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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			acpi_backlight=vendor
26			acpi_backlight=video
27			If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
31	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
37	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41			This option is useful for developers to identify the
42			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
45	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
47			Format: <int>
48			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
55			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
56			Documentation/acpi/debug.txt for more information about
57			debug layers and levels.
58
59			Enable processor driver info messages:
60			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61			Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_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: <int>
117			Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f.
118
119	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
120			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
121			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
122			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
123			auto-serialization feature.
124			This feature is enabled by default.
125			This option allows to turn off the feature.
126
127	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
128			   kernels.
129
130	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
131			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
132			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
133			installed automatically and they will appear under
134			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
135			This option turns off this feature.
136			Note that specifying this option does not affect
137			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
138			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
139
140	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
141			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
142			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
143			second kernel for kdump.
144
145	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
146			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
147
148	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
149			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
150			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
151			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
152			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
153
154	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
155			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
156			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
157			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
158			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
159						  strings
160			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
161						  strings
162			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
163
164			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
165			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
166			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
167			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
168			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
169			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
170			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
171			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
172			care about the state of the feature group strings which
173			should be controlled by the OSPM.
174			Examples:
175			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
176			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
177			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
178
179			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
180			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
181			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
182			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
183			multiple times through kernel command line is also
184			meaningless.
185			Examples:
186			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
187			     FALSE.
188
189			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
190			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
191			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
192			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
193			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
194			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
195			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
196			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
197			is useful when one want to control the state of the
198			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
199			the OSPM features.
200			Examples:
201			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
202			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
203			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
204			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
205			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
206			     equivalent to
207			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
208			     and
209			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
210			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
211
212	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
213			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
214			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
215			and always returns good values.
216
217	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
218			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
219
220	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
221			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
222			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
223
224	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
225			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
226				  old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable }
227			See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
228			s3_bios and s3_mode.
229			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
230			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
231			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
232			used during resume from hibernation.
233			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
234			control method, with respect to putting devices into
235			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
236			of _PTS is used by default).
237			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
238			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
239			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
240			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
241			but some broken systems don't work without it).
242
243	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
244			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
245			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
246
247	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
248			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
249
250	agp=		[AGP]
251			{ off | try_unsupported }
252			off: disable AGP support
253			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
254				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
255
256	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
257			See Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
258
259	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
260			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
261			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
262			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
263
264	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
265			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
266			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
267			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
268			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
269			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
270			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
271
272			32: only for 32-bit processes
273			64: only for 64-bit processes
274			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
275			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
276
277	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
278			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
279			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
280			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
281			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
282			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
283
284	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
285			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
286			Possible values are:
287			fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
288				    they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
289				    flushed before they will be reused, which
290				    is a lot of faster
291			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
292				    the system
293			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
294					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
295					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
296					  requirements as needed. This option
297					  does not override iommu=pt
298
299	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
300			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
301			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
302			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
303			IOMMU initialization.
304
305	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
306			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
307			remapping modes:
308			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
309			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
310			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
311			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
312			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
313
314	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
315			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
316			Format: <a>,<b>
317			See also Documentation/input/joystick.txt
318
319	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
320			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
321			connected to one of 16 gameports
322			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
323
324	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
325			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
326			Format: noidle
327			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
328			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
329			APC and your system crashes randomly.
330
331	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
332			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
333			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
334			Change the amount of debugging information output
335			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
336
337	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
338			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
339			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
340			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
341			      backup of CPU 0
342			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
343			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
344			      shot down by NMI
345
346	autoconf=	[IPV6]
347			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
348
349	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
350			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
351			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
352			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
353			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
354			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
355			apic=verbose is specified.
356			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
357
358	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
359			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
360
361	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
362			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
363
364	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
365
366	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
367
368	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
369			EzKey and similar keyboards
370
371	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
372
373	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
374			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
375
376	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
377			keyboards
378
379	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
380			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
381
382	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
383			Use software keyboard repeat
384
385	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
386			Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
387			0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
388			    until the next reboot
389			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
390			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
391			1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
392			    storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
393			    RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
394			    auditd.
395			Default: unset
396
397	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
398			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
399			Default: 64
400
401	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
402			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
403			Format: { "0" | "1" }
404			0 - Disable the BAU.
405			1 - Enable the BAU.
406			unset - Disable the BAU.
407
408	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
409			Format: <io>,<mode>
410
411	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
412			Format: <io>,<mode>
413			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
414
415	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
416			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
417			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
418			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
419
420	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
421			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
422			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
423			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
424
425	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
426			embedded devices based on command line input.
427			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
428
429	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
430			Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
431			no delay (0).
432			Format: integer
433
434	bootmem_debug	[KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
435
436	bert_disable	[ACPI]
437			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
438
439	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
440	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
441			kernel args too.
442	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
443	bttv.tuner=
444
445	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
446			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
447			at a time.
448
449	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
450
451	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
452			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
453			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
454			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
455			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
456			This option provides an override for these situations.
457
458	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
459			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
460			trust validation.
461			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
462
463	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
464			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
465			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
466			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
467			others).
468
469	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
470			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
471
472	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
473			Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
474			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
475			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
476			  a single hierarchy
477			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
478			  subsystem
479			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
480			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
481			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
482
483	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable one, multiple, all cgroup controllers in v1
484			Format: { controller[,controller...] | "all" }
485			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
486			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
487
488	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
489			Format: <string>
490			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
491			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
492
493	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
494			Format: { "0" | "1" }
495			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
496			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
497				any implied execute protection).
498			1 -- check protection requested by application.
499			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
500			Value can be changed at runtime via
501				/selinux/checkreqprot.
502
503	cio_ignore=	[S390]
504			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
505	clk_ignore_unused
506			[CLK]
507			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
508			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
509			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
510			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
511			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
512			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
513			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
514			platform with proper driver support.  For more
515			information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
516
517	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
518			[Deprecated]
519			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
520			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
521			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
522			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
523
524	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
525			Format: <string>
526			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
527			with the name specified.
528			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
529			the platform:
530			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
531			[ACPI] acpi_pm
532			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
533				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
534			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
535				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
536			[MIPS] MIPS
537			[PARISC] cr16
538			[S390] tod
539			[SH] SuperH
540			[SPARC64] tick
541			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
542
543	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
544			[ARM,ARM64]
545			Format: <bool>
546			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
547			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
548			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
549			systems.
550
551	clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
552			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
553			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
554			numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
555			stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
556			ones should be.
557			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
558			or using the feature without checking anything
559			will still see it. This just prevents it from
560			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
561			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
562			some critical bits.
563
564	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
565			[ARM,X86,KNL]
566			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
567			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
568			placement constraint by the physical address range of
569			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
570			altogether. For more information, see
571			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
572
573	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
574			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
575			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
576			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
577			a hypervisor.
578			Default: yes
579
580	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
581			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
582			allocations, by default set to 256K.
583
584	code_bytes	[X86] How many bytes of object code to print
585			in an oops report.
586			Range: 0 - 8192
587			Default: 64
588
589	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
590			Format:
591			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
592
593	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
594			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
595
596	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
597			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
598			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
599
600	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
601	conmode=
602
603	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
604
605		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
606
607		ttyS<n>[,options]
608		ttyUSB0[,options]
609			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
610			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
611			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
612			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
613			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
614
615			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
616			information.  See
617			Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
618			alternative.
619
620		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
621		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
622		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
623		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
624		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
625			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
626			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
627			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
628			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
629			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
630			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
631			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
632			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
633			the h/w is not re-initialized.
634
635		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
636			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
637
638                If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
639                device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
640			console=brl,ttyS0
641		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
642
643	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
644			seconds. Defaults to 10*60 = 10mins. A value of 0
645			disables the blank timer.
646
647	coredump_filter=
648			[KNL] Change the default value for
649			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
650			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
651
652	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
653			[ARM,ARM64]
654			Format: <bool>
655			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
656			0: default value, disable debugging
657			1: enable debugging at boot time
658
659	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
660			disable the cpuidle sub-system
661
662	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
663			disable the cpufreq sub-system
664
665	cpu_init_udelay=N
666			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
667			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
668			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
669			Default: 10000
670
671	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
672			Format:
673			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
674
675	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
676			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
677			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
678			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
679			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
680			is selected automatically. Check
681			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
682
683	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
684			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
685			in the running system. The syntax of range is
686			start-[end] where start and end are both
687			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
688			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
689
690	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
691			[KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
692			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
693			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
694			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
695			available.
696			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
697	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
698			[KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
699			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
700			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
701			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
702			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
703			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
704			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
705			at least 256M below 4G automatically.
706			This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
707			for second kernel instead.
708			0: to disable low allocation.
709			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
710			or memory reserved is below 4G.
711
712	cryptomgr.notests
713                        [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
714
715	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
716			Format: <dma>
717
718	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
719			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
720
721	dasd=		[HW,NET]
722			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
723
724	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
725			(one device per port)
726			Format: <port#>,<type>
727			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
728
729	ddebug_query=   [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
730			time. See
731			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
732			details.  Deprecated, see dyndbg.
733
734	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
735
736	debug_locks_verbose=
737			[KNL] verbose self-tests
738			Format=<0|1>
739			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
740			self-tests.
741			We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
742			1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
743			only useful to kernel developers.
744
745	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
746
747	no_debug_objects
748			[KNL] Disable object debugging
749
750	debug_guardpage_minorder=
751			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
752			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
753			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
754			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
755			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
756			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
757			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
758			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
759			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
760			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
761			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
762			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
763			F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
764			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
765			bypassed) which are not detectable by
766			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
767			tracking down these problems.
768
769	debug_pagealloc=
770			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
771			parameter enables the feature at boot time. In
772			default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge
773			chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable
774			it at boot time and the system will work mostly same
775			with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
776			on: enable the feature
777
778	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
779
780	decnet.addr=	[HW,NET]
781			Format: <area>[,<node>]
782			See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
783
784	default_hugepagesz=
785			[same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
786			HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
787			the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
788			default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
789			Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
790			if not specified.
791
792	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
793			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
794
795	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
796			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
797			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
798			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
799			miss to occur.
800
801	disable=	[IPV6]
802			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
803
804	disable_radix	[PPC]
805			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
806
807	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
808			Format: <int>
809			The number of initial APIC ID for the
810			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
811			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
812			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
813			causing system reset or hang due to sending
814			INIT from AP to BSP.
815
816	disable_ddw     [PPC/PSERIES]
817			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
818			to workaround buggy firmware.
819
820	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
821			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
822
823	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
824			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
825			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
826			entry later. This parameter disables that.
827
828	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
829			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
830			memory out of your available memory pool based on
831			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
832			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
833
834	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
835			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
836			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
837
838	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
839
840	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
841			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
842
843	dma_debug_entries=<number>
844			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
845			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
846			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
847			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
848			architectural default is too low.
849
850	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
851			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
852			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
853			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
854			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
855			driver later using sysfs.
856
857	drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
858			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
859			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
860			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
861			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
862			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
863			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
864			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
865			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
866			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
867			available in Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt. An EDID
868			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
869			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
870			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
871			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
872			data set with no connector name will be used for
873			any connectors not explicitly specified.
874
875	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
876
877	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
878			Format: {"off" | "known"}
879			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
880			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
881			exists).
882			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
883			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
884			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
885
886	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
887			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
888			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
889			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
890
891	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
892	module.dyndbg[="val"]
893			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
894			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
895			for details.
896
897	nompx		[X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
898			See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt for more
899			information about the feature.
900
901	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
902			in some Intel CPUs.
903
904	module.async_probe [KNL]
905			Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
906
907	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
908			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
909			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
910			which are not unmapped.
911
912	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
913
914			When used with no options, the early console is
915			determined by the stdout-path property in device
916			tree's chosen node.
917
918		cdns,<addr>[,options]
919			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
920			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
921			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
922			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
923			configured.
924
925		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
926		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
927		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
928		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
929		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
930			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
931			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
932			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
933			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
934			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
935			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
936			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
937			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
938
939		pl011,<addr>
940		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
941			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
942			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
943			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
944			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
945			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
946			the device registers.
947
948		meson,<addr>
949			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
950			port at the specified address. The serial port must
951			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
952			supported.
953
954		msm_serial,<addr>
955			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
956			port at the specified address. The serial port
957			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
958			yet supported.
959
960		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
961			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
962			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
963			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
964			yet supported.
965
966		owl,<addr>
967			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
968			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
969			specified address. The serial port must already be
970			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
971
972		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
973
974		s3c2410,<addr>
975		s3c2412,<addr>
976		s3c2440,<addr>
977		s3c6400,<addr>
978		s5pv210,<addr>
979		exynos4210,<addr>
980			Use early console provided by serial driver available
981			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
982			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
983			serial port must already be setup and configured.
984			Options are not yet supported.
985
986		lantiq,<addr>
987			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
988			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
989			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
990			yet supported.
991
992		lpuart,<addr>
993		lpuart32,<addr>
994			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
995			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
996			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
997			port must already be setup and configured.
998
999		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1000			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1001			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1002			address. The serial port must already be setup
1003			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1004
1005	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390]
1006			earlyprintk=vga
1007			earlyprintk=efi
1008			earlyprintk=sclp
1009			earlyprintk=xen
1010			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1011			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1012			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1013			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1014			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1015			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1016
1017			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1018			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1019			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1020
1021			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1022			takes over.
1023
1024			Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1025			be used at a time.
1026
1027			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1028			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1029			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1030			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1031				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1032			You can find the port for a given device in
1033			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1034				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1035
1036			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1037			very good.
1038
1039			The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1040			the real console.
1041
1042			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1043
1044			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1045
1046	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1047			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1048			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1049			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1050			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1051			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1052			default: on.
1053
1054	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1055			ekgdboc=kbd
1056
1057			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1058			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1059
1060	edd=		[EDD]
1061			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1062
1063	efi=		[EFI]
1064			Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
1065			old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1066			runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1067			default.
1068			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1069			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1070			firmware implementations.
1071			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1072			debug: enable misc debug output
1073
1074	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1075			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1076			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1077			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1078			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1079
1080	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1081			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1082			updating original EFI memory map.
1083			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1084			from ss to ss+nn.
1085			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1086			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1087			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1088			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1089
1090			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1091			related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1092			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1093			doesn't support it.
1094
1095	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1096			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1097			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1098			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1099			Documentation/acpi/ssdt-overlays.txt for details.
1100
1101
1102	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1103			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1104
1105	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1106			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1107			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1108
1109	elevator=	[IOSCHED]
1110			Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
1111			See Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt and
1112			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
1113
1114	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1115			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1116			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1117			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1118			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
1119
1120	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1121			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1122			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1123			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1124
1125	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1126			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1127			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1128			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1129			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1130
1131	enforcing	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1132			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1133			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1134			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1135			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1136			Default value is 0.
1137			Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1138
1139	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1140			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1141			support.
1142
1143	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1144			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1145			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1146
1147	evm=		[EVM]
1148			Format: { "fix" }
1149			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1150			current integrity status.
1151
1152	failslab=
1153	fail_page_alloc=
1154	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1155			General fault injection mechanism.
1156			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1157			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1158
1159	floppy=		[HW]
1160			See Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt.
1161
1162	force_pal_cache_flush
1163			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1164			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1165			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1166			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1167
1168	forcepae [X86-32]
1169			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1170			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1171			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1172			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1173			and may cause unknown problems.
1174
1175	ftrace=[tracer]
1176			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1177			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1178			boot debugging.
1179
1180	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1181			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1182			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1183			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1184			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1185			oops.
1186
1187	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1188			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1189			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1190			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1191			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1192			tracing directory.
1193
1194	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1195			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1196			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1197			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1198			tracing directory.
1199
1200	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1201			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1202			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1203			function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1204			that can be changed at run time by the
1205			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1206
1207	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1208			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1209			function-list.  This list is a comma separated list of
1210			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1211			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1212
1213	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1214			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1215			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1216			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1217			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1218
1219	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1220			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1221			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1222			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1223			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
1224
1225	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1226
1227	gart_fix_e820=  [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1228			Format: off | on
1229			default: on
1230
1231	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1232			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1233			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1234			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1235			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1236
1237	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1238			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1239			android emulator
1240
1241	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1242			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1243			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1244			GPT to be used instead.
1245
1246	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1247			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1248			Format: 0 | 1
1249			Default: 0
1250	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1251			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1252			Format: 0 | 1
1253			Default: 0
1254	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1255			Format: 0 | 1
1256			Default: 0
1257	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1258			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1259			Default: 1024
1260	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1261			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1262			Default: 1024
1263
1264	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1265			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1266			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1267
1268	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1269			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1270			backtraces on all cpus.
1271			Format: <integer>
1272
1273	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1274			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1275			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1276			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1277
1278	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1279
1280	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1281			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1282
1283	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1284			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1285			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1286			logic will be disabled.
1287
1288	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1289			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1290			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1291			size on bigger boxes.
1292
1293	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1294			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1295			Default: "on"
1296
1297	hisax=		[HW,ISDN]
1298			See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
1299
1300	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1301
1302	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1303			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1304				verbose }
1305			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1306			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1307				VIA, nVidia)
1308			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1309
1310	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1311			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1312
1313	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1314	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
1315			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1316			multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1317			huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1318			x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
1319			(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
1320
1321	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1322			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1323	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1324			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1325			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1326
1327	hwthread_map=	[METAG] Comma-separated list of Linux cpu id to
1328			        hardware thread id mappings.
1329				Format: <cpu>:<hwthread>
1330
1331	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
1332			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1333			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1334			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1335			the real console.
1336
1337	i2c_bus=	[HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1338			     or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1339			     registered from board initialization code.
1340			     Format:
1341			     <bus_id>,<clkrate>
1342
1343	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1344	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1345			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1346			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1347			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1348	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1349	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1350			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1351			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1352	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1353	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1354	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1355			     for the AUX port
1356	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1357			     controller
1358	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1359			     controllers
1360	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1361	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1362			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1363			     transitions, or never reset
1364			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1365			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1366			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1367			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1368			architectures force reset to be always executed
1369	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1370	i8042.kbdreset  [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1371
1372	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1373
1374	i8k.ignore_dmi	[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1375			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1376			hardware.
1377	i8k.force	[HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1378			does not match list of supported models.
1379	i8k.power_status
1380			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1381			(disabled by default)
1382	i8k.restricted	[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1383			capability is set.
1384
1385	i915.invert_brightness=
1386			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1387			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1388			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1389			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1390			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1391			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1392			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1393			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1394			value switches the backlight off.
1395			-1 -- never invert brightness
1396			 0 -- machine default
1397			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1398
1399	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1400			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1401
1402	ide-core.nodma=	[HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1403			Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
1404			.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1405			.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
1406			See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
1407
1408	ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1409			Format: <int>
1410			Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports.  Depending on
1411			platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1412			setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  The
1413			default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1414			On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1415			PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1416			are then probed.  On systems without PCI the value
1417			of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1418			was 0x3.
1419
1420	ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1421			Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1422
1423	idle=		[X86]
1424			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1425			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1426			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1427			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1428			Not recommended.
1429			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1430			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1431			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1432
1433	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1434			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1435			Default: strict
1436
1437			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1438			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1439			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1440			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1441			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1442			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1443			encoding mode.
1444
1445			Available settings are as follows:
1446			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1447				supported by the FPU
1448			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1449				by the FPU
1450			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1451				by the FPU
1452			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1453				supported by the FPU
1454
1455			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1456			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1457			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1458			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1459			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1460			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1461			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1462			MIPS64 CPUs.
1463
1464			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1465			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1466			except where unsupported by hardware.
1467
1468	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1469			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1470			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1471			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1472			could change it dynamically, usually by
1473			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1474
1475	ignore_rlimit_data
1476			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1477			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1478			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1479
1480	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1481			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1482
1483	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1484			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1485			default: "enforce"
1486
1487	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA]
1488			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1489			owned by uid=0.
1490
1491	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1492			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1493			measurements, instead of host native format.
1494
1495	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1496			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1497				   | sha512 | ... }
1498			default: "sha1"
1499
1500			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1501			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1502
1503	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1504			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1505			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot"
1506
1507			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1508			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1509			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1510			uid=0.
1511
1512			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1513			all files owned by root. (This is the equivalent
1514			of ima_appraise_tcb.)
1515
1516			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1517			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1518			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1519
1520	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1521			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1522			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1523			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1524			opened for read by uid=0.
1525
1526	ima_template=   [IMA]
1527			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1528			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
1529			Default: "ima-ng"
1530
1531	ima_template_fmt=
1532	                [IMA] Define a custom template format.
1533			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1534
1535	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1536			Format: <min_file_size>
1537			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1538			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1539
1540			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1541			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1542			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1543
1544	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1545			Format: <bufsize>
1546			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1547
1548			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1549			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1550			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1551
1552	init=		[KNL]
1553			Format: <full_path>
1554			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1555			process.
1556
1557	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1558			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1559			startup.
1560
1561	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1562			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1563			modules and initcalls.
1564
1565	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1566
1567	init_pkru=	[x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1568			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
1569			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
1570			override in debugfs after boot.
1571
1572	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1573			Format: <irq>
1574
1575	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
1576
1577	integrity_audit=[IMA]
1578			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1579			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1580			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1581
1582	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
1583		on
1584			Enable intel iommu driver.
1585		off
1586			Disable intel iommu driver.
1587		igfx_off [Default Off]
1588			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1589			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1590			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1591			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1592			DMA.
1593		forcedac [x86_64]
1594			With this option iommu will not optimize to look
1595			for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
1596			address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
1597			than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1598			for translation below 32-bit and if not available
1599			then look in the higher range.
1600		strict [Default Off]
1601			With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1602			result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1603			to batching them for performance.
1604		sp_off [Default Off]
1605			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1606			has the capability. With this option, super page will
1607			not be supported.
1608		ecs_off [Default Off]
1609			By default, extended context tables will be supported if
1610			the hardware advertises that it has support both for the
1611			extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With
1612			this option set, extended tables will not be used even
1613			on hardware which claims to support them.
1614		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1615			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1616			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1617			could harm performance of some high-throughput
1618			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1619			mapping is enabled.
1620			Note that using this option lowers the security
1621			provided by tboot because it makes the system
1622			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
1623
1624	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1625			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1626			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
1627
1628	intel_pstate=  [X86]
1629		       disable
1630		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1631		         scaling driver for the supported processors
1632		       passive
1633			 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1634			 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1635			 enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
1636			 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1637			 feature.
1638		       force
1639			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1640			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1641			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1642			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1643			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1644			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1645			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1646			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1647		       no_hwp
1648		         Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1649			 if available.
1650		hwp_only
1651			Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1652			hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1653		support_acpi_ppc
1654			Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1655			Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1656			profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1657			then this feature is turned on by default.
1658		per_cpu_perf_limits
1659			Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1660			cpufreq sysfs interface
1661
1662	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
1663			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1664			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
1665			nosid	disable Source ID checking
1666			no_x2apic_optout
1667				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
1668			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
1669
1670	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1671		strict	regions from userspace.
1672		relaxed
1673
1674	iommu=		[x86]
1675		off
1676		force
1677		noforce
1678		biomerge
1679		panic
1680		nopanic
1681		merge
1682		nomerge
1683		forcesac
1684		soft
1685		pt		[x86, IA-64]
1686		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
1687			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
1688
1689	iommu.passthrough=
1690			[ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1691			Format: { "0" | "1" }
1692			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1693			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
1694			unset - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1695
1696	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1697			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1698			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1699
1700	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
1701		0x80
1702			Standard port 0x80 based delay
1703		0xed
1704			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
1705		udelay
1706			Simple two microseconds delay
1707		none
1708			No delay
1709
1710	ip=		[IP_PNP]
1711			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1712
1713	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
1714			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1715
1716	irqfixup	[HW]
1717			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1718			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1719			firmware running.
1720
1721	irqpoll		[HW]
1722			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1723			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1724			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1725			firmware running.
1726
1727	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
1728			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1729
1730	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
1731			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
1732
1733			This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
1734			to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1735			algorithms. You can move a process onto or off an
1736			"isolated" CPU via the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1737			<cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1738			"number of CPUs in system - 1".
1739
1740			This option is the preferred way to isolate CPUs. The
1741			alternative -- manually setting the CPU mask of all
1742			tasks in the system -- can cause problems and
1743			suboptimal load balancer performance.
1744
1745	iucv=		[HW,NET]
1746
1747	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86_64]
1748			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1749			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1750			example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1751			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1752				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1753
1754	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86_64]
1755			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1756			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1757			example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1758			PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1759				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1760
1761	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86_64]
1762			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1763			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1764			example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1765			PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1766				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1767
1768	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1769			See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
1770
1771	nokaslr		[KNL]
1772			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1773			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1774			Layout Randomization).
1775
1776	kasan_multi_shot
1777			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1778			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1779			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1780			invalid access.
1781
1782	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
1783
1784	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
1785			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | "mirror"
1786			This parameter
1787			specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
1788			for non-movable allocations.  The requested amount is
1789			spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
1790			remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
1791			pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
1792			kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
1793			take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
1794			of Movable pages.  The Movable zone is used for the
1795			allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
1796			by the page migration subsystem.  This means that
1797			HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
1798			Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
1799			use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
1800			zone if it does not.
1801
1802			Instead of specifying the amount of memory (nn[KMGTPE]),
1803			you can specify "mirror" option. In case "mirror"
1804			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1805			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
1806			for Movable pages. nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" are exclusive,
1807			so you can NOT specify nn[KMGTPE] and "mirror" at the same
1808			time.
1809
1810	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1811			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1812			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1813			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
1814			optional and is the number seconds in between
1815			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1816			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1817			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
1818			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1819			the kernel debugger.
1820
1821	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
1822			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1823			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
1824			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1825			 keyboard only format: kbd
1826			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
1827			Optional Kernel mode setting:
1828			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
1829			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
1830
1831	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
1832			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
1833
1834	kmac=		[MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
1835			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
1836			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
1837
1838	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
1839			Valid arguments: on, off
1840			Default: on
1841			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
1842			the default is off.
1843
1844	kmemcheck=	[X86] Boot-time kmemcheck enable/disable/one-shot mode
1845			Valid arguments: 0, 1, 2
1846			kmemcheck=0 (disabled)
1847			kmemcheck=1 (enabled)
1848			kmemcheck=2 (one-shot mode)
1849			Default: 2 (one-shot mode)
1850
1851	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
1852			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
1853
1854	kvm.mmu_audit=	[KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
1855			KVM MMU at runtime.
1856			Default is 0 (off)
1857
1858	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
1859			Default is 1 (enabled)
1860
1861	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
1862			for all guests.
1863			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
1864
1865	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
1866			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
1867			system registers
1868
1869	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
1870			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
1871			system registers
1872
1873	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
1874			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
1875			system registers
1876
1877	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
1878			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
1879			Default is 1 (enabled)
1880
1881	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
1882			[KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
1883			Default is 0 (disabled)
1884
1885	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
1886			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
1887			Default is 1 (enabled)
1888
1889	kvm-intel.nested=
1890			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
1891			Default is 0 (disabled)
1892
1893	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
1894			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
1895			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
1896			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
1897
1898	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
1899			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
1900			Default is 1 (enabled)
1901
1902	l2cr=		[PPC]
1903
1904	l3cr=		[PPC]
1905
1906	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
1907			disabled it.
1908
1909	lapic=		[x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
1910			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
1911			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
1912
1913	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
1914			in C2 power state.
1915
1916	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
1917			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
1918			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
1919			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
1920			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
1921			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
1922			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
1923
1924	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
1925			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
1926			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
1927
1928	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
1929			when set.
1930			Format: <int>
1931
1932	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
1933			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
1934			PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
1935			matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
1936			the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
1937			the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
1938			values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
1939			configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
1940
1941			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
1942			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
1943			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
1944			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
1945			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
1946			host link and device attached to it.
1947
1948			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
1949			as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
1950			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
1951			The following configurations can be forced.
1952
1953			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
1954			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
1955
1956			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
1957
1958			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
1959			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
1960			  allowed.
1961
1962			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
1963
1964			* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
1965
1966			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
1967                          and both resets.
1968
1969			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
1970			  hot-unplug link recovery
1971
1972			* dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
1973
1974			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
1975
1976			* disable: Disable this device.
1977
1978			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
1979			the same attribute, the last one is used.
1980
1981	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
1982
1983	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
1984			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
1985
1986	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
1987			Format: <integer>
1988
1989	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
1990			Format: <integer>
1991
1992	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
1993			Format: <integer>
1994
1995	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
1996			Format: <integer>
1997
1998	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
1999			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2000			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2001			number of online CPUs.
2002
2003	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2004			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2005
2006	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2007			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2008
2009	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2010			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2011			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2012
2013	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2014			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2015			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2016			mode during the locktorture test.
2017
2018	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2019			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2020			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2021
2022	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2023			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2024
2025	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2026			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2027			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2028			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2029			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2030			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2031
2032	locktorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
2033			Start locktorture running at boot time.
2034
2035	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2036			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2037
2038	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2039			Enable additional printk() statements.
2040
2041	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2042			Format: <irq>
2043
2044	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2045			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2046			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2047			loglevels are defined as follows:
2048
2049			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2050			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2051			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2052			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2053			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2054			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2055			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2056			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2057
2058	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2059			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2060			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2061			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2062			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2063			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2064			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2065
2066	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2067			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2068			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2069			kernel boot problems.
2070
2071	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2072	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2073	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2074	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2075				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2076				attached printers to be reset. Using
2077				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2078				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2079				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2080				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2081				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2082				port specification list means that device IDs
2083				from each port should be examined, to see if
2084				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2085				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2086				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2087
2088	lpj=n		[KNL]
2089			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2090			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2091			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2092			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2093			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2094			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2095			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2096			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2097			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2098			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2099			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2100			hardware.
2101
2102	ltpc=		[NET]
2103			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2104
2105	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2106			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2107			Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
2108
2109	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2110			 yeeloong laptop.
2111			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2112
2113	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2114			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2115
2116	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2117			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2118			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2119			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2120			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2121			only takes effect during system bootup.
2122			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2123			which also disables the IO APIC.
2124
2125	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2126	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2127			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2128			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2129			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2130			/dev/loop-control interface.
2131
2132	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2133
2134	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
2135
2136	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2137			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2138
2139	mdacon=		[MDA]
2140			Format: <first>,<last>
2141			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2142
2143	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2144			Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2145			to see the whole system memory or for test.
2146			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2147			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2148			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2149			belonging to unused RAM.
2150
2151	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
2152			memory.
2153
2154	memchunk=nn[KMG]
2155			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2156			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2157
2158        memhp_default_state=online/offline
2159			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2160			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2161			set according to the
2162			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2163			option.
2164			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
2165
2166	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
2167			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2168			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2169			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2170			option description.
2171
2172	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
2173			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2174			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
2175			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2176			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2177			Multiple different regions can be specified,
2178			comma delimited.
2179			Example:
2180				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
2181
2182	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2183			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
2184			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
2185
2186	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2187			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
2188			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
2189			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2190			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
2191			         or
2192			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
2193			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2194			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2195			will be eaten.
2196
2197	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2198			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2199			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2200			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2201			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2202
2203	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2204			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2205			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2206			Setting this option will scan the memory
2207			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
2208			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2209			from using the memory being corrupted.
2210			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2211			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2212			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2213			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2214
2215	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2216			By default it checks for corruption in the low
2217			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2218			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
2219			corruption in more or less memory.
2220
2221	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2222			By default it checks for corruption every 60
2223			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
2224			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
2225
2226	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
2227			Format: <integer>
2228			default : 0 <disable>
2229			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2230			performed. Each pass selects another test
2231			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2232			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2233			memory contents and reserves bad memory
2234			regions that are detected.
2235
2236	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2237			Valid arguments: on, off
2238			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2239			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2240			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2241			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
2242			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
2243
2244			Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
2245			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2246
2247	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2248			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
2249			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2250			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
2251			See Documentation/power/states.txt.
2252
2253	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
2254			See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
2255
2256	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2257			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2258			platforms.
2259
2260	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2261			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2262			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2263			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2264
2265	mga=		[HW,DRM]
2266
2267	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2268			physical address is ignored.
2269
2270	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
2271			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2272			Default: "0tb"
2273			MINI2440 configuration specification:
2274			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2275			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2276			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2277			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2278			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2279			unconfigured.
2280			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2281			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2282			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2283			VGA shield.
2284			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2285			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2286			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2287			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2288			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2289			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2290
2291	mminit_loglevel=
2292			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2293			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2294			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2295			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2296			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2297			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2298
2299	module.sig_enforce
2300			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2301			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2302			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
2303			is always true, so this option does nothing.
2304
2305	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2306			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
2307
2308	mousedev.tap_time=
2309			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2310			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2311			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2312			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2313			Format: <msecs>
2314	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2315			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2316	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2317			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2318
2319	movablecore=nn[KMG]	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter
2320			is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
2321			amount of memory used for migratable allocations.
2322			If both kernelcore and movablecore is specified,
2323			then kernelcore will be at *least* the specified
2324			value but may be more. If movablecore on its own
2325			is specified, the administrator must be careful
2326			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2327			is not too small.
2328
2329	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2330			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2331			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2332			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2333			allocations. Use with caution!
2334
2335	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
2336			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2337
2338	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
2339			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
2340
2341	mtdparts=	[MTD]
2342			See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
2343
2344	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2345			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2346			at a time.
2347
2348	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2349
2350			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2351
2352			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2353				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2354			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2355				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2356				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2357
2358	mtdset=		[ARM]
2359			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2360
2361			See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2362
2363	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
2364			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2365			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
2366
2367	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2368			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
2369			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2370
2371	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2372			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2373			Default is 1.
2374			Large value could prevent small alignment from
2375			using up MTRRs.
2376
2377	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2378			Format: <integer>
2379			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2380			Default : 1
2381			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2382			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2383
2384	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2385
2386	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
2387			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2388			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2389			something different and driver-specific.
2390			This usage is only documented in each driver source
2391			file if at all.
2392
2393	nf_conntrack.acct=
2394			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2395			0 to disable accounting
2396			1 to enable accounting
2397			Default value is 0.
2398
2399	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
2400			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2401
2402	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
2403			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2404
2405	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2406			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2407
2408	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2409			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2410			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2411			requests.
2412
2413	nfs.callback_tcpport=
2414			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2415			channel should listen.
2416
2417	nfs.cache_getent=
2418			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2419			to update the NFS client cache entries.
2420
2421	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2422			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2423			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2424
2425	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2426			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2427			entries.
2428
2429	nfs.enable_ino64=
2430			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2431			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2432			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2433			of returning the full 64-bit number.
2434			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2435
2436	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2437			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2438			slots the client will assign to the callback
2439			channel. This determines the maximum number of
2440			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2441			a particular server.
2442
2443	nfs.max_session_slots=
2444			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2445			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2446			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2447			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2448			Note that there is little point in setting this
2449			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2450
2451	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2452			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2453			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2454			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2455			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2456			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2457			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2458			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2459			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2460			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2461			back to using the idmapper.
2462			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
2463	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2464			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2465			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2466			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
2467			UUID that is generated at system install time.
2468
2469	nfs.send_implementation_id =
2470			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2471			information in exchange_id requests.
2472			If zero, no implementation identification information
2473			will be sent.
2474			The default is to send the implementation identification
2475			information.
2476
2477	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2478			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2479			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2480			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2481			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2482			after the locks are lost.
2483			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2484			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2485			parameter to '1'.
2486			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2487			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
2488
2489	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2490			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2491			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2492
2493			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2494			whatever value is the default set by the layout
2495			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2496			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2497
2498	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2499			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2500			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2501			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2502			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
2503			migration from NFSv2/v3.
2504
2505	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
2506			when a NMI is triggered.
2507			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2508
2509	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
2510			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
2511			Valid num: 0 or 1
2512			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2513			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
2514			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
2515			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
2516			default). To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
2517			please see 'nowatchdog'.
2518			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2519			need the box quickly up again.
2520
2521	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2522			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2523			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2524			waits 4 seconds.
2525
2526	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
2527			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2528			is present.
2529
2530	no_console_suspend
2531			[HW] Never suspend the console
2532			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2533			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
2534			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2535			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2536			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
2537			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2538			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
2539			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2540			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2541			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2542			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2543			turn on/off it dynamically.
2544
2545	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2546			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
2547			but will impact performance.
2548
2549	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
2550
2551	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2552			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2553
2554	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2555
2556	nobats		[PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2557			on "Classic" PPC cores.
2558
2559	nocache		[ARM]
2560
2561	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2562
2563	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2564
2565	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2566
2567	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
2568
2569	noexec		[IA-64]
2570
2571	noexec		[X86]
2572			On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
2573			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2574			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2575
2576	nosmap		[X86]
2577			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2578			even if it is supported by processor.
2579
2580	nosmep		[X86]
2581			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
2582			even if it is supported by processor.
2583
2584	noexec32	[X86-64]
2585			This affects only 32-bit executables.
2586			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2587				read doesn't imply executable mappings
2588			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2589				read implies executable mappings
2590
2591	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
2592
2593	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
2594			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2595			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
2596
2597	nohugeiomap	[KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
2598
2599	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2600			Equivalent to smt=1.
2601
2602	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2603			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2604			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2605
2606	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2607			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2608			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2609			performance of saving the states is degraded because
2610			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2611			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2612
2613	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2614			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2615			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2616			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2617			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
2618			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
2619			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
2620
2621	nohlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
2622			wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
2623			use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
2624
2625	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
2626			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
2627			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
2628
2629	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
2630			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
2631			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
2632			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
2633			in certain environments such as networked servers or
2634			real-time systems.
2635
2636	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
2637
2638	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
2639			Valid arguments: on, off
2640			Default: on
2641
2642	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
2643			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2644			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
2645			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
2646			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
2647			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
2648			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
2649			just as if they had also been called out in the
2650			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
2651
2652	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
2653
2654	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
2655			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
2656
2657	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
2658			broken timer IRQ sources.
2659
2660	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
2661
2662	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
2663			initial RAM disk.
2664
2665	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
2666			remapping.
2667			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
2668
2669	nointroute	[IA-64]
2670
2671	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
2672
2673	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
2674
2675	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
2676
2677	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
2678			fault handling.
2679
2680	no-vmw-sched-clock
2681			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
2682			clock and use the default one.
2683
2684	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
2685			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
2686			behaviour
2687
2688	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
2689
2690	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
2691
2692	noltlbs		[PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
2693			lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
2694
2695	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
2696
2697	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
2698
2699	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
2700			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
2701
2702	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
2703			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
2704			irq.
2705
2706	nomodule	Disable module load
2707
2708	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
2709			pagetables) support.
2710
2711	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
2712
2713	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
2714			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2715
2716	noreplace-paravirt	[X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
2717
2718	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2719			with UP alternatives
2720
2721	nordrand	[X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2722			RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2723			by the processor.  RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2724			available to user space applications.
2725
2726	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2727			space.
2728
2729	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
2730			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
2731			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
2732
2733	nosbagart	[IA-64]
2734
2735	nosep		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
2736
2737	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
2738			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
2739
2740	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
2741
2742	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
2743
2744	notsc		[BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
2745
2746	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
2747                        soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
2748
2749	nowb		[ARM]
2750
2751	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
2752
2753	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
2754			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
2755			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
2756			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
2757			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
2758			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
2759			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
2760			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
2761			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
2762			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
2763			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
2764			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
2765			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
2766
2767	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
2768			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
2769			SAL PALO.
2770
2771	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2772			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
2773			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
2774			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
2775			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
2776			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
2777			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
2778			hot plugging.
2779
2780	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
2781
2782	numa_balancing=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
2783			Allowed values are enable and disable
2784
2785	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
2786			'node', 'default' can be specified
2787			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
2788			See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details.
2789
2790	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
2791			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
2792			info.
2793
2794	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
2795			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
2796			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
2797			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
2798			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
2799			interrupts *may* be lost!
2800
2801	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
2802			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
2803			For example, to override I2C bus2:
2804			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
2805
2806	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
2807			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
2808
2809	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
2810			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
2811			userland or if you want common events.
2812			Format: { arch_perfmon }
2813			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
2814				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
2815				CPU specific event set.
2816			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
2817				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
2818				for generic hr timer mode)
2819
2820	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
2821			process, but there is a small probability of
2822			deadlocking the machine.
2823			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
2824			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
2825
2826	OSS		[HW,OSS]
2827			See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt
2828
2829	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
2830			Storage of the information about who allocated
2831			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
2832			we can turn it on.
2833			on: enable the feature
2834
2835	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
2836			poisoning on the buddy allocator.
2837			off: turn off poisoning
2838			on: turn on poisoning
2839
2840	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
2841			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
2842			timeout = 0: wait forever
2843			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
2844			Format: <timeout>
2845
2846	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
2847			on a WARN().
2848
2849	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
2850			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
2851			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
2852			succeeds in any situation.
2853			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
2854			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
2855			kernel more unstable.
2856
2857	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
2858			connected to, default is 0.
2859			Format: <parport#>
2860	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
2861			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
2862			Format: <mode>
2863
2864	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
2865			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
2866			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
2867			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
2868			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
2869			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
2870			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
2871			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
2872			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
2873			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
2874			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
2875			are specified on the command line, starting
2876			with parport0.
2877
2878	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
2879			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
2880			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
2881			computer where firmware has no options for setting
2882			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
2883			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
2884			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
2885
2886	pause_on_oops=
2887			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
2888			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
2889			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
2890
2891	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
2892
2893	pcd.		[PARIDE]
2894			See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
2895			See also Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
2896
2897	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
2898		earlydump	[X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
2899			        changes anything
2900		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
2901		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
2902				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
2903				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
2904		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
2905				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
2906				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
2907				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
2908		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2909				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
2910				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
2911		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
2912				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
2913				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
2914				bus number. The config space is then accessed
2915				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
2916				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
2917				on the configuration access mechanisms.
2918		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
2919				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2920				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
2921		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
2922				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
2923		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
2924				Configuration
2925		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
2926				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
2927				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
2928		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
2929				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
2930				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
2931		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
2932				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
2933				should never be necessary.
2934		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
2935				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
2936				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
2937				when the system masks IRQs.
2938		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
2939				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
2940				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
2941				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
2942		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
2943				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
2944				on several machines and they hang the machine
2945				when used, but on other computers it's the only
2946				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
2947				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
2948				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
2949				motherboard.
2950		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
2951				Use with caution as certain devices share
2952				address decoders between ROMs and other
2953				resources.
2954		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
2955				expansion ROMs that do not already have
2956				BIOS assigned address ranges.
2957		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
2958				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
2959		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
2960				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
2961				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
2962				this way.
2963		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
2964				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
2965				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
2966				F0000h-100000h range.
2967		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
2968				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
2969				secondary buses and you want to tell it
2970				explicitly which ones they are.
2971		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
2972				numbers ourselves, overriding
2973				whatever the firmware may have done.
2974		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
2975				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
2976				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
2977				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
2978				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
2979				IRQ routing is enabled.
2980		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
2981				or for PCI scanning.
2982		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
2983				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
2984				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
2985				please report a bug.
2986		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
2987			        If you need to use this, please report a bug.
2988		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
2989				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
2990				so this option is a temporary workaround
2991				for broken drivers that don't call it.
2992		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
2993				handle more pci cards
2994		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
2995				This might help on some broken boards which
2996				machine check when some devices' config space
2997				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
2998				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
2999		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3000				This sorting is done to get a device
3001				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3002		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3003		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3004				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3005		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3006				supported by all devices below the root complex.
3007		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3008				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3009				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3010				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3011				or bus can support) for best performance.
3012		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3013				every device is guaranteed to support. This
3014				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3015				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3016				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
3017				that hot-added devices will work.
3018		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3019				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3020				The default value is 256 bytes.
3021		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3022				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3023				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
3024		resource_alignment=
3025				Format:
3026				[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
3027				[<order of align>@]pci:<vendor>:<device>\
3028						[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>][; ...]
3029				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
3030				aligned memory resources.
3031				If <order of align> is not specified,
3032				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3033				PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3034				windows need to be expanded.
3035				To specify the alignment for several
3036				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3037				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3038				specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
3039		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3040				end-to-end CRC checking).
3041				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3042				the default.
3043				off: Turn ECRC off
3044				on: Turn ECRC on.
3045		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3046				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3047				Default size is 256 bytes.
3048		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
3049				reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3050				Default size is 2 megabytes.
3051		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3052				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3053				Default is 1.
3054		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3055				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3056				accommodate resources required by all child
3057				devices.
3058				off: Turn realloc off
3059				on: Turn realloc on
3060		realloc		same as realloc=on
3061		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
3062		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
3063				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3064				port.
3065
3066	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3067			Management.
3068		off	Disable ASPM.
3069		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3070			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3071
3072	pcie_hp=	[PCIE] PCI Express Hotplug driver options:
3073		nomsi	Do not use MSI for PCI Express Native Hotplug (this
3074			makes all PCIe ports use INTx for hotplug services).
3075
3076	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe ports handling:
3077		auto	Ask the BIOS whether or not to use native PCIe services
3078			associated with PCIe ports (PME, hot-plug, AER).  Use
3079			them only if that is allowed by the BIOS.
3080		native	Use native PCIe services associated with PCIe ports
3081			unconditionally.
3082		compat	Treat PCIe ports as PCI-to-PCI bridges, disable the PCIe
3083			ports driver.
3084
3085	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3086		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3087		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3088
3089	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
3090		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
3091			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
3092
3093	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3094
3095	pd_ignore_unused
3096			[PM]
3097			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3098			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3099			for debug and development, but should not be
3100			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3101
3102	pd.		[PARIDE]
3103			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3104
3105	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3106			boot time.
3107			Format: { 0 | 1 }
3108			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3109
3110	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
3111			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3112			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
3113			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3114			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
3115			and performance comparison.
3116
3117	pf.		[PARIDE]
3118			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3119
3120	pg.		[PARIDE]
3121			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3122
3123	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
3124			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
3125
3126	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3127			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3128			See also Documentation/parport.txt.
3129
3130	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
3131			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3132			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3133
3134	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
3135			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3136			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
3137			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
3138			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3139			possible settings and some assignment information.
3140
3141	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
3142			{ off }
3143
3144	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
3145			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3146
3147	pnp_reserve_irq=
3148			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3149
3150	pnp_reserve_dma=
3151			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3152
3153	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
3154			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
3155
3156	pnp_reserve_mem=
3157			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3158			autoconfiguration.
3159			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3160
3161	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3162			Default is 21.
3163			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3164			may be specified.
3165			Format: <port>,<port>....
3166
3167	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3168			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3169			platform machine description specific power_save
3170			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3171			execution priority.
3172
3173	ppc_strict_facility_enable
3174			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3175			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3176			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3177			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3178
3179	print-fatal-signals=
3180			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
3181
3182			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3183			related application anomalies: too many signals,
3184			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3185			coredump - etc.
3186
3187			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3188			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3189
3190			default: off.
3191
3192	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3193			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3194			panics
3195			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3196			default: disabled
3197
3198	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3199			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3200			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3201			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3202			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3203			Default: ratelimit
3204
3205	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3206			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3207
3208	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
3209			Limit processor to maximum C-state
3210			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3211
3212	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
3213			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3214			instead using the legacy FADT method
3215
3216	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
3217			Format: [schedule,]<number>
3218			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
3219			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3220				statistical time based profiling.
3221			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3222				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
3223			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
3224
3225	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3226			before loading.
3227			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3228
3229	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3230			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
3231	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3232			per second.
3233	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
3234			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
3235			(0 = never).
3236	psmouse.resolution=
3237			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3238	psmouse.smartscroll=
3239			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
3240			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3241
3242	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3243
3244	pt.		[PARIDE]
3245			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
3246
3247	pty.legacy_count=
3248			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3249			default number.
3250
3251	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
3252
3253	r128=		[HW,DRM]
3254
3255	raid=		[HW,RAID]
3256			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3257
3258	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
3259			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
3260
3261	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
3262
3263		cec_disable	[X86]
3264				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3265				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3266
3267	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
3268			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3269
3270			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3271			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
3272			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
3273			be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
3274			that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
3275			for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
3276			is the CPU number.  This reduces OS jitter on the
3277			offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
3278			real-time workloads.  It can also improve energy
3279			efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3280
3281	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
3282			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3283			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3284			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3285			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3286			This improves the real-time response for the
3287			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3288			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3289			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3290			periodically wake up to do the polling.
3291
3292	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
3293			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3294			process in one batch.
3295
3296	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
3297			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3298			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
3299			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3300
3301	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
3302			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3303			RCU grace-period cleanup.
3304
3305	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
3306			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3307			RCU grace-period initialization.
3308
3309	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
3310			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3311			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3312			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
3313			the rcu_node combining tree.
3314
3315	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3316			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3317			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
3318			possibly be useful for architectures having high
3319			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
3320
3321	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
3322			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3323			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
3324			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3325			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3326			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3327			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
3328
3329	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3330			Set required age in jiffies for a
3331			given grace period before RCU starts
3332			soliciting quiescent-state help from
3333			rcu_note_context_switch().
3334
3335	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
3336			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3337			first attempt to force quiescent states.
3338			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3339			and maximum value is HZ.
3340
3341	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
3342			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3343			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
3344			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3345
3346	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
3347			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3348			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3349			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3350			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3351			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3352			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3353			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
3354			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3355			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
3356
3357	rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3358			Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3359			defaults to the square root of the number of
3360			CPUs.  Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3361			on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3362			that same overhead on each group's leader.
3363
3364	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
3365			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3366			batch limiting is disabled.
3367
3368	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
3369			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3370			batch limiting is re-enabled.
3371
3372	rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
3373			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3374			RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3375
3376	rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
3377			Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3378			only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3379			Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3380			prove do nothing more than free memory.
3381
3382	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3383			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3384			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3385			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3386			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3387			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3388
3389	rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3390			Measure performance of asynchronous
3391			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3392
3393	rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3394			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3395			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
3396			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3397			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3398			previously posted callbacks to drain.
3399
3400	rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3401			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3402			grace-period primitives.
3403
3404	rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3405			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
3406			this parameter is to delay the start of the
3407			test until boot completes in order to avoid
3408			interference.
3409
3410	rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3411			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3412			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3413			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3414			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3415			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3416			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3417			a single reader.
3418
3419	rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3420			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
3421			the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3422			N, where N is the number of CPUs
3423
3424	rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
3425			Start rcuperf running at boot time.
3426
3427	rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3428			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3429
3430	rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3431			Shut the system down after performance tests
3432			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
3433			testing.
3434
3435	rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3436			Enable additional printk() statements.
3437
3438	rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3439			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3440			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
3441			no holdoff.
3442
3443	rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
3444			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3445			callback-flood tests.
3446
3447	rcutorture.cbflood_intra_holdoff= [KNL]
3448			Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
3449			bursts of callbacks within a given callback-flood
3450			test.
3451
3452	rcutorture.cbflood_n_burst= [KNL]
3453			Set the number of bursts making up a given
3454			callback-flood test.  Set this to zero to
3455			disable callback-flood testing.
3456
3457	rcutorture.cbflood_n_per_burst= [KNL]
3458			Set the number of callbacks to be registered
3459			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
3460
3461	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
3462			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3463			in microseconds.
3464
3465	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
3466			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3467			in microseconds.
3468
3469	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
3470			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3471			in seconds.
3472
3473	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3474			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3475			primitives, if available.
3476
3477	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
3478			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
3479
3480	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
3481			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3482			update-side primitives, if available.
3483
3484	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3485			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3486			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
3487			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3488			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3489			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3490			they are all non-zero.
3491
3492	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
3493			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3494
3495	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
3496			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
3497			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3498			test, hence the "fake".
3499
3500	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3501			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
3502			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
3503			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3504			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
3505			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3506
3507	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3508			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3509
3510	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3511			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3512
3513	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3514			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3515			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3516
3517	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3518			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
3519			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
3520			during the rcutorture test.
3521
3522	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3523			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3524			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3525
3526	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
3527			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
3528			warnings, zero to disable.
3529
3530	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
3531			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
3532
3533	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3534			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3535
3536	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
3537			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
3538			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
3539			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
3540			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
3541
3542	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
3543			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
3544			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
3545			under test support RCU priority boosting.
3546
3547	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
3548			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
3549
3550	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
3551			Interval (s) between each boost test.
3552
3553	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
3554			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
3555			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
3556
3557	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
3558			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
3559
3560	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3561			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3562
3563	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
3564			Enable additional printk() statements.
3565
3566	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
3567			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3568
3569	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3570			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
3571
3572	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
3573			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
3574			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
3575			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
3576			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
3577			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
3578			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3579
3580	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
3581			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
3582			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
3583			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
3584			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
3585			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
3586			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
3587			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
3588			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3589
3590	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
3591			Once boot has completed (that is, after
3592			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
3593			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
3594			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3595
3596	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
3597			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
3598			messages.  Disable with a value less than or equal
3599			to zero.
3600
3601	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
3602			Run the RCU early boot self tests
3603
3604	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
3605			Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
3606
3607	rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
3608			Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
3609
3610	rdinit=		[KNL]
3611			Format: <full_path>
3612			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
3613			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
3614
3615	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
3616			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
3617			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, mba.
3618			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
3619				rdt=cmt,!mba
3620
3621	reboot=		[KNL]
3622			Format (x86 or x86_64):
3623				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
3624				[[,]s[mp]#### \
3625				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
3626				[[,]f[orce]
3627			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio,
3628			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
3629			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
3630			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
3631					to be used for rebooting.
3632
3633	relax_domain_level=
3634			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
3635			See Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt.
3636
3637	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
3638
3639	reservetop=	[X86-32]
3640			Format: nn[KMG]
3641			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
3642			address space.
3643
3644	reservelow=	[X86]
3645			Format: nn[K]
3646			Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
3647			the bottom of the address space.
3648
3649	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
3650			during initialization.
3651
3652	resume=		[SWSUSP]
3653			Specify the partition device for software suspend
3654			Format:
3655			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
3656
3657	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
3658			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
3659			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
3660			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
3661			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
3662
3663	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3664			read the resume files
3665
3666	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
3667			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3668			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3669
3670	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
3671		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
3672				present during boot.
3673		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
3674		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
3675		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
3676				(that will set all pages holding image data
3677				during restoration read-only).
3678
3679	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
3680
3681	rfkill.default_state=
3682		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
3683			etc. communication is blocked by default.
3684		1	Unblocked.
3685
3686	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
3687		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
3688		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3689			blocked and the previous configuration.
3690		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
3691			blocked and everything unblocked.
3692
3693	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
3694			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
3695
3696	ring3mwait=disable
3697			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
3698			CPUs.
3699
3700	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
3701
3702	rodata=		[KNL]
3703		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
3704		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
3705
3706	rockchip.usb_uart
3707			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
3708			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
3709			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
3710			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
3711
3712	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
3713			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
3714
3715	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
3716			mount the root filesystem
3717
3718	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
3719
3720	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
3721
3722	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
3723			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
3724			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
3725
3726	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
3727			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
3728			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
3729			managed by CMA.
3730
3731	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
3732
3733	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
3734
3735	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
3736			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
3737		strict
3738			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
3739			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
3740			which is faster.
3741
3742	sa1100ir	[NET]
3743			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
3744
3745	sbni=		[NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
3746
3747	sched_debug	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
3748
3749	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
3750			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
3751			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
3752			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
3753
3754	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
3755			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
3756			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
3757			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3758			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
3759			1 -- enable.
3760			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
3761			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
3762
3763	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
3764			If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
3765			security module asking for security registration will be
3766			loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
3767			as if no module has been chosen.
3768
3769	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
3770			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3771			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
3772			0 -- disable.
3773			1 -- enable.
3774			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3775			If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
3776			later to disable prior to initial policy load.
3777
3778	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
3779			Format: { "0" | "1" }
3780			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
3781			0 -- disable.
3782			1 -- enable.
3783			Default value is set via kernel config option.
3784
3785	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
3786
3787	shapers=	[NET]
3788			Maximal number of shapers.
3789
3790	simeth=		[IA-64]
3791	simscsi=
3792
3793	slram=		[HW,MTD]
3794
3795	slab_nomerge	[MM]
3796			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
3797			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
3798			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
3799			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
3800			layout control by attackers can usually be
3801			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
3802			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
3803			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
3804			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
3805			own.
3806			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3807
3808	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
3809			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3810			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3811			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
3812			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
3813
3814	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
3815			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
3816			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
3817			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
3818			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
3819			last alloc / free. For more information see
3820			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3821
3822	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
3823			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
3824			memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
3825			The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
3826			Enabling this can lead to a very high number of	debug
3827			directories and files being created under
3828			/sys/kernel/slub.
3829
3830	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
3831			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
3832			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
3833			fragmentation. For more information see
3834			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3835
3836	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
3837			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
3838			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
3839			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
3840			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
3841			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
3842			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
3843			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3844
3845	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
3846			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
3847			lower than slub_max_order.
3848			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
3849
3850	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
3851			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
3852			See slab_nomerge for more information.
3853
3854	smart2=		[HW]
3855			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
3856
3857	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
3858	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
3859	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
3860	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
3861	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
3862	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
3863	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
3864				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
3865				1: Fast pin select (default)
3866				2: ATC IRMode
3867
3868	smt		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
3869			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
3870			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
3871			actual hardware limit.
3872			Format: <integer>
3873			Default: -1 (no limit)
3874
3875	softlockup_panic=
3876			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
3877			Format: <integer>
3878
3879	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
3880			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
3881			backtraces on all cpus.
3882			Format: <integer>
3883
3884	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
3885			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
3886
3887	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
3888	spia_fio_base=
3889	spia_pedr=
3890	spia_peddr=
3891
3892	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
3893			Specifies how frequently to check for
3894			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
3895			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
3896			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
3897			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
3898			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
3899			are ignored.
3900
3901	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
3902			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
3903			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
3904			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
3905			grace period will be considered for automatic
3906			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
3907			expediting.
3908
3909	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
3910			override the default stack gap protection. The value
3911			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
3912			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
3913			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
3914			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
3915
3916	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
3917			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
3918
3919	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
3920			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
3921			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
3922			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
3923			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
3924			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
3925			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
3926
3927	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
3928			Format: <num>
3929			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
3930			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
3931			as the initial boot-console.
3932			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3933
3934	sti_font=	[HW]
3935			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
3936
3937	stifb=		[HW]
3938			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
3939
3940	sunrpc.min_resvport=
3941	sunrpc.max_resvport=
3942			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3943			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
3944			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
3945			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
3946			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
3947			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
3948			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
3949			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
3950			maximum port values.
3951
3952	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
3953			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3954			Limit the number of requests that the server will
3955			process in parallel from a single connection.
3956			The default value is 0 (no limit).
3957
3958	sunrpc.pool_mode=
3959			[NFS]
3960			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
3961			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
3962			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
3963			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
3964			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
3965			NFS server is running.
3966
3967			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
3968				    automatically using heuristics
3969			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
3970			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
3971			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
3972				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
3973
3974	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
3975	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
3976			[NFS,SUNRPC]
3977			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
3978			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
3979			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
3980			improve throughput, but will also increase the
3981			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
3982
3983	suspend.pm_test_delay=
3984			[SUSPEND]
3985			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
3986			mode before resuming the system (see
3987			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
3988			is set. Default value is 5.
3989
3990	swapaccount=[0|1]
3991			[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
3992			controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
3993			it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt)
3994
3995	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
3996			Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
3997			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
3998			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
3999			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
4000			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
4001
4002	switches=	[HW,M68k]
4003
4004	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4005			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4006			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4007			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4008			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4009			in older udev will not work anymore.
4010			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4011			the kernel configuration.
4012
4013	sysrq_always_enabled
4014			[KNL]
4015			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4016			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4017			Useful for debugging.
4018
4019	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4020			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4021			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4022			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4023			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4024			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4025
4026	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
4027
4028	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND][,N]
4029			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
4030			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4031			as the system sleep state during system startup with
4032			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4033			The system is woken from this state using a
4034			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
4035
4036	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4037			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4038
4039	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
4040			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4041			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4042
4043	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
4044			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
4045			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
4046
4047	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
4048			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4049			critical and hot trip points.
4050
4051	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
4052			1: disable ACPI thermal control
4053
4054	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
4055			-1: disable all passive trip points
4056			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4057			value
4058
4059	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
4060			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4061			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4062			0: no polling (default)
4063
4064	threadirqs	[KNL]
4065			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
4066			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
4067
4068	tmem		[KNL,XEN]
4069			Enable the Transcendent memory driver if built-in.
4070
4071	tmem.cleancache=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4072			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the cleancache
4073			API to send anonymous pages to the hypervisor.
4074
4075	tmem.frontswap=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4076			Default is on (1). Disable the usage of the frontswap
4077			API to send swap pages to the hypervisor. If disabled
4078			the selfballooning and selfshrinking are force disabled.
4079
4080	tmem.selfballooning=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4081			Default is on (1). Disable the driving of swap pages
4082			to the hypervisor.
4083
4084	tmem.selfshrinking=0|1 [KNL, XEN]
4085			Default is on (1). Partial swapoff that immediately
4086			transfers pages from Xen hypervisor back to the
4087			kernel based on different criteria.
4088
4089	topology=	[S390]
4090			Format: {off | on}
4091			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
4092			topology information if the hardware supports this.
4093			The scheduler will make use of this information and
4094			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
4095			Default is on.
4096
4097	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4098			Format: {off}
4099			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4100			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4101			LPAR.
4102
4103	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
4104
4105	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4106			Format: integer pcr id
4107			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4108			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4109			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4110			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4111			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4112			are saved.
4113
4114	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
4115			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
4116
4117	trace_event=[event-list]
4118			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
4119			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4120			comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
4121			also Documentation/trace/events.txt
4122
4123	trace_options=[option-list]
4124			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4125			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4126			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4127			to echo the option name into
4128
4129			    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4130
4131			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4132			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4133
4134			      trace_options=stacktrace
4135
4136			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt "trace options"
4137			section.
4138
4139	tp_printk[FTRACE]
4140			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4141			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4142			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4143			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4144			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4145
4146			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4147			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4148			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4149			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4150
4151			** CAUTION **
4152
4153			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4154			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4155			the system to live lock.
4156
4157	traceoff_on_warning
4158			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4159			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4160			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4161			file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4162
4163			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4164			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4165			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4166
4167			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4168			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4169
4170	transparent_hugepage=
4171			[KNL]
4172			Format: [always|madvise|never]
4173			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4174			with respect to transparent hugepages.
4175			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
4176
4177	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
4178			Format: <string>
4179			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
4180			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4181			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
4182			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4183			virtualized environment.
4184			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4185			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4186			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4187			can add overhead.
4188
4189	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
4190			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4191			Format:
4192			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
4193			See also Documentation/input/joystick-parport.txt
4194
4195	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
4196			happen after console_init() and before a proper
4197			console driver takes over, this boot options might
4198			help "seeing" what's going on.
4199
4200	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
4201			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4202
4203	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4204			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4205			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4206			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4207			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4208			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4209			reported either.
4210
4211	unknown_nmi_panic
4212			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
4213
4214	usbcore.authorized_default=
4215			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
4216			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
4217			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized)
4218
4219	usbcore.autosuspend=
4220			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4221			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
4222			is the time required before an idle device will be
4223			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
4224			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
4225
4226	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4227			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4228
4229	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4230			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4231			(default = 65536).
4232
4233	usbcore.blinkenlights=
4234			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4235
4236	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4237			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
4238			scheme (default 0 = off).
4239
4240	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4241			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4242			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4243
4244	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4245			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4246			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4247
4248	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4249			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
4250                        USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
4251			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4252
4253	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4254
4255	usbhid.mousepoll=
4256			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
4257
4258	usbhid.jspoll=
4259			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4260
4261	usb-storage.delay_use=
4262			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
4263			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
4264
4265	usb-storage.quirks=
4266			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4267			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
4268			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
4269			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4270			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4271			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4272			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
4273				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4274					of sense data);
4275				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4276					bytes of sense data);
4277				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4278					device capacity by one sector);
4279				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4280					READ_DISC_INFO command);
4281				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4282					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
4283				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4284					command, uas only);
4285				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4286					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
4287				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4288					reported device capacity by one
4289					sector if the number is odd);
4290				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4291					device);
4292				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4293					command, uas only);
4294				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4295					unlock ejectable media);
4296				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4297					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
4298				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4299					initial READ(10) command);
4300				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4301					reported by the device);
4302				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4303					by default);
4304				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
4305					bogus residue values);
4306				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
4307					Logical Unit);
4308				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
4309					commands, uas only);
4310				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
4311				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
4312					medium is write-protected).
4313				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
4314					even if the device claims no cache)
4315			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
4316
4317	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
4318			Format: <int>
4319			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
4320				 1 - undefined instruction events
4321				 2 - system calls
4322				 4 - invalid data aborts
4323				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
4324				16 - SIGBUS faults
4325			Example: user_debug=31
4326
4327	userpte=
4328			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
4329
4330				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
4331					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
4332					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
4333
4334	vdso=		[X86,SH]
4335			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
4336
4337			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
4338			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
4339
4340	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
4341			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
4342			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
4343
4344			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
4345			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
4346			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
4347
4348			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
4349			alias for vdso32=0.
4350
4351			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
4352			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
4353
4354	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
4355			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
4356
4357	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
4358			See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt.
4359
4360	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
4361			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
4362			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
4363			level and then send out the event to user space through
4364			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
4365			will only send out the event without touching backlight
4366			brightness level.
4367			default: 1
4368
4369	virtio_mmio.device=
4370			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
4371
4372				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
4373			where:
4374				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
4375						like K, M and G)
4376				<baseaddr> := physical base address
4377				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
4378						request_irq())
4379				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
4380			example:
4381				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
4382
4383			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
4384
4385	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
4386			See Documentation/x86/boot.txt and
4387			Documentation/svga.txt.
4388			Use vga=ask for menu.
4389			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
4390			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
4391
4392	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
4393			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
4394			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
4395			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
4396			mapped kernel RAM.
4397
4398	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
4399			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
4400			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
4401
4402	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
4403			Format: <command>
4404
4405	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
4406			Format: <command>
4407
4408	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
4409			Format: <command>
4410
4411	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
4412			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
4413			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
4414			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
4415			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
4416			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
4417			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
4418
4419			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
4420			            emulated reasonably safely.
4421
4422			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
4423			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
4424			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
4425			            better than they would in emulation mode.
4426			            It also makes exploits much easier to write.
4427
4428			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
4429			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
4430			            might break your system.
4431
4432	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
4433			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
4434			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
4435
4436	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
4437			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
4438			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
4439			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
4440
4441	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
4442			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
4443			Change the default blue palette of the console.
4444			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4445			ranging from 0-255.
4446
4447	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
4448			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
4449			Change the default green palette of the console.
4450			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4451			ranging from 0-255.
4452
4453	vt.default_red=	[VT]
4454			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
4455			Change the default red palette of the console.
4456			This is a 16-member array composed of values
4457			ranging from 0-255.
4458
4459	vt.default_utf8=
4460			[VT]
4461			Format=<0|1>
4462			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
4463			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
4464			newly opened terminals.
4465
4466	vt.global_cursor_default=
4467			[VT]
4468			Format=<-1|0|1>
4469			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
4470			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
4471			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
4472			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
4473			cursors, 1 will display them.
4474
4475	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
4476			Default: 2 = green.
4477
4478	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
4479			Default: 3 = cyan.
4480
4481	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
4482			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
4483			or other driver-specific files in the
4484			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
4485
4486	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
4487			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
4488			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
4489			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
4490			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
4491			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
4492			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
4493			corresponding sysfs file.
4494
4495	workqueue.disable_numa
4496			By default, all work items queued to unbound
4497			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
4498			issued on, which results in better behavior in
4499			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
4500			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
4501			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
4502			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
4503
4504	workqueue.power_efficient
4505			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
4506			they show better performance thanks to cache
4507			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
4508			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
4509
4510			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
4511			were observed to contribute significantly to power
4512			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
4513			power usage at the cost of small performance
4514			overhead.
4515
4516			The default value of this parameter is determined by
4517			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
4518
4519	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
4520			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
4521			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
4522			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
4523			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
4524			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
4525			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
4526			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
4527			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
4528			impacted.
4529
4530	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
4531			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
4532			supporting x2apic.
4533
4534	x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
4535			Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
4536			Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
4537			plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
4538			x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
4539
4540	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
4541			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
4542			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
4543			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
4544			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
4545			domains.
4546
4547	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
4548			Unplug Xen emulated devices
4549			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
4550			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
4551			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
4552			nics -- unplug network devices
4553			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
4554			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
4555				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
4556				the unplug protocol
4557			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
4558
4559	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
4560			Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
4561			optimizations.
4562
4563	xen_nopv	[X86]
4564			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
4565			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
4566
4567	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
4568			Format:
4569			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
4570