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1	ACPI	ACPI support is enabled.
2	AGP	AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is enabled.
3	ALSA	ALSA sound support is enabled.
4	APIC	APIC support is enabled.
5	APM	Advanced Power Management support is enabled.
6	APPARMOR AppArmor support is enabled.
7	ARM	ARM architecture is enabled.
8	ARM64	ARM64 architecture is enabled.
9	CLK	Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
10	CMA	Contiguous Memory Area support is enabled.
11	DRM	Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
12	DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
13	EARLY	Parameter processed too early to be embedded in initrd.
14	EDD	BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
15	EFI	EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled
16	EVM	Extended Verification Module
17	FB	The frame buffer device is enabled.
18	FTRACE	Function tracing enabled.
19	GCOV	GCOV profiling is enabled.
20	HIBERNATION HIBERNATION is enabled.
21	HW	Appropriate hardware is enabled.
22	HYPER_V HYPERV support is enabled.
23	IMA     Integrity measurement architecture is enabled.
24	IP_PNP	IP DHCP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled.
25	IPV6	IPv6 support is enabled.
26	ISAPNP	ISA PnP code is enabled.
27	ISOL	CPU Isolation is enabled.
28	JOY	Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
29	KGDB	Kernel debugger support is enabled.
30	KVM	Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.
31	LIBATA  Libata driver is enabled
32	LOONGARCH LoongArch architecture is enabled.
33	LOOP	Loopback device support is enabled.
34	LP	Printer support is enabled.
35	M68k	M68k architecture is enabled.
36			These options have more detailed description inside of
37			Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst.
38	MDA	MDA console support is enabled.
39	MIPS	MIPS architecture is enabled.
40	MOUSE	Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
41	MSI	Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
42	MTD	MTD (Memory Technology Device) support is enabled.
43	NET	Appropriate network support is enabled.
44	NFS	Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
45	NUMA	NUMA support is enabled.
46	OF	Devicetree is enabled.
47	PARISC	The PA-RISC architecture is enabled.
48	PCI	PCI bus support is enabled.
49	PCIE	PCI Express support is enabled.
50	PCMCIA	The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled.
51	PNP	Plug & Play support is enabled.
52	PPC	PowerPC architecture is enabled.
53	PPT	Parallel port support is enabled.
54	PS2	Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled.
55	PV_OPS	A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
56	RAM	RAM disk support is enabled.
57	RDT	Intel Resource Director Technology.
58	RISCV	RISCV architecture is enabled.
59	S390	S390 architecture is enabled.
60	SCSI	Appropriate SCSI support is enabled.
61			A lot of drivers have their options described inside
62			the Documentation/scsi/ sub-directory.
63        SDW     SoundWire support is enabled.
64	SECURITY Different security models are enabled.
65	SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
66	SERIAL	Serial support is enabled.
67	SH	SuperH architecture is enabled.
68	SMP	The kernel is an SMP kernel.
69	SPARC	Sparc architecture is enabled.
70	SUSPEND	System suspend states are enabled.
71	SWSUSP	Software suspend (hibernation) is enabled.
72	TPM	TPM drivers are enabled.
73	UMS	USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
74	USB	USB support is enabled.
75	NVME	NVMe support is enabled
76	USBHID	USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
77	V4L	Video For Linux support is enabled.
78	VGA	The VGA console has been enabled.
79	VMMIO   Driver for memory mapped virtio devices is enabled.
80	VT	Virtual terminal support is enabled.
81	WDT	Watchdog support is enabled.
82	X86-32	X86-32, aka i386 architecture is enabled.
83	X86-64	X86-64 architecture is enabled.
84	X86	Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64)
85	X86_UV	SGI UV support is enabled.
86	XEN	Xen support is enabled
87	XTENSA	xtensa architecture is enabled.
88
89In addition, the following text indicates that the option
90
91	BOOT	Is a boot loader parameter.
92	BUGS=	Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor.
93	KNL	Is a kernel start-up parameter.
94
95
96Kernel parameters
97
98	accept_memory=  [MM]
99			Format: { eager | lazy }
100			default: lazy
101			By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to
102			avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add
103			some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually
104			accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible.
105			For some workloads or for debugging purposes
106			accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory
107			at once during boot.
108
109	acpi=		[HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY]
110			Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
111			Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
112				  copy_dsdt | nospcr }
113			force -- enable ACPI if default was off
114			on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64]
115			off -- disable ACPI if default was on
116			noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
117			strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
118				strictly ACPI specification compliant.
119			rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
120			copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
121			nocmcff -- Disable firmware first mode for corrected
122			errors. This disables parsing the HEST CMC error
123			source to check if firmware has set the FF flag. This
124			may result in duplicate corrected error reports.
125			nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as
126				default _serial_ console on ARM64
127			spcr -- enable console in ACPI SPCR table as
128				default _serial_ console on x86
129			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
130			"acpi=nospcr" are available
131			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
132			are available
133
134			See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
135
136	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY]
137			Format: <int>
138			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
139			1,0: use 1st APIC table
140			default: 0
141
142	acpi_backlight=	[HW,ACPI]
143			{ vendor | video | native | none }
144			If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver
145			(e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
146			of the ACPI video.ko driver.
147			If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver.
148			If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode.
149			If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface.
150
151	acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY]
152			force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
153			64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
154			bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
155			the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
156
157	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
158			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
159			This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
160			the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
161			This option is useful for developers to identify the
162			root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
163			has something to do with the repair mechanism.
164
165	acpi.debug_layer=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
166	acpi.debug_level=	[HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
167			Format: <int>
168			CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
169			debug output.  Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
170			_COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
171			    #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS
172			Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
173			ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
174			    ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
175			The debug_level mask defaults to "info".  See
176			Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
177			debug layers and levels.
178
179			Enable processor driver info messages:
180			    acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
181			Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
182			object while interpreting AML:
183			    acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
184			Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
185			    acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
186
187			Some values produce so much output that the system is
188			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
189			if you need to capture more output.
190
191	acpi.poweroff_on_fatal=	[ACPI]
192			{0 | 1}
193			Causes the system to poweroff when the ACPI bytecode signals
194			a fatal error. The default value of this setting is 1.
195			Overriding this value should only be done for diagnosing
196			ACPI firmware problems, as the system might behave erratically
197			after having encountered a fatal ACPI error.
198
199	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
200			{ strict | lax | no }
201			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
202			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
203			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
204			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
205			can interfere with legacy drivers.
206			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
207			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
208			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
209			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
210			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
211			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
212			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
213			no further checks are performed.
214
215	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
216			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
217			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
218			size limitation.
219
220	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
221			ACPI will balance active IRQs
222			default in APIC mode
223
224	acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
225			ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
226			default in PIC mode
227
228	acpi_irq_isa=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
229			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
230
231	acpi_irq_pci=	[HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
232			use by PCI
233			Format: <irq>,<irq>...
234
235	acpi_mask_gpe=	[HW,ACPI]
236			Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
237			by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
238			GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
239			the GPE dispatcher.
240			This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
241			GPE floodings.
242			Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list>
243
244	acpi_no_auto_serialize	[HW,ACPI]
245			Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
246			AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
247			named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
248			auto-serialization feature.
249			This feature is enabled by default.
250			This option allows to turn off the feature.
251
252	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kdump
253			   kernels.
254
255	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI,EARLY]
256			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
257			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
258			installed automatically and they will appear under
259			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
260			This option turns off this feature.
261			Note that specifying this option does not affect
262			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
263			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
264
265	acpi_no_watchdog	[HW,ACPI,WDT]
266			Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let
267			a native driver control the watchdog device instead.
268
269	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY]
270			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
271			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
272			second kernel for kdump.
273
274	acpi_os_name=	[HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
275			Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
276
277	acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
278			of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
279			specification revision (when using this switch, it may
280			be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
281			row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
282
283	acpi_osi=	[HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
284			acpi_osi="string1"	# add string1
285			acpi_osi="!string2"	# remove string2
286			acpi_osi=!*		# remove all strings
287			acpi_osi=!		# disable all built-in OS vendor
288						  strings
289			acpi_osi=!!		# enable all built-in OS vendor
290						  strings
291			acpi_osi=		# disable all strings
292
293			'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
294			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
295			vendor string(s).  Note that such command can only
296			affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
297			it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
298			strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
299			specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
300			is meaningless.  This command is useful when one do not
301			care about the state of the feature group strings which
302			should be controlled by the OSPM.
303			Examples:
304			  1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
305			     to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
306			     can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
307
308			'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
309			'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
310			exist in the ACPI namespace.  NOTE that such command can
311			only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
312			multiple times through kernel command line is also
313			meaningless.
314			Examples:
315			  1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
316			     FALSE.
317
318			'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
319			multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
320			string(s).  Note that such command can affect the
321			current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
322			feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
323			through kernel command line is meaningful.  But it may
324			still not able to affect the final state of a string if
325			there are quirks related to this string.  This command
326			is useful when one want to control the state of the
327			feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
328			the OSPM features.
329			Examples:
330			  1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
331			     '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
332			  2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
333			     '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
334			  3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
335			     equivalent to
336			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
337			     and
338			     'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
339			     they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
340
341	acpi_pm_good	[X86]
342			Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
343			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
344			and always returns good values.
345
346	acpi_sci=	[HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
347			Format: { level | edge | high | low }
348
349	acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
350			Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
351			For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
352
353	acpi_sleep=	[HW,ACPI] Sleep options
354			Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig,
355				  s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs,
356				  sci_force_enable, nobl }
357			See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
358			s3_bios and s3_mode.
359			s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
360			as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
361			s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware
362			signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully
363			refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with
364			the ACPI specification but not with reality, since
365			Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it
366			on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume
367			and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the
368			s4_hwsig option is enabled.
369			s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
370			used (or even warned about) during resume.
371			old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
372			control method, with respect to putting devices into
373			low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
374			of _PTS is used by default).
375			nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
376			ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
377			sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
378			on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
379			but some broken systems don't work without it).
380			nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
381			behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
382			suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
383
384	acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY]
385			Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
386			that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
387
388	add_efi_memmap	[EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in
389			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
390
391	agp=		[AGP]
392			{ off | try_unsupported }
393			off: disable AGP support
394			try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
395				(may crash computer or cause data corruption)
396
397	ALSA		[HW,ALSA]
398			See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
399
400	alignment=	[KNL,ARM]
401			Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
402			behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
403			bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
404
405	align_va_addr=	[X86-64]
406			Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
407			allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
408			gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
409			machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
410			CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
411			a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
412
413			32: only for 32-bit processes
414			64: only for 64-bit processes
415			on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
416			off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
417
418	alloc_snapshot	[FTRACE]
419			Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
420			main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
421			and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
422			do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
423			to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
424
425	allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY]
426			Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the
427			PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict
428			subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this
429			parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit
430			EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
431			and hot-unplug operations may be restricted.
432
433			See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more
434			information.
435
436	amd_iommu=	[HW,X86-64]
437			Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
438			Possible values are:
439			fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1
440			off	  - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
441				    the system
442			force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
443					  devices. The IOMMU driver is not
444					  allowed anymore to lift isolation
445					  requirements as needed. This option
446					  does not override iommu=pt
447			force_enable    - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known
448				          to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this
449				          option with care.
450			pgtbl_v1        - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default).
451			pgtbl_v2        - Use v2 page table for DMA-API.
452			irtcachedis     - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching.
453			nohugepages     - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
454				          to 4 KiB.
455			v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables
456				          to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB.
457
458
459	amd_iommu_dump=	[HW,X86-64]
460			Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
461			for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
462			driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
463			IOMMU initialization.
464
465	amd_iommu_intr=	[HW,X86-64]
466			Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
467			remapping modes:
468			legacy     - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
469			vapic      - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
470			             to inject interrupts directly into guest.
471			             This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
472			             (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
473
474	amd_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
475			disable
476			  Do not enable amd_pstate as the default
477			  scaling driver for the supported processors
478			passive
479			  Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver.
480			  In this mode autonomous selection is disabled.
481			  Driver requests a desired performance level and platform
482			  tries to match the same performance level if it is
483			  satisfied by guaranteed performance level.
484			active
485			  Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
486			  driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
487			  to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
488			  to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
489			  calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
490			  frequency.
491			guided
492			  Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and
493			  maximum performance level and the platform autonomously
494			  selects a performance level in this range and appropriate
495			  to the current workload.
496
497	amd_prefcore=
498			[X86]
499			disable
500			  Disable amd-pstate preferred core.
501
502	amd_dynamic_epp=
503			[X86]
504			disable
505			  Disable amd-pstate dynamic EPP.
506			enable
507			  Enable amd-pstate dynamic EPP.
508
509	amijoy.map=	[HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
510			Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
511			Format: <a>,<b>
512			See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
513
514	analog.map=	[HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
515			Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
516			connected to one of 16 gameports
517			Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
518
519	apc=		[HW,SPARC]
520			Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
521			Format: noidle
522			Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
523			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
524			APC and your system crashes randomly.
525
526	apic		[APIC,X86-64] Use IO-APIC. Default.
527
528	apic=		[APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
529			Change the output verbosity while booting
530			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
531			Change the amount of debugging information output
532			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
533
534	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting
535			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
536			bsp:  External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
537			all:  External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
538			      backup of CPU 0
539			none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
540			      useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
541			      shot down by NMI
542
543	apicpmtimer	Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
544			apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
545			broken.
546
547	autoconf=	[IPV6]
548			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
549
550	apm=		[APM] Advanced Power Management
551			See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
552
553	apparmor=	[APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
554			Format: { "0" | "1" }
555			See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
556			0 -- disable.
557			1 -- enable.
558			Default value is set via kernel config option.
559
560	arcrimi=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
561			Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
562
563	arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of
564			32 bit applications.
565
566	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
567			Identification support
568
569	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
570			support
571
572	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
573			Set instructions support
574
575	arm64.nompam	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Partitioning And
576			Monitoring support
577
578	arm64.nomte	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension
579			support
580
581	arm64.nopauth	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication
582			support
583
584	arm64.nosme	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix
585			Extension support
586
587	arm64.nosve	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector
588			Extension support
589
590	ataflop=	[HW,M68k]
591
592	atarimouse=	[HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
593
594	atkbd.extra=	[HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
595			EzKey and similar keyboards
596
597	atkbd.reset=	[HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
598
599	atkbd.set=	[HW] Select keyboard code set
600			Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
601
602	atkbd.scroll=	[HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
603			keyboards
604
605	atkbd.softraw=	[HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
606			Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
607
608	atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
609			Use software keyboard repeat
610
611	audit=		[KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
612			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
613			0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
614			    enabled until the next reboot
615			unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
616			    will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
617			1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
618			    enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
619			    messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
620			    userspace auditd.
621			Default: unset
622
623	audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
624			Format: <int> (must be >=0)
625			Default: 64
626
627	bau=		[X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV.  The default
628			behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
629			Format: { "0" | "1" }
630			0 - Disable the BAU.
631			1 - Enable the BAU.
632			unset - Disable the BAU.
633
634	bdev_allow_write_mounted=
635			Format: <bool>
636			Control the ability to open a mounted block device
637			for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass
638			the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent
639			fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the
640			metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness.
641			This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted
642			filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use
643			O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the
644			Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
645
646	bert_disable	[ACPI]
647			Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
648
649	bgrt_disable	[ACPI,X86,EARLY]
650			Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo.
651
652	blkdevparts=	Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
653			embedded devices based on command line input.
654			See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
655
656	boot_delay=	[KNL,EARLY]
657			Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
658			Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled,
659			and you may also have to specify "lpj=".  Boot_delay
660			values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed
661			erroneous and ignored.
662			Format: integer
663
664	bootconfig	[KNL,EARLY]
665			Extended command line options can be added to an initrd
666			and this will cause the kernel to look for it.
667
668			See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
669
670	bttv.card=	[HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
671	bttv.radio=	Most important insmod options are available as
672			kernel args too.
673	bttv.pll=	See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
674	bttv.tuner=
675
676	bulk_remove=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
677			firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
678			at a time.
679
680	c101=		[NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
681
682	cachesize=	[BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
683			Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
684			size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
685			to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
686			possible to determine what the correct size should be.
687			This option provides an override for these situations.
688
689	carrier_timeout=
690			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
691			the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
692			it waits 120 seconds.
693
694	ca_keys=	[KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
695			the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
696			trust validation.
697			format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
698
699	cca=		[MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
700			algorithm.  Accepted values range from 0 to 7
701			inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
702			for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
703			others).
704
705	ccw_timeout_log	[S390]
706			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
707
708	cfi=		[X86-64] Set Control Flow Integrity checking features
709			when CONFIG_FINEIBT is enabled.
710			Format: feature[,feature...]
711			Default: auto
712
713			auto:	  Use FineIBT if IBT available, otherwise kCFI.
714				  Under FineIBT, enable "paranoid" mode when
715				  FRED is not available.
716			off:	  Turn off CFI checking.
717			kcfi:	  Use kCFI (disable FineIBT).
718			fineibt:  Use FineIBT (even if IBT not available).
719			norand:   Do not re-randomize CFI hashes.
720			paranoid: Add caller hash checking under FineIBT.
721			bhi:	  Enable register poisoning to stop speculation
722				  across FineIBT. (Disabled by default.)
723			warn:	  Do not enforce CFI checking: warn only.
724			debug:    Report CFI initialization details.
725
726	cgroup_disable=	[KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature
727			Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable}
728			The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
729			- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
730			  a single hierarchy
731			- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
732			  subsystem
733			- if foo is an optional feature then the feature is
734			  disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not
735			  created
736			{Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
737			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
738			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
739			Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure
740			stall information accounting feature
741
742	cgroup_no_v1=	[KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
743			Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
744			          [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
745			Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
746			the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
747			"all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
748			named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
749			all v1 hierarchies.
750
751	cgroup_v1_proc=	[KNL] Show also missing controllers in /proc/cgroups
752			Format: { "true" | "false" }
753			/proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default.
754			This compatibility option enables listing also v2
755			controllers (whose v1 code is not compiled!), so that
756			semi-legacy software can check this file to decide
757			about usage of v2 (sic) controllers.
758
759	cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods.
760			Format: { "true" | "false" }
761			Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS.
762
763	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
764			Format: <string>
765			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
766			nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
767			nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
768
769	check_pages=	[MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after
770			allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch
771			double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of
772			page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags,
773			mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.).
774			Format: { "0" | "1" }
775			Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set)
776
777	checkreqprot=	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
778			Format: { "0" | "1" }
779			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
780			0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
781				any implied execute protection).
782			1 -- check protection requested by application.
783			Default value is set via a kernel config option.
784			Value can be changed at runtime via
785				/sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot.
786			Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated.
787
788	cio_ignore=	[S390]
789			See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details.
790
791	clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86]
792			Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
793			arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
794			numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily
795			stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific
796			ones should be.
797			X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line
798			in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above
799			instability issue. However, not all features have names
800			in /proc/cpuinfo.
801			Note that using this option will taint your kernel.
802			Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
803			or using the feature without checking anything
804			will still see it. This just prevents it from
805			being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
806			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
807			some critical bits.
808
809	clk_ignore_unused
810			[CLK]
811			Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
812			clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
813			device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
814			by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
815			force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
816			those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
817			debug and development, but should not be needed on a
818			platform with proper driver support.  For more
819			information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
820
821	clock=		[BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
822			[Deprecated]
823			Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
824			when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
825			clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
826			Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
827
828	clocksource=	Override the default clocksource
829			Format: <string>
830			Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
831			with the name specified.
832			Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
833			the platform:
834			[all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
835			[ACPI] acpi_pm
836			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
837				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
838			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
839				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
840			[MIPS] MIPS
841			[PARISC] cr16
842			[S390] tod
843			[SH] SuperH
844			[SPARC64] tick
845			[X86-64] hpet,tsc
846
847	clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
848			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
849			Format: <bool>
850			Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
851			architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
852			loops can be debugged more effectively on production
853			systems.
854
855	clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL]
856			Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources
857			marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that
858			are marked unstable due to excessive skew.
859			A negative value says to check all CPUs, while
860			zero says not to check any.  Values larger than
861			nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids.
862			The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with
863			no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice.
864
865	clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL]
866			Set the time in seconds that the clocksource
867			watchdog test waits before commencing its tests.
868			Defaults to zero when built as a module and to
869			10 seconds when built into the kernel.
870
871	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
872			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
873			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
874			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
875			placement constraint by the physical address range of
876			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
877			altogether. For more information, see
878			kernel/dma/contiguous.c
879
880	cma_pernuma=nn[MG]
881			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
882			Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for
883			contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables
884			per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not
885			specified, the default value is 0.
886			With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
887			first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area
888			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
889			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
890
891	numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]]
892			[KNL,CMA,EARLY]
893			Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for
894			contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA
895			area for the specified node.
896
897			With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will
898			first try to allocate buffer from the numa area
899			which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails,
900			they will fallback to the global default memory area.
901
902	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
903			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
904			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments
905			to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
906			a hypervisor.
907			Default: yes
908
909	coherent_pool=nn[KMG]	[ARM,KNL,EARLY]
910			Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
911			allocations, by default set to 256K.
912
913	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
914			Format:
915			<io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
916
917	com90io=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
918			Format: <io>[,<irq>]
919
920	com90xx=	[HW,NET]
921			ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
922			Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
923
924	condev=		[HW,S390] console device
925	conmode=
926
927	con3215_drop=	[S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode.
928			Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0
929			When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when
930			the console buffer is full. In this case the
931			operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example
932			x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the
933			console output to advance and the kernel to continue.
934			This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270
935			terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal
936			emulator is used, this parameter has no effect.
937
938	console=	[KNL] Output console device and options.
939
940		tty<n>	Use the virtual console device <n>.
941
942		ttyS<n>[,options]
943		ttyUSB0[,options]
944			Use the specified serial port.  The options are of
945			the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
946			"p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
947			bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
948			omit it).  Default is "9600n8".
949
950			See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
951			information.  See
952			Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an
953			alternative.
954
955		<DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options]
956			Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus.
957			The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port
958			device, followed by the serial core controller instance,
959			and the serial port instance. The options are the same
960			as documented for the ttyS addressing above.
961
962			The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances
963			can be viewed with:
964
965			$ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/*
966			/sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0
967
968			In the above example, the console can be addressed with
969			console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this
970			way will only get added when the related device driver
971			is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to
972			the console may be desired for console output early on.
973
974		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
975		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
976		uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
977		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
978		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
979			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
980			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
981			switching to the matching ttyS device later.
982			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
983			(mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
984			If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
985			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
986			the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
987			the h/w is not re-initialized.
988
989		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
990			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
991
992		{ null | "" }
993			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
994			console messages discarded.
995			This must be the only console= parameter used on the
996			kernel command line.
997
998		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
999		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
1000			console=brl,ttyS0
1001		For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
1002
1003	console_msg_format=
1004			[KNL] Change console messages format
1005		default
1006			By default we print messages on consoles in
1007			"[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
1008			printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
1009			`printk_time' param).
1010		syslog
1011			Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
1012			IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
1013			prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
1014			syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
1015			from /proc/kmsg.
1016
1017	consoleblank=	[KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
1018			seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
1019			Defaults to 0.
1020
1021	coredump_filter=
1022			[KNL] Change the default value for
1023			/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
1024			See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
1025
1026	coresight_cpu_debug.enable
1027			[ARM,ARM64]
1028			Format: <bool>
1029			Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
1030			0: default value, disable debugging
1031			1: enable debugging at boot time
1032
1033	cpcihp_generic=	[HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
1034			Format:
1035			<first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1036
1037	cpuidle.off=1	[CPU_IDLE]
1038			disable the cpuidle sub-system
1039
1040	cpuidle.governor=
1041			[CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
1042
1043	cpufreq.off=1	[CPU_FREQ]
1044			disable the cpufreq sub-system
1045
1046	cpufreq.default_governor=
1047			[CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or
1048			policy to use. This governor must be registered in the
1049			kernel before the cpufreq driver probes.
1050
1051	cpu_init_udelay=N
1052			[X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
1053			of APIC INIT to start processors.  This delay occurs
1054			on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
1055			Default: 10000
1056
1057	cpuhp.parallel=
1058			[SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs
1059			Format: <bool>
1060			Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise
1061			the parameter has no effect.
1062
1063	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
1064			Only jump to kdump kernel after running the panic
1065			notifiers and dumping kmsg. This option increases
1066			the risks of a kdump failure, since some panic
1067			notifiers can make the crashed kernel more unstable.
1068			In configurations where kdump may not be reliable,
1069			running the panic notifiers could allow collecting
1070			more data on dmesg, like stack traces from other CPUS
1071			or extra data dumped by panic_print. Note that some
1072			configurations enable this option unconditionally,
1073			like Hyper-V, PowerPC (fadump) and AMD SEV-SNP.
1074
1075	crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
1076			[KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
1077			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
1078			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
1079			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
1080			is selected automatically.
1081			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region
1082			under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above
1083			4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified.
1084			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
1085
1086	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
1087			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
1088			in the running system. The syntax of range is
1089			start-[end] where start and end are both
1090			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
1091			Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
1092
1093	crashkernel=size[KMG],high
1094			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be
1095			above 4G.
1096			Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top,
1097			so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram
1098			installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated
1099			below 4G, if available.
1100			It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
1101	crashkernel=size[KMG],low
1102			[KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G.
1103			When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate
1104			physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel
1105			crash on system that require some amount of low memory,
1106			e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also
1107			enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers
1108			for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate
1109			default	size of memory below 4G automatically. The default
1110			size is	platform dependent.
1111			  --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB)
1112			  --> arm64: 128MiB
1113			  --> riscv: 128MiB
1114			  --> loongarch: 128MiB
1115			This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G
1116			for second kernel instead.
1117			0: to disable low allocation.
1118			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
1119			or memory reserved is below 4G.
1120	crashkernel=size[KMG],cma
1121			[KNL, X86, ppc] Reserve additional crash kernel memory from
1122			CMA. This reservation is usable by the first system's
1123			userspace memory and kernel movable allocations (memory
1124			balloon, zswap). Pages allocated from this memory range
1125			will not be included in the vmcore so this should not
1126			be used if dumping of userspace memory is intended and
1127			it has to be expected that some movable kernel pages
1128			may be missing from the dump.
1129
1130			A standard crashkernel reservation, as described above,
1131			is still needed to hold the crash kernel and initrd.
1132
1133			This option increases the risk of a kdump failure: DMA
1134			transfers configured by the first kernel may end up
1135			corrupting the second kernel's memory.
1136
1137			This reservation method is intended for systems that
1138			can't afford to sacrifice enough memory for standard
1139			crashkernel reservation and where less reliable and
1140			possibly incomplete kdump is preferable to no kdump at
1141			all.
1142
1143	cryptomgr.notests
1144			[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
1145
1146	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
1147			Format: <dma>
1148
1149	cs89x0_media=	[HW,NET]
1150			Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
1151
1152	csdlock_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU
1153			function call handling. When switched on,
1154			additional debug data is printed to the console
1155			in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that
1156			CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve
1157			the hang situation.  The default value of this
1158			option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT
1159			Kconfig option.
1160
1161	dasd=		[HW,NET]
1162			See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
1163
1164	db9.dev[2|3]=	[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
1165			(one device per port)
1166			Format: <port#>,<type>
1167			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1168
1169	debug		[KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
1170
1171	debug_boot_weak_hash
1172			[KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
1173			boot sequence.  If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
1174			of siphash to hash pointers.  Use this option if you are
1175			seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
1176			value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
1177			insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
1178
1179	debug_locks_verbose=
1180			[KNL] verbose locking self-tests
1181			Format: <int>
1182			Print debugging info while doing the locking API
1183			self-tests.
1184			Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0
1185			(no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set)
1186			will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only
1187			useful to lockdep developers.
1188
1189	debug_objects	[KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging
1190
1191	debug_guardpage_minorder=
1192			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
1193			parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
1194			be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
1195			buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
1196			of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
1197			amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
1198			possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2.  Setting this
1199			parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
1200			random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
1201			kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
1202			from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
1203			a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
1204			H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
1205			(basically when memory is written at bus level and the
1206			CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
1207			CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
1208			help tracking down these problems.
1209
1210	debug_pagealloc=
1211			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
1212			enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
1213			disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
1214			kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
1215			Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
1216			useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
1217			on: enable the feature
1218
1219	debugfs=    	[KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to
1220			userspace and debugfs internal clients.
1221			Format: { on, off }
1222			on: 	All functions are enabled.
1223			off: 	Filesystem is not registered and clients
1224			        get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files
1225				or directories within debugfs.
1226				This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if
1227				debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all.
1228			Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration.
1229
1230	debugpat	[X86] Enable PAT debugging
1231
1232	default_hugepagesz=
1233			[HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
1234			the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
1235			APIs.  In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
1236			used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
1237			filesystems.  If not specified, defaults to the
1238			architecture's default huge page size.  Huge page
1239			sizes are architecture dependent.  See also
1240			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
1241			Format: size[KMG]
1242
1243	deferred_probe_timeout=
1244			[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
1245			deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
1246			probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
1247			drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
1248			of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
1249			out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
1250			successful driver registration. This option will also
1251			dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
1252			retrying.
1253
1254	delayacct	[KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting
1255
1256	dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi=
1257			[HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1258			indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1259			hardware.
1260
1261	dell_smm_hwmon.force=
1262			[HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does
1263			not match list of supported models and enable otherwise
1264			blacklisted features.
1265
1266	dell_smm_hwmon.power_status=
1267			[HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1268			(disabled by default).
1269
1270	dell_smm_hwmon.restricted=
1271			[HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1272			capability is set.
1273
1274	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult=
1275			[HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with.
1276
1277	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
1278			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
1279
1280	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
1281			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
1282			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
1283			          level 1 and decompression (default)
1284			off:      No s390 zlib hardware support
1285			def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
1286			          only (compression on level 1)
1287			inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
1288			          only (decompression)
1289			always:   Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
1290			          level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
1291
1292	dhash_entries=	[KNL]
1293			Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
1294
1295	disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY]
1296			Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
1297			causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
1298			can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
1299			miss to occur.
1300
1301	disable=	[IPV6]
1302			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1303
1304	disable_radix	[PPC,EARLY]
1305			Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
1306
1307	disable_tlbie	[PPC]
1308			Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work
1309			with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators.
1310
1311	disable_ddw	[PPC/PSERIES,EARLY]
1312			Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this
1313			to workaround buggy firmware.
1314
1315	disable_ipv6=	[IPV6]
1316			See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst.
1317
1318	disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1319			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1320			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1321			entry later. This parameter disables that.
1322
1323	disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY]
1324			By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
1325			memory out of your available memory pool based on
1326			MTRR settings.  This parameter disables that behavior,
1327			possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
1328
1329	disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY]
1330			Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1331			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
1332
1333	dis_ucode_ldr	[X86] Disable the microcode loader.
1334
1335	dma_debug=off	If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
1336			this option disables the debugging code at boot.
1337
1338	dma_debug_entries=<number>
1339			This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
1340			entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
1341			required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
1342			DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
1343			architectural default is too low.
1344
1345	dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
1346			With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
1347			filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
1348			pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
1349			The filter can be disabled or changed to another
1350			driver later using sysfs.
1351
1352	reg_file_data_sampling=
1353			[X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data
1354			Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU
1355			vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer
1356			kernel data values previously stored in floating point
1357			registers, vector registers, or integer registers.
1358			RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors.
1359
1360			on:	Turns ON the mitigation.
1361			off:	Turns OFF the mitigation.
1362
1363			This parameter overrides the compile time default set
1364			by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be
1365			disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS)
1366			are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all
1367			VERW based mitigations need to be disabled.
1368
1369			For details see:
1370			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
1371
1372	dm_verity.keyring_unsealed=
1373			[KNL] When set to 1, leave the dm-verity keyring
1374			unsealed after initialization so userspace can
1375			provision keys. Once the keyring is restricted
1376			it becomes active and is searched during signature
1377			verification.
1378
1379	driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
1380			List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
1381			matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
1382			rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
1383			match the *.
1384			Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
1385
1386	drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
1387			Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
1388			panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
1389			This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
1390			in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
1391			An EDID data set will only be used for a particular
1392			connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to
1393			the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID
1394			data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
1395			data set with no connector name will be used for
1396			any connectors not explicitly specified.
1397
1398	dscc4.setup=	[NET]
1399
1400	dt_cpu_ftrs=	[PPC,EARLY]
1401			Format: {"off" | "known"}
1402			Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
1403			used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
1404			exists).
1405			off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
1406			known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
1407			or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
1408
1409	dump_apple_properties	[X86]
1410			Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
1411			x86 Macs.  Useful for driver authors to determine
1412			what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
1413
1414	dyndbg[="val"]		[KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
1415	<module>.dyndbg[="val"]
1416			Enable debug messages at boot time.  See
1417			Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
1418			for details.
1419
1420	early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY]
1421			Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
1422			is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
1423			which are not unmapped.
1424
1425	earlycon=	[KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options.
1426
1427			When used with no options, the early console is
1428			determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
1429			chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
1430			the platform.
1431
1432		cdns,<addr>[,options]
1433			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
1434			(xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
1435			supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
1436			specified, the serial port must already be setup and
1437			configured.
1438
1439		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1440		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1441		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1442		uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]]
1443		uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
1444			Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1445			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
1446			MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
1447			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1448			If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1449			to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1450			in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
1451			unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is
1452			the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set
1453			to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16.
1454
1455		pl011,<addr>
1456		pl011,mmio32,<addr>
1457			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1458			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1459			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1460			yet supported.  If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1461			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1462			the device registers.
1463
1464		liteuart,<addr>
1465			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
1466			specified address. The serial port must already be
1467			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1468
1469		meson,<addr>
1470			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1471			port at the specified address. The serial port must
1472			already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1473			supported.
1474
1475		msm_serial,<addr>
1476			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1477			port at the specified address. The serial port
1478			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1479			yet supported.
1480
1481		msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1482			Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1483			dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1484			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1485			yet supported.
1486
1487		owl,<addr>
1488			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1489			of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1490			specified address. The serial port must already be
1491			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1492
1493		rda,<addr>
1494			Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1495			of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1496			specified address. The serial port must already be
1497			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1498
1499		sbi
1500			Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early
1501			console.
1502
1503		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1504
1505		s3c2410,<addr>
1506		s3c2412,<addr>
1507		s3c2440,<addr>
1508		s3c6400,<addr>
1509		s5pv210,<addr>
1510		exynos4210,<addr>
1511			Use early console provided by serial driver available
1512			on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1513			a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1514			serial port must already be setup and configured.
1515			Options are not yet supported.
1516
1517		lantiq,<addr>
1518			Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1519			(lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1520			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1521			yet supported.
1522
1523		lpuart,<addr>
1524		lpuart32,<addr>
1525			Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1526			found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1527			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1528			port must already be setup and configured.
1529
1530		ec_imx21,<addr>
1531		ec_imx6q,<addr>
1532			Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
1533			Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
1534			must already be setup and configured.
1535
1536		ar3700_uart,<addr>
1537			Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1538			Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1539			address. The serial port must already be setup
1540			and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1541
1542		qcom_geni,<addr>
1543			Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1544			Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1545			specified address. The serial port must already be
1546			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1547
1548		efifb,[options]
1549			Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1550			memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1551			coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1552			the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1553			mapped with the correct attributes.
1554
1555		linflex,<addr>
1556			Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART
1557			serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
1558			address must be provided, and the serial port must
1559			already be setup and configured.
1560
1561	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY]
1562			earlyprintk=vga
1563			earlyprintk=sclp
1564			earlyprintk=xen
1565			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
1566			earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
1567			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
1568			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
1569			earlyprintk=mmio32,membase[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1570			earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,{nocfg|baudrate}]
1571			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1572			earlyprintk=bios
1573
1574			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1575			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1576			default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1577
1578			Use "nocfg" to skip UART configuration, assume
1579			BIOS/firmware has configured UART correctly.
1580
1581			Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1582			takes over.
1583
1584			Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can
1585			be used at a time.
1586
1587			Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1588			name.  Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1589			on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1590			replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1591				earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1592			You can find the port for a given device in
1593			/proc/tty/driver/serial:
1594				2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
1595
1596			Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1597			very good.
1598
1599			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by
1600			the real console.
1601
1602			The xen option can only be used in Xen domains.
1603
1604			The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1605
1606			The bios output can only be used on SuperH.
1607
1608			The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1609			PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1610			UART class.
1611
1612	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1613			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1614			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1615			by other higher priority error reporting module.
1616			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1617			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1618			default: on.
1619
1620	edd=		[EDD]
1621			Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1622
1623	efi=		[EFI,EARLY]
1624			Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma",
1625				  "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve",
1626				  "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" }
1627			debug: enable misc debug output.
1628			disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all
1629			PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub.
1630			nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1631			boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1632			firmware implementations.
1633			noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
1634			nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose)
1635			attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the
1636			memory range for a memory mapping driver to
1637			claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this
1638			reservation and treat the memory by its base type
1639			(i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM").
1640			novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap().
1641			no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set
1642			on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub
1643
1644	efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY]
1645			Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1646			your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1647			you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1648			fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1649
1650	efivar_ssdt=	[EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1651			that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1652			multiple variables with the same name but with different
1653			vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
1654			Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
1655
1656
1657	eisa_irq_edge=	[PARISC,HW]
1658			See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1659
1660	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging
1661			Format: ekgdboc=kbd
1662
1663			This is designed to be used in conjunction with
1664			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1665
1666			This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
1667			but can only be used if the backing tty is available
1668			very early in the boot process. For early debugging
1669			via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead.
1670
1671	elanfreq=	[X86-32]
1672			See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
1673			arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1674
1675	elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY]
1676			Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
1677			image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1678			kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
1679			See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1680
1681	enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY]
1682			The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1683			to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1684			entry later. This parameter enables that.
1685
1686	enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
1687			Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1688			Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1689			(in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1690			The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1691
1692	enforcing=	[SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1693			Format: {"0" | "1"}
1694			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1695			0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1696			1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1697			Default value is 0.
1698			Value can be changed at runtime via
1699			/sys/fs/selinux/enforce.
1700
1701	erst_disable	[ACPI]
1702			Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1703			support.
1704
1705	ether=		[HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1706			This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1707			has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1708
1709	evm=		[EVM]
1710			Format: { "fix" }
1711			Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1712			current integrity status.
1713
1714	early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier
1715			stages so cover more early boot allocations.
1716			Please note that as side effect some optimizations
1717			might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized
1718			memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process
1719			might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of
1720			memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y.
1721
1722	failslab=
1723	fail_usercopy=
1724	fail_page_alloc=
1725	fail_skb_realloc=
1726	fail_make_request=[KNL]
1727			General fault injection mechanism.
1728			Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
1729			See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
1730
1731	fb_tunnels=	[NET]
1732			Format: { initns | none }
1733			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for
1734			fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns
1735
1736	floppy=		[HW]
1737			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1738
1739	forcepae	[X86-32]
1740			Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1741			Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1742			functionally usable PAE implementation.
1743			Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1744			and may cause unknown problems.
1745
1746	fred=		[X86-64]
1747			Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery.
1748			Format: { on | off }
1749			on: enable FRED when it's present, the default setting.
1750			off: disable FRED.
1751
1752	ftrace=[tracer]
1753			[FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
1754			as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1755			boot debugging.
1756
1757	ftrace_boot_snapshot
1758			[FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the
1759			ftrace ring buffer that can be read at:
1760			/sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot.
1761			This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel
1762			boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space
1763			start up functionality.
1764
1765			Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing
1766			instance that was created by the trace_instance= command
1767			line parameter.
1768
1769			trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo
1770
1771			The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger
1772			a snapshot at the end of boot up.
1773
1774	ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> |
1775			  ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)]
1776			[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
1777			If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global
1778			buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it
1779			will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered
1780			the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if
1781			its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also
1782			supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each
1783			instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the
1784			oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it.
1785
1786			ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu
1787
1788			The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance
1789			on CPU that triggered the oops.
1790
1791			ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu
1792
1793			The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the
1794			buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer
1795			of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops.
1796
1797	ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1798			[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1799			tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
1800			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1801			time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
1802			tracing directory.
1803
1804	ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1805			[FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1806			function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1807			by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1808			tracing directory.
1809
1810	ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1811			[FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1812			by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1813			function-list is a comma-separated list of functions
1814			that can be changed at run time by the
1815			set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1816
1817	ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1818			[FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1819			function-list.  This list is a comma-separated list of
1820			functions that can be changed at run time by the
1821			set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1822
1823	ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1824			[FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1825			the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1826			can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1827			in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1828
1829	fw_devlink=	[KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier
1830			devices by scanning the firmware to infer the
1831			consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is
1832			especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as
1833			it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing
1834			(suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state
1835			clean up (only after all consumers have probed),
1836			suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then
1837			suppliers).
1838			Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm }
1839			off --	Don't create device links from firmware info.
1840			permissive -- Create device links from firmware info
1841				but use it only for ordering boot state clean
1842				up (sync_state() calls).
1843			on -- 	Create device links from firmware info and use it
1844				to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering.
1845			rpm --	Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM.
1846
1847	fw_devlink.strict=<bool>
1848			[KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory
1849			dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
1850			Format: <bool>
1851
1852	fw_devlink.sync_state =
1853			[KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished
1854			probing, this parameter controls what to do with
1855			devices that haven't yet received their sync_state()
1856			calls.
1857			Format: { strict | timeout }
1858			strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to
1859				probe successfully.
1860			timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call
1861				sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet
1862				received their sync_state() calls after
1863				deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
1864				late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES.
1865
1866	gamecon.map[2|3]=
1867			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1868			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1869			Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1870			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1871
1872	gamma=		[HW,DRM]
1873
1874	gart_fix_e820=	[X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
1875			Format: off | on
1876			default: on
1877
1878	gather_data_sampling=
1879			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
1880			mitigation.
1881
1882			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
1883			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
1884			previously stored in vector registers.
1885
1886			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
1887			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
1888			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
1889			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
1890
1891			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
1892				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
1893				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
1894				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
1895
1896			off:	Disable GDS mitigation.
1897
1898	gbpages		[X86] Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
1899
1900	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1901			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1902			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1903			When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1904			debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1905
1906	goldfish	[X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1907			Don't use this when you are not running on the
1908			android emulator
1909
1910	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1911			[HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1912			Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1913	gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines
1914			[HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named.
1915
1916	gpt		[EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
1917			invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1918			primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1919			GPT to be used instead.
1920
1921	grcan.enable0=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1922			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1923			Format: 0 | 1
1924			Default: 0
1925	grcan.enable1=	[HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1926			the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1927			Format: 0 | 1
1928			Default: 0
1929	grcan.select=	[HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1930			Format: 0 | 1
1931			Default: 0
1932	grcan.txsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1933			Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1934			Default: 1024
1935	grcan.rxsize=	[HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1936			Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1937			Default: 1024
1938
1939	hardened_usercopy=
1940			[KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
1941			hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
1942			usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
1943			from reading or writing beyond known memory
1944			allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
1945			against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
1946			copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
1947			The default is determined by
1948			CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_DEFAULT_ON.
1949		on	Perform hardened usercopy checks.
1950		off	Disable hardened usercopy checks.
1951
1952	hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1953			[KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1954			backtraces on all cpus.
1955			Format: 0 | 1
1956
1957	hash_pointers=
1958			[KNL,EARLY]
1959			By default, when pointers are printed to the console
1960			or buffers via the %p format string, that pointer is
1961			"hashed", i.e. obscured by hashing the pointer value.
1962			This is a security feature that hides actual kernel
1963			addresses from unprivileged users, but it also makes
1964			debugging the kernel more difficult since unequal
1965			pointers can no longer be compared. The choices are:
1966			Format: { auto | always | never }
1967			Default: auto
1968
1969			auto   - Hash pointers unless slab_debug is enabled.
1970			always - Always hash pointers (even if slab_debug is
1971				 enabled).
1972			never  - Never hash pointers. This option should only
1973				 be specified when debugging the kernel. Do
1974				 not use on production kernels. The boot
1975				 param "no_hash_pointers" is an alias for
1976				 this mode.
1977
1978			For controlling hashing dynamically at runtime,
1979			use the "kernel.kptr_restrict" sysctl instead.
1980
1981	hashdist=	[KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1982			are distributed across NUMA nodes.  Defaults on
1983			for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
1984			Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1985
1986	hd=		[EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1987			Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1988
1989	hest_disable	[ACPI]
1990			Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1991			corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1992			logic will be disabled.
1993
1994	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
1995		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
1996				present during boot.
1997		nocompress	Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
1998		no		Disable hibernation and resume.
1999		protect_image	Turn on image protection during restoration
2000				(that will set all pages holding image data
2001				during restoration read-only).
2002
2003	hibernate.compressor= 	[HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be
2004				used with hibernation.
2005				Format: { lzo | lz4 }
2006				Default: lzo
2007
2008				lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to
2009				compress/decompress hibernation image.
2010
2011				lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to
2012				compress/decompress hibernation image.
2013
2014	hibernate.pm_test_delay=
2015			[HIBERNATION]
2016			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a hibernation test
2017			mode before resuming the system (see
2018			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
2019			is set. Default value is 5.
2020
2021	hibernate_compression_threads=
2022			[HIBERNATION]
2023			Set the number of threads used for compressing or decompressing
2024			hibernation images.
2025
2026			Format: <integer>
2027			Default: 3
2028			Minimum: 1
2029			Example: hibernate_compression_threads=4
2030
2031	highmem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
2032			size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
2033			highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
2034			size on bigger boxes.
2035
2036	highres=	[KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
2037			Valid parameters: "on", "off"
2038			Default: "on"
2039
2040	hlt		[BUGS=ARM,SH]
2041
2042	hostname=	[KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename).
2043			Format: <string>
2044			This allows setting the system's hostname during early
2045			startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname.
2046			Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it
2047			possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before
2048			any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility
2049			that a process may call gethostname before the hostname
2050			has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling
2051			process getting an incorrect result. The string must
2052			not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually
2053			64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise.
2054
2055	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
2056			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
2057				verbose }
2058			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
2059			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
2060				VIA, nVidia)
2061			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
2062
2063	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
2064			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
2065
2066	hugepages=	[HW,EARLY] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
2067			If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
2068			the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
2069			If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
2070			line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
2071			the default huge page size. If using node format, the
2072			number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified.
2073			See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2074			Format: <integer> or (node format)
2075				<node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>]
2076
2077	hugepagesz=
2078			[HW,EARLY] The size of the HugeTLB pages.  This is
2079			used in conjunction with hugepages (above) to
2080			allocate huge pages of a specific size at boot. The
2081			pair hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once
2082			for each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes
2083			are architecture dependent. See also
2084			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
2085			Format: size[KMG]
2086
2087	hugepage_alloc_threads=
2088			[HW] The number of threads that should be used to
2089			allocate hugepages during boot. This option can be
2090			used to improve system bootup time when allocating
2091			a large amount of huge pages.
2092			The default value is 25% of the available hardware threads.
2093
2094			Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages.
2095
2096	hugetlb_cma=	[HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
2097			of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
2098			of a CMA area per node can be specified.
2099			Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
2100				<node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
2101
2102			Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
2103			hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
2104			boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
2105
2106	hugetlb_cma_only=
2107			[HW,CMA,EARLY] When allocating new HugeTLB pages, only
2108			try to allocate from the CMA areas.
2109
2110			This option does nothing if hugetlb_cma= is not also
2111			specified.
2112
2113	hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
2114			[KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
2115			enabled.
2116			Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
2117			Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
2118			memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
2119			Format: { on | off (default) }
2120
2121			on: enable HVO
2122			off: disable HVO
2123
2124			Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
2125			the default is on.
2126
2127			Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added
2128			memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is
2129			enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this
2130			feature is enabled.  Other vmemmap pages not allocated from
2131			the added memory block itself do not be affected.
2132
2133	hung_task_panic=
2134			[KNL] Number of hung tasks to trigger kernel panic.
2135			Format: <int>
2136
2137			When set to a non-zero value, a kernel panic will be triggered if
2138			the number of detected hung tasks reaches this value.
2139
2140			0: don't panic
2141			1: panic immediately on first hung task
2142			N: panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
2143
2144			The default value is controlled by the
2145			CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time option. The value
2146			selected by this boot parameter can be changed later by the
2147			kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
2148
2149	hvc_iucv=	[S390]	Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
2150				terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
2151	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390]	Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
2152				If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
2153				from listed z/VM user IDs only.
2154
2155	hv_nopvspin	[X86,HYPER_V,EARLY]
2156			Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
2157			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest
2158			on lock contention.
2159
2160	hw_protection=	[HW]
2161			Format: reboot | shutdown
2162
2163			Hardware protection action taken on critical events like
2164			overtemperature or imminent voltage loss.
2165
2166	i2c_bus=	[HW]	Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
2167				or register an additional I2C bus that is not
2168				registered from board initialization code.
2169				Format:
2170				<bus_id>,<clkrate>
2171
2172	i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86]
2173			Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached
2174			touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down
2175			mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please
2176			submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch
2177			adding a DMI quirk for this.
2178
2179			Format:
2180			<ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...]
2181			Where <val> is one of:
2182			Omit "=<val>" entirely	Set a boolean device-property
2183			Unsigned number		Set a u32 device-property
2184			Anything else		Set a string device-property
2185
2186			Examples (split over multiple lines):
2187			i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x:
2188			touchscreen-inverted-y
2189
2190			i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920:
2191			touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y:
2192			firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button
2193
2194	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
2195	i8042.unmask_kbd_data
2196			[HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
2197			     (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
2198			     requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
2199	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
2200	i8042.dumbkbd	[HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
2201			     keyboard and cannot control its state
2202			     (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
2203	i8042.noaux	[HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
2204	i8042.nokbd	[HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
2205	i8042.noloop	[HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
2206			     for the AUX port
2207	i8042.nomux	[HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
2208			     controller
2209	i8042.nopnp	[HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
2210			     controllers
2211	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
2212	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
2213			     suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
2214			     transitions, or never reset
2215			Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
2216			1, Y, y: always reset controller
2217			0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
2218			Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
2219			architectures force reset to be always executed
2220	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
2221	i8042.kbdreset	[HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
2222	i8042.probe_defer
2223			[HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors
2224
2225	i810=		[HW,DRM]
2226
2227	i915.invert_brightness=
2228			[DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
2229			set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
2230			brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
2231			and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
2232			to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
2233			(default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
2234			is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
2235			to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
2236			value switches the backlight off.
2237			-1 -- never invert brightness
2238			 0 -- machine default
2239			 1 -- force brightness inversion
2240
2241	ia32_emulation=	[X86-64]
2242			Format: <bool>
2243			When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit
2244			syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at
2245			boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation.
2246
2247
2248	idle=		[X86,EARLY]
2249			Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
2250
2251			idle=poll:  Don't do power saving in the idle loop
2252			using HLT, but poll for rescheduling event. This will
2253			make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
2254			to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor
2255			benchmarks. It also makes some profiling using
2256			performance counters more accurate.  Please note that
2257			on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel
2258			EM64T CPUs) this option has no performance advantage
2259			over the normal idle loop.  It may also interact badly
2260			with hyperthreading.
2261
2262			idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
2263			In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
2264
2265			idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
2266
2267	idxd.sva=	[HW]
2268			Format: <bool>
2269			Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA)
2270			support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to
2271			true (1).
2272
2273	idxd.tc_override= [HW]
2274			Format: <bool>
2275			Allow override of default traffic class configuration
2276			for the device. By default it is set to false (0).
2277
2278	ieee754=	[MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
2279			Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated }
2280			Default: strict
2281
2282			Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
2283			based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
2284			the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
2285			of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
2286			binary.  Hardware implementations are permitted to
2287			support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
2288			encoding mode.
2289
2290			Available settings are as follows:
2291			strict	accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
2292				supported by the FPU
2293			legacy	only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
2294				by the FPU
2295			2008	only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
2296				by the FPU
2297			relaxed	accept any binaries regardless of whether
2298				supported by the FPU
2299			emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator
2300				if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU.
2301
2302			The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
2303			encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
2304			been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
2305			'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
2306			'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
2307			2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
2308			legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
2309			MIPS64 CPUs.
2310
2311			The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
2312			mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
2313			except where unsupported by hardware.
2314
2315	ignore_loglevel	[KNL,EARLY]
2316			Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
2317			kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
2318			We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
2319			could change it dynamically, usually by
2320			/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
2321
2322	ignore_rlimit_data
2323			Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
2324			print warning at first misuse.  Can be changed via
2325			/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
2326
2327	ihash_entries=	[KNL]
2328			Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
2329
2330	ima_appraise=	[IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2331			Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
2332			default: "enforce"
2333
2334	ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2335			The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
2336			owned by uid=0.
2337
2338	ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
2339			Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
2340			measurements, instead of host native format.
2341
2342	ima_hash=	[IMA]
2343			Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
2344				   | sha512 | ... }
2345			default: "sha1"
2346
2347			The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
2348			in crypto/hash_info.h.
2349
2350	ima_policy=	[IMA]
2351			The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
2352			Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
2353				 fail_securely | critical_data"
2354
2355			The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
2356			mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
2357			mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
2358			uid=0.
2359
2360			The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
2361			all files owned by root.
2362
2363			The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
2364			of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
2365			firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
2366
2367			The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
2368			verification failure also on privileged mounted
2369			filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
2370			flag.
2371
2372			The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity
2373			critical data.
2374
2375	ima_tcb		[IMA] Deprecated.  Use ima_policy= instead.
2376			Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
2377			Computing Base.  This means IMA will measure all
2378			programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
2379			opened for read by uid=0.
2380
2381	ima_template=	[IMA]
2382			Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
2383			Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" |
2384				   "ima-sigv2" }
2385			Default: "ima-ng"
2386
2387	ima_template_fmt=
2388			[IMA] Define a custom template format.
2389			Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
2390
2391	ima=		[IMA] Enable or disable IMA
2392			Format: { "off" | "on" }
2393			Default: "on"
2394			Note that disabling IMA is limited to kdump kernel.
2395
2396	indirect_target_selection= [X86,Intel] Mitigation control for Indirect
2397			Target Selection(ITS) bug in Intel CPUs. Updated
2398			microcode is also required for a fix in IBPB.
2399
2400			on:     Enable mitigation (default).
2401			off:    Disable mitigation.
2402			force:	Force the ITS bug and deploy default
2403				mitigation.
2404			vmexit: Only deploy mitigation if CPU is affected by
2405				guest/host isolation part of ITS.
2406			stuff:	Deploy RSB-fill mitigation when retpoline is
2407				also deployed. Otherwise, deploy the default
2408				mitigation.
2409
2410			For details see:
2411			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst
2412
2413	init=		[KNL]
2414			Format: <full_path>
2415			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
2416			process.
2417
2418	initcall_debug	[KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed.  Useful
2419			for working out where the kernel is dying during
2420			startup.
2421
2422	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
2423			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
2424			modules and initcalls.
2425
2426	initramfs_async= [KNL]
2427			Format: <bool>
2428			Default: 1
2429			This parameter controls whether the initramfs
2430			image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently
2431			with devices being probed and
2432			initialized. This should normally just work,
2433			but as a debugging aid, one can get the
2434			historical behaviour of the initramfs
2435			unpacking being completed before device_ and
2436			late_ initcalls.
2437
2438	initrd=		[BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
2439
2440	initrdmem=	[KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to
2441			load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or
2442			specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this
2443			setting.
2444			Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
2445			Default is 0, 0
2446
2447	init_on_alloc=	[MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
2448			zeroes.
2449			Format: 0 | 1
2450			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
2451
2452	init_on_free=	[MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
2453			Format: 0 | 1
2454			Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
2455
2456	init_pkru=	[X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
2457			register contents for all processes.  0x55555554 by
2458			default (disallow access to all but pkey 0).  Can
2459			override in debugfs after boot.
2460
2461	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
2462			Format: <irq>
2463
2464	int_pln_enable	[X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
2465
2466	integrity_audit=[IMA]
2467			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2468			0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
2469			1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
2470
2471	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
2472		on
2473			Enable intel iommu driver.
2474		off
2475			Disable intel iommu driver.
2476		igfx_off [Default Off]
2477			By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
2478			device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
2479			bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
2480			this case, gfx device will use physical address for
2481			DMA.
2482		strict [Default Off]
2483			Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1.
2484		sp_off [Default Off]
2485			By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
2486			has the capability. With this option, super page will
2487			not be supported.
2488		sm_on
2489			Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware
2490			advertises that it has support for the scalable mode
2491			translation.
2492		sm_off
2493			Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode.
2494		tboot_noforce [Default Off]
2495			Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
2496			By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
2497			could harm performance of some high-throughput
2498			devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
2499			mapping is enabled.
2500			Note that using this option lowers the security
2501			provided by tboot because it makes the system
2502			vulnerable to DMA attacks.
2503
2504	intel_idle.max_cstate=	[KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
2505			0	disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
2506			1 to 9	specify maximum depth of C-state.
2507
2508	intel_pstate=	[X86,EARLY]
2509			disable
2510			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
2511			  scaling driver for the supported processors
2512                        active
2513                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
2514                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
2515                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
2516                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
2517                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
2518                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
2519                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
2520                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
2521                          and possibly on the processor model.
2522			passive
2523			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
2524			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
2525			  enabling its internal governor).  This mode cannot be
2526			  used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
2527			  feature.
2528			force
2529			  Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
2530			  in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
2531			  instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
2532			  as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
2533			  P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
2534			  should be used with caution. This option does not work with
2535			  processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
2536			  or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
2537			no_hwp
2538			  Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
2539			  if available.
2540			hwp_only
2541			  Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
2542			  hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
2543			support_acpi_ppc
2544			  Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
2545			  Description Table, specifies preferred power management
2546			  profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
2547			  then this feature is turned on by default.
2548			per_cpu_perf_limits
2549			  Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
2550			  cpufreq sysfs interface
2551			no_cas
2552			  Do not enable capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) on
2553			  hybrid systems
2554
2555	intremap=	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY]
2556			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
2557			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
2558			nosid	disable Source ID checking
2559			no_x2apic_optout
2560				BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
2561			nopost	disable Interrupt Posting
2562			posted_msi
2563				enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts
2564
2565	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
2566		strict	regions from userspace.
2567		relaxed
2568
2569	iommu=		[X86,EARLY]
2570
2571		off
2572			Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
2573
2574		force
2575			Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when
2576			it is not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB
2577			memory).
2578
2579		noforce
2580			Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not
2581			needed. (default).
2582
2583		biomerge
2584		panic
2585		nopanic
2586		merge
2587		nomerge
2588
2589		soft
2590			Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
2591			Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
2592			of an available hardware IOMMU.
2593
2594		pt
2595		nopt
2596		nobypass	[PPC/POWERNV]
2597			Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
2598
2599		AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options:
2600
2601		<size>
2602			Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
2603
2604		allowed
2605			Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets
2606
2607		fullflush
2608			Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
2609
2610		nofullflush
2611			Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
2612
2613		memaper[=<order>]
2614			Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size
2615			32MB<<order.  (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
2616
2617		merge
2618			Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
2619			(experimental).
2620
2621		nomerge
2622			Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
2623
2624		noaperture
2625			Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
2626
2627		noagp
2628			Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
2629
2630		panic
2631			Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
2632
2633	iommu.forcedac=	[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices.
2634			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2635			0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before
2636			  falling back to the full range if needed.
2637			1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range,
2638			  forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
2639			  greater than 32-bit addressing.
2640
2641	iommu.strict=	[ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
2642			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2643			0 - Lazy mode.
2644			  Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
2645			  invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
2646			  throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
2647			  Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
2648			  the relevant IOMMU driver.
2649			1 - Strict mode.
2650			  DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
2651			  synchronously.
2652			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}.
2653			Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the
2654			legacy driver-specific options takes precedence.
2655
2656	iommu.passthrough=
2657			[ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
2658			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2659			0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
2660			1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
2661			unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
2662
2663	iommu.debug_pagealloc=
2664			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
2665			parameter enables the feature at boot time. By default, it
2666			is disabled and the system behaves the same way as a kernel
2667			built without CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
2668			Format: { "0" | "1" }
2669			0 - Sanitizer disabled.
2670			1 - Sanitizer enabled, expect runtime overhead.
2671
2672	io7=		[HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems
2673			See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
2674			arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
2675
2676	io_delay=	[X86,EARLY] I/O delay method
2677		0x80
2678			Standard port 0x80 based delay
2679		0xed
2680			Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
2681		udelay
2682			Simple two microseconds delay
2683		none
2684			No delay
2685
2686	ip=		[IP_PNP]
2687			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
2688
2689	ipcmni_extend	[KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
2690			IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
2691
2692	ipe.enforce=	[IPE]
2693			Format: <bool>
2694			Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or
2695			enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce.
2696
2697	ipe.success_audit=
2698			[IPE]
2699			Format: <bool>
2700			Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting
2701			an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default
2702			is 0.
2703
2704	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2705			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
2706
2707	irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
2708			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2709			Format: <bool>
2710			Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
2711			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
2712			exposed by the device tree is too small.
2713
2714	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
2715			[ARM,ARM64,EARLY]
2716			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
2717			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
2718			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
2719			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
2720			LPIs.
2721
2722	irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY]
2723			Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
2724			requires the kernel to be built with
2725			CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
2726
2727	irqchip.riscv_imsic_noipi
2728			[RISC-V,EARLY]
2729			Force the kernel to not use IMSIC software injected MSIs
2730			as IPIs. Intended for system where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated,
2731			and thus want to reduce MMIO traps when triggering IPIs
2732			to multiple harts.
2733
2734	irqfixup	[HW]
2735			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2736			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2737			firmware running.
2738
2739	irqhandler.duration_warn_us= [KNL]
2740			Warn if an IRQ handler exceeds the specified duration
2741			threshold in microseconds. Useful for identifying
2742			long-running IRQs in the system.
2743
2744	irqpoll		[HW]
2745			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
2746			for it. Also check all handlers each timer
2747			interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
2748			firmware running.
2749
2750	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
2751			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
2752
2753	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
2754			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
2755			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
2756
2757			Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
2758			specified in the flag list (default: domain):
2759
2760			nohz
2761			  Disable the tick when a single task runs as well as
2762			  disabling other kernel noises like having RCU callbacks
2763			  offloaded. This is equivalent to the nohz_full parameter.
2764
2765			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
2766			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
2767			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
2768			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
2769			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
2770
2771			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
2772			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
2773			  be configured manually after bootup.
2774
2775			domain
2776			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
2777			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
2778			  is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
2779			  the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
2780			  advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
2781			  balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
2782			  It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
2783			  move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
2784
2785			  You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
2786			  the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
2787			  <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
2788			  "number of CPUs in system - 1".
2789
2790			managed_irq
2791
2792			  Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts
2793			  which have an interrupt mask containing isolated
2794			  CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is
2795			  handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via
2796			  the /proc/irq/* interfaces.
2797
2798			  This isolation is best effort and only effective
2799			  if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a
2800			  device queue contains isolated and housekeeping
2801			  CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such
2802			  interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU
2803			  so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU
2804			  cannot disturb the isolated CPU.
2805
2806			  If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated
2807			  CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the
2808			  interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are
2809			  only delivered when tasks running on those
2810			  isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on
2811			  housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those
2812			  queues.
2813
2814			The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
2815
2816	iucv=		[HW,NET]
2817
2818	ivrs_ioapic	[HW,X86-64]
2819			Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2820			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2821			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2822
2823			For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
2824			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2825			write the parameter as:
2826				ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0
2827
2828			Deprecated formats:
2829			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0
2830			  write the parameter as:
2831				ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
2832			* To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2833			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2834				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2835
2836	ivrs_hpet	[HW,X86-64]
2837			Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
2838			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2839			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2840
2841			For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to
2842			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0,
2843			write the parameter as:
2844				ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0
2845
2846			Deprecated formats:
2847			* To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0
2848			  write the parameter as:
2849				ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
2850			* To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2851			  PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
2852				ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0
2853
2854	ivrs_acpihid	[HW,X86-64]
2855			Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
2856			mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table.
2857			By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted.
2858
2859			For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
2860			PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5,
2861			write the parameter as:
2862				ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5
2863
2864			Deprecated formats:
2865			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0,
2866			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2867				ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2868			* To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and
2869			  PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as:
2870				ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
2871
2872	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
2873			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
2874
2875	kasan_multi_shot
2876			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
2877			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
2878			parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
2879			invalid access.
2880
2881	keep_bootcon	[KNL,EARLY]
2882			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
2883			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
2884			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
2885			the real console.
2886
2887	keepinitrd	[HW,ARM] See retain_initrd.
2888
2889	kernelcore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
2890			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
2891			This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
2892			the kernel for non-movable allocations.  The requested
2893			amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
2894			system as ZONE_NORMAL.  The remaining memory is used for
2895			movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE.  In the
2896			event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
2897			ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
2898			other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
2899
2900			ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
2901			may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
2902			subsystem.  Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
2903			still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
2904			zone if it does not.
2905
2906			It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
2907			the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
2908			memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror".  If "mirror"
2909			option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
2910			for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
2911			for Movable pages.  "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
2912			are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
2913
2914	kfence.burst=	[MM,KFENCE] The number of additional successive
2915			allocations to be attempted through KFENCE for each
2916			sample interval.
2917			Format: <unsigned integer>
2918			Default: 0
2919
2920	kfence.check_on_panic=
2921			[MM,KFENCE] Whether to check all KFENCE-managed objects'
2922			canaries on panic.
2923			Format: <bool>
2924			Default: false
2925
2926	kfence.deferrable=
2927			[MM,KFENCE] Whether to use a deferrable timer to trigger
2928			allocations. This avoids forcing CPU wake-ups if the
2929			system is idle, at the risk of a less predictable
2930			sample interval.
2931			Format: <bool>
2932			Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE
2933
2934	kfence.fault=	[MM,KFENCE] Controls the behavior when a KFENCE
2935			error is detected.
2936			report - print the error report and continue (default).
2937			oops   - print the error report and oops.
2938			panic  - print the error report and panic.
2939
2940	kfence.sample_interval=
2941			[MM,KFENCE] KFENCE's sample interval in milliseconds.
2942			Format: <unsigned integer>
2943			 0 - Disable KFENCE.
2944			>0 - Enabled KFENCE with given sample interval.
2945			Default: CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL
2946
2947	kfence.skip_covered_thresh=
2948			[MM,KFENCE] If pool utilization reaches this threshold
2949			(pool usage%), KFENCE limits currently covered
2950			allocations of the same source from further filling
2951			up the pool.
2952			Format: <unsigned integer>
2953			Default: 75
2954
2955	kgdbdbgp=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
2956			Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
2957			The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
2958			port as it is probed via PCI.  The poll interval is
2959			optional and is the number seconds in between
2960			each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
2961			the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
2962			gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection.  When
2963			not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
2964			the kernel debugger.
2965
2966	kgdboc=		[KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
2967			Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
2968			or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
2969			 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
2970			 keyboard only format: kbd
2971			 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2972			Optional Kernel mode setting:
2973			 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2974			 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
2975
2976	kgdboc_earlycon=	[KGDB,HW,EARLY]
2977			If the boot console provides the ability to read
2978			characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
2979			this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
2980			until the normal console is registered. Intended to
2981			be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
2982			specifies the normal console to transition to.
2983
2984			The name of the early console should be specified
2985			as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
2986			the early console might be different than the tty
2987			name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value
2988			blank and the first boot console that implements
2989			read() will be picked.
2990
2991	kgdbwait	[KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2992			kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2993
2994	kho=		[KEXEC,EARLY]
2995			Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" | "y" | "n" }
2996			Enables or disables Kexec HandOver.
2997			"0" | "off" | "n" - kexec handover is disabled
2998			"1" | "on" | "y" - kexec handover is enabled
2999
3000	kho_scratch=	[KEXEC,EARLY]
3001			Format: ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG] | nn%
3002			Defines the size of the KHO scratch region. The KHO
3003			scratch regions are physically contiguous memory
3004			ranges that can only be used for non-kernel
3005			allocations. That way, even when memory is heavily
3006			fragmented with handed over memory, the kexeced
3007			kernel will always have enough contiguous ranges to
3008			bootstrap itself.
3009
3010			It is possible to specify the exact amount of
3011			memory in the form of "ll[KMG],mm[KMG],nn[KMG]"
3012			where the first parameter defines the size of a low
3013			memory scratch area, the second parameter defines
3014			the size of a global scratch area and the third
3015			parameter defines the size of additional per-node
3016			scratch areas.  The form "nn%" defines scale factor
3017			(in percents) of memory that was used during boot.
3018
3019	kmac=		[MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address.
3020			Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
3021			Ethernet adapter MAC address.
3022
3023	kmemleak=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
3024			Valid arguments: on, off
3025			Default: on
3026			Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
3027			the default is off.
3028
3029	kprobe_event=[probe-list]
3030			[FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
3031			The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
3032			definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
3033			interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
3034			For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
3035			arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
3036
3037			      kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
3038
3039			See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
3040			Boot Parameter" section.
3041
3042	kpti=		[ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of
3043			user and kernel address spaces.
3044			Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
3045			0: force disabled
3046			1: force enabled
3047
3048	kunit.enable=	[KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires
3049			CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The
3050			default value can be overridden via
3051			KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
3052			Default is 1 (enabled)
3053
3054	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
3055			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
3056
3057	kvm.eager_page_split=
3058			[KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to
3059			proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging.
3060			Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU
3061			execution by eliminating the write-protection faults
3062			and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be
3063			required to split huge pages lazily.
3064
3065			VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write
3066			only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from
3067			disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to
3068			still be used for reads.
3069
3070			The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether
3071			KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If
3072			disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly
3073			split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If
3074			enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during
3075			the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being
3076			cleared.
3077
3078			Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y.
3079
3080			Default is Y (on).
3081
3082	kvm.enable_pmu=[KVM,X86]
3083			If enabled, KVM will virtualize PMU functionality based
3084			on the virtual CPU model defined by userspace.  This
3085			can be overridden on a per-VM basis via
3086			KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY.
3087
3088			If disabled, KVM will not virtualize PMU functionality,
3089			e.g. MSRs, PMCs, PMIs, etc., even if userspace defines
3090			a virtual CPU model that contains PMU assets.
3091
3092			Note, KVM's vPMU support implicitly requires running
3093			with an in-kernel local APIC, e.g. to deliver PMIs to
3094			the guest.  Running without an in-kernel local APIC is
3095			not supported, though KVM will allow such a combination
3096			(with severely degraded functionality).
3097
3098			See also enable_mediated_pmu.
3099
3100			Default is Y (on).
3101
3102	kvm.enable_virt_at_load=[KVM,ARM64,LOONGARCH,MIPS,RISCV,X86]
3103			If enabled, KVM will enable virtualization in hardware
3104			when KVM is loaded, and disable virtualization when KVM
3105			is unloaded (if KVM is built as a module).
3106
3107			If disabled, KVM will dynamically enable and disable
3108			virtualization on-demand when creating and destroying
3109			VMs, i.e. on the 0=>1 and 1=>0 transitions of the
3110			number of VMs.
3111
3112			Enabling virtualization at module load avoids potential
3113			latency for creation of the 0=>1 VM, as KVM serializes
3114			virtualization enabling across all online CPUs.  The
3115			"cost" of enabling virtualization when KVM is loaded,
3116			is that doing so may interfere with using out-of-tree
3117			hypervisors that want to "own" virtualization hardware.
3118
3119	kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
3120				   Default is false (don't support).
3121
3122	kvm.nx_huge_pages=
3123			[KVM] Controls the software workaround for the
3124			X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug.
3125			force	: Always deploy workaround.
3126			off	: Never deploy workaround.
3127			auto    : Deploy workaround based on the presence of
3128				  X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT.
3129
3130			Default is 'auto'.
3131
3132			If the software workaround is enabled for the host,
3133			guests do need not to enable it for nested guests.
3134
3135	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio=
3136			[KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped
3137			back to huge pages.  0 disables the recovery, otherwise if
3138			the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every
3139			period (see below).  The default is 60.
3140
3141	kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms=
3142			[KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages
3143			back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will
3144			zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs.
3145			If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based
3146			on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average.
3147
3148	kvm-{amd,intel}.enable_mediated_pmu=[KVM,AMD,INTEL]
3149			If enabled, KVM will provide a mediated virtual PMU,
3150			instead of the default perf-based virtual PMU (if
3151			kvm.enable_pmu is true and PMU is enumerated via the
3152			virtual CPU model).
3153
3154			With a perf-based vPMU, KVM operates as a user of perf,
3155			i.e. emulates guest PMU counters using perf events.
3156			KVM-created perf events are managed by perf as regular
3157			(guest-only) events, e.g. are scheduled in/out, contend
3158			for hardware resources, etc.  Using a perf-based vPMU
3159			allows guest and host usage of the PMU to co-exist, but
3160			incurs non-trivial overhead and can result in silently
3161			dropped guest events (due to resource contention).
3162
3163			With a mediated vPMU, hardware PMU state is context
3164			switched around the world switch to/from the guest.
3165			KVM mediates which events the guest can utilize, but
3166			gives the guest direct access to all other PMU assets
3167			when possible (KVM may intercept some accesses if the
3168			virtual CPU model provides a subset of hardware PMU
3169			functionality).  Using a mediated vPMU significantly
3170			reduces PMU virtualization overhead and eliminates lost
3171			guest events, but is mutually exclusive with using perf
3172			to profile KVM guests and adds latency to most VM-Exits
3173			(to context switch PMU state).
3174
3175			Default is N (off).
3176
3177	kvm-amd.nested=	[KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in
3178			KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled).
3179
3180	kvm-amd.npt=	[KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables,
3181			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1
3182			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3183			for NPT.
3184
3185	kvm-amd.ciphertext_hiding_asids=
3186			[KVM,AMD] Ciphertext hiding prevents disallowed accesses
3187			to SNP private memory from reading ciphertext.  Instead,
3188			reads will see constant default values (0xff).
3189
3190			If ciphertext hiding is enabled, the joint SEV-ES and
3191			SEV-SNP ASID space is partitioned into separate SEV-ES
3192			and SEV-SNP ASID ranges, with the SEV-SNP range being
3193			[1..max_snp_asid] and the SEV-ES range being
3194			(max_snp_asid..min_sev_asid), where min_sev_asid is
3195			enumerated by CPUID.0x.8000_001F[EDX].
3196
3197			A non-zero value enables SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding and
3198			adjusts the ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.
3199			KVM caps the number of SEV-SNP ASIDs at the maximum
3200			possible value, e.g. specifying -1u will assign all
3201			joint SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASIDs to SEV-SNP.  Note,
3202			assigning all joint ASIDs to SEV-SNP, i.e. configuring
3203			max_snp_asid == min_sev_asid-1, will effectively make
3204			SEV-ES unusable.
3205
3206	kvm-arm.mode=
3207			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of
3208			operation.
3209
3210			none: Forcefully disable KVM.
3211
3212			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
3213			      protected guests.
3214
3215			protected: Mode with support for guests whose state is
3216				   kept private from the host, using VHE or
3217				   nVHE depending on HW support.
3218
3219			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
3220				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4
3221				hardware (with FEAT_NV2).
3222
3223			Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting
3224			mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation
3225			for the host. To force nVHE on VHE hardware, add
3226			"arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0" to the
3227			command-line.
3228			"nested" and "protected" are experimental and should be
3229			used with extreme caution.
3230
3231	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
3232			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
3233			system registers
3234
3235	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
3236			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
3237			system registers
3238
3239	kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
3240			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
3241			system registers
3242
3243	kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
3244			[KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct
3245			injection of LPIs.
3246
3247	kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy=
3248			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for
3249			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3250			CPU architecture.
3251
3252			trap: set WFE instruction trap
3253
3254			notrap: clear WFE instruction trap
3255
3256	kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy=
3257			[KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for
3258			KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the
3259			CPU architecture.
3260
3261			trap: set WFI instruction trap
3262
3263			notrap: clear WFI instruction trap
3264
3265	kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY]
3266			Reserves given percentage from system memory area for
3267			contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable
3268			allocation.
3269			By default it reserves 5% of total system memory.
3270			Format: <integer>
3271			Default: 5
3272
3273	kvm-intel.ept=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables,
3274			a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables.  Default is 1
3275			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3276			for EPT.
3277
3278	kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
3279			[KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest
3280			state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1,
3281			as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted
3282			guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2),
3283			as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state.
3284			Default is 1 (enabled).
3285
3286	kvm-intel.flexpriority=
3287			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature
3288			(TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if
3289			hardware lacks support for it.
3290
3291	kvm-intel.nested=
3292			[KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in
3293			KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled).
3294
3295	kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
3296			[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest
3297			feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default
3298			is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or
3299			hardware lacks support for it.
3300
3301	kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
3302			CVE-2018-3620.
3303
3304			Valid arguments: never, cond, always
3305
3306			always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
3307			cond:	Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
3308				VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
3309			never:	Disables the mitigation
3310
3311			Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
3312
3313	kvm-intel.vpid=	[KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor
3314			Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1
3315			(enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support
3316			for it.
3317
3318	l1d_flush=	[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3319			Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability.
3320
3321			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3322			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3323			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3324
3325			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3326			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3327			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3328			not have direct access.
3329
3330			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
3331			options are:
3332
3333			on         - enable the interface for the mitigation
3334
3335	l1tf=           [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
3336			      affected CPUs
3337
3338			The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
3339			enabled and cannot be disabled.
3340
3341			full
3342				Provides all available mitigations for the
3343				L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
3344				enables all mitigations in the
3345				hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
3346
3347				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3348				sysfs interface is still possible after
3349				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3350				when the first VM is started in a
3351				potentially insecure configuration,
3352				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3353
3354			full,force
3355				Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
3356				flush runtime control. Implies the
3357				'nosmt=force' command line option.
3358				(i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
3359
3360			flush
3361				Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
3362				hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
3363				L1D flush.
3364
3365				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3366				sysfs interface is still possible after
3367				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3368				when the first VM is started in a
3369				potentially insecure configuration,
3370				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3371
3372			flush,nosmt
3373
3374				Disables SMT and enables the default
3375				hypervisor mitigation.
3376
3377				SMT control and L1D flush control via the
3378				sysfs interface is still possible after
3379				boot.  Hypervisors will issue a warning
3380				when the first VM is started in a
3381				potentially insecure configuration,
3382				i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
3383
3384			flush,nowarn
3385				Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
3386				warn when a VM is started in a potentially
3387				insecure configuration.
3388
3389			off
3390				Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
3391				emit any warnings.
3392				It also drops the swap size and available
3393				RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
3394				bare metal.
3395
3396			Default is 'flush'.
3397
3398			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
3399
3400	l2cr=		[PPC]
3401
3402	l3cr=		[PPC]
3403
3404	lapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
3405			disabled it.
3406
3407	lapic=		[X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline
3408			value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
3409			back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
3410			Format: notscdeadline
3411
3412	lapic_timer_c2_ok	[X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer
3413			in C2 power state.
3414
3415	libata.dma=	[LIBATA] DMA control
3416			libata.dma=0	  Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
3417			libata.dma=1	  PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
3418			libata.dma=2	  ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
3419			libata.dma=4	  Compact Flash DMA only
3420			Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
3421			for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
3422
3423	libata.ignore_hpa=	[LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
3424			libata.ignore_hpa=0	  keep BIOS limits (default)
3425			libata.ignore_hpa=1	  ignore limits, using full disk
3426
3427	libata.noacpi	[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
3428			when set.
3429			Format: <int>
3430
3431	libata.force=	[LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is a comma-
3432			separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE].
3433			PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link
3434			or device.  Basically, it matches the ATA ID string
3435			printed on console by libata.  If the whole ID part is
3436			omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used.  If
3437			ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies
3438			to all ports, links and devices.
3439
3440			If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
3441			the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
3442			number of 0 either selects the first device or the
3443			first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
3444			select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
3445			host link and device attached to it.
3446
3447			The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
3448			as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed.
3449			For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
3450			The following configurations can be forced.
3451
3452			* Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
3453			  Any ID with matching PORT is used.
3454
3455			* SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
3456
3457			* Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
3458			  udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
3459			  allowed.
3460
3461			* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both
3462			  resets.
3463
3464			* rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug
3465			  link recovery.
3466
3467			* [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay
3468			  before debouncing a link PHY and device presence
3469			  detection.
3470
3471			* [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
3472
3473			* [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM.
3474
3475			* [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset.
3476
3477			* [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM.
3478
3479			* trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data.
3480
3481			* max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit.
3482
3483			* [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers.
3484
3485			* atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support.
3486
3487			* atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for
3488			  commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes.
3489
3490			* [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the
3491			  READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs.
3492
3493			* [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the
3494			  identify device data log.
3495
3496			* [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general
3497			  purpose log directory.
3498
3499			* max_sec=<sectors>: Set the transfer size limit, in
3500			  number of 512-byte sectors, to the value specified in
3501			  <sectors>. The value specified in <sectors> has to be
3502			  a non-zero positive integer.
3503
3504			* max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors.
3505
3506			* max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3507			  1024 sectors.
3508
3509			* max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to
3510			  65535 sectors.
3511
3512			* external: Mark port as external (hotplug-capable).
3513
3514			* [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management.
3515
3516			* [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting
3517			  should be skipped.
3518
3519			* [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access)
3520			  support for devices supporting this feature.
3521
3522			* dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data.
3523
3524			* disable: Disable this device.
3525
3526			If there are multiple matching configurations changing
3527			the same attribute, the last one is used.
3528
3529	liveupdate=	[KNL,EARLY]
3530			Format: <bool>
3531			Enable Live Update Orchestrator (LUO).
3532			Default: off.
3533
3534	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.
3535			Format: <integer>
3536
3537	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.
3538			Format: <integer>
3539
3540	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.
3541			Format: <integer>
3542
3543	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.
3544			Format: <integer>
3545
3546	lockdown=	[SECURITY,EARLY]
3547			{ integrity | confidentiality }
3548			Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to
3549			integrity, kernel features that allow userland to
3550			modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
3551			confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland
3552			to extract confidential information from the kernel
3553			are also disabled.
3554
3555	locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL]
3556			Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock
3557			acquisition.  Acquisitions exceeding this limit
3558			will result in a splat once they do complete.
3559
3560	locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL]
3561			Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are
3562			to be bound.
3563
3564	locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL]
3565			Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are
3566			to be bound.
3567
3568	locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL]
3569			Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu()
3570			chains to set up.  These are used to ensure that
3571			there is a high probability of an RCU grace period
3572			in progress at any given time.	Defaults to 0,
3573			which disables these call_rcu() chains.
3574
3575	locktorture.long_hold= [KNL]
3576			Specify the duration in milliseconds for the
3577			occasional long-duration lock hold time.  Defaults
3578			to 100 milliseconds.  Select 0 to disable.
3579
3580	locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL]
3581			Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that
3582			locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8
3583			(MAX_NESTED_LOCKS).  Specify zero to disable.
3584			Note that this parameter is ineffective on types
3585			of locks that do not support nested acquisition.
3586
3587	locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
3588			Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
3589			Defaults to being automatically set based on the
3590			number of online CPUs.
3591
3592	locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
3593			Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
3594
3595	locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
3596			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
3597
3598	locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
3599			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
3600			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
3601
3602	locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL]
3603			Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority
3604			boosting.  Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost
3605			only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally.
3606			Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an
3607			odd choice, but which should be harmless for
3608			non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling
3609			of preemption.	Note that non-realtime mutexes
3610			disable boosting.
3611
3612	locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL]
3613			Number that determines how often and for how
3614			long priority boosting is exercised.  This is
3615			scaled down by the number of writers, so that the
3616			number of boosts per unit time remains roughly
3617			constant as the number of writers increases.
3618			On the other hand, the duration of each boost
3619			increases with the number of writers.
3620
3621	locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
3622			Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies).  Shuffling
3623			tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
3624			mode during the locktorture test.
3625
3626	locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
3627			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
3628			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
3629
3630	locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
3631			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
3632
3633	locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
3634			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
3635			specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
3636			five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
3637			This tests the locking primitive's ability to
3638			transition abruptly to and from idle.
3639
3640	locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
3641			Specify the locking implementation to test.
3642
3643	locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
3644			Enable additional printk() statements.
3645
3646	locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL]
3647			Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at
3648			sched_set_fifo() real-time priority.
3649
3650	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
3651			Format: <irq>
3652
3653	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
3654			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
3655			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
3656			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
3657			loglevels are defined as follows:
3658
3659			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
3660			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
3661			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
3662			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
3663			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
3664			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
3665			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
3666			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
3667
3668	log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY]
3669			Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes.
3670			n must be a power of two and greater than the
3671			minimal size. The minimal size is defined by
3672			LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There
3673			is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config
3674			parameter that allows to increase the default size
3675			depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig
3676			for more details.
3677
3678	logo.nologo	[FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
3679			This may be used to provide more screen space for
3680			kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
3681			kernel boot problems.
3682
3683	lp=0		[LP]	Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
3684	lp=port[,port...]	lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
3685	lp=reset		first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
3686	lp=auto			printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
3687				specified in addition to the ports) causes
3688				attached printers to be reset. Using
3689				lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
3690				to associate lp devices with, starting with
3691				lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
3692				that lp device, or a parport name such as
3693				'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
3694				port specification list means that device IDs
3695				from each port should be examined, to see if
3696				an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
3697				so, the driver will manage that printer.
3698				See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
3699
3700	lpj=n		[KNL]
3701			Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
3702			time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
3703			CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
3704			the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
3705			autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
3706			on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
3707			which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
3708			significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
3709			will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
3710			unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
3711			unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
3712			hardware.
3713
3714	lsm.debug	[SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
3715
3716	lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
3717			[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
3718			overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
3719
3720	machtype=	[Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between
3721			different yeeloong laptops.
3722			Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
3723
3724	maxcpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3725			will bring up during bootup.  maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
3726			the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
3727			bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
3728			"echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
3729			only takes effect during system bootup.
3730			While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
3731			which also disables the IO APIC.
3732
3733	max_loop=	[LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
3734	(loop.max_loop)	unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
3735			number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
3736			of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
3737			devices can be requested on-demand with the
3738			/dev/loop-control interface.
3739
3740	mce=		[X86-{32,64}]
3741
3742			Please see Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables.
3743
3744		off
3745			disable machine check
3746
3747		no_cmci
3748			disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that
3749			Intel processor supports.  Usually this disablement is
3750			not recommended, but it might be handy if your
3751			hardware is misbehaving.
3752
3753			Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than
3754			with due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get
3755			duplicated error logs.
3756
3757		dont_log_ce
3758			don't make logs for corrected errors.  All events
3759			reported as corrected are silently cleared by OS. This
3760			option will be useful if you have no interest in any
3761			of corrected errors.
3762
3763		ignore_ce
3764			disable features for corrected errors, e.g.
3765			polling timer and CMCI.  All events reported as
3766			corrected are not cleared by OS and remained in its
3767			error banks.
3768
3769			Usually this disablement is not recommended, however
3770			if there is an agent checking/clearing corrected
3771			errors (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring
3772			applications), conflicting with OS's error handling,
3773			and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option
3774			will be a help.
3775
3776		no_lmce
3777			do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
3778			to broadcast MCEs.
3779
3780		bootlog
3781			enable logging of machine checks left over from
3782			booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
3783			because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
3784
3785			If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to
3786			enable though to make sure you log even machine check
3787			events that result in a reboot. On Intel systems it is
3788			enabled by default.
3789
3790		nobootlog
3791			disable boot machine check logging.
3792
3793		monarchtimeout (number)
3794			sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine
3795			checks. 0 to disable.
3796
3797		bios_cmci_threshold
3798			don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot
3799			option prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI
3800			threshold set by the bios.  Without this option, Linux
3801			always sets the CMCI threshold to 1. Enabling this may
3802			make memory predictive failure analysis less effective
3803			if the bios sets thresholds for memory errors since we
3804			will not see details for all errors.
3805
3806		recovery
3807			force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
3808
3809			Everything else is in sysfs now.
3810
3811
3812	md=		[HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
3813			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
3814
3815	mdacon=		[MDA]
3816			Format: <first>,<last>
3817			Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
3818
3819	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
3820			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
3821			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
3822
3823			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
3824			internal buffers which can forward information to a
3825			disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
3826
3827			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
3828			forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
3829			attack, to access data to which the attacker does
3830			not have direct access.
3831
3832			This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
3833			options are:
3834
3835			full       - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
3836			full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
3837				     SMT on vulnerable CPUs
3838			off        - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
3839
3840			On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by
3841			an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are
3842			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
3843			this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off
3844			too.
3845
3846			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
3847			mds=full.
3848
3849			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
3850
3851	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size.
3852			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
3853
3854	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount
3855			of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases
3856			as follows:
3857
3858			1 for test;
3859			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3860			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
3861			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
3862			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
3863
3864			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
3865			high memory is not affected.
3866
3867			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
3868			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
3869
3870			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
3871			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
3872			Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
3873			belonging to unused RAM.
3874
3875			Note that this only takes effects during boot time since
3876			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
3877			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
3878
3879	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3880			[ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout
3881			reported by firmware.
3882			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
3883			ss[KMG].
3884			Multiple different regions can be specified with
3885			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
3886
3887	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
3888			memory.
3889
3890	memblock=debug	[KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages.
3891
3892	memchunk=nn[KMG]
3893			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
3894			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
3895
3896	memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable
3897			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
3898			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
3899			set according to the
3900			CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel config
3901			options.
3902			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
3903
3904	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact
3905			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
3906			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
3907			BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
3908			option description.
3909
3910	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
3911			[KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
3912			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
3913			If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
3914			which limits max address to nn[KMG].
3915			Multiple different regions can be specified,
3916			comma delimited.
3917			Example:
3918				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
3919
3920	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
3921			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
3922			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
3923
3924	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
3925			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved.
3926			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
3927			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
3928			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
3929			         or
3930			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
3931			Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
3932			like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
3933			will be eaten.
3934
3935	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY]
3936			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
3937			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
3938			The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
3939			and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
3940
3941	memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
3942			[KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region
3943			from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
3944			out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
3945			even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
3946			out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
3947			specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
3948			3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
3949
3950	memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY]
3951			Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
3952			memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
3953			Setting this option will scan the memory
3954			looking for corruption.  Enabling this will
3955			both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
3956			from using the memory being corrupted.
3957			However, it's intended as a diagnostic tool; if
3958			repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
3959			affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
3960			to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
3961
3962	memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY]
3963			By default it checks for corruption in the low
3964			64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
3965			use.  Use this parameter to scan for
3966			corruption in more or less memory.
3967
3968	memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY]
3969			By default it checks for corruption every 60
3970			seconds.  Use this parameter to check at some
3971			other rate.  0 disables periodic checking.
3972
3973	memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
3974			[KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
3975			Format: {on | off (default)}
3976			When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
3977			allocate its internal metadata (struct pages,
3978			those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even
3979			if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the
3980			hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a
3981			lot of memory without requiring additional
3982			memory to do so.
3983			This feature is disabled by default because it
3984			has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
3985			allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
3986			memory blocks).
3987			The state of the flag can be read in
3988			/sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
3989			Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
3990			the feature is not effective.
3991
3992	memtest=	[KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest
3993			Format: <integer>
3994			default : 0 <disable>
3995			Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
3996			performed. Each pass selects another test
3997			pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
3998			fills the memory with this pattern, validates
3999			memory contents and reserves bad memory
4000			regions that are detected.
4001
4002	mem_encrypt=	[X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
4003			Valid arguments: on, off
4004			Default: off
4005			mem_encrypt=on:		Activate SME
4006			mem_encrypt=off:	Do not activate SME
4007
4008			Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
4009			for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
4010
4011	mem_sleep_default=	[SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
4012			s2idle  - Suspend-To-Idle
4013			shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
4014			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
4015			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
4016
4017	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
4018			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
4019			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
4020			problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
4021
4022	mga=		[HW,DRM]
4023
4024	microcode=      [X86] Control the behavior of the microcode loader.
4025	                Available options, comma separated:
4026
4027			base_rev=X - with <X> with format: <u32>
4028			Set the base microcode revision of each thread when in
4029			debug mode.
4030
4031			dis_ucode_ldr: disable the microcode loader
4032
4033			force_minrev:
4034			Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision
4035			enforcement for the runtime microcode loader.
4036
4037	mini2440=	[ARM,HW,KNL]
4038			Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
4039			Default: "0tb"
4040			MINI2440 configuration specification:
4041			0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
4042			1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
4043			2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
4044			Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
4045			the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
4046			unconfigured.
4047			b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
4048			linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
4049			LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
4050			VGA shield.
4051			c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
4052			t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
4053			touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
4054			kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
4055			in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
4056			https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
4057
4058	mitigations=
4059			[X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for
4060			CPU vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
4061			arch-independent options, each of which is an
4062			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
4063
4064			Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
4065			kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
4066
4067			off
4068				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
4069				improves system performance, but it may also
4070				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
4071				Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
4072					       gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
4073					       indirect_target_selection=off [X86]
4074					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
4075					       l1tf=off [X86]
4076					       mds=off [X86]
4077					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
4078					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
4079					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
4080					       nobp=0 [S390]
4081					       nopti [X86,PPC]
4082					       nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
4083					       nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
4084					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
4085					       reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86]
4086					       retbleed=off [X86]
4087					       spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86]
4088					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
4089					       spectre_bhi=off [X86]
4090					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
4091					       srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
4092					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
4093					       tsa=off [X86,AMD]
4094					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
4095					       vmscape=off [X86]
4096
4097				Exceptions:
4098					       This does not have any effect on
4099					       kvm.nx_huge_pages when
4100					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=force.
4101
4102			auto (default)
4103				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
4104				enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
4105				users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
4106				getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
4107				have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
4108				Equivalent to: (default behavior)
4109
4110			auto,nosmt
4111				Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
4112				if needed.  This is for users who always want to
4113				be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
4114				Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
4115					       mds=full,nosmt [X86]
4116					       tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86]
4117					       mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86]
4118					       retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86]
4119
4120			[X86] After one of the above options, additionally
4121			supports attack-vector based controls as documented in
4122			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
4123
4124	mminit_loglevel=
4125			[KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
4126			parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
4127			the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
4128			of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
4129			log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
4130			so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
4131
4132	mmio_stale_data=
4133			[X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor
4134			MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities.
4135
4136			Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of
4137			vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO
4138			operation. Exposed data could originate or end in
4139			the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA.
4140			Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation
4141			is to clear the affected CPU buffers.
4142
4143			This parameter controls the mitigation. The
4144			options are:
4145
4146			full       - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
4147
4148			full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on
4149				     vulnerable CPUs.
4150
4151			off        - Unconditionally disable mitigation
4152
4153			On MDS or TAA affected machines,
4154			mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active
4155			MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are
4156			mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to
4157			disable this mitigation, you need to specify
4158			mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too.
4159
4160			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4161			mmio_stale_data=full.
4162
4163			For details see:
4164			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
4165
4166	<module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL]
4167			If no <bool> value is specified or if the value
4168			specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous
4169			probe on this module.  Otherwise, enable/disable
4170			asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the
4171			<bool> value. See also: module.async_probe
4172
4173	module.async_probe=<bool>
4174			[KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing
4175			by default. To enable/disable async probing for a
4176			specific module, use the module specific control that
4177			is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both
4178			module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are
4179			specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for
4180			the specific module.
4181
4182	module.enable_dups_trace
4183			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set,
4184			this means that duplicate request_module() calls will
4185			trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that
4186			if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s
4187			will always be issued and this option does nothing.
4188	module.sig_enforce
4189			[KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
4190			modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
4191			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
4192			is always true, so this option does nothing.
4193
4194	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
4195			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
4196
4197	mousedev.tap_time=
4198			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
4199			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
4200			a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
4201			touchpads working in absolute mode only).
4202			Format: <msecs>
4203	mousedev.xres=	[MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
4204			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4205	mousedev.yres=	[MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
4206			reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
4207
4208	movablecore=	[KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY]
4209			Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
4210			This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
4211			specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
4212			allocations.  If both kernelcore and movablecore is
4213			specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
4214			specified value but may be more.  If movablecore on its
4215			own is specified, the administrator must be careful
4216			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
4217			is not too small.
4218
4219	movable_node	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
4220			NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
4221			of such nodes will be usable only for movable
4222			allocations which rules out almost all kernel
4223			allocations. Use with caution!
4224
4225	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
4226			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
4227
4228	MTD_Region=	[MTD] Format:
4229			<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
4230
4231	mtdparts=	[MTD]
4232			See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
4233
4234	mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
4235			[HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
4236			('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
4237
4238	mtrr=debug	[X86,EARLY]
4239			Enable printing debug information related to MTRR
4240			registers at boot time.
4241
4242	mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4243			used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
4244			that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
4245
4246	mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY]
4247			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
4248			Default is 1.
4249			Large value could prevent small alignment from
4250			using up MTRRs.
4251
4252	mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY]
4253			Format: <integer>
4254			Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
4255			Default : 1
4256			Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
4257			Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
4258
4259	multitce=off	[PPC]  This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
4260			firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
4261			at a time.
4262
4263	n2=		[NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
4264
4265	netdev=		[NET] Network devices parameters
4266			Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
4267			Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
4268			something different and driver-specific.
4269			This usage is only documented in each driver source
4270			file if at all.
4271
4272	netpoll.carrier_timeout=
4273			[NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
4274			netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
4275			waits 4 seconds.
4276
4277	nf_conntrack.acct=
4278			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
4279			0 to disable accounting
4280			1 to enable accounting
4281			Default value is 0.
4282
4283	nfs.cache_getent=
4284			[NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
4285			to update the NFS client cache entries.
4286
4287	nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
4288			[NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
4289			update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
4290
4291	nfs.callback_nr_threads=
4292			[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
4293			NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
4294			requests.
4295
4296	nfs.callback_tcpport=
4297			[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
4298			channel should listen.
4299
4300	nfs.delay_retrans=
4301			[NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
4302			retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
4303			after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
4304			Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
4305			and the specified value is >= 0.
4306
4307	nfs.enable_ino64=
4308			[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
4309			If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
4310			number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
4311			of returning the full 64-bit number.
4312			The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
4313
4314	nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
4315			[NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
4316			entries.
4317
4318	nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
4319			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
4320			slots the client will assign to the callback
4321			channel. This determines the maximum number of
4322			callbacks the client will process in parallel for
4323			a particular server.
4324
4325	nfs.max_session_slots=
4326			[NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
4327			the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
4328			This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
4329			that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
4330			Note that there is little point in setting this
4331			value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
4332
4333	nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4334			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
4335			ensures that both the RPC level authentication
4336			scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
4337			numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
4338			'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
4339			disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
4340			legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
4341			Servers that do not support this mode of operation
4342			will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
4343			back to using the idmapper.
4344			To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
4345
4346	nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
4347			[NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
4348			ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
4349			their nfs_client_id4 string.  This is typically a
4350			UUID that is generated at system install time.
4351
4352	nfs.recover_lost_locks=
4353			[NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
4354			to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
4355			doing this risks data corruption, since there are
4356			no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
4357			after the locks are lost.
4358			If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
4359			attempting to recover these locks, then set this
4360			parameter to '1'.
4361			The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
4362			not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
4363
4364	nfs.send_implementation_id=
4365			[NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
4366			information in exchange_id requests.
4367			If zero, no implementation identification information
4368			will be sent.
4369			The default is to send the implementation identification
4370			information.
4371
4372	nfs4.layoutstats_timer=
4373			[NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
4374			layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
4375
4376			Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
4377			whatever value is the default set by the layout
4378			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
4379			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
4380
4381	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable=
4382			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
4383			server-to-server copies for which this server is
4384			the destination of the copy.
4385
4386	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
4387			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
4388			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
4389			clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
4390			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
4391			migration from NFSv2/v3.
4392
4393	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout=
4394			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
4395			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
4396			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
4397			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
4398			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
4399			this parameter.
4400
4401	nfsaddrs=	[NFS] Deprecated.  Use ip= instead.
4402			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4403
4404	nfsroot=	[NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
4405			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4406
4407	nfsrootdebug	[NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
4408			See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
4409
4410	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
4411			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
4412			NMI stack-backtrace request.
4413
4414	nmi_debug=	[KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
4415			when a NMI is triggered.
4416			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
4417
4418	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
4419			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num]
4420			Valid num: 0 or 1
4421			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
4422			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
4423			rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN
4424
4425			When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
4426			timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
4427			watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
4428			To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
4429			please see 'nowatchdog'.
4430			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
4431			need the box quickly up again.
4432
4433			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
4434			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
4435
4436	no387		[BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
4437			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
4438			is present.
4439
4440	no4lvl		[RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes.
4441			Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead.
4442
4443	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
4444			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
4445
4446	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
4447
4448	noapic		[SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
4449			IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
4450
4451	noapictimer	[APIC,X86] Don't set up the APIC timer
4452
4453	noautogroup	Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
4454
4455	nocache		[ARM,EARLY]
4456
4457	no_console_suspend
4458			[HW] Never suspend the console
4459			Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
4460			hibernate operations.  Once disabled, debugging
4461			messages can reach various consoles while the rest
4462			of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
4463			debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
4464			not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
4465			to work with serial and VGA consoles.
4466			To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
4467			console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
4468			it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
4469			/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
4470			turn on/off it dynamically.
4471
4472	no_debug_objects
4473			[KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging
4474
4475	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
4476
4477	noefi		[EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support.
4478
4479	no_entry_flush  [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
4480
4481	noexec32	[X86-64]
4482			This affects only 32-bit executables.
4483			noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
4484				read doesn't imply executable mappings
4485			noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
4486				read implies executable mappings
4487
4488	no_file_caps	Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities.  The
4489			only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
4490			is to be setuid root or executed by root.
4491
4492	nofpu		[MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
4493
4494	nofsgsbase	[X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions.
4495
4496	nofxsr		[BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4497			register save and restore. The kernel will only save
4498			legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
4499
4500	nogbpages	[X86] Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
4501
4502	no_hash_pointers
4503			[KNL,EARLY]
4504			Alias for "hash_pointers=never".
4505
4506	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
4507
4508	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to
4509			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
4510			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
4511			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
4512			sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work
4513			correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate
4514			the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also
4515			useful when using JTAG debugger.
4516
4517	nohpet		[X86] Don't use the HPET timer.
4518
4519	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
4520
4521	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
4522
4523	nohz=		[KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
4524			Valid arguments: on, off
4525			Default: on
4526
4527	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
4528			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
4529			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
4530			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
4531			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
4532			the range to maintain the timekeeping.  Any CPUs
4533			in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
4534			just as if they had also been called out in the
4535			rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
4536
4537			Note that this argument takes precedence over
4538			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
4539
4540	noinitrd	[Deprecated,RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
4541			initial RAM disk. Currently this parameter applies to
4542			initrd only, not to initramfs. But it applies to both
4543			in EFI mode.
4544
4545	nointremap	[X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt
4546			remapping.
4547			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
4548
4549	noinvpcid	[X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
4550
4551	noiotrap	[SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
4552
4553	noirqdebug	[X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
4554			disable unhandled interrupt sources.
4555
4556	noisapnp	[ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
4557
4558	nokaslr		[KNL,EARLY]
4559			When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
4560			kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
4561			Layout Randomization).
4562
4563	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
4564			fault handling.
4565
4566	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
4567
4568	nolapic		[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
4569
4570	nolapic_timer	[X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer.
4571
4572	nomce		[X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
4573
4574	nomfgpt		[X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
4575			Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
4576
4577	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware
4578			sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory
4579			for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will
4580			not load if they could possibly displace the pre-
4581			initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will
4582			be available for use. The respective drivers will not
4583			perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering.
4584
4585			Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging.
4586
4587	nomodule	Disable module load
4588
4589	nonmi_ipi	[X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
4590			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
4591			irq.
4592
4593	nopat		[X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
4594			pagetables) support.
4595
4596	nopcid		[X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
4597
4598	nopku		[X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
4599			in some Intel CPUs.
4600
4601	nopti		[X86-64,EARLY]
4602			Equivalent to pti=off
4603
4604	nopv=		[X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY]
4605			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
4606			as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
4607			XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
4608
4609	nopvspin	[X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY]
4610			Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
4611			which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
4612			contention.
4613
4614	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
4615			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
4616
4617	noreplace-smp	[X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
4618			with UP alternatives
4619
4620	noresume	[SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
4621			space.
4622
4623	no-scroll	[VGA] Disables scrollback.
4624			This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
4625			reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
4626
4627	nosgx		[X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support.
4628
4629	nosmap		[PPC,EARLY]
4630			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
4631			even if it is supported by processor.
4632
4633	nosmep		[PPC64s,EARLY]
4634			Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
4635			even if it is supported by processor.
4636
4637	nosmp		[SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
4638			and disable the IO APIC.  legacy for "maxcpus=0".
4639
4640	nosmt		[KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4641			Equivalent to smt=1.
4642
4643			[KNL,LOONGARCH,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
4644			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
4645				     via the sysfs control file.
4646
4647	nosoftlockup	[KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
4648
4649	nospec_store_bypass_disable
4650			[HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative
4651			Store Bypass vulnerability
4652
4653	nospectre_bhb	[ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch
4654			history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks
4655			with this option.
4656
4657	nospectre_v1	[X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
4658			(bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
4659			possible in the system.
4660
4661	nospectre_v2	[X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations
4662			for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch
4663			prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data
4664			leaks with this option.
4665
4666	no-steal-acc	[X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY]
4667			Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time
4668			is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour
4669
4670	nosync		[HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
4671
4672	no_timer_check	[X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for broken
4673			timer IRQ sources, i.e., the IO-APIC timer. This can
4674			work around problems with incorrect timer
4675			initialization on some boards.
4676
4677	no_uaccess_flush
4678	                [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
4679
4680	novmcoredd	[KNL,KDUMP]
4681			Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
4682			append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
4683			specified debug info.  Drivers can append the data
4684			without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
4685			so this may cause significant memory stress.  Disabling
4686			device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
4687			data will be no longer available.  This parameter
4688			is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
4689			is set.
4690
4691	no-vmw-sched-clock
4692			[X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware
4693			scheduler clock and use the default one.
4694
4695	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
4696			soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
4697
4698	nowb		[ARM,EARLY]
4699
4700	nox2apic	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
4701
4702			NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the
4703			LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the
4704			IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR.
4705
4706	noxsave		[BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
4707			and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
4708			enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
4709
4710	noxsaveopt	[X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
4711			register states. The kernel will fall back to use
4712			xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
4713			performance of saving the states is degraded because
4714			xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
4715			xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
4716
4717	noxsaves	[X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
4718			restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
4719			form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
4720			xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
4721			in standard form of xsave area. By using this
4722			parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
4723			memory on xsaves enabled systems.
4724
4725	nr_cpus=	[SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
4726			could support.  nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
4727			support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
4728			number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
4729			runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
4730			n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
4731			variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
4732			hot plugging.
4733
4734	nr_uarts=	[SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
4735
4736	numa=off 	[KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY]
4737			Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
4738			spanning all memory.
4739
4740	numa=fake=<size>[MG]
4741			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4742			If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with
4743			nodes of size interleaved over physical nodes.
4744
4745	numa=fake=<N>
4746			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4747			If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N
4748			fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes.
4749
4750	numa=fake=<N>U
4751			[KNL, ARM64, RISCV, X86, EARLY]
4752			If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will
4753			divide each physical node into N emulated nodes.
4754
4755	numa=noacpi	[X86] Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
4756
4757	numa=nohmat	[X86] Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or
4758			soft-reserved memory partitioning.
4759
4760	numa_balancing=	[KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
4761			NUMA balancing.
4762			Allowed values are enable and disable
4763
4764	numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
4765			'node', 'default' can be specified
4766			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
4767			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
4768
4769	nvme.quirks=    [NVME] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4770			nvme quirk list. List entries are separated by a
4771			'-' character.
4772			Each entry has the form VendorID:ProductID:quirk_names.
4773			The IDs are 4-digits hex numbers and quirk_names is a
4774			list of quirk names separated by commas. A quirk name
4775			can be prefixed by '^', meaning that the specified
4776			quirk must be disabled.
4777
4778			Example:
4779			nvme.quirks=7710:2267:bogus_nid,^identify_cns-9900:7711:broken_msi
4780
4781	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
4782			See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more
4783			info.
4784
4785	olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
4786			Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
4787			command is not properly ACKed, override the length
4788			of the timeout.  We have interrupts disabled while
4789			waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
4790			interrupts *may* be lost!
4791
4792	omap_mux=	[OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
4793			Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
4794			For example, to override I2C bus2:
4795			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
4796
4797	onenand.bdry=	[HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
4798
4799			Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
4800
4801			boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
4802				   The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
4803			lock	 - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
4804				   Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
4805				   1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
4806
4807	oops=panic	[KNL,EARLY]
4808			Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
4809			process, but there is a small probability of
4810			deadlocking the machine.
4811			This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
4812			Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
4813
4814	page_alloc.shuffle=
4815			[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
4816			should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
4817			used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
4818			the flag can be read from sysfs at:
4819			/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
4820			This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
4821
4822	page_owner=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
4823			Storage of the information about who allocated
4824			each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
4825			we can turn it on.
4826			on: enable the feature
4827
4828	page_poison=	[KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
4829			poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
4830			CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
4831			off: turn off poisoning (default)
4832			on: turn on poisoning
4833
4834	page_reporting.page_reporting_order=
4835			[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
4836			Format: <integer>
4837			Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
4838			reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
4839
4840	panic=		[KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4841			timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
4842			timeout = 0: wait forever
4843			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
4844			Format: <timeout>
4845
4846	panic_on_taint=	[KNL,EARLY]
4847			Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint()
4848			Format: <hex>[,nousertaint]
4849			Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags
4850			that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is
4851			called with any of the flags in this set.
4852			The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to
4853			prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl
4854			/proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the
4855			bitmask set on panic_on_taint.
4856			See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for
4857			extra details on the taint flags that users can pick
4858			to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint.
4859
4860	panic_on_warn=1	panic() instead of WARN().  Useful to cause kdump
4861			on a WARN().
4862
4863	panic_force_cpu=
4864			[KNL,SMP] Force panic handling to execute on a specific CPU.
4865			Format: <cpu number>
4866			Some platforms require panic handling to occur on a
4867			specific CPU for the crash kernel to function correctly.
4868			This can be due to firmware limitations, interrupt routing
4869			constraints, or platform-specific requirements where only
4870			a particular CPU can safely enter the crash kernel.
4871			When set, panic() will redirect execution to the specified
4872			CPU before proceeding with the normal panic and kexec flow.
4873			If the target CPU is offline or unavailable, panic proceeds
4874			on the current CPU.
4875			This option should only be used for systems with the above
4876			constraints as it might cause the panic operation to be less reliable.
4877
4878	panic_print=	Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
4879			User can chose combination of the following bits:
4880			bit 0: print all tasks info
4881			bit 1: print system memory info
4882			bit 2: print timer info
4883			bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4884			bit 4: print ftrace buffer
4885			bit 5: replay all kernel messages on consoles at the end of panic
4886			bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4887			bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4888			*Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines,
4889			so there are risks of losing older messages in the log.
4890			Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a
4891			bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this.
4892
4893	panic_sys_info= A comma separated list of extra information to be dumped
4894                        on panic.
4895                        Format: val[,val...]
4896                        Where @val can be any of the following:
4897
4898                        tasks:          print all tasks info
4899                        mem:            print system memory info
4900			timers:         print timers info
4901                        locks:          print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
4902                        ftrace:         print ftrace buffer
4903                        all_bt:         print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch)
4904                        blocked_tasks:  print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state
4905
4906                        This is a human readable alternative to the 'panic_print' option.
4907
4908	panic_console_replay
4909			When panic happens, replay all kernel messages on
4910			consoles at the end of panic.
4911
4912	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
4913			connected to, default is 0.
4914			Format: <parport#>
4915	parkbd.mode=	[HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
4916			0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
4917			Format: <mode>
4918
4919	parport=	[HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
4920			Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
4921			Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
4922			IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
4923			ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
4924			possible conflicts). You can specify the base
4925			address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
4926			should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
4927			settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
4928			(to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
4929			Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
4930			are specified on the command line, starting
4931			with parport0.
4932
4933	parport_init_mode=	[HW,PPT]
4934			Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
4935			a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
4936			computer where firmware has no options for setting
4937			up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
4938			Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
4939			Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
4940
4941	pata_legacy.all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4942			Format: <int>
4943			Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA
4944			port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device
4945			has been found at either range.  Disabled by default.
4946
4947	pata_legacy.autospeed=	[HW,LIBATA]
4948			Format: <int>
4949			Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed
4950			changes.  Disabled by default.
4951
4952	pata_legacy.ht6560a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4953			Format: <int>
4954			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel,
4955			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4956			Disabled by default.
4957
4958	pata_legacy.ht6560b=	[HW,LIBATA]
4959			Format: <int>
4960			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel,
4961			the secondary channel, or both channels respectively.
4962			Disabled by default.
4963
4964	pata_legacy.iordy_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4965			Format: <int>
4966			IORDY enable mask.  Set individual bits to allow IORDY
4967			for the respective channel.  Bit 0 is for the first
4968			legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for
4969			the second channel, and so on.  The sequence will often
4970			correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary
4971			legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI
4972			bus and the use of other driver options may interfere
4973			with the sequence.  By default IORDY is allowed across
4974			all channels.
4975
4976	pata_legacy.opti82c46x=	[HW,LIBATA]
4977			Format: <int>
4978			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary
4979			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4980			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4981
4982	pata_legacy.opti82c611a=	[HW,LIBATA]
4983			Format: <int>
4984			Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary
4985			channel, the secondary channel, or both channels
4986			respectively.  Disabled by default.
4987
4988	pata_legacy.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
4989			Format: <int>
4990			PIO mode mask for autospeed devices.  Set individual
4991			bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes.
4992			Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.
4993			All modes allowed by default.
4994
4995	pata_legacy.probe_all=	[HW,LIBATA]
4996			Format: <int>
4997			Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA
4998			port ranges on PCI systems.  Disabled by default.
4999
5000	pata_legacy.probe_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
5001			Format: <int>
5002			Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports.  Depending on
5003			platform configuration and the use of other driver
5004			options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0,
5005			0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing
5006			of individual ports can be disabled by setting the
5007			corresponding bits in the mask to 1.  Bit 0 is for
5008			the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on.
5009			By default all supported ports are probed.
5010
5011	pata_legacy.qdi=	[HW,LIBATA]
5012			Format: <int>
5013			Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers.  By default
5014			set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise.
5015
5016	pata_legacy.winbond=	[HW,LIBATA]
5017			Format: <int>
5018			Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers.  Use
5019			the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the
5020			value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0).
5021			By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE,
5022			0 otherwise.
5023
5024	pata_platform.pio_mask=	[HW,LIBATA]
5025			Format: <int>
5026			Supported PIO mode mask.  Set individual bits to allow
5027			the use of the respective PIO modes.  Bit 0 is for
5028			mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on.  Mode 0 only
5029			allowed by default.
5030
5031	pause_on_oops=<int>
5032			Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
5033			the specified number of seconds.  This is to be used if
5034			your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
5035
5036	pci=option[,option...]	[PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options.
5037
5038				Some options herein operate on a specific device
5039				or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
5040				specified in one of the following formats:
5041
5042				[<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
5043				pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
5044
5045				Note: the first format specifies a PCI
5046				bus/device/function address which may change
5047				if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
5048				firmware changes, or due to changes caused
5049				by other kernel parameters. If the
5050				domain is left unspecified, it is
5051				taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
5052				to a device through multiple device/function
5053				addresses can be specified after the base
5054				address (this is more robust against
5055				renumbering issues).  The second format
5056				selects devices using IDs from the
5057				configuration space which may match multiple
5058				devices in the system.
5059
5060		earlydump	dump PCI config space before the kernel
5061				changes anything
5062		off		[X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
5063		bios		[X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
5064				the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
5065				has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
5066		nobios		[X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
5067				hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
5068				if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
5069				suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
5070		conf1		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
5071				Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
5072				data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
5073		conf2		[X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
5074				Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
5075				the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
5076				bus number. The config space is then accessed
5077				through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
5078				See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
5079				on the configuration access mechanisms.
5080		noaer		[PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
5081				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5082				disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
5083		nodomains	[PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
5084				root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
5085		nommconf	[X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
5086				Configuration
5087		check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
5088				properly configured MMIO access to PCI
5089				config space on AMD family 10h CPU
5090		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
5091				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
5092				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
5093		noioapicquirk	[APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
5094				Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
5095				should never be necessary.
5096		ioapicreroute	[APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
5097				primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
5098				boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
5099				when the system masks IRQs.
5100		noioapicreroute	[APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
5101				boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
5102				a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
5103				The opposite of ioapicreroute.
5104		biosirq		[X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
5105				routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
5106				on several machines and they hang the machine
5107				when used, but on other computers it's the only
5108				way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
5109				this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
5110				IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
5111				motherboard.
5112		rom		[X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
5113				Use with caution as certain devices share
5114				address decoders between ROMs and other
5115				resources.
5116		norom		[X86] Do not assign address space to
5117				expansion ROMs that do not already have
5118				BIOS assigned address ranges.
5119		nobar		[X86] Do not assign address space to the
5120				BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
5121		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
5122				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
5123				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
5124				this way.
5125		pirqaddr=0xAAAAA	[X86] Specify the physical address
5126				of the PIRQ table (normally generated
5127				by the BIOS) if it is outside the
5128				F0000h-100000h range.
5129		lastbus=N	[X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
5130				useful if the kernel is unable to find your
5131				secondary buses and you want to tell it
5132				explicitly which ones they are.
5133		assign-busses	[X86] Always assign all PCI bus
5134				numbers ourselves, overriding
5135				whatever the firmware may have done.
5136		usepirqmask	[X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
5137				in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
5138				some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
5139				some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
5140				notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
5141				IRQ routing is enabled.
5142		noacpi		[X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
5143				or for PCI scanning.
5144		use_crs		[X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
5145				from ACPI.  On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
5146				is enabled by default.  If you need to use this,
5147				please report a bug.
5148		nocrs		[X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
5149				If you need to use this, please report a bug.
5150		use_e820	[X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of
5151				PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround
5152				for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods.
5153				If you need to use this, please report a bug to
5154				<linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5155		no_e820		[X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host
5156				bridge windows. This is the default on modern
5157				hardware. If you need to use this, please report
5158				a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>.
5159		routeirq	Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
5160				This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
5161				so this option is a temporary workaround
5162				for broken drivers that don't call it.
5163		skip_isa_align	[X86] do not align io start addr, so can
5164				handle more pci cards
5165		noearly		[X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
5166				This might help on some broken boards which
5167				machine check when some devices' config space
5168				is read. But various workarounds are disabled
5169				and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
5170		bfsort		Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5171				This sorting is done to get a device
5172				order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
5173		nobfsort	Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
5174		pcie_bus_tune_off	Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
5175				tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
5176		pcie_bus_safe	Set every device's MPS to the largest value
5177				supported by all devices below the root complex.
5178		pcie_bus_perf	Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
5179				based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
5180				Read Request Size) to the largest supported
5181				value (no larger than the MPS that the device
5182				or bus can support) for best performance.
5183		pcie_bus_peer2peer	Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
5184				every device is guaranteed to support. This
5185				configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
5186				any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
5187				reduced performance.  This also guarantees
5188				that hot-added devices will work.
5189		cbiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5190				reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
5191				The default value is 256 bytes.
5192		cbmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5193				reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
5194				window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
5195		resource_alignment=
5196				Format:
5197				[<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
5198				Specifies alignment and device to reassign
5199				aligned memory resources. How to
5200				specify the device is described above.
5201				If <order of align> is not specified,
5202				PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
5203				A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource
5204				windows need to be expanded.
5205				To specify the alignment for several
5206				instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
5207				device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
5208				specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
5209				for 4096-byte alignment.
5210		ecrc=		Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
5211				end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if
5212				OS has native AER control (either granted by
5213				ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native")
5214				bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
5215				the default.
5216				off: Turn ECRC off
5217				on: Turn ECRC on.
5218		hpiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5219				reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
5220				Default size is 256 bytes.
5221		hpmmiosize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5222				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window.
5223				Default size is 2 megabytes.
5224		hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5225				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window.
5226				Default size is 2 megabytes.
5227		hpmemsize=nn[KMG]	The fixed amount of bus space which is
5228				reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and
5229				MMIO_PREF window.
5230				Default size is 2 megabytes.
5231		hpbussize=nn	The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
5232				reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
5233				Default is 1.
5234		realloc=	Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
5235				if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
5236				accommodate resources required by all child
5237				devices.
5238				off: Turn realloc off
5239				on: Turn realloc on
5240		realloc		same as realloc=on
5241		noari		do not use PCIe ARI.
5242		noats		[PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
5243				do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
5244		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
5245				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
5246				port.
5247		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
5248				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
5249				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
5250				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
5251				conflict with unreported devices), so this
5252				taints the kernel.
5253		disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
5254				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5255				specified above) separated by semicolons.
5256				Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
5257				redirect capabilities forced off which will
5258				allow P2P traffic between devices through
5259				bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
5260				this removes isolation between devices and
5261				may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5262		config_acs=
5263				Format:
5264				<ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...]
5265				Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
5266				specified above) optionally prepended with flags
5267				and separated by semicolons. The respective
5268				capabilities will be enabled, disabled or
5269				unchanged based on what is specified in
5270				flags.
5271
5272				ACS Flags is defined as follows:
5273				  bit-0 : ACS Source Validation
5274				  bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking
5275				  bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect
5276				  bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect
5277				  bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding
5278				  bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control
5279				  bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P
5280				Each bit can be marked as:
5281				  '0' – force disabled
5282				  '1' – force enabled
5283				  'x' – unchanged
5284				For example,
5285				  pci=config_acs=10x@pci:0:0
5286				would configure all devices that support
5287				ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable
5288				Translation Blocking, and leave Source
5289				Validation unchanged from whatever power-up
5290				or firmware set it to.
5291
5292				Note: this may remove isolation between devices
5293				and may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
5294		force_floating	[S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
5295		nomio		[S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
5296		norid		[S390] ignore the RID field and force use of
5297				one PCI domain per PCI function
5298		notph		[PCIE] If the PCIE_TPH kernel config parameter
5299				is enabled, this kernel boot option can be used
5300				to disable PCIe TLP Processing Hints support
5301				system-wide.
5302
5303	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power
5304			Management.
5305		off	Don't touch ASPM configuration at all.  Leave any
5306			configuration done by firmware unchanged.
5307		force	Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
5308			WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
5309
5310	pcie_ports=	[PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
5311		native	Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
5312			even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
5313			use them.  This may cause conflicts if the platform
5314			also tries to use these services.
5315		dpc-native	Use native PCIe service for DPC only.  May
5316				cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC.
5317		compat	Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
5318			hotplug).
5319
5320	pcie_port_pm=	[PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
5321		off	Disable power management of all PCIe ports
5322		force	Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
5323
5324	pcie_pme=	[PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
5325		nomsi	Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
5326			all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
5327
5328	pcmv=		[HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
5329
5330	pd_ignore_unused
5331			[PM]
5332			Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
5333			even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
5334			for debug and development, but should not be
5335			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
5336
5337	pdcchassis=	[PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
5338			boot time.
5339			Format: { 0 | 1 }
5340			See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
5341
5342	percpu_alloc=	[MM,EARLY]
5343			Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
5344			Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
5345			Archs may support subset or none of the	selections.
5346			See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
5347			allocator.  This parameter is primarily	for debugging
5348			and performance comparison.
5349
5350	pirq=		[SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
5351			See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
5352
5353	plip=		[PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
5354			Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
5355			See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
5356
5357	pmtmr=		[X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
5358			Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
5359			e.g. pmtmr=0x508
5360
5361	pmu_override=	[PPC] Override the PMU.
5362			This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no
5363			longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the
5364			PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is
5365			cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to
5366			that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1
5367			remains 0.
5368
5369	pm_async=	[PM]
5370			Format: off
5371			This parameter sets the initial value of the
5372			/sys/power/pm_async sysfs knob at boot time.
5373			If set to "off", disables asynchronous suspend and
5374			resume of devices during system-wide power transitions.
5375			This can be useful on platforms where device
5376			dependencies are not well-defined, or for debugging
5377			power management issues. Asynchronous operations are
5378			enabled by default.
5379
5380
5381	pm_debug_messages	[SUSPEND,KNL]
5382			Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up.
5383
5384	pnp.debug=1	[PNP]
5385			Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
5386			CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option).  Change at run-time
5387			via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug.  We always show
5388			current resource usage; turning this on also shows
5389			possible settings and some assignment information.
5390
5391	pnpacpi=	[ACPI]
5392			{ off }
5393
5394	pnpbios=	[ISAPNP]
5395			{ on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
5396
5397	pnp_reserve_irq=
5398			[ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
5399
5400	pnp_reserve_dma=
5401			[ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
5402
5403	pnp_reserve_io=	[ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
5404			Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
5405
5406	pnp_reserve_mem=
5407			[ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
5408			autoconfiguration.
5409			Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
5410
5411	ports=		[IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
5412			Default is 21.
5413			Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
5414			may be specified.
5415			Format: <port>,<port>....
5416
5417	possible_cpus=  [SMP,S390,X86]
5418			Format: <unsigned int>
5419			Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the
5420			regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc).
5421
5422	powersave=off	[PPC] This option disables power saving features.
5423			It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
5424			platform machine description specific power_save
5425			function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
5426			execution priority.
5427
5428	ppc_strict_facility_enable
5429			[PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point,
5430			Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
5431			allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
5432			There is some performance impact when enabling this.
5433
5434	ppc_tm=		[PPC,EARLY]
5435			Format: {"off"}
5436			Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
5437
5438	preempt=	[KNL]
5439			Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
5440			none - Limited to cond_resched() calls
5441			voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls
5442			full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled
5443			       can be preempted anytime.  Tasks will also yield
5444			       contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't
5445			       explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself).
5446			lazy - Scheduler controlled. Similar to full but instead
5447			       of preempting the task immediately, the task gets
5448			       one HZ tick time to yield itself before the
5449			       preemption will be forced. One preemption is when the
5450			       task returns to user space.
5451
5452	print-fatal-signals=
5453			[KNL] debug: print fatal signals
5454
5455			If enabled, warn about various signal handling
5456			related application anomalies: too many signals,
5457			too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
5458			coredump - etc.
5459
5460			If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
5461			you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
5462
5463			default: off.
5464
5465	printk.always_kmsg_dump=
5466			Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
5467			panics
5468			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5469			default: disabled
5470
5471	printk.console_no_auto_verbose=
5472			Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic
5473			or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on).
5474			With an exception to setups with low baudrate on
5475			serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice
5476			in order to provide more debug information.
5477			Format: <bool>
5478			default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled)
5479
5480	printk.debug_non_panic_cpus=
5481			Allows storing messages from non-panic CPUs into
5482			the printk log buffer during panic(). They are
5483			flushed to consoles by the panic-CPU on
5484			a best-effort basis.
5485			Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5486			Default: disabled
5487
5488	printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
5489			Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
5490			on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
5491			off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
5492			ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
5493			Default: ratelimit
5494
5495	printk.time=	Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
5496			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5497
5498	proc_mem.force_override= [KNL]
5499			Format: {always | ptrace | never}
5500			Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be
5501			overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to
5502			restrict that. Can be one of:
5503			- 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides.
5504			- 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers.
5505			- 'never':  never allow mem overrides.
5506			If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice.
5507
5508	processor.max_cstate=	[HW,ACPI]
5509			Limit processor to maximum C-state
5510			max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
5511
5512	processor.nocst	[HW,ACPI]
5513			Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
5514			instead using the legacy FADT method
5515
5516	profile=	[KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
5517			Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
5518			Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm"
5519				[defaults to kernel profiling]
5520			Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
5521			Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
5522			Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
5523				statistical time based profiling.
5524
5525	prot_virt=	[S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines
5526			isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports
5527			that). If enabled, the default kernel base address
5528			might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space
5529			Layout Randomization is disabled.
5530			Format: <bool>
5531
5532	psi=		[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
5533			tracking.
5534			Format: <bool>
5535
5536	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
5537			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
5538	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
5539			per second.
5540	psmouse.resetafter=	[HW,MOUSE]
5541			Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
5542			(0 = never).
5543	psmouse.resolution=
5544			[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
5545	psmouse.smartscroll=
5546			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
5547			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
5548
5549	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
5550
5551	pti=		[X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
5552			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
5553			removes hardening, but improves performance of
5554			system calls and interrupts.
5555
5556			on   - unconditionally enable
5557			off  - unconditionally disable
5558			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
5559			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
5560
5561			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
5562
5563	pty.legacy_count=
5564			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
5565			default number.
5566
5567	quiet		[KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages
5568
5569	r128=		[HW,DRM]
5570
5571	radix_hcall_invalidate=on  [PPC/PSERIES]
5572			Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB
5573			invalidate.
5574
5575	raid=		[HW,RAID]
5576			See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
5577
5578	ramdisk_size=	[RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
5579			See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
5580
5581	ramdisk_start=	[Deprecated,RAM] RAM disk image start address
5582
5583	random.trust_cpu=off
5584			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's
5585			random number generator (if available) to
5586			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5587
5588	random.trust_bootloader=off
5589			[KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed
5590			passed by the bootloader (if available) to
5591			initialize the kernel's RNG.
5592
5593	randomize_kstack_offset=
5594			[KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset
5595			randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of
5596			entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks
5597			that depend on stack address determinism or
5598			cross-syscall address exposures. This is only
5599			available on architectures that have defined
5600			CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET.
5601			Format: <bool>  (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
5602			Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT.
5603
5604	ras=option[,option,...]	[KNL] RAS-specific options
5605
5606		cec_disable	[X86]
5607				Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
5608				see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
5609
5610	rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list]
5611			[KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list,
5612			as described above.
5613
5614			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y,
5615			enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents
5616			such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in
5617			softirq context.  Invocation of such CPUs' RCU
5618			callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N"
5619			kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is
5620			"p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g"
5621			for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and
5622			"N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on
5623			the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC
5624			and real-time workloads.  It can also improve
5625			energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
5626
5627			If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified
5628			list of	CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot.
5629
5630			Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist
5631			arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to
5632			no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be
5633			toggled at runtime via cpusets.
5634
5635			Note that this argument takes precedence over
5636			the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option.
5637
5638	rcu_nocb_poll	[KNL]
5639			Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
5640			(specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
5641			awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
5642			make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
5643			This improves the real-time response for the
5644			offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
5645			wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
5646			energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
5647			periodically wake up to do the polling.
5648
5649	rcutree.blimit=	[KNL]
5650			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
5651			process in one batch.
5652
5653	rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall=	[KNL]
5654			Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when
5655			there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait.
5656
5657	rcutree.do_rcu_barrier=	[KNL]
5658			Request a call to rcu_barrier().  This is
5659			throttled so that userspace tests can safely
5660			hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose.
5661			If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery
5662			is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN.
5663
5664	rcutree.dump_tree=	[KNL]
5665			Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
5666			out at early boot.  This is used for diagnostic
5667			purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
5668
5669	rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=	[KNL]
5670			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5671			RCU grace-period cleanup.
5672
5673	rcutree.gp_init_delay=	[KNL]
5674			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5675			RCU grace-period initialization.
5676
5677	rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=	[KNL]
5678			Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
5679			RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
5680			the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
5681			the rcu_node combining tree.
5682
5683	rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
5684			Set delay from grace-period initialization to
5685			first attempt to force quiescent states.
5686			Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
5687			and maximum value is HZ.
5688
5689	rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
5690			Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
5691			quiescent states.  Units are jiffies, minimum
5692			value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
5693
5694	rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
5695			Set required age in jiffies for a
5696			given grace period before RCU starts
5697			soliciting quiescent-state help from
5698			rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
5699			If not specified, the kernel will calculate
5700			a value based on the most recent settings
5701			of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
5702			and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
5703			This calculated value may be viewed in
5704			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs.  Any attempt to set
5705			rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
5706			overwritten.
5707
5708	rcutree.kthread_prio= 	 [KNL,BOOT]
5709			Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
5710			kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
5711			the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
5712			and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
5713			rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
5714			set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
5715			(the least-favored priority).  Otherwise, when
5716			RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
5717			the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
5718			When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the
5719			priority of NOCB callback kthreads.
5720
5721	rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL]
5722			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs,
5723			RCU reduces the lock contention that would
5724			otherwise be caused by callback floods through
5725			use of the ->nocb_bypass list.	However, in the
5726			common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to
5727			the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra
5728			overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock.
5729			But if there are too many callbacks queued during
5730			a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into
5731			the ->nocb_bypass queue.  The definition of "too
5732			many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter.
5733
5734	rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL]
5735			On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid
5736			disturbing RCU unless the grace period has
5737			reached the specified age in milliseconds.
5738			Defaults to zero.  Large values will be capped
5739			at five seconds.  All values will be rounded down
5740			to the nearest value representable by jiffies.
5741
5742	rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
5743			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5744			batch limiting is disabled.
5745
5746	rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
5747			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
5748			batch limiting is re-enabled.
5749
5750	rcutree.qovld= [KNL]
5751			Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
5752			RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively
5753			enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to
5754			help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states.
5755			Set to less than zero to make this be set based
5756			on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to
5757			disable more aggressive help enlistment.
5758
5759	rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
5760			Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
5761			in response to low-memory conditions.  The range
5762			of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
5763
5764	rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL]
5765			Set the shift-right count to use to compute
5766			the callback-invocation batch limit bl from
5767			the number of callbacks queued on this CPU.
5768			The result will be bounded below by the value of
5769			the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter.  Every bl
5770			callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in
5771			order to allow the CPU to do other work.
5772
5773			Please note that this callback-invocation batch
5774			limit applies only to non-offloaded callback
5775			invocation.  Offloaded callbacks are instead
5776			invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which
5777			scheduler will preempt as it does any other task.
5778
5779	rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
5780			Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
5781			tree.  This is used by rcutorture, and might
5782			possibly be useful for architectures having high
5783			cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
5784
5785	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
5786			Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
5787			leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
5788			large systems, which will choose the value 64,
5789			and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
5790			latencies, which will choose a value aligned
5791			with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
5792
5793	rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL]
5794			Minimum number of objects which are cached and
5795			maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal
5796			to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the
5797			pressure to page allocator, also it makes the
5798			whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
5799			condition.
5800
5801	rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL]
5802			Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in
5803			each group, which defaults to the square root
5804			of the number of CPUs.	Larger numbers reduce
5805			the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period
5806			kthread, but increases that same overhead on
5807			each group's NOCB grace-period kthread.
5808
5809	rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
5810			Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
5811			wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
5812			it should at force-quiescent-state time.
5813			This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
5814			WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
5815
5816	rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL]
5817			Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU
5818			callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds.
5819			By default, this limit is checked only once
5820			every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain
5821			inflicted by local_clock() overhead.
5822
5823	rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL]
5824			In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels,
5825			this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay
5826			in microseconds.  This defaults to zero.
5827			Larger delays increase the probability of
5828			catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use
5829			of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant
5830			rcu_read_unlock() has completed.
5831
5832	rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
5833			Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
5834			rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
5835			why a new grace period has not yet started.
5836
5837	rcutree.use_softirq=	[KNL]
5838			If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
5839			per-CPU rcuc kthreads.  Defaults to a non-zero
5840			value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
5841			Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
5842
5843			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable
5844			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it
5845			to zero.
5846
5847	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL]
5848			To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after
5849			delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too
5850			big.
5851
5852	rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL]
5853			Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach
5854			maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it
5855			does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not
5856			use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a
5857			normal grace period.
5858
5859			How to enable it:
5860
5861			echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp
5862			or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1"
5863
5864			Default is 1 if num_possible_cpus() <= 16 and it is not explicitly
5865			disabled by the boot parameter passing 0.
5866
5867	rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL]
5868			Measure performance of asynchronous
5869			grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
5870
5871	rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL]
5872			Specify the maximum number of outstanding
5873			callbacks per writer thread.  When a writer
5874			thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
5875			corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
5876			previously posted callbacks to drain.
5877
5878	rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL]
5879			Measure performance of expedited synchronous
5880			grace-period primitives.
5881
5882	rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL]
5883			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
5884			this parameter is to delay the start of the
5885			test until boot completes in order to avoid
5886			interference.
5887
5888	rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL]
5889			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test
5890			call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu().
5891
5892	rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL]
5893			Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj,
5894			allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj).
5895			Defaults to 1.
5896
5897	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL]
5898			Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding.
5899
5900	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL]
5901			Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5902			If this parameter has the same value as
5903			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single-
5904			and double-argument variants are tested.
5905
5906	rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL]
5907			Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu().
5908			If this parameter has the same value as
5909			rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single-
5910			and double-argument variants are tested.
5911
5912	rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL]
5913			The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu().
5914
5915	rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL]
5916			Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration.
5917
5918	rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL]
5919			Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number
5920			of allocations and frees.
5921
5922	rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL]
5923			Set the minimum test run time in seconds.  This
5924			does not affect the data-collection interval,
5925			but instead allows better measurement of things
5926			like CPU consumption.
5927
5928	rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL]
5929			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
5930			N, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
5931			"n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
5932			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
5933			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
5934			A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
5935			a single reader.
5936
5937	rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL]
5938			Set number of RCU writers.  The values operate
5939			the same as for rcuscale.nreaders.
5940			N, where N is the number of CPUs
5941
5942	rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL]
5943			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
5944
5945	rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL]
5946			Shut the system down after performance tests
5947			complete.  This is useful for hands-off automated
5948			testing.
5949
5950	rcuscale.verbose= [KNL]
5951			Enable additional printk() statements.
5952
5953	rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
5954			Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
5955			in microseconds.  The default of zero says
5956			no holdoff.
5957
5958	rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL]
5959			Additional write-side holdoff between grace
5960			periods, but in jiffies.  The default of zero
5961			says no holdoff.
5962
5963	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
5964			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
5965			in microseconds.
5966
5967	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
5968			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
5969			in microseconds.
5970
5971	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
5972			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
5973			in seconds.
5974
5975	rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
5976			Specifies the number of kthreads to be used
5977			for  RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
5978			for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
5979			Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or
5980			greater than the number of CPUs cause the number
5981			of CPUs to be used.
5982
5983	rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
5984			Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
5985			period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
5986
5987	rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
5988			Number of seconds to wait between successive
5989			forward-progress tests.
5990
5991	rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
5992			Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
5993			need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
5994			testing.
5995
5996	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
5997			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
5998			normal-grace-period primitives, if available.
5999
6000	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp= [KNL]
6001			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6002			expedited-grace-period primitives, if available.
6003
6004	rcutorture.gp_cond_full= [KNL]
6005			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6006			normal-grace-period primitives that also take
6007			concurrent expedited grace periods into account,
6008			if available.
6009
6010	rcutorture.gp_cond_exp_full= [KNL]
6011			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
6012			expedited-grace-period primitives that also take
6013			concurrent normal grace periods into account,
6014			if available.
6015
6016	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi= [KNL]
6017			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
6018			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6019			gp_cond and gp_cond_full module parameters),
6020			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
6021			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
6022			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
6023			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
6024			with HZ=1000.
6025
6026	rcutorture.gp_cond_wi_exp= [KNL]
6027			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
6028			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6029			gp_cond_exp and gp_cond_exp_full module
6030			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
6031			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
6032			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
6033			128 microseconds.
6034
6035	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
6036			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
6037
6038	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
6039			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
6040			update-side primitives, if available.
6041
6042	rcutorture.gp_poll= [KNL]
6043			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
6044			primitives, if available.
6045
6046	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp= [KNL]
6047			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
6048			primitives, if available.
6049
6050	rcutorture.gp_poll_full= [KNL]
6051			Use polled update-side normal-grace-period
6052			primitives that also take concurrent expedited
6053			grace periods into account, if available.
6054
6055	rcutorture.gp_poll_exp_full= [KNL]
6056			Use polled update-side expedited-grace-period
6057			primitives that also take concurrent normal
6058			grace periods into account, if available.
6059
6060	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi= [KNL]
6061			Nominal wait interval for normal conditional
6062			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6063			gp_poll and gp_poll_full module parameters),
6064			in microseconds.  The actual wait interval will
6065			be randomly selected to nanosecond granularity up
6066			to this wait interval.	Defaults to 16 jiffies,
6067			for example, 16,000 microseconds on a system
6068			with HZ=1000.
6069
6070	rcutorture.gp_poll_wi_exp= [KNL]
6071			Nominal wait interval for expedited conditional
6072			grace periods (specified by rcutorture's
6073			gp_poll_exp and gp_poll_exp_full module
6074			parameters), in microseconds.  The actual wait
6075			interval will be randomly selected to nanosecond
6076			granularity up to this wait interval.  Defaults to
6077			128 microseconds.
6078
6079	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
6080			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
6081			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
6082			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
6083			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
6084			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
6085			they are all non-zero.
6086
6087	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag= [KNL]
6088			Enable grace-period wrap lag testing. Setting
6089			to false prevents the gpwrap lag test from
6090			running. Default is true.
6091
6092	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_gps= [KNL]
6093			Set the value for grace-period wrap lag during
6094			active lag testing periods. This controls how many
6095			grace periods differences we tolerate between
6096			rdp and rnp's gp_seq before setting overflow flag.
6097			The default is always set to 8.
6098
6099	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_cycle_mins= [KNL]
6100			Set the total cycle duration for gpwrap lag
6101			testing in minutes. This is the total time for
6102			one complete cycle of active and inactive
6103			testing periods. Default is 30 minutes.
6104
6105	rcutorture.gpwrap_lag_active_mins= [KNL]
6106			Set the duration for which gpwrap lag is active
6107			within each cycle, in minutes. During this time,
6108			the grace-period wrap lag will be set to the
6109			value specified by gpwrap_lag_gps. Default is
6110			5 minutes.
6111
6112	rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL]
6113			Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more
6114			accurately, from a timer handler.  Not all RCU
6115			flavors take kindly to this sort of thing.
6116
6117	rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL]
6118			Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader.
6119			This can of course result in splats, and is
6120			intended to test the ability of things like
6121			CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect
6122			such leaks.
6123
6124	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
6125			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
6126
6127	rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
6128			Set number of concurrent RCU writers.  These just
6129			stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
6130			test, hence the "fake".
6131
6132	rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL]
6133			Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers.
6134			Zero (the default) disables toggling.
6135
6136	rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL]
6137			Set the delay in milliseconds between successive
6138			callback-offload toggling attempts.
6139
6140	rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
6141			Set number of RCU readers.  The value -1 selects
6142			N-1, where N is the number of CPUs.  A value
6143			"n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
6144			the number of CPUs.  For example, -2 selects N
6145			(the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
6146
6147	rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
6148			Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
6149
6150	rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6151			Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
6152
6153	rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6154			Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
6155			or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
6156
6157	rcutorture.preempt_duration= [KNL]
6158			Set duration (in milliseconds) of preemptions
6159			by a high-priority FIFO real-time task.  Set to
6160			zero (the default) to disable.	The CPUs to
6161			preempt are selected randomly from the set that
6162			are online at a given point in time.  Races with
6163			CPUs going offline are ignored, with that attempt
6164			at preemption skipped.
6165
6166	rcutorture.preempt_interval= [KNL]
6167			Set interval (in milliseconds, defaulting to one
6168			second) between preemptions by a high-priority
6169			FIFO real-time task.  This delay is mediated
6170			by an hrtimer and is further fuzzed to avoid
6171			inadvertent synchronizations.
6172
6173	rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL]
6174			The number of times in a given read-then-exit
6175			episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads
6176			is spawned.
6177
6178	rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL]
6179			The delay, in seconds, between successive
6180			read-then-exit testing episodes.
6181
6182	rcutorture.reader_flavor= [KNL]
6183			A bit mask indicating which readers to use.
6184			If there is more than one bit set, the readers
6185			are entered from low-order bit up, and are
6186			exited in the opposite order.  For SRCU, the
6187			0x1 bit is normal readers, 0x2 NMI-safe readers,
6188			and 0x4 light-weight readers.
6189
6190	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
6191			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
6192			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
6193			during the rcutorture test.
6194
6195	rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6196			Set time (s) after boot system shutdown.  This
6197			is useful for hands-off automated testing.
6198
6199	rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
6200			Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
6201			warnings, zero to disable.
6202
6203	rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL]
6204			Sleep while stalling if set.  This will result
6205			in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to
6206			any other stall-related activity.  Note that
6207			in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and
6208			CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will
6209			cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state.
6210			Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress
6211			RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result
6212			in scheduling-while-atomic splats.
6213
6214			Use of this module parameter results in splats.
6215
6216
6217	rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
6218			Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
6219
6220	rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
6221			Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only
6222			on the first stall in the set.
6223
6224	rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL]
6225			Number of times to repeat the stall sequence,
6226			so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result
6227			in four stall sequences.
6228
6229	rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL]
6230			Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU
6231			grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall
6232			warnings, zero to disable.  If both stall_cpu
6233			and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the
6234			kthread is starved first, then the CPU.
6235
6236	rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6237			Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
6238
6239	rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
6240			Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
6241			five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
6242			wait for five seconds, and so on.  This tests RCU's
6243			ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
6244
6245	rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
6246			Test RCU priority boosting?  0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
6247			"Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
6248			under test support RCU priority boosting.
6249
6250	rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
6251			Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
6252
6253	rcutorture.test_boost_holdoff= [KNL]
6254			Holdoff time (s) from start of test to the start
6255			of RCU priority-boost testing.	Defaults to zero,
6256			that is, no holdoff.
6257
6258	rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
6259			Interval (s) between each boost test.
6260
6261	rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
6262			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
6263			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
6264
6265	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
6266			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
6267
6268	rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
6269			Enable additional printk() statements.
6270
6271	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL]
6272			Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU
6273			stall warning.
6274
6275	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL]
6276			Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the
6277			warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig
6278			option's help text.  TL;DR:  You almost certainly
6279			do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers.
6280
6281	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
6282			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6283
6284	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL]
6285			Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and
6286			rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur
6287			during early boot, that is, during the time
6288			before the init task is spawned.
6289
6290	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6291			Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
6292			The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed
6293			value is 300 seconds.
6294
6295	rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6296			Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning
6297			messages.  The value is in milliseconds
6298			and the maximum allowed value is 21000
6299			milliseconds. Please note that this value is
6300			adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution.
6301			Setting this to zero causes the value from
6302			rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
6303			conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
6304
6305	rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
6306			Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
6307			interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
6308			multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
6309			begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
6310
6311	rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
6312			Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
6313			current expedited RCU grace period during an
6314			expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
6315
6316	rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
6317			Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
6318			example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
6319			of synchronize_rcu().  This reduces latency,
6320			but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
6321			real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
6322			No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6323
6324	rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
6325			Use only normal grace-period primitives,
6326			for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
6327			synchronize_rcu_expedited().  This improves
6328			real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
6329			energy efficiency, but can expose users to
6330			increased grace-period latency.  This parameter
6331			overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited.  No effect on
6332			CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6333
6334	rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
6335			Once boot has completed (that is, after
6336			rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
6337			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect
6338			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
6339
6340			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables
6341			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting
6342			it to the value one, that is, converting any
6343			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace
6344			period to instead use normal non-expedited
6345			grace-period processing.
6346
6347	rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL]
6348			Set the maximum number of callbacks present
6349			at the beginning of a grace period that allows
6350			the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using
6351			a single callback queue.  This switching only
6352			occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is
6353			set to the default value of -1.
6354
6355	rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL]
6356			Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time
6357			lock-contention events per jiffy required to
6358			cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU
6359			callback queuing.  This switching only occurs
6360			when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to
6361			the default value of -1.
6362
6363	rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL]
6364			Set the number of callback queues to use for the
6365			RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors.  The default
6366			of -1 allows this to be automatically (and
6367			dynamically) adjusted.	This parameter is intended
6368			for use in testing.
6369
6370	rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL]
6371			Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will
6372			cancel laziness on that CPU.  Use -1 to disable
6373			cancellation of laziness, but be advised that
6374			doing so increases the danger of OOM due to
6375			callback flooding.
6376
6377	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL]
6378			Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6379			informational messages, which give some indication
6380			of the problem for those not patient enough to
6381			wait for ten minutes.  Informational messages are
6382			only printed prior to the stall-warning message
6383			for a given grace period. Disable with a value
6384			less than or equal to zero.  Defaults to ten
6385			seconds.  A change in value does not take effect
6386			until the beginning of the next grace period.
6387
6388	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL]
6389			Multiplier for time interval between successive
6390			RCU task stall informational messages for a given
6391			RCU tasks grace period.  This value is clamped
6392			to one through ten, inclusive.	It defaults to
6393			the value three, so that the first informational
6394			message is printed 10 seconds into the grace
6395			period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at
6396			160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600
6397			seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds.
6398
6399	rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
6400			Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall
6401			warning messages.  Disable with a value less
6402			than or equal to zero.	Defaults to ten minutes.
6403			A change in value does not take effect until
6404			the beginning of the next grace period.
6405
6406	rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL]
6407			Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous
6408			callback batching for call_rcu_tasks().
6409			A negative value will take the default.  A value
6410			of zero will disable batching.	Batching is
6411			always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks().
6412
6413	rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
6414			Run the RCU early boot self tests
6415
6416	rdinit=		[KNL]
6417			Format: <full_path>
6418			Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
6419			used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
6420
6421	rdrand=		[X86,EARLY]
6422			force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
6423				advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
6424				certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
6425				support, specifically around the suspend/resume
6426				path).
6427
6428	rdt=		[HW,X86,RDT]
6429			Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
6430			cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
6431			mba, smba, bmec, abmc, sdciae, energy[:guid],
6432			perf[:guid].
6433			E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
6434				rdt=cmt,!mba
6435			To turn off all energy telemetry monitoring and ensure that
6436			perf telemetry monitoring associated with guid 0x12345
6437			is enabled use:
6438				rdt=!energy,perf:0x12345
6439
6440	reboot=		[KNL]
6441			Format (x86 or x86_64):
6442				[w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \
6443				[[,]s[mp]#### \
6444				[[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
6445				[[,]f[orce]
6446			Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
6447					(prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
6448					reboot only),
6449			      reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
6450			      reboot_force is either force or not specified,
6451			      reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
6452					to be used for rebooting.
6453
6454		acpi
6455			Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not
6456			configured or the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot
6457			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6458
6459		bios
6460			Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
6461
6462		cold
6463			Set the cold reboot flag
6464
6465		default
6466			There are some built-in platform specific "quirks"
6467			- you may see: "reboot: <name> series board detected.
6468			Selecting <type> for reboots." In the case where you
6469			think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have newer BIOS,
6470			or newer board) using this option will ignore the
6471			built-in quirk table, and use the generic default
6472			reboot actions.
6473
6474		efi
6475			Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not
6476			configured or the EFI reset does not work, the reboot
6477			path attempts the reset using the keyboard controller.
6478
6479		force
6480			Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot
6481			more reliable in some cases.
6482
6483		kbd
6484			Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
6485
6486		pci
6487			Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to
6488			trigger reboot.
6489
6490		triple
6491			Force a triple fault (init)
6492
6493		warm
6494			Don't set the cold reboot flag
6495
6496			Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big
6497			memory systems because the BIOS will not go through
6498			the memory check.  Disadvantage is that not all
6499			hardware will be completely reinitialized on reboot so
6500			there may be boot problems on some systems.
6501
6502
6503	refscale.holdoff= [KNL]
6504			Set test-start holdoff period.  The purpose of
6505			this parameter is to delay the start of the
6506			test until boot completes in order to avoid
6507			interference.
6508
6509	refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL]
6510			Number of data elements to use for the forms of
6511			SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing.  A negative number
6512			is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while
6513			zero specifies nr_cpu_ids.
6514
6515	refscale.loops= [KNL]
6516			Set the number of loops over the synchronization
6517			primitive under test.  Increasing this number
6518			reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead,
6519			but the default has already reduced the per-pass
6520			noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020
6521			x86 laptops.
6522
6523	refscale.nreaders= [KNL]
6524			Set number of readers.  The default value of -1
6525			selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number
6526			of CPUs.  A value of zero is an interesting choice.
6527
6528	refscale.nruns= [KNL]
6529			Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto
6530			the console log.
6531
6532	refscale.readdelay= [KNL]
6533			Set the read-side critical-section duration,
6534			measured in microseconds.
6535
6536	refscale.scale_type= [KNL]
6537			Specify the read-protection implementation to test.
6538
6539	refscale.shutdown= [KNL]
6540			Shut down the system at the end of the performance
6541			test.  This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when
6542			refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave
6543			it running) when refscale is built as a module.
6544
6545	refscale.verbose= [KNL]
6546			Enable additional printk() statements.
6547
6548	refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL]
6549			Batch the additional printk() statements.  If zero
6550			(the default) or negative, print everything.  Otherwise,
6551			print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value
6552			specified.
6553
6554	regulator_ignore_unused
6555			[REGULATOR]
6556			Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators
6557			that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may
6558			be useful for debug and development, but should not be
6559			needed on a platform with proper driver support.
6560
6561	relax_domain_level=
6562			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
6563			See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
6564
6565	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
6566			Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
6567			Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
6568			them.  If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
6569			is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
6570
6571	reserve_mem=	[RAM]
6572			Format: nn[KMG]:<align>:<label>
6573			Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that
6574			other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically
6575			used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command
6576			line will try to reserve the same physical memory on
6577			soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same
6578			location. For example, if anything about the system changes
6579			or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR
6580			places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation
6581			was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a
6582			different location.
6583			Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify
6584			that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous
6585			boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be
6586			located at the same location.
6587
6588			The format is size:align:label for example, to request
6589			12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops:
6590
6591			reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops
6592
6593	reservetop=	[X86-32,EARLY]
6594			Format: nn[KMG]
6595			Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
6596			address space.
6597
6598	reset_devices	[KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
6599			during initialization.
6600
6601	resume=		[SWSUSP]
6602			Specify the partition device for software suspend
6603			Format:
6604			{/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
6605
6606	resume_offset=	[SWSUSP]
6607			Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
6608			given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
6609			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
6610			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
6611
6612	resumedelay=	[HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6613			read the resume files
6614
6615	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
6616			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6617			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6618
6619	retain_initrd	[RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will
6620			be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd.
6621
6622	retbleed=	[X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary
6623			Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
6624			vulnerability.
6625
6626			AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop
6627			sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other
6628			sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro-
6629			cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors
6630			that don't.
6631
6632			off          - no mitigation
6633			auto         - automatically select a mitigation
6634			auto,nosmt   - automatically select a mitigation,
6635				       disabling SMT if necessary for
6636				       the full mitigation (only on Zen1
6637				       and older without STIBP).
6638			ibpb         - On AMD, mitigate short speculation
6639				       windows on basic block boundaries too.
6640				       Safe, highest perf impact. It also
6641				       enables STIBP if present. Not suitable
6642				       on Intel.
6643			ibpb,nosmt   - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT
6644				       when STIBP is not available. This is
6645				       the alternative for systems which do not
6646				       have STIBP.
6647			unret        - Force enable untrained return thunks,
6648				       only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based
6649				       systems.
6650			unret,nosmt  - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP
6651				       is not available. This is the alternative for
6652				       systems which do not have STIBP.
6653
6654			Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
6655			time according to the CPU.
6656
6657			Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto.
6658
6659	rfkill.default_state=
6660		0	"airplane mode".  All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
6661			etc. communication is blocked by default.
6662		1	Unblocked.
6663
6664	rfkill.master_switch_mode=
6665		0	The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
6666		1	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6667			blocked and the previous configuration.
6668		2	The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
6669			blocked and everything unblocked.
6670
6671	ring3mwait=disable
6672			[KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
6673			CPUs.
6674
6675	riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY]
6676			When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit
6677			falling back to detecting extension support by parsing
6678			"riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the
6679			replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig
6680			entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK.
6681
6682	riscv_nousercfi=
6683		all	Disable user CFI ABI to userspace even if cpu extension
6684			are available.
6685		bcfi	Disable user backward CFI ABI to userspace even if
6686			the shadow stack extension is available.
6687		fcfi	Disable user forward CFI ABI to userspace even if the
6688			landing pad extension is available.
6689
6690	ro		[KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
6691
6692	rodata=		[KNL,EARLY]
6693		on	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
6694		off	Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
6695		noalias	Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only but retain
6696			writable aliases in the direct map for regions outside
6697			of the kernel image. [arm64]
6698
6699	rockchip.usb_uart
6700			[EARLY]
6701			Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
6702			on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
6703			debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
6704			port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
6705
6706	root=		[KNL] Root filesystem
6707			Usually this is a block device specifier of some kind,
6708			see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
6709			block/early-lookup.c for details.
6710			Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
6711			ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
6712			system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
6713
6714	rootdelay=	[KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
6715			mount the root filesystem
6716
6717	rootflags=	[KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
6718
6719	rseq_slice_ext= [KNL] RSEQ based time slice extension
6720			Format: boolean
6721			Control enablement of RSEQ based time slice extension.
6722			Default is 'on'.
6723
6724	initramfs_options= [KNL]
6725			Specify mount options for the initramfs mount.
6726
6727	rootfstype=	[KNL] Set root filesystem type
6728
6729	rootwait	[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
6730			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
6731			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
6732
6733	rootwait=	[KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device
6734			to show up before attempting to mount the root
6735			filesystem.
6736
6737	rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
6738			[KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
6739			Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
6740			managed by CMA.
6741
6742	rseq_debug=	[KNL] Enable or disable restartable sequence
6743			debug mode. Defaults to CONFIG_RSEQ_DEBUG_DEFAULT_ENABLE.
6744			Format: <bool>
6745
6746	rt_group_sched=	[KNL] Enable or disable SCHED_RR/FIFO group scheduling
6747			when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y. Defaults to
6748			!CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED_DEFAULT_DISABLED.
6749			Format: <bool>
6750
6751	rw		[KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
6752
6753	S		[KNL] Run init in single mode
6754
6755	s390_iommu=	[HW,S390]
6756			Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
6757		strict
6758			With strict flushing every unmap operation will result
6759			in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before
6760			reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to
6761			iommu.strict=1.
6762
6763	s390_iommu_aperture=	[KNL,S390]
6764			Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space
6765			accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal
6766			factor of the size of main memory.
6767			The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use
6768			as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed,
6769			if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory
6770			once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice
6771			and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no
6772			restrictions other than those given by hardware at the
6773			cost of significant additional memory use for tables.
6774
6775	sa1100ir	[NET]
6776			See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
6777
6778	sched_proxy_exec= [KNL]
6779			Enables or disables "proxy execution" style
6780			solution to mutex-based priority inversion.
6781			Format: <bool>
6782
6783	sched_verbose	[KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
6784
6785	schedstats=	[KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
6786			Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
6787			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
6788			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
6789
6790	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
6791			[Deprecated]
6792			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
6793			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
6794			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
6795			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
6796			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
6797			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
6798			value.
6799			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
6800			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
6801				1			64 ms
6802				2			128 ms
6803			and so on.
6804			Format: integer between 0 and 10
6805			Default is 0.
6806
6807	scftorture.holdoff= [KNL]
6808			Number of seconds to hold off before starting
6809			test.  Defaults to zero for module insertion and
6810			to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function()
6811			tests.
6812
6813	scftorture.longwait= [KNL]
6814			Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected
6815			up to the chosen limit in seconds.  Zero (the
6816			default) disables this feature.  Please note
6817			that requesting even small non-zero numbers of
6818			seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings,
6819			softlockup complaints, and so on.
6820
6821	scftorture.nthreads= [KNL]
6822			Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the
6823			smp_call_function() family of functions.
6824			The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads
6825			equal to the number of CPUs.
6826
6827	scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
6828			Number seconds to wait after the start of the
6829			test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations.
6830
6831	scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
6832			Number seconds to wait between successive
6833			CPU-hotplug operations.  Specifying zero (which
6834			is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations.
6835
6836	scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
6837			The number of seconds following the start of the
6838			test after which to shut down the system.  The
6839			default of zero avoids shutting down the system.
6840			Non-zero values are useful for automated tests.
6841
6842	scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
6843			The number of seconds between outputting the
6844			current test statistics to the console.  A value
6845			of zero disables statistics output.
6846
6847	scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL]
6848			The number of jiffies to wait between each change
6849			to the set of CPUs under test.
6850
6851	scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL]
6852			Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default
6853			preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug
6854			while invoking one of the smp_call_function*()
6855			functions.
6856
6857	scftorture.verbose= [KNL]
6858			Enable additional printk() statements.
6859
6860	scftorture.weight_single= [KNL]
6861			The probability weighting to use for the
6862			smp_call_function_single() function with a zero
6863			"wait" parameter.  A value of -1 selects the
6864			default if all other weights are -1.  However,
6865			if at least one weight has some other value, a
6866			value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero.
6867
6868	scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL]
6869			The probability weighting to use for the
6870			smp_call_function_single() function with a
6871			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6872
6873	scftorture.weight_many= [KNL]
6874			The probability weighting to use for the
6875			smp_call_function_many() function with a zero
6876			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single.
6877			Note well that setting a high probability for
6878			this weighting can place serious IPI load
6879			on the system.
6880
6881	scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL]
6882			The probability weighting to use for the
6883			smp_call_function_many() function with a
6884			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6885			and weight_many.
6886
6887	scftorture.weight_all= [KNL]
6888			The probability weighting to use for the
6889			smp_call_function_all() function with a zero
6890			"wait" parameter.  See weight_single and
6891			weight_many.
6892
6893	scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL]
6894			The probability weighting to use for the
6895			smp_call_function_all() function with a
6896			non-zero "wait" parameter.  See weight_single
6897			and weight_many.
6898
6899	sdw_mclk_divider=[SDW]
6900			Specify the MCLK divider for Intel SoundWire buses in
6901			case the BIOS does not provide the clock rate properly.
6902
6903	skew_tick=	[KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
6904			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
6905			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
6906			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6907			0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
6908			1 -- enable.
6909			Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
6910			enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
6911
6912	security=	[SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
6913			enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
6914			"lsm=" parameter.
6915
6916	selinux=	[SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
6917			Format: { "0" | "1" }
6918			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
6919			0 -- disable.
6920			1 -- enable.
6921			Default value is 1.
6922
6923	serialnumber	[BUGS=X86-32]
6924
6925	sev=option[,option...] [X86-64]
6926
6927		debug
6928			Enable debug messages.
6929
6930		nosnp
6931			Do not enable SEV-SNP (applies to host/hypervisor
6932			only). Setting 'nosnp' avoids the RMP check overhead
6933			in memory accesses when users do not want to run
6934			SEV-SNP guests.
6935
6936	shapers=	[NET]
6937			Maximal number of shapers.
6938
6939	show_lapic=	[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
6940			Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
6941			number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
6942			to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
6943			Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
6944			The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
6945			apic=verbose is specified.
6946			Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
6947
6948	slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM]
6949			Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the
6950			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
6951			slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and
6952			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
6953			last alloc / free. For more information see
6954			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6955			(slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now)
6956
6957			Using this option implies the "no_hash_pointers"
6958			option which can be undone by adding the
6959			"hash_pointers=always" option.
6960
6961	slab_max_order= [MM]
6962			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
6963			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
6964			fragmentation. For more information see
6965			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6966			(slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6967
6968	slab_merge	[MM]
6969			Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
6970			kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
6971			(slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now)
6972
6973	slab_min_objects=	[MM]
6974			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
6975			increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to
6976			generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
6977			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
6978			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
6979			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
6980			For more information see
6981			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6982			(slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now)
6983
6984	slab_min_order=	[MM]
6985			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
6986			lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see
6987			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
6988			(slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now)
6989
6990	slab_nomerge	[MM]
6991			Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
6992			necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
6993			allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
6994			environments where the risk of heap overflows and
6995			layout control by attackers can usually be
6996			frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
6997			most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
6998			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
6999			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
7000			own.
7001			For more information see
7002			Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst.
7003			(slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now)
7004
7005	slab_strict_numa	[MM]
7006			Support memory policies on a per object level
7007			in the slab allocator. The default is for memory
7008			policies to be applied at the folio level when
7009			a new folio is needed or a partial folio is
7010			retrieved from the lists. Increases overhead
7011			in the slab fastpaths but gains more accurate
7012			NUMA kernel object placement which helps with slow
7013			interconnects in NUMA systems.
7014
7015	slram=		[HW,MTD]
7016
7017	smart2=		[HW]
7018			Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
7019
7020	smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL]
7021			Specify the period of time in milliseconds
7022			that smp_call_function() and friends will wait
7023			for a CPU to release the CSD lock.  This is
7024			useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs
7025			disabling interrupts for extended periods
7026			of time.  Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and
7027			setting a value of zero disables this feature.
7028			This feature may be more efficiently disabled
7029			using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter.
7030
7031	smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL]
7032			If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than
7033			the specified number of milliseconds, panic the
7034			system.  By default, let CSD-lock acquisition
7035			take as long as they take.  Specifying 300,000
7036			for this value provides a 5-minute timeout.
7037
7038	smsc-ircc2.nopnp	[HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
7039	smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg=	[HW] Device configuration I/O port
7040	smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir=	[HW] SIR base I/O port
7041	smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir=	[HW] FIR base I/O port
7042	smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq=	[HW] IRQ line
7043	smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma=	[HW] DMA channel
7044	smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
7045				0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
7046				1: Fast pin select (default)
7047				2: ATC IRMode
7048
7049	smt=		[KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads
7050			(logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems
7051			capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will
7052			be capped to the actual hardware limit.
7053			Format: <integer>
7054			Default: -1 (no limit)
7055
7056	softlockup_panic=
7057			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
7058			Format: <int>
7059
7060			A value of non-zero instructs the soft-lockup detector
7061			to panic the machine when a soft-lockup duration exceeds
7062			N thresholds. It is also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic
7063			sysctl and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
7064			respective build-time switch to that functionality.
7065
7066	softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
7067			[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
7068			backtraces on all cpus.
7069			Format: 0 | 1
7070
7071	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
7072			See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
7073
7074	spectre_bhi=	[X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection
7075			(BHI) vulnerability.  This setting affects the
7076			deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB
7077			clearing sequence.
7078
7079			on     - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as
7080				 needed.  This protects the kernel from
7081				 both syscalls and VMs.
7082			vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation
7083				 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit
7084				 ONLY.  On such systems, the host kernel is
7085				 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but
7086				 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks.
7087			off    - Disable the mitigation.
7088
7089	spectre_v2=	[X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7090			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
7091			The default operation protects the kernel from
7092			user space attacks.
7093
7094			on   - unconditionally enable, implies
7095			       spectre_v2_user=on
7096			off  - unconditionally disable, implies
7097			       spectre_v2_user=off
7098			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
7099			       vulnerable
7100
7101			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
7102			mitigation method at run time according to the
7103			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
7104			CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option,
7105			and the compiler with which the kernel was built.
7106
7107			Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
7108			against user space to user space task attacks.
7109			Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable
7110			user mitigations.
7111
7112			Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
7113			the user space protections.
7114
7115			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
7116
7117			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
7118			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
7119			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
7120			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
7121			eibrs		  - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
7122			eibrs,retpoline   - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
7123			eibrs,lfence      - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
7124			ibrs		  - use IBRS to protect kernel
7125
7126			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7127			spectre_v2=auto.
7128
7129	spectre_v2_user=
7130			[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
7131		        (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
7132		        user space tasks
7133
7134			on	- Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
7135				  enforced by spectre_v2=on
7136
7137			off     - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
7138				  enforced by spectre_v2=off
7139
7140			prctl   - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
7141				  but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
7142				  per thread.  The mitigation control state
7143				  is inherited on fork.
7144
7145			prctl,ibpb
7146				- Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
7147				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7148				  always when switching between different user
7149				  space processes.
7150
7151			seccomp
7152				- Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
7153				  threads will enable the mitigation unless
7154				  they explicitly opt out.
7155
7156			seccomp,ibpb
7157				- Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
7158				  controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
7159				  always when switching between different
7160				  user space processes.
7161
7162			auto    - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
7163				  the available CPU features and vulnerability.
7164
7165			Default mitigation: "prctl"
7166
7167			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7168			spectre_v2_user=auto.
7169
7170	spec_rstack_overflow=
7171			[X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs
7172
7173			off		- Disable mitigation
7174			microcode	- Enable microcode mitigation only
7175			safe-ret	- Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default)
7176			ibpb		- Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on
7177					  kernel entry
7178			ibpb-vmexit	- Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT
7179					  (cloud-specific mitigation)
7180
7181	spec_store_bypass_disable=
7182			[HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
7183			(Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
7184
7185			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
7186			a common industry wide performance optimization known
7187			as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
7188			to the same memory location may not be observed by
7189			later loads during speculative execution. The idea
7190			is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
7191			be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
7192			end of a particular speculation execution window.
7193
7194			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7195			store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
7196			example to read memory to which the attacker does not
7197			directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
7198
7199			This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
7200			Bypass optimization is used.
7201
7202			On x86 the options are:
7203
7204			on      - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
7205			off     - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
7206			auto    - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
7207				  implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
7208				  picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
7209				  CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
7210				  CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
7211				  architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
7212			prctl   - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
7213				  via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
7214				  for a process by default. The state of the control
7215				  is inherited on fork.
7216			seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
7217				  will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
7218
7219			Default mitigations:
7220			X86:	"prctl"
7221
7222			On powerpc the options are:
7223
7224			on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
7225				  barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
7226				  perform a software flush on kernel entry and
7227				  exit.
7228			off	- No action.
7229
7230			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
7231			spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
7232
7233	split_lock_detect=
7234			[X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection
7235
7236			When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic
7237			instructions that access data across cache line
7238			boundaries will result in an alignment check exception
7239			for split lock detection or a debug exception for
7240			bus lock detection.
7241
7242			off	- not enabled
7243
7244			warn	- the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings
7245				  about applications triggering the #AC
7246				  exception or the #DB exception. This mode is
7247				  the default on CPUs that support split lock
7248				  detection or bus lock detection. Default
7249				  behavior is by #AC if both features are
7250				  enabled in hardware.
7251
7252			fatal	- the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications
7253				  that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB
7254				  exception. Default behavior is by #AC if
7255				  both features are enabled in hardware.
7256
7257			ratelimit:N -
7258				  Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks
7259				  per second for bus lock detection.
7260				  0 < N <= 1000.
7261
7262				  N/A for split lock detection.
7263
7264
7265			If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in
7266			firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode)
7267			the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal"
7268			mode.
7269
7270			#DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when
7271			CPL > 0.
7272
7273	srbds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
7274			Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
7275			(SRBDS) mitigation.
7276
7277			Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
7278			exploit which can leak bits from the random
7279			number generator.
7280
7281			By default, this issue is mitigated by
7282			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
7283			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
7284			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
7285			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
7286
7287			The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
7288			the following option:
7289
7290			off:    Disable mitigation and remove
7291				performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
7292
7293	srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL]
7294			Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a
7295			large system, such that srcu_struct structures
7296			should immediately allocate an srcu_node array.
7297			This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128,
7298			but takes effect only when the low-order four
7299			bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3
7300			(decide at boot).
7301
7302	srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL]
7303			Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree
7304			srcu_struct structure will be converted to big
7305			form, that is, with an rcu_node tree:
7306
7307				   0:  Never.
7308				   1:  At init_srcu_struct() time.
7309				   2:  When rcutorture decides to.
7310				   3:  Decide at boot time (default).
7311				0x1X:  Above plus if high contention.
7312
7313			Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based
7314			on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids)
7315			instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
7316
7317	srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
7318			Specifies how frequently to check for
7319			grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
7320			srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
7321			The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
7322			parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
7323			be checked for.  Note that the bottom two bits
7324			are ignored.
7325
7326	srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
7327			Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
7328			since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
7329			a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
7330			grace period will be considered for automatic
7331			expediting.  Set to zero to disable automatic
7332			expediting.
7333
7334	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL]
7335			Specifies the number of no-delay instances
7336			per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period
7337			worker thread will be rescheduled with zero
7338			delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will
7339			be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy.
7340
7341	srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL]
7342			Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of
7343			non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit,
7344			grace period worker thread will be rescheduled
7345			with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each
7346			rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase.
7347
7348	srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL]
7349			Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping
7350			delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers.
7351
7352	srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL]
7353			Specifies the number of update-side contention
7354			events per jiffy will be tolerated before
7355			initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct
7356			structure to big form.	Note that the value of
7357			srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit
7358			set for contention-based conversions to occur.
7359
7360	ssbd=		[ARM64,HW,EARLY]
7361			Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
7362
7363			On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
7364			Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
7365			firmware based mitigation, this parameter
7366			indicates how the mitigation should be used:
7367
7368			force-on:  Unconditionally enable mitigation for
7369				   for both kernel and userspace
7370			force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
7371				   for both kernel and userspace
7372			kernel:    Always enable mitigation in the
7373				   kernel, and offer a prctl interface
7374				   to allow userspace to register its
7375				   interest in being mitigated too.
7376
7377	stack_guard_gap=	[MM]
7378			override the default stack gap protection. The value
7379			is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
7380			to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
7381			growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
7382			mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
7383
7384	stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY]
7385			Setting this to true through kernel command line will
7386			disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory
7387			consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set
7388			to false.
7389
7390	stack_depot_max_pools= [KNL,EARLY]
7391			Specify the maximum number of pools to use for storing
7392			stack traces. Pools are allocated on-demand up to this
7393			limit. Default value is 8191 pools.
7394
7395	stacktrace	[FTRACE]
7396			Enable the stack tracer on boot up.
7397
7398	stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
7399			[FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
7400			will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated
7401			list of functions. This list can be changed at run
7402			time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
7403			tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
7404			and the stacktrace above is not needed.
7405
7406	sti=		[PARISC,HW]
7407			Format: <num>
7408			Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
7409			machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
7410			as the initial boot-console.
7411			See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7412
7413	sti_font=	[HW]
7414			See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
7415
7416	stifb=		[HW]
7417			Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
7418
7419        strict_sas_size=
7420			[X86]
7421			Format: <bool>
7422			Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks
7423			against the required signal frame size which
7424			depends on the supported FPU features. This can
7425			be used to filter out binaries which have
7426			not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.
7427
7428	stress_hpt	[PPC,EARLY]
7429			Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash
7430			page table to increase the rate of hash page table
7431			faults on kernel addresses.
7432
7433	stress_slb	[PPC,EARLY]
7434			Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes
7435			them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults
7436			on kernel addresses.
7437
7438	no_slb_preload	[PPC,EARLY]
7439			Disables slb preloading for userspace.
7440
7441	sunrpc.min_resvport=
7442	sunrpc.max_resvport=
7443			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7444			SunRPC servers often require that client requests
7445			originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
7446			range 0 < portnr < 1024).
7447			An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
7448			ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
7449			kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
7450			using these two parameters to set the minimum and
7451			maximum port values.
7452
7453	sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
7454			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7455			Limit the number of requests that the server will
7456			process in parallel from a single connection.
7457			The default value is 0 (no limit).
7458
7459	sunrpc.pool_mode=
7460			[NFS]
7461			Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
7462			service thread pools.  Depending on how many NICs
7463			you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
7464			option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
7465			Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
7466			NFS server is running.
7467
7468			auto	    the server chooses an appropriate mode
7469				    automatically using heuristics
7470			global	    a single global pool contains all CPUs
7471			percpu	    one pool for each CPU
7472			pernode	    one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
7473				    to global on non-NUMA machines)
7474
7475	sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
7476	sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
7477			[NFS,SUNRPC]
7478			Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
7479			RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
7480			server. Increasing these values may allow you to
7481			improve throughput, but will also increase the
7482			amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
7483
7484	suspend.pm_test_delay=
7485			[SUSPEND]
7486			Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
7487			mode before resuming the system (see
7488			/sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
7489			is set. Default value is 5.
7490
7491	svm=		[PPC]
7492			Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 }
7493			This parameter controls use of the Protected
7494			Execution Facility on pSeries.
7495
7496	swiotlb=	[ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY]
7497			Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce }
7498			<int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
7499			<int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb
7500				 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up
7501				 to a power of 2.
7502			force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
7503			         wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
7504			noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
7505
7506	switches=	[HW,M68k,EARLY]
7507
7508	sysctl.*=	[KNL]
7509			Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init
7510			process, as if the value was written to the respective
7511			/proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as
7512			separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values
7513			are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered
7514			later by a loaded module cannot be set this way.
7515			Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40
7516
7517	sysrq_always_enabled
7518			[KNL]
7519			Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
7520			neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
7521			Useful for debugging.
7522
7523	tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
7524			Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
7525			Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
7526			ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
7527			cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
7528			"tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
7529
7530	tdfx=		[HW,DRM]
7531
7532	test_suspend=	[SUSPEND]
7533			Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N]
7534			Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
7535			standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
7536			as the system sleep state during system startup with
7537			the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
7538			The system is woken from this state using a
7539			wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
7540
7541	thash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
7542			Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
7543
7544	thermal.act=	[HW,ACPI]
7545			-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
7546			<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
7547
7548	thermal.crt=	[HW,ACPI]
7549			-1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
7550			<degrees C>: override all critical trip points
7551
7552	thermal.off=	[HW,ACPI]
7553			1: disable ACPI thermal control
7554
7555	thermal.psv=	[HW,ACPI]
7556			-1: disable all passive trip points
7557			<degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
7558			value
7559
7560	thermal.tzp=	[HW,ACPI]
7561			Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
7562			<deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
7563			0: no polling (default)
7564
7565	thp_anon=	[KNL]
7566			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>
7567			state is one of "always", "madvise", "never" or "inherit".
7568			Control the default behavior of the system with respect
7569			to anonymous transparent hugepages.
7570			Can be used multiple times for multiple anon THP sizes.
7571			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7572			details.
7573
7574	threadirqs	[KNL,EARLY]
7575			Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
7576			marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
7577
7578	thp_shmem=	[KNL]
7579			Format: <size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
7580			Control the default policy of each hugepage size for the
7581			internal shmem mount. <policy> is one of policies available
7582			for the shmem mount ("always", "inherit", "never", "within_size",
7583			and "advise").
7584			It can be used multiple times for multiple shmem THP sizes.
7585			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
7586			details.
7587
7588	topology=	[S390,EARLY]
7589			Format: {off | on}
7590			Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
7591			topology information if the hardware supports this.
7592			The scheduler will make use of this information and
7593			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
7594			Default is on.
7595
7596	torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL]
7597			Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing
7598			until after init has spawned.
7599
7600	torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL]
7601			Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown,
7602			even if there were no errors.  This can be a
7603			very costly operation when many torture tests
7604			are running concurrently, especially on systems
7605			with rotating-rust storage.
7606
7607	torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL]
7608			Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be
7609			emitted between each sleep.  The default of zero
7610			disables verbose-printk() sleeping.
7611
7612	torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL]
7613			Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies.
7614
7615	tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
7616			Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
7617			access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
7618			having an integrity protected session wrapped around
7619			TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
7620			where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
7621			causing a major performance hit, and the space where
7622			machines are deployed is by other means guarded.
7623
7624	tpm_crb_ffa.busy_timeout_ms= [ARM64,TPM]
7625			Maximum time in milliseconds to retry sending a message
7626			to the TPM service before giving up. This parameter controls
7627			how long the system will continue retrying when the TPM
7628			service is busy.
7629			Format: <unsigned int>
7630			Default: 2000 (2 seconds)
7631
7632	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
7633			Format: integer pcr id
7634			Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
7635			should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
7636			as a workaround for some chips which fail to
7637			flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
7638			This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
7639			are saved.
7640
7641	tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM]
7642			Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer
7643			for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false
7644			(0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces
7645			defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see
7646			https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/
7647
7648	tp_printk	[FTRACE]
7649			Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
7650			tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
7651			where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
7652			option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
7653			ftrace_dump_on_oops.
7654
7655			To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
7656			 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
7657			Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
7658			tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
7659
7660			The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used
7661			to stop the printing of events to console at
7662			late_initcall_sync.
7663
7664			** CAUTION **
7665
7666			Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
7667			frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
7668			the system to live lock.
7669
7670	tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE]
7671			When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise
7672			on the console. It may be useful to only include the
7673			printing of events during boot up, as user space may
7674			make the system inoperable.
7675
7676			This command line option will stop the printing of events
7677			to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame.
7678
7679	trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
7680			[FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
7681
7682	trace_clock=	[FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events
7683			at boot up.
7684			local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter
7685				(converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but
7686				depending on the architecture, may not be
7687				in sync between CPUs.
7688			global - Event time stamps are synchronized across
7689				CPUs. May be slower than the local clock,
7690				but better for some race conditions.
7691			counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..)
7692				note, some counts may be skipped due to the
7693				infrastructure grabbing the clock more than
7694				once per event.
7695			uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp.
7696			perf - Use the same clock that perf uses.
7697			mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7698			mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time
7699				stamps.
7700			boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps.
7701			Architectures may add more clocks. See
7702			Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details.
7703
7704	trace_event=[event-list]
7705			[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
7706			to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
7707			comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See
7708			also Documentation/trace/events.rst
7709
7710			To enable modules, use :mod: keyword:
7711
7712			trace_event=:mod:<module>
7713
7714			The value before :mod: will only enable specific events
7715			that are part of the module. See the above mentioned
7716			document for more information.
7717
7718	trace_instance=[instance-info]
7719			[FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up.
7720			This will be listed in:
7721
7722				/sys/kernel/tracing/instances
7723
7724			Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created
7725			via:
7726
7727				trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2>
7728
7729			Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is
7730			unique.
7731
7732				trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall
7733
7734			will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and
7735			the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry
7736			event, and all events under the "initcall" system.
7737
7738			Flags can be added to the instance to modify its behavior when it is
7739			created. The flags are separated by '^'.
7740
7741			The available flags are:
7742
7743			    traceoff	- Have the tracing instance tracing disabled after it is created.
7744			    traceprintk	- Have trace_printk() write into this trace instance
7745					  (note, "printk" and "trace_printk" can also be used)
7746
7747				trace_instance=foo^traceoff^traceprintk,sched,irq
7748
7749			The flags must come before the defined events.
7750
7751			If memory has been reserved (see memmap for x86), the instance
7752			can use that memory:
7753
7754				memmap=12M$0x284500000 trace_instance=boot_map@0x284500000:12M
7755
7756			The above will create a "boot_map" instance that uses the physical
7757			memory at 0x284500000 that is 12Megs. The per CPU buffers of that
7758			instance will be split up accordingly.
7759
7760			Alternatively, the memory can be reserved by the reserve_mem option:
7761
7762				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace
7763
7764			This will reserve 12 megabytes at boot up with a 4096 byte alignment
7765			and place the ring buffer in this memory. Note that due to KASLR, the
7766			memory may not be the same location each time, which will not preserve
7767			the buffer content.
7768
7769			Also note that the layout of the ring buffer data may change between
7770			kernel versions where the validator will fail and reset the ring buffer
7771			if the layout is not the same as the previous kernel.
7772
7773			If the ring buffer is used for persistent bootups and has events enabled,
7774			it is recommend to disable tracing so that events from a previous boot do not
7775			mix with events of the current boot (unless you are debugging a random crash
7776			at boot up).
7777
7778				reserve_mem=12M:4096:trace trace_instance=boot_map^traceoff^traceprintk@trace,sched,irq
7779
7780			Note, saving the trace buffer across reboots does require that the system
7781			is set up to not wipe memory. For instance, CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION
7782			can force a memory reset on boot which will clear any trace that was stored.
7783			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
7784			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
7785
7786			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
7787
7788			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
7789
7790
7791	trace_options=[option-list]
7792			[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
7793			The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
7794			that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
7795			to echo the option name into
7796
7797			    /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options
7798
7799			For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
7800			stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
7801
7802			      trace_options=stacktrace
7803
7804			See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7805			section.
7806
7807	trace_trigger=[trigger-list]
7808			[FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events.
7809			Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional
7810			filter.
7811
7812			The format is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..."
7813			Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited.
7814
7815			For example:
7816
7817			  trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2"
7818
7819			The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch"
7820			event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch"
7821			event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
7822
7823			See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst
7824
7825
7826	traceoff_after_boot
7827			[FTRACE] Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues
7828			during the boot process. Since the trace buffer has a
7829			limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
7830			disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise
7831			the critical information may be overwritten.  With this
7832			option, the main tracing buffer will be turned off at
7833			the end of the boot process.
7834
7835	traceoff_on_warning
7836			[FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
7837			warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
7838			be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
7839			file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/
7840
7841			This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
7842			the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
7843			be filled with content caused by the warning output.
7844
7845			This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
7846			option:  kernel/traceoff_on_warning
7847
7848	transparent_hugepage=
7849			[KNL]
7850			Format: [always|madvise|never]
7851			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
7852			with respect to transparent hugepages.
7853			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7854			for more details.
7855
7856	transparent_hugepage_shmem= [KNL]
7857			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never|deny|force]
7858			Can be used to control the hugepage allocation policy for
7859			the internal shmem mount.
7860			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7861			for more details.
7862
7863	transparent_hugepage_tmpfs= [KNL]
7864			Format: [always|within_size|advise|never]
7865			Can be used to control the default hugepage allocation policy
7866			for the tmpfs mount.
7867			See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
7868			for more details.
7869
7870	trusted.source=	[KEYS]
7871			Format: <string>
7872			This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend
7873			for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust
7874			sources:
7875			- "tpm"
7876			- "tee"
7877			- "caam"
7878			- "dcp"
7879			- "pkwm"
7880			If not specified then it defaults to iterating through
7881			the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the
7882			first trust source as a backend which is initialized
7883			successfully during iteration.
7884
7885	trusted.rng=	[KEYS]
7886			Format: <string>
7887			The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys.
7888			Can be one of:
7889			- "kernel"
7890			- the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee"
7891			- "default"
7892			If not specified, "default" is used. In this case,
7893			the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source.
7894
7895	trusted.dcp_use_otp_key
7896			This is intended to be used in combination with
7897			trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key
7898			instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption.
7899
7900	trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test
7901			This is intended to be used in combination with
7902			trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the
7903			blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where
7904			having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing
7905			scenarios.
7906
7907	tsa=		[X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler
7908			Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your
7909			favourite search engine for more details:
7910
7911			"Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler
7912			attacks".
7913
7914			off		- disable the mitigation
7915			on		- enable the mitigation (default)
7916			user		- mitigate only user/kernel transitions
7917			vm		- mitigate only guest/host transitions
7918
7919
7920	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
7921			Format: <string>
7922			[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
7923			disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
7924			as the stability checks done at bootup.	Used to enable
7925			high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
7926			virtualized environment.
7927			[x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
7928			Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
7929			platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
7930			can add overhead.
7931			[x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
7932			marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
7933			avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
7934			[x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
7935			in situations with strict latency requirements (where
7936			interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
7937			acceptable).
7938			[x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
7939			(HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
7940			obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
7941			Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
7942			[x86] watchdog: Enforce the clocksource watchdog on TSC
7943
7944	tsc_early_khz=  [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
7945			value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
7946			procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems
7947			with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support.
7948			Format: <unsigned int>
7949
7950	tsx=		[X86] Control Transactional Synchronization
7951			Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that
7952			support TSX control.
7953
7954			This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are:
7955
7956			on	- Enable TSX on the system. Although there are
7957				mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities,
7958				TSX has been known to be an accelerator for
7959				several previous speculation-related CVEs, and
7960				so there may be unknown	security risks associated
7961				with leaving it enabled.
7962
7963			off	- Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this
7964				option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are
7965				not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have
7966				MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get
7967				the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode
7968				update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
7969				deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
7970
7971			auto	- Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
7972				  otherwise enable TSX on the system.
7973
7974			Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
7975
7976			See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
7977			for more details.
7978
7979	tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async
7980			Abort (TAA) vulnerability.
7981
7982			Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS)
7983			certain CPUs that support Transactional
7984			Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an
7985			exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward
7986			information to a disclosure gadget under certain
7987			conditions.
7988
7989			In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
7990			data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to
7991			access data to which the attacker does not have direct
7992			access.
7993
7994			This parameter controls the TAA mitigation.  The
7995			options are:
7996
7997			full       - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
7998				     if TSX is enabled.
7999
8000			full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on
8001				     vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT
8002				     is not disabled because CPU is not
8003				     vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks.
8004			off        - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation
8005
8006			On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be
8007			prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities
8008			are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable
8009			this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too.
8010
8011			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
8012			tsx_async_abort=full.  On CPUs which are MDS affected
8013			and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not
8014			required and doesn't provide any additional
8015			mitigation.
8016
8017			For details see:
8018			Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
8019
8020	turbografx.map[2|3]=	[HW,JOY]
8021			TurboGraFX parallel port interface
8022			Format:
8023			<port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
8024			See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
8025
8026	udbg-immortal	[PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
8027			happen after console_init() and before a proper
8028			console driver takes over, this boot options might
8029			help "seeing" what's going on.
8030
8031	uhash_entries=	[KNL,NET]
8032			Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
8033
8034	uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
8035			[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
8036			Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
8037			bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
8038			anything.  Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
8039			Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
8040			reported either.
8041
8042	unaligned_scalar_speed=
8043			[RISCV]
8044			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
8045			Allow skipping scalar unaligned access speed tests. This
8046			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
8047			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
8048			CPUs must have the same scalar unaligned access speed.
8049
8050	unaligned_vector_speed=
8051			[RISCV]
8052			Format: {slow | fast | unsupported}
8053			Allow skipping vector unaligned access speed tests. This
8054			is useful for testing alternative code paths and to skip
8055			the tests in environments where they run too slowly. All
8056			CPUs must have the same vector unaligned access speed.
8057
8058	unknown_nmi_panic
8059			[X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
8060
8061	unwind_debug	[X86-64,EARLY]
8062			Enable unwinder debug output.  This can be
8063			useful for debugging certain unwinder error
8064			conditions, including corrupt stacks and
8065			bad/missing unwinder metadata.
8066
8067	usbcore.authorized_default=
8068			[USB] Default USB device authorization:
8069			(default -1 = authorized (same as 1),
8070			0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
8071			if device connected to internal port)
8072
8073	usbcore.autosuspend=
8074			[USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
8075			for newly-detected USB devices (default 2).  This
8076			is the time required before an idle device will be
8077			autosuspended.  Devices for which the delay is set
8078			to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
8079
8080	usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
8081			[USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
8082
8083	usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
8084			[USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
8085			(default = 65536).
8086
8087	usbcore.blinkenlights=
8088			[USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
8089
8090	usbcore.old_scheme_first=
8091			[USB] Start with the old device initialization
8092			scheme (default 0 = off).
8093
8094	usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
8095			[USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
8096			usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
8097
8098	usbcore.use_both_schemes=
8099			[USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
8100			if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
8101
8102	usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
8103			[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
8104			USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
8105			(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
8106
8107	usbcore.nousb	[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
8108
8109	usbcore.quirks=
8110			[USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
8111			usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
8112			commas. Each entry has the form
8113			VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
8114			numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
8115			will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
8116			clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
8117			the following meanings:
8118				a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
8119					descriptors must not be fetched using
8120					a 255-byte read);
8121				b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
8122					correctly so reset it instead);
8123				c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
8124					Set-Interface requests);
8125				d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
8126					handle its Configuration or Interface
8127					strings);
8128				e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
8129					(e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
8130				f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
8131					more interface descriptions than the
8132					bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
8133					talking to these interfaces);
8134				g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
8135					during initialization, after we read
8136					the device descriptor);
8137				h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
8138					high speed and super speed interrupt
8139					endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
8140					require the interval in microframes (1
8141					microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
8142					calculated as interval = 2 ^
8143					(bInterval-1).
8144					Devices with this quirk report their
8145					bInterval as the result of this
8146					calculation instead of the exponent
8147					variable used in the calculation);
8148				i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
8149					handle device_qualifier descriptor
8150					requests);
8151				j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
8152					generates spurious wakeup, ignore
8153					remote wakeup capability);
8154				k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
8155					Power Management);
8156				l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
8157					(Device reports its bInterval as linear
8158					frames instead of the USB 2.0
8159					calculation);
8160				m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
8161					to be disconnected before suspend to
8162					prevent spurious wakeup);
8163				n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
8164					pause after every control message);
8165				o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
8166					delay after resetting its port);
8167				p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT
8168					(Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS
8169					request from 5000 ms to 500 ms);
8170				q = USB_QUIRK_FORCE_ONE_CONFIG (Device
8171					claims zero configurations,
8172					forcing to 1);
8173			Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
8174
8175	usbhid.mousepoll=
8176			[USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
8177
8178	usbhid.jspoll=
8179			[USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
8180
8181	usbhid.kbpoll=
8182			[USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
8183
8184	usb-storage.delay_use=
8185			[UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
8186			scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
8187			Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has
8188			suffix with "ms".
8189			Example: delay_use=2567ms
8190
8191	usb-storage.quirks=
8192			[UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
8193			override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
8194			entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
8195			the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
8196			and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
8197			Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
8198			to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
8199				a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
8200					of sense data, not on uas);
8201				b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
8202					bytes of sense data, not on uas);
8203				c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
8204					device capacity by one sector);
8205				d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
8206					READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas);
8207				e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
8208					READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
8209				f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
8210					command, uas only);
8211				g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
8212					240 sectors at a time, uas only);
8213				h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
8214					reported device capacity by one
8215					sector if the number is odd);
8216				i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
8217					device);
8218				j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
8219					command, uas only);
8220				k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only)
8221				l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
8222					unlock ejectable media, not on uas);
8223				m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
8224					than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time,
8225					not on uas);
8226				n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
8227					initial READ(10) command, not on uas);
8228				o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
8229					reported by the device, not on uas);
8230				p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
8231					by default, not on uas);
8232				r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
8233					bogus residue values, not on uas);
8234				s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
8235					Logical Unit);
8236				t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
8237					commands, uas only);
8238				u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
8239				w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
8240					medium is write-protected).
8241				y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
8242					even if the device claims no cache,
8243					not on uas)
8244			Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
8245
8246	user_debug=	[KNL,ARM]
8247			Format: <int>
8248			See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
8249				 1 - undefined instruction events
8250				 2 - system calls
8251				 4 - invalid data aborts
8252				 8 - SIGSEGV faults
8253				16 - SIGBUS faults
8254			Example: user_debug=31
8255
8256	vdso=		[X86,SH,SPARC]
8257			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
8258
8259			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
8260			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
8261
8262	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
8263			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
8264			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
8265
8266			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
8267			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
8268			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
8269
8270			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
8271			alias for vdso32=0.
8272
8273			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
8274			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
8275
8276	video=		[FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration
8277			See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
8278
8279	video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI]
8280			Format: [0|1]
8281			If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
8282			generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
8283			level and then send out the event to user space through
8284			the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver
8285			will only send out the event without touching backlight
8286			brightness level.
8287			default: 1
8288
8289	virtio_mmio.device=
8290			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
8291
8292				<size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
8293			where:
8294				<size>     := size (can use standard suffixes
8295						like K, M and G)
8296				<baseaddr> := physical base address
8297				<irq>      := interrupt number (as passed to
8298						request_irq())
8299				<id>       := (optional) platform device id
8300			example:
8301				virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
8302
8303			Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
8304
8305	vga=		[BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
8306			See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and
8307			Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
8308			Use vga=ask for menu.
8309			This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
8310			passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
8311
8312	vm_debug[=options]	[KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
8313			May slow down system boot speed, especially when
8314			enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
8315			All options are enabled by default, and this
8316			interface is meant to allow for selectively
8317			enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
8318			debugging features.
8319
8320			Available options are:
8321			  P	Enable page structure init time poisoning
8322			  -	Disable all of the above options
8323
8324	vmalloc=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an
8325			exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase
8326			the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms).
8327			It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room
8328			for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does
8329			not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha,
8330			loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc,
8331			parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc).
8332
8333	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390,EARLY]
8334			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
8335			allocations for the vmcp device driver.
8336
8337	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
8338			Format: <command>
8339
8340	vmpanic=	[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
8341			Format: <command>
8342
8343	vmpoff=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
8344			Format: <command>
8345
8346	vmscape=	[X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
8347			VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
8348			hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
8349
8350			off		- disable the mitigation
8351			ibpb		- use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
8352					  (IBPB) mitigation (default)
8353			force		- force vulnerability detection even on
8354					  unaffected processors
8355
8356	vsyscall=	[X86-64,EARLY]
8357			Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
8358			fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
8359			code).  Most statically-linked binaries and older
8360			versions of glibc use these calls.  Because these
8361			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
8362			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
8363
8364			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
8365			            reasonably safely.  The vsyscall page is
8366				    readable.  This disables the Linear
8367				    Address Space Separation (LASS) security
8368				    feature and makes the system less secure.
8369
8370			xonly       [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
8371			            emulated reasonably safely.  The vsyscall
8372				    page is not readable.
8373
8374			none        Vsyscalls don't work at all.  This makes
8375			            them quite hard to use for exploits but
8376			            might break your system.
8377
8378	vt.color=	[VT] Default text color.
8379			Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
8380			Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
8381
8382	vt.cur_default=	[VT] Default cursor shape.
8383			Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
8384			the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
8385			see vga-softcursor.rst. Default: 2 = underline.
8386
8387	vt.default_blu=	[VT]
8388			Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
8389			Change the default blue palette of the console.
8390			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8391			ranging from 0-255.
8392
8393	vt.default_grn=	[VT]
8394			Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
8395			Change the default green palette of the console.
8396			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8397			ranging from 0-255.
8398
8399	vt.default_red=	[VT]
8400			Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
8401			Change the default red palette of the console.
8402			This is a 16-member array composed of values
8403			ranging from 0-255.
8404
8405	vt.default_utf8=
8406			[VT]
8407			Format=<0|1>
8408			Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
8409			Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
8410			newly opened terminals.
8411
8412	vt.global_cursor_default=
8413			[VT]
8414			Format=<-1|0|1>
8415			Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
8416			is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
8417			i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
8418			overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
8419			cursors, 1 will display them.
8420
8421	vt.italic=	[VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
8422			Default: 2 = green.
8423
8424	vt.underline=	[VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
8425			Default: 3 = cyan.
8426
8427	watchdog timers	[HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
8428			see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
8429			or other driver-specific files in the
8430			Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
8431
8432	watchdog_thresh=
8433			[KNL]
8434			Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
8435			threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
8436			threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
8437			disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
8438			seconds.
8439
8440	workqueue.unbound_cpus=
8441			[KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs
8442			to use in unbound workqueues.
8443			Format: <cpu-list>
8444			By default, all online CPUs are available for
8445			unbound workqueues.
8446
8447	workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
8448			If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
8449			warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
8450			help debugging.  0 disables workqueue stall
8451			detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
8452			duration in seconds.  The default value is 30 and
8453			it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
8454			corresponding sysfs file.
8455
8456	workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint>
8457			Panic when workqueue stall is detected by
8458			CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the
8459			stall to trigger panic.
8460
8461			The default is set by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC,
8462			which is 0 (disabled) if not configured.
8463
8464	workqueue.panic_on_stall_time=<uint>
8465			Panic when a workqueue stall has been continuous for
8466			the specified number of seconds. Unlike panic_on_stall
8467			which counts accumulated stall events, this triggers
8468			based on the duration of a single continuous stall.
8469
8470			The default is 0, which disables the time-based panic.
8471
8472	workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us=
8473			Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this
8474			threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive
8475			and excluded from concurrency management to prevent
8476			them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work
8477			items. Default is 10000 (10ms).
8478
8479			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8480			will report the work functions which violate this
8481			threshold repeatedly. They are likely good
8482			candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead.
8483
8484	workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint>
8485			If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel
8486			will report the work functions which violate the
8487			intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent
8488			spurious warnings, start printing only after a work
8489			function has violated this threshold number of times.
8490
8491			The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning.
8492
8493	workqueue.power_efficient
8494			Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
8495			they show better performance thanks to cache
8496			locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
8497			be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
8498
8499			Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
8500			were observed to contribute significantly to power
8501			consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
8502			power usage at the cost of small performance
8503			overhead.
8504
8505			The default value of this parameter is determined by
8506			the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
8507
8508        workqueue.default_affinity_scope=
8509			Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound
8510			workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache",
8511			"cache_shard", "numa" and "system". Default is
8512			"cache_shard". For more
8513			information, see the Affinity Scopes section in
8514			Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
8515
8516			This can be changed after boot by writing to the
8517			matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All
8518			workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be
8519			updated accordingly.
8520
8521	workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
8522			Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
8523			items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
8524			on the local CPU.  This guarantee is no longer true
8525			and while local CPU is still preferred work items
8526			may be put on foreign CPUs.  This debug option
8527			forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
8528			usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
8529			When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
8530			impacted.
8531
8532	writecombine=	[LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access
8533			Type) of ioremap_wc().
8534
8535			on   - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc()
8536			off  - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc()
8537
8538	x2apic_phys	[X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
8539			default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
8540			supporting x2apic.
8541
8542	xen_512gb_limit		[KNL,X86-64,XEN]
8543			Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
8544			to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
8545			crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
8546			save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
8547			domains.
8548
8549	xen_console_io	[XEN,EARLY]
8550			Boolean option to enable/disable the usage of the Xen
8551			console_io hypercalls to read and write to the console.
8552			Mostly useful for debugging and development.
8553
8554	xen_emul_unplug=		[HW,X86,XEN,EARLY]
8555			Unplug Xen emulated devices
8556			Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
8557			ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
8558			aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
8559			nics -- unplug network devices
8560			all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
8561			unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
8562				unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
8563				the unplug protocol
8564			never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
8565
8566	xen_legacy_crash	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8567			Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late
8568			panic() code such as dumping handler.
8569
8570	xen_mc_debug	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8571			Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest.
8572			Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little
8573			bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended
8574			debug data in case of multicall errors.
8575
8576	xen_msr_safe=	[X86,XEN,EARLY]
8577			Format: <bool>
8578			Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR
8579			access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The
8580			default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE.
8581
8582	xen_nopv	[X86]
8583			Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
8584			run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
8585			This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
8586			has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8587
8588	xen_no_vector_callback
8589			[KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen
8590			event channel interrupts.
8591
8592	xen_scrub_pages=	[XEN]
8593			Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
8594			to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
8595			with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
8596			Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
8597
8598	xen_timer_slop=	[X86-64,XEN,EARLY]
8599			Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
8600			timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
8601			delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
8602			improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
8603			more timer interrupts.
8604
8605	xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN]
8606			The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot
8607			in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory.
8608			Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and
8609			started with less memory configured than allowed at
8610			max. Default is 180.
8611
8612	xen.event_eoi_delay=	[XEN]
8613			How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
8614			storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
8615
8616	xen.event_loop_timeout=	[XEN]
8617			After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
8618			should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
8619
8620	xen.fifo_events=	[XEN]
8621			Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling
8622			even if available. Normally fifo event handling is
8623			preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is
8624			fairer and the number of possible event channels is
8625			much higher. Default is on (use fifo events).
8626
8627	xirc2ps_cs=	[NET,PCMCIA]
8628			Format:
8629			<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
8630
8631	xive=		[PPC]
8632			By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
8633			natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
8634			allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
8635
8636			off       Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
8637				  controller on both pseries and powernv
8638				  platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
8639
8640	xive.store-eoi=off	[PPC]
8641			By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use
8642			stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode
8643			is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use
8644			loads instead, as on POWER9.
8645
8646	xhci-hcd.quirks		[USB,KNL]
8647			A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
8648			host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
8649			consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
8650
8651	xmon		[PPC,EARLY]
8652			Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off }
8653			Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off.
8654			Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early".
8655			early	Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon
8656				debugger is called from setup_arch().
8657			on	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8658				is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode,
8659				i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled
8660				with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE.
8661			rw	xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon
8662				is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write,
8663				meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data
8664				can be written using xmon commands.
8665			ro 	same as "rw" option above but SPR registers,
8666				memory, and other data can't be written using
8667				xmon commands.
8668			off	xmon is disabled.
8669