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1	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
2			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
3			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
4				  copy_dsdt }
5			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
7			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
9			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
10				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
11			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
12			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
13			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14			are available
15
16			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
17
18	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
19			Format: <int>
20			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21			1,0: use 1st APIC table
22			default: 0
23
24	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
25			{ vendor | video | native | none }
26			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
27			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
28			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
29			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
30			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
31			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
32
33	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
34			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
35			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
36			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
37			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
38
39	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
40			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
41			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
42			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
43			This option is useful for developers to identify the
44			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
45			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
46
47	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
48	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
49			Format: <int>
50			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
51			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
52			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
53			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
54			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
55			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
56			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
57			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
58			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
59			debug layers and levels.
60
61			Enable processor driver info messages:
62			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
63			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64			object while interpreting AML:
65			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
66			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69			Some values produce so much output that the system is
70			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71			if you need to capture more output.
72
73	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
74			{ strict | lax | no }
75			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79			can interfere with legacy drivers.
80			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87			no further checks are performed.
88
89	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
90			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92			size limitation.
93
94	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95			ACPI will balance active IRQs
96			default in APIC mode
97
98	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100			default in PIC mode
101
102	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106			use by PCI
107			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
109	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
110			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
112			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113			the GPE dispatcher.
114			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115			GPE floodings.
116			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
117
118	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
119			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
120			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122			auto-serialization feature.
123			This feature is enabled by default.
124			This option allows to turn off the feature.
125
126	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
127			   kernels.
128
129	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
130			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132			installed automatically and they will appear under
133			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134			This option turns off this feature.
135			Note that specifying this option does not affect
136			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
138
139	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
140			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
141			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
142
143	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
144			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
145			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
146			second kernel for kdump.
147
148	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
149			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
150
151	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
152			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
153			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
154			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
155			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
156
157	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
158			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
159			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
160			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
161			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
162						  strings
163			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
164						  strings
165			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
166
167			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
168			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
169			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
170			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
171			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
172			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
173			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
174			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
175			care about the state of the feature group strings which
176			should be controlled by the OSPM.
177			Examples:
178			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
179			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
180			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
181
182			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
183			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
184			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
185			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
186			multiple times through kernel command line is also
187			meaningless.
188			Examples:
189			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
190			     FALSE.
191
192			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
193			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
194			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
195			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
196			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
197			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
198			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
199			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
200			is useful when one want to control the state of the
201			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
202			the OSPM features.
203			Examples:
204			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
205			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
206			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
207			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
208			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
209			     equivalent to
210			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
211			     and
212			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
213			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
214
215	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
216			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
217			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
218			and always returns good values.
219
220	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
221			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
222
223	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
224			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
225			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
226
227	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
228			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
229				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
230				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
231			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
232			s3_bios and s3_mode.
233			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
234			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
235			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
236			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
237			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
238			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
239			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
240			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
241			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
242			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
243			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
244			used (or even warned about) during resume.
245			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
246			control method, with respect to putting devices into
247			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
248			of _PTS is used by default).
249			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
250			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
251			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
252			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
253			but some broken systems don't work without it).
254			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
255			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
256			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
257
258	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
259			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
260			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
261
262	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
263			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
264
265	agp=		[AGP]
266			{ off | try_unsupported }
267			off: disable AGP support
268			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
269				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
270
271	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
272			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
273
274	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
275			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
276			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
277			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
278
279	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
280			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
281			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
282			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
283			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
284			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
285			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
286
287			32: only for 32-bit processes
288			64: only for 64-bit processes
289			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
290			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
291
292	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
293			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
294			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
295			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
296			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
297			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
298
299	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64]
300			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
301			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
302			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
303			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
304			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
305			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
306
307			See Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
308			information.
309
310	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
311			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
312			Possible values are:
313			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
314			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
315				    the system
316			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
317					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
318					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
319					  requirements as needed. This option
320					  does not override iommu=pt
321			force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
322				       to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
323				       option with care.
324			pgtbl_v1     - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
325			pgtbl_v2     - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
326
327	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
328			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
329			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
330			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
331			IOMMU initialization.
332
333	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
334			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
335			remapping modes:
336			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
337			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
338			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
339			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
340			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
341
342	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
343			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
344			Format: <a>,<b>
345			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
346
347	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
348			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
349			connected to one of 16 gameports
350			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
351
352	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
353			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
354			Format: noidle
355			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
356			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
357			APC and your system crashes randomly.
358
359	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
360			Change the output verbosity while booting
361			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
362			Change the amount of debugging information output
363			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
364			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
365			driver name.
366			Format: apic=driver_name
367			Examples: apic=bigsmp
368
369	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
370			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
371			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
372			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
373			      backup of CPU 0
374			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
375			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
376			      shot down by NMI
377
378	autoconf=	[IPV6]
379			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
380
381	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
382			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
383
384	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
385			Format: { "0" | "1" }
386			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
387			0 -- disable.
388			1 -- enable.
389			Default value is set via kernel config option.
390
391	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
392			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
393
394	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
395			Identification support
396
397	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
398			support
399
400	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
401			support
402
403	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
404			Extension support
405
406	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
407			Extension support
408
409	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
410
411	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
412
413	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
414			EzKey and similar keyboards
415
416	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
417
418	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
419			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
420
421	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
422			keyboards
423
424	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
425			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
426
427	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
428			Use software keyboard repeat
429
430	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
431			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
432			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
433			    enabled until the next reboot
434			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
435			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
436			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
437			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
438			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
439			    userspace auditd.
440			Default: unset
441
442	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
443			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
444			Default: 64
445
446	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
447			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
448			Format: { "0" | "1" }
449			0 - Disable the BAU.
450			1 - Enable the BAU.
451			unset - Disable the BAU.
452
453	baycom_epp=	[HW,AX25]
454			Format: <io>,<mode>
455
456	baycom_par=	[HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
457			Format: <io>,<mode>
458			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
459
460	baycom_ser_fdx=	[HW,AX25]
461			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
462			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
463			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
464
465	baycom_ser_hdx=	[HW,AX25]
466			BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
467			Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
468			See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
469
470	bert_disable	[ACPI]
471			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
472
473	bgrt_disable	[ACPI][X86]
474			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
475
476	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
477			embedded devices based on command line input.
478			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
479
480	boot_delay=	Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
481			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
482			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
483			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
484			erroneous and ignored.
485			Format: integer
486
487	bootconfig	[KNL]
488			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
489			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
490
491			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
492
493	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
494	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
495			kernel args too.
496	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
497	bttv.tuner=
498
499	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
500			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
501			at a time.
502
503	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
504
505	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
506			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
507			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
508			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
509			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
510			This option provides an override for these situations.
511
512	carrier_timeout=
513			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
514			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
515			it waits 120 seconds.
516
517	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
518			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
519			trust validation.
520			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
521
522	cca=		[MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
523			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
524			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
525			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
526			others).
527
528	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
529			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
530
531	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
532			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
533			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
534			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
535			  a single hierarchy
536			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
537			  subsystem
538			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
539			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
540			  created
541			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
542			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
543			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
544			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
545			stall information accounting feature
546
547	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
548			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
549			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
550			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
551			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
552			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
553			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
554			all v1 hierarchies.
555
556	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
557			Format: <string>
558			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
559			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
560			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
561
562	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
563			Format: { "0" | "1" }
564			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
565			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
566				any implied execute protection).
567			1 -- check protection requested by application.
568			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
569			Value can be changed at runtime via
570				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
571			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
572
573	cio_ignore=	[S390]
574			See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
575
576	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
577			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
578			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
579			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
580			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
581			ones should be.
582			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
583			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
584			instability issue. However, not all features have names
585			in /proc/cpuinfo.
586			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
587			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
588			or using the feature without checking anything
589			will still see it. This just prevents it from
590			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
591			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
592			some critical bits.
593
594	clk_ignore_unused
595			[CLK]
596			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
597			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
598			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
599			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
600			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
601			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
602			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
603			platform with proper driver support.  For more
604			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
605
606	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
607			[Deprecated]
608			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
609			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
610			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
611			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
612
613	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
614			Format: <string>
615			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
616			with the name specified.
617			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
618			the platform:
619			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
620			[ACPI] acpi_pm
621			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
622				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
623			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
624				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
625			[MIPS] MIPS
626			[PARISC] cr16
627			[S390] tod
628			[SH] SuperH
629			[SPARC64] tick
630			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
631
632	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
633			[ARM,ARM64]
634			Format: <bool>
635			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
636			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
637			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
638			systems.
639
640	clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries= [KNL]
641			Number of clocksource_watchdog() retries due to
642			external delays before the clock will be marked
643			unstable.  Defaults to two retries, that is,
644			three attempts to read the clock under test.
645
646	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
647			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
648			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
649			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
650			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
651			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
652			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
653			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
654			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
655
656	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
657			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
658			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
659			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
660			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
661
662	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
663			[KNL,CMA]
664			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
665			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
666			placement constraint by the physical address range of
667			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
668			altogether. For more information, see
669			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
670
671	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
672			[ARM64,KNL,CMA]
673			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
674			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
675			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
676			specified, the default value is 0.
677			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
678			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
679			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
680			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
681
682	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
683			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
684			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
685			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
686			a hypervisor.
687			Default: yes
688
689	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL]
690			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
691			allocations, by default set to 256K.
692
693	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
694			Format:
695			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
696
697	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
698			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
699
700	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
701			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
702			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
703
704	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
705	conmode=
706
707	con3215_drop=	[S390] 3215 console drop mode.
708			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
709			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
710			the console buffer is full. In this case the
711			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
712			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
713			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
714			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
715			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
716			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
717
718	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
719
720		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
721
722		ttyS<n>[,options]
723		ttyUSB0[,options]
724			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
725			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
726			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
727			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
728			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
729
730			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
731			information.  See
732			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
733			alternative.
734
735		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
736		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
737		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
738		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
739		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
740			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
741			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
742			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
743			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
744			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
745			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
746			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
747			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
748			the h/w is not re-initialized.
749
750		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
751			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
752
753		{ null | "" }
754			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
755			console messages discarded.
756			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
757			kernel command line.
758
759		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
760		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
761			console=brl,ttyS0
762		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
763
764	console_msg_format=
765			[KNL] Change console messages format
766		default
767			By default we print messages on consoles in
768			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
769			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
770			`printk_time' param).
771		syslog
772			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
773			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
774			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
775			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
776			from /proc/kmsg.
777
778	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
779			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
780			Defaults to 0.
781
782	coredump_filter=
783			[KNL] Change the default value for
784			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
785			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
786
787	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
788			[ARM,ARM64]
789			Format: <bool>
790			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
791			0: default value, disable debugging
792			1: enable debugging at boot time
793
794	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
795			Format:
796			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
797
798	cpu0_hotplug	[X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
799			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
800			Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
801			1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
802			Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
803			need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
804			2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
805			removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
806			It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
807			machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
808			after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
809			If the dependencies are under your control, you can
810			turn on cpu0_hotplug.
811
812	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
813			disable the cpuidle sub-system
814
815	cpuidle.governor=
816			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
817
818	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
819			disable the cpufreq sub-system
820
821	cpufreq.default_governor=
822			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
823			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
824			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
825
826	cpu_init_udelay=N
827			[X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
828			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
829			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
830			Default: 10000
831
832	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
833			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
834			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
835			succeeds in any situation.
836			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
837			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
838			kernel more unstable.
839
840	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
841			[KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
842			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
843			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
844			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
845			is selected automatically.
846			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] Select a region under 4G first, and
847			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
848			hasn't been specified.
849			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
850
851	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
852			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
853			in the running system. The syntax of range is
854			start-[end] where start and end are both
855			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
856			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
857
858	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
859			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
860			to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
861			be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
862			Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
863			available.
864			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
865	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
866			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
867			is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
868			above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
869			that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
870			requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
871			low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
872			devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
873			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
874			size is	platform dependent.
875			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
876			  --> arm64: 128MiB
877			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
878			for second kernel instead.
879			0: to disable low allocation.
880			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
881			or memory reserved is below 4G.
882
883	cryptomgr.notests
884			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
885
886	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
887			Format: <dma>
888
889	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
890			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
891
892	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable debug add-ons of cross-CPU function call
893			handling. When switched on, additional debug data is
894			printed to the console in case a hanging CPU is
895			detected, and that CPU is pinged again in order to try
896			to resolve the hang situation.
897			0: disable csdlock debugging (default)
898			1: enable basic csdlock debugging (minor impact)
899			ext: enable extended csdlock debugging (more impact,
900			     but more data)
901
902	dasd=		[HW,NET]
903			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
904
905	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
906			(one device per port)
907			Format: <port#>,<type>
908			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
909
910	debug		[KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
911
912	debug_boot_weak_hash
913			[KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
914			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
915			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
916			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
917			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
918			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
919
920	debug_locks_verbose=
921			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
922			Format: <int>
923			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
924			self-tests.
925			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
926			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
927			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
928			useful to lockdep developers.
929
930	debug_objects	[KNL] Enable object debugging
931
932	no_debug_objects
933			[KNL] Disable object debugging
934
935	debug_guardpage_minorder=
936			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
937			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
938			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
939			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
940			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
941			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
942			possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
943			to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
944			memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
945			driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
946			random memory location. Note that there exists a class
947			of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
948			F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
949			memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
950			bypassed) which are not detectable by
951			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
952			tracking down these problems.
953
954	debug_pagealloc=
955			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
956			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
957			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
958			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
959			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
960			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
961			on: enable the feature
962
963	debugfs=    	[KNL] This parameter enables what is exposed to userspace
964			and debugfs internal clients.
965			Format: { on, no-mount, off }
966			on: 	All functions are enabled.
967			no-mount:
968				Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can
969			        access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read
970				its content. There is nothing to mount.
971			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
972			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
973				or directories within debugfs.
974				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
975				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
976			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
977
978	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
979
980	default_hugepagesz=
981			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
982			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
983			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
984			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
985			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
986			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
987			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
988			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
989			Format: size[KMG]
990
991	deferred_probe_timeout=
992			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
993			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
994			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
995			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
996			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
997			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
998			successful driver registration. This option will also
999			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1000			retrying.
1001
1002	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1003
1004	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1005			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1006			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1007			hardware.
1008
1009	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1010			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1011			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1012			blacklisted features.
1013
1014	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1015			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1016			(disabled by default).
1017
1018	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1019			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1020			capability is set.
1021
1022	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1023			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1024
1025	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1026			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1027
1028	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1029			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1030			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1031			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1032			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1033			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1034			          only (compression on level 1)
1035			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1036			          only (decompression)
1037			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1038			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1039
1040	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1041			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1042
1043	disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
1044			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1045			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1046			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1047			miss to occur.
1048
1049	disable=	[IPV6]
1050			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1051
1052	disable_radix	[PPC]
1053			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1054
1055	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1056			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1057			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1058
1059	disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
1060			Format: <int>
1061			The number of initial APIC ID for the
1062			corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
1063			mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
1064			disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
1065			causing system reset or hang due to sending
1066			INIT from AP to BSP.
1067
1068	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES]
1069			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1070			to workaround buggy firmware.
1071
1072	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1073			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1074
1075	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1076			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1077			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1078			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1079
1080	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
1081			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1082			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1083			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1084			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1085
1086	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1087			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1088			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1089
1090	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1091
1092	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1093			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1094
1095	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1096			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1097			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1098			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1099			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1100			architectural default is too low.
1101
1102	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1103			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1104			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1105			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1106			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1107			driver later using sysfs.
1108
1109	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1110			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1111			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1112			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1113			match the *.
1114			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1115
1116	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1117			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1118			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1119			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1120			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1121			Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
1122			edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
1123			edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
1124			and no file with the same name exists. Details and
1125			instructions how to build your own EDID data are
1126			available in Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst. An EDID
1127			data set will only be used for a particular connector,
1128			if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
1129			name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
1130			set by separating the files with a comma.  An EDID
1131			data set with no connector name will be used for
1132			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1133
1134	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1135
1136	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC]
1137			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1138			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1139			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1140			exists).
1141			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1142			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1143			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1144
1145	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1146			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1147			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1148			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1149
1150	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1151	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1152			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1153			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1154			for details.
1155
1156	early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
1157			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1158			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1159			which are not unmapped.
1160
1161	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
1162
1163			When used with no options, the early console is
1164			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1165			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1166			the platform.
1167
1168		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1169			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1170			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1171			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1172			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1173			configured.
1174
1175		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1176		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1177		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1178		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1179		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1180			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1181			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1182			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1183			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1184			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1185			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1186			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1187			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1188			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1189			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1190
1191		pl011,<addr>
1192		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1193			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1194			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1195			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1196			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1197			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1198			the device registers.
1199
1200		liteuart,<addr>
1201			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1202			specified address. The serial port must already be
1203			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1204
1205		meson,<addr>
1206			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1207			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1208			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1209			supported.
1210
1211		msm_serial,<addr>
1212			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1213			port at the specified address. The serial port
1214			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1215			yet supported.
1216
1217		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1218			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1219			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1220			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1221			yet supported.
1222
1223		owl,<addr>
1224			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1225			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1226			specified address. The serial port must already be
1227			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1228
1229		rda,<addr>
1230			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1231			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1232			specified address. The serial port must already be
1233			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1234
1235		sbi
1236			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1237			console.
1238
1239		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1240
1241		s3c2410,<addr>
1242		s3c2412,<addr>
1243		s3c2440,<addr>
1244		s3c6400,<addr>
1245		s5pv210,<addr>
1246		exynos4210,<addr>
1247			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1248			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1249			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1250			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1251			Options are not yet supported.
1252
1253		lantiq,<addr>
1254			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1255			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1256			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1257			yet supported.
1258
1259		lpuart,<addr>
1260		lpuart32,<addr>
1261			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1262			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1263			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1264			port must already be setup and configured.
1265
1266		ec_imx21,<addr>
1267		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1268			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1269			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1270			must already be setup and configured.
1271
1272		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1273			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1274			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1275			address. The serial port must already be setup
1276			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1277
1278		qcom_geni,<addr>
1279			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1280			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1281			specified address. The serial port must already be
1282			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1283
1284		efifb,[options]
1285			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1286			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1287			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1288			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1289			mapped with the correct attributes.
1290
1291		linflex,<addr>
1292			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1293			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1294			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1295			already be setup and configured.
1296
1297	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1298			earlyprintk=vga
1299			earlyprintk=sclp
1300			earlyprintk=xen
1301			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1302			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1303			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1304			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1305			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1306			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1307
1308			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1309			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1310			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1311
1312			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1313			takes over.
1314
1315			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1316			be used at a time.
1317
1318			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1319			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1320			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1321			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1322				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1323			You can find the port for a given device in
1324			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1325				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1326
1327			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1328			very good.
1329
1330			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1331			the real console.
1332
1333			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1334
1335			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1336
1337			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1338			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1339			UART class.
1340
1341	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1342			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1343			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1344			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1345			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1346			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1347			default: on.
1348
1349	edd=		[EDD]
1350			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1351
1352	efi=		[EFI]
1353			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1354				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1355				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1356			debug: enable misc debug output.
1357			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1358			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1359			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1360			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1361			firmware implementations.
1362			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1363			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1364			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1365			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1366			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1367			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1368			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1369			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1370			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1371			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1372
1373	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1374			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1375			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1376			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1377			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1378
1379	efi_fake_mem=	nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1380			Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1381			updating original EFI memory map.
1382			Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1383			from ss to ss+nn.
1384
1385			If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1386			is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1387			attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1388			0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1389
1390			If efi_fake_mem=8G@9G:0x40000 is specified, the
1391			EFI_MEMORY_SP(0x40000) attribute is added to
1392			range 0x240000000-0x43fffffff.
1393
1394			Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1395			related features. For example, you can do debugging of
1396			Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1397			doesn't support it, or mark specific memory as
1398			"soft reserved".
1399
1400	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1401			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1402			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1403			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1404			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1405
1406
1407	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1408			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1409
1410	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1411			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1412
1413			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1414			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1415
1416			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1417			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1418			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1419			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1420
1421	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1422			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1423			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1424
1425	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
1426			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1427			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1428			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1429			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1430
1431	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1432			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1433			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1434			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1435
1436	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1437			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1438			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1439			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1440			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1441
1442	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1443			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1444			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1445			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1446			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1447			Default value is 0.
1448			Value can be changed at runtime via
1449			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1450
1451	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1452			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1453			support.
1454
1455	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1456			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1457			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1458
1459	evm=		[EVM]
1460			Format: { "fix" }
1461			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1462			current integrity status.
1463
1464	early_page_ext [KNL] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1465			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1466			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1467			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1468			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1469			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1470			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1471
1472	failslab=
1473	fail_usercopy=
1474	fail_page_alloc=
1475	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1476			General fault injection mechanism.
1477			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1478			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1479
1480	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1481			Format: { initns | none }
1482			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1483			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1484
1485	floppy=		[HW]
1486			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1487
1488	force_pal_cache_flush
1489			[IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1490			buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1491			parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1492			ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1493
1494	forcepae	[X86-32]
1495			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1496			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1497			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1498			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1499			and may cause unknown problems.
1500
1501	ftrace=[tracer]
1502			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1503			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1504			boot debugging.
1505
1506	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1507			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1508			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1509			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1510			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1511			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1512			start up functionality.
1513
1514			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1515			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1516			line parameter.
1517
1518			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1519
1520			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1521			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1522
1523	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
1524			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1525			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1526			buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1527			dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1528			oops.
1529
1530	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1531			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1532			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1533			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1534			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1535			tracing directory.
1536
1537	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1538			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1539			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1540			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1541			tracing directory.
1542
1543	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1544			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1545			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1546			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1547			that can be changed at run time by the
1548			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1549
1550	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1551			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1552			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1553			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1554			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1555
1556	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1557			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1558			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1559			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1560			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1561
1562	fw_devlink=	[KNL] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1563			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1564			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1565			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1566			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1567			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1568			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1569			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1570			suppliers).
1571			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1572			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1573			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1574				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1575				up (sync_state() calls).
1576			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1577				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1578			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1579
1580	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1581			[KNL] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1582			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1583			Format: <bool>
1584
1585	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1586			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1587			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1588			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1589			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1590
1591	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1592
1593	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1594			Format: off | on
1595			default: on
1596
1597	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1598			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1599			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1600			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1601			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1602
1603	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1604			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1605			android emulator
1606
1607	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1608			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1609			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1610	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1611			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1612
1613	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1614			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1615			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1616			GPT to be used instead.
1617
1618	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1619			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1620			Format: 0 | 1
1621			Default: 0
1622	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1623			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1624			Format: 0 | 1
1625			Default: 0
1626	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1627			Format: 0 | 1
1628			Default: 0
1629	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1630			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1631			Default: 1024
1632	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1633			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1634			Default: 1024
1635
1636	hardened_usercopy=
1637			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1638			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1639			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1640			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1641			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1642			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1643			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1644		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
1645		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1646
1647	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1648			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1649			backtraces on all cpus.
1650			Format: 0 | 1
1651
1652	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1653			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1654			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1655			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1656
1657	hcl=		[IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1658
1659	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1660			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1661
1662	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1663			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1664			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1665			logic will be disabled.
1666
1667	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1668		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1669				present during boot.
1670		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1671		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1672		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
1673				(that will set all pages holding image data
1674				during restoration read-only).
1675
1676	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1677			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1678			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1679			size on bigger boxes.
1680
1681	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1682			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1683			Default: "on"
1684
1685	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
1686
1687	hostname=	[KNL] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
1688			Format: <string>
1689			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
1690			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
1691			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
1692			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
1693			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
1694			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
1695			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
1696			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
1697			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
1698			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
1699
1700	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1701			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1702				verbose }
1703			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1704			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1705				VIA, nVidia)
1706			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1707
1708	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1709			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1710
1711	hugepages=	[HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1712			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
1713			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
1714			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
1715			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
1716			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
1717			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
1718			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1719			Format: <integer> or (node format)
1720				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
1721
1722	hugepagesz=
1723			[HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is used in
1724			conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
1725			pages of a specific size at boot.  The pair
1726			hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
1727			each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
1728			architecture dependent.  See also
1729			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1730			Format: size[KMG]
1731
1732	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
1733			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
1734			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
1735			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
1736				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
1737
1738			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
1739			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
1740			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
1741
1742	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
1743			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
1744			enabled.
1745			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
1746			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
1747			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
1748			Format: { on | off (default) }
1749
1750			on: enable HVO
1751			off: disable HVO
1752
1753			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
1754			the default is on.
1755
1756			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
1757			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
1758			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
1759			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
1760			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
1761
1762	hung_task_panic=
1763			[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1764			Format: 0 | 1
1765
1766			A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a
1767			hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1768			by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1769			option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1770			be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1771
1772	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1773				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1774	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1775				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1776				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
1777
1778	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1779				      which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1780				      guest on lock contention.
1781
1782	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1783				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1784				registered from board initialization code.
1785				Format:
1786				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
1787
1788	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
1789	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1790			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1791			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1792			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1793	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
1794	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1795			     keyboard and cannot control its state
1796			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1797	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
1798	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
1799	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1800			     for the AUX port
1801	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
1802			     controller
1803	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1804			     controllers
1805	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
1806	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1807			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1808			     transitions, or never reset
1809			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1810			1, Y, y: always reset controller
1811			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1812			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1813			architectures force reset to be always executed
1814	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
1815	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1816	i8042.probe_defer
1817			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
1818
1819	i810=		[HW,DRM]
1820
1821	i915.invert_brightness=
1822			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1823			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
1824			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1825			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1826			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1827			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1828			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1829			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1830			value switches the backlight off.
1831			-1 -- never invert brightness
1832			 0 -- machine default
1833			 1 -- force brightness inversion
1834
1835	icn=		[HW,ISDN]
1836			Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1837
1838
1839	idle=		[X86]
1840			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
1841			Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1842			improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1843			will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1844			Not recommended.
1845			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
1846			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
1847			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
1848
1849	idxd.sva=	[HW]
1850			Format: <bool>
1851			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
1852			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
1853			true (1).
1854
1855	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
1856			Format: <bool>
1857			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
1858			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
1859
1860	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1861			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1862			Default: strict
1863
1864			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1865			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1866			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1867			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1868			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
1869			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1870			encoding mode.
1871
1872			Available settings are as follows:
1873			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1874				supported by the FPU
1875			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1876				by the FPU
1877			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1878				by the FPU
1879			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
1880				supported by the FPU
1881
1882			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1883			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1884			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1885			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1886			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1887			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1888			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1889			MIPS64 CPUs.
1890
1891			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1892			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1893			except where unsupported by hardware.
1894
1895	ignore_loglevel	[KNL]
1896			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1897			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
1898			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1899			could change it dynamically, usually by
1900			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
1901
1902	ignore_rlimit_data
1903			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1904			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
1905			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1906
1907	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
1908			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1909
1910	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
1911			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
1912			default: "enforce"
1913
1914	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1915			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1916			owned by uid=0.
1917
1918	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1919			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1920			measurements, instead of host native format.
1921
1922	ima_hash=	[IMA]
1923			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1924				   | sha512 | ... }
1925			default: "sha1"
1926
1927			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1928			in crypto/hash_info.h.
1929
1930	ima_policy=	[IMA]
1931			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
1932			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1933				 fail_securely | critical_data"
1934
1935			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1936			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1937			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1938			uid=0.
1939
1940			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
1941			all files owned by root.
1942
1943			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1944			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1945			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
1946
1947			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1948			verification failure also on privileged mounted
1949			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1950			flag.
1951
1952			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
1953			critical data.
1954
1955	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
1956			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1957			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
1958			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1959			opened for read by uid=0.
1960
1961	ima_template=	[IMA]
1962			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
1963			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
1964				   "ima-sigv2" }
1965			Default: "ima-ng"
1966
1967	ima_template_fmt=
1968			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
1969			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1970
1971	ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1972			Format: <min_file_size>
1973			Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1974			If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1975
1976			ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1977			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1978			to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1979
1980	ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1981			Format: <bufsize>
1982			Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1983
1984			ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1985			different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1986			to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1987
1988	init=		[KNL]
1989			Format: <full_path>
1990			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1991			process.
1992
1993	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
1994			for working out where the kernel is dying during
1995			startup.
1996
1997	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1998			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
1999			modules and initcalls.
2000
2001	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2002			Format: <bool>
2003			Default: 1
2004			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2005			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2006			with devices being probed and
2007			initialized. This should normally just work,
2008			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2009			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2010			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2011			late_ initcalls.
2012
2013	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2014
2015	initrdmem=	[KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2016			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2017			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2018			setting.
2019			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2020			Default is 0, 0
2021
2022	init_on_alloc=	[MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2023			zeroes.
2024			Format: 0 | 1
2025			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2026
2027	init_on_free=	[MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2028			Format: 0 | 1
2029			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2030
2031	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2032			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2033			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2034			override in debugfs after boot.
2035
2036	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2037			Format: <irq>
2038
2039	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2040
2041	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2042			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2043			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2044			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2045
2046	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2047		on
2048			Enable intel iommu driver.
2049		off
2050			Disable intel iommu driver.
2051		igfx_off [Default Off]
2052			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2053			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2054			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2055			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2056			DMA.
2057		strict [Default Off]
2058			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2059		sp_off [Default Off]
2060			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2061			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2062			not be supported.
2063		sm_on
2064			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2065			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2066			translation.
2067		sm_off
2068			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2069		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2070			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2071			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2072			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2073			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2074			mapping is enabled.
2075			Note that using this option lowers the security
2076			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2077			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2078
2079	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2080			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2081			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2082
2083	intel_pstate=	[X86]
2084			disable
2085			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2086			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2087			passive
2088			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2089			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2090			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2091			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2092			  feature.
2093			force
2094			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2095			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2096			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2097			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2098			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2099			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2100			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2101			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2102			no_hwp
2103			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2104			  if available.
2105			hwp_only
2106			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2107			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2108			support_acpi_ppc
2109			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2110			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2111			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2112			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2113			per_cpu_perf_limits
2114			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2115			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2116
2117	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
2118			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2119			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2120			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2121			no_x2apic_optout
2122				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2123			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2124
2125	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2126		strict	regions from userspace.
2127		relaxed
2128
2129	iommu=		[X86]
2130		off
2131		force
2132		noforce
2133		biomerge
2134		panic
2135		nopanic
2136		merge
2137		nomerge
2138		soft
2139		pt		[X86]
2140		nopt		[X86]
2141		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2142			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2143
2144	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64, X86] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2145			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2146			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2147			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2148			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2149			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2150			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2151
2152	iommu.strict=	[ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2153			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2154			0 - Lazy mode.
2155			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2156			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2157			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2158			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2159			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2160			1 - Strict mode.
2161			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2162			  synchronously.
2163			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2164			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2165			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2166
2167	iommu.passthrough=
2168			[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2169			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2170			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2171			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2172			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2173
2174	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2175			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2176			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2177
2178	io_delay=	[X86] I/O delay method
2179		0x80
2180			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2181		0xed
2182			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2183		udelay
2184			Simple two microseconds delay
2185		none
2186			No delay
2187
2188	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2189			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2190
2191	ipcmni_extend	[KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2192			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2193
2194	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2195			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2196
2197	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2198			[ARM, ARM64]
2199			Format: <bool>
2200			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2201			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2202			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2203
2204	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2205			[ARM, ARM64]
2206			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2207			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2208			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2209			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2210			LPIs.
2211
2212	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
2213			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2214			requires the kernel to be built with
2215			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2216
2217	irqfixup	[HW]
2218			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2219			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2220			firmware running.
2221
2222	irqpoll		[HW]
2223			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2224			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2225			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2226			firmware running.
2227
2228	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2229			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2230
2231	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2232			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2233			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2234
2235			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2236			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2237
2238			nohz
2239			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
2240
2241			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2242			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2243			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2244			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2245			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2246
2247			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2248			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2249			  be configured manually after bootup.
2250
2251			domain
2252			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2253			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2254			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2255			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2256			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2257			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2258			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2259			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2260
2261			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2262			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2263			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2264			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2265
2266			managed_irq
2267
2268			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2269			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2270			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2271			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2272			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2273
2274			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2275			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2276			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2277			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2278			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2279			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2280			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2281
2282			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2283			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2284			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2285			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2286			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2287			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2288			  queues.
2289
2290			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2291
2292	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2293
2294	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2295			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2296			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2297			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2298
2299			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2300			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2301			write the parameter as:
2302				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2303
2304			Deprecated formats:
2305			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2306			  write the parameter as:
2307				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2308			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2309			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2310				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2311
2312	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2313			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2314			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2315			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2316
2317			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2318			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2319			write the parameter as:
2320				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2321
2322			Deprecated formats:
2323			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2324			  write the parameter as:
2325				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2326			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2327			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2328				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2329
2330	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2331			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2332			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2333			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2334
2335			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2336			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2337			write the parameter as:
2338				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2339
2340			Deprecated formats:
2341			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2342			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2343				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2344			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2345			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2346				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2347
2348	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2349			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2350
2351	kasan_multi_shot
2352			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2353			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2354			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2355			invalid access.
2356
2357	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
2358			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2359			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2360			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2361			the real console.
2362
2363	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM]
2364
2365	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2366			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2367			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2368			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2369			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2370			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2371			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2372			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2373			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2374			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2375
2376			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2377			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2378			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2379			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2380			zone if it does not.
2381
2382			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2383			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2384			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2385			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2386			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2387			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2388			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2389
2390	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2391			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2392			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2393			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2394			optional and is the number seconds in between
2395			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2396			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2397			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2398			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2399			the kernel debugger.
2400
2401	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2402			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2403			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2404			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2405			 keyboard only format: kbd
2406			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2407			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2408			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2409			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2410
2411	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW]
2412			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2413			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2414			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2415			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2416			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2417			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2418
2419			The name of the early console should be specified
2420			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2421			the early console might be different than the tty
2422			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2423			blank and the first boot console that implements
2424			read() will be picked.
2425
2426	kgdbwait	[KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2427			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2428
2429	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
2430			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2431			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2432
2433	kmemleak=	[KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2434			Valid arguments: on, off
2435			Default: on
2436			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2437			the default is off.
2438
2439	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2440			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2441			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2442			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2443			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2444			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2445			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2446
2447			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2448
2449			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2450			Boot Parameter" section.
2451
2452	kpti=		[ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2453			and kernel address spaces.
2454			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2455			0: force disabled
2456			1: force enabled
2457
2458	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
2459			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
2460			default value can be overridden via
2461			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
2462			Default is 1 (enabled)
2463
2464	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2465			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2466
2467	kvm.eager_page_split=
2468			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
2469			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
2470			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
2471			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
2472			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
2473			required to split huge pages lazily.
2474
2475			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
2476			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
2477			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
2478			still be used for reads.
2479
2480			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
2481			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
2482			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
2483			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
2484			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
2485			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
2486			cleared.
2487
2488			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
2489
2490			Default is Y (on).
2491
2492	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2493				   Default is false (don't support).
2494
2495	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
2496			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
2497			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
2498			force	: Always deploy workaround.
2499			off	: Never deploy workaround.
2500			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
2501				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
2502
2503			Default is 'auto'.
2504
2505			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
2506			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
2507
2508	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
2509			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
2510			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
2511			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
2512			period (see below).  The default is 60.
2513
2514	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
2515			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
2516			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
2517			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
2518			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
2519			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
2520
2521	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
2522			Default is 1 (enabled)
2523
2524	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2525			for all guests.
2526			Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
2527
2528	kvm-arm.mode=
2529			[KVM,ARM] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of operation.
2530
2531			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
2532
2533			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
2534			      protected guests.
2535
2536			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
2537				   state is kept private from the host.
2538
2539			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
2540			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
2541			for the host.
2542
2543	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2544			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2545			system registers
2546
2547	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2548			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2549			system registers
2550
2551	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2552			[KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2553			system registers
2554
2555	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2556			[KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2557			LPIs.
2558
2559	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC]
2560			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
2561			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
2562			allocation.
2563			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
2564			Format: <integer>
2565			Default: 5
2566
2567	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2568			(virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2569			Default is 1 (enabled)
2570
2571	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2572			[KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state.
2573			Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as
2574			guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests.
2575			This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM
2576			never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
2577			Default is 1 (enabled)
2578
2579	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2580			[KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2581			Default is 1 (enabled)
2582
2583	kvm-intel.nested=
2584			[KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2585			Default is 0 (disabled)
2586
2587	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2588			[KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2589			(virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2590			Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2591
2592	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2593			CVE-2018-3620.
2594
2595			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2596
2597			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2598			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2599				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2600			never:	Disables the mitigation
2601
2602			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2603
2604	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2605			feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2606			Default is 1 (enabled)
2607
2608	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL]
2609			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
2610
2611			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2612			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2613			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2614
2615			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2616			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2617			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2618			not have direct access.
2619
2620			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
2621			options are:
2622
2623			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
2624
2625	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2626			      affected CPUs
2627
2628			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2629			enabled and cannot be disabled.
2630
2631			full
2632				Provides all available mitigations for the
2633				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2634				enables all mitigations in the
2635				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2636
2637				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2638				sysfs interface is still possible after
2639				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2640				when the first VM is started in a
2641				potentially insecure configuration,
2642				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2643
2644			full,force
2645				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2646				flush runtime control. Implies the
2647				'nosmt=force' command line option.
2648				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2649
2650			flush
2651				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2652				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2653				L1D flush.
2654
2655				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2656				sysfs interface is still possible after
2657				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2658				when the first VM is started in a
2659				potentially insecure configuration,
2660				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2661
2662			flush,nosmt
2663
2664				Disables SMT and enables the default
2665				hypervisor mitigation.
2666
2667				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2668				sysfs interface is still possible after
2669				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
2670				when the first VM is started in a
2671				potentially insecure configuration,
2672				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2673
2674			flush,nowarn
2675				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2676				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2677				insecure configuration.
2678
2679			off
2680				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2681				emit any warnings.
2682				It also drops the swap size and available
2683				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2684				bare metal.
2685
2686			Default is 'flush'.
2687
2688			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
2689
2690	l2cr=		[PPC]
2691
2692	l3cr=		[PPC]
2693
2694	lapic		[X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
2695			disabled it.
2696
2697	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
2698			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2699			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2700			Format: notscdeadline
2701
2702	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
2703			in C2 power state.
2704
2705	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
2706			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2707			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2708			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
2709			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
2710			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2711			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
2712
2713	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2714			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
2715			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
2716
2717	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2718			when set.
2719			Format: <int>
2720
2721	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
2722			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
2723			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
2724			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
2725			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
2726			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
2727			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
2728			to all ports, links and devices.
2729
2730			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2731			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
2732			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2733			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
2734			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2735			host link and device attached to it.
2736
2737			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
2738			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
2739			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2740			The following configurations can be forced.
2741
2742			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2743			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2744
2745			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2746
2747			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2748			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2749			  allowed.
2750
2751			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
2752			  resets.
2753
2754			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
2755			  link recovery.
2756
2757			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
2758			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
2759			  detection.
2760
2761			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2762
2763			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
2764
2765			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
2766
2767			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
2768
2769			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
2770
2771			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
2772
2773			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
2774
2775			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
2776
2777			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
2778			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
2779
2780			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
2781			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
2782
2783			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
2784			  identify device data log.
2785
2786			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
2787			  purpose log directory.
2788
2789			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
2790
2791			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2792			  1024 sectors.
2793
2794			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
2795			  65535 sectors.
2796
2797			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
2798
2799			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
2800			  should be skipped.
2801
2802			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
2803			  support for devices supporting this feature.
2804
2805			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
2806
2807			* disable: Disable this device.
2808
2809			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2810			the same attribute, the last one is used.
2811
2812	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
2813
2814	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
2815			Format: <integer>
2816
2817	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
2818			Format: <integer>
2819
2820	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
2821			Format: <integer>
2822
2823	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
2824			Format: <integer>
2825
2826	lockdown=	[SECURITY]
2827			{ integrity | confidentiality }
2828			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
2829			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
2830			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
2831			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
2832			to extract confidential information from the kernel
2833			are also disabled.
2834
2835	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2836			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2837			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2838			number of online CPUs.
2839
2840	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2841			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2842
2843	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2844			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2845
2846	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2847			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2848			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2849
2850	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2851			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
2852			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2853			mode during the locktorture test.
2854
2855	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2856			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
2857			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2858
2859	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2860			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2861
2862	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2863			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2864			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2865			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2866			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2867			transition abruptly to and from idle.
2868
2869	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2870			Specify the locking implementation to test.
2871
2872	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2873			Enable additional printk() statements.
2874
2875	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2876			Format: <irq>
2877
2878	loglevel=	All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2879			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2880			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2881			loglevels are defined as follows:
2882
2883			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
2884			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
2885			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
2886			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
2887			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
2888			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
2889			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
2890			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
2891
2892	log_buf_len=n[KMG]	Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
2893			in bytes.  n must be a power of two and greater
2894			than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2895			by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2896			also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2897			that allows to increase the default size depending on
2898			the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
2899
2900	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2901			This may be used to provide more screen space for
2902			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2903			kernel boot problems.
2904
2905	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2906	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2907	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2908	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2909				specified in addition to the ports) causes
2910				attached printers to be reset. Using
2911				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2912				to associate lp devices with, starting with
2913				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2914				that lp device, or a parport name such as
2915				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2916				port specification list means that device IDs
2917				from each port should be examined, to see if
2918				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2919				so, the driver will manage that printer.
2920				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2921
2922	lpj=n		[KNL]
2923			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2924			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2925			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2926			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2927			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2928			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2929			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2930			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2931			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2932			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2933			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2934			hardware.
2935
2936	ltpc=		[NET]
2937			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2938
2939	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2940
2941	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2942			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
2943			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
2944
2945	machvec=	[IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
2946			(machvec) in a generic kernel.
2947			Example: machvec=hpzx1
2948
2949	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
2950			different yeeloong laptops.
2951			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2952
2953	max_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory greater
2954			than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
2955
2956	maxcpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
2957			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2958			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2959			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2960			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2961			only takes effect during system bootup.
2962			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2963			which also disables the IO APIC.
2964
2965	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2966	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2967			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2968			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2969			devices can be requested on-demand with the
2970			/dev/loop-control interface.
2971
2972	mce		[X86-32] Machine Check Exception
2973
2974	mce=option	[X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
2975
2976	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
2977			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
2978
2979	mdacon=		[MDA]
2980			Format: <first>,<last>
2981			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
2982
2983	mds=		[X86,INTEL]
2984			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2985			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2986
2987			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2988			internal buffers which can forward information to a
2989			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2990
2991			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2992			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2993			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2994			not have direct access.
2995
2996			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2997			options are:
2998
2999			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3000			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3001				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3002			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3003
3004			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3005			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3006			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3007			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3008			too.
3009
3010			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3011			mds=full.
3012
3013			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3014
3015	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
3016			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3017
3018	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
3019			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
3020
3021			1 for test;
3022			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3023			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3024			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3025			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3026
3027			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3028			high memory is not affected.
3029
3030			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3031			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3032
3033			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3034			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3035			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3036			belonging to unused RAM.
3037
3038			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3039			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3040			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3041
3042	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3043			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
3044			firmware.
3045			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3046			ss[KMG].
3047			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3048			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3049
3050	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3051			memory.
3052
3053	memblock=debug	[KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
3054
3055	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3056			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3057			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3058
3059	memhp_default_state=online/offline
3060			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3061			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3062			set according to the
3063			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
3064			option.
3065			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3066
3067	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
3068			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3069			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3070			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3071			option description.
3072
3073	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3074			[KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3075			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3076			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3077			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3078			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3079			comma delimited.
3080			Example:
3081				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3082
3083	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3084			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3085			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3086
3087	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3088			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3089			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3090			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3091			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3092			         or
3093			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3094			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3095			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3096			will be eaten.
3097
3098	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
3099			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3100			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3101			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3102			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3103
3104	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3105			[KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
3106			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3107			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3108			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3109			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3110			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3111			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3112
3113	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
3114			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3115			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3116			Setting this option will scan the memory
3117			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3118			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3119			from using the memory being corrupted.
3120			However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3121			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3122			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3123			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3124
3125	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
3126			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3127			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3128			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3129			corruption in more or less memory.
3130
3131	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
3132			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3133			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3134			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3135
3136	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3137			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3138			Format: {on | off (default)}
3139			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3140			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3141			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3142			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3143			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3144			lot of memory without requiring additional
3145			memory to do so.
3146			This feature is disabled by default because it
3147			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3148			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3149			memory blocks).
3150			The state of the flag can be read in
3151			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3152			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3153			the feature is not effective.
3154
3155	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
3156			Format: <integer>
3157			default : 0 <disable>
3158			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3159			performed. Each pass selects another test
3160			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3161			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3162			memory contents and reserves bad memory
3163			regions that are detected.
3164
3165	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
3166			Valid arguments: on, off
3167			Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
3168			  on  (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
3169			  off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
3170			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
3171			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
3172
3173			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
3174			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
3175
3176	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
3177			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
3178			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
3179			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
3180			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
3181
3182	meye.*=		[HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
3183			See Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst.
3184
3185	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
3186			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
3187			platforms.
3188
3189	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
3190			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
3191			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
3192			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
3193
3194	mga=		[HW,DRM]
3195
3196	min_addr=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,IA-64] All physical memory below this
3197			physical address is ignored.
3198
3199	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
3200			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
3201			Default: "0tb"
3202			MINI2440 configuration specification:
3203			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
3204			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
3205			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
3206			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
3207			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
3208			unconfigured.
3209			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
3210			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
3211			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
3212			VGA shield.
3213			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
3214			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
3215			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
3216			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
3217			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
3218			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
3219
3220	mitigations=
3221			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
3222			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
3223			arch-independent options, each of which is an
3224			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
3225
3226			off
3227				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
3228				improves system performance, but it may also
3229				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
3230				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
3231					       if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
3232					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
3233					       nobp=0 [S390]
3234					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
3235					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
3236					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
3237					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
3238					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
3239					       l1tf=off [X86]
3240					       mds=off [X86]
3241					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
3242					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
3243					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
3244					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
3245					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
3246					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
3247					       retbleed=off [X86]
3248
3249				Exceptions:
3250					       This does not have any effect on
3251					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
3252					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
3253
3254			auto (default)
3255				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
3256				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
3257				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
3258				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
3259				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
3260				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
3261
3262			auto,nosmt
3263				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
3264				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
3265				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
3266				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
3267					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
3268					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
3269					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
3270					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
3271
3272	mminit_loglevel=
3273			[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
3274			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
3275			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
3276			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
3277			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
3278			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
3279
3280	mmio_stale_data=
3281			[X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the Processor
3282			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
3283
3284			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
3285			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
3286			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
3287			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
3288			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
3289			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
3290
3291			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3292			options are:
3293
3294			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3295
3296			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
3297				     vulnerable CPUs.
3298
3299			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
3300
3301			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
3302			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
3303			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
3304			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
3305			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
3306			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
3307
3308			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3309			mmio_stale_data=full.
3310
3311			For details see:
3312			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
3313
3314	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
3315			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
3316			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
3317			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
3318			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
3319			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
3320
3321	module.async_probe=<bool>
3322			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
3323			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
3324			specific module, use the module specific control that
3325			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
3326			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
3327			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
3328			the specific module.
3329
3330	module.sig_enforce
3331			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
3332			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
3333			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
3334			is always true, so this option does nothing.
3335
3336	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
3337			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
3338
3339	mousedev.tap_time=
3340			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
3341			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
3342			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
3343			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
3344			Format: <msecs>
3345	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
3346			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3347	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
3348			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
3349
3350	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
3351			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
3352			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
3353			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
3354			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
3355			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
3356			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
3357			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
3358			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
3359			is not too small.
3360
3361	movable_node	[KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
3362			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
3363			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
3364			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
3365			allocations. Use with caution!
3366
3367	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
3368			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
3369
3370	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
3371			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
3372
3373	mtdparts=	[MTD]
3374			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
3375
3376	mtdset=		[ARM]
3377			ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
3378
3379			See arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-jive.c
3380
3381	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
3382			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
3383			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
3384
3385	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3386			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
3387			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
3388
3389	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
3390			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
3391			Default is 1.
3392			Large value could prevent small alignment from
3393			using up MTRRs.
3394
3395	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
3396			Format: <integer>
3397			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
3398			Default : 1
3399			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
3400			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
3401
3402	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
3403			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
3404			at a time.
3405
3406	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
3407
3408	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
3409			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
3410			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
3411			something different and driver-specific.
3412			This usage is only documented in each driver source
3413			file if at all.
3414
3415	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
3416			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
3417			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
3418			waits 4 seconds.
3419
3420	nf_conntrack.acct=
3421			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
3422			0 to disable accounting
3423			1 to enable accounting
3424			Default value is 0.
3425
3426	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
3427			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3428
3429	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
3430			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3431
3432	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
3433			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
3434
3435	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
3436			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
3437			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
3438			requests.
3439
3440	nfs.callback_tcpport=
3441			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
3442			channel should listen.
3443
3444	nfs.cache_getent=
3445			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
3446			to update the NFS client cache entries.
3447
3448	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
3449			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
3450			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
3451
3452	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
3453			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
3454			entries.
3455
3456	nfs.enable_ino64=
3457			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
3458			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
3459			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
3460			of returning the full 64-bit number.
3461			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
3462
3463	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
3464			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
3465			slots the client will assign to the callback
3466			channel. This determines the maximum number of
3467			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
3468			a particular server.
3469
3470	nfs.max_session_slots=
3471			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
3472			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
3473			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
3474			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
3475			Note that there is little point in setting this
3476			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
3477
3478	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3479			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
3480			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
3481			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
3482			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
3483			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
3484			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
3485			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
3486			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
3487			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
3488			back to using the idmapper.
3489			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
3490	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
3491			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
3492			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
3493			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
3494			UUID that is generated at system install time.
3495
3496	nfs.send_implementation_id =
3497			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
3498			information in exchange_id requests.
3499			If zero, no implementation identification information
3500			will be sent.
3501			The default is to send the implementation identification
3502			information.
3503
3504	nfs.recover_lost_locks =
3505			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
3506			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
3507			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
3508			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
3509			after the locks are lost.
3510			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
3511			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
3512			parameter to '1'.
3513			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
3514			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
3515
3516	nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
3517			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
3518			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
3519
3520			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
3521			whatever value is the default set by the layout
3522			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
3523			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
3524
3525	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
3526			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
3527			server-to-server copies for which this server is
3528			the destination of the copy.
3529
3530	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
3531			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
3532			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
3533			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
3534			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
3535			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
3536			this parameter.
3537
3538	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
3539			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
3540			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
3541			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
3542			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
3543			migration from NFSv2/v3.
3544
3545
3546	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
3547			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
3548			NMI stack-backtrace request.
3549
3550	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
3551			when a NMI is triggered.
3552			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
3553
3554	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
3555			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
3556			Valid num: 0 or 1
3557			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
3558			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
3559			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
3560			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
3561			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
3562			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
3563			please see 'nowatchdog'.
3564			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
3565			need the box quickly up again.
3566
3567			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
3568			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
3569
3570	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
3571			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
3572			is present.
3573
3574	no5lvl		[X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
3575			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
3576
3577	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
3578
3579	no_console_suspend
3580			[HW] Never suspend the console
3581			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
3582			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
3583			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
3584			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
3585			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
3586			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
3587			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
3588			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
3589			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
3590			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
3591			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
3592			turn on/off it dynamically.
3593
3594	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
3595			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
3596			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
3597			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
3598			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
3599			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
3600			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
3601			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
3602			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
3603			is set.
3604
3605	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
3606			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
3607			but will impact performance.
3608
3609	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
3610
3611	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
3612			(CPU alternatives feature).
3613
3614	noapic		[SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
3615			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
3616
3617	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
3618
3619	nocache		[ARM]
3620
3621	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
3622
3623	noefi		Disable EFI runtime services support.
3624
3625	no_entry_flush  [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
3626
3627	noexec		[IA-64]
3628
3629	nosmap		[PPC]
3630			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
3631			even if it is supported by processor.
3632
3633	nosmep		[PPC64s]
3634			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
3635			even if it is supported by processor.
3636
3637	noexec32	[X86-64]
3638			This affects only 32-bit executables.
3639			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
3640				read doesn't imply executable mappings
3641			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
3642				read implies executable mappings
3643
3644	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
3645
3646	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
3647			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
3648			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
3649
3650	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
3651
3652	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
3653
3654	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3655			Equivalent to smt=1.
3656
3657			[KNL,X86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
3658			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
3659				     via the sysfs control file.
3660
3661	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
3662			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
3663			possible in the system.
3664
3665	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
3666			the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
3667			vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
3668			option.
3669
3670	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
3671			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
3672			with this option.
3673
3674	nospec_store_bypass_disable
3675			[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
3676
3677	no_uaccess_flush
3678	                [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
3679
3680	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
3681			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
3682			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
3683
3684	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
3685			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
3686			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
3687			performance of saving the states is degraded because
3688			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
3689			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
3690
3691	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
3692			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
3693			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
3694			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
3695			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3696			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3697			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3698
3699	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,SH] Forces the kernel to busy wait
3700			in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
3701			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
3702			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
3703			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
3704			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
3705			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
3706			useful when using JTAG debugger.
3707
3708	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
3709			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3710			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3711
3712	nohalt		[IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3713			function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3714			power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3715			interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3716			in certain environments such as networked servers or
3717			real-time systems.
3718
3719	no_hash_pointers
3720			Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be
3721			unhashed.  By default, when a pointer is printed via %p
3722			format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured
3723			by hashing the pointer value.  This is a security feature
3724			that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged
3725			users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more
3726			difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be
3727			compared.  However, if this command-line option is
3728			specified, then all normal pointers will have their true
3729			value printed. This option should only be specified when
3730			debugging the kernel.  Please do not use on production
3731			kernels.
3732
3733	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3734
3735	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3736			Valid arguments: on, off
3737			Default: on
3738
3739	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
3740			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
3741			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
3742			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
3743			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
3744			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
3745			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3746			just as if they had also been called out in the
3747			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
3748
3749			Note that this argument takes precedence over
3750			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
3751
3752	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3753
3754	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
3755			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3756
3757	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
3758			broken timer IRQ sources.
3759
3760	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3761
3762	noinitrd	[RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3763			initial RAM disk.
3764
3765	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3766			remapping.
3767			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
3768
3769	nointroute	[IA-64]
3770
3771	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3772
3773	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
3774
3775	nokaslr		[KNL]
3776			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
3777			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
3778			Layout Randomization).
3779
3780	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3781
3782	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3783			fault handling.
3784
3785	no-vmw-sched-clock
3786			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3787			clock and use the default one.
3788
3789	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES] Disable paravirtualized
3790			steal time accounting. steal time is computed, but
3791			won't influence scheduler behaviour
3792
3793	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
3794
3795	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
3796
3797	nomca		[IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3798
3799	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
3800
3801	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3802			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3803
3804	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3805			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3806			irq.
3807
3808	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
3809			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
3810			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
3811			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
3812			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
3813			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
3814			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
3815
3816			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
3817
3818	nomodule	Disable module load
3819
3820	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3821			pagetables) support.
3822
3823	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3824
3825	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
3826			in some Intel CPUs.
3827
3828	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
3829			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
3830			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
3831			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
3832
3833	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM]
3834			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
3835			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
3836			contention.
3837
3838	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
3839			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3840
3841	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
3842			with UP alternatives
3843
3844	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3845			space.
3846
3847	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
3848			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3849			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3850
3851	nosbagart	[IA-64]
3852
3853	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
3854
3855	nosmp		[SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3856			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
3857
3858	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3859
3860	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3861
3862	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
3863			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
3864
3865	nowb		[ARM]
3866
3867	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3868
3869			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
3870			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
3871			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
3872
3873	nps_mtm_hs_ctr=	[KNL,ARC]
3874			This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3875			cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3876			without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3877			The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3878			parameter's value.
3879			Format: integer between 1 and 255
3880			Default: 255
3881
3882	nptcg=		[IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
3883			purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3884			SAL PALO.
3885
3886	nr_cpus=	[SMP] Maximum number of processors that	an SMP kernel
3887			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
3888			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3889			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3890			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3891			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3892			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3893			hot plugging.
3894
3895	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3896
3897	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86] Disable NUMA, Only
3898			set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
3899
3900	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
3901			NUMA balancing.
3902			Allowed values are enable and disable
3903
3904	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
3905			'node', 'default' can be specified
3906			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
3907			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
3908
3909	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3910			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
3911			info.
3912
3913	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3914			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3915			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3916			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
3917			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3918			interrupts *may* be lost!
3919
3920	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3921			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3922			For example, to override I2C bus2:
3923			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3924
3925	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
3926
3927			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
3928
3929			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
3930				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
3931			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
3932				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
3933				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
3934
3935	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3936			process, but there is a small probability of
3937			deadlocking the machine.
3938			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3939			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3940
3941	page_alloc.shuffle=
3942			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3943			should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3944			be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3945			running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3946			cache, and this parameter can be used to
3947			override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3948			can be read from sysfs at:
3949			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3950
3951	page_owner=	[KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3952			Storage of the information about who allocated
3953			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3954			we can turn it on.
3955			on: enable the feature
3956
3957	page_poison=	[KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
3958			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3959			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3960			off: turn off poisoning (default)
3961			on: turn on poisoning
3962
3963	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
3964			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
3965			Format: <integer>
3966			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
3967			reporting is disabled when it exceeds (MAX_ORDER-1).
3968
3969	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
3970			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3971			timeout = 0: wait forever
3972			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
3973			Format: <timeout>
3974
3975	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3976			User can chose combination of the following bits:
3977			bit 0: print all tasks info
3978			bit 1: print system memory info
3979			bit 2: print timer info
3980			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3981			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
3982			bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
3983			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
3984			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
3985			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
3986			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
3987			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
3988
3989	panic_on_taint=	Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
3990			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
3991			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
3992			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
3993			called with any of the flags in this set.
3994			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
3995			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
3996			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
3997			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
3998			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
3999			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4000			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4001
4002	panic_on_warn	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4003			on a WARN().
4004
4005	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4006			connected to, default is 0.
4007			Format: <parport#>
4008	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4009			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4010			Format: <mode>
4011
4012	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4013			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4014			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4015			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4016			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4017			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4018			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4019			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4020			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4021			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4022			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4023			are specified on the command line, starting
4024			with parport0.
4025
4026	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4027			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4028			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4029			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4030			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4031			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4032			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4033
4034	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4035			Format: <int>
4036			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4037			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4038			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4039
4040	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4041			Format: <int>
4042			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4043			changes.  Disabled by default.
4044
4045	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4046			Format: <int>
4047			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4048			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4049			Disabled by default.
4050
4051	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4052			Format: <int>
4053			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4054			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4055			Disabled by default.
4056
4057	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4058			Format: <int>
4059			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4060			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4061			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4062			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4063			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4064			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4065			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4066			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4067			all channels.
4068
4069	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4070			Format: <int>
4071			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4072			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4073			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4074
4075	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4076			Format: <int>
4077			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4078			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4079			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4080
4081	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4082			Format: <int>
4083			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4084			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4085			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4086			All modes allowed by default.
4087
4088	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4089			Format: <int>
4090			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4091			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4092
4093	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4094			Format: <int>
4095			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
4096			platform configuration and the use of other driver
4097			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
4098			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
4099			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
4100			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
4101			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
4102			By default all supported ports are probed.
4103
4104	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
4105			Format: <int>
4106			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
4107			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
4108
4109	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
4110			Format: <int>
4111			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
4112			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
4113			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
4114			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
4115			0 otherwise.
4116
4117	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4118			Format: <int>
4119			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
4120			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
4121			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
4122			allowed by default.
4123
4124	pause_on_oops=
4125			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
4126			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
4127			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
4128
4129	pcbit=		[HW,ISDN]
4130
4131	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
4132
4133				Some options herein operate on a specific device
4134				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
4135				specified in one of the following formats:
4136
4137				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
4138				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
4139
4140				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
4141				bus/device/function address which may change
4142				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
4143				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
4144				by other kernel parameters. If the
4145				domain is left unspecified, it is
4146				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
4147				to a device through multiple device/function
4148				addresses can be specified after the base
4149				address (this is more robust against
4150				renumbering issues).  The second format
4151				selects devices using IDs from the
4152				configuration space which may match multiple
4153				devices in the system.
4154
4155		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
4156				changes anything
4157		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
4158		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
4159				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
4160				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
4161		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
4162				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
4163				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
4164				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
4165		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4166				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
4167				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
4168		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
4169				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
4170				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
4171				bus number. The config space is then accessed
4172				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
4173				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
4174				on the configuration access mechanisms.
4175		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
4176				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4177				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
4178		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
4179				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
4180		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
4181				Configuration
4182		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
4183				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
4184				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
4185		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
4186				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
4187				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
4188		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
4189				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
4190				should never be necessary.
4191		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
4192				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
4193				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
4194				when the system masks IRQs.
4195		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
4196				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
4197				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
4198				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
4199		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
4200				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
4201				on several machines and they hang the machine
4202				when used, but on other computers it's the only
4203				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
4204				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
4205				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
4206				motherboard.
4207		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
4208				Use with caution as certain devices share
4209				address decoders between ROMs and other
4210				resources.
4211		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
4212				expansion ROMs that do not already have
4213				BIOS assigned address ranges.
4214		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
4215				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
4216		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
4217				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
4218				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
4219				this way.
4220		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
4221				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
4222				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
4223				F0000h-100000h range.
4224		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
4225				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
4226				secondary buses and you want to tell it
4227				explicitly which ones they are.
4228		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
4229				numbers ourselves, overriding
4230				whatever the firmware may have done.
4231		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
4232				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
4233				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
4234				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
4235				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
4236				IRQ routing is enabled.
4237		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
4238				or for PCI scanning.
4239		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
4240				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
4241				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
4242				please report a bug.
4243		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
4244				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
4245		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
4246				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
4247				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
4248				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
4249				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4250		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
4251				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
4252				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
4253				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
4254		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
4255				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
4256				so this option is a temporary workaround
4257				for broken drivers that don't call it.
4258		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
4259				handle more pci cards
4260		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
4261				This might help on some broken boards which
4262				machine check when some devices' config space
4263				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
4264				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
4265		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4266				This sorting is done to get a device
4267				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
4268		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
4269		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
4270				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
4271		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
4272				supported by all devices below the root complex.
4273		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
4274				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
4275				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
4276				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
4277				or bus can support) for best performance.
4278		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
4279				every device is guaranteed to support. This
4280				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
4281				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
4282				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
4283				that hot-added devices will work.
4284		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4285				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
4286				The default value is 256 bytes.
4287		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4288				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
4289				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
4290		resource_alignment=
4291				Format:
4292				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
4293				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
4294				aligned memory resources. How to
4295				specify the device is described above.
4296				If <order of align> is not specified,
4297				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
4298				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
4299				windows need to be expanded.
4300				To specify the alignment for several
4301				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
4302				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
4303				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
4304				for 4096-byte alignment.
4305		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
4306				end-to-end CRC checking).
4307				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
4308				the default.
4309				off: Turn ECRC off
4310				on: Turn ECRC on.
4311		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4312				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
4313				Default size is 256 bytes.
4314		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4315				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
4316				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4317		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4318				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
4319				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4320		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
4321				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
4322				MMIO_PREF window.
4323				Default size is 2 megabytes.
4324		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
4325				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
4326				Default is 1.
4327		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
4328				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
4329				accommodate resources required by all child
4330				devices.
4331				off: Turn realloc off
4332				on: Turn realloc on
4333		realloc		same as realloc=on
4334		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
4335		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
4336				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
4337		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
4338				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
4339				port.
4340		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
4341				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
4342				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
4343				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
4344				conflict with unreported devices), so this
4345				taints the kernel.
4346		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
4347				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
4348				specified above) separated by semicolons.
4349				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
4350				redirect capabilities forced off which will
4351				allow P2P traffic between devices through
4352				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
4353				this removes isolation between devices and
4354				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
4355		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
4356		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
4357		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
4358				one PCI domain per PCI function
4359
4360	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
4361			Management.
4362		off	Disable ASPM.
4363		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
4364			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
4365
4366	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
4367		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
4368			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
4369			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
4370			also tries to use these services.
4371		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
4372				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
4373		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
4374			hotplug).
4375
4376	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
4377		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
4378		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
4379
4380	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
4381		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
4382			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
4383
4384	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
4385
4386	pd_ignore_unused
4387			[PM]
4388			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
4389			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
4390			for debug and development, but should not be
4391			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
4392
4393	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
4394			boot time.
4395			Format: { 0 | 1 }
4396			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
4397
4398	percpu_alloc=	Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
4399			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
4400			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
4401			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
4402			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
4403			and performance comparison.
4404
4405	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
4406			See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
4407
4408	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
4409			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
4410			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
4411
4412	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
4413			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
4414			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
4415
4416	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
4417			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
4418			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
4419			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
4420			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
4421			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
4422			remains 0.
4423
4424	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
4425			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
4426
4427	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
4428			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
4429			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
4430			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
4431			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
4432			possible settings and some assignment information.
4433
4434	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
4435			{ off }
4436
4437	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
4438			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
4439
4440	pnp_reserve_irq=
4441			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
4442
4443	pnp_reserve_dma=
4444			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
4445
4446	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
4447			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
4448
4449	pnp_reserve_mem=
4450			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
4451			autoconfiguration.
4452			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
4453
4454	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
4455			Default is 21.
4456			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
4457			may be specified.
4458			Format: <port>,<port>....
4459
4460	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
4461			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
4462			platform machine description specific power_save
4463			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
4464			execution priority.
4465
4466	ppc_strict_facility_enable
4467			[PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
4468			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
4469			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
4470			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
4471
4472	ppc_tm=		[PPC]
4473			Format: {"off"}
4474			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
4475
4476	preempt=	[KNL]
4477			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
4478			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
4479			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
4480			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
4481			       can be preempted anytime.
4482
4483	print-fatal-signals=
4484			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
4485
4486			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
4487			related application anomalies: too many signals,
4488			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
4489			coredump - etc.
4490
4491			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
4492			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
4493
4494			default: off.
4495
4496	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
4497			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
4498			panics
4499			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4500			default: disabled
4501
4502	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
4503			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
4504			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
4505			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
4506			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
4507			in order to provide more debug information.
4508			Format: <bool>
4509			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
4510
4511	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
4512			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
4513			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
4514			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
4515			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
4516			Default: ratelimit
4517
4518	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
4519			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4520
4521	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
4522			Limit processor to maximum C-state
4523			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
4524
4525	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
4526			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
4527			instead using the legacy FADT method
4528
4529	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
4530			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
4531			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
4532				[defaults to kernel profiling]
4533			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
4534			Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
4535				Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
4536			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
4537			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
4538				statistical time based profiling.
4539
4540	prompt_ramdisk=	[RAM] [Deprecated]
4541
4542	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
4543			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
4544			that).
4545			Format: <bool>
4546
4547	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
4548			tracking.
4549			Format: <bool>
4550
4551	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
4552			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
4553	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
4554			per second.
4555	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
4556			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
4557			(0 = never).
4558	psmouse.resolution=
4559			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
4560	psmouse.smartscroll=
4561			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
4562			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
4563
4564	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
4565
4566	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
4567			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
4568			removes hardening, but improves performance of
4569			system calls and interrupts.
4570
4571			on   - unconditionally enable
4572			off  - unconditionally disable
4573			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4574			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
4575
4576			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
4577
4578	nopti		[X86-64]
4579			Equivalent to pti=off
4580
4581	pty.legacy_count=
4582			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
4583			default number.
4584
4585	quiet		[KNL] Disable most log messages
4586
4587	r128=		[HW,DRM]
4588
4589	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
4590			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
4591			invalidate.
4592
4593	raid=		[HW,RAID]
4594			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
4595
4596	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
4597			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
4598
4599	ramdisk_start=	[RAM] RAM disk image start address
4600
4601	random.trust_cpu=off
4602			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
4603			random number generator (if available) to
4604			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4605
4606	random.trust_bootloader=off
4607			[KNL] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
4608			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
4609			initialize the kernel's RNG.
4610
4611	randomize_kstack_offset=
4612			[KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
4613			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
4614			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
4615			that depend on stack address determinism or
4616			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
4617			available on architectures that have defined
4618			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
4619			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
4620			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
4621
4622	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
4623
4624		cec_disable	[X86]
4625				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
4626				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
4627
4628	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
4629			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
4630			as described above.
4631
4632			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
4633			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
4634			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
4635			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
4636			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
4637			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
4638			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
4639			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
4640			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
4641			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
4642			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
4643			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
4644
4645			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
4646			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
4647
4648			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
4649			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
4650			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
4651			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
4652
4653			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4654			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4655
4656	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
4657			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
4658			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
4659			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
4660			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
4661			This improves the real-time response for the
4662			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
4663			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
4664			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
4665			periodically wake up to do the polling.
4666
4667	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
4668			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
4669			process in one batch.
4670
4671	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
4672			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
4673			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
4674			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
4675
4676	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
4677			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4678			RCU grace-period cleanup.
4679
4680	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
4681			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4682			RCU grace-period initialization.
4683
4684	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
4685			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
4686			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
4687			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
4688			the rcu_node combining tree.
4689
4690	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
4691			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
4692			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
4693			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
4694			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
4695
4696			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
4697			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
4698			to zero.
4699
4700	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
4701			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
4702			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
4703			possibly be useful for architectures having high
4704			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
4705
4706	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
4707			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
4708			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
4709			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
4710			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
4711			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
4712			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
4713
4714	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
4715			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
4716			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
4717			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
4718			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
4719			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
4720			condition.
4721
4722	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
4723			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
4724			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
4725			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
4726
4727	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
4728			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
4729			first attempt to force quiescent states.
4730			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
4731			and maximum value is HZ.
4732
4733	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
4734			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
4735			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
4736			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
4737
4738	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
4739			Set required age in jiffies for a
4740			given grace period before RCU starts
4741			soliciting quiescent-state help from
4742			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
4743			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
4744			a value based on the most recent settings
4745			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
4746			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
4747			This calculated value may be viewed in
4748			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
4749			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
4750			overwritten.
4751
4752	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
4753			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
4754			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
4755			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
4756			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
4757			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
4758			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
4759			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
4760			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
4761			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
4762			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
4763			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
4764
4765	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
4766			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
4767			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
4768			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
4769			The result will be bounded below by the value of
4770			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
4771			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
4772			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
4773
4774			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
4775			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
4776			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
4777			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
4778			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
4779
4780	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
4781			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
4782			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
4783			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
4784			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
4785			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
4786			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
4787			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
4788			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
4789			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
4790			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
4791			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
4792
4793	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
4794			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
4795			each group, which defaults to the square root
4796			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
4797			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
4798			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
4799			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
4800
4801	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
4802			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4803			batch limiting is disabled.
4804
4805	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
4806			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
4807			batch limiting is re-enabled.
4808
4809	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
4810			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
4811			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
4812			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
4813			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
4814			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
4815			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
4816			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
4817
4818	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
4819			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
4820			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
4821			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
4822			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
4823			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
4824
4825	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
4826			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
4827			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
4828			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
4829			Larger delays increase the probability of
4830			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
4831			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
4832			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
4833
4834	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
4835			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
4836			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
4837			why a new grace period has not yet started.
4838
4839	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
4840			Measure performance of asynchronous
4841			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
4842
4843	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
4844			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
4845			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
4846			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
4847			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
4848			previously posted callbacks to drain.
4849
4850	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
4851			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
4852			grace-period primitives.
4853
4854	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
4855			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
4856			this parameter is to delay the start of the
4857			test until boot completes in order to avoid
4858			interference.
4859
4860	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
4861			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
4862
4863	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
4864			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4865			If this parameter has the same value as
4866			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
4867			and double-argument variants are tested.
4868
4869	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
4870			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
4871			If this parameter has the same value as
4872			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
4873			and double-argument variants are tested.
4874
4875	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
4876			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
4877
4878	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
4879			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
4880
4881	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
4882			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
4883			of allocations and frees.
4884
4885	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
4886			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4887			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4888			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
4889			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
4890			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
4891			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
4892			a single reader.
4893
4894	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
4895			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
4896			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
4897			N, where N is the number of CPUs
4898
4899	rcuscale.perf_type= [KNL]
4900			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4901
4902	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
4903			Shut the system down after performance tests
4904			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
4905			testing.
4906
4907	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
4908			Enable additional printk() statements.
4909
4910	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
4911			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
4912			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
4913			no holdoff.
4914
4915	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
4916			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
4917			in microseconds.
4918
4919	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
4920			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
4921			in microseconds.
4922
4923	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
4924			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
4925			in seconds.
4926
4927	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
4928			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
4929			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
4930			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
4931			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
4932			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
4933			of CPUs to be used.
4934
4935	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
4936			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
4937			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
4938
4939	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
4940			Number of seconds to wait between successive
4941			forward-progress tests.
4942
4943	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
4944			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
4945			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
4946			testing.
4947
4948	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
4949			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
4950			primitives, if available.
4951
4952	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
4953			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4954
4955	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
4956			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
4957			update-side primitives, if available.
4958
4959	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
4960			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
4961			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
4962			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
4963			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
4964			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
4965			they are all non-zero.
4966
4967	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
4968			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
4969			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
4970			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
4971
4972	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
4973			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
4974			This can of course result in splats, and is
4975			intended to test the ability of things like
4976			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
4977			such leaks.
4978
4979	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
4980			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
4981
4982	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
4983			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
4984			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
4985			test, hence the "fake".
4986
4987	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
4988			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
4989			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
4990
4991	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
4992			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
4993			callback-offload toggling attempts.
4994
4995	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
4996			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
4997			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
4998			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
4999			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5000			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5001
5002	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
5003			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
5004
5005	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5006			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
5007
5008	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5009			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
5010			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
5011
5012	rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL]
5013			Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used
5014			to test the interaction of RCU updaters and
5015			task-exit processing.
5016
5017	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
5018			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
5019			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
5020			is spawned.
5021
5022	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
5023			The delay, in seconds, between successive
5024			read-then-exit testing episodes.
5025
5026	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
5027			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
5028			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
5029			during the rcutorture test.
5030
5031	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5032			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
5033			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
5034
5035	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
5036			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
5037			warnings, zero to disable.
5038
5039	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
5040			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
5041			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition
5042			to any other stall-related activity.
5043
5044	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
5045			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
5046
5047	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
5048			Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
5049
5050	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
5051			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
5052			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
5053			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
5054			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
5055			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
5056
5057	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5058			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
5059
5060	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
5061			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
5062			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
5063			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
5064			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
5065
5066	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
5067			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
5068			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
5069			under test support RCU priority boosting.
5070
5071	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
5072			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
5073
5074	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
5075			Interval (s) between each boost test.
5076
5077	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
5078			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
5079			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
5080
5081	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
5082			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5083
5084	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
5085			Enable additional printk() statements.
5086
5087	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
5088			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
5089			stall warning.
5090
5091	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
5092			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5093
5094	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
5095			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
5096			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
5097			during early boot, that is, during the time
5098			before the init task is spawned.
5099
5100	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5101			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
5102			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
5103			value is 300 seconds.
5104
5105	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5106			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
5107			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
5108			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
5109			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
5110			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
5111			Setting this to zero causes the value from
5112			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
5113			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
5114
5115	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
5116			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
5117			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
5118			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
5119			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
5120
5121	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
5122			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
5123			current expedited RCU grace period during an
5124			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
5125
5126	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
5127			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
5128			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
5129			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
5130			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
5131			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
5132			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5133
5134	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
5135			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
5136			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
5137			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
5138			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
5139			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
5140			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
5141			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
5142			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5143
5144	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
5145			Once boot has completed (that is, after
5146			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
5147			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
5148			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
5149
5150			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
5151			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
5152			it to the value one, that is, converting any
5153			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
5154			period to instead use normal non-expedited
5155			grace-period processing.
5156
5157	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
5158			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
5159			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
5160			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
5161			a single callback queue.  This switching only
5162			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
5163			set to the default value of -1.
5164
5165	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
5166			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
5167			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
5168			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
5169			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
5170			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
5171			the default value of -1.
5172
5173	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
5174			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
5175			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
5176			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
5177			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
5178			for use in testing.
5179
5180	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]
5181			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will
5182			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning
5183			of a given grace period.  Setting a large
5184			number avoids disturbing real-time workloads,
5185			but lengthens grace periods.
5186
5187	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
5188			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5189			informational messages, which give some indication
5190			of the problem for those not patient enough to
5191			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
5192			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
5193			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
5194			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
5195			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
5196			until the beginning of the next grace period.
5197
5198	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
5199			Multiplier for time interval between successive
5200			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
5201			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
5202			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
5203			the value three, so that the first informational
5204			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
5205			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
5206			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
5207			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
5208
5209	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
5210			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
5211			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
5212			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
5213			A change in value does not take effect until
5214			the beginning of the next grace period.
5215
5216	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
5217			Run the RCU early boot self tests
5218
5219	rdinit=		[KNL]
5220			Format: <full_path>
5221			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
5222			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
5223
5224	rdrand=		[X86]
5225			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
5226				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
5227				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
5228				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
5229				path).
5230
5231	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
5232			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
5233			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
5234			mba, smba, bmec.
5235			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
5236				rdt=cmt,!mba
5237
5238	reboot=		[KNL]
5239			Format (x86 or x86_64):
5240				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
5241				[[,]s[mp]#### \
5242				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
5243				[[,]f[orce]
5244			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
5245					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
5246					reboot only),
5247			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
5248			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
5249			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
5250					to be used for rebooting.
5251
5252	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5253			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5254			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5255			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5256			interference.
5257
5258	refscale.loops= [KNL]
5259			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
5260			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
5261			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
5262			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
5263			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
5264			x86 laptops.
5265
5266	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5267			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
5268			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
5269			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
5270
5271	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
5272			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
5273			the console log.
5274
5275	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
5276			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
5277			measured in microseconds.
5278
5279	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5280			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
5281
5282	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5283			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
5284			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
5285			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
5286			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
5287
5288	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
5289			Enable additional printk() statements.
5290
5291	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
5292			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
5293			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
5294			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
5295			specified.
5296
5297	relax_domain_level=
5298			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
5299			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
5300
5301	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
5302			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
5303			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
5304			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
5305			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
5306
5307	reservetop=	[X86-32]
5308			Format: nn[KMG]
5309			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
5310			address space.
5311
5312	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
5313			during initialization.
5314
5315	resume=		[SWSUSP]
5316			Specify the partition device for software suspend
5317			Format:
5318			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
5319
5320	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
5321			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
5322			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
5323			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
5324			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
5325
5326	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5327			read the resume files
5328
5329	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
5330			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5331			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5332
5333	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
5334
5335	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
5336			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
5337			vulnerability.
5338
5339			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
5340			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
5341			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
5342			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
5343			that don't.
5344
5345			off          - no mitigation
5346			auto         - automatically select a migitation
5347			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
5348				       disabling SMT if necessary for
5349				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
5350				       and older without STIBP).
5351			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
5352				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
5353				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
5354				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
5355				       on Intel.
5356			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
5357				       when STIBP is not available. This is
5358				       the alternative for systems which do not
5359				       have STIBP.
5360			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
5361				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
5362				       systems.
5363			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
5364				       is not available. This is the alternative for
5365				       systems which do not have STIBP.
5366
5367			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
5368			time according to the CPU.
5369
5370			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
5371
5372	rfkill.default_state=
5373		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
5374			etc. communication is blocked by default.
5375		1	Unblocked.
5376
5377	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
5378		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
5379		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5380			blocked and the previous configuration.
5381		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
5382			blocked and everything unblocked.
5383
5384	rhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
5385			Set number of hash buckets for route cache
5386
5387	ring3mwait=disable
5388			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
5389			CPUs.
5390
5391	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
5392
5393	rodata=		[KNL]
5394		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
5395		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
5396		full	Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
5397		        [arm64]
5398
5399	rockchip.usb_uart
5400			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
5401			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
5402			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
5403			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
5404
5405	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
5406			See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
5407
5408	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
5409			mount the root filesystem
5410
5411	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
5412
5413	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
5414
5415	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
5416			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
5417			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
5418
5419	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
5420			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
5421			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
5422			managed by CMA.
5423
5424	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
5425
5426	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
5427
5428	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
5429			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
5430		strict
5431			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
5432			an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
5433			which is faster.
5434
5435	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
5436			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
5437			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
5438			factor of the size of main memory.
5439			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
5440			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
5441			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
5442			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
5443			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
5444			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
5445			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
5446
5447	sa1100ir	[NET]
5448			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
5449
5450	sched_verbose	[KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
5451
5452	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
5453			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
5454			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
5455			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
5456
5457	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
5458			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
5459			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
5460			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
5461			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
5462			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
5463			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
5464			value.
5465			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
5466			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
5467				1			64 ms
5468				2			128 ms
5469			and so on.
5470			Format: integer between 0 and 10
5471			Default is 0.
5472
5473	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
5474			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
5475			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
5476			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
5477			tests.
5478
5479	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
5480			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
5481			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
5482			default) disables this feature.  Please note
5483			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
5484			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
5485			softlockup complaints, and so on.
5486
5487	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
5488			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
5489			smp_call_function() family of functions.
5490			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
5491			equal to the number of CPUs.
5492
5493	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
5494			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
5495			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
5496
5497	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
5498			Number seconds to wait between successive
5499			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
5500			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
5501
5502	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
5503			The number of seconds following the start of the
5504			test after which to shut down the system.  The
5505			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
5506			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
5507
5508	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
5509			The number of seconds between outputting the
5510			current test statistics to the console.  A value
5511			of zero disables statistics output.
5512
5513	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
5514			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
5515			to the set of CPUs under test.
5516
5517	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
5518			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
5519			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
5520			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
5521			functions.
5522
5523	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
5524			Enable additional printk() statements.
5525
5526	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
5527			The probability weighting to use for the
5528			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
5529			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
5530			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
5531			if at least one weight has some other value, a
5532			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
5533
5534	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
5535			The probability weighting to use for the
5536			smp_call_function_single() function with a
5537			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5538
5539	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
5540			The probability weighting to use for the
5541			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
5542			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
5543			Note well that setting a high probability for
5544			this weighting can place serious IPI load
5545			on the system.
5546
5547	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
5548			The probability weighting to use for the
5549			smp_call_function_many() function with a
5550			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5551			and weight_many.
5552
5553	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
5554			The probability weighting to use for the
5555			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
5556			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
5557			weight_many.
5558
5559	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
5560			The probability weighting to use for the
5561			smp_call_function_all() function with a
5562			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
5563			and weight_many.
5564
5565	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
5566			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
5567			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
5568			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5569			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
5570			1 -- enable.
5571			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
5572			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
5573
5574	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
5575			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
5576			"lsm=" parameter.
5577
5578	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
5579			Format: { "0" | "1" }
5580			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
5581			0 -- disable.
5582			1 -- enable.
5583			Default value is 1.
5584
5585	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
5586
5587	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
5588
5589	shapers=	[NET]
5590			Maximal number of shapers.
5591
5592	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
5593			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
5594			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
5595			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
5596			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
5597			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
5598			apic=verbose is specified.
5599			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
5600
5601	simeth=		[IA-64]
5602	simscsi=
5603
5604	slram=		[HW,MTD]
5605
5606	slab_merge	[MM]
5607			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
5608			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
5609
5610	slab_nomerge	[MM]
5611			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
5612			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
5613			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
5614			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
5615			layout control by attackers can usually be
5616			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
5617			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
5618			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
5619			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
5620			own.
5621			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5622
5623	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
5624			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5625			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5626			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
5627			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
5628
5629	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
5630			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
5631			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
5632			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
5633			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
5634			last alloc / free. For more information see
5635			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5636
5637	slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
5638			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
5639			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
5640			fragmentation. For more information see
5641			Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5642
5643	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
5644			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
5645			increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
5646			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
5647			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
5648			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
5649			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
5650			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5651
5652	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
5653			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
5654			lower than slub_max_order.
5655			For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst.
5656
5657	slub_merge	[MM, SLUB]
5658			Same with slab_merge.
5659
5660	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
5661			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
5662			See slab_nomerge for more information.
5663
5664	smart2=		[HW]
5665			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
5666
5667	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
5668			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
5669			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
5670			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
5671			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
5672			disabling interrupts for extended periods
5673			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
5674			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
5675			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
5676			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
5677
5678	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
5679	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
5680	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
5681	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
5682	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
5683	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
5684	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
5685				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
5686				1: Fast pin select (default)
5687				2: ATC IRMode
5688
5689	smt=		[KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
5690			CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
5691			symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
5692			actual hardware limit.
5693			Format: <integer>
5694			Default: -1 (no limit)
5695
5696	softlockup_panic=
5697			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
5698			Format: 0 | 1
5699
5700			A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector
5701			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
5702			also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
5703			and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
5704			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
5705
5706	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
5707			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
5708			backtraces on all cpus.
5709			Format: 0 | 1
5710
5711	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
5712			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
5713
5714	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5715			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
5716			The default operation protects the kernel from
5717			user space attacks.
5718
5719			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
5720			       spectre_v2_user=on
5721			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
5722			       spectre_v2_user=off
5723			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5724			       vulnerable
5725
5726			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
5727			mitigation method at run time according to the
5728			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
5729			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
5730			compiler with which the kernel was built.
5731
5732			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
5733			against user space to user space task attacks.
5734
5735			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
5736			the user space protections.
5737
5738			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
5739
5740			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
5741			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
5742			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
5743			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
5744			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
5745			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
5746			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
5747			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
5748
5749			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5750			spectre_v2=auto.
5751
5752	spectre_v2_user=
5753			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
5754		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
5755		        user space tasks
5756
5757			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
5758				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
5759
5760			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
5761				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
5762
5763			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
5764				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
5765				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
5766				  is inherited on fork.
5767
5768			prctl,ibpb
5769				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
5770				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5771				  always when switching between different user
5772				  space processes.
5773
5774			seccomp
5775				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
5776				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
5777				  they explicitly opt out.
5778
5779			seccomp,ibpb
5780				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
5781				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
5782				  always when switching between different
5783				  user space processes.
5784
5785			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
5786				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
5787
5788			Default mitigation: "prctl"
5789
5790			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5791			spectre_v2_user=auto.
5792
5793	spec_store_bypass_disable=
5794			[HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
5795			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
5796
5797			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
5798			a common industry wide performance optimization known
5799			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
5800			to the same memory location may not be observed by
5801			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
5802			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
5803			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
5804			end of a particular speculation execution window.
5805
5806			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
5807			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
5808			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
5809			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
5810
5811			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
5812			Bypass optimization is used.
5813
5814			On x86 the options are:
5815
5816			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
5817			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
5818			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
5819				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
5820				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
5821				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
5822				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
5823				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
5824			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
5825				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
5826				  for a process by default. The state of the control
5827				  is inherited on fork.
5828			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
5829				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
5830
5831			Default mitigations:
5832			X86:	"prctl"
5833
5834			On powerpc the options are:
5835
5836			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
5837				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
5838				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
5839				  exit.
5840			off	- No action.
5841
5842			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
5843			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
5844
5845	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
5846	spia_fio_base=
5847	spia_pedr=
5848	spia_peddr=
5849
5850	split_lock_detect=
5851			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
5852
5853			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
5854			instructions that access data across cache line
5855			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
5856			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
5857			bus lock detection.
5858
5859			off	- not enabled
5860
5861			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
5862				  about applications triggering the #AC
5863				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
5864				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
5865				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
5866				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
5867				  enabled in hardware.
5868
5869			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
5870				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
5871				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
5872				  both features are enabled in hardware.
5873
5874			ratelimit:N -
5875				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
5876				  per second for bus lock detection.
5877				  0 < N <= 1000.
5878
5879				  N/A for split lock detection.
5880
5881
5882			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
5883			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
5884			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
5885			mode.
5886
5887			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
5888			CPL > 0.
5889
5890	srbds=		[X86,INTEL]
5891			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
5892			(SRBDS) mitigation.
5893
5894			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
5895			exploit which can leak bits from the random
5896			number generator.
5897
5898			By default, this issue is mitigated by
5899			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
5900			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
5901			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
5902			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
5903
5904			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
5905			the following option:
5906
5907			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
5908				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
5909
5910	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
5911			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
5912			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
5913			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
5914			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
5915			but takes effect only when the low-order four
5916			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
5917			(decide at boot).
5918
5919	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
5920			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
5921			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
5922			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
5923
5924				   0:  Never.
5925				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
5926				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
5927				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
5928				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
5929
5930			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
5931			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
5932			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
5933
5934	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
5935			Specifies how frequently to check for
5936			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
5937			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
5938			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
5939			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
5940			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
5941			are ignored.
5942
5943	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
5944			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
5945			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
5946			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
5947			grace period will be considered for automatic
5948			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
5949			expediting.
5950
5951	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
5952			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
5953			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
5954			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
5955			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
5956			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
5957
5958	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
5959			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
5960			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
5961			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
5962			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
5963			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
5964
5965	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
5966			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
5967			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
5968
5969	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
5970			Specifies the number of update-side contention
5971			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
5972			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
5973			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
5974			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
5975			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
5976
5977	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW]
5978			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
5979
5980			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
5981			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
5982			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
5983			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
5984
5985			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
5986				   for both kernel and userspace
5987			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
5988				   for both kernel and userspace
5989			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
5990				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
5991				   to allow userspace to register its
5992				   interest in being mitigated too.
5993
5994	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
5995			override the default stack gap protection. The value
5996			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
5997			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
5998			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
5999			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
6000
6001	stack_depot_disable= [KNL]
6002			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
6003			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
6004			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
6005			to false.
6006
6007	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
6008			Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
6009
6010	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
6011			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
6012			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
6013			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
6014			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
6015			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
6016			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
6017
6018	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
6019			Format: <num>
6020			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
6021			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
6022			as the initial boot-console.
6023			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6024
6025	sti_font=	[HW]
6026			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
6027
6028	stifb=		[HW]
6029			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
6030
6031        strict_sas_size=
6032			[X86]
6033			Format: <bool>
6034			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
6035			against the required signal frame size which
6036			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
6037			be used to filter out binaries which have
6038			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
6039
6040	stress_hpt	[PPC]
6041			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
6042			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
6043			faults on kernel addresses.
6044
6045	stress_slb	[PPC]
6046			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
6047			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
6048			on kernel addresses.
6049
6050	sunrpc.min_resvport=
6051	sunrpc.max_resvport=
6052			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6053			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
6054			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
6055			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
6056			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
6057			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
6058			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
6059			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
6060			maximum port values.
6061
6062	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
6063			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6064			Limit the number of requests that the server will
6065			process in parallel from a single connection.
6066			The default value is 0 (no limit).
6067
6068	sunrpc.pool_mode=
6069			[NFS]
6070			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
6071			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
6072			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
6073			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
6074			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
6075			NFS server is running.
6076
6077			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
6078				    automatically using heuristics
6079			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
6080			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
6081			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
6082				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
6083
6084	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
6085	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
6086			[NFS,SUNRPC]
6087			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
6088			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
6089			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
6090			improve throughput, but will also increase the
6091			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
6092
6093	suspend.pm_test_delay=
6094			[SUSPEND]
6095			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
6096			mode before resuming the system (see
6097			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
6098			is set. Default value is 5.
6099
6100	svm=		[PPC]
6101			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
6102			This parameter controls use of the Protected
6103			Execution Facility on pSeries.
6104
6105	swiotlb=	[ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
6106			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
6107			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
6108			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
6109				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
6110				 to a power of 2.
6111			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
6112			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
6113			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
6114
6115	switches=	[HW,M68k]
6116
6117	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
6118			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
6119			process, as if the value was written to the respective
6120			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
6121			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
6122			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
6123			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
6124			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
6125
6126	sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
6127			Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
6128			on older distributions. When this option is enabled
6129			very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
6130			is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
6131			in older udev will not work anymore.
6132			Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
6133			the kernel configuration.
6134
6135	sysrq_always_enabled
6136			[KNL]
6137			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
6138			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
6139			Useful for debugging.
6140
6141	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
6142			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
6143			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
6144			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
6145			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
6146			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
6147
6148	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
6149
6150	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
6151			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
6152			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
6153			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
6154			as the system sleep state during system startup with
6155			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
6156			The system is woken from this state using a
6157			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
6158
6159	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6160			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
6161
6162	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
6163			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
6164			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
6165
6166	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
6167			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
6168			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
6169
6170	thermal.nocrt=	[HW,ACPI]
6171			Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
6172			critical and hot trip points.
6173
6174	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
6175			1: disable ACPI thermal control
6176
6177	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
6178			-1: disable all passive trip points
6179			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
6180			value
6181
6182	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
6183			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
6184			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
6185			0: no polling (default)
6186
6187	threadirqs	[KNL]
6188			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
6189			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
6190
6191	topology=	[S390]
6192			Format: {off | on}
6193			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
6194			topology information if the hardware supports this.
6195			The scheduler will make use of this information and
6196			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
6197			Default is on.
6198
6199	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
6200			Format: {off}
6201			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
6202			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
6203			LPAR.
6204
6205	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
6206			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
6207			until after init has spawned.
6208
6209	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
6210			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
6211			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
6212			very costly operation when many torture tests
6213			are running concurrently, especially on systems
6214			with rotating-rust storage.
6215
6216	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
6217			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
6218			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
6219			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
6220
6221	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
6222			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
6223
6224	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
6225
6226	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
6227			Format: integer pcr id
6228			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
6229			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
6230			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
6231			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
6232			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
6233			are saved.
6234
6235	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
6236			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
6237			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
6238			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
6239			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
6240			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
6241
6242			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
6243			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
6244			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
6245			tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
6246
6247			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
6248			to stop the printing of events to console at
6249			late_initcall_sync.
6250
6251			** CAUTION **
6252
6253			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
6254			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
6255			the system to live lock.
6256
6257	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
6258			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
6259			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
6260			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
6261			make the system inoperable.
6262
6263			This command line option will stop the printing of events
6264			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
6265
6266	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
6267			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
6268
6269	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
6270			at boot up.
6271			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
6272				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
6273				depending on the architecture, may not be
6274				in sync between CPUs.
6275			global - Event time stamps are synchronize across
6276				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
6277				but better for some race conditions.
6278			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
6279				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
6280				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
6281				once per event.
6282			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
6283			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
6284			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6285			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
6286				stamps.
6287			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
6288			Architectures may add more clocks. See
6289			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
6290
6291	trace_event=[event-list]
6292			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
6293			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
6294			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
6295			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
6296
6297	trace_instance=[instance-info]
6298			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
6299			This will be listed in:
6300
6301				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
6302
6303			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
6304			via:
6305
6306				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
6307
6308			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
6309			unique.
6310
6311				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
6312
6313			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
6314			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
6315			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
6316
6317	trace_options=[option-list]
6318			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
6319			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
6320			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
6321			to echo the option name into
6322
6323			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
6324
6325			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
6326			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
6327
6328			      trace_options=stacktrace
6329
6330			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
6331			section.
6332
6333	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
6334			[FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events.
6335			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
6336			filter.
6337
6338			The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
6339			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated.
6340
6341			For example:
6342
6343			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
6344
6345			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
6346			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
6347			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE).
6348
6349			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
6350
6351
6352	traceoff_on_warning
6353			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
6354			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
6355			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
6356			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
6357
6358			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
6359			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
6360			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
6361
6362			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
6363			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
6364
6365	transparent_hugepage=
6366			[KNL]
6367			Format: [always|madvise|never]
6368			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
6369			with respect to transparent hugepages.
6370			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
6371			for more details.
6372
6373	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
6374			Format: <string>
6375			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
6376			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
6377			sources:
6378			- "tpm"
6379			- "tee"
6380			- "caam"
6381			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
6382			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
6383			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
6384			successfully during iteration.
6385
6386	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
6387			Format: <string>
6388			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
6389			Can be one of:
6390			- "kernel"
6391			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
6392			- "default"
6393			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
6394			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
6395
6396	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
6397			Format: <string>
6398			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
6399			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
6400			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
6401			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
6402			virtualized environment.
6403			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
6404			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
6405			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
6406			can add overhead.
6407			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
6408			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
6409			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
6410			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
6411			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
6412			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
6413			acceptable).
6414			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
6415			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
6416			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
6417			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
6418			[x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
6419			which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
6420			only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
6421			This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
6422			can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog.  A console
6423			message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
6424
6425	tsc_early_khz=  [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
6426			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
6427			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
6428			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
6429			Format: <unsigned int>
6430
6431	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
6432			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
6433			support TSX control.
6434
6435			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
6436
6437			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
6438				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
6439				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
6440				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
6441				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
6442				with leaving it enabled.
6443
6444			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
6445				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
6446				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
6447				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
6448				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
6449				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
6450				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
6451
6452			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
6453				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
6454
6455			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
6456
6457			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6458			for more details.
6459
6460	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
6461			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
6462
6463			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
6464			certain CPUs that support Transactional
6465			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
6466			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
6467			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
6468			conditions.
6469
6470			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
6471			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
6472			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
6473			access.
6474
6475			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
6476			options are:
6477
6478			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
6479				     if TSX is enabled.
6480
6481			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
6482				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
6483				     is not disabled because CPU is not
6484				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
6485			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
6486
6487			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
6488			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
6489			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
6490			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
6491
6492			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
6493			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
6494			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
6495			required and doesn't provide any additional
6496			mitigation.
6497
6498			For details see:
6499			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
6500
6501	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
6502			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
6503			Format:
6504			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
6505			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
6506
6507	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
6508			happen after console_init() and before a proper
6509			console driver takes over, this boot options might
6510			help "seeing" what's going on.
6511
6512	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
6513			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
6514
6515	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
6516			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
6517			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
6518			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
6519			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
6520			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
6521			reported either.
6522
6523	unknown_nmi_panic
6524			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
6525
6526	usbcore.authorized_default=
6527			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
6528			(default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
6529			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
6530			if device connected to internal port)
6531
6532	usbcore.autosuspend=
6533			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
6534			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
6535			is the time required before an idle device will be
6536			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
6537			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
6538
6539	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
6540			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
6541
6542	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
6543			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
6544			(default = 65536).
6545
6546	usbcore.blinkenlights=
6547			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
6548
6549	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
6550			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
6551			scheme (default 0 = off).
6552
6553	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
6554			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
6555			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
6556
6557	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
6558			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
6559			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
6560
6561	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
6562			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6563			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
6564			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
6565
6566	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
6567
6568	usbcore.quirks=
6569			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
6570			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
6571			commas. Each entry has the form
6572			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
6573			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
6574			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
6575			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
6576			the following meanings:
6577				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
6578					descriptors must not be fetched using
6579					a 255-byte read);
6580				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
6581					correctly so reset it instead);
6582				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
6583					Set-Interface requests);
6584				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
6585					handle its Configuration or Interface
6586					strings);
6587				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
6588					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
6589				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
6590					more interface descriptions than the
6591					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
6592					talking to these interfaces);
6593				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
6594					during initialization, after we read
6595					the device descriptor);
6596				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
6597					high speed and super speed interrupt
6598					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
6599					require the interval in microframes (1
6600					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
6601					calculated as interval = 2 ^
6602					(bInterval-1).
6603					Devices with this quirk report their
6604					bInterval as the result of this
6605					calculation instead of the exponent
6606					variable used in the calculation);
6607				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
6608					handle device_qualifier descriptor
6609					requests);
6610				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
6611					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
6612					remote wakeup capability);
6613				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
6614					Power Management);
6615				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
6616					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
6617					frames instead of the USB 2.0
6618					calculation);
6619				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
6620					to be disconnected before suspend to
6621					prevent spurious wakeup);
6622				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
6623					pause after every control message);
6624				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
6625					delay after resetting its port);
6626			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
6627
6628	usbhid.mousepoll=
6629			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
6630
6631	usbhid.jspoll=
6632			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
6633
6634	usbhid.kbpoll=
6635			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
6636
6637	usb-storage.delay_use=
6638			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
6639			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
6640
6641	usb-storage.quirks=
6642			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
6643			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
6644			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
6645			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
6646			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
6647			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
6648			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
6649				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
6650					of sense data, not on uas);
6651				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
6652					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
6653				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
6654					device capacity by one sector);
6655				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
6656					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
6657				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
6658					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
6659				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
6660					command, uas only);
6661				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
6662					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
6663				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
6664					reported device capacity by one
6665					sector if the number is odd);
6666				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
6667					device);
6668				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
6669					command, uas only);
6670				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
6671				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
6672					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
6673				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
6674					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
6675					not on uas);
6676				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
6677					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
6678				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
6679					reported by the device, not on uas);
6680				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
6681					by default, not on uas);
6682				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
6683					bogus residue values, not on uas);
6684				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
6685					Logical Unit);
6686				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
6687					commands, uas only);
6688				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
6689				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
6690					medium is write-protected).
6691				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
6692					even if the device claims no cache,
6693					not on uas)
6694			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
6695
6696	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
6697			Format: <int>
6698			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
6699				 1 - undefined instruction events
6700				 2 - system calls
6701				 4 - invalid data aborts
6702				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
6703				16 - SIGBUS faults
6704			Example: user_debug=31
6705
6706	userpte=
6707			[X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
6708
6709				nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
6710					HIGHMEM regardless of setting
6711					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
6712
6713	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
6714			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
6715
6716			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
6717			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
6718
6719	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
6720			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
6721			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
6722
6723			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
6724			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
6725			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
6726
6727			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
6728			alias for vdso32=0.
6729
6730			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
6731			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
6732
6733	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
6734			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
6735
6736	video=		[FB] Frame buffer configuration
6737			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
6738
6739	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
6740			Format: [0|1]
6741			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
6742			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
6743			level and then send out the event to user space through
6744			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
6745			will only send out the event without touching backlight
6746			brightness level.
6747			default: 1
6748
6749	virtio_mmio.device=
6750			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
6751
6752				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
6753			where:
6754				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
6755						like K, M and G)
6756				<baseaddr> := physical base address
6757				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
6758						request_irq())
6759				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
6760			example:
6761				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
6762
6763			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
6764
6765	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
6766			See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
6767			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
6768			Use vga=ask for menu.
6769			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
6770			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
6771
6772	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
6773			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
6774			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
6775			All options are enabled by default, and this
6776			interface is meant to allow for selectively
6777			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
6778			debugging features.
6779
6780			Available options are:
6781			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
6782			  -	Disable all of the above options
6783
6784	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
6785			size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
6786			minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
6787			decrease the size and leave more room for directly
6788			mapped kernel RAM.
6789
6790	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]
6791			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
6792			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
6793
6794	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
6795			Format: <command>
6796
6797	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
6798			Format: <command>
6799
6800	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
6801			Format: <command>
6802
6803	vsyscall=	[X86-64]
6804			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
6805			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
6806			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
6807			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
6808			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
6809			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
6810
6811			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
6812			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
6813				    readable.
6814
6815			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
6816			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
6817				    page is not readable.
6818
6819			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
6820			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
6821			            might break your system.
6822
6823	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
6824			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
6825			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
6826
6827	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
6828			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
6829			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
6830			see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
6831
6832	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
6833			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
6834			Change the default blue palette of the console.
6835			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6836			ranging from 0-255.
6837
6838	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
6839			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
6840			Change the default green palette of the console.
6841			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6842			ranging from 0-255.
6843
6844	vt.default_red=	[VT]
6845			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
6846			Change the default red palette of the console.
6847			This is a 16-member array composed of values
6848			ranging from 0-255.
6849
6850	vt.default_utf8=
6851			[VT]
6852			Format=<0|1>
6853			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
6854			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
6855			newly opened terminals.
6856
6857	vt.global_cursor_default=
6858			[VT]
6859			Format=<-1|0|1>
6860			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
6861			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
6862			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
6863			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
6864			cursors, 1 will display them.
6865
6866	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
6867			Default: 2 = green.
6868
6869	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
6870			Default: 3 = cyan.
6871
6872	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
6873			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
6874			or other driver-specific files in the
6875			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
6876
6877	watchdog_thresh=
6878			[KNL]
6879			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
6880			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
6881			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
6882			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
6883			seconds.
6884
6885	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
6886			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
6887			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
6888			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
6889			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
6890			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
6891			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
6892			corresponding sysfs file.
6893
6894	workqueue.disable_numa
6895			By default, all work items queued to unbound
6896			workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
6897			issued on, which results in better behavior in
6898			general.  If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
6899			whatever reason, this option can be used.  Note
6900			that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
6901			workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
6902
6903	workqueue.power_efficient
6904			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
6905			they show better performance thanks to cache
6906			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
6907			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
6908
6909			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
6910			were observed to contribute significantly to power
6911			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
6912			power usage at the cost of small performance
6913			overhead.
6914
6915			The default value of this parameter is determined by
6916			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
6917
6918	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
6919			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
6920			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
6921			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
6922			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
6923			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
6924			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
6925			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
6926			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
6927			impacted.
6928
6929	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
6930			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
6931			supporting x2apic.
6932
6933	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
6934			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
6935			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
6936			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
6937			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
6938			domains.
6939
6940	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN]
6941			Unplug Xen emulated devices
6942			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
6943			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
6944			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
6945			nics -- unplug network devices
6946			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
6947			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
6948				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
6949				the unplug protocol
6950			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
6951
6952	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN]
6953			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
6954			panic() code such as dumping handler.
6955
6956	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN]
6957			Format: <bool>
6958			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
6959			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
6960			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
6961
6962	xen_nopvspin	[X86,XEN]
6963			Disables the qspinlock slowpath using Xen PV optimizations.
6964			This parameter is obsoleted by "nopvspin" parameter, which
6965			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6966
6967	xen_nopv	[X86]
6968			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
6969			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
6970			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
6971			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
6972
6973	xen_no_vector_callback
6974			[KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen
6975			event channel interrupts.
6976
6977	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
6978			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
6979			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
6980			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
6981			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
6982
6983	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN]
6984			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
6985			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
6986			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
6987			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
6988			more timer interrupts.
6989
6990	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
6991			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
6992			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
6993			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
6994			started with less memory configured than allowed at
6995			max. Default is 180.
6996
6997	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
6998			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
6999			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
7000
7001	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
7002			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
7003			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
7004
7005	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
7006			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
7007			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
7008			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
7009			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
7010			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
7011
7012	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
7013			Format:
7014			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
7015
7016	xive=		[PPC]
7017			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
7018			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
7019			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
7020
7021			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
7022				  controller on both pseries and powernv
7023				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
7024
7025	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
7026			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
7027			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
7028			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
7029			loads instead, as on POWER9.
7030
7031	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
7032			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
7033			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
7034			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
7035
7036	xmon		[PPC]
7037			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
7038			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
7039			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
7040			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
7041				debugger is called from setup_arch().
7042			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7043				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
7044				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
7045				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
7046			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
7047				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
7048				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
7049				can be written using xmon commands.
7050			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
7051				memory, and other data can't be written using
7052				xmon commands.
7053			off	xmon is disabled.
7054
7055	amd_pstate=	[X86]
7056			disable
7057			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
7058			  scaling driver for the supported processors
7059			passive
7060			  Use amd_pstate as a scaling driver, driver requests a
7061			  desired performance on this abstract scale and the power
7062			  management firmware translates the requests into actual
7063			  hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
7064			  clocks etc.)
7065			active
7066			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
7067			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
7068			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
7069			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
7070			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
7071			  frequency.
7072