0: default value, disable debugging
760			1: enable debugging at boot time
761
762	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
763			disable the cpuidle sub-system
764
765	cpuidle.governor=
766			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
767
768	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
769			disable the cpufreq sub-system
770
771	cpufreq.default_governor=
772			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
773			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
774			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
775
776	cpu_init_udelay=N
777			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
778			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
779			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
780			Default: 10000
781
782	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
783			Format:
784			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
785
786	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
787			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
788			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
789			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
790			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
791			is selected automatically.
792			[KNL, X86-64] Select a region under 4G first, and
793			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
794			hasn't been specified.
795			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
796
797	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
798			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
799			in the running system. The syntax of range is
800			start-[end] where start and end are both
801			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
802			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
803
804	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
805			[KNL, X86-64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
806			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
807			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
808			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
809			available.
810			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
811	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
812			[KNL, X86-64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
813			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
814			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
815			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
816			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
817			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
818			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
819			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
820			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
821			for second kernel instead.
822			0: to disable low allocation.
823			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
824			or memory reserved is below 4G.
825
826	cryptomgr.notests
827			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
828
829	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
830			Format: <dma>
831
832	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
833			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
834
835	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
836			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
837			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
838			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
839			to resolve the hang situation.
840			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
841			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
842			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
843			     but more data)
844
845	dasd=		[HW,NET]
846			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
847
848	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
849			(one device per port)
850			Format: <port#>,<type>
851			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
852
853	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
854
855	debug_boot_weak_hash
856			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
857			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
858			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
859			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
860			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
861			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
862
863	debug_locks_verbose=
864			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
865			Format: <int>
866			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
867			self-tests.
868			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
869			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
870			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
871			useful to lockdep developers.
872
873	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
874
875	no_debug_objects
876			[KNL] Disable object debugging
877
878	debug_guardpage_minorder=
879			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
880			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
881			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
882			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
883			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
884			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
885			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
886			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
887			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
888			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
889			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
890			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
891			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
892			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
893			bypassed) which are not detectable by
894			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
895			tracking down these problems.
896
897	debug_pagealloc=
898			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
899			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
900			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
901			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
902			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
903			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
904			on: enable the feature
905
906	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
907			and debugfs internal clients.
908			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
909			on: 	All functions are enabled.
910			no-mount:
911				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
912			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
913				its content. There is nothing to mount.
914			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
915			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
916				or directories within debugfs.
917				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
918				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
919			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
920
921	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
922
923	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
924			Format: <area>[,<node>]
925			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst.
926
927	default_hugepagesz=
928			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
929			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
930			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
931			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
932			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
933			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
934			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
935			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
936			Format: size[KMG]
937
938	deferred_probe_timeout=
939			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
940			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
941			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
942			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
943			will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
944			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
945			retrying.
946
947	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
948			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
949			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
950			          level 1 and decompression (default)
951			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
952			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
953			          only (compression on level 1)
954			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
955			          only (decompression)
956			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
957			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
958
959	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
960			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
961
962	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
963			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
964			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
965			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
966			miss to occur.
967
968	stress_slb	[PPC]
969			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
970			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
971			on kernel addresses.
972
973	disable=	[IPV6]
974			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
975
976	hardened_usercopy=
977                        [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
978                        hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
979                        usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
980                        from reading or writing beyond known memory
981                        allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
982                        against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
983                        copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
984                on      Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
985                off     Disable hardened usercopy checks.
986
987	disable_radix	[PPC]
988			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
989
990	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
991			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
992			invalidate.
993
994	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
995			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
996			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
997
998	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
999			Format: <int>
1000			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1001			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1002			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1003			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1004			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1005			INIT from AP to BSP.
1006
1007	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1008			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1009			to workaround buggy firmware.
1010
1011	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1012			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1013
1014	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1015			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1016			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1017			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1018
1019	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1020			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1021			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1022			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1023			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1024
1025	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1026			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1027			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1028
1029	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1030
1031	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1032			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1033
1034	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1035			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1036			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1037			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1038			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1039			architectural default is too low.
1040
1041	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1042			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1043			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1044			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1045			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1046			driver later using sysfs.
1047
1048	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1049			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
1050			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1051
1052	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1053			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1054			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1055			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1056			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1057			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1058			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1059			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1060			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1061			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1062			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1063			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1064			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1065			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1066			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1067			data set with no connector name will be used for
1068			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1069
1070	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1071
1072	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1073			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1074			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1075			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1076			exists).
1077			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1078			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1079			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1080
1081	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1082			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1083			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1084			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1085
1086	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1087	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1088			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1089			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1090			for details.
1091
1092	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
1093			in some Intel CPUs.
1094
1095	<module>.async_probe [KNL]
1096			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
1097
1098	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1099			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1100			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1101			which are not unmapped.
1102
1103	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1104
1105			When used with no options, the early console is
1106			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1107			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1108			the platform.
1109
1110		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1111			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1112			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1113			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1114			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1115			configured.
1116
1117		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
1118		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1119		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
1120		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
1121		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1122			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1123			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1124			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1125			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1126			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1127			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1128			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1129			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
1130
1131		pl011,<addr>
1132		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1133			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1134			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1135			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1136			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1137			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1138			the device registers.
1139
1140		liteuart,<addr>
1141			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1142			specified address. The serial port must already be
1143			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1144
1145		meson,<addr>
1146			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1147			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1148			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1149			supported.
1150
1151		msm_serial,<addr>
1152			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1153			port at the specified address. The serial port
1154			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1155			yet supported.
1156
1157		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1158			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1159			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1160			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1161			yet supported.
1162
1163		owl,<addr>
1164			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1165			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1166			specified address. The serial port must already be
1167			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1168
1169		rda,<addr>
1170			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1171			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1172			specified address. The serial port must already be
1173			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1174
1175		sbi
1176			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1177			console.
1178
1179		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1180
1181		s3c2410,<addr>
1182		s3c2412,<addr>
1183		s3c2440,<addr>
1184		s3c6400,<addr>
1185		s5pv210,<addr>
1186		exynos4210,<addr>
1187			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1188			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1189			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1190			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1191			Options are not yet supported.
1192
1193		lantiq,<addr>
1194			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1195			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1196			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1197			yet supported.
1198
1199		lpuart,<addr>
1200		lpuart32,<addr>
1201			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1202			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1203			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1204			port must already be setup and configured.
1205
1206		ec_imx21,<addr>
1207		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1208			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1209			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1210			must already be setup and configured.
1211
1212		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1213			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1214			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1215			address. The serial port must already be setup
1216			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1217
1218		qcom_geni,<addr>
1219			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1220			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1221			specified address. The serial port must already be
1222			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1223
1224		efifb,[options]
1225			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1226			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1227			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1228			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1229			mapped with the correct attributes.
1230
1231		linflex,<addr>
1232			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1233			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1234			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1235			already be setup and configured.
1236
1237	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1238			earlyprintk=vga
1239			earlyprintk=sclp
1240			earlyprintk=xen
1241			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1242			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1243			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1244			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1245			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1246			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1247
1248			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1249			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1250			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1251
1252			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1253			takes over.
1254
1255			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1256			be used at a time.
1257
1258			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1259			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1260			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1261			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1262				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1263			You can find the port for a given device in
1264			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1265				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1266
1267			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1268			very good.
1269
1270			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1271			the real console.
1272
1273			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1274
1275			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1276
1277			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1278			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1279			UART class.
1280
1281	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1282			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1283			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1284			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1285			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1286			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1287			default: on.
1288
1289	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1290			ekgdboc=kbd
1291
1292			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1293			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1294
1295			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1296			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1297			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1298			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1299
1300	edd=		[EDD]
1301			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1302
1303	efi=		[EFI]
1304			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1305				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1306				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1307			debug: enable misc debug output.
1308			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1309			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1310			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1311			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1312			firmware implementations.
1313			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1314			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1315			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1316			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1317			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1318			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1319			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1320			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1321			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1322			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1323
1324	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1325			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1326			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1327			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1328			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1329
1330	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1331			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1332			updating original EFI memory map.
1333			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1334			from ss to ss+nn.
1335
1336			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1337			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1338			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1339			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1340
1341			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1342			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1343			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1344
1345			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1346			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1347			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1348			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1349			"soft reserved".
1350
1351	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1352			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1353			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1354			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1355			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1356
1357
1358	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1359			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1360
1361	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1362			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1363			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1364
1365	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1366			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1367			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1368			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1369			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1370
1371	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1372			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1373			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1374			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1375
1376	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1377			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1378			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1379			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1380			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1381
1382	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1383			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1384			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1385			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1386			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1387			Default value is 0.
1388			Value can be changed at runtime via
1389			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1390
1391	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1392			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1393			support.
1394
1395	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1396			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1397			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1398
1399	evm=		[EVM]
1400			Format: { "fix" }
1401			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1402			current integrity status.
1403
1404	failslab=
1405	fail_usercopy=
1406	fail_page_alloc=
1407	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1408			General fault injection mechanism.
1409			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1410			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1411
1412	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1413			Format: { initns | none }
1414			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1415			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1416
1417	floppy=		[HW]
1418			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1419
1420	force_pal_cache_flush
1421			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1422			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1423			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1424			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1425
1426	forcepae	[X86-32]
1427			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1428			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1429			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1430			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1431			and may cause unknown problems.
1432
1433	ftrace=[tracer]
1434			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1435			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1436			boot debugging.
1437
1438	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1439			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1440			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1441			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1442			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1443			oops.
1444
1445	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1446			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1447			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1448			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1449			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1450			tracing directory.
1451
1452	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1453			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1454			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1455			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1456			tracing directory.
1457
1458	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1459			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1460			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1461			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1462			that can be changed at run time by the
1463			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1464
1465	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1466			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1467			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1468			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1469			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1470
1471	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1472			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1473			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1474			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1475			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1476
1477	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1478			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1479			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1480			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1481			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1482			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1483			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1484			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1485			suppliers).
1486			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1487			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1488			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1489				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1490				up (sync_state() calls).
1491			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1492				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1493			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1494
1495	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1496			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1497			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1498			Format: <bool>
1499
1500	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1501			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1502			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1503			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1504			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1505
1506	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1507
1508	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1509			Format: off | on
1510			default: on
1511
1512	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1513			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1514			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1515			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1516			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1517
1518	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1519			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1520			android emulator
1521
1522	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1523			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1524			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1525	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1526			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1527
1528	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1529			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1530			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1531			GPT to be used instead.
1532
1533	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1534			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1535			Format: 0 | 1
1536			Default: 0
1537	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1538			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1539			Format: 0 | 1
1540			Default: 0
1541	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1542			Format: 0 | 1
1543			Default: 0
1544	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1545			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1546			Default: 1024
1547	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1548			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1549			Default: 1024
1550
1551	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1552			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1553			backtraces on all cpus.
1554			Format: 0 | 1
1555
1556	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1557			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1558			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1559			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1560
1561	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1562
1563	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1564			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1565
1566	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1567			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1568			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1569			logic will be disabled.
1570
1571	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1572			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1573			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1574			size on bigger boxes.
1575
1576	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1577			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1578			Default: "on"
1579
1580	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1581
1582	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1583			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1584				verbose }
1585			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1586			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1587				VIA, nVidia)
1588			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1589
1590	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1591			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1592
1593	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1594			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1595			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1596			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1597				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1598
1599			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1600			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1601			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1602
1603	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1604			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1605			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1606			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1607			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1608			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1609			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1610			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1611			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1612				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1613
1614	hugepagesz=
1615			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1616			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1617			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1618			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1619			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1620			architecture dependent.  See also
1621			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1622			Format: size[KMG]
1623
1624	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1625			[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
1626			enabled.
1627			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1628			memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1629			Format: { on | off (default) }
1630
1631			on:  enable the feature
1632			off: disable the feature
1633
1634			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1635			the default is on.
1636
1637			This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1638			If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
1639			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
1640
1641	hung_task_panic=
1642			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1643			Format: 0 | 1
1644
1645			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1646			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1647			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1648			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1649			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1650
1651	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1652				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1653	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1654				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1655				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1656
1657	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1658				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1659				      guest on lock contention.
1660
1661	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1662			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1663			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1664			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1665			the real console.
1666
1667	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1668				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1669				registered from board initialization code.
1670				Format:
1671				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1672
1673	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1674	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1675			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1676			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1677			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1678	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1679	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1680			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1681			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1682	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1683	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1684	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1685			     for the AUX port
1686	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1687			     controller
1688	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1689			     controllers
1690	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1691	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1692			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1693			     transitions, or never reset
1694			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1695			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1696			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1697			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1698			architectures force reset to be always executed
1699	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1700	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1701	i8042.probe_defer
1702			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1703
1704	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1705
1706	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1707			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1708			hardware.
1709	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1710			does not match list of supported models.
1711	i8k.power_status
1712			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1713			(disabled by default)
1714	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1715			capability is set.
1716
1717	i915.invert_brightness=
1718			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1719			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1720			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1721			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1722			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1723			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1724			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1725			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1726			value switches the backlight off.
1727			-1 -- never invert brightness
1728			 0 -- machine default
1729			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1730
1731	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1732			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1733
1734	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1735			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1736			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1737			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1738			See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1739
1740	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1741			Format: <int>
1742			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1743			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1744			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1745			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1746			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1747			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1748			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1749			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1750			was 0x3.
1751
1752	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1753			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1754
1755	idle=		[X86]
1756			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1757			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1758			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1759			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1760			Not recommended.
1761			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1762			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1763			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1764
1765	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1766			Format: <bool>
1767			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1768			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1769			true (1).
1770
1771	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1772			Format: <bool>
1773			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1774			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1775
1776	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1777			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1778			Default: strict
1779
1780			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1781			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1782			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1783			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1784			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1785			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1786			encoding mode.
1787
1788			Available settings are as follows:
1789			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1790				supported by the FPU
1791			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1792				by the FPU
1793			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1794				by the FPU
1795			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1796				supported by the FPU
1797
1798			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1799			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1800			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1801			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1802			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1803			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1804			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1805			MIPS64 CPUs.
1806
1807			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1808			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1809			except where unsupported by hardware.
1810
1811	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1812			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1813			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1814			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1815			could change it dynamically, usually by
1816			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1817
1818	ignore_rlimit_data
1819			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1820			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1821			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1822
1823	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1824			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1825
1826	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1827			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1828			default: "enforce"
1829
1830	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1831			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1832			owned by uid=0.
1833
1834	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1835			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1836			measurements, instead of host native format.
1837
1838	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1839			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1840				   | sha512 | ... }
1841			default: "sha1"
1842
1843			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1844			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1845
1846	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1847			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1848			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1849				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1850
1851			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1852			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1853			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1854			uid=0.
1855
1856			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1857			all files owned by root.
1858
1859			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1860			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1861			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1862
1863			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1864			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1865			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1866			flag.
1867
1868			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1869			critical data.
1870
1871	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1872			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1873			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1874			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1875			opened for read by uid=0.
1876
1877	ima_template=	[IMA]
1878			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1879			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1880			Default: "ima-ng"
1881
1882	ima_template_fmt=
1883			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1884			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1885
1886	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1887			Format: <min_file_size>
1888			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1889			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1890
1891			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1892			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1893			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1894
1895	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1896			Format: <bufsize>
1897			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1898
1899			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1900			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1901			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1902
1903	init=		[KNL]
1904			Format: <full_path>
1905			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1906			process.
1907
1908	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1909			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1910			startup.
1911
1912	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1913			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1914			modules and initcalls.
1915
1916	initramfs_async= [KNL]
1917			Format: <bool>
1918			Default: 1
1919			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
1920			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
1921			with devices being probed and
1922			initialized. This should normally just work,
1923			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
1924			historical behaviour of the initramfs
1925			unpacking being completed before device_ and
1926			late_ initcalls.
1927
1928	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1929
1930	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
1931			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
1932			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
1933			setting.
1934			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
1935			Default is 0, 0
1936
1937	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1938			zeroes.
1939			Format: 0 | 1
1940			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1941
1942	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1943			Format: 0 | 1
1944			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1945
1946	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1947			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1948			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1949			override in debugfs after boot.
1950
1951	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1952			Format: <irq>
1953
1954	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1955
1956	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1957			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1958			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1959			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1960
1961	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1962		on
1963			Enable intel iommu driver.
1964		off
1965			Disable intel iommu driver.
1966		igfx_off [Default Off]
1967			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1968			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1969			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1970			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1971			DMA.
1972		strict [Default Off]
1973			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
1974		sp_off [Default Off]
1975			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1976			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1977			not be supported.
1978		sm_on
1979			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
1980			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
1981			translation.
1982		sm_off
1983			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
1984		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1985			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1986			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1987			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1988			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1989			mapping is enabled.
1990			Note that using this option lowers the security
1991			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1992			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1993
1994	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1995			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1996			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1997
1998	intel_pstate=	[X86]
1999			disable
2000			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2001			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2002			passive
2003			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2004			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2005			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2006			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2007			  feature.
2008			force
2009			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2010			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2011			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2012			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2013			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2014			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2015			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2016			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2017			no_hwp
2018			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2019			  if available.
2020			hwp_only
2021			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2022			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2023			support_acpi_ppc
2024			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2025			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2026			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2027			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2028			per_cpu_perf_limits
2029			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2030			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2031
2032	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2033			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2034			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2035			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2036			no_x2apic_optout
2037				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2038			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2039
2040	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2041		strict	regions from userspace.
2042		relaxed
2043
2044	iommu=		[X86]
2045		off
2046		force
2047		noforce
2048		biomerge
2049		panic
2050		nopanic
2051		merge
2052		nomerge
2053		soft
2054		pt		[X86]
2055		nopt		[X86]
2056		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2057			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2058
2059	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2060			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2061			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2062			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2063			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2064			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2065			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2066
2067	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2068			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2069			0 - Lazy mode.
2070			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2071			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2072			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2073			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2074			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2075			1 - Strict mode.
2076			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2077			  synchronously.
2078			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2079			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2080			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2081
2082	iommu.passthrough=
2083			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2084			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2085			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2086			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2087			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2088
2089	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2090			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2091			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2092
2093	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2094		0x80
2095			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2096		0xed
2097			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2098		udelay
2099			Simple two microseconds delay
2100		none
2101			No delay
2102
2103	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2104			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2105
2106	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2107			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2108
2109	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2110			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2111
2112	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2113			[ARM, ARM64]
2114			Format: <bool>
2115			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2116			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2117			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2118
2119	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2120			[ARM, ARM64]
2121			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2122			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2123			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2124			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2125			LPIs.
2126
2127	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2128			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2129			requires the kernel to be built with
2130			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2131
2132	irqfixup	[HW]
2133			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2134			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2135			firmware running.
2136
2137	irqpoll		[HW]
2138			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2139			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2140			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2141			firmware running.
2142
2143	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2144			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2145
2146	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2147			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2148			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2149
2150			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2151			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2152
2153			nohz
2154			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2155
2156			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2157			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2158			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2159			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2160			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2161
2162			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2163			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2164			  be configured manually after bootup.
2165
2166			domain
2167			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2168			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2169			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2170			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2171			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2172			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2173			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2174			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2175
2176			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2177			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2178			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2179			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2180
2181			managed_irq
2182
2183			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2184			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2185			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2186			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2187			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2188
2189			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2190			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2191			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2192			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2193			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2194			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2195			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2196
2197			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2198			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2199			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2200			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2201			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2202			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2203			  queues.
2204
2205			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2206
2207	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2208
2209	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2210			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2211			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2212			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2213			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2214				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2215
2216	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2217			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2218			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2219			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
2220			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2221				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2222
2223	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2224			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2225			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
2226			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2227			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
2228				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2229
2230	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2231			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2232
2233	nokaslr		[KNL]
2234			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
2235			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
2236			Layout Randomization).
2237
2238	kasan_multi_shot
2239			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2240			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2241			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2242			invalid access.
2243
2244	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2245
2246	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2247			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2248			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2249			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2250			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2251			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2252			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2253			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2254			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2255			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2256
2257			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2258			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2259			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2260			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2261			zone if it does not.
2262
2263			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2264			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2265			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2266			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2267			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2268			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2269			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2270
2271	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2272			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2273			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2274			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2275			optional and is the number seconds in between
2276			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2277			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2278			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2279			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2280			the kernel debugger.
2281
2282	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2283			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2284			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2285			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2286			 keyboard only format: kbd
2287			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2288			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2289			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2290			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2291
2292	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2293			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2294			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2295			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2296			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2297			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2298			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2299
2300			The name of the early console should be specified
2301			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2302			the early console might be different than the tty
2303			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2304			blank and the first boot console that implements
2305			read() will be picked.
2306
2307	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2308			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2309
2310	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2311			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2312			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2313
2314	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2315			Valid arguments: on, off
2316			Default: on
2317			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2318			the default is off.
2319
2320	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2321			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2322			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2323			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2324			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2325			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2326			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2327
2328			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2329
2330			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2331			Boot Parameter" section.
2332
2333	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2334			and kernel address spaces.
2335			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2336			0: force disabled
2337			1: force enabled
2338
2339	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2340			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2341
2342	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2343				   Default is false (don't support).
2344
2345	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2346			KVM MMU at runtime.
2347			Default is 0 (off)
2348
2349	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2350			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2351			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2352			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2353			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2354			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2355				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2356
2357			Default is 'auto'.
2358
2359			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2360			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2361
2362	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2363			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2364			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2365			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2366			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2367
2368	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2369			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2370			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2371			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2372			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2373			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2374
2375	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2376			Default is 1 (enabled)
2377
2378	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2379			for all guests.
2380			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2381
2382	kvm-arm.mode=
2383			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2384
2385			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2386
2387			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2388			      protected guests.
2389
2390			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2391				   state is kept private from the host.
2392				   Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2.
2393
2394			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2395			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2396			for the host.
2397
2398	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2399			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2400			system registers
2401
2402	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2403			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2404			system registers
2405
2406	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2407			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2408			system registers
2409
2410	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2411			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2412			LPIs.
2413
2414	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2415			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2416			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2417			allocation.
2418			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2419			Format: <integer>
2420			Default: 5
2421
2422	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2423			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2424			Default is 1 (enabled)
2425
2426	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2427			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2428			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2429			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2430			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2431			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2432			Default is 1 (enabled)
2433
2434	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2435			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2436			Default is 1 (enabled)
2437
2438	kvm-intel.nested=
2439			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2440			Default is 0 (disabled)
2441
2442	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2443			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2444			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2445			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2446
2447	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2448			CVE-2018-3620.
2449
2450			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2451
2452			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2453			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2454				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2455			never:	Disables the mitigation
2456
2457			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2458
2459	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2460			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2461			Default is 1 (enabled)
2462
2463	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2464			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2465
2466			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2467			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2468			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2469
2470			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2471			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2472			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2473			not have direct access.
2474
2475			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2476			options are:
2477
2478			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2479
2480	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2481			      affected CPUs
2482
2483			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2484			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2485
2486			full
2487				Provides all available mitigations for the
2488				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2489				enables all mitigations in the
2490				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2491
2492				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2493				sysfs interface is still possible after
2494				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2495				when the first VM is started in a
2496				potentially insecure configuration,
2497				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2498
2499			full,force
2500				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2501				flush runtime control. Implies the
2502				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2503				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2504
2505			flush
2506				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2507				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2508				L1D flush.
2509
2510				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2511				sysfs interface is still possible after
2512				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2513				when the first VM is started in a
2514				potentially insecure configuration,
2515				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2516
2517			flush,nosmt
2518
2519				Disables SMT and enables the default
2520				hypervisor mitigation.
2521
2522				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2523				sysfs interface is still possible after
2524				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2525				when the first VM is started in a
2526				potentially insecure configuration,
2527				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2528
2529			flush,nowarn
2530				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2531				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2532				insecure configuration.
2533
2534			off
2535				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2536				emit any warnings.
2537				It also drops the swap size and available
2538				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2539				bare metal.
2540
2541			Default is 'flush'.
2542
2543			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2544
2545	l2cr=		[PPC]
2546
2547	l3cr=		[PPC]
2548
2549	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2550			disabled it.
2551
2552	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2553			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2554			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2555			Format: notscdeadline
2556
2557	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2558			in C2 power state.
2559
2560	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2561			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2562			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2563			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2564			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2565			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2566			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2567
2568	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2569			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2570			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2571
2572	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2573			when set.
2574			Format: <int>
2575
2576	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma-
2577			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
2578			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
2579			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
2580			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
2581			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2582			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2583			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2584
2585			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2586			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2587			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2588			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2589			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2590			host link and device attached to it.
2591
2592			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2593			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2594			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2595			The following configurations can be forced.
2596
2597			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2598			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2599
2600			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2601
2602			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2603			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2604			  allowed.
2605
2606			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2607
2608			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2609
2610			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
2611			  and both resets.
2612
2613			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2614			  hot-unplug link recovery
2615
2616			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2617
2618			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2619
2620			* disable: Disable this device.
2621
2622			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2623			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2624
2625	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
2626
2627	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2628
2629	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2630			Format: <integer>
2631
2632	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2633			Format: <integer>
2634
2635	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2636			Format: <integer>
2637
2638	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2639			Format: <integer>
2640
2641	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2642			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2643			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2644			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2645			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2646			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2647			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2648			are also disabled.
2649
2650	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2651			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2652			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2653			number of online CPUs.
2654
2655	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2656			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2657
2658	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2659			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2660
2661	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2662			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2663			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2664
2665	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2666			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2667			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2668			mode during the locktorture test.
2669
2670	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2671			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2672			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2673
2674	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2675			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2676
2677	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2678			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2679			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2680			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2681			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2682			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2683
2684	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2685			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2686
2687	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2688			Enable additional printk() statements.
2689
2690	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2691			Format: <irq>
2692
2693	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2694			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2695			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2696			loglevels are defined as follows:
2697
2698			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2699			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2700			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2701			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2702			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2703			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2704			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2705			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2706
2707	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2708			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2709			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2710			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2711			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2712			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2713			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2714
2715	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2716			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2717			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2718			kernel boot problems.
2719
2720	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2721	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2722	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2723	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2724				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2725				attached printers to be reset. Using
2726				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2727				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2728				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2729				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2730				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2731				port specification list means that device IDs
2732				from each port should be examined, to see if
2733				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2734				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2735				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2736
2737	lpj=n		[KNL]
2738			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2739			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2740			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2741			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2742			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2743			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2744			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2745			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2746			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2747			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2748			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2749			hardware.
2750
2751	ltpc=		[NET]
2752			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2753
2754	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2755
2756	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2757			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2758			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2759
2760	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2761			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2762			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2763
2764	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2765			different yeeloong laptops.
2766			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2767
2768	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2769			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2770
2771	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2772			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2773			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2774			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2775			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2776			only takes effect during system bootup.
2777			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2778			which also disables the IO APIC.
2779
2780	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2781	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2782			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2783			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2784			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2785			/dev/loop-control interface.
2786
2787	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2788
2789	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2790
2791	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2792			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2793
2794	mdacon=		[MDA]
2795			Format: <first>,<last>
2796			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2797
2798	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2799			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2800			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2801
2802			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2803			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2804			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2805
2806			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2807			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2808			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2809			not have direct access.
2810
2811			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2812			options are:
2813
2814			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2815			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2816				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2817			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
2818
2819			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
2820			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
2821			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
2822			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
2823			too.
2824
2825			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2826			mds=full.
2827
2828			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2829
2830	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
2831			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
2832
2833	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2834			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
2835
2836			1 for test;
2837			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
2838			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
2839			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
2840			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
2841
2842			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
2843			high memory is not affected.
2844
2845			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
2846			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
2847
2848			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2849			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2850			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2851			belonging to unused RAM.
2852
2853			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
2854			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
2855			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
2856
2857	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2858			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
2859			firmware.
2860			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
2861			ss[KMG].
2862			Multiple different regions can be specified with
2863			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
2864
2865	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2866			memory.
2867
2868	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2869			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2870			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2871
2872	memhp_default_state=online/offline
2873			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2874			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2875			set according to the
2876			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2877			option.
2878			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
2879
2880	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2881			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2882			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2883			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2884			option description.
2885
2886	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2887			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2888			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2889			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2890			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2891			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2892			comma delimited.
2893			Example:
2894				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2895
2896	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2897			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2898			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2899
2900	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2901			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2902			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2903			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2904			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2905			         or
2906			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2907			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2908			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2909			will be eaten.
2910
2911	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2912			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2913			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2914			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2915			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2916
2917	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2918			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2919			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2920			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2921			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2922			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2923			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2924			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2925
2926	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2927			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2928			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2929			Setting this option will scan the memory
2930			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2931			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2932			from using the memory being corrupted.
2933			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2934			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2935			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2936			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2937
2938	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2939			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2940			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2941			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2942			corruption in more or less memory.
2943
2944	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2945			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2946			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2947			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2948
2949	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
2950			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
2951			Format: {on | off (default)}
2952			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
2953			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
2954			from the hotadded memory which will allow to
2955			hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
2956			additional memory to do so.
2957			This feature is disabled by default because it
2958			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
2959			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
2960			memory blocks).
2961			The state of the flag can be read in
2962			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
2963			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
2964			the feature is not effective.
2965
2966			This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
2967			both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
2968			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
2969
2970	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
2971			Format: <integer>
2972			default : 0 <disable>
2973			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2974			performed. Each pass selects another test
2975			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2976			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2977			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2978			regions that are detected.
2979
2980	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2981			Valid arguments: on, off
2982			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2983			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2984			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2985			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2986			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2987
2988			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
2989			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2990
2991	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2992			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2993			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2994			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2995			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
2996
2997	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2998			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
2999
3000	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3001			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3002			platforms.
3003
3004	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3005			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3006			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3007			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3008
3009	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3010
3011	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
3012			physical address is ignored.
3013
3014	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3015			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3016			Default: "0tb"
3017			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3018			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3019			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3020			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3021			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3022			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3023			unconfigured.
3024			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3025			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3026			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3027			VGA shield.
3028			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3029			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3030			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3031			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3032			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3033			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3034
3035	mitigations=
3036			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3037			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3038			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3039			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3040
3041			off
3042				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3043				improves system performance, but it may also
3044				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3045				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3046					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
3047					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3048					       nobp=0 [S390]
3049					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3050					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3051					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3052					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3053					       l1tf=off [X86]
3054					       mds=off [X86]
3055					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3056					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3057					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3058					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3059
3060				Exceptions:
3061					       This does not have any effect on
3062					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3063					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3064
3065			auto (default)
3066				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3067				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3068				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3069				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3070				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3071				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3072
3073			auto,nosmt
3074				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3075				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3076				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3077				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3078					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3079					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3080
3081	mminit_loglevel=
3082			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3083			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3084			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3085			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3086			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3087			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3088
3089	module.sig_enforce
3090			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3091			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3092			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3093			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3094
3095	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3096			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3097
3098	mousedev.tap_time=
3099			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3100			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3101			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3102			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3103			Format: <msecs>
3104	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3105			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3106	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3107			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3108
3109	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3110			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3111			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3112			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3113			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3114			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3115			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3116			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3117			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3118			is not too small.
3119
3120	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3121			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3122			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3123			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3124			allocations. Use with caution!
3125
3126	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3127			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3128
3129	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3130			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3131
3132	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3133			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3134
3135	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3136			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3137			at a time.
3138
3139	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3140
3141			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3142
3143			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3144				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3145			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3146				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3147				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3148
3149	mtdset=		[ARM]
3150			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3151
3152			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3153
3154	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3155			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3156			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3157
3158	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3159			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3160			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3161
3162	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3163			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3164			Default is 1.
3165			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3166			using up MTRRs.
3167
3168	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3169			Format: <integer>
3170			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3171			Default : 1
3172			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3173			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3174
3175	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3176
3177	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3178			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3179			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3180			something different and driver-specific.
3181			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3182			file if at all.
3183
3184	nf_conntrack.acct=
3185			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3186			0 to disable accounting
3187			1 to enable accounting
3188			Default value is 0.
3189
3190	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3191			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3192
3193	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3194			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3195
3196	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3197			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3198
3199	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3200			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3201			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3202			requests.
3203
3204	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3205			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3206			channel should listen.
3207
3208	nfs.cache_getent=
3209			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3210			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3211
3212	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3213			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3214			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3215
3216	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3217			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3218			entries.
3219
3220	nfs.enable_ino64=
3221			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3222			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3223			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3224			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3225			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3226
3227	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3228			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3229			slots the client will assign to the callback
3230			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3231			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3232			a particular server.
3233
3234	nfs.max_session_slots=
3235			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3236			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3237			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3238			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3239			Note that there is little point in setting this
3240			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3241
3242	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3243			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3244			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3245			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3246			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3247			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3248			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3249			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3250			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3251			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3252			back to using the idmapper.
3253			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3254	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3255			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3256			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3257			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3258			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3259
3260	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3261			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3262			information in exchange_id requests.
3263			If zero, no implementation identification information
3264			will be sent.
3265			The default is to send the implementation identification
3266			information.
3267
3268	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3269			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3270			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3271			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3272			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3273			after the locks are lost.
3274			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3275			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3276			parameter to '1'.
3277			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3278			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3279
3280	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3281			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3282			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3283
3284			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3285			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3286			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3287			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3288
3289	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3290			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3291			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3292			the destination of the copy.
3293
3294	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3295			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3296			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3297			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3298			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3299			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3300			this parameter.
3301
3302	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3303			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3304			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3305			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3306			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3307			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3308
3309
3310	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3311			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3312			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3313
3314	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3315			when a NMI is triggered.
3316			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3317
3318	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3319			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3320			Valid num: 0 or 1
3321			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3322			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3323			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3324			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3325			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3326			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3327			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3328			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3329			need the box quickly up again.
3330
3331			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3332			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3333
3334	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3335			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3336			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3337			waits 4 seconds.
3338
3339	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3340			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3341			is present.
3342
3343	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3344			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3345
3346	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3347
3348	no_console_suspend
3349			[HW] Never suspend the console
3350			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3351			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3352			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3353			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3354			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3355			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3356			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3357			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3358			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3359			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3360			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3361			turn on/off it dynamically.
3362
3363	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3364			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3365			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3366			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3367			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3368			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3369			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3370			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3371			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3372			is set.
3373
3374	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3375			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3376			but will impact performance.
3377
3378	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3379
3380	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3381			(CPU alternatives feature).
3382
3383	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3384			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3385
3386	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3387
3388	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
3389			on "Classic" PPC cores.
3390
3391	nocache		[ARM]
3392
3393	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
3394
3395	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
3396
3397	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3398
3399	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3400
3401	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3402
3403	noexec		[IA-64]
3404
3405	noexec		[X86]
3406			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
3407			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3408			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
3409
3410	nosmap		[X86,PPC]
3411			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3412			even if it is supported by processor.
3413
3414	nosmep		[X86,PPC64s]
3415			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3416			even if it is supported by processor.
3417
3418	noexec32	[X86-64]
3419			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3420			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3421				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3422			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3423				read implies executable mappings
3424
3425	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3426
3427	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3428			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3429			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3430
3431	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3432
3433	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3434
3435	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3436			Equivalent to smt=1.
3437
3438			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3439			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3440				     via the sysfs control file.
3441
3442	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3443			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3444			possible in the system.
3445
3446	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3447			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3448			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3449			option.
3450
3451	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3452			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3453
3454	no_uaccess_flush
3455	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3456
3457	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3458			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3459			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3460
3461	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3462			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3463			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3464			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3465			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3466			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3467
3468	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3469			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3470			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3471			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3472			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3473			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3474			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3475
3476	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3477			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3478			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3479			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3480			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3481			correctly or when doing power measurements to evalute
3482			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3483			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3484
3485	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3486			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3487			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3488
3489	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3490			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3491			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3492			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3493			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3494			real-time systems.
3495
3496	no_hash_pointers
3497			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3498			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3499			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3500			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3501			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3502			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3503			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3504			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3505			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3506			value printed.  Pointers printed via %pK may still be
3507			hashed.  This option should only be specified when
3508			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3509			kernels.
3510
3511	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3512
3513	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3514			Valid arguments: on, off
3515			Default: on
3516
3517	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3518			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3519			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3520			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3521			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3522			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3523			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3524			just as if they had also been called out in the
3525			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3526
3527	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3528
3529	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3530			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3531
3532	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3533			broken timer IRQ sources.
3534
3535	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3536
3537	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3538			initial RAM disk.
3539
3540	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3541			remapping.
3542			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3543
3544	nointroute	[IA-64]
3545
3546	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3547
3548	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3549
3550	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3551
3552	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3553			fault handling.
3554
3555	no-vmw-sched-clock
3556			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3557			clock and use the default one.
3558
3559	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64] Disable paravirtualized steal time
3560			accounting. steal time is computed, but won't
3561			influence scheduler behaviour
3562
3563	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3564
3565	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3566
3567	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
3568			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
3569
3570	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3571
3572	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3573
3574	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3575			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3576
3577	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3578			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3579			irq.
3580
3581	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
3582			display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
3583			system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
3584			set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
3585
3586			Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3587
3588	nomodule	Disable module load
3589
3590	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3591			pagetables) support.
3592
3593	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3594
3595	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3596			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3597
3598	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3599			with UP alternatives
3600
3601	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3602			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3603			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3604			available to user space applications.
3605
3606	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3607			space.
3608
3609	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3610			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3611			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3612
3613	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3614
3615	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
3616
3617	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3618
3619	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3620			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3621
3622	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3623
3624	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3625
3626	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3627			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3628
3629	nowb		[ARM]
3630
3631	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3632
3633	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3634			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3635			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3636			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3637			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3638			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3639			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3640			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3641			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3642			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3643			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3644			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3645			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3646
3647	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3648			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3649			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3650			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3651			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3652			parameter's value.
3653			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3654			Default: 255
3655
3656	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3657			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3658			SAL PALO.
3659
3660	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3661			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3662			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3663			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3664			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3665			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3666			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3667			hot plugging.
3668
3669	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3670
3671	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3672			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3673
3674	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3675			NUMA balancing.
3676			Allowed values are enable and disable
3677
3678	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3679			'node', 'default' can be specified
3680			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3681			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3682
3683	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3684			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3685			info.
3686
3687	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3688			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3689			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3690			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3691			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3692			interrupts *may* be lost!
3693
3694	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3695			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3696			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3697			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3698
3699	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3700			process, but there is a small probability of
3701			deadlocking the machine.
3702			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3703			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3704
3705	page_alloc.shuffle=
3706			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3707			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3708			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3709			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3710			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3711			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3712			can be read from sysfs at:
3713			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3714
3715	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3716			Storage of the information about who allocated
3717			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3718			we can turn it on.
3719			on: enable the feature
3720
3721	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3722			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3723			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3724			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3725			on: turn on poisoning
3726
3727	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3728			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3729			Format: <integer>
3730			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3731			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3732
3733	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3734			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3735			timeout = 0: wait forever
3736			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3737			Format: <timeout>
3738
3739	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3740			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3741			bit 0: print all tasks info
3742			bit 1: print system memory info
3743			bit 2: print timer info
3744			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3745			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3746			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3747
3748	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3749			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3750			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3751			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3752			called with any of the flags in this set.
3753			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3754			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3755			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3756			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3757			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3758			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
3759			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
3760
3761	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
3762			on a WARN().
3763
3764	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3765			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3766			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3767			succeeds in any situation.
3768			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3769			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3770			kernel more unstable.
3771
3772	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3773			connected to, default is 0.
3774			Format: <parport#>
3775	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3776			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
3777			Format: <mode>
3778
3779	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3780			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3781			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3782			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3783			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3784			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3785			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3786			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3787			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3788			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3789			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3790			are specified on the command line, starting
3791			with parport0.
3792
3793	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
3794			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3795			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3796			computer where firmware has no options for setting
3797			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3798			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
3799			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3800
3801	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3802			Format: <int>
3803			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
3804			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
3805			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
3806
3807	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
3808			Format: <int>
3809			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
3810			changes.  Disabled by default.
3811
3812	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3813			Format: <int>
3814			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
3815			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3816			Disabled by default.
3817
3818	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
3819			Format: <int>
3820			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
3821			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
3822			Disabled by default.
3823
3824	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3825			Format: <int>
3826			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
3827			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
3828			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
3829			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
3830			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
3831			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
3832			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
3833			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
3834			all channels.
3835
3836	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
3837			Format: <int>
3838			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
3839			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3840			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3841
3842	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
3843			Format: <int>
3844			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
3845			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
3846			respectively.  Disabled by default.
3847
3848	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3849			Format: <int>
3850			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
3851			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
3852			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
3853			All modes allowed by default.
3854
3855	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
3856			Format: <int>
3857			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
3858			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
3859
3860	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3861			Format: <int>
3862			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
3863			platform configuration and the use of other driver
3864			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
3865			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
3866			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
3867			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
3868			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
3869			By default all supported ports are probed.
3870
3871	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
3872			Format: <int>
3873			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
3874			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
3875
3876	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
3877			Format: <int>
3878			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
3879			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
3880			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
3881			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
3882			0 otherwise.
3883
3884	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
3885			Format: <int>
3886			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
3887			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
3888			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
3889			allowed by default.
3890
3891	pause_on_oops=
3892			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3893			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
3894			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3895
3896	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
3897
3898	pcd.		[PARIDE]
3899			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
3900			See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
3901
3902	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3903
3904				Some options herein operate on a specific device
3905				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3906				specified in one of the following formats:
3907
3908				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
3909				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3910
3911				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3912				bus/device/function address which may change
3913				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3914				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3915				by other kernel parameters. If the
3916				domain is left unspecified, it is
3917				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3918				to a device through multiple device/function
3919				addresses can be specified after the base
3920				address (this is more robust against
3921				renumbering issues).  The second format
3922				selects devices using IDs from the
3923				configuration space which may match multiple
3924				devices in the system.
3925
3926		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
3927				changes anything
3928		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
3929		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
3930				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3931				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
3932		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
3933				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3934				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3935				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
3936		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3937				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3938				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3939		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3940				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3941				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3942				bus number. The config space is then accessed
3943				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3944				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3945				on the configuration access mechanisms.
3946		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3947				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3948				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
3949		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3950				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
3951		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
3952				Configuration
3953		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3954				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3955				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
3956		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3957				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3958				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
3959		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3960				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3961				should never be necessary.
3962		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3963				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3964				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3965				when the system masks IRQs.
3966		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3967				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3968				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3969				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
3970		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
3971				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3972				on several machines and they hang the machine
3973				when used, but on other computers it's the only
3974				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3975				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3976				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3977				motherboard.
3978		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
3979				Use with caution as certain devices share
3980				address decoders between ROMs and other
3981				resources.
3982		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
3983				expansion ROMs that do not already have
3984				BIOS assigned address ranges.
3985		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
3986				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
3987		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
3988				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3989				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3990				this way.
3991		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
3992				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3993				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3994				F0000h-100000h range.
3995		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
3996				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3997				secondary buses and you want to tell it
3998				explicitly which ones they are.
3999		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4000				numbers ourselves, overriding
4001				whatever the firmware may have done.
4002		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4003				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4004				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4005				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4006				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4007				IRQ routing is enabled.
4008		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4009				or for PCI scanning.
4010		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4011				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4012				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4013				please report a bug.
4014		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4015				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4016		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4017				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4018				so this option is a temporary workaround
4019				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4020		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4021				handle more pci cards
4022		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4023				This might help on some broken boards which
4024				machine check when some devices' config space
4025				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4026				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4027		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4028				This sorting is done to get a device
4029				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4030		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4031		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4032				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4033		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4034				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4035		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4036				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4037				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4038				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4039				or bus can support) for best performance.
4040		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4041				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4042				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4043				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4044				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4045				that hot-added devices will work.
4046		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4047				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4048				The default value is 256 bytes.
4049		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4050				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4051				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4052		resource_alignment=
4053				Format:
4054				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4055				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4056				aligned memory resources. How to
4057				specify the device is described above.
4058				If <order of align> is not specified,
4059				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4060				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4061				windows need to be expanded.
4062				To specify the alignment for several
4063				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4064				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4065				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4066				for 4096-byte alignment.
4067		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4068				end-to-end CRC checking).
4069				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4070				the default.
4071				off: Turn ECRC off
4072				on: Turn ECRC on.
4073		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4074				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4075				Default size is 256 bytes.
4076		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4077				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4078				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4079		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4080				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4081				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4082		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4083				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4084				MMIO_PREF window.
4085				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4086		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4087				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4088				Default is 1.
4089		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4090				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4091				accommodate resources required by all child
4092				devices.
4093				off: Turn realloc off
4094				on: Turn realloc on
4095		realloc		same as realloc=on
4096		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4097		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4098				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4099		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4100				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4101				port.
4102		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4103				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4104				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4105				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4106				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4107				taints the kernel.
4108		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4109				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4110				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4111				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4112				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4113				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4114				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4115				this removes isolation between devices and
4116				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4117		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4118		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4119		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4120				one PCI domain per PCI function
4121
4122	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4123			Management.
4124		off	Disable ASPM.
4125		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4126			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4127
4128	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4129		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4130			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4131			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4132			also tries to use these services.
4133		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4134				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4135		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4136			hotplug).
4137
4138	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4139		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4140		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4141
4142	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4143		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4144			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4145
4146	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4147
4148	pd_ignore_unused
4149			[PM]
4150			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4151			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4152			for debug and development, but should not be
4153			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4154
4155	pd.		[PARIDE]
4156			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4157
4158	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4159			boot time.
4160			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4161			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4162
4163	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4164			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4165			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4166			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4167			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4168			and performance comparison.
4169
4170	pf.		[PARIDE]
4171			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4172
4173	pg.		[PARIDE]
4174			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4175
4176	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4177			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4178
4179	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4180			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4181			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4182
4183	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4184			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4185			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4186
4187	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4188			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4189			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4190			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4191			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4192			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4193			remains 0.
4194
4195	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4196			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4197
4198	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4199			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4200			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4201			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4202			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4203			possible settings and some assignment information.
4204
4205	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4206			{ off }
4207
4208	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4209			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4210
4211	pnp_reserve_irq=
4212			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4213
4214	pnp_reserve_dma=
4215			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4216
4217	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4218			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4219
4220	pnp_reserve_mem=
4221			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4222			autoconfiguration.
4223			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4224
4225	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4226			Default is 21.
4227			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4228			may be specified.
4229			Format: <port>,<port>....
4230
4231	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4232			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4233			platform machine description specific power_save
4234			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4235			execution priority.
4236
4237	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4238			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4239			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4240			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4241			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4242
4243	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4244			Format: {"off"}
4245			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4246
4247	preempt=	[KNL]
4248			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4249			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4250			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4251			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4252			       can be preempted anytime.
4253
4254	print-fatal-signals=
4255			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4256
4257			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4258			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4259			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4260			coredump - etc.
4261
4262			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4263			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4264
4265			default: off.
4266
4267	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4268			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4269			panics
4270			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4271			default: disabled
4272
4273	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4274			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4275			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4276			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4277			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4278			in order to provide more debug information.
4279			Format: <bool>
4280			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4281
4282	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4283			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4284			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4285			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4286			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4287			Default: ratelimit
4288
4289	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4290			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4291
4292	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4293			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4294			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4295
4296	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4297			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4298			instead using the legacy FADT method
4299
4300	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4301			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4302			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4303				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4304			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4305			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4306				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4307			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4308			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4309				statistical time based profiling.
4310
4311	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4312
4313	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4314			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4315			that).
4316			Format: <bool>
4317
4318	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4319			tracking.
4320			Format: <bool>
4321
4322	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4323			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4324	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4325			per second.
4326	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4327			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4328			(0 = never).
4329	psmouse.resolution=
4330			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4331	psmouse.smartscroll=
4332			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4333			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4334
4335	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4336
4337	pt.		[PARIDE]
4338			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
4339
4340	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4341			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4342			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4343			system calls and interrupts.
4344
4345			on   - unconditionally enable
4346			off  - unconditionally disable
4347			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4348			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4349
4350			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4351
4352	nopti		[X86-64]
4353			Equivalent to pti=off
4354
4355	pty.legacy_count=
4356			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4357			default number.
4358
4359	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4360
4361	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4362
4363	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4364			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4365
4366	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4367			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4368
4369	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4370
4371	random.trust_cpu={on,off}
4372			[KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
4373			CPU's random number generator (if available) to
4374			fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
4375			by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
4376
4377	randomize_kstack_offset=
4378			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4379			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4380			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4381			that depend on stack address determinism or
4382			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4383			available on architectures that have defined
4384			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4385			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4386			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4387
4388	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4389
4390		cec_disable	[X86]
4391				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4392				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4393
4394	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4395			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4396			as described above.
4397
4398			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4399			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4400			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4401			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4402			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4403			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4404			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4405			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4406			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4407			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4408			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4409			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4410
4411			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4412			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4413
4414			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4415			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4416			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4417			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4418
4419	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4420			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4421			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4422			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4423			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4424			This improves the real-time response for the
4425			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4426			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4427			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4428			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4429
4430	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4431			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4432			process in one batch.
4433
4434	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4435			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4436			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4437			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4438
4439	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4440			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4441			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4442
4443	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4444			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4445			RCU grace-period initialization.
4446
4447	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4448			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4449			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4450			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4451			the rcu_node combining tree.
4452
4453	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4454			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4455			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4456			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4457			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4458
4459			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4460			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4461			to zero.
4462
4463	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4464			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4465			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4466			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4467			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4468
4469	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4470			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4471			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4472			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4473			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4474			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4475			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4476
4477	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4478			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4479			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4480			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4481			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4482			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4483			condition.
4484
4485	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4486			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4487			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4488			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4489
4490	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4491			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4492			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4493			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4494			and maximum value is HZ.
4495
4496	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4497			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4498			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4499			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4500
4501	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4502			Set required age in jiffies for a
4503			given grace period before RCU starts
4504			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4505			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4506			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4507			a value based on the most recent settings
4508			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4509			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4510			This calculated value may be viewed in
4511			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4512			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4513			overwritten.
4514
4515	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4516			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4517			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4518			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4519			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4520			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4521			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4522			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4523			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4524			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4525			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4526			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4527
4528	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4529			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4530			each group, which defaults to the square root
4531			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4532			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4533			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4534			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4535
4536	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4537			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4538			batch limiting is disabled.
4539
4540	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4541			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4542			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4543
4544	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4545			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4546			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4547			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4548			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4549			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4550			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4551			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4552
4553	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4554			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4555			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4556			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4557			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4558			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4559
4560	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4561			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4562			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4563			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4564			Larger delays increase the probability of
4565			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4566			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4567			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4568
4569	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4570			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4571			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4572			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4573
4574	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4575			Measure performance of asynchronous
4576			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4577
4578	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4579			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4580			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4581			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4582			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4583			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4584
4585	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4586			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4587			grace-period primitives.
4588
4589	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4590			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4591			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4592			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4593			interference.
4594
4595	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4596			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4597
4598	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4599			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4600			If this parameter has the same value as
4601			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4602			and double-argument variants are tested.
4603
4604	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4605			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4606			If this parameter has the same value as
4607			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4608			and double-argument variants are tested.
4609
4610	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4611			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4612
4613	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4614			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4615
4616	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4617			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4618			of allocations and frees.
4619
4620	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4621			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4622			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4623			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4624			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4625			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4626			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4627			a single reader.
4628
4629	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4630			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4631			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4632			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4633
4634	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4635			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4636
4637	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4638			Shut the system down after performance tests
4639			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4640			testing.
4641
4642	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4643			Enable additional printk() statements.
4644
4645	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4646			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4647			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4648			no holdoff.
4649
4650	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4651			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4652			in microseconds.
4653
4654	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4655			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4656			in microseconds.
4657
4658	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4659			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4660			in seconds.
4661
4662	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4663			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4664			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4665			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4666			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4667			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4668			of CPUs to be used.
4669
4670	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4671			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4672			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4673
4674	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4675			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4676			forward-progress tests.
4677
4678	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4679			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4680			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4681			testing.
4682
4683	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4684			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4685			primitives, if available.
4686
4687	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4688			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4689
4690	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4691			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4692			update-side primitives, if available.
4693
4694	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4695			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4696			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4697			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4698			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4699			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4700			they are all non-zero.
4701
4702	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4703			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4704			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4705			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4706
4707	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4708			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4709			This can of course result in splats, and is
4710			intended to test the ability of things like
4711			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4712			such leaks.
4713
4714	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4715			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4716
4717	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4718			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4719			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4720			test, hence the "fake".
4721
4722	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4723			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4724			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4725
4726	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4727			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4728			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4729
4730	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4731			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4732			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4733			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4734			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4735			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4736
4737	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
4738			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
4739
4740	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
4741			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4742
4743	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
4744			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4745			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
4746
4747	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
4748			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
4749			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
4750			task-exit processing.
4751
4752	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
4753			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
4754			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
4755			is spawned.
4756
4757	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
4758			The delay, in seconds, between successive
4759			read-then-exit testing episodes.
4760
4761	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
4762			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
4763			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4764			during the rcutorture test.
4765
4766	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
4767			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
4768			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4769
4770	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
4771			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4772			warnings, zero to disable.
4773
4774	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
4775			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
4776			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
4777			to any other stall-related activity.
4778
4779	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
4780			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4781
4782	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4783			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4784
4785	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
4786			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
4787			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
4788			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
4789			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
4790			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
4791
4792	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
4793			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4794
4795	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
4796			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4797			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4798			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
4799			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4800
4801	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
4802			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4803			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4804			under test support RCU priority boosting.
4805
4806	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
4807			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4808
4809	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
4810			Interval (s) between each boost test.
4811
4812	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
4813			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
4814			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4815
4816	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
4817			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4818
4819	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
4820			Enable additional printk() statements.
4821
4822	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
4823			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
4824			stall warning.
4825
4826	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4827			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4828
4829	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
4830			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
4831			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
4832			during early boot, that is, during the time
4833			before the init task is spawned.
4834
4835	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4836			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4837
4838	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4839			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4840			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4841			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
4842			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4843			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
4844			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4845
4846	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4847			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4848			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4849			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
4850			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4851			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4852			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
4853			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
4854			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4855
4856	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4857			Once boot has completed (that is, after
4858			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
4859			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
4860			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4861
4862			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
4863			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
4864			it to the value one, that is, converting any
4865			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
4866			period to instead use normal non-expedited
4867			grace-period processing.
4868
4869	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
4870			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
4871			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
4872			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
4873			a single callback queue.  This switching only
4874			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
4875			set to the default value of -1.
4876
4877	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
4878			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
4879			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
4880			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
4881			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
4882			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
4883			the default value of -1.
4884
4885	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
4886			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
4887			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
4888			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
4889			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
4890			for use in testing.
4891
4892	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
4893			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
4894			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
4895			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
4896			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
4897			but lengthens grace periods.
4898
4899	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4900			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4901			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
4902			to zero.
4903
4904	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4905			Run the RCU early boot self tests
4906
4907	rdinit=		[KNL]
4908			Format: <full_path>
4909			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4910			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4911
4912	rdrand=		[X86]
4913			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4914				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4915				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4916				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4917				path).
4918
4919	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
4920			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
4921			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4922			mba.
4923			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4924				rdt=cmt,!mba
4925
4926	reboot=		[KNL]
4927			Format (x86 or x86_64):
4928				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
4929				[[,]s[mp]#### \
4930				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4931				[[,]f[orce]
4932			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4933					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4934					reboot only),
4935			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4936			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4937			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4938					to be used for rebooting.
4939
4940	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4941			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4942			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4943			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4944			interference.
4945
4946	refscale.loops= [KNL]
4947			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
4948			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
4949			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
4950			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
4951			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
4952			x86 laptops.
4953
4954	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4955			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
4956			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
4957			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
4958
4959	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
4960			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
4961			the console log.
4962
4963	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
4964			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
4965			measured in microseconds.
4966
4967	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
4968			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
4969
4970	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4971			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
4972			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
4973			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
4974			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
4975
4976	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
4977			Enable additional printk() statements.
4978
4979	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
4980			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
4981			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
4982			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
4983			specified.
4984
4985	relax_domain_level=
4986			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
4987			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
4988
4989	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4990			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4991			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4992			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4993			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
4994
4995	reservetop=	[X86-32]
4996			Format: nn[KMG]
4997			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4998			address space.
4999
5000	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5001			during initialization.
5002
5003	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5004			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5005			Format:
5006			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5007
5008	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5009			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5010			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5011			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5012			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5013
5014	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5015			read the resume files
5016
5017	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5018			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5019			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5020
5021	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
5022		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
5023				present during boot.
5024		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
5025		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
5026		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
5027				(that will set all pages holding image data
5028				during restoration read-only).
5029
5030	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5031
5032	rfkill.default_state=
5033		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5034			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5035		1	Unblocked.
5036
5037	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5038		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5039		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5040			blocked and the previous configuration.
5041		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5042			blocked and everything unblocked.
5043
5044	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5045			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5046
5047	ring3mwait=disable
5048			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5049			CPUs.
5050
5051	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5052
5053	rodata=		[KNL]
5054		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5055		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5056
5057	rockchip.usb_uart
5058			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5059			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5060			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5061			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5062
5063	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5064			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5065
5066	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5067			mount the root filesystem
5068
5069	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5070
5071	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5072
5073	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5074			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5075			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5076
5077	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5078			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5079			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5080			managed by CMA.
5081
5082	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5083
5084	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5085
5086	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5087			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5088		strict
5089			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5090			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5091			which is faster.
5092
5093	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5094			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5095			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5096			factor of the size of main memory.
5097			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5098			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5099			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5100			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5101			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5102			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5103			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5104
5105	sa1100ir	[NET]
5106			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5107
5108	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5109
5110	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5111			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5112			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5113			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5114
5115	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5116			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5117			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5118			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5119			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5120			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5121			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5122			value.
5123			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5124			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5125				1			64 ms
5126				2			128 ms
5127			and so on.
5128			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5129			Default is 0.
5130
5131	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5132			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5133			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5134			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5135			tests.
5136
5137	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5138			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5139			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5140			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5141			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5142			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5143			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5144
5145	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5146			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5147			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5148			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5149			equal to the number of CPUs.
5150
5151	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5152			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5153			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5154
5155	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5156			Number seconds to wait between successive
5157			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5158			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5159
5160	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5161			The number of seconds following the start of the
5162			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5163			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5164			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5165
5166	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5167			The number of seconds between outputting the
5168			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5169			of zero disables statistics output.
5170
5171	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5172			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5173			to the set of CPUs under test.
5174
5175	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5176			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5177			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5178			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5179			functions.
5180
5181	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5182			Enable additional printk() statements.
5183
5184	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5185			The probability weighting to use for the
5186			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5187			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5188			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5189			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5190			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5191
5192	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5193			The probability weighting to use for the
5194			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5195			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5196
5197	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5198			The probability weighting to use for the
5199			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5200			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5201			Note well that setting a high probability for
5202			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5203			on the system.
5204
5205	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5206			The probability weighting to use for the
5207			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5208			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5209			and weight_many.
5210
5211	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5212			The probability weighting to use for the
5213			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5214			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5215			weight_many.
5216
5217	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5218			The probability weighting to use for the
5219			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5220			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5221			and weight_many.
5222
5223	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5224			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5225			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5226			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5227			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5228			1 -- enable.
5229			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5230			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5231
5232	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5233			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5234			"lsm=" parameter.
5235
5236	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5237			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5238			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5239			0 -- disable.
5240			1 -- enable.
5241			Default value is 1.
5242
5243	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
5244			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5245			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
5246			0 -- disable.
5247			1 -- enable.
5248			Default value is set via kernel config option.
5249
5250	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5251
5252	shapers=	[NET]
5253			Maximal number of shapers.
5254
5255	simeth=		[IA-64]
5256	simscsi=
5257
5258	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5259
5260	slab_merge	[MM]
5261			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5262			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5263
5264	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5265			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5266			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5267			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5268			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5269			layout control by attackers can usually be
5270			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5271			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5272			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5273			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5274			own.
5275			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5276
5277	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5278			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5279			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5280			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5281			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5282
5283	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5284			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5285			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5286			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5287			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5288			last alloc / free. For more information see
5289			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5290
5291	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5292			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5293			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5294			fragmentation. For more information see
5295			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5296
5297	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5298			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5299			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5300			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5301			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5302			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5303			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5304			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5305
5306	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5307			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5308			lower than slub_max_order.
5309			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
5310
5311	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5312			Same with slab_merge.
5313
5314	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5315			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5316			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5317
5318	smart2=		[HW]
5319			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5320
5321	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5322	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5323	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5324	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5325	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5326	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5327	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5328				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5329				1: Fast pin select (default)
5330				2: ATC IRMode
5331
5332	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5333			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5334			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5335			actual hardware limit.
5336			Format: <integer>
5337			Default: -1 (no limit)
5338
5339	softlockup_panic=
5340			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5341			Format: 0 | 1
5342
5343			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5344			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5345			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5346			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5347			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5348
5349	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5350			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5351			backtraces on all cpus.
5352			Format: 0 | 1
5353
5354	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5355			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5356
5357	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5358			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5359			The default operation protects the kernel from
5360			user space attacks.
5361
5362			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5363			       spectre_v2_user=on
5364			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5365			       spectre_v2_user=off
5366			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5367			       vulnerable
5368
5369			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5370			mitigation method at run time according to the
5371			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5372			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5373			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5374
5375			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5376			against user space to user space task attacks.
5377
5378			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5379			the user space protections.
5380
5381			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5382
5383			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5384			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5385			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5386			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5387			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
5388			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
5389			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
5390
5391			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5392			spectre_v2=auto.
5393
5394	spectre_v2_user=
5395			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5396		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5397		        user space tasks
5398
5399			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5400				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5401
5402			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5403				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5404
5405			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5406				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5407				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5408				  is inherited on fork.
5409
5410			prctl,ibpb
5411				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5412				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5413				  always when switching between different user
5414				  space processes.
5415
5416			seccomp
5417				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5418				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5419				  they explicitly opt out.
5420
5421			seccomp,ibpb
5422				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5423				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5424				  always when switching between different
5425				  user space processes.
5426
5427			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5428				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5429
5430			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5431
5432			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5433			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5434
5435	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5436			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5437			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5438
5439			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5440			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5441			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5442			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5443			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5444			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5445			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5446			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5447
5448			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5449			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5450			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5451			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5452
5453			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5454			Bypass optimization is used.
5455
5456			On x86 the options are:
5457
5458			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5459			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5460			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5461				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5462				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5463				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5464				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5465				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5466			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5467				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5468				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5469				  is inherited on fork.
5470			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5471				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5472
5473			Default mitigations:
5474			X86:	"prctl"
5475
5476			On powerpc the options are:
5477
5478			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5479				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5480				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5481				  exit.
5482			off	- No action.
5483
5484			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5485			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5486
5487	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5488	spia_fio_base=
5489	spia_pedr=
5490	spia_peddr=
5491
5492	split_lock_detect=
5493			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5494
5495			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5496			instructions that access data across cache line
5497			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5498			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5499			bus lock detection.
5500
5501			off	- not enabled
5502
5503			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5504				  about applications triggering the #AC
5505				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5506				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5507				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5508				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5509				  enabled in hardware.
5510
5511			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5512				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5513				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5514				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5515
5516			ratelimit:N -
5517				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5518				  per second for bus lock detection.
5519				  0 < N <= 1000.
5520
5521				  N/A for split lock detection.
5522
5523
5524			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5525			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5526			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5527			mode.
5528
5529			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5530			CPL > 0.
5531
5532	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5533			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5534			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5535
5536			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5537			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5538			number generator.
5539
5540			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5541			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5542			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5543			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5544			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5545
5546			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5547			the following option:
5548
5549			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5550				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5551
5552	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5553			Specifies how frequently to check for
5554			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5555			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5556			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5557			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5558			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5559			are ignored.
5560
5561	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5562			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5563			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5564			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5565			grace period will be considered for automatic
5566			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5567			expediting.
5568
5569	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5570			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5571
5572			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5573			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5574			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5575			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5576
5577			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5578				   for both kernel and userspace
5579			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5580				   for both kernel and userspace
5581			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5582				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5583				   to allow userspace to register its
5584				   interest in being mitigated too.
5585
5586	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5587			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5588			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5589			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5590			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5591			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
5592
5593	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
5594			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
5595			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
5596			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
5597			to false.
5598
5599	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
5600			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
5601
5602	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
5603			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
5604			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
5605			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
5606			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
5607			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
5608			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
5609
5610	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
5611			Format: <num>
5612			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
5613			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
5614			as the initial boot-console.
5615			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5616
5617	sti_font=	[HW]
5618			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
5619
5620	stifb=		[HW]
5621			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
5622
5623        strict_sas_size=
5624			[X86]
5625			Format: <bool>
5626			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
5627			against the required signal frame size which
5628			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
5629			be used to filter out binaries which have
5630			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
5631
5632	sunrpc.min_resvport=
5633	sunrpc.max_resvport=
5634			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5635			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
5636			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
5637			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
5638			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
5639			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
5640			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
5641			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
5642			maximum port values.
5643
5644	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
5645			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5646			Limit the number of requests that the server will
5647			process in parallel from a single connection.
5648			The default value is 0 (no limit).
5649
5650	sunrpc.pool_mode=
5651			[NFS]
5652			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
5653			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
5654			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
5655			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
5656			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
5657			NFS server is running.
5658
5659			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
5660				    automatically using heuristics
5661			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
5662			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
5663			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
5664				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
5665
5666	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
5667	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
5668			[NFS,SUNRPC]
5669			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
5670			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
5671			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
5672			improve throughput, but will also increase the
5673			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
5674
5675	suspend.pm_test_delay=
5676			[SUSPEND]
5677			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
5678			mode before resuming the system (see
5679			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
5680			is set. Default value is 5.
5681
5682	svm=		[PPC]
5683			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
5684			This parameter controls use of the Protected
5685			Execution Facility on pSeries.
5686
5687	swapaccount=[0|1]
5688			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
5689			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
5690			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
5691
5692	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
5693			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
5694			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
5695			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
5696			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
5697			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
5698
5699	switches=	[HW,M68k]
5700
5701	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
5702			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
5703			process, as if the value was written to the respective
5704			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
5705			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
5706			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
5707			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
5708			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
5709
5710	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
5711			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
5712			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
5713			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
5714			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
5715			in older udev will not work anymore.
5716			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
5717			the kernel configuration.
5718
5719	sysrq_always_enabled
5720			[KNL]
5721			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
5722			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
5723			Useful for debugging.
5724
5725	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
5726			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
5727			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
5728			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
5729			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
5730			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
5731
5732	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
5733
5734	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
5735			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
5736			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
5737			as the system sleep state during system startup with
5738			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
5739			The system is woken from this state using a
5740			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
5741
5742	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5743			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
5744
5745	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
5746			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
5747			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
5748
5749	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
5750			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
5751			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
5752
5753	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
5754			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
5755			critical and hot trip points.
5756
5757	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
5758			1: disable ACPI thermal control
5759
5760	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
5761			-1: disable all passive trip points
5762			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
5763			value
5764
5765	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
5766			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
5767			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
5768			0: no polling (default)
5769
5770	threadirqs	[KNL]
5771			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
5772			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
5773
5774	topology=	[S390]
5775			Format: {off | on}
5776			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
5777			topology information if the hardware supports this.
5778			The scheduler will make use of this information and
5779			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
5780			Default is on.
5781
5782	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
5783			Format: {off}
5784			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
5785			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
5786			LPAR.
5787
5788	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
5789			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
5790			until after init has spawned.
5791
5792	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
5793			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
5794			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
5795			very costly operation when many torture tests
5796			are running concurrently, especially on systems
5797			with rotating-rust storage.
5798
5799	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
5800			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
5801			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
5802			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
5803
5804	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
5805			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
5806
5807	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
5808
5809	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
5810			Format: integer pcr id
5811			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
5812			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
5813			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
5814			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
5815			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
5816			are saved.
5817
5818	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
5819			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
5820
5821	trace_event=[event-list]
5822			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
5823			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
5824			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
5825			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
5826
5827	trace_options=[option-list]
5828			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
5829			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
5830			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
5831			to echo the option name into
5832
5833			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
5834
5835			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
5836			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
5837
5838			      trace_options=stacktrace
5839
5840			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
5841			section.
5842
5843	tp_printk[FTRACE]
5844			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
5845			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
5846			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
5847			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
5848			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
5849
5850			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
5851			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
5852			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
5853			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
5854
5855			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
5856			to stop the printing of events to console at
5857			late_initcall_sync.
5858
5859			** CAUTION **
5860
5861			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
5862			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
5863			the system to live lock.
5864
5865	tp_printk_stop_on_boot[FTRACE]
5866			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
5867			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
5868			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
5869			make the system inoperable.
5870
5871			This command line option will stop the printing of events
5872			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
5873
5874	traceoff_on_warning
5875			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
5876			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
5877			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
5878			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
5879
5880			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
5881			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
5882			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
5883
5884			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
5885			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
5886
5887	transparent_hugepage=
5888			[KNL]
5889			Format: [always|madvise|never]
5890			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
5891			with respect to transparent hugepages.
5892			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
5893			for more details.
5894
5895	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
5896			Format: <string>
5897			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
5898			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
5899			sources:
5900			- "tpm"
5901			- "tee"
5902			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
5903			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
5904			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
5905			successfully during iteration.
5906
5907	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
5908			Format: <string>
5909			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
5910			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
5911			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
5912			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
5913			virtualized environment.
5914			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
5915			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
5916			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
5917			can add overhead.
5918			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
5919			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
5920			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
5921			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
5922			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
5923			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
5924			acceptable).
5925
5926	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
5927			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
5928			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
5929			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
5930			Format: <unsigned int>
5931
5932	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
5933			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
5934			support TSX control.
5935
5936			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
5937
5938			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
5939				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
5940				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
5941				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
5942				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
5943				with leaving it enabled.
5944
5945			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
5946				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
5947				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
5948				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
5949				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
5950				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
5951				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
5952
5953			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
5954				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
5955
5956			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
5957
5958			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
5959			for more details.
5960
5961	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
5962			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
5963
5964			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
5965			certain CPUs that support Transactional
5966			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
5967			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
5968			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
5969			conditions.
5970
5971			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5972			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
5973			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
5974			access.
5975
5976			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
5977			options are:
5978
5979			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
5980				     if TSX is enabled.
5981
5982			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
5983				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
5984				     is not disabled because CPU is not
5985				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
5986			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
5987
5988			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
5989			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
5990			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
5991			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
5992
5993			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5994			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
5995			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
5996			required and doesn't provide any additional
5997			mitigation.
5998
5999			For details see:
6000			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6001
6002	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6003			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6004			Format:
6005			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6006			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6007
6008	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6009			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6010			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6011			help "seeing" what's going on.
6012
6013	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6014			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6015
6016	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6017			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6018			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6019			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6020			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6021			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6022			reported either.
6023
6024	unknown_nmi_panic
6025			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6026
6027	usbcore.authorized_default=
6028			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6029			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6030			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6031			if device connected to internal port)
6032
6033	usbcore.autosuspend=
6034			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6035			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6036			is the time required before an idle device will be
6037			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6038			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6039
6040	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6041			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6042
6043	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6044			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6045			(default = 65536).
6046
6047	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6048			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6049
6050	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6051			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6052			scheme (default 0 = off).
6053
6054	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6055			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6056			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6057
6058	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6059			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6060			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6061
6062	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6063			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6064			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6065			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6066
6067	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6068
6069	usbcore.quirks=
6070			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6071			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6072			commas. Each entry has the form
6073			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6074			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6075			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6076			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6077			the following meanings:
6078				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6079					descriptors must not be fetched using
6080					a 255-byte read);
6081				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6082					correctly so reset it instead);
6083				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6084					Set-Interface requests);
6085				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6086					handle its Configuration or Interface
6087					strings);
6088				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6089					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6090				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6091					more interface descriptions than the
6092					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6093					talking to these interfaces);
6094				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6095					during initialization, after we read
6096					the device descriptor);
6097				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6098					high speed and super speed interrupt
6099					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6100					require the interval in microframes (1
6101					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6102					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6103					(bInterval-1).
6104					Devices with this quirk report their
6105					bInterval as the result of this
6106					calculation instead of the exponent
6107					variable used in the calculation);
6108				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6109					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6110					requests);
6111				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6112					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6113					remote wakeup capability);
6114				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6115					Power Management);
6116				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6117					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6118					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6119					calculation);
6120				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6121					to be disconnected before suspend to
6122					prevent spurious wakeup);
6123				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6124					pause after every control message);
6125				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6126					delay after resetting its port);
6127			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6128
6129	usbhid.mousepoll=
6130			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6131
6132	usbhid.jspoll=
6133			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6134
6135	usbhid.kbpoll=
6136			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6137
6138	usb-storage.delay_use=
6139			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6140			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6141
6142	usb-storage.quirks=
6143			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6144			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6145			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6146			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6147			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6148			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6149			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6150				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6151					of sense data, not on uas);
6152				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6153					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6154				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6155					device capacity by one sector);
6156				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6157					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6158				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6159					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6160				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6161					command, uas only);
6162				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6163					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6164				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6165					reported device capacity by one
6166					sector if the number is odd);
6167				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6168					device);
6169				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6170					command, uas only);
6171				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6172				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6173					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6174				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6175					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6176					not on uas);
6177				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6178					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6179				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6180					reported by the device, not on uas);
6181				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6182					by default, not on uas);
6183				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6184					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6185				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6186					Logical Unit);
6187				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6188					commands, uas only);
6189				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6190				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6191					medium is write-protected).
6192				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6193					even if the device claims no cache,
6194					not on uas)
6195			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6196
6197	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6198			Format: <int>
6199			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6200				 1 - undefined instruction events
6201				 2 - system calls
6202				 4 - invalid data aborts
6203				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6204				16 - SIGBUS faults
6205			Example: user_debug=31
6206
6207	userpte=
6208			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6209
6210				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6211					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6212					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6213
6214	vdso=		[X86,SH]
6215			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6216
6217			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6218			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6219
6220	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6221			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6222			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6223
6224			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6225			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6226			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6227
6228			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6229			alias for vdso32=0.
6230
6231			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6232			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6233
6234	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6235			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6236
6237	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6238			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6239
6240	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
6241			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6242			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6243			level and then send out the event to user space through
6244			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
6245			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6246			brightness level.
6247			default: 1
6248
6249	virtio_mmio.device=
6250			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6251
6252				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6253			where:
6254				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6255						like K, M and G)
6256				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6257				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6258						request_irq())
6259				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6260			example:
6261				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6262
6263			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6264
6265	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6266			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6267			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6268			Use vga=ask for menu.
6269			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6270			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6271
6272	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6273			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6274			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6275			All options are enabled by default, and this
6276			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6277			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6278			debugging features.
6279
6280			Available options are:
6281			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6282			  -	Disable all of the above options
6283
6284	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6285			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6286			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6287			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6288			mapped kernel RAM.
6289
6290	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6291			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6292			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6293
6294	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6295			Format: <command>
6296
6297	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6298			Format: <command>
6299
6300	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6301			Format: <command>
6302
6303	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6304			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6305			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6306			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6307			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6308			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6309			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6310
6311			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6312			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6313				    page is readable.
6314
6315			xonly       Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6316			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6317				    page is not readable.
6318
6319			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6320			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6321			            might break your system.
6322
6323	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6324			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6325			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6326
6327	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6328			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6329			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6330			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6331
6332	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6333			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6334			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6335			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6336			ranging from 0-255.
6337
6338	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6339			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6340			Change the default green palette of the console.
6341			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6342			ranging from 0-255.
6343
6344	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6345			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6346			Change the default red palette of the console.
6347			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6348			ranging from 0-255.
6349
6350	vt.default_utf8=
6351			[VT]
6352			Format=<0|1>
6353			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6354			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6355			newly opened terminals.
6356
6357	vt.global_cursor_default=
6358			[VT]
6359			Format=<-1|0|1>
6360			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6361			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6362			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6363			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6364			cursors, 1 will display them.
6365
6366	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6367			Default: 2 = green.
6368
6369	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6370			Default: 3 = cyan.
6371
6372	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6373			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6374			or other driver-specific files in the
6375			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6376
6377	watchdog_thresh=
6378			[KNL]
6379			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6380			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6381			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6382			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6383			seconds.
6384
6385	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6386			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6387			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6388			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6389			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6390			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6391			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6392			corresponding sysfs file.
6393
6394	workqueue.disable_numa
6395			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6396			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6397			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6398			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6399			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6400			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6401			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6402
6403	workqueue.power_efficient
6404			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6405			they show better performance thanks to cache
6406			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6407			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6408
6409			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6410			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6411			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6412			power usage at the cost of small performance
6413			overhead.
6414
6415			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6416			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6417
6418	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6419			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6420			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6421			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6422			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6423			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6424			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6425			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6426			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6427			impacted.
6428
6429	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6430			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6431			supporting x2apic.
6432
6433	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6434			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6435			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6436			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6437			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6438			domains.
6439
6440	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6441			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6442			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6443			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6444			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6445			nics -- unplug network devices
6446			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6447			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6448				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6449				the unplug protocol
6450			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6451
6452	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6453			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6454			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6455
6456	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6457			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6458			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6459			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6460
6461	xen_nopv	[X86]
6462			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6463			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6464			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6465			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6466
6467	xen_no_vector_callback
6468			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6469			event channel interrupts.
6470
6471	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6472			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6473			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6474			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6475			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6476
6477	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6478			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6479			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6480			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6481			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6482			more timer interrupts.
6483
6484	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6485			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6486			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6487			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6488			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6489			max. Default is 180.
6490
6491	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6492			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6493			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
6494
6495	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
6496			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
6497			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
6498
6499	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
6500			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
6501			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
6502			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
6503			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
6504			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
6505
6506	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
6507			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
6508			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
6509			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
6510
6511	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
6512			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
6513			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
6514			contention.
6515
6516	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
6517			Format:
6518			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
6519
6520	xive=		[PPC]
6521			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
6522			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
6523			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
6524
6525			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
6526				  controller on both pseries and powernv
6527				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
6528
6529	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
6530			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
6531			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
6532			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
6533			loads instead, as on POWER9.
6534
6535	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
6536			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
6537			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
6538			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
6539
6540	xmon		[PPC]
6541			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
6542			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
6543			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
6544			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
6545				debugger is called from setup_arch().
6546			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6547				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
6548				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
6549				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
6550			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
6551				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
6552				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
6553				can be written using xmon commands.
6554			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
6555				memory, and other data can't be written using
6556				xmon commands.
6557			off	xmon is disabled.
6558